The Queen of VAs: How Brittany Bettini Builds Businesses That Run Without You
School’s Over...Now What?
Shawn Anthony
5 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this candid episode, entrepreneur and VA industry leader Brittany shares how building a team of virtual assistants has helped her—and countless other business owners—escape burnout, scale smarter, and live a life of freedom.
Brittany challenges the hustle culture mindset, explaining why trying to do everything yourself is a fast track to resentment and exhaustion. From training VAs to think critically and take initiative, to giving them growth opportunities and even healthcare, Brittany shows what it looks like to lead with empathy and strategy.
She also reveals the unconventional ways she uses VAs in her business—delegating not just admin work, but also research, learning, and leadership. You’ll hear how she built a culture of loyalty and longevity within her remote team, and why investing in people > relying on AI will define the future of successful businesses.
Whether you're a solopreneur, creative, coach, or agency owner, this episode is packed with mindset shifts, tactical advice, and inspiring real-world stories to help you build the team and business that serves your life—not the other way around.
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| 0:00.0 | The moment that you give that away and feel the lightness of doing what you love and being with the people that you love, that is when you become a real CEO. |
| 0:10.9 | 90% entrepreneurs probably have 50 courses sitting in their inbox. They've never opened. |
| 0:14.5 | But if I tell a VA, your job today is to go take this course, take notes, create an action plan. |
| 0:19.8 | They're going to do it because that's their job. |
| 0:22.4 | You need to research the restaurants that celebrities go to the most in L.A. |
| 0:27.1 | And book me a reservation. |
| 0:29.1 | I had dinner sitting next to Al Pacino. |
| 0:31.2 | I was like, oh, if I give really clear directions on what my outcome that I'm trying to achieve is. |
| 0:38.3 | A VA can do anything that I could do. |
| 0:41.3 | Hustle culture told me I needed to chase all these shiny objects. |
| 0:44.3 | What I realized is if I can't delegate it, and it's not me working in my genius, |
| 0:49.3 | I am giving up time with the things that I love. |
| 0:53.3 | So the real scam is that what we've taught entrepreneurs is that if you are not |
| 0:57.3 | hustling 24 hours a day, you're not going to be successful. |
| 1:02.7 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm excited because this is the episode. |
| 1:06.9 | You are never going to do all those things by yourself. |
| 1:10.7 | And ladies and gentlemen, I am sitting |
| 1:11.8 | with the one and only. Brittany Bettini on the show today. How are you doing, fam? I'm doing good. |
| 1:15.8 | How are you? Listen, I'm excited about this. If they could only be in this room hearing the |
| 1:20.6 | conversation we had beforehand. And I'm excited because you are the queen of VAs. You figure |
| 1:26.9 | this thing out. |
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