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Check out the latest podcast episodes and show notes for The Leader Assistant Podcast with Jeremy Burrows.

Ep 103: Anne-Marie Staples – Executive Assistant to CEO

Anne-Marie Staples has over 20 years of administrative experience supporting business professionals from the director to CEO level. She models a work hard-play hard ethic as founder of the company classroom instruments band and ringer of the office cowbell because, as SNL taught us, who doesn't need "more cowbell!" In this episode, Anne-Marie shares some tips on cultivating company culture, growing your internal network, [...]

Jeremy Burrows2021-02-19T13:08:27-06:00February 21, 2021|Podcast|

Ep 102: Angelic Veasman on Event Planning, Productivity, and Being a Virtual Assistant

Angelic Veasman has more than 23 years of experience in business operations and currently runs her own business supporting executives, coaches, and entrepreneurs. In this episode, Angelic shares tips on managing email, how to be productive, becoming a virtual assistant, specializing as a VA, event planning, project management, and more! LEADERSHIP QUOTE This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life [...]

Jeremy Burrows2021-02-11T17:19:26-06:00February 14, 2021|Podcast|

Ep #101: Emilie Given – CEO at She’s a Given (A Virtual Assistant Company)

Emilie Given's focus is to inspire other women to create a career that allows them to focus on passion over paperwork and family over familiarity. She runs a virtual assistant team and has a lot of wisdom to share! In this episode, Emilie talks about what it was like being an executive assistant at Amazon, how almost dying pushed her to make the move [...]

Jeremy Burrows2021-01-31T14:35:57-06:00February 7, 2021|Podcast|

Ep #100: Vanessa Nieman – Career Administrative Professional

Vanessa Nieman is a career administrative professional with over 25 years of experience. She worked her way from being a student assistant in her college years, to C-level support at larger organizations. Vanessa's career as an assistant chose her and then she came to embrace the role fully, but even more so in recent years as the support systems and networks for assistants have [...]

Jeremy Burrows2021-01-31T09:28:17-06:00January 31, 2021|Leadership, Podcast|

Ep #99: Dimitra Zographos – Executive Manager at The EA Circle

Dimitra Zographos is a passionate advocate for the EA profession, appreciating the difference, value and influence it can bring to an executive, executive team and an entire organization. In this episode, Dimitra discusses leaving a legacy, the power of assistant networking, and more! LEADERSHIP QUOTE A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence [...]

Jeremy Burrows2021-01-16T16:20:08-06:00January 24, 2021|Podcast|

Ep #98: Melinda Vail-Goodnight – Executive Assistant at Southwest Airlines

Melinda Vail-Goodnight is an accidental executive assistant who stayed by choice and has enjoyed over 14 years in the role, including the last 6 years at Southwest Airlines. In this episode, Melinda talks about managing email, interruptions, and the various types of professional development available for assistants. Enjoy our conversation and be sure to fly Southwest once it's safe to travel. ;-) LEADERSHIP QUOTE [...]

Jeremy Burrows2021-01-11T17:11:29-06:00January 17, 2021|Podcast|

Ep #97: Jackie Ludwig on Networking, Managing Email, and Professional Development

Jackie Ludwig's career includes working as an EA for senior level and c-suite executives at Korn Ferry, Rolex and YPO, to name just a few. In this episode, Jackie shares a bit of her story and tips on professional development, managing an executive's inbox, networking, and more! LEADERSHIP QUOTE Another of Madiba's (Nelson Mandela) great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion [...]

Jeremy Burrows2021-01-10T16:09:42-06:00January 10, 2021|Podcast|

Ep #96: Lucy Chamberlain – Cofounder of C&C Search

Lucy Chamberlain has motivated, empowered, and armed audiences with tools to support a life and career that serves the individual and organization better. Lucy and I had a great conversation about job hunting, networking, resumes, interviews, and negotiation. Speaking of negotiation, Lucy walks through a helpful tool for negotiating your compensation. It's called STAR: Situation Task Actions Result And here's the negotiation prep sheet [...]

Jeremy Burrows2020-12-12T11:25:18-06:00January 3, 2021|Podcast|

Ep #95: Scott Miller – WSJ Bestselling Author & Senior Advisor of Thought Leadership at FranklinCovey

Scott Miller is the author of Management Mess to Leadership Success: 30 Challenges to Become the Leader You Would Follow and other bestselling books. As assistants, we're great at learning from each other, attending assistant training events, listening to assistant podcasts, etc. But Leader Assistants will read books and listen to podcasts their executive's listen to, and attend training events that their executive's attend. [...]

Jeremy Burrows2020-12-28T07:45:03-06:00December 27, 2020|Leadership, Podcast|

Ep #94: Elijah Griffiths – EA and Chief of Staff

Elijah D. Griffiths is a career executive assistant that has operated with chief of staff and senior advisor grit to c-suite staff for over 8 years. Elijah (aka The EA Guru) chats about managing an executive's inbox, networking, getting the respect we deserve, and more! LEADERSHIP QUOTE To remain as number 1, you’ll always need a number 2. I am your number 2! - [...]

Jeremy Burrows2020-12-11T17:55:10-06:00December 20, 2020|Podcast|

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