Podcast Episodes - Page 28 of 38 - Go Burrows

Ep 105: Kathy Goughenour – Founder of Virtual Expert Training

After finding the courage to say "bye-bye" to her corporate marketing career, Kathy Goughenour built a 6-figure virtual assistant business from her tiny house in the middle of a forest. In this episode, Kathy shares her story about leaving a fortune 500 company to start her own virtual assistant business. She has a lot of great tips on working remotely, running your own business, [...]

Jeremy Burrows2023-09-29T17:06:41-05:00March 7, 2021|Podcast|

Ep 104: Dayne Shuda on Written Communication, Working Remotely, and Fighting Burnout

Dayne Shuda has worked with executive assistants for about 7-8 years and has had a full-time remote assistant since 2015. His assistant happens to be in Australia, but he’s in Wisconsin. Over the years, he’s learned a few things about organization, burnout, and working with a remote team. In this episode, Dayne shares tips on written communication, working with a remote assistant on the [...]

Jeremy Burrows2023-09-29T17:05:19-05:00February 28, 2021|Podcast|

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 Burrows2023-09-29T17:03:57-05:00February 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 Burrows2023-09-29T17:00:45-05:00February 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 Burrows2023-09-29T16:57:39-05:00February 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 Burrows2023-09-29T16:55:01-05:00January 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 Burrows2023-09-29T16:52:39-05:00January 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 Burrows2023-09-29T16:50:44-05:00January 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 Burrows2023-09-29T16:48:12-05:00January 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 Burrows2023-09-29T16:46:38-05:00January 3, 2021|Podcast|