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You're listening to the Remote Work Europe podcast, the show formerly branded as the Future is Freelance.
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The name has changed, but our values have not.
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We're still the podcast for solopreneurs, digital nomads and slowmads, consultants, remote workers, e-residents and everyone living a life without traditional boundaries.
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We're here for people who defy categorization, those who make a living and a life their own way in Europe and beyond.
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Fortnightly, on Fridays, we're serving up expert tips, inspired insights and stories from the frontiers of freelancing and the remote work revolution to help you achieve success with your borderless business and liberated lifestyle, whatever success means to you, as you live life on your own terms.
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So today's episode is a little bit different to the usual stuff that we bring you, because this is a recording of a live stream webinar that we had in Remote Work Europe early in June 2024.
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I sat down to talk to the wonderful Hannah Dixon from the Virtual Excellence Academy and we were talking about her upcoming five-day Digital Nomad Training Challenge.
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Now she repeats these five-day VA challenges throughout the year, so I'll put the link into the show notes.
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If you've missed it this time, don't worry about it, because you can join the waitlist and the next one will be advised to you as soon as it comes up.
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And the second thing to say is that obviously this was a live conversation, so at times we may be referring to comments or questions, but there were no visuals that you've missed or anything like that.
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I think this stands very well on its own as an audio conversation.
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All of the real gold is in the actual dialogue between Hannah and myself.
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I think you'll find this really fascinating and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Okay, hello, hello everybody.
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Sorry for starting a couple of minutes late, but we wanted to make sure everything was just perfect for you.
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Thank you very much, everybody, either joining us live, listening to the podcast, or watching or listening to the replay, wherever whenever you are tuning in, we're delighted to have you with us and I'm really looking forward to this afternoon's conversation because I am joined by Hannah Dixon from the Virtual Excellence Academy.
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She has been a longtime friend of Remote Work Europe.
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We feel that we're very much on the same path, the same agenda to try and help more and more people access this lifestyle that we both enjoy, and increasing numbers of people all over the world are tapping into to make a life and a living your way without having to be dependent on going to a particular place.
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And what about if you didn't have to go and do a particular job either?
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Because that is the thing we're going to talk to about today, right, Hannah?
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The problem with jobs.
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How are you, Hannah?
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Anyway, Welcome.
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I'm very good.
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Thank you so much for the lovely intro and having me once again.
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It is 9am here, which is early start for me.
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Because of this freedom lifestyle, we have the flexibility of our work.
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I usually work in the evening, so I am up early and feeling good actually Excellent, excellent.
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Yeah, I'm not a morning person either, and isn't it nice when you can tune into those personal rhythms a little bit more intuitively?
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Alarm clocks are great when you have to catch a flight.
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The rest of the time, they should have no place in your life.
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I agree, we should ban them.
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Okay.
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Well, we want to help more and more people to do that, but I think we ought to start with, apart from alarm clocks, what are the other things that are wrong with the old way of doing things and applying for jobs?
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I tell you what, hannah I get so many people in my inbox, in our social media, every week saying I want a remote job.
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Yeah, it's really frustrating because I want to give them a very long answer.
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So I thought I know I'll just talk to somebody else who's got the answer and we can unpack it together and create a lasting piece of content.
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So what would your response be if somebody asked you that question?
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I mean, I don't think there's anything wrong with remote jobs entirely, and I think that for some people it might be the right route.
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But I think for a lot of people there's this fantasy that the remote job is somehow different to traditional employment in some way, and in many ways it's not, because there's still restrictions on the hours that you work, maybe geographic locations that you can only go to remote, but only America's remote but only Europe, something like that.
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And I think ultimately it's that lack of decision making that you have in your role when it comes to what you spend your time on, the people that you work with.
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You can't is the easiest route in the world, but it does get easier.
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And then it comes with all these kinds of benefits that we just don't have in traditional employment, whether remote or not.
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Absolutely, and I know what it's like.
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I know that people want jobs because people want to replace what they've had in a previous life and indeed we look for the jobs.
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Remote jobs are out there.
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They do exist.
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We find at least 30 of them every week to put in your newsletter.
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So shout out to Diana for scouring around, and she often has to work really hard to find ones that are definitely open to at least part of Europe, because that's the territory we cover and, as Hannah was just saying, there are lots of jobs that they might be advertised as remote and then you start to dig just a little bit deeper and you find out it's actually certain states of the US.
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I'll actually tell you a funny story.
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My wife applied to a remote job a couple of years ago with Slack, Got through a couple of rounds of interviews too many, if you ask me only to find out that it was remote Europe.
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And then she was like, okay, but like what does that mean?
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Went a little bit deeper.
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We'd like you to be in Basin Island.
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Went a little bit deeper.
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We'd like you to come into the office in Dublin two times a week, and more if you'd like to.
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And she was like that's not remote at all, I'm out.
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Not at all.
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And come on, even LinkedIn now enables you to distinguish between remote and hybrid when you're listing a job.
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So let's do it properly, people.
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I mean, you know, that's just laziness, right, they didn't bother to classify things correctly, but I think I mean to be fair to the people trying to hire remotely.
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There are so many regulatory constraints that make it really difficult.
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Employment law evolved in different countries separately.
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There have been various attempts over the years to kind of line things up within the EU and things like that, but even then it's completely different Employment terms, just say, between the UK and Spain, where a lot of our members are.
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They're totally different, and somebody might find the perfect remote job in the UK that requires no office presence whatsoever.
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So can I go and do it in spain then?
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well, even if you have a visa you often can't, and so many reasons.
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So it made me think.
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It made me think about a long time ago I used to work in student services and helping people with finding jobs, and actually now I'm trying to help people find remote jobs.
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One of the things that still hasn't changed is trying to match yourself to that job description and person specification.
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Back in my day it used to be a fact they sent you in the post.
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It's still in a form you actually had to fill in.
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Now it's going to be something you read on, indeed, or think and whatever, but it seems that it hasn't changed that much.
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You'll still have, say, 12 bullet points of things you've got to do and the person you have to be, and hopefully you know if you're bothering to put in a quality application.
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You're going to think at least half of those are yes, that's me.
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I love that.
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That describes me utterly.
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That's my zone of excellence, what I long to do.
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And as you go down the list, they'll be thinking, oh well, okay, I can do that, I can probably learn that, so I'll figure that out when I get there and by the time you've got to the end of it, you've ended up with this kind of pick and mix of stuff you love, stuff you care about, stuff that really fulfills you, balanced out by what somebody else thought would be a good kind of rounded package of skills and attributes and experiences that go with that job, that fits under that label that they've got funded for or they think they need, and it's not.
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Until you look at it from that perspective, you realize what a messy way that is to kind of make a living.
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Absolutely, yeah, yeah, completely.
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And I think you know I always think it's funny when in the past I've gone for interviews for jobs and they're asking me, like why do you want this job?
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But I'm like, well, in my mind I'm thinking I'm half excited about it, but also I just want the money.
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Like what do you want me to say?
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Like honestly, yes.
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And there is half of it I'm really excited about, because that was what I searched for in the first place yeah exactly For years I wanted to be a writer and I was looking for sort of content writing jobs and things.
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And then you come across oh well, I don't know SEO and I think, yeah, I suppose I could do that, and it doesn't feel, how much of the job would I end up doing?
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that yeah, and like what's the pay?
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and the happiness.
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Yeah, it's worth it.
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I bluffed that at an interview.
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I love SEO.
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Sorry, apologies to anybody who does Never my bag, but that's the thing.
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They should have been doing that bit of the job.
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An SEO freelancer who was actually good at SEO, not me Whereas I should have been crafting the words and we should have been discussing together asynchronously how to create perfect content.
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Absolutely yeah, the humans loved, and the engines.
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So that's it, but it's a bit harder.
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I suppose it's a bit more difficult for the managers to figure that out, although it's changing.
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I'm seeing it changing.
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I'm seeing a lot more.
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You know, big corporations starting to hire freelancers for specific roles, like people who really want to do those roles and only those roles.
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So that's good to see.
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Definitely yeah, and to be fair, I'm doing more content, certainly content strategy work for larger organizations.
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There's often, sometimes it's there's a challenge in the sort of interface of getting paid or making the contract, but actually when you're working with a hirer who knows exactly what they need, you can overcome all of that.
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You can figure it out.
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There are ways and means of doing it, and sometimes it means they can work with me in Europe if they're in the US, whereas they couldn't give me an employment contract in a million years.
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So, okay, we've both figured this out and I know that you've been helping a lot of other people figure this out too.
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So I know that we've talked before, we've had you on talking to our audience before and we have covered some of this ground, but it'd be great to recap how the Virtual Excellence Academy came about and where, where the need grew out of and how you've seen that change.
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Yeah, for sure.
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I mean for me.
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I started working online I don't even know how many years over 10 years ago and I immediately was just like this is for me.
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I prioritized travel my whole life up to that point, so it was just like this made absolute sense to me.
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I can keep traveling, Like you said, you don't have these barriers of the labor laws or tax laws or anything like that.
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You can work from wherever you want.
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So this was obviously a huge draw for me, and what I'd found was I'd started a community at the time, a Facebook group, where I was just connecting with other people who were kind of in my shoes, who wanted to work online, wanted to travel, and I was sharing what was happening for me as a virtual assistant.
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I didn't know I was a virtual assistant until one of my clients called me a virtual assistant.
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I was like aha, there's a name for this and so I was sharing what was happening for me and sharing that.
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You know the places I was going to the clients, I was working with the projects, I was working on my day-to-day you know goings-ons and people started to ask well, how can we do this too?
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And I never considered myself a teacher or a coach or anything like that.
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But I was like, hey, maybe, maybe I do have something to share, who knows, let's try.
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So I said, hey, I'm not going to charge you anything, let's do a free five day thing.
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Let's, let's see if we can access Also once.
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Yeah, so I threw together this free five-day challenge I call it the five-day VA, and every single day of the challenge I thought to myself what would I do next?
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Or what would I have wished I'd known and not had to work hard to figure out, so that I can just give these people exactly what they need, the steps they need to get started.
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And by the end of those five days, we had multiple people landing their first clients with absolutely no experience.
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No experience that's one of the things we teach is that everybody has experience.
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They were landing clients and I was like, hey, this stuff works, I'm pretty good at this.
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And so, long story short, 10 years later now, I've trained over 30,000 people through this.
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The Virtual Excellence Academy is our more comprehensive program that has been refined over the years.
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Both of these programs have been refined over the years to meet the needs of today.
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We do live in a world that is changing technology-wise constantly.
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So we do keep that up to date and we like to make sure that our learners are always tapped into what's happening in the world that they operate in so that they can be you know, they can stand out, they can get those premium rates, they can work with amazing people and always stay ahead of the game.
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So I never expected to be in this position, that I now train, but I really enjoy it and for me, passing on the knowledge that I have for people to have the kind of flexibility that I have is really powerful and really, really enriching for me.
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You kind of you just want to share it, don't you?
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When you feel like you've unlocked the magic, yeah, and then when you hear people, other people's stories, and I'm like, wow, this person was able to move country.
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This person was able to leave a war zone.
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This person was able to, you know, finally realize their dreams of taking care of their parents.
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There's like so many ways that this can benefit you if you desire that you know.
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Absolutely that this can benefit you if you desire that.
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You know, absolutely, yeah, and it's just about getting clear on what what really matters, because I want to circle back to another thing you just said about experience, because another question we get.
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First question is can you give me a remote job?
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Well, you know, I'll just pull one out of the bag.
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Sorry, doesn't work like that.
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The next question is well, what skills do I need to be a remote worker?
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What should I train as?
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What experience do I need to get in order to get a remote job?
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And again, this idea that you're competing for a job and the minute you look at the ad on LinkedIn, it says there's over 200,000 people already applied for it.
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If you're working for yourself, you've already got an awful lot of what you need.
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So I know this is something that you lean into a great deal within the Virtual Excellence Academy.
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How do you help people tap into what they've already bringing to the table?
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Yeah.
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So we take people through a few exercises.
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I won't detail them here because they're better to look at visually, but ultimately these exercises just kind of identify the things that you really enjoy doing and not disregarding the things that you enjoy doing in your personal life too.
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So you know, bringing yourself to the table which I know is part of the topic of today is being able to bring all of you to the table.
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When you build a business, for me it's like there's no point doing it if you're not going to inject a bit of you into it.
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You know it needs to be from a place of authenticity, intentionality, and if not it's kind of you're just building, you're building four walls for yourself, you know.
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And so kind of listing out the things that you're really good at professionally, personally.
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Then move into another category where we're looking at what are the things you enjoy doing out of those things, because there's going to be lots of things that you're good at that you don't enjoy.
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That we probably have done in jobs.
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You know, like I'm really good at data entry.
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Do I enjoy it?
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Hell, no.
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So then you know, pulling from that original list, what do I actually enjoy doing?
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And listing that again, professional, personal, everything.
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Let yourself go wild with it for 10 minutes, set a timer and just write it all out and then, finally, moving into what can I get paid for?
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And in order to do that, I always think, put any business in your mind because every business can benefit from a freelancer or a VA and just list out all the things that they do in their business behind the scenes.
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If you really think hard about it, like just us today, we're on this session today.
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This needed the calendar set up.
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This needed the emails going out.
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This needed you to set up this little link popping up here.
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There's so many little intricacies of everything that goes on behind a business, whether it's online or offline, because every offline business has some sort of online presence these days and maybe keep that in line with the types of industries you'd want to work with, so that would be informed by what you're good at and what you're interested in, right?
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So if you are really good at yoga and you love yoga and you love customer service, or you're really good at web design, an obvious choice for you would be to look at online yoga studios, because you can help them build their websites.
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You can help them with their customer support.
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If you were really into, let's give a really weird one.
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Let's say you were really into.
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I don't know.
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You lived somewhere not in the United States, and you love American diners right, it's like a passion of yours.
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You could check out all these diners.
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You can be offering services to these diners.
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You can be designing their menus.
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You can be doing online ordering forms.
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You can be doing their website.
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You can be doing their social media.
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So there's so many ways that you can get paid for the things that you're actually interested in and are good at.
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So I always get people to start from there.
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This sounds probably a little bit messy talking about it, but we have some worksheets and structures for you to go through to figure this out during the five-day challenge which is popped up on the screen right now if you want to check that out.
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Yeah, I really strongly recommend it because I know so many people who've been through this process with Hannah and I know what kind of results they've got.
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But also, even if there were people who halfway through the challenge, landed that dream employed job or they simply realized it wasn't for them to work for themselves, they still found it a very powerful self-discovery journey, just identifying those skills, those passions, figuring out what they don't want in their life, what your red lines are, the kind of businesses that you would never work for, for example, the kind of boundaries you want to put on your time.
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I'm not prepared to build the next unicorn startup and work 90 hours a week at the expense of my sanity and relationships and health.
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Or you might be.
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You might be that person, but until you have that self-awareness piece, it's very difficult to make decisions and get unstuck and not be at the victim of circumstance because you've got nothing to kind of push back against.
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So I think that's really, really important that you know people have.
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Marquette has just signed up for the challenge.
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That's great to know.
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And Alden, yeah, don't worry, there will be a replay.
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It'll be on our website so you'll be able to catch up with this and you can register for the challenge right up until it starts, which is the 24th of June.
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Is that?
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right Monday, the 24th.
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I would recommend, if you're here, sign up a little bit earlier, because tomorrow actually, we open the doors to the support community and in there you'll be able to get connected to an accountability buddy which we have found.
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Those who join accountability buddy teams do have better results, so I would highly recommend joining before the Monday.
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What a brilliant idea, because that is one of the things that you learn as a remote entrepreneur of any kind and you're all entrepreneurs even if you're working for somebody else, you have to be an employee.
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If you haven't got a manager standing over you, is that you have to figure out how to hack your own motivation and accountability.
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So, pairing up with somebody else, even if it's someone on the other side of the world, you'll find something in common.
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You'll find something that you connect over and they can become really powerful, that you connect over Absolutely they can become really powerful.
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Oh, we've got a question from Stephanie how long will the sessions be?
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This is quite a challenge.
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So it's completely self-guided in that sense.
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So you'll get access to a course platform every day of the week at 8 am.
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The day's content will be released.
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When you take it within that 24 hours is up to you.
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So this is another really good reason that you have these accountability buddies, because when you come to post your assignments, you're going to be tagging your buddies so you can support each other and give each other feedback.
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Myself and my team are also in there giving feedback and this is crazy but even if there's 3,000 people in there, I will personally support every single person who posts their assignments.
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That is our promise to you, because we really want you to leave this experience feeling like you have clarity and feeling like you have something that you can take forward.
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That makes sense.
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So if you've got questions or concerns as it comes up, we are there to help you.
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But the sessions themselves I would set aside an hour to an hour and a half a day, maybe two hours potentially on the first day, just because it's a little bit more deeper, deeper dive into, sort of your background, your history, your interest, that kind of thing.
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But yes, you will receive everything by email.
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I just saw a question here.
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So, yeah, an hour to two hours a day maximum, at your own time, at your own leisure, and then you'll pop into the group.
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There are two live sessions.
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They will be recorded if you can't make them live.
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They are on the Wednesday and the Friday.
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I don't remember the times right now, but they will be recorded and once you join the group you can RSVP to those as well.
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Brilliant, yeah, so I think I mean you know these are the tools that we work with online, where we have a mixture of synchronous and asynchronous communication or we do things like this, but we have a live session and we get that energy and that responsiveness and we get people popping in and commenting, which we love.
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So keep going.
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But then it is all available afterwards because people are in different time zones, different countries, drop in and out whenever, and some days you might have a lot of time to sit and think about it.
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Other times you might be doing some of that subconsciously.
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While you're subconsciously hopefully not self-consciously whilst you're doing your day job or going about your business, it's all mulling away in there.
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So it's probably really important to get that email open and just be mulling on the prompts, even if you're going to come back to it later, once you've had a chance for it all to percolate, and that's how you'll get the most out of it.
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I'm sure and I just think this is so powerful, Hannah you're helping people.
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It's not just designing a work, it's designing a whole lifestyle, isn't it?
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It is?
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Yeah, because I think you know if you're building a business, it's not just work, it is your life to a degree.
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Right, there's an enmeshment that happens, and it can happen in an unhealthy way or it can happen in a healthy way, where you're taking that in mind, where you are designing it all from a place of, like I said, intentionality.
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So that's something we also focus on.
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I won't give too much away, but on Wednesday we do have some sort of resources for you to look at this more holistically as well, because I think that's really important.
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Yeah, I totally agree and it goes back to that fact that we've all done jobs where we haven't been in that zone of fulfillment for one way or another.
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I'm trying to think of some of the worst things, certainly as a writer.
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Getting started, I I remember at one point writing product descriptions for a brand of patriotic workout where I think that was probably the idea of fulfillment they went up to a size 12.