I wanted to scream so I hired 4 VAs in 24 hours instead

I should have felt elated yet I wanted to scream. I felt so frustrated and like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders.

Last Sunday, I finished a full brand strategy and sent it to the client ahead of our Tuesday meeting.

This is usually the best feeling as the brand lives with me the entire time I’m writing it, so once I hit send, I expect to feel happy and free, but this time I didn’t. I felt like screaming instead.

And I realised it was because I was buckling under the weight my business.

While I’m ticking things off my list, I’m getting that post done, I’m getting an email out, I’m not making any real traction to grow my business.

And that’s because I don’t have a team. I’ve had flaky VAs all year that start and stop and keep leaving me with carrying everything myself.

Being a Projector, I’ve learnt that I only have a limited amount of energy. I can’t just push and push like a Generator. It just doesn’t work that way for me. So learning to work within that energy system while having no support was just making me feel trapped.

And in that moment on the couch feeling like crap I was like, that’s it. Time to fix it. I’m so done carrying it all on my own.

By the morning, I’d hired three VAs. By that afternoon, I’d hired a fourth.

I’m in the stage where I need to build a lot to take me to the next level. And I can’t afford to just rely on one VA. This time, I built a team.

I took the same amount of money I would’ve spent on one all-in-one unicorn VA and split it across four people – each with a clear role.

• One high-level OBM to oversee systems and keep the growth vision in motion.

• An admin VA just for my inbox, files, and backend cleanup (because my Google Drive is full and I have 2,000+ emails).

• A project VA to finally bring 30+ brands I’ve created and not shared out into the world and my portfolio.

• A marketing VA to help promote the offers I’ve already built but haven’t had the capacity to market properly (Brand retreats are coming!)

And I’m also making them write the standard operating procedures as they’re learning, so that anyone new that comes in is going to be able to be easily onboarded without me creating their onboarding.

If you’re like me and you’ve been trying to hold it all together by duct-taping a brand, a business, and a dream, with zero support – I feel you. 

I knew that day I had to look for the silver lining in the breaking point. I was glad that the pain became too much – I moved past my issue with hiring after being let down so much and found an even better solution in the end.

So, if you’re feeling like you want to scream too, then maybe this message is for you.

And BTW, it’s going great, I’ve found some superstars, things are moving, and my inbox is slowly getting back to zero 🙂