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Why Entrepreneurs Need Podcast VAs with Dr. Berry Pierre Part 2
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Podcast VAs Philippines aims to connect with podcasters and podcast managers as well as help aspirants learn more about podcasting and podcast management.
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In this digital age, many entrepreneurs see the value of making sure their business has a digital presence. This can be in the form of a website, an article, social media posts, blog, or a podcast. And we can all agree, doing all these takes way too much time and require expertise to be effective.
In this session, we are joined by Dr. Berry Pierre, a board-certified internist, the CEO and Founder of Pierre Medical Consulting, and the host of the Lunch and Learn with Dr. Berry Podcast.
Here, we will learn about the reasons why Entrepreneurs need podcast VAs and what they are looking for in an applicant when looking for a VA.
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Introduction to Podcast VAs Philippines
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Hey Podsters!
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Welcome to Podcast VA's Philippines.
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Here we connect with podcasters, podcast managers, as well as help aspirants learn more about podcasting and podcast management.
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In this session, we're joining Dr. Barry Pierre, the CEO and founder of Pierre Medical Consulting, also the host of the Lunch and Learn with Dr. Barry podcast, and he is also my client for almost three years.
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In this session, we will have a glimpse of the reasons why podcasters choose to hire VAs for their podcasts and why it's important that they need VAs for their automation and podcast process.
Meet Dr. Barry Pierre
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So Podsters and Podcast V.A.S.
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Philippines, this is a session that I planned for a very long time in line with our first anniversary for Podcast V.A.S.
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Philippines.
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I would like to introduce to you Dr. Barry Pierre.
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He is a board-certified internist, a best-selling author, the CEO and founder of Pierre Medical Consulting, and my client for almost three years.
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Hi, Dr. Barry.
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How are you?
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I'm well, thank you.
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And just excited to be able to speak to the group again.
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I'm excited to give any little wisdom I may have to kind of help move everybody forward.
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Definitely excited about it.
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All right.
Long-term Podcasting Success with Dr. Barry
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we've already been working together for almost three years, right?
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The last time we were recording, we were almost two years.
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And then the very first time, we were a year of working together.
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And now you have 180 episodes already posted of podcasts.
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It just doesn't end.
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Like, wow, the content, the idea keeps going.
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It just keeps going, yes.
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Yes.
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What is your advice to anyone who wanted to start a podcast as their stepping stone in becoming a VA eventually?
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Definitely.
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I think for sure, just in the aspect of having your own podcast, understanding what's the message, right?
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What is the message that you want to convey to the audience who's going to be listening to?
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Because you never know who
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Who's going to be listening to?
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You never know where they're going to be listening to.
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You just know someone is taking their time to listen to your voice.
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Right.
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So and be very mindful and thoughtful of that.
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Right.
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Because, again, there's going to be some days you're going to be like, I really want to.
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This week.
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And then you have to realize that there's someone on the other side of the country of the world.
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So I didn't hear Dr. B. Waiting.
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Yes.
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Right.
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Like and so like definitely establishing your why is so key.
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Right.
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For any long endeavor.
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Right.
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Especially like I said, we this this week was episode one 90 this week.
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Right.
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Like it just it just kind of keeps going.
Starting a Podcast: Key Advice from Dr. Barry
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And then once you kind of establish the why, then realize what are the basic tenets that I'm going to need to get this out, right?
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I think a lot of times, especially when you're starting out and maybe you're looking around and you feel like, oh, I have to have this equipment and that microphone and this recording and this program here, when all you need is just a recording device, right?
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That's all you need is I just need to be able to record my voice, right?
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Right.
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And then understand how do I get my voice to people?
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Right.
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Like whether it be I use Lipson.
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Lipson is a very powerful.
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I know there's others.
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Right.
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So I use Lipson.
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But like like like how do I get my voice there?
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Right.
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Like and understand.
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And I always tell my my content creators this is that.
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When you're starting off, right, you can't go for perfection in the beginning, right?
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Because you become paralyzed.
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You become paralyzed with this aspect that like, oh, it didn't sound perfect.
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Oh, it didn't edit perfect.
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Oh, like all the graphics don't look perfect.
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Like you wait for these aspects of perfection and it paralyzes you and then you never record episode one.
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Right.
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Like it's you have to get over it, understand that, like, I am going to get better along with this process.
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I am going to grow along with this process.
Monetization Strategies for Podcasts
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But like, I can't do any of those things until I start.
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Right.
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Like I can't like I like I like I'm not here right now if I never press the record button on my podcast and started writing blogs and start like I'm not here like talking to you guys.
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So you have to do it.
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You never know where it's going to end, but you have to start.
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So I think paralysis of perfection.
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Right.
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You have to get rid of it.
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You can't like scoreboard watch.
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You can't look to see like, all right, do I have the best?
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Doesn't matter.
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Right.
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Like I sometimes listen to my like beginning episodes and I'm like, yeah, yeah.
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All right.
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All right.
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That's all right.
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I've come a long way, but I understand you'll definitely get there.
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And then realize, again, I, you know, Lynn knows me.
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I'm I'm a very like, all right, what are the more, you know, economical?
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I'm cheap.
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Right.
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What are the economical ways I can get this?
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So I'm not going for the most extravagant, this most extravagant.
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I want to make sure what is the baseline foundation I'm going to need to get my words right to everybody.
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Right.
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And then and then once you do that.
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Right.
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Like the process is so simple.
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Right.
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Like the process becomes like, all right.
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I got to do this.
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I got to do that.
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And then understand the business of a podcast, right?
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Because again, we haven't even recorded a podcast yet, but like just getting in the mindset of recording a podcast is so key.
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And then once you get to that, it's the same thing.
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It's pre-production, it's actual production, and then it's post-production.
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And where do you fit in to make sure that at the end of the day, when I go to Apple iTunes or Google Play or Spotify or Google
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With all of these podcast things, that my voice is there.
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Yeah.
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And so if there's any podcaster listening right now who wants to move their podcast from being just a hobby into possibly using it as their main source or a source of income, something that they can make money of,
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what is your advice on that and is that something that or i mean is that okay for someone who's just starting out to think of or is that i definitely agree for that aspect of it because it makes it so much easier once you start having the goals
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of being able to kind of recoup from a financial standpoint.
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I know some of the biggest things, especially when you're first starting out, right?
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Because again, you may not have the capital to do these things.
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So working on becoming like affiliates, an Amazon affiliate, just working on becoming affiliates with different products is so key and being able to mention it like, hey, use my coupon code, use my affiliate code.
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And then all of a sudden being able to kind of generate income from from that standpoint there is key.
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And then if you have the ability, especially depending on the type of podcast selling products through your podcast, I think is the next level as well.
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Because while you're doing and this is a lot of time we don't think about it.
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But while you're, you know, recording, you know, for that ear across the world, you're established yourself as a brand.
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Right.
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And a lot of times we don't like to think about ourselves as a brand, but we are.
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Right.
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So as you continue to grow and put out content and put out conservation from a podcast standpoint, all of a sudden you have you are your own platform.
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Right.
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So you are then able to dictate things.
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Right.
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You were able to say, like, yeah, if you want to come on my podcast, you know,
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provide books for my community.
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Like you're able to kind of do these things there.
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And I don't think it's far, far fetched at all to start thinking about the financial aspects of it.
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Right.
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Because once, once you get into that mindset, like, all right, yep, I need to, you know, get this.
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Because again, there's some people who,
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You know, they may have, you know, 100 listeners a week, but those same 100 listeners will always buy their products.
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The same listeners will always use their affiliates.
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And that's really where you want to go.
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Right.
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You just want to be able to kind of maximize.
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And that's why, like, understanding that why.
Content Repurposing for Maximum Reach
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Right.
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Like understanding the why.
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is going to be so key because once you understand the why, you're going to know exactly, all right, these are the products that I can sell, right, that I can promote during my podcast.
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And then being able to say, like, all right, what else can I do in my podcast?
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The way we do it here, not only do we have a podcast, but then we also put it on our website, right?
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So now it's almost like a
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mini blog, right?
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So now I have a podcast and a blog.
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And these are just all drivers of content, all drivers of traffic, right?
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That we can put ads and all of these things there are doable for sure.
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And that's where the community and just thinking about like, you know, because the sky's the limit once you put the work in, but you have to put the work in.
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And that's what's awesome about podcasting.
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It's like you can repurpose like from a podcast, you can do a vlog about it or a blog about it or an article about it.
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The opportunity just doesn't end.
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It doesn't end.
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It almost makes it simpler.
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I think like the way we have, we've matured to the point now where
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where our vlog has become our podcast, which becomes our WordPress post.
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So now we're not even having to work harder.
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We're using one piece of content that's able to do it.
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Right.
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And at the end of the day, it's still the audio.
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Right.
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Like we're just boom, boom, boom.
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And then just kind of helping grow.
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And again, just kind of growing your brand and increasing the loyalty associated with your brand.
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Exactly.
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If there's a podcaster listening right now who are thinking but are hesitant and not sure whether or not they'd go for it of getting a VA, what is your advice for them?
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And what
Streamlining with Virtual Assistants
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do you think is the perfect time for them to get one?
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I think the perfect time is yesterday.
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The perfect time is yesterday to get a VA.
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And the reason being, especially if you're a podcaster and you got to the point you either want to bring on, to want to start a podcast or you have a podcast and you just want to kind of help it grow.
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You need to start looking for ways to get your assistance in yesterday.
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Right.
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And then and that one will help push you.
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Right.
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Like, especially if you're thinking, like, how am I going to pay for this VA?
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Like, that's going to help push you to look for monetary outlets.
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Right.
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Because now you have someone that you have to take care of.
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But it's so much easier to look for those monetary outlets once your VA is taking care of a lot of the work that you don't have to do anymore.
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But again, like the amount of time, like the fact I had to log into my website like this morning, right?
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But that's because I had to make a special link.
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But like, I don't even be logging into my own website.
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Like the amount of times I've seen my own website in the past month, it's like I can count on one hand because there's...
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There's no point for me to go because my VA takes care of that.
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G-post, it goes, and then the job is done.
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And you don't realize just how valuable they are.
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So even if you're on the process, like you want to start a podcast, guess what?
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If you get a VA, now you don't have to learn the whole process by yourself.
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You guys can learn together.
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Or you can say, hey,
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I'm going to focus on just the recording and getting out.
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You focus on the podcast, getting me guests and then posting it on my work.
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Like, so, so now the work is so much less on you.
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And as a content creator, like you, like I saw, I was reading, I was listening to an audio.
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And they talked about how, you know, as a content creator, you can't be doing what we consider kind of minimum wage related activities, right?
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Meaning that if my worth, right, is the benefit of my worth is getting the content out, right?
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But like if I'm spending too much time on miscellaneous tasks, then I'm not spending time on getting the content out.
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recording my voice recording my video right so like i need to spend more time where my worth is maximized right and then delegate the stuff where it's not right like and that's it's so key so yeah if you're if you're a podcaster again we obviously we're saying podcast but if you're a content creator right you're a business person and you don't have an assistant one you don't have a business
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Right.
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You have a hobby.
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Right.
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You have a hobby.
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Having to run like you get a business when you have employees that are taking care of it, that you delegated to do the work for you.
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I mean, you're doing a solo.
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That's a solo task hobby.
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Right.
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And it's usually a hiresome hobby.
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Hiring.
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Yes.
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That you're not going to do.
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I don't know anyone who does this at the rate that they want to do it and does it by themselves.
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Like, I just I don't know anyone who does that.
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And even this is a person who, again, like my day job, I say it in quotes, but my day job is a physician, right?
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And I am constantly asked at work or when people see me, like, how are you able to do everything?
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And I said, well, I got like, I got two days now, but like I have people who help me.
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Like, I don't do that.
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Like, I can't do that.
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Like, I don't have the time to do that.
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Like they just do it for me and I look at my phone and I'm getting notifications.
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Like that's how it's supposed to go.
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But if you're, so if you want to, especially if you're trying to transition, you need someone to help you transition.
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You cannot do this alone.
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Just despite how good you may think you are.
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Exactly.
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Because the question here is the time.
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That's something that you can never take back.
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So if your VA is able to free up a lot of your time, then you would be able to focus more on the business functions, on the core of your business.
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And then, like you said, the miscellaneous stuff, you can assign that to someone else.
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Yeah, you have to assign it.
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And again, it's, and it's, again, mind you, I am a tech person, right?
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Like I record my videos, I record my podcast, I'm a tech person.
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I like doing it.
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I enjoy doing it.
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I have no problem doing it if I had to.
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But just because I like doing it does not mean I should be doing it.
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Right.
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Like, like, and that's what I, and again, that's why the should is so key.
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Just because you can do it.
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Right.
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It'd be much easier if I couldn't do it.
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Right.
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Then, you know, I get to be it because I literally cannot do this stuff.
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But the fact that I like to do it, that's what, that's what served as a bigger hurdle for me.
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Right.
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Because like, I like it.
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I was like, oh, well, you know, I could just do that.
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But you know, shouldn't.
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And then no.
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Once that's off of your plate and you never have to worry about it, everything just runs so much smoother.
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Yeah.
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Now, last question.
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Let's talk about getting a VA remotely because a lot of people are worried about getting someone remotely because...
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the distance, the internet connection, a lot of other things, they are worried about preparing these things and are not sure how to do it, how it's done, how the payments work.
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What do you say about those that are afraid to go remotely?
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Because obviously, my first foray into getting a VA was a long distance VA, right?
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I could have easily gotten someone here in the United States, but when I started to think about it, it's not like I would be having
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you know, face to face contact with many ways majority of my contact would be via a zoom or some type of, you know, video type of conferencing technology.
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So like my fear wasn't as significant like to get someone right into Philippines.
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It just wasn't right again.
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And, and this is this is where I think word of mouth is so key because I remember talking to a doctor at a conference.
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I was like, and he had he has six podcasts.
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And I was like, how do you have six?
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Again, I'm like, I do, I did him like people do me now.
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I was like, how do you have six podcasts?
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He's like, oh, right now I got like four or five VAs and it just, like, it just works for him.
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So I think, like, I think the whole internet connection, I think is very overblown.
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Like I'm in the United States.
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I have internet connections sometimes too, right?
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Like it's usually not something where you have to feel like it's going to be a prolonged aspect of it.
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Now, of course, obviously, it may matter, especially if maybe if you're handling large related files.
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But I think with aspects like Google Drive and Zoom and Dropbox and all these things there, you know, they definitely help lessen that burden of the aspect of transfer.
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Right.
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And that's why I think it's so important, especially when you're working on a
Overcoming Remote Work Challenges
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VA long distance is kind of having your own set schedule because you don't see, you know, you don't physically see your VA.
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Like if I was working in an office, I would see my employee every day.
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And sometimes when I see content creators want to get with a VA, like they'll get the VA, but then they don't talk to him for like three weeks.
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And I'm like, that doesn't make any sense.
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Right.
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Like if that was your employee, you would be talking to your employee much more often.
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So establishing a schedule, right, where it's like, hey, every Sunday, every Wednesday, every Friday, whatever that day is, we're going to be meeting at this this time of year.
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This is going to be the breakdown of what are we going to be talking about and just kind of going through the motions to the point when it's like riding a bike.
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Right.
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Like we're at the point now where we don't necessarily even have to have a meeting.
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Because we already know what's happening.
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We already know this happens this week, but it takes time to get there.
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So I think understanding that you're going to likely be talking to whoever your VA is video conferencing anyways, right?
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So just do that, right?
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And even if this person was face to face with me, if I, as a content creator, the business owner, have trouble delineating, or if I have trouble even
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understanding how to train, it doesn't matter if they're right next to me or they're across the world, right?
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It doesn't make a difference, right?
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So it's always the onus on the content creator to understand, all right, what is my process?
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Can I write, like, we did a lot of video training, right?
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Where I would just record myself on the video, say, hey, all right, this is how I typically do the podcast.
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And like, I'm recording myself doing it.
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And now, now she has a video log of the training, right?
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So she doesn't even have to ask me again.
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She can just write right back to the video.
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Like, oh, this is how I put it in co-schedule.
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This is how I do it.
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And like, cause we did a lot of those.
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And again, you have to know as a business content creator, like what those steps are, because a lot of times we get so used to doing it just so automatically that we don't even realize that we're doing a lot of work.
00:18:36
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Right.
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And
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And that's why I tell content creator all the time, you should be getting the VA yesterday because once you have to actually write down like all of the steps that you do, you realize like, wow, like I'm doing a lot of work.
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Like what am I doing?
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So that's why I think it's so key.
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So I don't think that people should be fearful of, you know, not necessarily seeing a person face to face, right?
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Because if you as the content creator create good procedures and protocols on how
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you want to meet, how often you want to meet, how you want tasks done, how you want tasks, you know, assessed, checked off.
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Like, as long as you're creating, like, that standard, like, everything, you know, makes sense, right?
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Like, it just is what it is in that regard.
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So, I think, you know, obviously, if, and I think once you get to that point, right, especially when we talk about, like, internet outages and whatnot.
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Yes.
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That's why it's so important to kind of know what the process is, right?
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So you're not necessarily having to do the process that day of, that week of, that, like the night, like you don't have to do it because you already know what the process is before.
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So you don't necessarily need this level of communication.
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And if you do need a level of communication, like I said, we have Slack, we have Skype.
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There are so many different opportunities, apps that allow communication to be instant,
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Right.
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Then again, I don't think that's a barrier anymore.
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Anytime you have a question for me, I pull my slack.
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And sometimes sometimes it's of course I'm guilty.
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Right.
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Because I'm here in the United States.
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Right.
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So in the middle of the day, I'm thinking of stuff.
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Right.
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Not realizing that I'm texting a person at like three o'clock in the morning.
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So like, oh, hopefully they'll get this when they wake up.
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But like, like, I'm not like doing it for an immediate reaction.
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I'm just doing because like, oh, now that I think about it, let me ask this question here.
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When they get to it, they'll get back to it.
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But that's when we talk about the family relationship, right?
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Like understanding like, all right, yep, she's asleep, but that's okay.
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Like she'll wake up in the morning and then she'll text me back in the morning, which is like my nighttime in that regard.
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So I think for sure, is that fear there?
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Yeah.
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But like, I think technology and the way it is now, it's gotten so much easier for you that those barriers are very small.
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And those, when people usually tell me that, I usually get, especially when a content creator tells me that,
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I usually put that on them and say, oh, well, if you know how to train, right, you'll be fine, right?
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You probably don't have your training aspect yet.
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And that's why you have a fear that they're across the world.
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I like that.
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And you know what?
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Sometimes we would meet with Dr. Barry.
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I mean, the last time we had a meeting, I was at the beach.
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Right.
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As long as you have a stable internet connection, you can meet and you can talk to you.
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Yeah, that's why I think the world we live in now, it's so much easier.
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Processes that we have, the software that we have, it's so much easier to do these things that I don't think it has to be a barrier anymore as far as being able to connect.
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I don't think connection is as significant as a barrier as it may
Opportunities for VAs in Podcasting Industry
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have been.
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I agree.
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And but of course, you just have to set your client's expectations on the outage and typhoon and all that stuff.
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But in general, like majority of the time, you would always be available.
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And podsters, this is why I really believe in podcasting, because a lot or every day podcast is growing.
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And growing just it just keeps growing.
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There's just no way but up.
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And so every day, more and more podcasters will need a VA like you like us, they would need podcast producers, they would need someone to help launch their podcast, someone is just way too busy to do the things that they need to do or to learn the things that they need to learn.
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I think as a VA, and I can tell you as a content creator, our pain points usually will center around either getting a guest, scheduling a guest, recording said guest, or after post-production, putting the information out.
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Those are going to be our four to five main pain points.
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So if you come in and say, hey, I can help get you guests, get you guest scheduled.
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If you come in and then hit them with those five points,
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you're going to be like, oh, there's not going to be a content creator who's going to have a problem with that.
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They're going to be like, oh, OK.
00:23:01
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That's what I need.
00:23:02
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I have issues scheduling.
00:23:05
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Now you're going to help me scheduling?
00:23:06
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Oh, that makes it so much easier for me.
00:23:08
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So understanding like the pain points, especially as a podcaster, those are gonna be your biggest ones, right?
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And realize that again, there's so many like little things like that occur that get the podcast out.
00:23:20
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Like, well, we don't necessarily think about it because by the time we typically see the end result, right?
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All these things that occur that as a VA, you could be such a valuable part in getting it out there.
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And then again, once you make it easy for the content creator to create content, then they create more content.
00:23:41
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It sounds self-explanatory, but once it's easy for them to create content, then they just keep on creating, which is what you want them to do.
00:23:48
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You want them to create content.
00:23:50
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Yes, because that's how you get the work.
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That's how you get to work.
00:23:54
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If I, for example, if like we're on episode 190, if I were to not record, right, one video, right?
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Like if I don't record one video, that means that now I don't have an episode on my YouTube.
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That means now I don't have an episode for the podcast.
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That means now I don't have graphics for my Instagram page.
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That means now I don't have anything to share on my personal Instagram page, which then means I don't have anything to share on my other websites after just one video, right?
00:24:26
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So you want the content creator to create that one video because then all of the work, the graphics, now there's a graphic that doesn't need to be made.
00:24:33
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Like all these things that need to occur
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but it doesn't occur until that, that, that content creator gets to work.
00:24:40
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Yeah, exactly.
00:24:42
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And I would like to quote Mommy LA and Mommy Say, they're also podcast producers.
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They say that the goal for us as podcast VAs is to just make the client record and we do the rest.
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Like,
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record and then we take care of the rest and then repeat.
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That's how we have consistent job, regular job.
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If we can just make the client just record, press record, press stop, send us the file, and then we do the rest of the things.
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That is why we are indispensable because we are important.
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We are a big organization
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part of the business and the podcasters, you know, and how they build their brand.
00:25:26
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So yeah, that, that wraps up our session.
00:25:30
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Thank you so much, Dr. Berry, as always, you've been very generous with your time and I really appreciate that of you.
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And I believe this will be very helpful to those who are watching and will be rewatching those who will be rewatching.
00:25:43
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I hope that this session gives you more idea of what it
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is to be or of a life of a podcast VA and a podcaster and how they look at us and how we can be valuable to them.
00:25:56
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Thank you so much, Dr. Berry.
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