My guest this week is Suzy Sanders, the Founder of Alchemy Virtual Assistance. Suzy had worked as an Executive Assistant supporting a board level Executive within a global recruitment company, but her outlook, mind set and focus shifted dramatically when she became a mother. Alchemy Virtual Assistance was founded by Suzy in 2016, to provide remote administration, practical marketing and flexible PA support to businesses. Suzy wanted the three F’s, as she calls them: freedom, flexibility and fulfilment and built her business around them. Her business grew faster than she could have dreamt and she now runs the business with her husband and business partner Paul in 2018. In 2019, Alchemy Virtual Assistance launched their VA franchise model, which enables aspiring virtual assistants to replicate and build their own VA businesses. Suzy’s maternity leave gave her the space to re-evaluate what she wanted from her life and started to work out how she could move forward. Suzy’s honesty and candour about her experience of moving from executive assistance to business owner is inspiring to hear. Suzy speaks about her experience during the pandemic and the steady increase of people who are interested in becoming a Virtual Assistant as well. Suzy was named a finalist in the UK VA Awards - Midlands region – in 2018 & 2019. Alchemy Virtual Assistance was Northamptonshire Life Magazine’s B2B of the Year in 2018 and in 2019 Suzy was nominated for the We Are The City – Rising Star Award for Entrepreneurship. Suzy also scooped runner-up in two categories – ‘Business Woman’ and ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ – at the 2019 SME Northamptonshire Business Awards, and Alchemy’s VA franchise was named as a finalist for the Innovation Award at the Northamptonshire Business Awards 2019. In 2020 Suzy was nominated for the ‘VA Star Award’ which is designed to recognise professional Virtual Assistants that ‘give back’ to the Virtual Assistant industry by being recognised by their peers. Suzy’s book, The Alchemy of Virtual Assistance: Creating a successful Virtual Assistant business around your family was published this year which you can find on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alchemy-Virtual-Assistance-successful-Assistant/dp/B08B1JK2JM www.alchemyva.co.uk Contact: [email protected] Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/AlchemyVAUK https://www.instagram.com/alchemyVAuk/ https://twitter.com/alchemyvauk https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzy-sanders-b7776a31/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/alchemy-virtual-assistance/
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