Most businesses default to a freelancer when the workload gets heavy. It solves today's problem, it doesn't solve the pattern.
An embedded associate is different. They work inside your systems, join your workflows, and stay accountable to your business specifically.
That's the model behind SpecifiVA: pre-vetted, trained talent, matched to your operations and embedded within days.
If you're tired of re-explaining your business to a new freelancer every quarter, this is worth ten minutes of your time.
@wibradiolive You'll always be the face. You don't have to be the whole team.
What's one thing in your business you're doing only because you feel you should?
PS: The full conversation on the Women in Business Radio Show runs about an hour. Link to listen here: : https://t.co/FxveGvZD56
There is this quiet belief so many founders carry: “If it matters, I should do it. If I don't do it, it won't be done properly.”
On The @wibradiolive Women In Business Radio Show, our founder, Kemka Emereole, challenged that belief head-on.
Follow the threads for convo snippet
@wibradiolive Kemka's answer? Stop. Step back. Delegate the work to "those who can do it better than I can."
That isn't giving up control. That's leadership.
It's also the thinking @SpecifiVA was built on. Our virtual assistants step in with the skills and support your business needs.
@wibradiolive Somewhere along the way, most of us started treating them the same.
So, we stay up late doing tasks we're not great at. And the things only we can do (the relationships, the vision, the big decisions) get whatever energy is left.
@wibradiolive "As a business owner, you have to be the face, be the spokesperson, but that doesn't mean you're the best person for that."
Read that again.
Being the face of your business and being the best person for every job in it are two completely different things.
@wibradiolive Kemka is a woman who stands on stages. Who speaks at business shows. Who is, very literally, the face of her company.
And she said this: "I know I'm definitely not the best marketing person for my business."
Then she went further:
Every hour you spend running your business has a price tag. Most business owners have never actually looked at it.
This month, our founder, Kemka Emereole joined the @wibradiolive.
Follow the threads for a snippet on how the conversation went.
@wibradiolive What's one task you'd hand over tomorrow if you could?
P.S: The full conversation on the Women in Business Radio Show runs about an hour. Given everything we've just said about the value of an hour, we promise this one is well spent.
@wibradiolive As Kemka puts it on the show, we provide low-cost, high-quality staff for businesses.
Our virtual assistants take on the work that eats your hours, so you can spend them where they actually earn.
Your time has value. The question is whether you are treating it that way.
The inbox you cleared at 10pm, the diary you rearranged three times, the invoices you chased when you should have been with a client.
Now multiply.
That's not 'just admin'. That's money quietly leaving your business, one hour at a time.
This is exactly why SpecifiVA exists.
...that we devote to whatever it is that we are devoting it to."
If it can happen to someone who preaches it, it can happen to any of us.
So, try this:
Put a number on your hour. Be honest. Then look at your week.
"Having been on the other side of it now and actually seeing how I didn't even think about it…"
The experience brought her back to the lesson she shares with everyone else: "It is very important we really do understand the monetary value of every single hour...
Kemka knows this subject well. As she puts it: "I talk to business owners about valuing their time in actual figures."
It's what she teaches. It's advice she has given repeatedly. And then she admitted something most of us would never say out loud:
A month ago, we relaunched here after a quiet stretch.
Since then: more conversations with founders than we've had in months, a handful of new associates embedded, and clients getting real hours back each week.
Thank you for the warm welcome back —more to come!
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