Leading the next chapter of The VA Handbook - supporting VAs to build professional, sustainable businesses. Bringing my experience of running a multi-award-winning VA agency and building a team to help VAs not just get started, but grow with structure, confidence and long-term success.
⏰ Happening this Thursday if you're interested!
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Good afternoon, The April edition of the Espresso AI newsletter goes out on Thursday, and I wanted to give you a preview of what existing subscribers will receive. As mentioned in the sale announcement, while I’m now the proud new owner of The VA Handbook, Jo will continue to write the popular monthly Espresso AI newsletter. This Thursday’s edition will include: 1. The darker side of AI Last week, a reader sent Jo a link to a whistleblower interview on Diary of a CEO about the darker side of AI and asked for her thoughts on the claim that AI companies are gaslighting us. In the newsletter, Jo shares her honest thoughts on the hype, the grifters and the corporate nonsense around AI, and explains what she’s doing to maintain her integrity and make sure it serves her, rather than the other way round. 2. Reasons for not ditching ChatGPT for Claude Although a lot of people have recently flounced off to Claude, Jo has decided not to join them. In this issue, she shares four reasons why she’s going to continue giving her money to OpenAI - at least for the time being. One of them involves an eye-opening yet 100% relatable experience with an ex-boyfriend! 3. Seven ways to use NotebookLM NotebookLM helps you make sense of your own documents, from contracts and client briefs to studies, meeting notes and policy docs. In this issue, Jo shares seven ways to use it for faster research, clearer summaries and fewer missed details. Sorry, you actually get eight because Jo snuck in a bonus link to a Reddit post showing how one copywriter used it to cut a client workflow from days to hours. 4. A practical prompt for critical thinking Jo shares a clever prompt designed to help you spot blind spots, question your own assumptions and think more clearly about tricky topics. It’s an excellent resource for older children to help them develop critical thinking skills. Which is an absolutely essential skill nowadays. 5. Turning one good prompt into a reusable template If you find yourself asking AI to create the same sort of document over and over again, stop starting from scratch every time. In Thursday’s issue, Jo shares a simple prompt that helps you turn one successful draft into a reusable template, so you can skip a ton of faffing about next time. PLUS Jo also shares eight weird and wonderful ways she used AI in her life and business during the past month. All of this is only available to Espresso AI subscribers. If you want to stay up to date with all the many ways you can use AI in your VA business, but you’re busy AF and just want a monthly email packed with carefully curated info, then consider signing up. It's just £4.99 a month. You can cancel at any time AND put it on your business expenses… HURRAH! Find out more and subscribe. Best wishes, Holly |
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Leading the next chapter of The VA Handbook - supporting VAs to build professional, sustainable businesses. Bringing my experience of running a multi-award-winning VA agency and building a team to help VAs not just get started, but grow with structure, confidence and long-term success.
Hello Reader, The next edition of the Espresso AI newsletter goes out on Thursday, and I wanted to give you a little preview of what paid subscribers will receive. The May issue will include: 1. A simple prompt for making big business decisions If you’ve ever gone round in circles over a serious business decision, this provides a structured way to use AI to help risk assess and stress-test the implications without it hijacking the outcome or telling you to just go for it.2. A thoughtful task...
Hello - and happy Thursday!I’m just back from a great couple of days up north where I spoke at the first Manchester VA Conference.My session was all about confidence and how it doesn’t usually appear before growth - it tends to come because of it.I’ve actually really struggled with confidence over the years, and still regularly do.Most of us are waiting to feel fully ready before we put ourselves out there, raise our prices, pitch ourselves or take the next step… but growth rarely works like...
Hi Reader, After a hectic couple of weeks of travel and events (and more lined up for next week!), this week has been all about getting my head down and cracking on. As much as I love getting out and about, meeting people and learning new things, there’s nothing quite like time working ON my own business and moving things forward.This weekend is a Bank Holiday in the UK (hurrah!) so we get an extra day to spend as we please. My children are away with their dad, so I’ll mostly be playing...