Maria Calanchini

I Had Never Ever Dreamed or Imagined That I Would Have a Multi-Seven Figure Business Run by Virtual Assistants.

But I have had that business now since 2012, except it wasn’t always a 7 figure business run by virtual assistants.

Up until 2009, when I began my online journey, I had worked for multiple small businesses and entrepreneurs and I got by okay but I never thrived.

I Had Never Ever Dreamed or Imagined That I Would Have a Multi-Seven Figure Business Run by Virtual Assistants.

But I have had that business now since 2012, except it wasn’t always a 7 figure business run by virtual assistants.
Up until 2009, when I began my online journey, I had worked for multiple small businesses and entrepreneurs and I got by okay but I never thrived.

In 2009 several things changed the way I looked at life and I changed the way I was living my life.

I got a phone call from the wife of the entrepreneur I was working for. My employer was in jail. It happened overnight with no warning, I never saw it coming and I lost my job and all income within 24 hours.
Two months after that phone call my father passed from a brain tumor.
2009 was undoubtedly the worst year of my life.
I remember feeling heartbroken, trapped and desperate for a new way of life.
While I was struck with the grief of losing a parent I was also left without any source of income.
I wanted to change everything about my life.
I have never had a victim mindset and I knew that all changes were up to me.
I knew I wanted financial, geographical and time freedom.
My life prior to 2009 had none of these qualities despite my strong work ethic.
What I didn’t realize was that in order to achieve all of these new goals

I would have to become a completely different version of myself .

The events of 2009 sent me down a never ending road of intentional self development.
When I decided to start working for myself I started out as an independent contractor and
helped small businesses grow an online presence from 2009 to 2014.
During this time I started an online business; FaceYogaMethod.com (FYM) with my sister in law, Fumiko, in 2012.
In 2014, two years after starting FYM, our business that started out selling a $27 ebook turned into a multi six figure business that supported us both.
A few years later FYM became a multimillion dollar business.
In retrospect we could have gotten to 7 figures in the first year if I had hired virtual assistants sooner rather than later. I didn’t know how to think then the way I think now.
I’ve intentionally rewired my brain.
I was worried about spending money on a VA for things that I “could do myself” even though I stayed up to midnight many nights trying to build websites on WordPress.
Don’t do that.
When I finally bit the bullet and hired our first full time VA, Bianca, everything in our business changed and we became a 7 figure business within 18 months.
In 2016 I started a children’s story podcast called Goop Tales as a fun creative outlet because I wanted to.
When I look back over the last 12 years I am proud and inspired by my journey of change.
I have hired dozens and dozens of virtual assistants, built teams, developed leaders, taken my teams all over the world and created a whole new life for myself that looks nothing like the one I left behind in 2009.
But more importantly I learned to trust myself and my intuition and I have learned how worthy and powerful I am and so are you. I learned that there is no wrong or right way to build a business and that comparing myself to others or their paths is an exercise in futility.
Now I’m beginning again with Mariacalanchini.com because I love evolving, I love business and I love teaching what I know. For over a decade people have asked me how I hire VA’s overseas and keep them and manage them and trust them and build lifelong relationships with them. I will teach you how I do it here at mariacalanchini.com. Let’s evolve together.
2009

Hardest year of my life.

Starting over from scratch in my 40’s from my little one bedroom.

2012

Fumiko and I start the Face Yoga Method.

2014

I am able to leave contracting for FYM full time.

Fumiko and I take our first mini workcation to Carmel Valley Ranch.

Rocco Joins me on this life journey

2015

I go to my first Dr. Joe Dispenza retreat with Fumiko in Mexico, igniting our love for neuroscience and the ability to change ourselves.

2016

I start my podcast children’s story podcast GoopTales just for fun.

We have our first 7 figure year

I travel to Portugal to meet our first full time VA in person

2017

We take our team to Barcelona and meet together for the first time

2018

We take our team to Croatia and hold a retreat

I buy my dream home on the water

2019

I become a foster mom

We bring our team out to California for a company workcation and take a seaplane ride over GG Bridge

2020

We launch our custom Collagen SuperPowder

We take our team to Nashville for Funnel Hacking Live - Nashville

2021

Fumiko and I travel to Romania to meet up with our original VA, Bianca

2024

Fumiko, myself and my sisters travel to Lake Maggiore and bump into Face Yogis along the way

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