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.