Girl, Take the Lead!
218. Permission Granted: The Joyful Art of Delegation and Time Freedom
19 Feb 2025
Molly Rose Speed, Millennial, is the visionary behind the Virtual Assistant Academy and founder of Virtual Assistant Management, where she’s helped countless entrepreneurs and professionals reclaim their time and focus on what matters most. She joins us to share her expertise in delegation and asking for help. She has mastered theart of creating time freedom, empowering others to offload their to-do lists and scale their businesses with ease. With a passion for supporting military spouses and those seeking flexible careers, she’s trained hundreds of VirtualAssistants and built a thriving community dedicated to helping others achieve balance and success. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: The challenge and cost of delegation asking for help.Stress and overwhelm. Benefit of boundarysetting.Generational differences when it comes to asking for help.Delegation and joy and building relationships.Importance of community to support us Quotable Moments: “The boundaries we apply internally to ourselves need to be respected and honored.”“The most frequently asked for help area is with someone’s inbox and can be one of the most painfulplaces for people...it just grows and grows.” “When people give me a mess to fix, I’m thrilled.” “You can’t be creative in overwhelm.” “There’s a kind way to delegate.” “Women make terrific negotiators because we come at things cooperatively and not competitively.”“Permission granted!” “There’s so much space we can give ourselves, to love ourselves so we don’t do it all ourselves.” Three Episode Takeaways: 1. The challenge of asking for help or delegating don’t want to be a burden or be vulnerable. The cost can be burn out and relationships because we are so busy – plus our perception can shift. 2. Questioning the underlying misbeliefs and seeing the ways we drive ourselves can help us set boundaries and ask for help so we’re clear about what we’re asking for. 3. Cultural trends indicate that younger generations are more prone to ask for help. Episode Resources: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/connected-leadership/202206/3-reasons-why-its-so-hard-to-ask-for-help https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/this-isn't-what-i-expected/201108/asking-for-help-what-gets-in-the-way-and-why https://whitneygordon-mead.com/2020/04/14/asking-for-help-is-hard-heres-why-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/ "Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the GenderDivide" by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever"Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power ofNegotiation to Get What They Really Want" by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever https://www.pattyaubery.com/ Ep. 215. Exploring Mel Robbins’ Let Them Theory as A Way to Live with Love & Intentionalityhttps://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/SK1wxK8SyQb How to reach Molly Rose: [email protected] www.virtualassistantmanagement.com(book a free discovery call) | Mollyrosespeed.com instagram.com/mollyrosespeed How to reach Yo Canny: Our website:www.girltaketheleadpod.com You can send a message or voicemail there. We’d love to hear from you! email:[email protected] FB group: Girl, Take the Leadhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/272025931481748/?ref=share IG: yocanny YouTube LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yocanny/
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