Becollab

Ever feel like you’re winging setting up your VA business?

✔️ You’ve got the skills, but don’t know where to start
✔️ You’re piecing together freebies
✔️ You’re constantly questioning your pricing, packages, or systems

It’s exhausting. And it’s not a strategy.

Here’s the truth: building a VA business doesn’t have to feel like throwing spaghetti at the wall (and hoping it sticks!). With the right support, it can feel safe, intentional, and profitable.

That’s why my mentoring exists. It is the support I wish I had when I started over 13 years ago!

We map out your services, pricing, and offers.
We build a lean backend that won’t crumble (or blow the budget!).
We create clarity so you can confidently say yes to the right clients.

Because you don’t just want a business, you want one that lasts.

Book a no-obligation complimentary call through my website, and let’s chat about how mentoring could support your next step 🤍

I stopped calling myself “just a…” and everything shifted. But that wasn’t the whole story.

Even after I dropped the “just,” I was still bouncing between titles that didn’t quite fit. We offered VA services. We offered OBM services. Two very different things, but both part of what we did. Neither one on its own captured the full picture, though.

We were embedded in businesses, shaping how they operated from the inside out. Building systems, implementing processes, managing teams, executing strategy, and handling the day-to-day. All at once. All tailored to what each client actually needed.

But I couldn’t find the words for it. And when you can’t name what you do, you can’t fully own it either.

It took feedback from incredible clients who described what we did better than I ever could.

That’s when it clicked. We weren’t offering VA or OBM services anymore. We were delivering operational support and management. Bespoke, high-touch, and deeply integrated into each business we work with.

The moment I named it properly, everything aligned. The right clients found us faster. And for the first time, what we said on the outside finally matched what we’d been doing on the inside all along.

Your business is allowed to evolve. Your title is allowed to change. You’re allowed to outgrow the box you started in.

That’s kind of the whole point IMO.

So if you’re feeling stuck and things just aren’t adding up, try this: seek out honest feedback (yes, like a 360-style review, for those of you ex-corporates who didn’t just break out in a cold sweat at the thought 😉), take a proper moment to reflect, and ask yourself if the box you’re operating in is even the right one anymore.

Chances are, you’ve already outgrown it!

I keep seeing the same thing on repeat right now.

Business owners working long hours, feeling exhausted, and wondering why there’s never enough money left over to pay themselves properly.

So we dig into the numbers together.
Spoiler: Most of the time, they need to do their homework first and start actually tracking their time!

And almost every single time? When we work out what they’re actually earning per hour... it’s less than a kid working the checkout at Woolies 😬

Not because they’re doing anything wrong. Because nobody ever told them to track their time properly and price from the truth!

Here’s the thing: time tracking isn’t just for people who bill by the hour. It’s for every business owner who wants to actually know their numbers.

When you track everything (client work, admin, emails, quoting & invoicing, socials, all of it) you stop guessing and start making decisions based on reality.

No need to add another paid platform to your tech stack - Clockify or Toggl are my free top picks. No excuses.

You deserve to be paid what you’re worth (plus, plus, plus!!). But first, you need to know what the bare minimum actually is!

So if there is one thing you start doing this week - for the love of margaritas, please let it be starting to track your time 🫶🏻

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Today marks 6 years since I went all in on Becollab 🥹

What started as a quiet side hustle for the 7 years prior, while I was a corporate girlie, eventually became the business I run full-time today.

Many wins.
Some mistakes.
A lot of learning and evolving along the way.

Here are 6 lessons from the past 6 years that have shaped how I run my business today.

If you’re building something of your own right now, I hope one of them lands for you.

Building a business will stretch you in ways you didn’t know were possible, but not a day goes by that I’m not grateful for the freedom it has brought.

And to my number 1 cheerleader (my Mum), my right-hand lady , my inner circle, and the incredible clients and collaborators who have been part of the journey, thank you. Truly 🤍

Tonight’s celebration: a cheeky Monday margi (obvs!).

There is something about flying that unlocks a different part of my brain 🔓

No notifications.
No “quick questions.”
No context switching.

Just altitude, a notebook, and space to think.

A holiday.
A forced extra-slow down, thanks for the holiday injury, universe 🙄
A nervous system reset.
And now, pages full of new ideas & thoughts.

There’s something about being suspended between where I’ve been and where I’m going that makes everything clearer. Reflecting mid-air, suspended between versions of yourself, feels powerful.

Flying gives me uninterrupted thinking time, the kind that feels rare in everyday life. By the time the wheels touch down, I’m not just home.
I’m clearer.

And clarity is everything in business.

Where is your favourite place to find white space and seek clarity? 🤍

The BC gals take Rotto 🍾🌞🤍

The perfect way to end a less then perfect year, but I wouldn’t have been able to do it (survive 2025 😮‍💨) without my perfect right hand gal - doing life and business with you, Em, is a dream 🫶🏼

Cheers to 2026 and all the goodness that is to come 💫