After a varied career as a restaurant manager, a customer relations executive in the car industry, an exporter of shellfish and, of course, a PA and EA, Kathy set up Personally Virtual in 2014.

Initially, the business was just Kathy supporting a few clients, but she soon added one associate, and then another to look after the growing number of clients on the books.

Personally Virtual now comprises a team of over 30 associate VAs and supports businesses from 1 man or 1 woman bands right up to some household name corporate businesses where her team work alongside employed EAs.

In May 2017, she published Virtually Painless (rated 5* on Amazon), a humorous and slightly bonkers book about moving from employed PA to freelance VA. Covering the highs and lows of freelance life, it’s aim is to answer the questions “Can I do that?” and more importantly “Do I want to do that?”

Her latest book (published September 23) is How to Work with a Virtual Assistant - Outsource Everything but Your Brilliance, a guide for business owners and managers on how a VA can work with you to grow your business. Kathy loves helping people get organised and she is a total productivity geek so she also hosts a podcast – Productivity Nerd – in which she interviews guests about all things productivity or talks listeners through a book or system relating to productivity.

When she isn’t sweating over an online timesheet, nattering with the team on Slack or getting her geek on about a new planner or task system, she can usually be found in a field with a collie or two or swimming in an unnecessarily cold river.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-soulsby-va/
www.personallyvirtual.co.uk
How to Work with a Virtual Assistant - Outsource Everything but Your Brilliance (https://amzn.eu/d/bzkt6Ey)
Virtually Painless the book (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07168TR8T/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)