Virtual Assistants, Gold Coins & How This Works
What is a virtual assistant? This blog post will either be simplified or overcomplicated. Ha, I hope I teach you something.
For starters, a virtual assistant is someone who works remotely — at home, at the coffee shop, or in a hotel room. I don't know about you, but that sounds like a dream. It's why I want it to work.
Virtual assistants are known as business owners, freelancers, and sometimes contractors, meaning they set their own hours and make their own rates purely from skills they have and/or are working toward.
This is for virtual assistants, known as VAs, who work independently and are freelancers. As a VA (virtual assistant), this can be about any type of skill you might have.
This is where the exciting part happens, ha. You get to pick your services and the clients (people) you want to serve and impact.You can pick tasks like admin, and an admin VA, to me, is just an administrative assistant who works from home. Maybe I should have started there. Silly, I know.
Well, I did say I was new, didn't I? Nudge toward the intro post. Ahem.But moving on, pshh. Here's the link to the intro. https://www.natvgarcia.com/blog/the-captains-first-voyage-building-a-dream-in-90-days-nat-garcia Cough.
Anyway, for real this time — the grand thing (grand thing? Who talks like that?), the best part is, as an admin VA, you can manage emails, manage calendars, enter data, and manage social DMs.
And more.
If you're a creative, much like myself (again, I don't talk like that. What's wrong with me?), you can offer more services like graphic design, video editing, photo editing — anything creative. The seas are yours to claim. The choice is yours. For me, I'm starting slow and steady with admin and branching out.
This journey is me trying to make it as a virtual assistant and other things. The question is, who hires and needs a VA? Well, if you're a business owner, CEO, content creator, or online business — anyone who wants to create needs a VA. In other words, does everyone need a VA? No. Could everyone benefit from one? Yes. And please, that's how I get my gold coins (money), ha.
But I hope you understand, I'm not trying to sell to you. I'm just here vibing and typing, hoping someone reads my blog post. Hopefully, more than anything, you're informed, laughing, and maybe thinking, "Who is this person?!"
So, why would you or anyone hire a VA? What benefits can I offer you? And no, I'm not trying to get gold coins (money) here. I want this to be about how and why having a VA can really help someone — or you.
The benefits include giving you and others more time to create.Yes, more time to create and do the fun things that make you feel alive. Not just in a make-money kind of way, but an opportunity to make art for hours, be in the creative world you want to build, and have more time for.
You make the things you want to make, to let the little artist come back to us. Because, let's be honest, a good chunk of us wanted to be artists and creators when we were kids — we wanted to play Barbies or slay dragons, make the food, or play with trucks. And having someone to do the things we don't want to do can help us do that.
And it's okay to have help. It's okay to be overloaded with work, and it's okay to reach for help to get back on track, stay organized, and make that checklist stress-free, relaxed, and way less to do.
Again, I hope this was simple and easy to understand because, coming from someone with a learning disability, sometimes things just don't make sense. But mostly, I hope you laughed and felt like I wasn't trying to sell you. I just wanted to inform you, teach you, and make you smile a little.
See you in the next one.
Creativity yours,
-Nat Garcia
August 31st, 2026
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