Deb Gray Achieved Freedom and Efficiency Managing Multiple Businesses with Atlas Assistants

Deb Gray (00:00) the moment that I really knew that Atlas was helping, was when I had a problem with my stripe, a technical issue, and I didn't have time to fix it, and my assistant was able to go right in, fix it, repair it, and then from there just put more systems in place that make things go easier, and faster. Hi, I'm Deb Gray and I have a company called Deb Gray Consulting, and I am a life consultant, and have a lot of other businesses as well. The biggest changes I've noticed since working with Atlas is the sense of freedom that I have. knowing that I have someone who's got my back. If an email comes in - one of my businesses is an Airbnb, so if a notification comes in, I have an executive assistant who's responding right away. So it's improving my response time. And my favorite, favorite, favorite part of my executive assistant is that he starts an hour before me and all my emails are gone through, and I have a list that needs action, and I can take care of the most important things first thing in the morning. And I don't have to go through hundreds of emails to prioritize myself, which frees up a lot of time during the day because I can, like, ding, ding, ding, get things done. Before working with Atlas Assistance, I was running multiple businesses and then I started a new business, which is the consulting business. And I was just overwhelmed with all of the different things like trying to keep on top of everything. probably the biggest challenge I had was I didn't feel comfortable asking people in one business to do work in another business. So that was my main motivation for getting Atlas Assistance because I need someone that can work across all my businesses. What made me choose Atlas Assistance was it came with a great referral. someone who had already had experience with Atlas Assistance so I trusted their word. The other piece was it's less expensive than having a full-time employee at my office again the freedom. Like, if I hire anyone under any one company, I feel obligated to keep them working at that one company, and I needed someone who could work with me on all kinds of projects. So what has amazed me the most about my experience with Atlas was the initial intake process where they got to you know me really well and gave me 2 options of potential EAs, and I was able to interview both of them and then when I got the one that I chose, it was like a perfect match. I've done a lot of hiring in my days, and had not such good luck with who I've hired in the match, you know, the consistency, Matching the skills, matching the knowledge base, and also knowing that I needed someone who was more than willing to learn and I got the perfect partner because anything I want to take on, even if he doesn't already you know it, he's more than willing to learn this platform or that platform, which is exactly what I needed. So if someone's on the fence working with Atlas to get an executive assistant, I would say take the leap. They have really flexible programming. Like, I was able to start part-time and knew within two weeks that a full-time person was needed and could be a big help and was able to actually make that transition. Once you're in, you're in because the experience is so good and you get such great help and support and it frees up so much time. I'm so glad I did it because I have more time, more freedom, more confidence when I am away. just more ability to get my work done and get it done more efficiently.