Sundays

I've been working with a virtual assistant of some sort for nearly a decade now, and I've worked with four different firms over the years. These days I'm working with Sundays after meeting Ashley Chang at a conference (she's the founder). It's been a joy and a huge help. Sundays focuses specifically on supporting working parents, and so Kaila (my amazing assistant) helps me for 10 hours a month (I am likely to increase this allotment soon because it's been making such a difference!) with mostly business-related tasks but also sometimes with personal tasks. She's great and I definitely recommend checking out Sundays if you are ready to get some support with all the things you are juggling. Here are just a few of the things they help me with: social media management, website updates, capturing testimonials and sharing them, creating infrastructure for free resources I want to give to the world, sending gifts to my clients and students, bookkeeping and business mileage tracking, adding students to calendar invites for group programs, invoicing, tracking metrics, researching Airbnbs, putting conference sessions on my calendar, and more. Happy to intro you to their team if helpful!

🎥 Join Us Live: Mastering Family Support with Sundays and Sage Haus! Navigating the demands of family life can feel overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. September 11th, Ashley Chang and Kelly Hubbell are diving deep into how to master family support—from managing the mental load to effectively outsourcing tasks.

Best way to start the day talking about Sundays and what we can do to support working parents ❤️

For the month of August we are partnering up with amazing companies who are dedicated to making this back to school season easier. We are doing a giveaway for Maple users for the next 4 weeks, giving away thousands of dollars worth of amazing products and services! This week, we are THRILLED to be partnering with Ashley Chang and her team at Sundays as they are giving away ONE FREE MONTH to lighten the load for parents.

We're excited to be joining Maple in helping families get ready for back-to-school! See you there!

Can we talk about badmin? This week marks one month into my new job, which I am loving. To maximize work time and home time, I set a new intention to become totally ruthless about how I spend my time outside of work. My husband and I equally contribute to our income and our domestic labor. Mostly, he wakes up our daughter and takes her to work, then I feed and put her to bed at night. I recognize that I am lucky - both to have a partner and to have this dynamic. I don’t know who needs to hear this but, I kissed a lot of frogs... Outside of parenting, we have different chores we enjoy. But then there’s all the stuff that is TOTALLY UNBEARABLE. Let's call it 'badmin'. As Ashley Chang, CEO of Sundays, a personal assistant agency specializing in parents says of the aveage age of new moms rising "this means balancing the full-attention, eyes-and-hands-on, period of parenting young children with complex problem and team management at work. Parents are doing a much harder level of work at the same time as the hardest years of parenting.” YES. This. So I want to share three things have changed our lives over the last few weeks. 1. Sundays After being inspired Ashley’s posts on here, we signed up and are now working with wonderful Mariah on tasks that we don’t want to detract from working, parenting, or quality time. She is helping us with TSA, the DMV and all other acronynms that make you feel a bit queasy. We now have a family calendar to manage clashes when we both travel and remember public holidays before they’re on top of us. 2. Chat GPT life hacks Yesterday I booked flights and hotels for our upcoming 4th July trip, supported by Chat GPT. This trip started as an experiment building a “McCarthy Vacation” GPT which I’ve been training. My brief: “What small towns surrounded by nature should we go to for 4th July? We’re willing to travel 4 hours including drive time. We want to collect a state we’ve not been to. Please find an Americana parade and a boutique hotel with a restaurant. Needs to be toddler friendly, but we’re not into child centered activities so please no adventure parks.” Thank goodness GPTs don't judge! We’re going to Park City, Utah if you’re interested and have a full itinerary planned for us. This week I’ve also used a GPT to generate a custom Alphabet rhyming book. The out of work use cases are giving and giving. What are yours? Finally… 3. Notion I bit the bullet and signed us up for a paid account on Notion. This means that I can share to-do lists with my family and also with our new helper. I import Chat GPT itineraries into Notion and refine them in there. You can turn the itinerary into a checklist and check it for hallucinations and feasibility. If this sounds like it took a lot of time, some of it did and some of it didn’t. Sometimes you have to spend a little to save a lot. This is definitely true of productivity. What are your productivity hacks to reduce the badmin?

Sundays was born from the dream that women can thrive at work and home. It's a privilege to support with Cameron Hardesty and learn from the amazing company she's building, Poppy Flowers, while raising her family. We're here to help ambitious women do big things, please reach out if we can help!