VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS
The Boulevardiers
The people of the boulevard.
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VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS / ENTREPRENEURSHIP
You Can't Teach Someone to Care
He Cold-Called His First Client With Nothing But an iPhone. Now He Runs One of Calgary's Fastest-Growing Real Estate Video Teams, With Editors in Iloilo He Mentors Like Family.
By Michael Siervo
Further down the boulevard
Ideas worth your attention.
VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS / CAREER PIVOT
The Pivot to Purpose
She Spent 21 Years Building a Career That She Out Grew. At 55, Ludy Demecillo Is Living One she is Growing into — One Continent at a Time.
By Michael Siervo
VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS / STALINGRAD DOLLOSA
The Dark Forest
He Faked an Agency at 17, Taught Himself Rocket Science, and Walked Away at the Top. Now He's Fighting to Get It Back.
By Michael Siervo
VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS / PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Because You Are
They Were Blamed for a Death, Raised on an Earthen Floor by Two Women Who Sacrificed Everything, and Taught Themselves Not to Cry. Today Toni Lopez Gives Other People a Voice.
By Michael Siervo
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VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS / MENTORSHIP
The Roses She Grows
She Walked Six Kilometers to School With One Notebook. Her Own Mother Refused to Rescue Her. Today She Stands in Front of Thousands of Young Filipinos and Tells Them to Begin.
By Michael Siervo
VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS / COMMUNITY BUILDING
The Belonging She Built
She Was the Black Sheep of a Broken Family, a Mother at 17 With No One to Catch Her. So She Built the Home She Never Had, for Hundreds of Others.
By Michael Siervo
VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS
The In-Between
He had been a virtual professional for less than two years, which put him under my own hiring minimum. Then he sent me two films he had made for his family before anyone was paying him for anything, and I broke my rule.
By Michael Siervo
VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS / VIRTUAL ASSISTANT
The Bridge Builder
He Was My First Virtual Assistant. I Was His First Canadian Partner. What Grew Between Us Is the Whole Reason I Believe in This Industry.
By Michael Siervo
VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS / VIRTUAL ASSISTANCE
The Quiet Kind
Adopted at Four Days Old, She Lost the Life She'd Built to the Pandemic. Then She Rebuilt Into a Force in the Virtual World.
By Michael Siervo
VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS / ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The Boy Who Was Told No
He Was Told No Over a Packet of Cereal as a Boy. Today He Runs More Than 1,100 Properties Across the World. The call came at ten at night. A friend in Canada, stuck in a jam, needed an Airbnb expert immediately. Within the hour I was on the phone with a stranger whose confidence I could feel before I'd even seen his face. "Yes," he said, smiling down the line, "I can help." I spent the months that followed learning where that certainty came from.
By Michael Siervo
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