Assist With Impact
If you're ready to be more proactive and be the "little hinge that can swing big doors" then Assist With Impact is a must-listen podcast.
Join your host Liz Van Vliet and learn practical tips, strategies and insights that will help you move beyond being simply an order-taker.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 200
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2024
#20 Road Ramblings - The Christmas Edition
Road Ramblings makes a comeback this week just in time for Christmas. Liz recounts how technical 'isssssews' have prevented her from doing her interview with Roxanne Calder from est10 which will be r…
#19 Being A 'Look Behind The Margarine' Kind of Executive/Personal Assistant
A solo episode revisiting a metaphor that came up in Episode 17 with Kate Toon where Kate described herself as the sort of EA/PA who looked behind the margarine. What does this actually translate to …
#18 Why Executive Assistants Need To Get Comfortable With Uncomfortable Conversations
As Executive/Personal Assistants we are often in the unique position of being aware of 'problems' within our organisation. The mantra "don't bring me problems, bring me solutions" can be counter prod…
#17 Kate Toon Interview - From Personal Assistant to Award Winning Copy Writer and SEO Expert
Kate Toon is extraordinary. She is a copywriter, SEO lover, speaker, podcaster, TV presenter and trainer as well as being a mother, a wife and a small business owner.
In this interview Kate shares ho…
#16 Hilary Clinton's Email Scandal - Empathising With Her Executive Assistant & What I Know About Inbox Management
Rumination and reflections on the complex situation HRC's Executive Assistant must have been in trying to juggle the demands of HRC as well as other stakeholders in terms of her access to emails. Thi…
#15 Seth Godin Thinks We Should Be Indispensable Too
Liz shares how the podcast title Being Indispensable was chosen in complete ignorance of the fact that Seth Godin had explored the concept in his book “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable” (which Liz is …
#14 Mindfulness & Revisiting the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Test
This week is all about making space to care for herself. As part of this Liz is doing some self-reflection and beginning the process of putting into place the technique of mindfulness that has been p…
#13 Road Ramblings: Sharing about Job-Sharing
Two weeks into the job-share Liz reflects on her learnings so far....systems and processes, or the lack there-of can become glaringly obvious when you undertake a job-share. Liz also notes how import…
#12 Road Ramblings: Getting Real With Myself
Liz comes clean about how she hasn't allowed herself permission to not be okay post treatment for Breast Cancer. In pretending that life has gone on and it was no big deal she has not given her body …
#11 Minibee - Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies For Executive Assistants
A Minibee (Mini Being Indispensable) episode where Liz ruminates on what she's learned from reading about the four tendencies that Gretchen Rubin outlines in her bestselling book "Better Than Before"…
#10 Jan Jones: Exceptional Assistant & CEO Whisperer (Part 2)
In Part 2 of this interview with Jan Jones, author of "The CEO's Secret Weapon", Liz talks to Jan about the benefits of Exceptional Assistants sharing the traits and habits that allow them to develop…
#9 Jan Jones: Exceptional Assistant & CEO Whisperer (Part 1)
Jan Jones is an author, a businesswoman and an exceptional assistant in her own right talks to Liz about her fantastic book "The CEO's Secret Weapon" and how she started her working life in Sydney, A…
#8 Embracing Creative Entitlement & Big Magic
In this episode, Liz opens up about the challenge of continuing to pursue her podcast journey when every fibre of her being is telling her to run away and hide. She shares how the inspirational writi…
#7 Minibee: Habits To Break: Guilt & Over-Apologising
In a week where Liz is struck down with Sinusitis and has to take a day off work, she reflects on 'guilt', a most unhelpful emotion and shares how she is working to challenge this negative thinking. …
#6 Sonja Firth: Pioneering Virtual Assistant and LinkedIn Trainer
In the first interview for the Being Indispensable podcast, Liz interviews Sonja Firth, an Executive Assistant who epitomises the description 'capable'. Sonja has an eclectic set of skills and is hig…
#5 Top 10 Executive Assistant Traits & Amy Cuddy TED Talk
In this episode Liz gives an update on the results of her LinkedIn survey question and discusses Amy Cuddy and her research on Presence. How we can use power poses to program our mind to show up as m…
#4 Road Ramblings, A Trap For Young Players
The first in what is planned to become a regular addition to the Being Indispensable podcast library - road ramblings. This episode focuses on the perils of asssuming when making flight bookings for …
#3 Ernst & Young Australia Transforms Executive Assistant Support
Liz ruminates on the potential ramifications of Ernst & Young Australia reducing costs by rolling out Virtual Assistants to support Partners and Senior Managers. This is topical given the rise of the…
#2 The "How", My Path To Becoming An Executive Assistant
In this episode Liz outlines the role serendipity played in her decision to become an Executive Assistant. How a lunch with a friend led her to pursue a career transition to becoming an EA. She discu…
#1 The "'Why'
Being an Executive Assistant can be isolated and lonely. The relationship with the business leader whilst personal and close requires the assistant to maintain distance from others in order to perfor…