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    Starting Over as a Virtual Assistant? You’re Not the Only One

    (On losing clients, feeling left behind, and what it actually takes to start over as a virtual assistant) There’s a specific kind of quiet that hits you when you lose a client. It doesn’t announce itself loudly. It just settles in, on slow Monday mornings, mid-scroll on LinkedIn, or whenever someone casually asks, “Kamusta ang work as a Virtual Assistant?” And you smile, because what else can you do? That’s where I found myself recently. Two clients gone. A third one struggling. And if I’m being completely honest with myself, I wasn’t performing the way I used to. It’s a hard thing to sit with. But sitting with it was…