The Most Fascinating Aspect Of Being A Substack Virtual Assistant

It's probably not at all what you might think

Just after midnight the other night I received an email from a fellow Stacker. I knew she needed help because her email landed in my business inbox.

The clock read 12:23 a.m. and I was like, hmmmm, do I open it now or wait til morning?

Part of me wondered why the heck anyone else was awake and muddling around on Substack after midnight. Bunch of diehards here, aren’t we?

I opted to wait til morning to open her email and low and behold, she’s from Australia. The time difference between us is sixteen hours. By 7:30 a.m. when I was ready to reply, she would be long gone to la-la-land at 1:30 a.m. her time.

This was so reminiscent of when my mother lived in Japan in the 90s, only we didn’t have email back then. We communicated via FAX machine! 😂 I shouldn’t laugh, though. Faxing on clunky machines was cutting edge before email and it certainly kicked 2-week snail mail in the butt.

Finding out that this new connection came from Australia prompted me to check my website stats and see where people are visiting from. It is mind-blowing!

I have ALWAYS been a stats geek, from way back in my travel blogging days. I will never get tired of realizing just how much of a central hub the internet is and how it brings people together who would never otherwise meet each other.

Which brings me to the fascinating part…

While I sat here waiting on

Jan Cornall

in Australia to wake up, I had the pleasure of meeting

Tim Ebl

on Zoom. I’m building him a Squarespace website and the cool thing is, if I got in my car and started driving right now, I could be at his house in two hours.

And just a few weeks ago I sat face-to-face in a coffee shop with

Donna McArthur

discussing plans for her Substack and my future as a virtual assistant.

I can mosey on over to Dare to be Dry and see exactly how working with Allison turned out in real life, without ever having met her.

This is one of my nerdier obsessions. It always has been. I’ve written entire posts about it in my other publication.

The power of connection and community brings people together on such a global scale that it’s difficult to even consider that there’s so much division on the same global scale.

Working with fellow Substackers forces me to visit their publications and learn what they’re writing about. The diversity on this platform is incredible and how we find each other through community here is so intriguing.

I’m SO looking forward to discovering more of you as we stay in this for the long haul 🥂

Unstack Substack deliveries are meant to be short, sweet, and not clutter up your inbox or your day. I’ve chosen Saturdays because it seems to be the least busy inbox day among newsletters I’m subscribed to.

Curious to know which are the busiest delivery days? Sundays and Tuesdays. They are like inbox armageddon!

What day do you deliver?

What day is your inbox the loudest?