Kathy Goughenour – From Secretary to Business Owner who wears a Tiara

Kathy Goughenour (pronounced: GOO-gen-hour), is the founder of Expert VA® and Virtual Expert® Training where she trains and coaches women who want to build their own Virtual Assistant home-based businesses. Kathy runs her virtual empire from her dream home After finding the courage to say “bye-bye” to her corporate marketing career, Kathy Goughenour built a 6-figure Virtual Assistant business from her tiny house in the middle of a forest. Today, she teaches professional women how to create their own work-at-home Virtual Assistant and Virtual Expert® businesses so they too can enjoy the freedom, flexibility, and financial security they desire and deserve. Kathy and her Expert VA® and Virtual Expert® Training programs have been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, Good Housekeeping, All You, and The Wealthy Freelancer. Kathy Goughenour Vroom Veer Stories Grew up in Ferguson MO; her mom didn't want to have kids, since she did she pretended she didn't have kidsWhen Kathy asked her mom if she could go to college her mom asked her "who do you think you are that you get to go to college?"; so she went to Miss Hickey's School for Secretaries in St LouisLanded her first job at an insurance company; she was 18 and it was much like the TV show Mad Mad; her boss was literally chasing her around his desk; everyone was smoking in the office all dayMet her 1st husband on the bus and he worked for the phone company; told her she could do the same job for 2x the money so she did; started as a secretary but learned how to do marketing in school and got a marketing jobAsked her boss how to get a promotion; he said get an MBA; so she got an MBA; still no promotion; she asked why; he said "because you smile and laugh too much"; six months later she quitHer husband got a six month gig in Canada; she started looking for a place to live after Canada and started making suggestions to realtors about how to improve their websites and marketing; one decided to pay her to do itWorked as a VA in real estate with marketing until 2008; then she had to find a new niche; in the new niche she had more work than she could handle so she needed help; started training VAs to help her...new biz! Training VAs! Connections Website