Matchmaking, Internships & Meet-And-Greets: The Right Way to Hire Remote Talent

In this episode of to Founders, Future, with host Zach Young, Francesca Moi — founder and CEO of Empowering Virtual Solution — shares her 15-year founder journey from life and business coaching into building a VA agency that started with just $120 and scaled to a multi-million business serving 80+ owners and saving clients ~22,000 hours weekly. Francesca breaks down the hands-on systems she uses to match values and skills (personality tests, task-based internships and a “meet & greet” handover), how she built a specialist-powered team across Australia and the Philippines, and why strong delegation and time boundaries (her 11–4 workday) are the real levers of founder freedom.She also reveals practical content and growth tactics — batching 1–2 hours of monthly recordings that the team turns into dozens of posts, turning VAs into specialist roles (even sales reps), and the cultural care she gives her remote staff (no graveyard shifts by default, yearly team visits to Australia). Francesca’s playbook is immediate and tactical: recruit for values and critical thinking, train and guide your team to independence, and design systems that let you scale without losing heart or grit.