Joyful Notes from Beth

As AI changes how we work, the most valuable skills Executive and Virtual Assistants bring may be the distinctly human ones: judgment, trust, intuition, empathy, context and connection.

The "yes" is out of your mouth before you've even checked whether you have room for it. The message comes in — a new task, a favor, a "quick" ask you already know isn't quick — and something in you answers before your calendar, your energy, or your better judgment gets a vote. By the time you realize what you've agreed to, backing out feels worse than just absorbing it. So you absorb it. Again. If you read that and felt a little seen and a little called out, you're in the rig

The launch went off without a single visible problem. Which means no one will ever know how many invisible ones you caught — the double-booked flight you fixed at 6 a.m., the typo in the deck that was one click from going to the board, the vendor you smoothed over before it became a crisis. In the debrief, the team celebrated. Your name didn’t come up once. You smiled and clapped along. And later, something sat heavy in your chest that you could not quite name. Here is one po