The Alchemy of Alignment Podcast Episode 38 – How do we know when it’s time for change? With Alchemy VA Franchise Partner Lisa Keefe
Change can be two-fold it can happen to us, or we can consciously create it.
There is no denying that change is one of the few certainties in life and business.
Suzy Sanders, our Founder and your ever curious host, cracks open another entrepreneurial endeavour with the self-proclaimed ‘professionally picky’ Lisa Keefe.
Lisa is a Franchise Partner with Alchemy Virtual Assistance, launching the Swindon Hub of Alchemy in summer 2026. Let's explore how Lisa took charge of change, leaving a long, successful, dedicated and fruitful career in the legal sector to take start her own Alchemy Virtual Assistant business.
A change that was aligned but slightly unconventional…
Lots of ‘small’ things started stacking up for Lisa, those dearest to her noticed first. Over time, the need for change became conscious, louder and hard to ignore.
Tune in and explore how Chartered Legal Executive Lisa travelled from admin through to fee earner and on to head of team before pouring all her experience into her own Virtual Assistant Franchise.
Discover how risk adverse Lisa came to the decision to join Alchemy Virtual Assistance to give her the confidence and courage to make such a big change. Cutting through thoughts, feelings with fact and figures.
A refreshingly open and honest conversation covering perimenopause, driving value in business, meeting clients holistically and wholeheartedly, how technology is shaping business... and everything in between!
Episode highlights:
1. The cumulative effect of change
2. Career paths and leveraging transferable skills
3. Creating time and space to reset and recalibrate
4. Why Alchemy VA?
5. The momentum and opportunity to be built through change
6. The reservations and challenges to doing it on your own but not alone
7. Feelings and fears
8. Multistep mind make ups
9. Confidence and encouragement
10. Weighing up risk and reward
11. The great employee to entrepreneur shift
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