Community Highlights: Meet Steph Orosco of Scaling with Heart

After a few years of exploration post-high school, I got my Associate’s degree in Healthcare Administration and ended up working in the mental health field, which I really loved.

But the 9-5 grind was not for me, and commuting two hours per day to and from work was taking a toll on my personal life and health. I hit a breaking point when I didn’t get a promotion that I was expecting which would’ve given me more flexibility and freedom in my schedule. I had been looking for legit ways to make money online for years, but this time, I was fire-lit-under-me determined to make it happen.

I found Virtual Assistant work (which essentially entails providing administrative services to clients virtually), started my business (now known as Scaling with Heart), and signed my first clients. I grew the biz extremely quickly and was able to land more clients, more than replace my 9-5 income, and give my two weeks notice in just five short months. And I’ve never looked back!

One year later, my husband, Sam, was able to ditch his day job as well, and I brought him into the business with me full-time. We grew and scaled our little VA business to a six-figure OBM business and a team of eight. I couldn’t believe that I had found a career that allowed me to work from bed with a pup in my lap while doing work I enjoyed so much!

Once we gained the ability to live anywhere we want, we relocated from San Antonio to Austin (& couldn’t love this city more!) and we still run our OBM business from home. I’m also now a Virtual Assistant Coach & Mentor who teaches clients how to ditch their 9-5s for good and make more while living more so they can create freedom and flexibility for themselves. I’m super passionate about helping them build businesses that support their lives (not the other way around) and make amazing money in the process.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Absolutely! I wouldn’t say it’s been easy or smooth – it’s been a wild ride, but it’s been so worth it. The reason I’m so passionate about helping women build their businesses with balance is because that’s NOT what I did initially. A couple of years in as an entrepreneur, I was drowning in client work and couldn’t keep my head above water. I was so busy trading my time for money as a Virtual Assistant that I felt like I couldn’t have a life if I wanted to have a successful business.

Sam and I were working around the clock in the business and feeling like working non-stop was the ONLY way to keep bringing in good money.

This idea that you have to work more to make more is something that’s ingrained in a lot of our brains from society and the corporate world, and I bought into that for a long time.

But I no longer buy into that idea one single bit. When I finally decided I was fed up with being at max capacity and burning myself out, I found another way to run my business that led to freedom, flexibility, and fulfillment.

We’ve been impressed with Scaling with Heart, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I’m a Virtual Assistant Coach & Mentor, and I help incredible humans leave their shitty, unaligned corporate jobs for good in favor of freedom and flexibility, make MORE working part-time from the comfort of their couch, and do it all with balance so they have time to spend a day with their kiddos at the park or hit that midday yoga class whenever they please.

I believe that starting a virtual support business is, hands down, the quickest, easiest, and most sustainable way to make money online, and I’m the best person to help them create the life and business of their dreams as a VA because I’ve done it myself.

I’ve learned and grown through my own trial and error, figured out what actually works when it comes to growing and scaling a done-for-you business, and built a 6-figure, booked-out Virtual Assistant + Online Business Management biz with a team of eight and new leads flowing in each and every week. And I love helping others do the same!