Built On Your Terms
Built On Your Terms is the podcast for moms who've decided they want income they actually control... without the hustle, the guilt, or a 9-to-5 that never really saw them.
Hosted by Suzanne Dayton, founder of VA MOM, each episode is an honest conversation about building a real business, and a real life, in the hours you already have... while the kids are at school or asleep.
Expect practical how-to, founder stories, and the mindset shifts that move you from "someday" to your first client and beyond. If you're ready to build work around your family instead of the other way around, you're in the right place. Anti-hustle. Pro-you.
Ready to actually start? Get the free VA MOM Bootcamp / Academy - the whole step-by-step setup for your Virtual Assistant business - at vamom.net/academy-page.
Built On Your Terms
Latest Episodes
I Just Can't Do a 9-to-5
Lindsey Mazzaferro spent twenty years in restaurants, funding every creative thingshe tried on the side. The day before her 39th birthday, she finally bought a realcamera and never looked back.In this episode:- A lifetime bo...
A Business Built for Purpose, Not Profit
Fred Dayton built Mach983 CrossFit around one rule: it's never about the money.He still works a full-time job. The gym exists to give people, at-risk youth,formerly incarcerated coaches, a whole neighborhood, somewhere to land.
How I Started a Business on My Lunch Break... While Still Working Full-Time
No guest this week... just me, telling the whole story for the first time. Thepickup line, the late fees, the lunch-break consult calls, every imperfect momentI didn't post about at the time.In this episode:<...
How She Started a Home Bakery Business After a Layoff
Pam Richard started Miss Peabody's Southern Tea Cakes with a bowl, her grandmother's recipe, and none of the equipment she was certain she needed first.In this episode:• The layoff, the grief underneath it, and the Baking Show epi...
Real Freedom: Why Josh At LavaBox Could Scale This Business, Just Won't.
Josh Thurman built Lavabox, the portable propane campfire that puts out 280,000 BTUs (about 4x a normal fire pit) and still passes fire bans across the West, and then made the decision most founders never do: he chose NOT to scale it.In...