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.
Episodes
9 episodes
Test Drive It Until You Survive It
Rebecca kept noticing Boulder didn't have a great hat shop. She was already "thecrazy hat lady" to everyone who knew her, so she built one.In this episode:- The relationship between a quiet dream and the fear underneath it- ...
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...
How She Left a Corporate Sales Career to Build Work She Believes
Laura Conley walked away from a corporate sales career to build coaching work she actually believes in, and gave herself permission to choose a life that fits.For years, Laura was the breadwinner in a pharmaceutical sales job. This is t...
Ep 1 · She Took a Month Off - and Her Business Was Still There When She Got Back · Bonnie Schutz
Welcome to Episode 1 of Built On Your Terms. After nearly 30 years as a corporate executive assistant, Bonnie Schutz walked away in her late 40s to build her own version of freedom with Tandem Resource Solutions - a US-based remote-support agen...
Welcome to Built On Your Terms - Real People. Real Stories. Income and Life on Your Terms.
Welcome to Built On Your Terms, a podcast about real people who chose to build income, and lives, that actually fit who they are.I'm Suzanne Dayton, founder of Side Income Studios, and this show is for the people who know deep down ther...