Be Fabbo Podcast - Clarity • Self-Trust • Aligned Action to Build What Matters Most Business and Life
Welcome to the Be Fabbo Podcast with Bobbi Brinkman.
If you're building a business, leading a team, navigating change, or simply trying to create a life that feels more aligned with who you are, you're in the right place.
Each week, we have honest conversations about what it really takes to build what matters most—in business, leadership, and life. Not through hustle, perfection, or chasing someone else's definition of success, but through clarity, self-trust, and aligned action.
Hosted by speaker, mentor, emcee, and founder of the Motivated To Be FABBO™ Framework, Bobbi combines four decades of entrepreneurial experience with the lessons she's still learning today to help you build a business and life that reflects who you are, not just what you do.
Grounded in the FABBO Pillars—Focused, Authentic, Brave, Bold, and Open—these conversations combine honest perspective, encouraging stories, and practical guidance to help you find clarity, strengthen self-trust, and take aligned action as you build what matters most.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, creative, leader, or someone rebuilding after life has taken an unexpected turn, these conversations are here to meet you in whatever chapter you're building through.
They're not about becoming someone new.
They're about coming home to who you already are, strengthening your self-trust, and building in ways that reflect what matters most to you.
That's where meaningful businesses, meaningful leadership, meaningful lives, and lasting legacies are built.
✨ Because doing what you love shouldn't just be possible. It should bring you profit, purpose, and joy, not as goals to chase, but as the result of building what matters most.
Be Fabbo Podcast - Clarity • Self-Trust • Aligned Action to Build What Matters Most Business and Life
26: Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Assistant
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Adrienna McDermott is a former bridal boutique owner and wedding planner turned virtual assistant. She is the owner of Ava And The Bee, a virtual assistant and social media managing company for wedding professionals.
Adrienna has been in the wedding industry for 10 years, 5 years working and managing bridal salons, and 4 as the co-owner of Ivory & Beau, a wedding planning, bridal boutique and florist in Savannah, Georgia. Over the last year, she has grown her virtual assistant company and now works full time with two team members.
With her fine arts degree from Savannah College of Art and Design and the experience of opening 3 business before the age of 28, she has acquired unique knowledge on how to start a business, flourish, and scale. Her work has been seen in print and online publications, including Savannah Weddings Magazine, Green Wedding Shoes, 100 Layer Cake and Ruffled.
Adrienna is also passionate about educating others to become freelance virtual assistants. Through her mentorships and course, The Creative VA Academy, she helps women create businesses of their dreams.
When she's not working in her pajamas and top-knot, you can find her with a cup of iced coffee, living in central New York with her tripawd black lab Cooper, slightly overweight cat Brutus, and Army Veteran boyfriend.
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