Founder Development & Personal Strategy Partner — Long-Term Growth Opportunity

This Is Not a Normal Virtual Assistant Job I’m looking for an unusually curious, intelligent, growth-oriented person to become my remote Founder Development & Personal Strategy Partner. You will work closely with me across essentially every area of my development: business, leadership, learning, decision-making, manifestation, personal development, goals, routines, relationships, faith, life planning, and becoming a more capable person overall. There will eventually be two complementary people working very closely with me: 1. An in-person assistant who is heavily involved in physical-world execution, logistics, coordination, and my personal office. 2. You, the remote partner who spends much more time helping me think, learn, reflect, improve, research, strategize, and make sure I’m actually becoming the person capable of accomplishing my goals. These are separate but complementary roles. For the right people, both positions have the potential to develop over many years into leadership positions within my future private/family office. That future is not guaranteed. It has to be earned through trust, capability, growth, judgment, and demonstrated value. The Most Important Part of the Job Almost every weekday at approximately 6:00 PM Eastern, I’ll be driving home. We’ll talk for approximately 30–60 minutes. I want this to become a conversation that both of us genuinely look forward to every day. I’ll tell you about my day. What did I accomplish? What did I learn? Where did I make a good decision? Where did I screw up? What am I thinking about? What opportunities am I considering? Did I actually complete the learning I intended to complete? Am I applying what I’ve learned? How are my businesses and projects progressing? What am I currently trying to manifest? What could I be doing better? And I don’t want you simply taking notes. I want you thinking with me. Ask questions. Challenge an assumption when necessary. Remind me of something I said three weeks ago. Connect today’s problem to something I learned last month. Tell me about something you researched because you noticed a recurring problem. Point out when my actions aren’t matching my goals. Help me recognize patterns I might not notice myself. And sometimes just have an interesting conversation with me about business, life, consciousness, leadership, relationships, faith, money, or whatever we’re currently exploring. I Want You to Pester Me About Becoming Better I mean this seriously. I don’t want an assistant who waits for: “What would you like me to do today?” I want someone who eventually says things like: “You’ve complained about this three times this week, so I researched it. I think there are three possible solutions.” Or: “You said this was one of your biggest priorities, but you’ve barely spent time on it this week. What’s going on?” Or: “You learned this concept two weeks ago. Where have you actually applied it?” Or: “I found something last night that made me think differently about the problem we discussed.” Or even: “I think you’re approaching this incorrectly. Can I explain why?” Your default approach to accountability should be supportive and encouraging—not aggressive. But I don’t want someone afraid to challenge me. You Must Be Proactive This is a requirement. Some days there may be very little work outside our call. Other days you might spend several hours researching something, organizing information, tracking something we’ve discussed, preparing for our next conversation, investigating an opportunity, or following up on something important. I don’t want to assign every task. As you learn how I operate, I expect you to increasingly identify useful work yourself. If you’re the type of person who needs a detailed task list every morning, this probably isn’t the right position for you. Founder & CEO Development One of your biggest responsibilities is helping me become an increasingly capable founder and CEO. Over time, we’ll work on essentially everything that contributes to that: * Strategic thinking * Decision-making * Leadership * Delegation * Communication * Negotiation * Finance * Acquisitions * Operations * Capital allocation * Critical thinking * Opportunity recognition * Prioritization * Managing people * Personal discipline * Applying what I learn * Identifying blind spots * Long-term thinking * Building organizations * Personal effectiveness You do not need to already be an expert in all of these things. I care much more about your potential. But there’s an important distinction: I Will Help Develop You. I Will Not Teach You How to Function. You should already know how to: * Research independently * Learn independently * Organize yourself * Follow through * Communicate clearly * Use technology * Think critically * Ask good questions * Find information you don’t know * Take ownership of a problem I’m happy to help someone exceptional become extraordinary. I’m not looking to teach someone the fundamentals of being a capable professional. Learning Is a Huge Part of This Role You should love learning. Not: “I’m willing to take courses if required.” I mean you’re naturally the kind of person who can disappear down a rabbit hole because something fascinated you. I invest heavily in learning and intend to continue doing so throughout my life. Part of your responsibility will be making sure that learning doesn’t become passive consumption. You’ll ask: What did you learn? What changed your mind? How does this apply to your life or businesses? What are you actually going to do differently? You’ll help track what I’m learning and connect ideas across subjects. But I also want to watch you develop. I intend to provide extensive educational resources and eventually build a structured training/development curriculum specifically for this position. My existing assistant-development architecture progresses from executive-assistant fundamentals into increasingly sophisticated project management, finance, operations, strategic planning, Chief of Staff responsibilities, governance, M&A, and ultimately family-office leadership. The remote role will eventually have its own complementary development path. Required work and assigned training will be paid. But I’m specifically hoping to find someone who already loves learning so much that they voluntarily spend significant amounts of their own life learning anyway. I want our conversations eventually to include: “Here’s what I’ve learned and how I’ve grown.” And then: “Awesome. Here’s what I’ve learned and how I’ve grown.” I want to be excited to see what we’re both becoming. Manifestation & Consciousness This is an important part of the position, so I’m putting it directly in the job description. If you strongly dislike manifestation, consciousness exploration, or unconventional ideas about human potential, please don’t apply. I study manifestation alongside business, psychology, leadership, science, faith, and personal development. Some of the material I study makes strong claims about manifestation and the ability of the mind to influence outcomes; for example, Your Wish Is Your Command explicitly presents manifestation as something that can be learned and practiced toward goals and desires. You don’t need to arrive believing everything I believe. Curiosity is more important than pretending to agree with me. I actually want someone capable of exploring unusual ideas without losing their ability to think critically. You may help me: * Stay consistent with manifestation practices * Discuss what I’m studying * Research manifestation and consciousness * Develop experiments and practices * Track intentions, predictions, practices, and outcomes * Look for patterns over time * Question interpretations * Connect mindset with behavior * Identify contradictions between my desired future and present actions * Translate desired outcomes into practical action * Participate in exercises or discussions with me Some of the consciousness material I study includes discussion of the Gateway Process and related attempts to construct models connecting altered states of consciousness with concepts drawn from physics. You should be able to approach these subjects with curiosity, enthusiasm, and independent thought. Your Scope Will Eventually Be Very Broad This isn’t purely a business position. My existing private-office philosophy is intentionally broader: business, learning, research, personal life, faith, relationships, experiences, decision support, and long-term life design are treated as interconnected rather than completely separate systems. As trust develops, our conversations may cover almost anything important happening in my life. Confidentiality and discretion will therefore be extremely important. #1 Hiring Requirement: I Need to Enjoy Talking to You This is probably more important than your résumé. Your spoken English needs to be excellent. More importantly, you need to be an excellent conversationalist. I want someone who is: * Extremely curious * Warm and engaging * Intelligent * Fun to talk to * Comfortable asking questions * Enthusiastic * Ambitious * Thoughtful * Optimistic without being blindly agreeable * Comfortable discussing complicated ideas * Interested in becoming exceptional themselves We’re potentially going to talk hundreds of times per year. If conversation between us feels forced, this arrangement won’t work. You don’t need to have an impressive corporate background. I’d much rather discover someone with extraordinary raw potential. Long-Term Opportunity This position starts small. $3/hour with 10 guaranteed paid hours per week, plus additional paid hours when necessary. But I am specifically looking for someone who could potentially grow far beyond the initial position. My long-term vision includes a sophisticated private/family office supporting my businesses, investments, personal life, learning, research, philanthropy, and other activities. The broader system I’ve designed ultimately develops personnel toward sophisticated private-office leadership rather than keeping them permanently at the basic assistant level. If you’re exceptional, your responsibilities can grow. Your authority can grow. Your skills can grow. And your compensation can grow. Eventually, the right person could become one of the two principal leaders of my family/private office, working in partnership with the person who develops through the in-person assistant track. Again: this is an opportunity, not a promise. Your progression will depend entirely on what you become and the value you create. Who Should Apply? Apply if you read this and thought: “This sounds unusually interesting.” Especially if you’re early in your career but believe you have considerably more potential than your current résumé demonstrates. I’m willing to bet on potential. I’m looking for someone who wants much more from their life than simply completing tasks for a client. ⸻ How to Apply Please do NOT send me a generic VA proposal. I care much more about understanding you than reading a polished résumé. Answer the following questions: 1. Why does this particular job interest you? Don’t tell me why you need work. Tell me why this role specifically caught your attention. 2. What are you currently learning about simply because you find it interesting? Tell me what it is, why you’re interested, and something you’ve recently learned. 3. Tell me about something you taught yourself without anyone requiring you to learn it. How did you learn it? 4. What do you want to become exceptionally good at over the next 5–10 years? There is no required answer. 5. Imagine we’ve worked together for three months. I’ve mentioned the same problem during our 6 PM call four times, but I haven’t asked you to do anything about it. What would you do? 6. Tell me about a belief or opinion you’ve changed your mind about. What caused you to change it? 7. What is your current view of manifestation? You do not need to agree with me. I would much rather receive an interesting, thoughtful answer than an answer designed to impress me. 8. What is something about yourself you’re actively trying to improve right now? What are you actually doing to improve it? 9. Are you normally available around 6:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time Monday–Friday? Please convert this into your local time and tell me what time that would be for you. 10. Send a short voice or video introduction. This is important. Tell me who you are, what excites you about life, what you’re currently trying to learn or accomplish, and why you think we’d enjoy talking to each other every day. Please don’t read a script. I’d rather hear the real you than a perfect presentation. One Final Note AI tools are welcome in this job. You’ll probably use them frequently. But don’t use AI to manufacture a personality for this application. I’m not hiring the best ChatGPT response. I’m hiring the person I’m going to talk to at 6 PM tomorrow—and hopefully for years after that.