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The Collaborative Co.

The Collaborative Co. is a VA, founded by a two-time Aus VA of the Year finalist.

We match skilled Filipino virtual assistants with Australian business owners who are ready to grow without burning out.

04/09/2026

Everyone wants to know what actually happens between "I think I need a VA" and "I can't run my business without them."

So here's the whole thing, start to finish...

We start with a call - not a sales pitch, a proper look at how your business runs. Then we recruit your person from scratch, built for you, not pulled off a waiting list.

We onboard them with our operations team before day one, so they land ready. They work to a standard that's about initiative, not just ticking off tasks.

And then the part most agencies skip entirely... we stay ahead of their leave. When your VA takes leave - because good people do - you're not left scrambling.

That's the difference. We don't place and disappear. We stay in the room. Always.

Most agencies place a VA and wave goodbye. We source, match, onboard - and stay.

→ Ready to start at step one? Book your Collaborative Call >> https://links.ivorey.io/widget/bookings/collaborative-call-009

03/09/2026

Everyone thinks the hard part is finding the right VA.

It's not 👀

The hard part is opening a blank job ad, trying to describe what you actually need help with, and realising you don't even know where your own week goes...can you relate?

I see it constantly. Founders who've had the budget since March. Who are working 60 hour weeks. Who've told three separate friends they "need to hire someone." And the ad is still sitting in drafts, because the second they try to name the role, they freeze. Inbox? Onboarding? Socials? Too many options, so they pick none.

So here's how to actually start.

Find the first five tasks that tick four boxes:

→ You do them weekly on autopilot
→ They eat your best focus hours
→ You could explain them in a five minute Loom
→ They stopped needing you specifically a long time ago

Examples are.. inbox triage, calendar wrangling, follow-up emails, invoice chasing, content scheduling.

Hand those five over first. Get your mornings back. Then you tackle the next five.

You're not stuck because the right VA doesn't exist. You're stuck because nobody's shown you which five tasks to hand over on day one.

PM us "HOURS" and I'll help you figure out exactly what to hand off first, based on your actual week, not a template.

01/09/2026

I’m going to say the quiet part loud.

These aren’t ‘lucky’ matches. This isn’t ‘we found one good VA.’ This is every VA placement producing the same thing… a founder who stopped drowning and a business that kept moving.

And that’s the whole difference.

Some VA agencies place a person and hope it works out, so your result depends entirely on who you happen to get. We don’t work like that.

Every VA we place is trained to the same bar before they ever touch your business, so the output doesn’t swing based on ‘luck’. Whoever’s behind your inbox, you get the same level. Every time.

That’s why these screenshots all sound the same. They’re all from different clients. Not a coincidence. Consistency.

→ Come find the VA you’ll actually want to rave about.

Book your Collaborative Call. Link in bio.

30/08/2026

This is basically my whole operating system right now 👀

One keeps me caffeinated.
One keeps me sane.
One helps me unwind as a mum.
Two help keep the business running.
And one vibrating machine I bought impulsively (can you relate?!)

What's your version?

25/08/2026

I want to be honest about something...

TCC didn't scale because I had a perfect plan. It scaled because I stopped doing the things that were keeping it (and me!) stuck.

Stopped doing everything myself. Stopped hiring without a framework. Stopped saying yes to clients who weren't aligned. Stopped letting the business run me instead of the other way around.

And then I got specific 👀

I hired an operations manager. I brought on a social media VA. I built a recruitment process that didn't depend entirely on me showing up for every step.

Each hire felt scary at the time. Each one paid for itself faster than I expected.

Because when you stop being the bottleneck, your business actually moves.

That's what we help founders do at TCC. Not just place a VA and hope for the best. Build the right team around them so the whole thing actually works.

→ Swipe for exactly what moved the needle.

23/08/2026

We get a lot of questions before someone books a call.

Which makes sense. Handing over access to your business, your inbox, your clients, your systems, is not a small thing. You SHOULD have questions!

So here are the ones we get asked most. Answered the way I'd answer them if you were sitting across from me on a Collaborative Call.

Honest. No fluff. No sales spin.

Because the right fit matters more than the fast yes.

→ Swipe for the Q&A.

And if your question isn't in here, PM us.

20/08/2026

Spoiler: it's not luck 👀

The right VA hire doesn't happen by chance. It doesn't happen because you scrolled job boards until midnight, posted in three Facebook groups, or took a chance on someone who seemed "good enough." It happens because the process behind it was intentional.

Finding a VA that actually fits - someone who gets your communication style, understands your pace, and handles things the way you'd want them handled. That's a match.

Most founders who come to us have already tried the other way. They hired a VA fast because they were desperate, picked someone who looked great on paper, and six weeks later were doing the role themselves again and managing the fallout of a hire that didn't last. Skills weren't the issue. Fit was.

No one gets placed through TCC until we understand what the founder actually needs - not just what they put in the job description. What's failed before and why. What 'handling it' really looks like in the context of their business and their life.

That's the groundwork that turns a hire into a match that lasts.

The founders who've found their person through TCC? They don't call it luck. They call it finally getting it right.

Ready to get it right this time?

Book a Collaborative Call >> https://links.ivorey.io/widget/bookings/collaborative-call-009

18/08/2026

“Place and ghost” is not the move.

There’s advice floating around that once you hire a VA, you don’t need your VA agency anymore. Technically - yes, you could walk away. But the agencies that encourage that are usually the ones that aren’t confident in their placements to begin with…

When the match is right, staying connected isn’t a burden. It’s just what happens when you actually care about the outcome.

We do.

Ready to find an agency that stays with you the whole way through? Book a Collaborative Call. Link in bio.

16/08/2026

Finding the right VA is a lot like dating. Hear me out on this one...

You meet someone who looks great on paper. References check out. Skills are there. You think this is it.

Two months in, they're not showing up the way you need, the communication's off, and you're wondering how you missed the signs.

So you take a break from the whole thing. Tell yourself you'll just do it yourself for a while. That it's easier. That you're fine. And you are, kind of. Until you're not.

Then you're ready to try again, but pickier this time. You know what you want (and don't!).

The difference between a bad VA match and a great one isn't skills. It's fit. Whether they get your pace and your standards before they send a single email on your behalf.

When it lands, you'll know. You stop checking behind them. You start trusting them.

That's what we help founders find. And yes, I take the matchmaking part VERY seriously 😅

Ready to try a VA again, or try properly for the first time? A Collaborative Call is where we start.

Link in bio.

14/08/2026

I didn’t set out to be the VA matchmaker. The title just kept finding me. And I kinda love it…🫡

Every founder I speak to has the same story.

Burnt out, doing everything themselves, or burned by a VA that didn’t work out and is scared to try again.

The thing is that there are good VAs out there. But nobody seems to be matching them properly.

So I built a process around that.

Fit first, skills second.
Real conversations before any placement.
No rushed hires. Skill testing.
No VAs in your lane just because they were available.

If you’re looking for the right VA match, book a Collaborative Call and let’s figure out who belongs in your corner.

Link in bio.

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https://collaborativeco.com.au/

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