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Catherine Aygen
Consultante Formatrice & Coach en Prise de Parole en Anglais | Dirigeante d’A Star Formation (Qualiopi) | Top 3 européen de discours improvisé | Appli IA d’analyse de discours
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August 12, 2025
Voici mon assistante, Vicky Thornton, et moi à Nice la semaine dernière. 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝗸𝘆 𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 : j'étais complètement débordée, désorganisée et j'avais des systèmes administratifs qui fonctionnaient quand j'étais seule, mais dès que j'ai commencé à recruter d'autres formateurs indépendants, tout est vite tombé dans le chaos 😵‍💫 Elle s'est jetée dans le feu de l'action et m'a aidée à préparer mon premier audit #Qualiopi deux mois plus tard. Et elle est là depuis, toujours calme et organisée. 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗶 𝗰𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗶 𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁 𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗱'𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘀 : jusqu'à la semaine dernière, on ne s'était jamais rencontrées en vrai. On se parle aussi très peu, je crois qu'on a une visio environ une fois par trimestre. Lorsque l'on engage un excellent freelance, qui connaît son métier et qui est impliqué dans l'entreprise, on peut lui faire confiance. Merci Vicky, et essayons de se revoir avant quatre ans !
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Vicky Thornton
Providing expert back office and business support for coaches and trainers | Bilingual VA (English / French) | Virtual Assistant with a difference ✨
3 months ago
It's such a pleasure working with you and the team 🙌🏼 Now the question is, where can we meet next time 😎😅
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Sylvie GUIZIOU
Fondatrice d’Optim Office, l’accompagnement administratif, commercial et digital qui libère votre agenda et accélère votre croissance : services pour TPE-PME, associations et professions libérales.
3 months ago
Très beau témoignage sur les services d'une assistante freelance à distance et parfaite illustration du fait qu’une collaboration ne se joue ni au nombre d’heures en visio, ni au nombre de kilomètres parcourus, mais à la qualité de l’engagement et des compétences mises au service du projet.  Un assistant à distance qui connaît son métier et s’implique vraiment, c’est un vrai levier de sérénité et de performance pour les dirigeants, même (et surtout) quand il faut préparer un audit Qualiopi en urgence.  Bravo à vous deux pour votre professionnalisme ! 👍
Last week I had one of the scariest experiences of my life. I was flying back from Amsterdam to Nice after the Toastmasters international conference. Everything was as usual, until the pilot announced, “We’re going back to Amsterdam.” Everyone in the plane groaned. But then he added, “There’s an electrical fault which has affected the brakes and we don’t know if the back up braking system has been affected or not. We need to go back to Amsterdam to land on the longest runway possible. The crew will now prepare you for an emergency landing in 30 minutes.” The worst thing was that I could hear in the pilot’s voice that he was stressed. I looked at the crew’s faces and although they were calm, their faces showed that they were scared. The next 30 minutes were spent practising the brace position, removing all jewellery, glasses, tightening our seatbelts, learning how to open the emergency doors. We were told to study the safety card, which everyone did more intently than ever before! And like most of the other people on the plane, I was quietly worrying that we’d crash at the end of the runway and perhaps this was how I was going to die. We landed in brace position, with the crew shouting “brace for landing”. Luckily the emergency brakes worked 😅 If you’re expecting me to tell you that I have now changed my life for the better and I’m giving everything up to become a life coach… …I’m not 😆 I did say to myself, “Only trains from now on”, but I still had to get home and that involved two flights the next day. What I did realise was sometimes you have to give up control and put yourself in the hands of people who are trained for this. Also that after we landed, all the passengers were talking to each other, everyone was friendly and helpful. And when I saw some of my fellow passengers the next day, it’s like we were friends, bonded by this experience. And that made me think, why can’t we always create these human connections, even when we’re not in such an emotionally charged situation? So that is my resolution from this experience: make more human connections with everyone around me. (Photo taken from my flight home the next day: I’ve never been so happy to see the Îles Lerins 😁)
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