Instead, here’s stuff about me. What I’ve learned in life is that if you don’t like me, you won’t want to work with me, or interview me, or even follow me on Twitter. Conversely, if you like me, working, interviewing, and following will be a no brainer. Here’s what you need to know to make those kinds of decisions.

I am: Anastacia Brice

Age: 48

Location: Geographically speaking, I am a confirmed east-coast girl, living near the southern end of the BOS-WAS corridor, with incredibly strong ties to New York.

Professional accomplishments

• Formalizing the Virtual Assistance profession in ’97; genius when it comes to this profession.
• Founding AssistU in ’97 and have trained and supported close to 1,000 people in becoming Virtual Assistants in businesses they love and that allow them to have work that contributes to their having high-quality lives.
  
• Coaching women to have extraordinary businesses and lives since ‘96
• Online community builder since '93 when I worked with AOL, later helping them their Community Leader program. Since then I've helped several companies create and build thriving online communities, and I have my own--at AssistU, which is 14+ years old!
• Consultant to female entrepreneurs about fixing the wobbly foundations under their businesses so that the floors support current initiatives and growth. I really am the only person I know who finds biz foundation stuff sexy! :)
• My current business initiative involves actively bringing love to the table to help women discover who they are, what they want to do, and how to give voice to all of that yumminess.
  
• Lastly, I'm writing my first book, which is not, as one might think, about Virtual Assistance, or business foundation. It's a book about building conscious marriages...a topic of great love for me.
  

Tidbits about me

• I am here to love people. That is the sum total of my purpose in life. My work is about loving people in a business context. My personal life is about loving those I'm close to. There isn't a single thing I do that isn't absolutely wrapped up in love.
• Call me coach, sherpa, wise counsel, business consigliera... it's all accurate!
• I’m generally quick-witted.
• I’m multifarious, perspicacious, and voraciously verbal. I love words. I even like small ones now and then.
• I love to write and hate to edit because I find self-censorship beyond difficult.
• I’m grateful for everything. Literally.
• I’m an absolute girlie-girl and confirmed voluptuary. If it’s not comfy, it’s not for me.
• In the last eighteen months, I've lost 140+ lbs. Yes, I had surgery; no, it wasn't an extreme decision. At the end of the day, I believe it saved my life. I am no longer fat, but more--I'm no longer diabetic or hypertensive, and am, in fact, healthier than I've been for almost 30 years. 
• I'm incredibly curious and love to discover new things (ask me about discovering bones I never knew I had! <g>).
• I’m gracious.
• I’m direct.
• I love espresso as much as I love tea. That's almost as much as I love words. Or fonts. Or cheese. But not as much as I love love. Nothing touches that.
  
• I want to run free and be contained at the same time.
• I'm good company...I'll make you laugh.
• I have no patience for the cocktail level of life, and I crave intensity.
• I know more about the architecture in Baltimore than an ordinary resident has any business knowing.
• I value context over content; gracefulness of language over indecorousness.
• To me, nice matters - maybe now more than ever.
• I love to touch, feed, and hug giraffes.Live ones.
  
• I’m an introvert.
• I practice maitri, and am recently feeling drawn to a tonglen practice
  
• I've been married for 20+ years (yay us!!!).
• I am the least goal-oriented person you’re ever likely to meet.This obviously doesn't stop me from doing BIG things!
  
• I have a huge capacity for finding, then taking in, information.
• I connect dots that most people can't even see.
  
• I’m complex and complicated.
• I love to shop.
• I think too much.
• I feel too deeply.
• I cry at the drop of a hat.
• I give my heart at the smallest provocation or invitation.
  
• I’m bigger (emotionally, intellectually, relationally) than most people you know.
• I can find just about anything, superfast.
• I despise drama.
• I'm a practicing pantophile.
  
• My greatest need is to be fully seen; to know and be known.
  
• I don’t seek fame or popularity. I seek to love, which is, in every context, how I am of use, and of benefit to the people around me.
• On a more global scale. I ultimately want a seat at a table full of fabulous wise women from which we'll teach younger women all that we know. 
  

My values: Love--above all things. For me, it is the highest law and the ultimate religion, and shapes and colors every thing I do, every word that comes out of my mouth, and all of my greatest aspirations for myself and the world. Beyond that (or maybe in addition to?) are justice and fairness. Almost nothing gets me hotter faster than what's unjust and unfair. Then, the who of things really matters to me--who people are, and how transparent they are with others is a big deal. Then comes intensity, integrity, compassion, with graciousness and gratitude rounding out the list-not in any particular order, though, they’re all sort of glomed together in the number two slot.

Who I work with: Women. In all aspects of my work, I only work with women. Young, old, fat, thin, rich, not-so rich, it doesn’t matter. I’m simply passionate about supporting women with their lives and businesses. I adore men, but don’t enjoy working with them, so I don’t.

What I believe in:

• Love (bet you're surprised, huh?).
• I believe in doing the right thing--always.
• I believe relationships rule the day, and good relationships rule the world.
• I believe that we’re all connected.
• I believe we should all do good-even as we’re trying to do well.
• I believe in relationships...long-term, strong, deep, and intense.
• I believe there’s no such thing as coincidence.
• I believe that every home needs a Jacuzzi. Or at least a really amazing soaking tub. I’m convinced there would be fewer divorces as a result.
• I believe we are all powerful beyond measure, although most of us don’t believe it (we’re too afraid of being too big for our britches).
• I believe that there’s something bigger than all of us out there, but I don’t care what anyone calls it.
• I believe every one of us needs faith, and that life without it, in some form, is desolate.
• I believe every one of us needs some sort of practice that connects us with the cores of who we are.
  
• I believe that each of us could have personal and professional standards that are higher than they are today.
• I believe that if you have to "sacrifice" one thing to get another thing you want, something's screwed up. And I believe that the world needs fewer martyrs, and more people making conscious, unabashed and unreserved choices.
  
• I believe that English should be made the official language of the United States.
• I believe diversity rocks, and we stand to learn a lot from one another.
• I believe that in addition to the three Rs, kids in school should be actively taught things like relational maturity, self-care, and how to care about something bigger than they are.
• I believe women can do very well in business without following the traditional male model of business.
• I believe in growing young and having the wisdom to consciously do so. After all, what’s the point sense of having the hard-won experience that life gives us if we’re not going to use it to better our lives as we grow older? As such, I align myself with the neotenous traits of a child: love, friendship, sensitivity, think soundly, to know, to learn, work, organization, curiosity, wonder, playfulness, imagination, creativity, openmindedness, flexibility, experimental-mindedness, explorativeness, resiliency, enthusiasm, sense of humor, joyfulness, optimism, honesty and truth, compassionate intelligence, song, dance.
• I believe that when there seem to be two options, you should always choose the third.

Why you should get to know me: Maybe we’re meant to work together. Maybe we’re meant to become fast friends. Maybe you’re meant to write a glowing piece about me and my work for the Times. It’s different for everyone. Find out… say hi!

Contact info:

p: 410/205-6205 (feel free to call, but do notice when you get my voicemail that I say you'll get me faster if you email me!). To see about scheduling a time to talk with me, please call my assistant, Nicole : 508/823-8903.
e: a (at) anastaciabrice dot com
a: 76 Cranbrook Rd., Suite 192; Cockeysville, MD 21030

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