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E23 – From being without a job overnight to creating a INC 5000 company – Michelle Penczak
Balancing Business and Family Life with Michelle Penczak
How This Military Wife Paved Her Own Way to Success w/ Michelle Penczak
Get Yourself An Emmy with Michelle Penczak
When & How to Get A Personal Assistant with Michelle Penczak from Squared Away
035 EA Delegating w/ Michelle Penczak of Squared Away, Military Spouses as Virtual Assistants
Recent News
The Exceptional Women Alliance (EWA) announces selection of Michelle Penczak, CEO and Co-Founder, Squared Away
CISION, Feb 27, 2024
The Exceptional Women Alliance (EWA) announces that after an expansive search and in-depth interview process, Michelle Penczak, CEO and Co-Founder of Squared Away, was selected into EWA as a 2023 exceptional woman leader.
Military spouse launches business to help others find jobs
CBS EVENING NEWS, May 3, 2021
A few years years ago, Michelle Penczak was in a tough spot. Her husband was deployed, she was pregnant and she couldn’t find a job. She had trouble finding a job, she said, because military spouses move so often. “I felt like I was being judged because of my husband’s choice of career,” she said. So she started her own company, Squared Away, which hires people like her to assist other companies online.
How This Founder Created A Virtual Assistant Company To Employ Military Spouses Worldwide
Forbes, Dec 13, 2020
Michelle Penczak, military spouse and founder of Squared Away, employs and empowers military spouses to build their own careers. Squared Away, a full-service virtual executive assistant company, allows its employees to work from anywhere in the world while still servicing its clients. Employees handle everything from project management to chief of staff roles. The company just reported annual recurring revenue of over $3.1 million.
One Woman Provides a Career Solution for Military Spouses
THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, June 9, 2021
Military spouse Michelle Penczak’s got tired of getting turned down for jobs, so she did something about it. Now she runs a $5 million company that helps women just like her.
This military spouse couldn’t find anyone to hire her—so she created a company that would
MSNBC, Nov 10, 2019
Michelle Penczak, 32, had a job that she really enjoyed—working as a personal assistant for a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. But there was just one catch … she had fallen in love with a Marine.“When you marry a Marine, you can’t take your job with you,” Penczak said, referring to the frequent moves that are often part of military family life.