Leslie Auman

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Hey hey, friend!

I make life a little bit easier for womxn entrepreneurs by taking over operations and helping them scale their businesses like the badasses they are…

But what I’d really rather say is…

I can’t get enough of the Harry Potter series, I will never not cry when I hear “Carmen, Ohio” (Ohio State University’s alma mater), and I slurp up information about how to be successfully self-employed because I believe that the freedom of being your own boss is larger than making up your own schedule: You have the opportunity to change your life for the better.

About Leslie Auman

I’m Leslie Auman Hirgelt, and I’m an early 30s solopreneur who still isn’t toooootally sure how she ended up as a “solopreneur!” It’s a pretty cool title to have. (I’m not that cool.)

Womxn entrepreneurs come to me when their businesses are chaotic, and they can’t see the forest for the trees. Whether you need somebody else to take over managing your team and operations, or you need someone to write up some rock-solid SOPs and get systems in place, or whether you just need a strategy session to get on the right path fiiiiinally…then I’m your girl! As an OBM (or Integrator, if you prefer), I’m here to take shit off your plate and delegate it so that you can focus on growing your business — and I’ll be there to help you scale!

I have a professional background in education. I was a 6th and 7th grade teacher for three years, following one year of student teaching and three years in after-school tutoring and summer programs during college and graduate school. My specializations were in English Language Arts and Social Studies, and I have always loooooved communication, relationships, and history. I’m one of those “I’m silently correcting your grammar” people. 😉

Starting in the fall of 2015, I became self-employed as a virtual assistant. When I started, I had literally just learned what virtual assistance was — I had no idea that it was even a job people could have! Since then, I’ve successfully grown my business and client list to the point where I can work from home full time on a totally livable income — in fact, it’s more than what I was making at the full-time job that I held while I grew my business — and more than the last teaching salary I was earning! In the spring of 2020, I transitioned from being what I liked to call a “Jill-of-all-trades” virtual assistant to being kick-ass OBM.

When I’m not reining in a client’s business or improving my own Teachers Pay Teachers store, I’m eating some of the ridiculously great food that Columbus has to offer, baby-talking to my adorable dog (and sometimes to my sassy cat), or getting outside for some movement and vitamin D.

And there you have it.

About Leslie Auman

Still curious about me?

…or maybe you’re just procrastinating on the next thing you reeeeeaaaaally need to check off your to-do list. Here are 10 fun facts about me:

  1. I was born and raised in northeastern Ohio. When I was in high school, I desperately wanted to go to college out-of-state. To my own surprise, I ended up only applying to colleges in-state and attended The Ohio State University. I loved my time there.
  2. My sister was born on February 19th, and my brother was born on June 19th. I was supposed to be born on November 19th, but I arrived a day late. I just had to ruin the trend–or maybe I was an early-adopting trendsetter.
  3. I grew up trail riding horses with my family and joined 4-H in 5th grade. I participated in 4-H and competitive horse showing for the next several years, until I was about 16. I’ve fallen off of horses many times, even landing on rocks once. Hmm…maybe that’s what’s wrong with me! 😉
  4. During college I held a second part-time job at a nice banquet hall (my first part-time job was in an after-school tutoring program). I’ve seen more weddings (and the…interesting…behavior that weddings bring out in people) than I care to count. But, I got to hear Bill Clinton speak and was at least in the same building as President Obama (the staff wasn’t allowed in the banquet room while he gave his speech)…so that’s pretty cool, I guess.
  5. Friends tag me in any and all Facebook posts about Harry Potter because they know I love it that much.
  6. I have an autoimmune thyroid disease called Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Teaching exacerbated many of the symptoms I experience, which was one of the main reasons I chose to leave my teaching career.
  7. During the summer of 2014, my now-husband and I moved across the country, from central Ohio to central Texas. Why? We hate winter. (Seriously!) Plot twist: In the spring of 2020, we moved back to central Ohio! (We want to be closer to family again.)
  8. I’m very interested in living a holistic lifestyle and adopting a real food diet. I’ve experienced some fantastic improvements in my health and overall well-being since adopting these habits.
  9. Contrary to what it may seem, my personality tends toward being very serious, mature, and professional. I have to work at being lighthearted and funny in professional situations (like here on my website).
  10. I participated in People to People Student Ambassador Programs the summer before my senior year of high school. I was fortunate enough to spend three weeks traveling around Europe, and I fundraised most of the cost of the tuition myself so that I could go.

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© Leslie Auman, LLC 2016-Present. Photography by PAW Prints by Patti Wojtowecz. All photographs taken at Picnik Austin.
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New book suggestions for teachers looking to add d New book suggestions for teachers looking to add diversity to their middle school and high school classroom libraries! 📚
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I can't remember now how I came across this series, but I'm really enjoying it! 🖤 It's fantasy meets realistic fiction with engaging but flawed characters, an incredible alternate world, magic, and most importantly -- a Black female protagonist. 👏🏻
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I read them originally in Kindle version, borrowed from my local public library, but I liked them so much that I decided to buy them for myself as an early birthday gift (my birthday is in about a week 😝). There's a third book, A Crown So Cursed, due out in mid-April! 📅
I did my civic duty! 🗳️🇺🇲 PLEASE VOTE! I did my civic duty! 🗳️🇺🇲 PLEASE VOTE!
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I requested an absentee ballot because COVID is still very much a threat, and I'm an immunocompromised person. I researched candidates, issues, and the school bond issue on this ballot and made my selections. ☑️ Despite 45's fear-mongering about mail-in voting, I trust this election system that's been around for over 150 years. 📬 I'll be tracking my ballot on the Ohio Secretary of State website, and in the meantime, I'm going to make some donations to important campaigns! ✊🏻💵
Here's what I'm currently reading: The Nightingale Here's what I'm currently reading: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. What are you reading right now? 📚
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World War 2 fiction is one of my favorite genres. Some of my most favorite books are in this genre. 💜 It's taken me a bit to feel like I'm really getting into the plot, but last night I finally felt like it was getting really good. I'm roughly halfway through! If you've read this, what did you think? But no spoilers, please! 🙏🏻
It allllllllmost passed me by, but today is my fif It allllllllmost passed me by, but today is my fifth business anniversary! 🥳💖 Or business birthday, whichever. 😂
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Exactly five years ago today, I "launched" my business as a virtual assistant and signed my very first client, completely unexpectedly. I had no idea what I was doing, really -- and sometimes I still feel that way. 🙃
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These past five years have taught me a LOT. I've tried and failed and tried and failed. I've felt really successful, and I've felt pretty unsuccessful. I've lived "paycheck to paycheck." I've been watching the newest season of @queereye with Husband, and the episode with Rahanna, the entrepreneurial dog groomer, made me feel so seen and comforted as Bobby and Tan talked to Rahanna about how hard the first few years of business are. Because they are. No one is an overnight success. I'm officially five years in, and I'm only just now starting to feel like I'm finally on a path to my business being profitable. 
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I'm so, SO excited and thankful to celebrate (LOL by working) today knowing I signed my first OBM-level client a few days ago! 🥳 I've also had the opportunity and pleasure of having discovery calls with a couple of other womxn business owners about my OBM services. How fitting that I'm starting off this new chapter of my business with the very recent success of "launching" myself as an OBM! 🙌🏻
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Cheers to you if you're still grinding on the roller coaster of entrepreneurship. I'm starting to see that it does all eventually pay off, and it does eventually get easier. 🙏🏻
It's finally here: OBM certification week! Back in It's finally here: OBM certification week! Back in March, I enrolled in the Certified OBM training program, created by @tinaforsyth8 and taught by @sarahnoked. After three months in the training program -- working through all of the modules and watching all of the session videos, attending the biweekly live calls or watching the recordings if I had to miss, watching/reading any supplemental materials that would help for this week, learning from sample projects, and talking with my accountability partner... We're here, at certification week. I'm nervous, but I'm ready to give it my best effort! 💪🏻👊🏻 Good luck to my fellow examinees, also on the path to becoming certified Online Business Managers! 🤗 #CertifiedOBM #OnlineBusinessManager
Yesterday, I shared about the Following Directions Yesterday, I shared about the Following Directions Test for middle school grades that's included in the #Fireworks2020 dollar💲deal event...so today I'll share about the People BINGO resource! 🤩
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This is an editable activity that makes for a fun and engaging icebreaker activity on the first day of school -- or on the first day of a new semester with a new class of students. You can customize the BINGO board to have details that best fit your population of students and what you know about them, but there's also a ready-to-print PDF version! ✅
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In light of the mandates, I do still think this is an activity best used in the classroom -- I have yet to think of an effective way to adapt it digitally, aside from doing it together as a whole group and asking students to introduce themselves and sharing something on the BINGO board that applies to them. But if you do have to go back in the classroom, I recommend having your students stay 6+ feet apart as recommended, introduce themselves to each other, and exchange a detail on the board that applies to them. They can write their classmates' names in the squares themselves, rather than trading papers to have each other sign.
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This resource is normally $3 marked down to just $1 today, so be sure to go to the link in my bio to grab it at such a great discount! Happy 4th of July! 🎆🎇❤️🤍💙
It's the first day of the $1 deal sale!!! 🥳 Thi It's the first day of the $1 deal sale!!! 🥳 This Following Directions Test for middle school (grades 6-8) is one of the resources I've marked to down JUST $1 for today and tomorrow! It's normally a value of $3.75. 🙌🏻 Head to my bio to find the link! #Fireworks2020
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I created this resource in my first year of teaching (several years ago now!) based on my memory of a similar kind of test given to our class in 4th grade. Back then, the test was part of my teacher's classroom management system, but I created my version to be used at the beginning of the year (or beginning of the semester...or during test prep!).
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This resource included two "trick" versions of the test, where there are silly instructions given in numbers 1-10, but the REAL instructions are at the very bottom of the page, for eagle-eyed students. 😉 There's also a legitimate version of it, no tricks. 🤗 And just this week I added a digital version of all three tests, so each one now has a fillable PDF version, and the instructions have been updated to suit a distance learning environment! 🖥️
⚠️ We have work to do! ⚠️ To my fellow whi ⚠️ We have work to do! ⚠️ To my fellow white people (and to non-Black POC), please give these white people a follow and start learning from them. Yes, we can and should learn from the Black community (and I will also make a post with Black people we can and should support), but the onus of educating us should not rest solely on their shoulders. We need to educate ourselves and each other, because they've been fighting this fight for a very, very long time, and they deserve a respite, at the very minimum. ❤️
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