In 2017 we launched as a sister-duo team, offering just virtual assistant services. We started out small, building our VA business from the couch, which turned out to be exactly what we needed as we both started experiencing more severe and frequent chronic illness symptoms.
Throughout everything we’ve done–social media, workbook creation, website help, blogging projects, newsletter series, course management and more–our copy writing skills have always been the stars of the show.
Meet the faces behind the work below.
who are we?
meet the team:
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Co-Founder, Content Strategist, Writer
pronouns: she/her/hers
passionate about: making up voices for my pets; creating bad art; sitting on my porch with a book; planning my garden
favorite projects: breaking down complex topics to share in different ways; playing with graphics; normalizing mental health struggles
what she says her favorite movie is: Pride and Prejudice (2005)
what her actual favorite movie is: Waiting for Guffman
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Co-Founder, Content Strategist, Writer
pronouns: they/them
passionate about: pointing out bad edits in tv shows, having time for coffee, and second hand craft stores.
favorite projects: writing, product creation, & finding ways to adapt small business practices for folks with chronic illness
what they say their favorite movie is: Moonlight
what their actual favorite movie is: School of Rock
our values
our values
Here at Crown Creatives, we operate through hard work & open-mindedness, but we also work very hard to make sure our values are represented through our business.
Our values are firmly:
→ community & education based
→ queer affirming
→ anti- racist
→ fat affirming & anti-ableist
While we don't anticipate any sort of discomfort in working together, we do reserve the right to elect not to work on projects that directly clash with the ideals of our business.
Our Code of Ethics:
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Developing systems, workflows and professional expectations that can be reasonably and fairly sustained by all. No one person is responsible for the entire health of the business; we exist as a group to support one another.
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Strategy free of manipulation tactics, fear mongering or making use of unethical resources.
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Defining success through our own lens, taking all people into consideration.
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Workflows should reflect what's possible on lowest energy days. Taking into account mental and physical health, and time needed outside of work for other responsibilities, rest and hobbies.
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Remembering our social responsibility, doing our due diligence when it comes to the businesses we work with and the messages we produce.
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Creating intentional, meaningful content for community connection; creating counter culture of slow content amidst a sea of endless content production.
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Commitment to contextualized information: what is this saying? Why is it saying it? In which context was it trying to say it? How has it been commonly misinterpreted?
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Practicing and sharing key media literacy skills through our content research and content creation process, such as:
Decoding media messages (including the systems in which they exist).
Assessing the influence of those messages on thoughts, feelings & behavior.
Creating media thoughtfully and conscientiously. [source]