🫩 This calendar request almost took 12 emails, 3 reschedules, and my will to live.

✔ This Week’s Agenda

Hi Friends,

Hope you had a great week, and that your calendar wasn’t out here betraying you like mine tried to. 😅

June is all about productivity here at Office of the EA, but let’s be honest, sometimes just surviving a week without rescheduling the same meeting five times is the productivity win.

Which brings me to this… This week, I pulled off a move that should honestly count as a sport. Seven people, four time zones, one meeting. That actually happened, and no one cried (not even me).

Let’s break down how it went down and why it’s not “just scheduling.” It’s strategy, it’s influence, it’s the reason EAs are built different.

Let’s get into it. 💅

With love, and lots of coffee ☕

Chrissy

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You might’ve seen my post earlier this week:

Here’s what I didn’t say, but you’ll appreciate:

This is the kind of behind-the-scenes magic people outside the role don’t always see, but we know.

Every win like this chips away at the myth that EAs just "support." We don’t just keep the wheels turning, we design the route.

🥂 Here’s to making it look easy…even when it’s not.

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If you’re juggling schedules across three or more time zones, this can easily save you 15–30 minutes per meeting. Now multiply that by your exec’s calendar chaos, and… yeah. It adds up real fast. (See how Zapier’s team uses it)

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Look, you don’t need a cape, or a calendar that talks back (although, let’s be real, that’d be nice 😏 ). But you do need a repeatable system that keeps you from spiraling every time someone says, “Let’s loop in Paul from Singapore.”

Here’s what actually works:

That’s it! No secret formula, just strategic thinking, the right tools, and the mindset that yes, this is a skill, and you’re damn good at it.

Need an All-hands pick-me-up? We used Calm Down by Rema ft Selena Gomez this week and got the entire company vibing. Highly recommend for kicking off a meeting, boosting morale, or masking calendar-related rage.

This post from Mallory Rothstein stopped me mid-scroll. And not just because it’s honest, but because it reflects something a lot of us have quietly navigated: alcohol culture at work.

Whether you’re sober, sober-curious, pregnant, on medication, in recovery, or just don’t feel like drinking at that particular offsite, you shouldn’t need a reason, and you definitely shouldn’t need to explain it.

I’ll never forget being at an offsite, quietly declining a glass of champagne, and having my boss laugh it off and say, “Oh come on, you have to! It’s bad luck not to cheers with alcohol!” What they didn’t know is, I was newly pregnant and not ready to share it yet. I smiled, I nodded, I raised a glass of sparkling water and excused myself early, but that moment stayed with me.

So let this be the reminder: if someone says “no thanks,” the best response is “Awesome”, and move on. No awkward jokes, no weird energy, no pressure.

Mallory said it best, people decline alcohol for all kinds of reasons, and it’s not your job to decode it.

Because nothing says professionalism like confidently opening a spreadsheet and immediately breaking the formula that was already working. 🫠

We’re all just CTRL+Z-ing our way through life.

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