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title: SmartPA Partnership Success Stories | SmartPA
description: Our Partners come from a variety of professional and educational backgrounds, each contributing a unique skillset, enabling SmartPA to offer the widest range of services.
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# Our Success Stories

At the heart of SmartPA is our Partners. Our Partners come from a variety of professional and educational backgrounds, each contributing a unique skillset, enabling SmartPA to offer the widest range of services to businesses communities around the world. There are no specific qualifications or experience required to become a Partner and run your own SmartPA home business. All we ask is that you are ambitious, hardworking and eager to learn.

Discover some of our SmartPA Partner's stories below:

[![Tracey Jones](https://smartpa-franchise.com/hubfs/SmartPA_September2023/Images/tracey-jones-partner-testimonial-1.jpg)

### Tracey Jones

"I've learned so much, it's really helped my confidence. I never dreamt that I would be a business owner running a successful business and having a fantastic work-life balance. It's one of the best decisions I’ve ever made career-wise, it's fantastic."

](https://smartpa-franchise.com/uk/partnership/success-stories/tracey-jones?hsLang=en)

[![Sarah Mann](https://smartpa-franchise.com/hubfs/SmartPA_September2023/Images/5-questions-with-sarah-mann-_w1200%20.jpg)

### Sarah Mann

"Six months down the line there is a better work-life balance and I definitely have days during the week where I don't need to work, or I’m not missed by my clients - I’ve got that balance which is nice."

](https://smartpa-franchise.com/uk/partnership/success-stories/sarah-mann?hsLang=en)

[![Sarra Bejaoui](https://smartpa-franchise.com/hubfs/SmartPA_September2023/Images/sarra-bejaoui-headshot.jpeg)

### Sarra Bejaoui

"I was the first SmartPA. My vision was to create a PA service focused not on what we did, but *how* we did it. To change the way the PA sector was perceived, experienced, and valued."

](https://smartpa-franchise.com/uk/partnership/success-stories/sarra-bejaoui?hsLang=en)

[![Gillian Skendaj](https://smartpa-franchise.com/hubfs/SmartPA_September2023/Images/gillian-sc1.jpeg)

### Gillian Skendaj

"There were a number of reasons a Partnership appealed to me. Firstly, flexibility. With young kids this is a must - I have tried juggling family and a career in the city and it is incredibly difficult so flexibility was really important."

](https://smartpa-franchise.com/uk/partnership/success-stories/gillian-skendaj?hsLang=en)

[![Lorraine Kneebone](https://smartpa-franchise.com/hubfs/SmartPA_September2023/Images/web-lorraine-kneebone-thumbnail.jpg)

### Lorraine Kneebone

"Something that I have gone on to find that I didn’t appreciate was the support and connections that you make with the other partners. I think I would have found it isolating being completely on my own and I like that I am part of a team, whilst still working for myself."

](https://smartpa-franchise.com/uk/partnership/success-stories/lorraine-kneebone?hsLang=en)

[![Mandy Busuttil](https://smartpa-franchise.com/hubfs/SmartPA_September2023/Images/mandy-busuttil-franchise-success-story%20(1).jpg)

### Mandy Busuttil

"I had been an Executive Assistant for 33 years, working for different corporations and individuals, as a salaried employee. I wanted to continue working as a Personal Assistant, but I also wanted to create my own work schedule and provide myself with more flexibility and freedom with my time."

](https://smartpa-franchise.com/uk/partnership/success-stories/mandy-busuttil?hsLang=en)

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