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Relief, Focus, and Efficiency: How a Blockchain Executive Reclaimed Half His Day

Joey Garcia, Executive Director
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The Challenge: Travel, Inbox, and Logistics Across 46 Countries

As Executive Director at a blockchain-native global bank, Joey Garcia was juggling time zones, travel logistics, event requests, and inbox management across 46 countries, all while managing a complex family life.

The Solution: Jahz, an Athena Executive Assistant

Joey’s Athena EA Jahz has become an indispensable partner building custom travel tools, overhauling inbox workflows, monitoring global news feeds, and proactively managing professional and personal logistics.

Partnership Highlights: Travel Optimizer, Inbox Triage, and Proactive Problem Solving

  • Travel optimizer. Jahz built a custom spreadsheet mapping hotels to meeting locations with distances, travel times, and live rates.
  • Inbox, tamed. Jahz built a tiered folder system (urgent, 7-day, FYI, and events) so Joey only sees what needs his attention each day.
  • Proactive problem solver. When Joey left ski boots at an airport, Jahz contacted the airport, airline, and 5 couriers — without even being asked.
  • Knowledge base curator. Jahz monitors the web for updates relevant to Joey's Google NotebookLM files, flagging new information and keeping his research live and current

Beyond Time Savings: Peace of Mind, Personal Life Simplified, Like Having a Second You

  • Peace of mind while traveling: No longer anxious on long flights; knows everything will be organized and handled upon landing
  • Personal life simplified: Multi-country family logistics — boarding school, holidays, travel — now managed easily.
  • Like having a second you: Jahz attends meetings, produces summaries, and continuously learns to deliverbetter output.

Athena is like the Spotify of EAs. They're adding layers of efficiency to roles that everyone needs, but not everyone is used to dealing with digitally...yet

— Joey Garcia, Executive Director

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