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The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast is a weekly show to help increase your confidence, work smarter and build a business you love. Each week you'll listen to inspiring guests who will share their success secrets, so you can take your bookkeeping enterprise and life to another level. Some of them include New York Times Best-Selling Author of E-Myth, Michael E. Gerber, Pure Bookkeeping Co-Founder, Debbie Roberts, the host of The Productive Woman podcast, Laura McClellan and the author of *I Know ...
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On It is a podcast by EMyth, the original business coaching company. We tell the stories of different business owners transforming their companies by working ON it, not IN it. You’ll learn about their struggles, their successes and the changes they made to create the business they’ve always wanted.
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EP476: Nacondra Moran - How An Ex-IRS Employee Built Bookkeeping Success - Part 1
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“ I had a lot more of mindset issues than the actual execution because I felt like I could provide good services. I had a certain level of confidence. But it doesn't matter really how much confidence, if you do also lack that critical mindset piece to really help you move forward.” -Nacondra Moran In part 1 of thie great 2-part series, Nacondra Mor…
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EP475: Christina Springstead - How To Price Cleanup & Rescue Jobs Plus More Business Tips!
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“As a business owner, you have to pick up everything. So right now, it's not my goal to hire at that capacity, but definitely to hire more of an assistant for myself to make sure that I am getting the support that I need as I'm building this business, rather than bringing someone in to run this business.” -Christina Springstead Christina Springstea…
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EP474: Cindy Schroeder - Build A Business That Feels Like A Fairy Tale
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“Think about what you want. Be intentional on why you're growing your business. Are you growing it for a money goal? Are you growing it so you have more time and flexibility? And then create those boundaries around giving yourself what your why is. Build a business that feels like your own fairy tale.” -Cindy Schroeder Cindy Schroeder, owner of Bri…
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EP473: Ruth Milligan - Building Influence Through Better Words
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“Speaking requires feedback. We have to listen to ourselves. We have to listen to each other and give feedback in order to get better. Speaking is social.” -Ruth Milligan Ruth Milligan, founder of Articulation and curator of TEDxColumbus, dives into how better communication leads to better business — especially for bookkeepers and business owners w…
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EP472: Michelle Quiñonez - Growing A Business That Aligns With Your Values
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“Practice is what gives the consistent and reliable delivery of whatever you're mastering. So for me, I remind myself that I'm not faking, I'm becoming, I'm working on it until I become it.” -Michelle Quiñonez Michelle Quiñonez, CEO and partner at Financial Stories Inc, shares how childhood play led to a lifelong love for administration and busines…
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EP471: Morgan Law - The Unexpected Way Bookkeepers Are Winning On YouTube
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“Just start small. Just start doing it. It'll take a while, most likely to kind of build. So start even before you feel like a hundred percent ready. Just start. It's a lot of it the first year or so, it's just like kind of practice too.” -Morgan Law Morgan Law, founder of Fine Points Bookkeeping and a popular YouTuber, shares how she transitioned …
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EP470: Nellie Akalp - How To Boost Revenue With Compliance Services
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“By offering corporate services, compliance services, payroll and sales tax registration services to their clients, they're actually not only enhancing their trusted advisory services, but they're also scaling their revenues, increasing their revenues. More importantly, they are keeping that client with them long term because they're becoming a one…
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EP469: Holly Corcoran - How Bookkeepers Can Build Strong Partnerships With CPAs
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“Go out, stick your hand out, say hello and start talking. It's not easy, but over time it becomes easier and it's definitely worthwhile just creating the relationships either virtually or physically in the community.” -Holly Corcoran Holly Corcoran, owner and CEO of Corcoran Business Advisory Services, shares her journey from running a traditional…
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EP468: Nick Mullen - Cybersecurity Mistakes That Could Cost You Everything
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“If you think about the most common mistake that most small and mid-sized business owners make when it comes to cybersecurity, it's this assumption that ‘I'm not very big. It's not going to happen to me’. And so they're not doing any security or they're doing minimal security measures in place.” -Nick Mullen Cybersecurity expert, Nick Mullen, found…
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EP467: Debra Kilsheimer - Building A Bookkeeping Business On Your Own Terms
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“Define your customer first. I only want to work with people who understand that accounting is important to their business.” -Debra Kilsheimer Debra Kilsheimer, owner of Behind the Scenes Financial Services, shares her journey from growing up in an accounting household to running a modern, client-focused bookkeeping business. She discusses the powe…
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EP466: Rae Gagnon - Scaling A Bookkeeping Business With Systems & Strategy
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“As I was building all these processes in my mind, if I had been documenting them, I would have not had to spend that two years documenting everything after the fact when the team started to come. If you're good at what you do, your accountants are going to find you and they're going to start referring business to you. So just to have those process…
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EP465: Brandy Derrick - The Virtual Bookkeeper's Success Journey
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“People came to me thinking that I was an expert. They saw the posts that I was posting about bookkeeping for law firms, and they already had buy-in to use my services. So I didn't need to sell them that much. I just needed to prove that I was a real person. I don't want to be out there selling my services. I want people coming to me already sold o…
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EP464: Spotlight - Christine Siegenthaler - The Importance Of Contingency Planning For Bookkeepers
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“In the bookkeeping and accounting world, if someone gets sick and that client can't get what they need, they just get back into the universe and another bookkeeper picks them up. So you lose everything.” -Christine Siegenthaler Christine Siegenthaler, founder of Succession Security, discusses the importance of contingency planning for solo bookkee…
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EP463: Jamie Van Cuyk - The Must-Know Steps For Hiring & Delegating Successfully
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“If it's consistently where you're feeling behind like you can never get on top of your to-do list, that you're always having to reschedule stuff for tomorrow, that's probably a sign that you have too much work on your plate. That's a sign that you could use more help within your business.” -Jamie Van Cuyk Jamie Van Cuyk, owner of Growing Your Team…
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EP462: Dr. Angela Jackson - Why Employee Well-Being Drives Productivity & Profitability
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“I remember being on Zoom and we saw our colleagues' children, people got personal and talked about the health challenges they were dealing with or that a family member was dealing with. I saw leaders and bosses having to have that same transparency. It was human to human. Since the workplace has evolved, employees are expecting that same transpare…
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EP461: Lou Clarke - Money, Mindset & Mastery: Unlocking Business Success
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“Money is an energetic source in our world. When you get it, you feel really good, and when it leaves, you feel very bad. That's an energy. That's an exchange.” -Lou Clarke Lou Clarke, who is a CFO and profit strategist, discusses the power of confidence, pricing strategies, and how bookkeepers can shift into advisory roles to better serve clients.…
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EP460: Kristen Corey - How To Build A Website That Attracts Clients
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“If a majority of your leads come from LinkedIn, that's great, and you should keep doing that. But it doesn't hurt to diversify and to make sure that you have a couple of lead sources to pull in from different avenues.” -Kristen Corey Kristen Corey, founder of Media Books, dives into the importance of a well-designed website, how to make your firm …
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EP459: Stephanie Kelcey - How To Empower Clients Through Mindset Shifts
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“My workflow was going to tell me exactly what I needed to do that day. And I very intentionally and very consciously grounded myself into my work and into that routine and into that process, because that was the one thing in my life that was certain. My business got me through that time, that certainty and that control when everything else was so …
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EP458: Spotlight - Karen Ainley - Mastering Automation To Elevate Client Relationships
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“I don't see a world where the profession of accounting is totally taken over by AI. There'll always be that need for human touch and validation because we do audits and we need to make sure that we get their taxes right. So I would just say, embrace it, think about how it's going to give you that better work-life balance, and then just go for it. …
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EP457: Jessica Fox - The Secrets To Stress-Free Bookkeeping
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“I put my clients on notice in the first week of December. All of my clients get an email blast so that they know what to expect, and that helps so much. So we are having this conversation now in the third week of January. All of my clients who gave me their information are tax-ready. And I could not have said that five years ago.” -Jessica Fox Jes…
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EP456: Nancy Gwynne-Vaughan - Overcoming Small Business Challenges
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“And so I went through all of the little folders and things that I had stored different goals, and I pulled them all into one place and had a whole week to really think about what I wanted my goals to be for next year. And that brought tremendous clarity.” -Nancy Gwynne-Vaughan In this episode, Nancy Gwynne-Vaughan, President of Graham Consulting &…
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EP455: Leslee Hickerson - How Niche Expertise Transforms Bookkeeping Businesses
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“I had no niche. I didn't know what I wanted to do. I knew the clients I really didn't like to work with. But they were also talking about, ‘You got to find your niche.’ And I'm like, ‘How do you find a niche?’” -Leslee Hickerson Leslee Hickerson shares her inspiring journey from a small Ontario town to becoming a successful bookkeeper and consulta…
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EP454 - Keila Hill-Trawick - The Value of Prioritizing Relationships, Quality & Growth
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“You think that you're competing against other accountants, but for people who are just starting, you're competing against ‘free’. As far as they're concerned, ‘I've been doing my bookkeeping and I was doing fine and it didn't cost me anything, so why should I pay you?’” -Keila Hill-Trawick In this episode, Kyla Hill Treywick, founder and CEO of Li…
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EP453: Stephanie Skryzowski - Building Impactful Strategies & Stronger Organizations
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“As a business owner, as an entrepreneur, I feel like there are 50 million things that I want and need to do all the time. So I find it very easy to get distracted. So I think about what are the top things that I need to put my attention towards, what are the biggest things that I want. I've got this little sign on my wall up there, ‘Where your at…
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Kick off your new year with inspiration and actionable insights in this special year-end episode! Host, Michael Palmer welcomes an exceptional panel of industry leaders for an engaging conversation reflecting on the trends, triumphs, and challenges of 2024! From unexpected industry shifts to personal stories of resilience and powerful client succes…
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