EP213: Sarah Facio-Davis - How Relationships Can Grow Your Bookkeeping Business

Sarah Facio-Davis: — it's not a set-in-stone program. You want to keep the foundation of it, but going through and making it your own is also, I feel like, a huge part of it. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fantastic one. Our guest is the owner of Accurate Office Help, and she's also a Pure Bookkeeping licensee, Sarah Fazio Davis. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks, Michael. Happy to be here. Yeah, great to have you. I mean, we were just chatting before the show. It seems like we spoke yesterday, but it's been, it's been a lot longer than that. And I'm so excited about learning about your business journey and sharing that with our listener. And so before we get into all of that, let's Let's, uh, let's help the listener understand a little bit about you. Okay, so I'm Sarah. I'm a bookkeeper. I've owned my own business now for probably, let's see, my oldest is 16, so 16 years. Prior to that, I worked in a corporate office job that I actually loved, but once I had kids, I said, forget it, I'm staying home. Good for you. Yeah, and been at home since and loving it, loving it more than the corporate job for

Michael Palmer: sure. Beautiful. Well, let's, let's, uh, we're gonna take a deep dive into your business journey and we're gonna think of it in stages. And so when you were, you were working in the corporate world, you, you realized that, you know, life balance, being able to be home with your children was important to you. And I'm sure many listeners can relate to that. It's not the first time I've heard that being a desire and want. But when you were making that decision back in that time, what was that like for you? It was the hardest decision I've ever made in my life, I think. And that's huge to say, but I really did enjoy my job. I really liked being the right-hand man woman to not only my coworkers but my supervisors, all of that. I got a lot of joy out of being there for people. But on the other side of that, I could not imagine leaving my babies with somebody else so that I could go to work. So it was