EP342: Kim Wolfe - How To Build Your Dream Bookkeeping Business

Michael Palmer: You can be as big or as little as you want to be. It's so scalable and you can choose, well, I want to work 10 hours a week. I want to work 20 hours a week. How about I want to work 30 hours a week? It's up to you. And you can have 1 client or 3 clients or 100 clients. It's totally up to you. The work is there. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their 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. Today's show is going to be a fantastic one. Our guest is a former aerospace engineer turned business owner. She runs KAW Solutions out of Virginia. Kim Wolfe, welcome to the show. Michael, thank you so much. I'm excited to be here. It's great to have you, Kim. I mean, obviously when we say aerospace engineer turned business owner, it's very interesting. Please share your career journey leading up to this point and definitely want you to dive into how the heck you went from aerospace into your current business?

Kim Wolfe (Jan 24): Sure. Yeah, it's kind of a fun story. So ever since I was a very small child, my passion has always been aviation. So it always had a hold on me. And it was kind of funny because people would ask me, you know, why do you like airplanes so much? And I would have no idea. I hadn't even been in an airplane, but it just got a hold on me at an early age. And, um, I ended up going to Ohio State, got a degree in aeronautical engineering, and spent about 10 years in industry working on full-flight simulators. And my job was to make the airplane— to make the simulator fly like the airplane. So that was really cool because I could go up in, in the actual airplane and collect flight test data. And then my job was to go back to the office and make the simulator match this flight test data. So it was really a super neat job, and I loved being in the cockpit of the simulators. And then after I graduated from college, I thought I was going to be able to start flying in college, but it wasn't until after college I said, I don't care, I will eat potatoes and mac and cheese, but I'm going to start to find the time and money to start working on my pilot ratings. So after college, I