EP389: Danielle Hendon - How To Bridge The Gaps In Your Bookkeeping Business

Michael Palmer: Coming from the audit background, I was used to always having a team around me. We always had staff, and you're always helping other people. There's always a team involved. So going to the solopreneur route, which I'm grateful I now have a team again, but going those first few years on that solopreneur route can be very, very lonely at times. And finding people that you can talk to and collaborate with and learn and grow from is huge. 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'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fantastic one. Our guest is the founder and owner of Four Corners CFO, a firm offering financial advisory services to small business owners. Danielle Hendon, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. That's great to have you. And I know we're going to be talking about some interesting stuff today around money and planning. And so before we get into all of that, I would love to hear about you and your career journey leading up to what you're doing today.

Danielle Hendon (Nov 14): Yeah, it's, it's got some twists and turns in it. So I started off as a music major in college. I sang through high school, went to college to sing, and realized very very quickly when an English professor had us write about the future of our career that I was never going to make any money. So I had some friends in accounting that were loving what they did, and I thought, oh, why not give that a try? I ended up getting my degree in accounting, getting my CPA, going into public accounting, all the things. And then when I started a family, I realized 80-hour work weeks and a newborn don't really mesh very well. So I left public accounting and I went into corporate. Being in the Houston area, a lot of my expertise up to that point was in oil and gas. So when I left public accounting, I landed at an oil and gas company doing audit, internal audit. And I loved the company I was with. I loved who I worked with. I loved all that we were doing. They were a larger company, but they liked to think of themselves as a small business, very family feeling. And