EP271: Andrew Royer - Finding Work-Life Balance as a Business Owner

Andrew Royer: It's important, I think, how we think about balance. I think oftentimes we, we think of balances and we need to be able to do all of these things. And I think sometimes family is more important, um, and sometimes work's got to be more important. They've got to take that, that priority. 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 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 fantastic. Our returning guest is the owner of Royer Accounting and has been a longtime Pure Bookkeeping licensee and as well has been on the podcast several times. Andrew Royer, welcome back to the show. All right. Thank you for having me. It's great to have you. And Andrew, I mean, what the heck's been going on? Well, we've had a few things since the last podcast, so we've had a few changes in staff. We had somebody that's went on a medical leave, and then we've, we've added some— we've added a new staff member full-time. And so we've been, we've been growing quite a bit. It's kind of ironically, we, we stopped our marketing and then the phone hasn't stopped ringing since we've done that. Oh boy. Yeah. And so we're getting to the point where we're probably going to be looking at hiring, uh, somebody else again. And then I was also— I was just listening to the podcast, so trying to remember what I said last time. And one of the mistakes that I had mentioned in the last podcast was having this commercial office space. I felt like we got it a little too soon. So we are at the end of December, we will be leaving this office. So fixing that mistake.

Wow. Wow. Very interesting. So lots has been going on. And I also remind anyone who has not heard one of Andrew's episodes, we will have links to those episodes in the show notes so you can listen, catch up. But you also have 4 kids, family life, juggling a heck of a lot. So this is a lot all the stuff that's happened in your life, how has that been on your own mental health? Well, COVID, I think having kids, 4 kids, hard for anybody. Throw in COVID and it has not been a very fun ride. I can imagine. Yeah, I think one of the struggles just