EP393: Ashley Chamberlain - Planting The Seeds Of Success - Part 1

Ad Read: The BNI group combined with the social media, consistently posting, showing up on lives, the clients just started coming in. Another client led to another. I built a website that helped with, you know, all the Google SEO things with the presence. And it just word of mouth greatly helped my situation. You're listening to the 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 Welcome to the Smart Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and we have a special two-part series with Kentucky-based bookkeeping business owner Ashley Chamberlain. Part one, she'll share her inspiring business journey that hopefully provides a spark for you on your path to success. All right, let's get to that conversation now. Our guest is the owner of the Kentucky-based Chamberlain and Good Company bookkeeping firm. She is also a mom of two boys, Ashley Chamberlain. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. It's great to have you. And, you know, Ashley, I would love for our listener to get to know you. So please share a little bit about you, your business journey leading up to this point. Sure. I'll try to keep it short and sweet. I know journeys can be lengthy, so— I love stories, though, so take your time.

Yeah. So my husband and I are originally from kind of small town, Athens, Georgia. And we moved here in, uh, 2018. We moved to Louisville, Kentucky. And, you know, we at the time had a barely 1-year-old and, um, a 6-year-old. And we thought, you know, let's, let's just start fresh somewhere. Um, we had— I have a couple of family members here, and I had a job offer I say it was coincidence, but it was kind of planned to be around family. And I had a job offer at a large company here in Louisville at the Yum Center as an accountant. And at the time, felt like I was at a peak. So I thought, wow, this is big. I'm going to work in corporate America. It's going to be amazing. I can't wait to have a cubicle. So we moved the family here. My husband's a musician and a truck driver. So, He could play music anywhere and drive anywhere. So he was game and we packed up the kids, headed over here. I started working in corporate America,