EP482: Cameron Davis - Turning Failure Into A Thriving Bookkeeping Business - Part 1

Michael Palmer: 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 owner of Imago Dei Bookkeeping and Consulting, and he is a pure bookkeeping licensee, Cameron Davis. Welcome to the show. Thank you, Michael, for having me. I really appreciate it. It's great to have you. And you mentioned getting on the podcast that you're a longtime Listener, thank you for being a listener of the podcast. That's always fun to have someone who's been listening for a while to chat with them, and it's going to be now my opportunity to get to know you. Yeah, as I started this journey, you know, part of the investigation and discovery into the industry and, you know, what others are doing and how they're doing it, this podcast was a really integral part of that discovery and hearing from others and their experiences. And, you know, how a firm runs and, you know, what, what to do along the way. So yeah, it was a, it was a big part of my journey. Beautiful. Well, that's, that's great that it was valuable. And these, these podcast episodes are my favorite. I love hearing— I don't know what it is, but I love hearing people's origin stories and how they came about it, the things that they, they got into. And, you know, it's that, that good old song, "You can't go over it, you can't go under it, can't go around it, gotta go through it." Right? So that's the Boy Scout in me, campfire song. I guess maybe that's what we talk about on these podcasts is that basically that in a nutshell. So let's maybe introduce you a little bit here. Tell us a little bit about yourself, where you're from, you know, your little bit background of how you ended up doing what you're doing, and then we'll dive in deep to the story.

Cameron Davis: Yeah, definitely. So my family and I, you know, we grew up in Asheville, North Carolina. You know, most of our family is still there. It's a great place to be from. And, you know, obviously over the last few, you know, couple decades, you know, they made a lot of lists across the country and across the world, I guess. But, you know, in 2017, we moved down into Greenville, South Carolina here and, you know, had a little bit of entrepreneurial journey, I guess, in the insurance industry did not go well, but we kept going and we, you know, kept on the journey, I guess, that we were on. And so, um, you know, we, we had a couple of kids along the way. We've got a 10-year-old