EP474: Cindy Schroeder - Build A Business That Feels Like A Fairy Tale

Ad Read: Man, I wish that I would have listened from the beginning of doing a niche business. And just because it makes life so much easier, you don't have to continue to reinvent the wheel. You already know what problems your clients are going to have before they come to you. You can really standardize and systematize all your processes. So it's easier for you. It's easier for your employees or your contractors. 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 fun one. Our guest is the owner of Bright Bookkeeping based in Florida, Cindy Schrader. Welcome to the show. So glad to be here. Thanks for asking to have me here. Great to have you, Cyndi. So I'd love to just take a step back so our listener can get to know you and, and find out what had you— what's your past look like that had you doing what you're doing today? How'd you get here?

Absolutely. So I started with an accounting degree from Northern Illinois because I really didn't know what I wanted to do for work. I always enjoyed doing my mom's bank reconciliation when I was little, so I thought, oh, accounting is a good place to start and a great background to have. So that kind of led to a bunch of jobs, just accounting assistant jobs, you know, doing AR, AP at a bunch of different companies. And I spent many years, I would say probably about 10 or 12 years changing jobs every year because I always loved what I did, but I always hated where I was. So the last place that I was was, was the worst one. And at that job, I finally realized, like, I need to figure something else out. So I convinced them to to start using QuickBooks Desktop at the time and taught myself how to use it and then branched out to start my own business. I wasn't even sure about that time that, you know, companies were going to hire outsourced accounting people that, you know, weren't employees in their company. But, you know, at this point it was kind of like my last-ditch effort of getting out of this place where my soul was dying, for better terms. And so, yeah, so I went to some networking events