EP202: Crystal Ready - Why Physical Fitness Is Important For Your Business Success

Michael Palmer: You know, the bottom line is when you're in better mental and physical health, that will translate into better customer relationships and also people, you know, a lot of people talk about the law of attraction. That's a real thing. You know, when you send out positive feelings and you come across as a positive person, people do tend to be attracted to you. And, you know, that is good on a personal level, but it's very good professionally. 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 am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a great one. Our guest is the owner of Ready Books and Consulting Limited and is a big health and fitness fan, Crystal Ready. Welcome to the show. Hi everybody, it's a pleasure to be here. Michael, thanks for having me on the show. It's great to have you. And yeah, we met, we met down in California, beautiful California at QuickBooks San Jose. And it was really nice meeting you and loved your energy and your passion for the industry and passion for being healthy in the industry as well. So it's good to finally have this conversation. Oh, totally. And so important right now in view of everything going on in the world. Yeah, absolutely. There's a good time to be thinking about our health, that is for sure. But before we get into all of this, Crystal, please tell us a little bit about you, your career journey leading up to this point.

Crystal Ready: Well, I never thought I would ever start a professional bookkeeping and accounting firm, but here I am. And we have 5 staff members. I've been in business doing my own thing since 2010. And basically we deal with day-to-day bookkeeping. We deal with small business consulting as well as some tax work. And I had a person convince me I could do my own business and I kept saying, no, I'm a good employee. I'm a good employee. And then I just decided to jump right in and as it turns out, I just I just love helping people in general, and, you know, accounting and bookkeeping is a way that I can help people. I can, you know, help them to kind of shape their dreams. Like, you know, people open