EP292: Daniel Breez - How To Take Responsibility For Your Own Success

Michael Palmer: Before Profit First, we were mainly focused on compliance and very, very little advisory. I always felt that there was a piece missing when working with my clients because yes, compliance is important and we need to make sure that we're in the green with the CRA or the IRS. But if your goal is to build a business that helps people and can support your dream lifestyle, getting compliance services is not going to help you. 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. This week's guest is the founder of Measured Growth CPA, and he is a pure bookkeeping licensee. Daniel Breeze, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me, Michael. It's great to have you. And I remember the very first time we met was at the Intuit conference downtown Toronto. And I thought to myself, wow, this, this person is going to crush it in their business. So I'm looking forward to hearing your business journey. And so before we get into all of that, tell us a little bit about your your business journey leading up to this point? Yeah, absolutely. So when I was in high school— I guess I'll go back that far. Let's go way back.

Daniel Breez (April 12): Yeah. Yes, I can't really talk about the journey without going back that far. So, um, I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was, um, 16, 17 years old, but my parents kind of sat me down and asked me, um, what are you gonna do with the rest of your life? I didn't realize, like many people at the time, that, um, You don't need to have all those answers figured out. So if anybody listening is young and lost, I think that's very normal. But we judge ourselves, and I certainly did judge myself for not knowing what to do. So I was always good with numbers in school, and it was actually my parents that pushed me into accounting. So they kind of— they wanted me to go to Schulich. They wanted me to get my CPA. So it was all kind of them steering those decisions in the beginning. And I actually wasn't doing very well. I didn't really enjoy that entire process. I was kind of doing it for my