EP313: Dawn Brolin - How To Recognize Your Value To Achieve Success

Ad Read: At the end of the day, it comes down to the bookkeeping. And this happens no matter whether I'm preparing a tax return or whether I'm doing IRS rep or fraud cases. It's always at the end of the day, without the good bookkeeping, we have nothing. And that's what I've learned over this 23 years. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share 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 fantastic one. Our guest is a certified public accountant, certified fraud examiner, and CEO of Powerful Accounting LLC. Plus, she's the author of The Designated Motivator for Accounting Professionals, and she is considered to be one of the most powerful women in the accounting industry. Dawn Brolin, welcome to the show. Michael, I can't thank you enough for having me on. I, I just think what, you know, what you're doing for the industry out there and helping get information out, helping encourage bookkeepers and accountants the same. And I'm just really honored to be here. Love your podcast. Oh, thank you. It's wonderful to have you and finally get you on the show, which is— it's been too long. So we're happy to have you and honored to have you. So let's start off with letting our guests know a little bit more about you. I did say, I mean, I opened it up, you're like one of the most powerful women in the accounting industry. Tell us how you became to be that.

Well, you know, so everybody has an interesting journey. I think we all have such great stories about where we've come from and where we are right now and where we plan to go. And certainly mine is a unique story, as everyone's is. Just, you know, knew when I was 16 I wanted to be an accountant. I knew my first and only class in high school, they put a packet down and said, you're a business owner now, we're going to do the accounting. And it all just made such good sense to me. I was like, this is logical. I can roll with this. Went to college, got my degree, and then decided it would be smart to manage a package store because that's That's what you should do after college is take that accounting degree and apply it with