EP200: Debbie Roberts – Celebrating 10 Years of Pure Bookkeeping!

Debbie Roberts: My mission in my bookkeeping business was to empower business owners around their finances by removing confusion, fear, and uncertainty and replacing it with clarity, freedom, and control. I was passionate about small businesses. He said I could make a bigger difference if I was helping other bookkeepers to empower their clients than I could just if I was working on my own clients. There's a finite amount of time, there's a finite amount of space that you can service, and there's a finite amount of businesses. It's just physically impossible. He said, if you were able to help other bookkeepers by providing them with these systems that you've created in your business and some guidance and support, imagine your mission of empowering business owners around their finances. That could blow that out of the water and reach so many more people than I could possibly on my own. 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 oh my goodness, it is our 200th episode. I cannot believe it, and yet I can believe it. And as a result, today's show is going to be a special one and a historic one. Our returning guest is the co-founder of Pure Bookkeeping and the co-author of The E-Myth Bookkeeper. She is also the subject of my book, The Successful Bookkeeper. Debbie Roberts, welcome back to the podcast. Oh, thank you, Michael. It's so exciting. And congratulations, the 200th episode. That's awesome.

Michael Palmer: I know. And it's, uh, thank you. And it all started with you, Debbie, way back, uh, on the very first episode interviewing you. And the podcast was really imagined out of the book, writing the book and then creating the podcast. And it's amazing what it has become and how much, how many people have been involved and the people that we've been able to interact with along the way in this community that we've built. So it's been a ton of fun. And so thank you for being the inspiration of this podcast. My pleasure, my absolute pleasure. Yes. And we've got some other surprise announcements as well in this podcast. It's not only the anniversary of the