EP297: Dr. Arin Reeves - Creating Success Beyond Financial Achievement - Part 1

Michael Palmer: If you made half the money and at the end of the day you had time to go for a walk and felt really good, it's just better success. But we just don't live in a world that encourages us to define the success as feeling good. 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 we have a special two-part series for you involving Dr. Aaron Reeves, who is the president and managing director at Nexions LLC, which is a cutting-edge research and consulting firm that focuses on leadership and inclusion. In part one, we'll discuss why bookkeepers need rules about handling bad clients, including having a special tax for them. And I know you're going to love this conversation. So let's jump right into the interview now. Dr. Erin N. Reeves, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. Excited to be here. It's great to have you. And I know this topic's going to be very, very, very interesting and certainly in the climate of today. And I'm really looking forward to it. And before we do that though, I'd love for our listener to get to know you a little bit better. Tell us about your career journey leading up to this point.

Dr. Arin N. Reeves (May 10): Yeah, I'd love to. And I'm excited to have this conversation. I was, you know, when I went to undergrad, I thought I was going to be a lawyer and I was going to be a lawyer for life, right? So I went to law school, have always been interested in racial, gender, social justice type issues and loved law school, loved practicing law, but realized that it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to do more in terms of preventing bad things from happening than especially in workplaces than necessarily dealing with them after they happened like the law does. So made the tough decision to go back to school, did a doctorate in neurobehavioral sociology. So really focused on our brains and how they impact how we interact sort of in groups. Taught at Northwestern for a while. And all of that kind of, all of those different experiences combined together to me saying, I wanted to bring the academics, the law, the writing, the