EP282: Emily Tarney - How Bookkeepers Can Embrace Innovation

Ad Read: figure out who you are and figure out exactly who you want to impact and what you want to create. And when you do that, if you know it truly, madly, deeply, and I think there's a song about that, but when you know it that well and you're that connected to that purpose that you have, then you get to do everything through the lens of making that happen. 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'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a great one. Our guest is the owner of Competitive Edge Business Solutions, an Accelerate to Advisor member, and pure bookkeeping licensee. Emily Tarney, welcome to the show. Thank you, Michael. I'm really excited to be here. It's great to have you. And I'm really looking forward to hearing your journey. And before we get into all of that, let's actually talk a little bit about your past, your career journey leading up to this point.

Sure. So, I, like most people, started in corporate. And what I really discovered is that since I was 17, I started managing businesses and small business is what I really, really, I really truly love. And so, the corporate world, I'd done a massive startup. We went public within 6 months of starting, had 7 branches open. We had 100 trucks on the road. It was big. And so, after 5 years of getting that established, it was time to leave the board-driven organization who made all of those decisions that we had to live with and go back to what I really, really loved. So, And that's what I did. I closed down two of my other companies. I gave up my cushy oil field salary and decided to focus on Competitive Edge. And that's where we are. So, it's been 17 years, almost 18 now that I've had the company. And it's been a few different iterations of who we were as a company, but it was a great learning experience and journey all along the way. Wow. Amazing. And to hear the experience, I mean, I can really hear how all of those experiences would've been super valuable bring into your life now serving small and medium-sized businesses? Yeah, it really did shape everything. And one interesting thing that a lot of