EP 414 Apr 23, 2024 9:00:00 AM

EP414: Erin Daiber - ‘It Is What It Is’, Or Is It What You Make It?

with Erin Daiber

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What if the dirtiest words in your bookkeeping business were "it is what it is"? This week, coach Erin Daiber — founder of Well Balanced Accountants — returns to challenge the made-up rules keeping you stuck: that you can't raise fees mid-year, can't change your process in busy season, can't say no to the wrong clients. She'll walk you through a coffee-shop exercise to renovate your business one decision at a time, plus the small shift that pulls you out of burnout before it buries you. Episode 414 is live now — listen before your next busy stretch swallows the week.

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“I think we just get sucked into this pattern of being busy, and telling ourselves that there aren’t any other options and that we have to accept this. That ‘it is what it is’. Instead of taking that step back, taking a deep breath and thinking what would I want this to look like, what could this be?”
- Erin Daiber

We are creatures of habit, but all too often those habits become a prison, preventing us from growing and stepping into our greater potential. Just because things have always been done a certain way, doesn’t mean we cannot choose at any moment to try something different.

It is scary to step out of our comfort zones, but much worse to be trapped in a repeating cycle that will never lead us to the success we desire. As long as we remember we are the ones setting the rules for our lives and business, we can change them.

Erin Daiber, returning guest and owner of Well Balanced Accountants is this episode’s featured guest. Erin speaks to the power of connecting with your passion, how to navigate high-stress environments, and what your life could look like with the right coach and a willingness to set rules that work for and not against you.

If you are feeling stuck, sure that success is within your reach, but are unsure how to grasp it, then this is the episode to help you take that step back, that deep breath that will bring clarity on the best way to move forward into a more successful business.

During this interview, you'll learn...

The value of setting rules that work for and not against you
How to navigate high-stress environments
The importance of connection to your passion

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Time Stamps

01:54 - Erin talks about her career journey
04:42 - Navigating high-stress environments
07:47 - Things don’t have to be as they’ve always been
14:57 - Creating your future perfect scenario
17:56 - Taking control of your business
23:30 - Transforming your business with small changes
27:00 - Holding yourself to account
32:50 - Learning more about Erin

Full transcript

Michael Palmer: those things happen a lot more naturally or organically when you're not working 10 or 12 or 14-hour days. But when you are, and when I was working those crazy hours, I had to be very intentional about scheduling weekend time to spend with friends or planning to go on a hike and get some fresh air and be outdoors on my day off and just really making sure that I incorporated some of those things that I really liked and that allowed me to recharge my battery. Series so that I could keep going and I wasn't just burning myself out little by little, day by day. 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 wonderful one. Our returning guest is the owner of Well Balanced Accountants, Aaron Daber. Welcome back to the show. Thanks so much for having me. Well, it's great to have you, and you've been here before. And for those of our listeners right now who haven't listened to previous podcasts, definitely go back. I mean, you've spoken at our events several times. You've been around giving your wisdom to us for a while. So thank you for that. And I'd love for you to maybe just start off with, for those that haven't heard you before, a little bit of your background, and then we'll get into what's new in your world.

Erin Daiber (April 23): Absolutely. Well, it's always a treat to be here. I always love the opportunity. I started my professional career as an auditor in the Big Four. I earned my CPA license while I was working in public accounting and through a bit of a roundabout path. The short version is I discovered that the things that I loved most about that job were the people that I worked with and that the debits and credits were never the thing that, you know, had me launching out of bed excited to get my day started. And so I started to, um, be on a journey of self-discovery to try to figure out what would I do if I weren't operating in the accounting profession. I have an accounting degree after all. I had my CPA license. So if I wasn't going to be doing the technical side of the work, what would I do instead? And

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