EP398: Lesley Pyle - Your Ultimate Hiring Guide

Michael Palmer: You'll know it's time to hire when you're wearing too many hats. You're not able to do the things that you love and excel at. Like if you're really good at the marketing of the business or the business development, but you find yourself doing admin type work all day or social media, you know that it's time to probably outsource. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael I'm 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 fantastic one. Our guest is the owner and founder of hiremymom.com, Leslie Pyle. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me, Michael. Well, it is our pleasure to have you, Leslie. And before we get into this conversation of hiring my mom, tell us please a little bit about your career journey leading up to this point.

Guest: Yeah, absolutely. So I had, um, just finished my master's degree and had planned on climbing— it was in public relations— planned on climbing the corporate ladder doing corporate public relations. Then I got my first job. It was actually at a golf school in Austin, Texas, and I was promoting their golf tour clinics around the country. And it was at that job that I got pregnant with my first child. Still had every intention on going back to work, but something happened to me when she was laid on my chest after she was born, and something shifted in me. And all of a sudden I thought, oh, going back to work's not going to be as easy as I thought. So fast forward ahead, I finished my 6 weeks of maternity, kept my word, handed my baby over to daycare, and I went to work and cried every single day. So I soon realized that working outside of the home was going to be much harder than I realized. So this was back in 1995. I thought, okay, what if I could work from home part-time? Would they allow that? And no, they would not. You know, working from home was not really acceptable back then. And so, you know, I talked to my husband, I was like, well, what if I tried to freelance and, you know, bring in income that way? Because we were, you know, a new family, first home, all of those things. So that's what I