EP254: Helen Konstan - How To Leverage Pure Bookkeeping To Grow Your Business

Helen Konstan: Deep down, I really loved bookkeeping. I loved the clients, the mixture of industries, because I was learning all the time. You know, new client, new industry, it's like great. To me, that was just, you know, like drugs to someone, I guess. I just love learning about new things, so this industry just suits me. 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 Welcome to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fun one. Our guest is a peer bookkeeping licensee from Melbourne, Australia, where she is the owner of Zilch Bookwork, a romance book author, and even a qualified hairdresser. Helen Constan, welcome to the show. Thank you, Michael. It's an honor to be here. I am so excited about this interview because I just loved hearing you on— we were on Facebook together actually in a special edition of the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast in the Australia group for our Facebook group. And just hearing your story and your journey, I thought it was a lot of fun and wanted to share it with the rest of our listeners. Great. So Helen, before we get into more of the details of your journey, please tell us about yourself leading up to this point.

Ad Read: Okay, well, I guess business for me started, um, a family business with my parents. Uh, we had a fish and chip shop cafe, so I guess the equivalent of an American diner, you could say. Um, my dad, gosh, he had so many of them in his career lifetime. And I remember being 6 years old and standing on a— was called a milk crate that would elevate me and able to, you know, get to the fryers where all the hot oil is. And I would sit there all day and just, you know, pre-cook these, you know, the fish and everything else. And it was— I remember thinking, wow, what an honor. Little did I know it felt like slave work. But, you know, family business, we all had to help out. And I remember doing that, yeah, from a really young age. And we were always worked in the in the business with mum and dad, and you know, when they spoke about business, everything seemed open, you know, everything was spoken around us, so you always heard