EP281: Jamie Van Cuyk - How To Build A Great Team To Support Your Bookkeeping Business

Ad Read: you could go out and learn, but that's going to take time, and your time is money. And you have to decide what is cheaper: you spending the time to learn something, practice it, put it out there, and maybe it's okay, so you're going to do a bunch of revisions, or just hiring someone who can be the expert, get it done, and then you can reap the rewards of having that thing done in your business. 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 today's show is going to be a very interesting one. Our guest is the owner of Growing Your Team, which helps guide small business owners through the process of learning how to hire and manage perfect fit employees and long-term contractors. She is also the host of the Growing Your Team podcast. Jamie Van Kuyk, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me, Michael. It's great to have you. And I'm excited about this conversation because I know that growing a team is one of the most difficult things you can do in your bookkeeping business, let alone any business. So Jamie, before we get into all of that, please tell us about you and your career journey leading up to this point. Yes.

So I always find this question such an interesting question because my path to starting this business was definitely not a straight path. So I come from corporate and everyone always just assumes I was in HR in corporate, which I wasn't. I was in operations leadership, but I always knew I wanted to run my own business. So I made it a point throughout my career to learn everything I could about leadership and leading other people, because I figured that's what would really help me once I started my entrepreneur journey. I left corporate after— shortly after having my second daughter. I finally told my husband, it's time. We've been talking about this idea for years of starting a software development company together. I'm tired of waiting up for you, so I'm going to quit my job, learn how to program so I can help develop the application that we were talking about developing. And I lasted 6 months doing that and realized