EP182: Lisa Channell - Part 1 - How Finding A Mentor Can Power Your Success

Michael Palmer: That challenge in the moment, like, I thought everything was over. Like, I really didn't know what I was going to do. But now looking back, like, it was exactly what I needed to do, should have done, needed the push to do, would never have done it on my own. I had to be forced into it. But it turns out I'm an entrepreneur. 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 Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be an awesome one. Our guest is the owner of Bonfire Bookkeeping and has been a longtime member of the Successful Bookkeeper community. Lisa Channel, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited. It's great to have you here. We've been connecting for a very long time, uh, and actually had a great time at QuickBooks Connect Toronto where you hosted a podcast meetup and brought together podcast listeners to celebrate what's happening in the industry around podcasts. That was a ton of fun. And so before we get too far down that track, I'd love for you to share a little bit of your career journey leading up to this point for our listeners. Yeah, absolutely. I have a bit of a strange journey to kick off the show. Um, I love strange journeys.

Lisa Channell: Good, because this is a little, a little strange. Um, so I was hired locally when I moved back to my small town and I was searching for a job. Um, so I kind of put out my resume everywhere and got hired by an aggregates company as their receptionist. And I worked there for about 6 months before I found out at the Christmas party that I had shown up for that job and was not supposed to be hired for that job. No way.

Yeah. And of course, at the Christmas party, everyone's having fun. The owners let it slip that the person organizing the interviews had called me instead of the real candidate. So my entire journey is like hinged on a mistake, which turned into like the most beautiful mistake ever. But it was an interesting beginning. So, yeah, so I was hired as a receptionist and the lady or the woman who had hired me was the most exceptional bookkeeper I to date have