EP308: Lora Lonesberry - Building Bookkeeping Relationships & Knowing Your Value - Part 1

Ad Read: Watching that business grow and hearing that business owner say, oh my God, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be where I am today. Those, those feelings, they're just— that's what makes my 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 the first of a two-part series. It features our guest who is the owner of Positive Statements, a peer bookkeeping licensee, a former pastry chef, and an avid racing fan. Laura Lonesbury, welcome to the show. Thank you, Michael. Thank you for having me. Yes, and I'm excited to learn more about you, and I am a racing fan as well. So that's something I didn't know about you, and we can maybe learn more about that a little bit later. But before we get into all of it, Please tell us about your career journey leading up to this point. Well, as a career entrepreneur, I think that my path probably started with my dad. He worked for companies until I was probably about 12 and then opened up his own business. So I learned the life of being an entrepreneur from my dad for sure. And that sense of self-competition, because everybody believes that you're really— you're competing with other businesses and stuff in your industry, but really you're competing against yourself and your own achievements. So I learned that hard work and stuff from him.

It's nice to hear. And I just recorded a podcast yesterday where we were joking that the guest would— who was— it was Amber Mack, and she was saying very similar. She learned so much from her father, who was an entrepreneur, both successful and unsuccessful at points of his journey, and world's best dad and a great business advisor. Oh, exactly. And the only unfortunate part for me is that my dad is in Ontario, and I moved out here when I was 23 to British Columbia. So I don't have that frequent access to them that I once had. And our industries are so completely different. But mentorship, I think, and it's funny as you say that, you know, successful and unsuccessful, I think that almost every single entrepreneur out there is you've had to have fallen at some point. And