EP334: Michael Alliman - Part 1: How To Find Your Rhythm Of Success

Michael Alliman: The obstacle for me was too many different types of clients. I never got into any kind of rhythm. I never was able to easily transition from one type of company to another. So I realized that for my own sake, I needed to specialize and find a niche. 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. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and I have a special treat for you. You're about to listen to part 1 of a 2-part interview with Michael Olliman, who is the owner of Olliman Business Group and Reconcile Bookkeeping and Business Solutions. In this episode, you'll hear his inspiring story of how he overcame some struggles, including how he has managed to make his ADHD a superpower when it comes to his bookkeeping work. It's an uplifting conversation. Here it is now. I hope you enjoy it. Michael Alemán, welcome to the show. Thank you very much, Michael. It's very, very exciting and I'm glad to be here. Well, the honor is all ours. And Michael, I'm looking forward to our conversation, but before we get into things, please tell our listener a little bit about you and your career journey leading up to this point.

Ad Read: Oh, sure. Thank you. So my career journey for what we're interested in started in 1986 when I graduated from from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a master's in accounting, emphasis in tax. Thought that I was going to be a tax accountant. Actually, I thought I was going to be a professor, but life kind of interrupted that. My then-wife wanted to have a break from me being in school all the time and wanted to complete her education. So we made a deal that I would stop my schooling. I'd use my degree and having passed the CPA exam, I'd go to work for a few years while she finished her degree, and then I was I was going to go back to college and finish my PhD so that I could teach. And like I said, that got interrupted. So I went to work for Price Waterhouse, which is what it was still called back then. There were still Big Eight firms when I graduated. I went to Price Waterhouse for a couple of years, was miserable as a public accountant, but thought it was