EP476: Nacondra Moran - How An Ex-IRS Employee Built Bookkeeping Success - Part 1

Michael Palmer: We have really, really tried to prioritize quality over quantity, and sometimes that's at the expense of not being able to take on or onboard clients at certain times. 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 to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and we have a great two-part series with the founder of Exceptional Tax Services, Nakondra Moran. In part one, she discusses the mindset challenges of leaving a secure government job, the rocky road to launching your business, and how she discovered what truly matters in building a sustainable practice. All right, let's get to that conversation right now. Our guest is a former IRS professional and founder of Exceptional Tax Services. Nakondra Moran, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me, Michael. I am so happy to be here. It's great to have you. Yeah, great. And we're, we're, we're looking forward to this conversation and learning more about you. And, and so let's maybe start with that. Tell us a little bit about yourself and, and And, you know, we mentioned the IRS, everybody's shaking in their boots here. What, how'd you end up doing what you're doing today?

Nacondra Moran with Sage ad: Yeah, so I started my business back in 2016. I, prior to that, I was an IRS employee. And I think my journey to entrepreneurship, I did not wake up and say, hey, you know, I want to be self-employed when I grow up. I never really saw myself as an entrepreneur. I never saw myself as a small business owner. Really, the yearning for entrepreneurship kind of started after I started having children. And then I started to really yearn freedom and flexibility and the ability to control my time. And I was deeply unhappy. Even though I had a pretty good job, there were a lot of other obstacles that mentally drained me with my job and I just wanted more freedom and flexibility. And so through that, I started thinking, how could I turn into like a freelancer or a small business owner? And that's kind of where my story actually started. Wow. So when you left, so you were with the IRS, how long did you spend at the IRS? I was with them