EP402: Peter Cook - Taking The Leap From Bookkeeper To Business Leader

Peter Cook Emyth Series 1 (Feb 6): So there's kind of 3 levels of a technician, a manager, and an entrepreneur or business owner. And they're very different skill sets and very different mindsets. And that often we think, okay, well, I'm good at the thing. So then the next step is, well, rather than doing the thing for somebody else, I'll start a business and do the thing for myself. But now it's a whole different game. And then when we bring people in, it's a whole different game again. 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 going to be an absolute treat. Our returning guest is the co-author of The E-Myth Bookkeeper and the co-founder of Pure Bookkeeping, amongst many, many other things that this gentleman has accomplished and does with his life. Peter Cook, welcome back to the show. Thank you, Michael. So good to be back. How many episodes have you got now? We're way over 400. Well, I shouldn't say way over 400. I've actually stopped counting. Dave counts, but we broke through a million downloads in 2023, right at the end of 2023, which is just remarkable to think where we were 2016 and now here in 2024. Over 400 episodes. That is extraordinary. I hope you've got something special planned for 500. That is some achievement.

Michael Palmer: It is. Thank you. It is. Thank you. We, every year we, Dave, who, Dave Mandarca, who is the host producer, or sorry, not host producer, the podcast producer. He, every year it's, we have this conversation. It's now an annual thing. Like, how are we going to put out another 52 episodes every single week. When we started, we're like, we can't miss one. We've never missed one, knock on wood, in the years that we've been doing this. Yeah, so 52 a year. 8 years, never missed an episode. Never missed a week. We pump it out. Yeah. Well done. Yeah, it's fabulous, fabulous service you provide and a million downloads, obviously making a big difference out there. Lots of bookkeepers are really enjoying it. Yes, yeah. I'm surprised and delighted by the listeners and how it just keeps on cranking along. And