EP427: Peter Cook & Debbie Roberts - The E-Myth Bookkeeper: Strategies for Hiring Success

Michael Palmer: But we've had lots of bookkeepers who have used it who have said that just this skills test is worth its weight in gold and is just that bit would be worth investing in the PureBooking system just to get that piece right. 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 Today's show is going to be a fantastic one. I've got an absolute treat for you today. We are talking about The E-Myth Bookkeeper. And as you may have been listening, we've been doing several deep dives into chapters from The E-Myth Bookkeeper over the last couple of weeks. And we have another special guest. Well, we have two special guests today. We have Peter Cook, who you have already been introduced in those series. And if you haven't listened to those already, go back and give those a listen.. But we also have the co-author of the E-Myth Bookkeeper, Debbie Roberts, who is also the co-founder of Pure Bookkeeping and has been at helping great bookkeepers grow their business for some time now. Debbie Roberts, Peter Cook, welcome to the show. Thank you, Michael. Good to be back. Thank you, Michael. It's great to have you both. Yes, yes. I was showing, I was showing, uh, my daughters were very impressed because on the on the Apple Podcast app. I was showing them, flicking through the what's coming up podcasts and my name was right there in the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. So they were very impressed. They think I'm a little bit famous now. What's celebrity like? Yep. That's fantastic. Are your kids impressed that you host a podcast or not at all?

Absolutely, absolutely. Whenever it comes on, so if I'm listening to podcasts in a drive or something like that, they will mind might pop up and I'm like, oh, turn that off. And we're going to listen to something else here, but they're like, no, play it, play it. So it's kind of cool. Yeah, definitely. They're very impressed. Awesome. Yes. Debbie, welcome. How have you been? Very well, Michael. I'm very excited to be here and having this conversation with you today. Yes. Now, uh, also for you listener joining us today,