EP178: Rachel Fisch - What Do You Want Your Legacy To Be?

Michael Palmer: a legacy is one of those conscious things that you say, this is how I want to be remembered. I think that's a great exercise to do because I think that, that if you can define what that thing is, it ends up then being a little bit of your North Star. It's what you can measure kind of all future opportunities against. 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 Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a good one. Our returning guest has trained thousands of bookkeepers in hundreds of training sessions across Canada and beyond in both desktop and online accounting software since 2012. She is currently the product evangelist for accounting solutions at Sage, and she's always amazing to speak with. Rachel Fish, welcome back to the show. Thank you so much, Michael. That was so kind. Yeah, well, we love having you, and I know our community in North America— so many know you, so many love you, love working with you. And so it's always great to have you on the show. And for those that don't know you yet, I would really love for you to tell us a little bit about yourself and what you've got going on these days.

Rachel Fisch: Sure. Yes, actually, you had mentioned product evangelist for Sage Accountant Solutions, and that's actually a brand new role. I've only been in it for a couple of months, and so I'm still ramping up, still doing a lot of learning. But basically what that means is that I'm now on the product side of the organization and really making sure that we're kind of building from the inside out all of the tools and things that bookkeepers and accountants need, you know, to serve their clients and to grow their practices. So I'm really excited to kind of be a little bit more kind of in the weeds as to how Sage operates as a software company, which is cool. Prior to that, I really kind of focused on the accountant community as a whole, which is still something that I think all of us who are in the Accountants Channel at Sage, you know, we all need to be doing, and we're all going to continue to do that, which is cool. Prior to that, I was