EP273: Stephanie Kelcey - Finding Inspiration in Tribulation

Michael Palmer: I was thinking about dying and I was like, if I die, I don't have a business because it's just me. I was like, that's a really bad business model. And I was like, when I get through this, I got to change some things up. 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 Welcome to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fantastic one. Our guest is the owner of Capture Bookkeeping and she is a pure bookkeeping licensee, Stephanie Kelsey. Welcome back to the show. Thank you, Michael. And if I may, I just wanted to acknowledge and thank Lisa Campbell for recommending me and also Dave for his work that he does behind the scenes. I appreciate that. And I also appreciate the work that you do. So thank you. Thank you very much. Well, yes, Lisa is wonderful and running Accelerate to Advisor program where so many of our peer bookkeeping licensees as well as Profit First Canada makes a massive difference. And so it's always great. I'm always like, Who can we have on the show from your programs? And then Dave, we don't talk about Dave much on the show, which is— Dave needs some love. I think Dave needs some love. And you're the first, I think, that's called out Dave. Many call out Dave after the fact. Dave's amazing. He makes sure that we find the guests and coordinate the guests, and he's instrumental in all of the writing of the show notes and making sure we have great questions to ask. And so I look like the star of the show, but the real star is Dave. There's always someone in the background. That's right. That's right.

Stephanie Kelcey: And I see that, so I just wanted to acknowledge that. Well, that's lovely. Thank you for doing that. And I did say welcome back to the show, but this is your first podcast ever. It is. I made an error and you made me blush saying you were the first before we started recording. So that was fun. So let's start off, Stephanie. Let's get our audience to know a little bit more about you. Tell us about your career journey leading up to this point. Of course. So I was really thrown into bookkeeping back in 2006. I was working for a