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Michael Palmer: What's really interesting, Michael, it has never changed. The, the mission was always to build a million-dollar bookkeeping firm. That's what we wanted to do. 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. Today's episode launches part 1 of a special 4-part series with returning guest Theresa Slack. It's an honest and inspiring look at the challenges, growth, and breakthroughs behind a successful bookkeeping business that eventually sells for $1 million. In the opening episode, Theresa takes us back to the early days of launching a virtual firm in 2014, driving hours to give free seminars and growing fast. Till the cracks started to show. On paper, the business looked like a win. Behind the scenes, not so much. Let's find out more right now. Our returning guest is a prominent Canadian e-commerce bookkeeping expert, co-founder of Finance Leap Bookkeeping Solutions, and a trainer for accounting professionals specializing in complex Shopify and Amazon accounting, value pricing, and business systems for accounting firms. Teresa Slack, welcome back to the show. Hi, Michael. It's nice to be here today.
It's great to have you. And it's, you know, I'm excited about this episode. It's, it's a long time coming, we will say. And a lot of people listening right now are running good bookkeeping businesses on paper. But behind the scenes, I know and suspect and, you know, through the Through the years, have spoken to many, many bookkeepers, and behind the scenes, they're exhausted, stressed, and unsure if what they've built is actually sustainable. Your story matters because you've lived both sides of that, the uncertainty and the success. And I'd love for listeners to hear the truth of what that journey actually looked like. So I'd love to take our listener back to the moment before things started to change in your business? And maybe just a little bit of that, set up the scene for where you were in your business and a bit of that journey.
Teresa Slack Part 1 (Feb 3rd 2026): Sure, I'd be happy to. Connie, my sister, and I started Finance.ly in September of
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