EP277: The Successful Bookkeeper Year-In-Review Show! Part 1

Michael Palmer: Hello, everyone. I hope you've had a great holiday season so far. Today I have a treat for you. It is the first part of our Year in Review episodes where we take a look back with our awesome bookkeeping panel at all that worked and didn't work in 2021. And as this is our final episode of 2021, I want to thank you for your support and for listening along with us all year long. Be safe during this holiday season, and I'll see you over there in 2022. So let's get this party started. Here we go. 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 am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be fantastic. First off, I hope you're all enjoying the holidays this far. I mean, it's hard to believe that 2022 is almost upon us, but I'm sure most of the world is not sad to see 2021 go. And now sadly, if you were to go back and listen to last year's Year in Review episode, you would say, wait a second, isn't the same episode? Because Michael's saying exactly the same thing. That is right, I said the same thing of your 20 2020. Regardless, we've planned a special episode for you. It's our year in review show, and it features an amazing group of guests, including Pure Bookkeeping co-founder and E-Myth Bookkeeper co-author Debbie Roberts, Director of Bookkeeping Relief Business Services and Australian Pure Bookkeeping licensee Julie Watson, Florida Virtual Bookkeeper founder and American Pure Bookkeeping licensee Jessica Fox, Financely co-founder and Canadian Pure Bookkeeping licensee Teresa Slack, and Katrina Ehrsmann, CEO of Pure Bookkeeping Australia. Wow, what a group! Ladies, welcome to the party. Thanks, it's great to be here.

Thank you, happy to be here. Yeah, great to have all of you. And we have a contingency from the United States, Canada, and Australia, and so it's, it's just great. Every year we get, we get bigger and better and have more fun. So next year we'll go for a bigger group even, maybe. But enough about that. Let's get into it. This episode is a year in review, and I'm going to be asking this wonderful group a question, and then we're just going to have a