EP509: 2025 Year-In-Review Show!

TSBK Year-In-Review Show (Dec. 30th 2025): is there truly enough time to run the day-to-day of the business, have a life, take care of your health, and then launch all of these changes, which inevitably I'm like you, plug and play is just never plug and play for me, right? It's, it's plug, stop, update, return the new one. It's, you know, I feel like it's the same when you're launching things. Roll the dice. Plug and play. I think that word's almost, it's gone. It's like, it used to be like, yeah, it's plug and play. No, it's plug and everything blows up. It's offensive is what it is. 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 is going to be an amazing one. First off, I hope you're having a terrific holiday season so far, and I can't believe that 2025 is nearly done and it's 2026 almost here. I can't believe it. And yet I also can't believe it. These days things go so fast. Regardless, we have a special episode for you today. It's our year in review show, and it features a fantastic group of guests, including International Director of The Successful Bookkeeper Global, Lisa Campbell, Australian accountant, author, and accounting technology expert Heather Smith, CEO of Finance League Bookkeeping Solutions and Canadian Pure Bookkeeping licensee Teresa Slack, and founder of Springstead Solutions and American Pure Bookkeeping licensee Christina Pringstead, Springstead, Ladies, welcome to the show. Hello. Thank you. Thank you so much for inviting me. Great to be here.

And did I forget anybody? It's great to have you. It's great to have you. So we've done this show several times now. The podcast actually enters its 10th year in 2026. So September 26th is when we'll have our 10-year anniversary. So it's, it's remarkable. I can't believe it. 52 episodes a year. We've never missed one a week. And so this is— you're all joining me on what will be our 10th anniversary, really, edition of the Year in Review, or the beginning of this 10th anniversary year. But really, the point of the show is I love to get a few voices from across the globe. And we have