EP445: Bernadette McClelland - Embrace Adversity To Fuel Your Success

Michael Palmer: What I now do is I change the word problem to the word situation. And when I change that one word, it just flips something in my brain where I can now work on it and it turns it into something objective and something almost like, okay, I can do something about this now. 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 fun one. Our guest is a sales coach, mentor, speaker, and author from Colorado, Bernadette McClelland. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much, Michael. It's a pleasure to be here. It's great to have you. And before the show started, we, we had a bit of a discussion and we could have taken up the whole half an hour because you're from Australia originally, living in the United States. And so lovely, such a lovely country, Australia. And now you're living in in Colorado, which is another lovely area in the world. But I'd love for you to introduce yourself a little bit further and tell our audience how you ended up doing what you're doing today.

Bernadette McClelland (Nov 12): Yeah, thank you so much. Yeah, originally from New Zealand, then, then Australia. And, and, and now 2 and a half years ago, we, we had the privilege of getting a green card and moving across, my husband and I moving across to Denver in Colorado. So I come from corporate Australia. Where I was in the sales space working for companies such as Xerox and Kodak, and then moved into my own consultancy, which didn't last long. It was only 2 years. And I'll kind of talk a little bit about that because I think that will be relevant to your listeners. And then bought a retail outlet in country Victoria where my husband and I lived. So I moved into the small business space, retail, bought out one of our national wholesalers we then started importing, and then life takes certain turns, and through health reasons, we went bankrupt. And so once again, there's learnings there that, you know, that may kind of pop up and be relevant. Yes, I think you've piqued the interest of our listener, definitely. And then of course, you know, we