Escaping your full-time job and starting your own business is not an easy journey, but it is entirely doable. Stories like Christy’s prove it. So if you think it...

It's been a while since I've focused on Life by the Books, and that wasn’t an accident. I've just started to really value BABs as a bookkeeping program as well, and I recognized that I may have been underestimating how important it is for everybody to get their...

I’m not going to lie: I'm ridiculously giddy about covering this topic, because I have a lot to say about the cost of procrastination.

The story starts with me ending up behind on podcast episodes. We’re on Episode 173 now, and after 173 episodes, it can be...

Today’s topic is as simple as four words:

What do you want?

Today, we're going to talk about the best way to get new clients.

This is a conversation that comes up all the time. It’s in my DMs. It's in my Facebook group. It’s even inside the LIBBY group!

Despite LIBBY giving my students a lot of different strategies to...

Welcome to Part Five of the BABs revamp series!

Today, I’m going to talk about why I decided to revamp the Become a Bookkeeper program, as well as lay out some of the changes that we're going to be making.

You’ve all been so patient, and I am thrilled to...

As you’ve probably heard by now, my team and I are hard at work revamping Become a Bookkeeper (BABs) which is my self-paced program that teaches or hones your technical skills of bookkeeping to help you get ready to build your own bookkeeping business.

This is part...

Welcome to Part 3 of the Become a Bookkeeper (BABs) miniseries, where I’m walking you through my program that teaches the technical skill of bookkeeping so that you can ultimately turn it into a simple, scalable business that actually gives you time and financial...

Welcome to Part Two of the miniseries dedicated to Become a Bookkeeper, my program that teaches the technical skills of bookkeeping regardless of experience level!

Last time, I walked you through the backstory of Become a Bookkeeper, why I originally created it, and some...

Let's talk about BABs, baby.

This year, I am going to be revamping Become a Bookkeeper (BABs), my program that teaches the technical skill of bookkeeping for those who desire to start their own bookkeeping business.

To explain what led to this revamp, I'm going to be...

I’ll be honest with you, friends…

I am stressed out.

That’s unusual for me, especially since I started my bookkeeping business. I don’t think I’ve been this stressed in a December-January period before, and there are a few reasons for...

I want to start this out with a simple equation that my fellow left-brained geeks will love:

Making more does not equal doing more.

A wild concept, right? As a rule-following, Type A, hard-working, task-oriented, people-pleasing hustler, I know that this concept doesn't...

If you’ve been following my platform for a long time, you'll notice that a strong theme with me is the power of monthly recurring perpetual income in a bookkeeping business.

I want to preface today’s message by saying that I'm not deterring from that. Monthly...

Happy New Year, friends!

Today, I want to go over one of the most important practices you should incorporate into your bookkeeping business to wrap up a successful year: the year-end review.

I’ve talked about this a bit before, but it’s a new year, and...

In case you missed it, I was recently interviewed by Tara Armstrong on her show, The Lemonade Stand!  We talked about a few really interesting and valuable topics, but for today, I want to focus on two particular questions she asked me…

What qualities you need...

We interrupt the usual flow of Profits and Prosecco today to bring you Part 2 of my special series all about daily affirmations!

Today’s series of affirmations are near and dear to my heart. We’re going to go through affirmations for women who are balancing...

We interrupt the usual flow of Profits and Prosecco today to bring you Part 2 of my special series all about daily affirmations!

Today, I want to share a few daily affirmations you can repeat to anchor yourself back into the present.

It is all too easy to live anywhere ...

We interrupt the usual flow of Profits and Prosecco today to bring you a special series all about daily affirmations.

Today, it’s all about daily affirmations you can repeat while building a business.

Here’s how it works: you can either go and listen to...

If you saw the title of this and went “Um, that feels a little out there for me…” then stick around. I’m going to explain why affirmations are actually one of the best tools you can utilize in your life and business…even for us Type A...

First and foremost, I have to apologize.

Kind of.

Listen, I’m not typically a clickbait kind of gal. But in this case…c’mon, I couldn’t resist!

I am sharing my separation story…but it’s the story of how I separated my two businesses.

In my last post, we discussed the importance of retaining clients. This week, I want to expand on it a little bit; it truly is the secret sauce to building a bookkeeping business that's actually simple, scalable, and sustainable.

Retaining clients long-term is the thing...

There’s one aspect of running a bookkeeping business that I rarely hear anyone talk about: retaining clients.

This is enormous in a bookkeeping business, but it’s not a focus for many bookkeepers, and it really, really should be.

Today, I'm going to go over...

Did you read that title and go, “Um, no way?” Yeah, I don’t blame you. But it’s true—it’s absolutely possible to give yourself a six-figure salary with a bookkeeping business.

You can make $10,000 per month in profit with your...

All right, friends. Today, we're talking all about workshops. There are seven total on-demand bookkeeping and business workshops available on my website for purchase—let’s walk through what they are!