It’s Finally Happening! Like OMG!

Remember I said, I had a dream?

I’m doing it. Honestly, it doesn’t feel dreamy. It feels like hiking a mountain, where each step feels monotonous. Yet, in anticipation for what is at the top, I keep going. 

Tell us about it Heather!

My big dream, my mountaintop, is to partner with female entrepreneurs who want to build their dream business.

Not knowing where to start, I prayed for God to show me the intersection of my gifts, skills, and experience, that would get me up that mountain, and He said:

Bookkeeper. 

Did your shoulders just drop at how boring that sounds? Are you imagining me sitting in a room, with beige colored walls, lacking art, punching numbers on a printing calculator, glasses falling down my nose, hunched over, squinting at my calculations?

Well, my walls are actually pink, full of art, using my bluetooth keypad to enter numbers into Quickbooks on my Mac Air, contacts in, mascara on, AirPods streaming instrumental piano music.

Ok Heather. Your environment sounds lovely, but how do you help women achieve their business dreams, entering numbers into Quickbooks?

Firstly, a typical bookkeeper tracks and categorizes a client’s numbers month to month, providing reports such as the profit and loss statement and the balance sheet.

The benefits of consistently organized financials include: 

• Every transaction, income and expense, is accounted for in every bank and credit card used.
• Maximize tax write-offs through accurately categorizing each transaction.
• Organized transactions build accurate and detailed reports to make wise business decisions.
• Reports show which services or products are most profitable and popular.
• Organized books are ready to submit at year end to a tax preparer, saving tax preparation fees and unnecessary penalties.

More than the numbers, I also understand the struggles a female entrepreneur encounters, being one myself. I have wrestled with thoughts like: As my business grows, it will help provide additional financial support for our family.  My flexible schedule also allows me to be available to the changing needs of my four children. Yet, my desire to grow a successful business might overtake my time and energy, causing my family to resent the business. How do I manage my time wisely?

Over the years, I attempted to start multiple businesses, constantly struggling to manage my family and my business. From those experiences, I understand the pace, values and priorities a wife and mom entrepreneur can maintain healthily. I can provide the needed encouragement and strategies to help her balance both worlds. 

Last, but most important in my opinion, there is a story being written about her business through the numbers. Bookkeeping is the table of contents for her business. It tells her where she’s been, where she is, and where she is going. Partnering with me allows her to do the important work to continue writing her story, while I listen and record. Together, we can publish a masterpiece.

Are you ready to journey with a partner? To gain perspective on where you’ve been, where you are and where you’re going?  Someone who encourages you to look up and pause, to reflect on your accomplishments thus far?  Who challenges you to push for a little longer to gain some ground when you just want to sit? Who reminds you to stop and have a glass of water so you stay nourished and refreshed?

Not every bookkeeper can help you do that. But I can. Through God’s intersection of my gifts, skills and experience.

Helping you find the story in the numbers,
Heather