I’ll be honest. The past eight weeks have been a bit of a blur. Exciting, validating, fulfilling, rewarding… and overwhelming.
- Presented “The Tax-Ready Bookkeeper” at Scaling New Heights
- Awarded Insightful Accountant’s Top Client Accounting Services ProAdvisor
- Competed in Anchor’s Accounting Influencer Dance-Off for Accounting Cornerstone Foundation
- Sang my heart out in Nicole Davis’s Keynote SNH Instructor Choir
- Performed with Go-Go Chicago Chorus Girls at Motoblot
- Celebrated my Mom’s 80th Birthday
- Recorded three podcasts: Botkeeper’s ‘On The Edge’, ‘Cultivating Business Growth’ with Jaime Staley, and the Unique CPA’s ‘Redefining Your Balance‘
- Named one of the Top 30 Accounting & Bookkeeping Firm Owners to Follow
- Celebrated my CPA firm’s 23rd Anniversary (with a free zoom Q&A)
- Launched my ‘Ask A CPA’ Subscription Membership Community
- Pitched-n-Postered “Things You Wish Bookkeepers Knew About Tax” at Tax Twitter Retreat
- Moderated “Vulnerability As A Strength: Accounting Superheroes Take Off Their Masks” at Bridging the Gap
- Received “Mentor of The Year” Award at Bridging the Gap
All amazing things — any ONE of which would have made this the most incredible summer ever!
But I wanted to highlight this particular award from Bridging the Gap, as there are some special takeaways I’d love to share. First off, BTG is absolutely my favorite conference, and I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been invited to participate on their Advisory Board for 2025. (Why is it so special? Check out my LinkedIn post on the topic.)
Secondly, I feel like this award was an outward expression of the support and sense of community that I’ve been blessed to experience over the past many years — I’m so incredibly grateful to all who nominated me, especially the amazingly encouraging Melissa Miller Furgeson, who apparently rounded up many of the incredible members of my ‘Ask A CPA’ subscription, as well as the ‘Bookkeeping Buds’. And special gratitude to the team at BTG who voted, especially our beautiful and talented emcees Al-Nesha Jones & Nayo Carter-Gray, and our host, Randy Crabtree, for insisting that I belonged up there.
Bonus points: due to the space-theme of the BTG gala, I got to accept it while wearing a Jetsons dress.
