I fell in love with helping businesses get built right, long before I ran one myself.
I went to college as a finance major, then took my first accounting class, and I switched my major two weeks in.
I’ve been chasing that feeling of a business finally running right ever since.
Hi, I’m Missy
MY STORY
From loving the fundamentals to helping business owners get it right.
Here's the real version. Not polished. Not curated. The actual chapters.
CHAPTER ONE
I went to college the way a lot of people do: with a major that made sense on paper. Finance. Solid, practical, a little safe. I figured I’d learn the language of money, get a good job, and move on with my life.
Then I took my first accounting class.
I wish I had a more dramatic story for you, some big epiphany, but the truth is simpler than that. It was just a feeling. Sitting in that classroom, looking at debits and credits and the way everything had to balance, something in me just settled. This is what I need to do. Not “this could work” or “this seems interesting.” This is it.
Two weeks later, I’d switched my major. I never looked back.
Honestly, I probably should have seen it coming years earlier. My mom was an accountant, and in our house, accounting wasn’t just her job, it was dinner table conversation. She’d talk about her day, about numbers that did or didn’t match, about clients and closings, and I’d sit there and only half listen, the way kids do when their parents talk about work. I didn’t think any of it applied to me.
Now look at me. The tables have turned, and I’m the one who lights up over a clean set of books.
The switch that stuck
CHAPTER TWO
Learning it from the inside
My first job out of school put me right in the middle of it: tax work, side by side with business owners, helping them get their setups right and plan for what they owed. I loved it from day one. There’s something about sitting across from someone who built their business from nothing, and helping them finally understand the financial side of it, that just clicked for me.
But the longer I did that work, the more I started noticing something that bothered me.
It wasn’t that business owners weren’t smart. Most of them were sharp, driven, resourceful people who had figured out how to build something out of nothing. But when it came to the basics, the structure of their business, the way their books actually worked, what their numbers were telling them, they were guessing. Not because they didn’t care. Because nobody had ever actually sat down and taught them.
I saw it over and over. Different clients, different industries, same story. A gap where the foundation should have been.
CHAPTER THREE
The gap I kept running into
At some point, I went to a business conference built around exactly this idea: teaching business owners the fundamentals. I remember being genuinely excited walking in. Finally, I thought, a room full of people who care about the boring stuff, the stuff that actually holds a business together.
Session after session, it wasn’t that at all. It was content strategy. It was how to package your offer. It was mindset work, and money mindset, and manifesting your next level. All useful, maybe, for some people. But not one session touched on how to actually set up a business entity the right way. Not one covered bookkeeping, or what your numbers meant, or how to keep yourself out of trouble with the IRS before trouble ever started.
I sat there and realized this wasn’t just something missing from that one conference. It was missing everywhere. Every course I’d taken trying to grow my own business on the side had the same blind spot. Content, offers, mindset, on repeat, while the actual backend of running a business, the part that determines whether it survives, went completely untaught.
That was the moment it really clicked for me. This wasn’t a small gap. It was the gap.
CHAPTER FOUR
A detour that taught me something else
Eventually, I moved into a new role: tax resolution. When business owners got those letters from the IRS, the ones that make your stomach drop, we were the team that stepped in to fix it. I want to be clear that this work mattered. Watching someone go from panicked to relieved because their problem finally had a plan attached to it, that’s not nothing.
But I noticed something else, too. By the time people got to us, something had already gone wrong. A structure that was never set up right. Books that had been ignored for too long. A basic misunderstanding that had quietly snowballed into a real problem.
And I found myself missing the part of the work I loved most: the education. The chance to sit down with someone before things went sideways, and help them actually understand what they were doing and why. Resolution is important, but I wanted to be further upstream than that. I wanted to help people never end up needing resolution in the first place.
Today, I work as a tax advisor with a remote firm, and alongside that, I’m building something of my own: a place for the women out there starting businesses, the ones figuring out where to even begin, the girlies building the dream lives they’ve been picturing for a while now, to actually learn the backend basics nobody else wants to teach.
CHAPTER FIVE
Today, I work as a tax advisor with a remote firm, and alongside that, I'm building something of my own: a place for the women out there starting businesses, the ones figuring out where to even begin, the girlies building the dream lives they've been picturing for a while now, to actually learn the backend basics nobody else wants to teach.
Not another course on content or offers or mindset. The real foundation: how to set up your business entity the right way, how to keep books you can actually understand and trust, how to handle your taxes so they're not a source of dread. The unglamorous stuff that every single successful business is quietly built on.
It's a new chapter for me, and I'm just getting started.
Outside of all of this, you'll usually find me on a golf course, on a tennis court, or curled up somewhere with a book. Turns out the same person who loves untangling a messy set of books also loves a quiet afternoon lost in a story that isn't hers.
Where I am now
THE WORK
Here’s what I actually do for business owners.
We look at the parts of your business that keep slipping through the cracks, the bookkeeping, structure, taxes, and get them handled properly, not just well enough to pass.
It started with my own experience in tax and accounting. But the work untangling the numbers, setting up the systems, teaching you what your books are actually telling you isn’t just paperwork. It’s the foundation everything else gets built on.
Getting your business structure and systems built right from day one, not duct-taped together later.
01
Setup
Clean, accurate books you can actually understand and trust, month after month.
02
Bookkeeping
Plain-English lessons on the fundamentals nobody hands you upfront, so you understand your business instead of just hoping it’s right.
03
Education
WHAT I BELIEVE
A few things I'd tell you
over coffee.
You do not need to know everything to start
01
You just need to understand your next step. A strong business is built one clear, informed decision at a time.
Your business deserves more than crossed fingers and Google searches.
02
The paperwork, bookkeeping, and tax side of business should not feel like a mystery. You deserve explanations that actually make sense.
Smart business can still feel simple.
03
Complicated does not automatically mean better. The best systems are often the ones you understand, maintain, and actually use.
Understanding your numbers changes how you run your business.
04
You do not have to become an accountant or do everything yourself. But knowing what is happening behind the scenes helps you make better decisions and ask better questions.
Your business won’t grow past what your systems can hold.
05
When your setup, books, and systems can support the business you are building, growth feels less chaotic and far more sustainable.
You are capable of understanding the business side of your business.
06
You were not born knowing entity types, bookkeeping, or taxes. These are skills you can learn—and they do not have to be taught in confusing language.
You don't have to keep doing it
the hard way.
If you’re ready to get your business’s foundation built right, let’s talk about what that looks like for you.