🔥 Bookkeepers on Fire - YouTube Live: Meet Olga Hurtado of Neat Books! 🔥
In this powerhouse episode, Donna and Debbie sit down with the incredible Olga Hurtado, founder of Neat Books LLC, to talk scaling, niching, automation, AI, and building a bookkeeping empire without losing your mind.
📍 Based in Miami, Olga shares her inspiring journey from Colombia to leading a thriving 20+ person firm specializing in franchise accounting and multi-entity consolidation (all in QuickBooks Online!).
Her secret weapon? Processes, boundaries, and custom ChatGPT bots.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
✅ How to turn a single client into a scalable niche
✅ Why saying “no” is your most profitable skill
✅ How Olga uses ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity for SOPs, reconciliations, and team training
✅ What a truly embedded accounting team looks like
✅ Why sticking to your tech stack (and not chasing shiny software) matters
✅ Olga’s advice on hiring, delegating, and preparing your firm to thrive without you
💡 PLUS: Her take on value pricing, gut-check business decisions, burnout, community, and the real American dream.
👀 Bonus laughs include:
• Steakhouse analogies
• Ruthless tax return truths
• What happens when your husband becomes your project manager (and you're the boss 😏)
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What is Bookkeepers On Fire with Deb & Donna?
Where bookkeeping meets bold ideas, disruptive strategies with a whole lot of laughter. Donna with her genius in Systems, Processes, and Optimization and Debbie sharing Quick Wit, Funny Insights, Resolute Belief in people, break down what’s working - and what’s not.
Unlock the brilliance behind every episode. Experience the heat, the laughs, and the hard truths of virtual bookkeeping—come see what actually works.
Join us for the fire, the laughs, and the unfiltered truth about running a bookkeeping business today’s AI World.
Meet Your Hosts:
✨ Donna Reade
Visionary behind the award winning firms Team Reade and NextGenBookkeepers
Champion of AI-Native workflows and subscription pricing models
Known for mixing strategy with storytelling (and just the right dash of sarcasm)
✨ Debbie Kilsheimer
Founder of Behind the Scenes - A firm that redefines client relationships.
Speaker of Uncomfortable Curiosity - pushing boundaries, stirring deep thinking and meaningful change
Humor that slaps: cutting, honest, light-hearted
Together, Donna and Debbie light up conversations that Inspire, Educate, and Empower bookkeepers and accountants everywhere to build profitable, joyful, and future-ready businesses.
🎙️ Subscribe, tune in, and get ready to Turn Up The Heat on your bookkeeping journey!