My name is Tamryn, I am the founder and CEO of Pharsyde Solutions. I am also the founder of Pharsyde Accounting in South Africa. Pharsyde started as a bookkeeping firm and I started it because I was a good bookkeeper who wanted to “be my own boss.”

Then I discovered that being my own boss actually meant far less freedom than being an employee!

I knew how to be a bookkeeper, and I learned how to be an accountant, but I knew nothing about being a business owner. That lack of knowledge caused me to go through three rounds of burnout before a near collapse made me stop and question everything. I then spent the next couple of years learning and re-building.

I went from 12-14 hour days, seven days per week, to less than 6 hours per day Monday to Friday. I went from eking out survival money to paying myself a proper salary. I went from flailing in the darkness, to enjoying being a practice owner.

You can too.

Because once I had settled into enjoying being a business owner, I had enough time on my hands to package all of my new knowledge and hard-won experience into a program – a program that helps other accounting firm owners avoid my mistakes.

I am not the world’s best accountant, I am not a genius, I am not special in any way.

If I can build freedom, then so can you.