The FBI raid that forced her to rebuild in three weeks with Jennifer Scott

The day before her husband was set to join the new company they had spent months building, Jennifer Scott opened the inbox to a reporter asking for comment on the arrest of the business owner behind it all. The FBI had raided the New York office. Overnight, a two-income family became a zero-income family, and the firm they had planned no longer existed.Jennifer runs HireEffect™, a client advisory services practice offering bookkeeping, payroll, HR, and recruiting to owner-run small businesses. In this conversation, she walks through rebuilding from roughly $7,000 a month and a single bookkeeper, why she calls herself the accidental CEO, and what it actually takes to run a firm alongside a spouse. She is candid about a hard-won lesson: no matter how close you are to someone, get it in writing.Unbalanced is brought to you by Anchor. We help accounting and professional services firms send agreements, collect payments, and manage billing in one simple system. Join the thousands of accounting firms who have made the switch.