Jamie Pridmore Built a Bookkeeping Firm Around Her Family

Jamie Pridmore is the founder and CEO of Jamie Pridmore Bookkeeping, a firm offering bookkeeping, fractional CFO, and financial management services to small businesses. She lives in West Virginia with her husband and their two girls, and she built the company so she could be present for them every day. A member of the Entreprenista League, Jamie spent more than a decade in accounting before stepping out on her own.

"Turn every failure into an opportunity," Jamie says.

Here is how a decade in the books became a firm built for moms who want their time back.

A decade in the books before the leap

Jamie entered the accounting field in 2011 and worked across nearly every corner of it: accounts receivable and payable, payroll, reconciliations, and cash flow reporting. After a decade of that hands-on experience, she stepped away to be a stay-at-home mom for a year.

She had always known she wanted flexibility in her days. She had not pictured herself owning a business. Then the pieces came together, and the experience she had built quietly became the foundation for something of her own.

Why she started

The reason Jamie launched is personal and direct. Growing up, her own mother was not present when she needed her most. That absence shaped what Jamie wanted for her own girls, and what she wanted to make possible for other women.

So she built a firm for CEO moms and business-owning families who want more time in their days, time to be present in their business and with their people. The work serves the clients, and the structure serves the life she is trying to protect.

The comeback story

The accomplishment Jamie is proudest of is not a launch. It is a return.

In 2025, she closed Jamie Pridmore Bookkeeping for four months to test whether the W2 world was a better fit. It was not. She came back full time, and within two months the firm hit its revenue goal of five figures for the month. Now it reaches that goal every other month.

The closure could have read as an ending. Instead it became proof of where she belonged.

Giving herself grace to fail

The closure also reshaped how Jamie thinks about failure. For a long time she saw it as something to avoid.

"I wish I had given myself more grace to fail," she says. "I always looked at failure as a negative thing, but after my fail last year when I closed my business, I realized that it is all a learning journey and sometimes something we need to experience."

She carries that forward as advice for anyone weighing their own leap. Turn every failure into an opportunity. The version she lived in 2025 is the reason she can say it with conviction.

Protecting the hours that matter

The thing Jamie found hardest to build was the boundary between work and home. Her solution is plain. She makes herself completely unavailable after certain hours and on weekends, puts the phone down, and stops checking email.

Long walks and prayer keep her steady. The discipline is not glamorous, but it is what lets the firm and the family coexist, which was the whole point of starting.

What's next

Jamie is focused on growth. Over the next few years she wants to expand the firm's reach into industries she does not yet serve, bring on more employees, and take on more clients.

The ambition is real, and so is the reason behind it. Every step forward is still in service of the same goal she started with: more presence, more time, a business that gives back to the life around it.

You can follow Jamie on LinkedIn and learn more about her bookkeeping, fractional CFO, and financial management services at jamiepridmore.co.

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