Clients at Hovey and Company joke that you shouldn't drink the water. Babies keep arriving. Meghan Hovee runs a predominantly women led accounting firm in Kansas City, and she has built it on a bet most CPA firms aren't willing to make: that women can have careers and full family lives without either one collapsing. Four kids in, nearly ten years in business, two offices across Kansas City, and tax seasons that cap around 45 hours a week. This conversation gets into how she got there, why she left big four after nine months, and what she learned the hard way about hiring, culture, and delegation.