THE Harmony whisperer.

• Position: Final entry

Amy Vetter is a CPA, entrepreneur, business executive, national speaker and yoga practitioner who started her career in accounting more than 20 years ago. Her first job as a CPA was in KPMG's audit department in Cincinnati. She later moved to Florida and worked for Ryder Logistics in Miami in its internal audit department. These jobs, she said, gave her the experience to eventually open her own outsourced accounting and advisory practice. Today, Vetter has accomplished much, including becoming a champion for work-life balance and helping professionals find harmony.

How did you come to earn the title "entrepreneur?"

My grandfather owned his own accounting practice and both my grandmother and mother were entrepreneurs, so I believe I inherited the entrepreneurial bug. In the 1980s, my mom started her own maid service company in Cincinnati when I was in second grade. By the time I was 12, the school bus dropped me off there each day and I helped with paperwork and customer phone calls. I saw the ups and downs of owning a business and that experience has helped me tremendously with my own businesses, which over the years have included accounting firms, yoga studios and other business ventures. Right now, in addition to my corporate executive job at Xero, I run Drishtiq Yoga, a yoga studio in my hometown in Mason, Ohio.

Explain what being an "advocate and evangelist for entrepreneurship and the accounting profession" means?

I'm passionate about helping accounting professionals grow and transition their practices to offer more advisory services to their clients. As technology improves and automates, it will do the data entry tasks typically done by accountants. As a result, it will be key for many accountants to re-tool and become advisers that help their clients understand what the numbers mean and how to use them to make business decisions. I see myself as an evangelist as I regularly speak on these topics at events targeted at small businesses and accounting professionals across the country. I also write on them for Entrepreneur, Inc., AccountingWeb and CPA Practice Advisor.

When did you start yoga and what role has it played in your life?

Right after giving birth to my second child, my doctor diagnosed me with a thyroid condition that was related to the pregnancy. He said I needed to take a break from any physical activity for the next 10 months. I also couldn't work. I had my own accounting firm in which I was the sole employee, so this...