The Firm

The people behind your books.

Most financial firms feel like a fortress. Polished, aloof, and oddly proud of how little they’ll explain to you. “Just trust me, I’m the expert…”

We built the opposite of that.

Here’s who you’ll be working with.

Jennie Stowe

Founder & Managing Partner

Jennie started her professional life as a birth doula, work that runs entirely on presence, trust, and staying calm while someone else is having the most important (and sometimes craziest!) day of their life. After a few years she followed the pull back toward her first love — numbers and accounting — and found that the two jobs weren’t as different as they looked. Both are about being steady for someone in a moment that matters. Both are about clarity when things feel overwhelming.

Over a decade later, that’s still how she works. She takes the amorphous, sometimes-slightly-terrifying blob that is your business finances and brings it down to earth. No jargon, no lecture, no making you feel behind the curve. Just, “here’s what your numbers are actually saying, and here’s what to do about it.”

She’s seen the same mistakes enough times to spot them fast, and she cares about the people behind the books more than the books themselves. Clients will tell you she’s talked them through many a hard month, a personal-finance knot, or just a bad week, well outside anything they were paying for.

In person, Jennie has the calm, slightly nerdy energy of someone who would rather listen than perform. Right up until she steps onto the mat for some deadlifts … or the conversation turns to something that actually matters: injustice, hypocrisy, or kids paying for the failures of adults who should know better. When it’s something she truly cares about, you know it.

Outside the firm, she moves. CrossFit, cycling, long hikes, and an ongoing, unapologetic quest to find the best pastry in whatever country she’s currently in. Jennie and her husband travel full time, running their lives and this firm from wherever they happen to be … currently splitting time between the Rockies and Europe* with two little boys in tow.

(She keeps US business hours regardless of where she is.)

Sara Barrios

Lead Bookkeeper

Sara knew accounting was her path by middle school, which tells you everything about the kind of person you want on your books. Eight-plus years in, she’s worked across every kind of small business, from landscaping and property management to wellness practices and online service providers, and she brings the same steady, unruffled focus to all of it.

She’s a QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor with a degree in business administration, so the technical side is handled. She’s upbeat, grounded, and reliable in the day-to-day way that makes the financial side of a business feel manageable instead of stressful.

When she’s not in the books, Sara’s usually at a concert with her best friend or home unwinding with her cats. She brings that same down-to-earth energy to our clients, and it’s a big part of why they stick around.

Aubrey Armes

HR Consultant & Bookkeeper

Aubrey brings a rare blend of precision and people skills to the team. Her background spans business coaching, operations, HR, and leadership, which means she’s managed everything from performance metrics to payroll for small businesses. She holds a degree in business administration focused on management and human resources.

A nomad in search of sunshine, Aubrey pairs meticulous attention to detail with a genuine dopamine high when the books balance perfectly. When she’s not reconciling accounts, she’s likely playing pickleball or whipping up a batch of gluten-free banana bread. She’s got a soft spot for business owners, believes financial clarity is a radical act of self-care, and would absolutely color-code your chart of accounts if the software let her.

Garrett Stowe

Operations

Garrett started as a concert pianist. Then years in finance, then co-founding an apparel brand, then a career in operations. A regular person who could never quite sit still with one idea, and who turned out to be very good at a specific thing: walking into a tangled system and calmly untying it.

That’s his job here. He builds the systems, fixes what’s broken, and untangles the knots. Over the years he’s done this for other businesses whose operations had quietly seized up. Today, he runs operations and execution, so that the firm keeps its standards as it grows and Jennie can stay focused on clients.

Outside the work, he’s usually on a gravel bike, out on a solo hike, or building something … a business, an app, or a blanket fort with his boys.

Balanced Breeze is a small, sharp team that also happens to be composed of genuinely warm, cool people.

We’re very good at what we do, and we’re not interested in making you feel small about the parts of your business you don’t understand. We explain things in plain English. We answer the questions you ask. And we treat your business like a priority, because to you, it is one.

One more thing

We only take on so many clients at a time.

That’s not a marketing line. A real monthly call with Jennie, books that actually close on time, a team that answers when you reach out, none of that scales infinitely. So we keep our client list deliberately small, and we’re a little picky about fit. If that sounds like the kind of firm you’ve been looking for, let’s talk.

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