Paying yourself as an owner is one of the most emotionally charged parts of owning a business. For some reason, we have an easier time writing a payroll check to an employee, approving a software subs...
 Most business owners start with a sales goal:
"I want to hit $500,000 this year."
"I want to become a million-dollar business."
"I'd love to double my revenue."
This is how we all learned about f...
 If you've ever looked at another business owner's prices and wondered, "How can they charge that much?" you're not alone.
Pricing is one of the hardest parts of running a business because most entre...
 Hiring your first employee, or even your tenth, should never begin with a job posting.
Before you hire anyone, calculate the true cost of bringing that person onto your team. When you know the numbe...
 Taxes are one of the biggest sources of stress for small business owners. It adds stress, fear, fines, penalties, sometimes hours on the phone with the IRS on top of everything else we are doing as a...
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When I first started my business, everything flowed through one checking account.
Client payments came in. Bills went out. Taxes sat in the same account as payroll and every time I opened my banki...
There have been seasons of owning a business where I genuinely questioned myself.
How could I have the best sales month in company history and still feel stressed about payroll? Why did hiring an emp...
Parkinson's Update 6.5.26: I spent 4 days in the same clothes. I didn't shower. I barely ate. I went from my bed to the couch back to my bed. I wasn't in pain but I felt like I was in quicksand. Like ...
A Family I Didn’t Know I Had
Eleven years ago, I found out we had four more siblings on my biological dad’s side. One of them was my big brother, Tony, who opened his heart and his home to us from th...
A few weeks ago, a client said to me, “I’m not in it for the money, I just want to take care of people.” They hadn’t paid themselves in months and were about to take out another loan to cover the cost...
When I first began my entrepreneurial journey, my husband and I made a financial agreement: we would live on his 9-to-5 salary, and anything I earned would be considered extra. My income would go towa...
The Guilt Around Paying Yourself
Owner pay has been the hardest guilt trip for me to overcome. When my first company was making about $200,000 a year, I was working 80 hours a week to bring in that r...
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