Entrepreneurship Behind The Scenes

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When Embarrassment Stops You From Hiring an Accountant, Please Read This accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Oct 05, 2026

The most common phrases I hear from business owners:

“I’m sorry I’m so behind. Let me just catch it up, and then you can take over.”

“I’m so embarrassed. This is really personal to me.”

“I know jus...

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Why A Bigger Revenue Number Doesn’t Mean a Healthier Business accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Oct 02, 2026

Did you know that before we can talk about profit, growth, or how much revenue you want to make, you need to start with what it actually costs to run your business?

That starts with two things: COGS ...

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I Can Do It All. I Just Don’t Want to Anymore. accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Sep 30, 2026

I have spent most of my life being really good at figuring things out at the last minute.

I think a lot of entrepreneurs are like this. We’re built for chaos and procrastination. We see an opportunit...

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Nobody Told Me My Business Would Have Months Like This accounting accounting firm bookkeeping bookkeeping firm business mindset Sep 28, 2026

I used to think negative cash flow meant something was wrong. If more money went out than came in during a month, my brain immediately went, “We need to make more money.” Coming from poverty and livin...

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I Was Helping My Clients Get Rich While I Was Going Broke accountants accounting firm bookkeeping bookkeeping firm business mindset Sep 25, 2026

I used to think working harder made me worthy of making more money. Coming from poverty, foster care, and government assistance, struggle felt normal to me. So, when I became a business owner, I knew ...

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What’s the Point of Owning a Business If You Miss This? accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Sep 23, 2026

Sunday Funday. There I was, standing ringside, watching Littlest Duck on a horse, surrounded by a world I knew absolutely NOTHING about a few years ago. And I had one of those moments. You know the on...

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I Never Planned to Become the Weakest Link in My Business But That's What I Became accounting accounting firm bookkeeping bookkeeping firm business mindset Sep 21, 2026

13 years ago, I suffered a traumatic brain injury that completely altered my life. During a soccer game, I took a ball to the head so hard that I had to be resuscitated three times. For the next six m...

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18 Years Ago, I Was Laid Off And It Changed My Whole Life accounting accounting firm bookkeeping bookkeeping firm business mindset Sep 18, 2026

18 years ago, I was laid off with no notice. At lunch time, I was called into HR and told that I was going to be let go, effective immediately. No warning. No performance plan. And no severance. But t...

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Parkinson's Update 9.16.26 accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Sep 16, 2026

Grateful and hopeful today. I've had debilitating pain for more days than not over the last 2 months. Days I was so nauseous from pain, Eric had to drive Littlest Duck places while I slept. 4 days of ...

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Why Hiring Employees Is Scarier Than Payroll accountants accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Sep 14, 2026

Owning a business takes a kind of grit that doesn’t get celebrated enough. You didn’t just build something from nothing. You carried it through uncertainty, fear, and seasons where there was no safety...

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I Built a Million Dollar Business I No Longer Wanted to Own accounting accounting firm bookkeepers bookkeeping firm business mindset Sep 11, 2026

Five years ago, my dad was in the ICU. During that time, a client “fired” me, having absolutely no idea what I was going through. An employee negotiated her 401k benefits package, also completely in t...

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When My Business Income Stopped Being ‘Extra Money' accountants accounting firm bookkeeping bookkeeping firm business mindset Sep 09, 2026

It took 10 years for my company to provide true income for myself and my family. For years, I treated my salary as “extra money” for us. It helped us pay off debt, covered sports fees, vacations, went...

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