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Tobin and Christen are joined by an icon and inspiration, U.S. Soccer World Cup Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist goalkeeper Briana Scurry. In their conversation they discuss Briana's love of tackle football at a young age and how it led to her unusual path to the USWNT, how visualizing who you want to be when you return to where you came from was important to her, the media's unwillingness to tell her entire story, how integrity set her up for a successful second act and so much more. Plus, Tobin describes her perfect day, Christen describes her day to day training regimen and even more with your Community Questions! Thank you to Intuit QuickBooks for being an incredible partner and bringing our “Athlete to Founder” segment to life! Learn more at https://quickbooks.intuit.com. Listen to weekly episodes every week. Watch the video version of the show on YouTube.Sign up for our newsletter, The Sunday Spark: https://re-website.com/pages/newsletterFollow RE—INC:https://www.instagram.com/re__inc/https://www.tiktok.com/@re__inchttps://twitter.com/re__inchttps://www.threads.net/@re__inc Follow Tobin:https://www.instagram.com/tobinheathhttps://twitter.com/TobinHeath Follow Christen:https://www.instagram.com/christenpresshttps://twitter.com/ChristenPress About RE—INC:Founded and led by 2x World Cup Champions and equal pay trailblazers Christen Press and Tobin Heath, RE—INC is an inclusive platform at the intersection of sports x progress and equity brought to life through content, community, and commerce.The RE—CAP Show, our award-winning podcast (#1 Soccer Podcast on Apple), gives viewers a front-row seat to the thrilling, unpredictable, hard-changing world of global women's sports. Our mission is to change the way women are seen and experienced in sports.RE—space, our membership platform, is home to thousands of global reimaginers who want to be themselves, better themselves, and never watch a game alone.RE—gear, our merch, is the uniform for changemakers and built for the underserved fan. With 20+ collections and collaborations, we create products that go beyond the ordinary.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tobin and Christen are joined by USWNT legend and President of U.S. Soccer, Cindy Parlow Cone, to discuss her incredible path from player to President. Did she ever envision herself in this role? How did it happen? And what challenges and successes has she experienced being the first female President of both the men's and women's teams? Plus, the unique position they were all in during the pay equity lawsuit, the potential to host an upcoming World Cup, World Sevens Football, the inspiration and impact of the 99ers and, as always, your Community Questions! Thank you to Intuit QuickBooks for being an incredible partner and bringing our “Athlete to Founder” segment to life! Learn more at https://quickbooks.intuit.com. Listen to weekly episodes every week. Watch the video version of the show on YouTube.Sign up for our newsletter, The Sunday Spark: https://re-website.com/pages/newsletterFollow RE—INC:https://www.instagram.com/re__inc/https://www.tiktok.com/@re__inchttps://twitter.com/re__inchttps://www.threads.net/@re__inc Follow Tobin:https://www.instagram.com/tobinheathhttps://twitter.com/TobinHeath Follow Christen:https://www.instagram.com/christenpresshttps://twitter.com/ChristenPress About RE—INC:Founded and led by 2x World Cup Champions and equal pay trailblazers Christen Press and Tobin Heath, RE—INC is an inclusive platform at the intersection of sports x progress and equity brought to life through content, community, and commerce.The RE—CAP Show, our award-winning podcast (#1 Soccer Podcast on Apple), gives viewers a front-row seat to the thrilling, unpredictable, hard-changing world of global women's sports. Our mission is to change the way women are seen and experienced in sports.RE—space, our membership platform, is home to thousands of global reimaginers who want to be themselves, better themselves, and never watch a game alone.RE—gear, our merch, is the uniform for changemakers and built for the underserved fan. With 20+ collections and collaborations, we create products that go beyond the ordinary.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tobin and Christen sit down with the revolutionary 19 year old Portland Thorns player, Olivia Moultrie, for an enlightening conversation on her journey. From suing the league at 13 years old to allow teeangers to go pro to becoming one of the most impactful players on the field today, Olivia's story is only getting started and one that you need to hear. In this conversation, Tobin, Christen and Olivia discuss becoming 1% better every day, exposing yourself to uncomfortable things, signing to play at UNC at 11 years old, Olivia's impact on the youth movement in the NWSL and so much more. Special thanks to The Sports Bra in Portland for hosting and comment below on what city you'd like to see TRS visit next! Thank you to Intuit QuickBooks for being an incredible partner and bringing our “Athlete to Founder” segment to life! Learn more at https://quickbooks.intuit.com. Listen to weekly episodes every week. Watch the video version of the show on YouTube.Sign up for our newsletter, The Sunday Spark: https://re-website.com/pages/newsletterFollow RE—INC:https://www.instagram.com/re__inc/https://www.tiktok.com/@re__inchttps://twitter.com/re__inchttps://www.threads.net/@re__inc Follow Tobin:https://www.instagram.com/tobinheathhttps://twitter.com/TobinHeath Follow Christen:https://www.instagram.com/christenpresshttps://twitter.com/ChristenPress About RE—INC:Founded and led by 2x World Cup Champions and equal pay trailblazers Christen Press and Tobin Heath, RE—INC is an inclusive platform at the intersection of sports x progress and equity brought to life through content, community, and commerce.The RE—CAP Show, our award-winning podcast (#1 Soccer Podcast on Apple), gives viewers a front-row seat to the thrilling, unpredictable, hard-changing world of global women's sports. Our mission is to change the way women are seen and experienced in sports.RE—space, our membership platform, is home to thousands of global reimaginers who want to be themselves, better themselves, and never watch a game alone.RE—gear, our merch, is the uniform for changemakers and built for the underserved fan. With 20+ collections and collaborations, we create products that go beyond the ordinary.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tobin and Christen visit the iconic Women's Sports Bar, The Sports Bra, in Portland, Oregon for a fun and informative chat with the bar's founder, Jenny Nguyen. In this conversation, they discuss the a-ha moment for Jenny to actually go for it, some of the potential challenges that came with it and how they see establishments like hers as an important factor in impacting viewership. Plus, what got Jenny to finally “change out of her pajamas,” why her women's sports bar isn't just for women and where they all see the future of the bar and gal culture going next. Thank you to Intuit QuickBooks for being an incredible partner and bringing our “Athlete to Founder” segment to life! Learn more at https://quickbooks.intuit.com. Listen to weekly episodes every week. Watch the video version of the show on YouTube.Sign up for our newsletter, The Sunday Spark: https://re-website.com/pages/newsletterFollow RE—INC:https://www.instagram.com/re__inc/https://www.tiktok.com/@re__inchttps://twitter.com/re__inchttps://www.threads.net/@re__inc Follow Tobin:https://www.instagram.com/tobinheathhttps://twitter.com/TobinHeath Follow Christen:https://www.instagram.com/christenpresshttps://twitter.com/ChristenPress About RE—INC:Founded and led by 2x World Cup Champions and equal pay trailblazers Christen Press and Tobin Heath, RE—INC is an inclusive platform at the intersection of sports x progress and equity brought to life through content, community, and commerce.The RE—CAP Show, our award-winning podcast (#1 Soccer Podcast on Apple), gives viewers a front-row seat to the thrilling, unpredictable, hard-changing world of global women's sports. Our mission is to change the way women are seen and experienced in sports.RE—space, our membership platform, is home to thousands of global reimaginers who want to be themselves, better themselves, and never watch a game alone.RE—gear, our merch, is the uniform for changemakers and built for the underserved fan. With 20+ collections and collaborations, we create products that go beyond the ordinary.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this episode of Accountants Daily Insider, Amanda Newton, group manager for the accountant segment at Intuit QuickBooks, sits down with Imogen to delve into the increasingly essential partnership between accountants and small- to medium-sized businesses. This episode explores the Intuit QuickBooks SMB Navigator Report 2025, which provides a data-driven perspective on this evolving dynamic. Conducted by Agile Market Intelligence between December 2024 and January 2025, the study gleaned insights from 506 Australian SMBs and 404 accountants, offering a comprehensive overview of the current state and future trajectory of accountant-SMB relationships.

Tobin and Christen are joined by English International star, former Manchester United captain and current midfielder for Angel City FC Katie Zelem. In this episode they discuss what it's like to be Christen's best friend on the team. The nonstop conversations, the endless jokes and the joy of getting to play on two different teams together. Then, they play a game called “NWSL or WSL” where Katie is asked to say which league does certain things better. Who provides better pregame and postgame meals? Whose fans are louder? Which league has better business opportunities off the field? And so much more. Then, with the NWSL season kicking off, Tobin and Christen have an important discussion on how fan viewership, and viewership numbers, are a huge factor in the success of the league and in women's sports everywhere. Plus, a new round of Red Card, Yellow Card, Goal and Community Questions!Thank you to Intuit QuickBooks for being an incredible partner and bringing our “Athlete to Founder” segment to life! Learn more at https://quickbooks.intuit.com. Thank you to Amazon Business for their game-changing support of The RE—CAP Show and the business of women's sports. Amazon Business offers smart business buying solutions. Learn more at amazonbusiness.com. Listen to weekly episodes every week. Watch the video version of the show on YouTube.Sign up for our newsletter, The Sunday Spark: https://re-website.com/pages/newsletterFollow RE—INC:https://www.instagram.com/re__inc/https://www.tiktok.com/@re__inchttps://twitter.com/re__inchttps://www.threads.net/@re__inc Follow Tobin:https://www.instagram.com/tobinheathhttps://twitter.com/TobinHeath Follow Christen:https://www.instagram.com/christenpresshttps://twitter.com/ChristenPress About RE—INC:Founded and led by 2x World Cup Champions and equal pay trailblazers Christen Press and Tobin Heath, RE—INC is an inclusive platform at the intersection of sports x progress and equity brought to life through content, community, and commerce.The RE—CAP Show, our award-winning podcast (#1 Soccer Podcast on Apple), gives viewers a front-row seat to the thrilling, unpredictable, hard-changing world of global women's sports. Our mission is to change the way women are seen and experienced in sports.RE—space, our membership platform, is home to thousands of global reimaginers who want to be themselves, better themselves, and never watch a game alone.RE—gear, our merch, is the uniform for changemakers and built for the underserved fan. With 20+ collections and collaborations, we create products that go beyond the ordinary.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this episode of the Accountants Daily Insider, Jared Brintz, senior marketing manager at Intuit QuickBooks, dives into the evolving world of AI and the horizon of opportunities for accountants. Brintz said AI is here and AI is now urging accountants to “ride the wave”. Tune in to this episode to hear more about: The history and future of AI. The different types of AI and how to harness them. How accountants can use it to their advantage. Tips, tricks, and tools that will help elevate the AI experience. The professional benefits of harnessing technology. 

Tobin and Christen are getting ready for the upcoming NWSL season by welcoming NWSL and USWNT players, and sisters, Alyssa and Gisele Thompson. In this episode Alyssa and Gisele discuss their incredible paths to being stars of the game at such young ages. How did their competitions growing up lead to their successes today? How did it feel for Alyssa to watch Gisele make her USWNT debut recently? And what are their dreams for their short term and long term futures? Then, Tobin and Christen surprise them with a game called “Sister vs Sister” where they have to agree upon who is faster, who would make the better boss, who would ask a celeb for a pic at an event… and who is more afraid of their teammate Christen Press. Plus, a discussion on being their own businesses in our Athlete to Founder segment presented by QuickBooks and, of course, Community Questions!Thank you to Intuit QuickBooks for being an incredible partner and bringing our “Athlete to Founder” segment to life! Learn more at https://quickbooks.intuit.com. Listen to weekly episodes every week. Watch the video version of the show on YouTube.Sign up for our newsletter, The Sunday Spark: https://re-website.com/pages/newsletterFollow RE—INC:https://www.instagram.com/re__inc/https://www.tiktok.com/@re__inchttps://twitter.com/re__inchttps://www.threads.net/@re__inc Follow Tobin:https://www.instagram.com/tobinheathhttps://twitter.com/TobinHeath Follow Christen:https://www.instagram.com/christenpresshttps://twitter.com/ChristenPress About RE—INC:Founded and led by 2x World Cup Champions and equal pay trailblazers Christen Press and Tobin Heath, RE—INC is an inclusive platform at the intersection of sports x progress and equity brought to life through content, community, and commerce.The RE—CAP Show, our award-winning podcast (#1 Soccer Podcast on Apple), gives viewers a front-row seat to the thrilling, unpredictable, hard-changing world of global women's sports. Our mission is to change the way women are seen and experienced in sports.RE—space, our membership platform, is home to thousands of global reimaginers who want to be themselves, better themselves, and never watch a game alone.RE—gear, our merch, is the uniform for changemakers and built for the underserved fan. With 20+ collections and collaborations, we create products that go beyond the ordinary.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tobin and Christen hit the road and check out the cool new women's sports bar in Long Beach, California, Watch Me! At the bar they discuss their journeys as athletes turned founders. What was missing in the women's sports space that they wanted to address with Re-Inc? How did being an athlete make Tobin a better leader off the field? And how did being an entrepreneur make Christen a better leader on the field? From the birth of Re-Inc to the creation of Re-Media, Tobin and Christen do a deep dive on how they got here and where they are going next. Plus, a discussion on Hogwarts Houses, dogs on beds and more Community Questions!Thank you to Intuit QuickBooks for being an incredible partner and bringing our “Athlete to Founder” segment to life! Learn more at https://quickbooks.intuit.com. Listen to weekly episodes every week. Watch the video version of the show on YouTube.Sign up for our newsletter, The Sunday Spark: https://re-website.com/pages/newsletterFollow RE—INC:https://www.instagram.com/re__inc/https://www.tiktok.com/@re__inchttps://twitter.com/re__inchttps://www.threads.net/@re__inc Follow Tobin:https://www.instagram.com/tobinheathhttps://twitter.com/TobinHeath Follow Christen:https://www.instagram.com/christenpresshttps://twitter.com/ChristenPress About RE—INC:Founded and led by 2x World Cup Champions and equal pay trailblazers Christen Press and Tobin Heath, RE—INC is an inclusive platform at the intersection of sports x progress and equity brought to life through content, community, and commerce.The RE—CAP Show, our award-winning podcast (#1 Soccer Podcast on Apple), gives viewers a front-row seat to the thrilling, unpredictable, hard-changing world of global women's sports. Our mission is to change the way women are seen and experienced in sports.RE—space, our membership platform, is home to thousands of global reimaginers who want to be themselves, better themselves, and never watch a game alone.RE—gear, our merch, is the uniform for changemakers and built for the underserved fan. With 20+ collections and collaborations, we create products that go beyond the ordinary.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of the CanadianSME Small Business Podcast, hosted by Maheen, we explore the latest small business trends shaping the Canadian economy in 2025. From declining employment numbers to the rise of credit-based financing and the growing importance of digital adoption, small businesses face a rapidly evolving landscape.Joining us is Simon Worsfold, Head of Data Communications at Intuit QuickBooks, who breaks down the key findings from the 2025 Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index Annual Report and what they mean for entrepreneurs.Key Highlights from the Episode:

So many of my clients struggle with, first of all, knowing what they want to do next, and then being married to that decision for the rest of their lives. They think that they'll be stuck behind the confines of the decisions they make right now. But it's not true! This is the beginning of your next evolution and you can always keep evolving! This concept can be hard to imagine, so this week I invited a very special guest to show you what always evolving can look like.  Amy Landino is an entrepreneur, bestselling author, and award-winning host of the popular YouTube series AmyTV. For over a decade, Amy has been a leading authority on getting digital attention and is a trusted educator by global brands, including Adobe, Oracle, Audible, Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, YouTube, Intuit Quickbooks, and many more. An internationally renowned public speaker, Amy is a professional coach on how to leverage digital tools to increase brand awareness and build a profitable and sustainable business.   In this week's episode, we have a very special guest. My (unofficial) mentor Amy Landino is joining me on the podcast! I've been following her on YouTube for over ten years and I've been on her podcast not once, but twice. Now she's joining me on my podcast to talk about all things entrepreneurship, what she does when she's feeling stuck, and how she finds the passion to take action.    Follow Amy on: Instagram @‌schmittastic Youtube @‌AmyTV  Website: amylandino.com  Follow Erika on: Instagram @‌theerikacruzTikTok @‌theerikacruzLinkedIn Website: http://www.theerikacruz.com How to work with Erika: Sign up for the "The Purpose Pivot" webinar here. Join the waitlist for Courage Driven Latina here. Join the waitlist for the Magnetic Mastermind here.   Podcast production for this episode was provided by CCST.

On this episode, we sit down with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, a global finance automation powerhouse. With over 20 years of leadership experience, Rob has been instrumental in driving 100x growth at Tipalti, helping the company reach a staggering $8.3 billion valuation. Under his leadership, Tipalti has earned a spot on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Inc. 5000 lists for seven years straight.Rob shares insights from his impressive career—spanning growth strategy, marketing, alliances, and international expansion—including his time at NetSuite, Intuit QuickBooks, and GE Capital. Tune in to hear how he's helped scale companies to industry dominance and what's next for the world of finance automation! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In business, every decision you make can change the trajectory of your company - so it’s important to be as informed as possible. The intel you collect as you learn and grow is vital to informing how and why you run your business in the future. On this episode, hosts Jannese and Austin share their own experiences with using data to inform the paths they carve forward as they sit down with Brandon Littleton who started Bag Lady’s Fry Joint with his brother. The two started their business from scratch, with just a family recipe and an idea. Join us as Brandon explains how hard lessons - and hard data - inform the decisions they’ve made so you can do the same with your own findings. Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business: Quickbooks.com Support the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tobin and Christen discuss the importance of telling the stories of the players and moments who came before them. How does storytelling preserve history? Why does the lack of footage and social media from decades ago make it hard for the youth to know about the game's greats? And what can be done today to help change it? Then, Tobin and Christen welcome USWNT legend and Bay FC founder, Leslie Osborne, for a conversation on Leslie's experience as an athlete and how it equipped her to become a founder, entrepreneur and businesswoman. Plus, our new segment called The Kickoff and, of course, your Community Questions! Thank you to Intuit QuickBooks for being an incredible partner and bringing our “Athlete to Founder” segment to life! Learn more at https://quickbooks.intuit.com. Listen to weekly episodes every week. Watch the video version of the show on YouTube.

Attention small business owners: “Mind the Business: Small Business Success Stories” is back for Season Three with brand-new episodes. Hosts Jannese Torres (Yo Quiero Dinero & Financially Lit!) and Austin Hankwitz (Rate of Return & Rich Habits) are hitting the road and meeting with small business owners in Tampa, Florida and Nashville, Tennessee to hear about the lessons they’ve learned at every corner of launching their companies. What would you do if your warehouse and inventory were destroyed in a tornado? Have you thought about how to protect your business's IP with a trademark? Do you have a backup plan if a bank loan doesn’t come through to get you off the ground? These are just some of the insights our guests are sharing this season. Plus, learn how they cut through the clutter and simplify the day-to-day with the help of Intuit QuickBooks. Listen to new episodes every other Thursday beginning January 9th and discover what it takes to start a business and keep it growing. To learn more about how Intuit QuickBooks can power your business growth, visit: QuickBooksSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of AD Insider, Alan FitzGerald dives into the world of AI and how accounting firms can use it to transform their processes, operations, and services. Founder of Practice Connections Advisory, FitzGerald shares his extensive experience, knowledge, and personal opinions on AI and how it can elevate the accounting industry during a time of significant change. Touching on all aspects from benefits and challenges to risks and forecasts, FitzGerald bases his discussion on findings highlighted in the recent Changing the Game report by Intuit QuickBooks. FitzGerald says AI is the way forward for the accounting industry – tune in to this episode of AD Insider to find out why. If you'd like to discover how Australian accounting firms are leveraging technology to stay ahead of the competition and secure their future success, download the full report at intuit.me/accountanttech for valuable insights, practical tips, and real-life examples.

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Change is inevitable in business, but understanding how each decision impacts your entire operation is crucial. In this LIVE bonus episode, Jannese and Austin sit down with Will Lucas. Will is the founder and CEO of Creadio, a marketing and production agency, and CEO and founder of the private social club TolHouse. He also hosts the podcast “Black Tech Green Money.”   Learn invaluable lessons on attracting and retaining great employees with competitive pay, keeping prices attractive, and ensuring customer satisfaction—all while fostering business growth. Plus, Will, Jannese, and Austin answer audience questions about starting a business and fostering an entrepreneurial spirit. Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business: QuickBooks.com QuickBooks for Solopreneurs  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, Blake and David explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping accounting, discussing its potential to handle 70% of information-based tasks and impact workflows like data collection, reconciliation, and client services. They criticize the current theoretical approach to accounting education, advocating for more practical, hands-on learning experiences. They also dig into the ongoing 150-hour rule debate, examining recent state board initiatives for alternative CPA pathways and concerns about the accounting talent pipeline. Blake and David tackle the recent Evolve cybersecurity breach and its implications for fintech companies and move on to listener feedback and questions.SponsorsLiveFlow - http://accountingpodcast.promo/liveflow Relay - http://accountingpodcast.promo/relayMakersHub - http://accountingpodcast.promo/makershub Genwise - http://accountingpodcast.promo/genwiseChapters(02:40) - Vacation Plans and Quiet Vacationing (07:45) - Generative AI in Accounting (10:37) - Challenges and Opportunities in AI Adoption (18:38) - CPA Firm Dynamics and Partner Retirement (28:58) - Survey Insights and Alternative Pathways to CPA (33:05) - Arkansaw State Board of Accountancy Pursuing Alternative Pathways to CPA (34:19) - Blake and David Look at the California CPA License Survey (37:29) - Addressing Concerns About CPA Mobility (38:10) - Survey Reflections and Critique (42:38) - Listener Mail: Nebraska's CPA Changes (43:55) - The Practicality of Accounting Education (01:00:38) - Evolve Bank Cyber Attack (01:06:35) - Closing Thoughts and 4th of July Message  Show NotesMillennials call it ‘quiet vacationing,' but it's really remote work gone wrong—and it's CEOs' worst nightmarehttps://fortune.com/2024/05/23/quiet-vacation-millennials-gen-z-harris-poll-remote-work Death, Taxes, and AI: How Generative AI Will Change Accountinghttps://a16z.com/generative-ai-in-accounting/ Tech lag named top risk for accountants in 2024 Intuit QuickBooks surveyhttps://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/news/accountant-tech-survey-results/ Finding Qualified Staff Is the Top Issue Facing Most CPA Firms In 2024https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2024/06/07/finding-qualified-staff-is-the-top-issue-facing-most-cpa-firms-in-2024/106519/ Help! A Partner Wants to Retire Earlyhttps://cpatrendlines.com/2024/04/24/help-a-partner-wants-to-retire-really-early/ Arkansas State Board of Public Accountancy – Proposed Rule Changeshttps://www.labor.arkansas.gov/licensing/state-board-of-public-accountancy/proposed-rule-changes/ California Board of Accountancy https://www.dca.ca.gov/cba/ California Board of Accountancy's LinkedIn Post on CPA Next Surveyhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/cbanews_we-want-to-hear-from-you-this-weekend-is-activity-7212584294232285184-25sa CPA Candidates Approved To Sit At 120 Hours Starting 1/1/2025https://nebraska-cpa.thenewslinkgroup.org/cpa-candidates-approved-to-sit-at-120-hours-starting-1-1-2025/ Evolve Hit With Fed Enforcement Action, But Why Did It Take This Long?https://substack.com/home/post/p-145886596 Cybersecurity Incidenthttps://www.getevolved.com/about/news/cybersecurity-incident/ Yieldstreet says some of its customers were affected by the Evolve Bank data breachhttps://techcrunch.com/2024/07/02/yieldstreet-says-some-of-its-customers-were-affected-by-the-evolve-bank-data-breach/Need CPE?Get CPE for listening to podcasts with Earmark: https://earmarkcpe.comSubscribe to the Earmark Podcast: https://podcast.earmarkcpe.comGet in TouchThanks for listening and the great reviews! We appreciate you! Follow and tweet @BlakeTOliver and @DavidLeary. Find us on Facebook and Instagram. If you like what you hear, please do us a favor and write a review on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser. Call us and leave a voicemail; maybe we'll play it on the show. DIAL (202) 695-1040.SponsorshipsAre you interested in sponsoring the Cloud Accounting Podcast? For details, read the prospectus.Need Accounting Conference Info? Check out our new website - accountingconferences.comLimited edition shirts, stickers, and other necessitiesTeePublic Store: http://cloudacctpod.link/merchSubscribeApple Podcasts: http://cloudacctpod.link/ApplePodcastsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAccountingPodcastSpotify: http://cloudacctpod.link/SpotifyPodchaser: http://cloudacctpod.link/podchaserStitcher: http://cloudacctpod.link/StitcherOvercast: http://cloudacctpod.link/OvercastWant to get the word out about your newsletter, webinar, party, Facebook group, podcast, e-book, job posting, or that fancy Excel macro you just created? Let the listeners of The Accounting Podcas...

Is empathy a buzzword, trait or skill in marketing? Or is it all of the above? Well, it's one of Carmen Collins's superpowers. She is a visionary who has built and led social and content teams for brands like Intuit QuickBooks, Wish, and Cisco. She is a social media and influencer marketing leader specializing in award-winning content marketing expertise, empathy, and storytelling. She'll explain how marketers get empathy wrong and how they can get empathetic marketing right. Her insights include why being empathetic and authentic are different, what an empathetic marketing funnel looks like, how to determine how much empathy might be needed in content, and more. Also, in today's show…how biases can affect marketing empathy and how emojis can boost your email marketing. Full show notes - https://marketingsuperpowerpodcast.com/episode/how-empathy-fits-into-your-marketing-strategy

No Solopreneur is an island. Even as we run our own businesses, the importance of building a community of other business owners is paramount. From sharing advice and support to building a thriving and competitive marketplace, networking and building connections can take your business to the next level. Jannese and Austin talk with Ciara Imani May who runs her own hair brand and is passionate about taking care of her customers and uplifting her community. In this episode we'll explore why small business networking as a solopreneur with a solid network allows you to have the best of both worlds: to be your own boss but still have a supportive community around you.   Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business: QuickBooks.com QuickBooks for Solopreneurs For a recap from this week's episode visit: Episode 7 Recap with Ciara Imani May of Rebundle. Or learn more about this topic at this resource:  How Networking Can Help You Leverage the Wisdom of Other Entrepreneurs See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Congratulations, you've branched out into your own business and even found your first client or customer! Now what? As the orders come in, so do the invoices and payments. In this episode, hosts Austin and Jannese talk about the ins and outs of keeping organized books, tracking payments and keeping an eye on where your money is so you can make sure it's working for you. Michael Behn, founder of Moshi Moshi Knife Sharpening, drops by to share his journey as an entrepreneur tracking payments going in and out as his business grows. Michael spent nearly a decade working nonstop in kitchens and restaurants before becoming his own boss with a successful knife-sharpening business. He explains the importance of staying on top of payments and invoices and keeping your enterprise as sharp as a blade.   Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business: QuickBooks.com QuickBooks for Solopreneurs   For a recap from this week's episode visit: Episode 6 Recap with Michael Behn of Moshi Moshi Knife Sharpening.  Or learn more about this topic at this resource:  How to Collect Outstanding Payments: Best Practices for Small BusinessesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For small business owners, it's important to celebrate every success, but it's also important to remember that behind every accomplishment there are plenty of hardships, missteps, and valuable lessons. Going into business for yourself is not easy and often comes with economic ups and downs and hard-to-decipher tax codes - among many other challenges. That's why persevering and learning how to adapt and overcome any problems that arise is so important for every entrepreneur. On this episode, Austin and Jannese talk about the hurdles they faced and unexpected problems that arose in the initial phases of launching their businesses. Entrepreneur Taylor Randal of Softpaw Vintage details her journey of starting a business and sticking through the challenges to find success, even when an unexpected tax bill threatened to derail her entire enterprise.  Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business: QuickBooks.com QuickBooks for Solopreneurs For a recap from this week's episode visit: Episode 5 Recap with Taylor Randal of Softpaw Vintage Or learn more about this topic at this resource: 7 Cash flow problems & solutions for small businesses See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For small business owners, it's important to celebrate every success, but it's also important to remember that behind every accomplishment there are plenty of hardships, missteps, and valuable lessons. Going into business for yourself is not easy and often comes with economic ups and downs and hard-to-decipher tax codes - among many other challenges. That's why persevering and learning how to adapt and overcome any problems that arise is so important for every entrepreneur. On this episode, Austin and Jannese talk about the hurdles they faced and unexpected problems that arose in the initial phases of launching their businesses. Entrepreneur Taylor Randal of Softpaw Vintage details her journey of starting a business and sticking through the challenges to find success, even when an unexpected tax bill threatened to derail her entire enterprise.  Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business: QuickBooks.com QuickBooks for Solopreneurs For a recap from this week's episode visit: Episode 5 Recap with Taylor Randal of Softpaw Vintage Or learn more about this topic at this resource: 7 Cash flow problems & solutions for small businesses See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For small business owners, it's important to celebrate every success, but it's also important to remember that behind every accomplishment there are plenty of hardships, missteps, and valuable lessons. Going into business for yourself is not easy and often comes with economic ups and downs and hard-to-decipher tax codes - among many other challenges. That's why persevering and learning how to adapt and overcome any problems that arise is so important for every entrepreneur. On this episode, Austin and Jannese talk about the hurdles they faced and unexpected problems that arose in the initial phases of launching their businesses. Entrepreneur Taylor Randal of Softpaw Vintage details her journey of starting a business and sticking through the challenges to find success, even when an unexpected tax bill threatened to derail her entire enterprise.  Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business: QuickBooks.com QuickBooks for Solopreneurs For a recap from this week's episode visit: Episode 5 Recap with Taylor Randal of Softpaw Vintage Or learn more about this topic at this resource: 7 Cash flow problems & solutions for small businesses See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The lifeblood of a small business is its customers. Going the extra mile to provide easy payment methods and clear communication can mean the difference between a couple of sales, and a couple hundred. Jannese and Austin discuss what they love to encounter as customers patronizing a business, and the customer service strategies for their own endeavors. And Jordan Rose joins the conversation to talk about how she built her Etsy shop, Fresh Prints of SF, based on inclusivity and catering to demographics that are too often uncatered to. We'll learn about the financial incentives to earning a customer's trust and keeping them happy as you turn your target market into a community.     Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/ https://quickbooks.intuit.com/get-money/    For a recap from this week's episode visit: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/running-a-business/mind-the-business-s2-ep3   Or learn more about this topic at this resource: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/running-a-business/how-to-give-great-customer-service/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ever wondered how a 13-time national elevator pitch champion crafted her art? On the latest episode of Crown Yourself, I had the honor of speaking with the "Killer Pitch Master" herself, Precious Williams. Pulling back the curtains to her journey, from launching Curvy Girls Lingerie, and pitching it to ABC's "Shark Tank," to homelessness, addiction, and bouncing back to becoming multiple Fortune 500 companies' secret weapon as a top corporate sales trainer, to #slay the competition...and her demons. Precious dives into the nitty-gritty of effective communication and how the right words can change your game. Language isn't just a tool; it's the bridge that connects your ideas to the world. She discusses the importance of authenticity, vulnerability, and storytelling in business, as well as the significance of mental health awareness and empowering women. The conversation also covers the power of collaboration and the impact of supporting one another's sovereignty. Williams provides insights into her daily routines, her definition of queendom, and the concept of crowning oneself. About Precious "Killer Pitchmaster" Williams: From the poverty-stricken streets of St. Louis, Missouri, to the global stage of influence, Precious L. Williams' story of transformation is nothing less than iconic. With 28 years as an international professional speaker and corporate trainer, she has methods to empower her clients to secure millions in pitch competition winnings, secure lucrative speaking engagements, and has helped countless Fortune 500 companies outperform their competition. Her impressive client list includes BMW, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Harvard University, Columbia University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, George Washington University, Intuit Quickbooks, Yelp, and more. Grab Precious' Books: Bad Bitches & Power Pitches: For Women Entrepreneurs and Speakers Only: https://amzn.to/3wnA6yY Rainmaking 101 from Day 1: https://amzn.to/42GFVDH Pitching for Profit: The Bad Bitches Playbook for Turning Conversations into Currency: https://amzn.to/3uxXdq9 The Pitch Queen: A Woman's Journey from Poverty to Purpose to Profits: https://amzn.to/4bPXPbF Connect with Precious: Website: https://perfectpitchgroup.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perfectpitchgroup/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PerfectPitchP Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/precious-l-williams/ What You Will Learn from this Episode: Precious Williams' journey from adversity to success The importance of effective communication and language in pitching Overcoming personal struggles and embracing authenticity in entrepreneurship Mental health awareness and empowerment The impact of collaboration and mutual respect in business The power of vulnerability and authenticity in building trust and credibility Precious Williams' morning and nightly routines Defining queendom and crowning oneself Connecting with Precious Williams and her work through the Perfect Pitch Group Emphasizing the importance of supporting others and creating a positive impact Links + Mentions: Tools & Websites: "The Perfect Pitch Group" - 00:00:00 "ABC's Shark Tank" - 00:00:00 "CNN, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Black Enterprise Magazine" - 00:00:00 "LinkedIn, Google, Microsoft, Harvard University, Columbia University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, George Washington University, Intuit QuickBooks, Yelp" - 00:01:14 The Perfect Pitch Group - (no timestamp) Books: "Bad Bitches and Power Pitches for Women Entrepreneurs" - 00:08:20 "You Are the Brand" by Mike Kim "Pitching for Profit: The Bad Business Playbook to Convert Conversations and the Currency" by Precious Williams "Rainmaker 101: From Day One Packaging, Positioning, and Pitching Exposed" by Precious Williams "A Woman's Journey from Poverty to Purpose and Profits" by Precious Williams Videos: Beyoncé's "Formation" - 00:06:03 Nasdaq Billboard - (no timestamp) Other Mentions: Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) - 00:50:49 Camel milk tea lemongrass mint - 00:53:11 "Reign Making 101" - 00:53:11 Moments of Note: The pitch queen (00:00:00)Introduction to Precious Williams and her expertise in elevator pitches and sales. Precious's journey (00:01:14)Discussion of Precious's personal story and her journey to success. Swimming with the sharks (00:03:58)Precious's experience and lessons learned from appearing on Shark Tank. Components of a killer pitch (00:07:58)Precious explains the key components of a successful pitch. Language and aspiration in pitching (00:11:22)The use of aspirational language and connecting with the target audience in a pitch. Cultivating excellence (00:22:00)Precious discusses her habits for excellence and the impact of her upbringing on her mastery of language. Posturing versus presence (00:25:31)Differentiating between posturing and embodying one's true self in entrepreneurship. The journey of self-discovery (00:26:45)Precious Williams shares her personal journey of self-discovery, including struggles, homelessness, and finding her purpose. Advocacy and community support (00:28:02)Precious discusses the importance of advocacy, mental health awareness, and being a voice for the less fortunate. Empowerment and self-acceptance (00:29:23)The conversation focuses on empowerment, self-acceptance, and the importance of supporting and uplifting others. Challenges and growth (00:30:29)Precious reflects on her experiences, challenges, and the growth she has undergone as an entrepreneur and advocate. Defining success and amplification (00:31:39)The discussion touches on the different paths to success, amplifying each other's voices, and the power of collaboration. The weight of responsibility and service (00:40:44)Exploring the heaviness of responsibility, societal expectations, and the distinction between care and service. Facing challenges and embracing change (00:50:26)Precious talks about dealing with challenges, fear of failure, and the necessity of embracing change. Coping with loneliness and seeking support (00:50:49)The conversation delves into coping with loneliness, reaching out for support, and the importance of genuine collaboration. Personal growth and self-care (00:54:27)Precious shares her coping mechanisms, personal growth journey, and the significance of self-care and seeking support. The importance of real relationships (00:55:43)Discussion on the significance of genuine relationships in business, the impact of authenticity, and the value of real connections. Pivoting in challenging times (00:57:51)Strategies for pivoting during slow sales or hardships, shifting mindset, and creating plot twists to position oneself for success. Evolving relationships and business (00:59:21)The evolution of relationships, the role of real connections in business growth, and the significance of listening to different perspectives. The power of shining your light (01:05:55)The impact of showcasing talent, building trust, and being talked about positively behind one's back, leading to business receptivity. Changing relationships and success (01:02:36)The importance of changing relationships around oneself to achieve success, personal growth, and leveraging talent to open new opportunities. Authenticity and vulnerability in business (01:10:16)The significance of sharing authentic and vulnerable aspects of oneself to connect with others, build trust, and inspire others. Crowning yourself and living your purpose (01:18:04)The concept of crowning oneself, living one's purpose, and believing in one's unique ability to make a positive impact.

Seeing your small business grow can be exciting, but staying on top of that growth can be difficult for a solopreneur or a small team. As demand increases, how do you keep dollars coming in and products and services going out without breaking your original business model? Unchecked expansion can lead to painful downsizing after the initial rush - which no entrepreneur wants to have to deal with. Hosts Jannese and Austin will be discussing effective small business scaling: growing your company steadily and sustainably. Daniel and Michael Jay of the LazyButtClub Clothing Company talk about their experience with doing just that. They run a small family-owned apparel line with a global audience on TikTok. They'll tell us how they keep their lifestyle business going strong while maintaining a small team even as they service customers all over the world.  Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/ https://quickbooks.intuit.com/get-money/    For a recap from this week's episode visit: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/running-a-business/mind-the-business-s2-ep2   Or learn more about this topic at this resource:  https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/growing-a-business/how-to-grow-a-business/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Your favorite podcast about the exciting journey of entrepreneurship is back for a second season! Join hosts Jannese Torres (Yo Quiero Dinero & Financially Lit!) and Austin Hankwitz (Rate of Return & Rich Habits) as they share more great stories from small business owners and entrepreneurs alike and guide you toward the best tools and resources to jumpstart your own business with the help of Intuit QuickBooks. Listen to new episodes featuring interviews with entrepreneurs from a wide array of backgrounds and across multiple different industries as they detail the challenges and rewards that come with owning your own business.   Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/ https://quickbooks.intuit.com/get-money/    For more resources and insights on how to scale your business, visit:  https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/growing-a-business/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week's episode is a re-release of an amazing interview with Killer Pitch Master, Precious Williams, from the Seven Figure Consultant Podcast Archives. Precious, known as the “Pitch Queen”, reveals her secret weapon and thoughts on knowing when you are seated at the wrong table. Precious has insights into packaging, positioning, and pitching. No one puts it quite like Precious does. If you want to be successful in any endeavour, get a copy of Precious's new book, Rainmaking 101, From Day 1. This discussion is fast-paced; you don't want to miss a minute.   In this episode: [00:23] Introduction of the “Pitch Queen”. Precious describes her tumultuous childhood and the ups and downs that positioned her to be where she is today.  [07:48] Where do you turn when you don't have someone encouraging you, and how do you know your place within a group?  [13:35] Precious discusses when her backstory is appropriate to share and when it is not. She outlines the different media she has mastered.  [20:25] Precious shares her take on pitching and taking an interest in others.  [24:34] Precious discusses whether somebody can learn a talent or are you born with it and what about being a visionary?  [29:19] What is real entrepreneurship? Precious discusses her new book, Rainmaking 101 From Day 1.    Key Takeaways:  Precious's story proves positively that you can make it from any background, and even after failing, you can come back stronger than the first time. Often the language you use describing a situation or a product makes the difference in how successful it is. Elevate the conversation, elevate the terminology. Don't take no for an answer if you are determined to be accomplished and recognized in any field. Failure is not the end of a goal. Instead, it is a stepping stone towards accomplishment.   Quotes:   “I just have to say to you at this moment; I receive your compliment. Because many of us as women can't accept a compliment. I need to receive what you just said because it's a testament to my grandmother.  It's a testament to my higher power.” – Precious Williams. “I had to go where I was celebrated, not tolerated. Also, if I'm not invited to the table, understand that rejection is the ultimate protection. There are some places you don't need to be, and if you're constantly fighting to be seen in certain groups, maybe that's the group you shouldn't be in.” – Precious Williams.   Useful Links Precious: Precious Williams – Linkedin Precious Williams – Instagram Rainmaking 101 – From Day 1 – The Book The Dames – 6, 7 and 8 Figure Business Community Jessica: The Six Elements of a Seven Figure Business – Free Download Get in touch with Jessica to discuss your consulting business Download the entire Seven Figure Consultant mini-season Submit your questions for this season's Q&A episode Jessica's LinkedIn   Guest Bio:  Precious L. Williams CEO, Perfect Pitches by Precious, LLC #KillerPitchMaster Want to learn how to take your sales, investor, or elevator pitches from trash to straight CASH?  Or have your prospects throwing money at you every time you open your mouth?  Then, it's time to learn how to convert conversations into currency with the Pitch Queen, Precious L. Williams. Her company, Perfect Pitches by Precious teaches you the tools and tenacity to pitch with power, sell with storytelling, and develop a masterful mindset for communication. It's time for you to learn how to #SlayAllCompetition Precious busts norms and shifts perspectives to help teams own their awesomeness and bring out their “wow” factor.  Your leaders and teams will up their game — on their terms — to develop the cunning, clarity and confidence that's been inside them all along. What's more, they'll get unstuck and discover a renewed and refreshed energy to own the mindset of the pitch in a way they never thought possible. If you're ready to go from milquetoast to memorable, attracting and captivating your prospects while closing the sale in an authentic way, it's time to #pitchforprofit. And you can bet you're going to have fun doing it! Precious L. Williams is a 13-time national elevator pitch champion. She has also been featured on “Shark Tank,” CNN, Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Black Enterprise Magazine, Essence Magazine, and the movie “LEAP.” Her current clients include Microsoft, LinkedIn, Google, NBCUniversal, Federal Reserve Bank, Intuit Quickbooks, Yelp, Harvard University, and more. Precious is a dynamic international professional speaker, effective corporate trainer and 4X #1 bestselling author.

In this interview, Simon Worsfold, Head of Data Communications, for Intuit QuickBooks, discusses a new report that indicates small business credit card spending is up 18 per cent. He talks about the reasons for the huge increase, the challenges faced by small businesses today, the impact on hiring, the rise of solopreneurs, the importance of access to capital and the impact small business has on the overall Canadian economy. PRESS RELEASE TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU), the global financial technology platform that makes Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, has released the 2023 Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index Annual Report. Developed in collaboration with leading global economist Professor Ufuk Akcigit and his co-authors, the report reveals how macroeconomic pressures like inflation and higher interest rates are affecting small businesses' ability to create jobs and get the funding they need to grow. THE STATE OF SMALL BUSINESS The report finds that in 2023, while overall employment levels have trended upward in Canada, the US, and UK, small business employment has been less resilient. Using anonymized data from more than 3.4 million Intuit QuickBooks customers and surveys of more than 5,000 small businesses in Canada, the US and the UK, the report looks at how small businesses are responding to these challenges, and examines the relationships between small business growth, access to capital, and use of digital technology. Key findings include: With elevated inflation and high-interest rates, small businesses have increasingly depended on their credit cards, with the current spending being 20% higher, on average, than they were before the pandemic. At the same time, their monthly credit card payments, which include interest charges, are up by 26% on average. These pressures are affecting jobs: small business employment rates declined in seven of the first eight months of 2023 in Canada, and in the first five months of 2023 in the US. Similarly, in the UK, small business job vacancy growth rates declined in all of the first eight months of 2023. The rise of the solopreneur (non-employer businesses) shows entrepreneurship is stronger than ever; however, in Canada and the US, fewer new businesses are creating jobs, a concerning trend because in the US, more than a third of all jobs are with small businesses while in Canada and the UK it's more than two in five. Access to funding is essential for small business growth, but roughly half of small businesses in Canada, the US and the UK are self-funded by the owner. New businesses and businesses owned by women or members of underrepresented racial groups often face greater funding challenges. Despite inflation declining over the past year, small businesses in Canada, the US and the UK say rising costs are still the number one challenge they face. FRESH INSIGHTS ON CANADIAN SMALL BUSINESSES Small business employment and hiring: In January 2023, Canadian small businesses with 1-19 employees employed 5.2 million people, rebounding to a similar level in August 2023 after several months of declines, before declining again in September (source: Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index). Small businesses contribute to the economy: In Canada, 99% of all Canadian businesses are small businesses; 47% of all Canadian workers are employed by small businesses. Rise of the solopreneur (non-employer businesses): In 2015, self-employment made up just under 68% of all Canadian businesses. By 2022, this had risen to more than 69%. This rise is significant because it is part of a longer-term trend, similar to the US, where fewer new businesses are creating jobs. The report connects this to the rise of gig work and digital technology. Small business finances: Monthly small business credit card expenditure is currently 18% higher, on average, than before the pandemic, equivalent to $2,700 CAD per business while monthly repayments against credit card account balances are up by 22% on average, again equivalent to $2,700 CAD per business. Small business access to funding: While 51% of Canadian small business owners surveyed have used their own savings to fund their business, only 27% report ever getting funding from a commercial lender. New small businesses (0-5 years old) are more than twice as likely to say “getting funding” is their number one challenge compared to older small businesses (21+ years). Adoption of digital tools and technology: Higher use of digital tools and technology (such as software, apps, social media, and e-commerce) correlates with higher growth among small businesses surveyed. Among Canadian small businesses using digital tools to manage 8 or more different areas of their business, 63% report revenue growth and 22% report workforce growth but, among those only managing up to 2 areas with digital tools, this drops to 31% and 5%, respectively. Leading global economist and Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, Ufuk Akcigit said: “We know that small businesses play a significant role in empowering the Canadian economy, in fact, they provide almost half (47%) of jobs in the Canadian economy. In spite of their importance, their size and the challenges accessing capital makes them particularly vulnerable to economic shifts because of inflation and rising interest rates. Despite these challenges, there are reasons for optimism. Using insights from our research, we have developed recommendations that small businesses can take to help ensure their resilience and growth, including staying on top of their cash flow, making smart banking decisions and leveraging the power of digital technology. All of these actions can help small businesses in the face of economic challenges, and the future health of our economy depends on their success today.” Sasan Goodarzi, CEO of Intuit said: “Becoming an entrepreneur is a bold decision. Given the significant impact new and growing small businesses have on job creation, innovation, and the economy, policymakers and industry leaders should be equally bold in creating an environment where small businesses can grow and thrive. We remain focused on working across the industry to create new and innovative ways to serve our customers and help solve their most pressing challenges.” Based on the research and insights from the report, Intuit has developed a set of recommendations for policymakers, accountants advising their small business clients, and entrepreneurs starting and running small businesses. These concrete, actionable recommendations can help policymakers foster an environment conducive to small business growth and resilience; accountants provide guidance to their clients in responding to the challenges and trends identified in the report; and small business owners set their businesses up for success. For more insights, check out the Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index Annual Report here. To stay up to date on the latest monthly Index releases, visit the Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index interactive hub. ABOUT THE REPORT RIGOROUS METHODOLOGY The report's findings are based on a new analysis by Ufuk Akcigit, Raman Singh Chhina, Seyit M. Cilasun, Javier Miranda, Eren Ocakverdi, and Nicolas Serrano-Velarde of four data sources, in partnership with Intuit QuickBooks data analysts: Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index: recent employment and hiring trends among small businesses in the US, Canada, and the UK. Methodology details available here. Intuit QuickBooks customer data: anonymised, aggregated and reweighted/adjusted to reflect the wider population of small businesses in the US, Canada, and UK, not Intuit's business, to provide new insight into small business access to credit, credit card expenditure, and payments against credit card balances during the recent inflationary period. Sample: 3.4 million small businesses; 2,795,000 in US; 305,000 in Canada; 313,000 in UK. Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Insights: regular online surveys of small businesses with up to 100 employees, commissioned by Intuit QuickBooks in the US, Canada, and UK every three to four months. Total sample size for April 2023 wave of surveys: 5,175 (comprising 2,805 small businesses in the US; 1,210 small businesses in Canada; and 1,160 small businesses in the UK). Official statistics and other external sources, including publicly available data from: the U.S. Census Bureau; Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, Bank Holding Company (US); National Federation of Independent Businesses (US); Statistics Canada; Office for National Statistics (UK), Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (UK); New insights from the analysis of this data comprise four major topic areas in the Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index Annual Report: Long-term small business employment trends and the critical role small businesses play in the US, Canadian, and UK economies, including: job creation, the rise in self-employment, and the COVID-19 pandemic's contribution to new business growth. Source: official statistics. Recent trends in small business employment since the COVID-19 pandemic, in four phases: initial downturn due to the spread of the virus; recovery period as small businesses adapted and new businesses were created; second downturn coinciding with higher inflation and interest rates; and, lately, early signs of a second rebound, particularly in the US. Source: Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index. Small business access to funding: why small businesses need funding, where they get it, how they use it, and which businesses face the greatest challenges obtaining it — with a close examination of the impact of inflation on small business finances, using anonymised data from QuickBooks customers in the US, Canada, and UK. Source: Intuit QuickBooks customer data and Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Insights survey (see sample details above). The state of small business in the US, Canada, and UK today: combining a new analysis of official statistics with survey data from more than 5,000 small businesses, including 2,325 QuickBooks customers. Source: Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Insights survey (see sample details above). The full methodology is provided in the appendix of the Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index Annual Report. ABOUT PROFESSOR UFUK AKCIGIT Ufuk Akcigit is the Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He is an elected Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Center for Economic Policy Research, and the Center for Economic Studies, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at Koc University. He has received a BA in economics at Koc University, 2003, and Ph.D. in economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. As a macroeconomist, Akcigit's research centers on economic growth, technological creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, productivity, and firm dynamics. His research has been repeatedly published in the top economics journals, cited by numerous policy reports, and the popular media. The contributions of Akcigit's research has been recognised by the National Science Foundation with the CAREER Grant (NSF's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty), Kaufmann Foundation's Junior Faculty Grant, and Kiel Institute Excellence Award, among many other institutions. In 2019, Akcigit was named the winner of the Max Plank-Humboldt Research Award (endowed with 1.5 million euros and aimed at scientists with outstanding future potential). In 2021, Akcigit was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship and was named a Fellow of the Econometric Society. In 2022, he received the Sakip Sabanci International Research Award and Kiel Institute's Global Economy Prize. ABOUT INTUIT Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With 100 million customers worldwide using TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible. Please visit us at Intuit.ca and find us on social for the latest information about Intuit and our products and services.   Mario Toneguzzi is Managing Editor of Canada's Podcast. He has more than 40 years of experience as a daily newspaper writer, columnist, and editor. He was named in 2021 as one of the Top 10 Business Journalists in the World by PR News – the only Canadian to make the list About Us Canada's Podcast is the number one podcast in Canada for entrepreneurs and business owners. Established in 2016, the podcast network has interviewed over 600 Canadian entrepreneurs from coast-to-coast. With hosts in each province, entrepreneurs have a local and national format to tell their stories, talk about their journey and provide inspiration for anyone starting their entrepreneurial journey and well- established founders. The commitment to a grass roots approach has built a loyal audience on all our social channels and YouTube – 500,000+ lifetime YouTube views, 200,000 + audio downloads, 35,000 + average monthly social impressions, 10,000 + engaged social followers and 35,000 newsletter subscribers. Canada's Podcast is proud to provide a local, national and international presence for Canadian entrepreneurs to build their brand and tell their story. #business #CanadasNumberOnePodcastforEntrepreneurs #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #small business

We are live from the 2023 Intuit Innovation Summit. For this special live episode, Jannese and Austin are joined by EQ-certified business and leadership coach and solopreneur Mariela De La Mora. Discover how Mariela decided to go into business for herself and how she combats imposter syndrome while growing her business. Plus, hear the exciting news about season two of “Mind the Business: Small Business Success Stories.”  Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/ https://quickbooks.intuit.com/get-money/ For more resources and insights on how to scale your business, visit:  https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/growing-a-business/Support the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are live from the 2023 Intuit Innovation Summit. For this special live episode, Jannese and Austin are joined by EQ-certified business and leadership coach and solopreneur Mariela De La Mora. Discover how Mariela decided to go into business for herself and how she combats imposter syndrome while growing her business. Plus, hear the exciting news about season two of “Mind the Business: Small Business Success Stories.”  Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/ https://quickbooks.intuit.com/get-money/ For more resources and insights on how to scale your business, visit:  https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/growing-a-business/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With interest rates likely to stay on the higher side, investors should realize that there is money to be made in rates staying higher for longer, and we have three ETF picks that could help you do just that.  Timestamps:Salesforce's Strong QuarterIntuit's Solid Top and Bottom LinesSnowflake's Mixed Quarter ResultsWhat is Driving Interest in Active ETFs?Why Are There Such High ETF Flows?Are Active Investors Leaving Mutual Funds for Active ETFs?Advantages of Active ETFs Disadvantages of Active ETFsHow to Decide Between ETFs, Mutual Funds, or a Passive Strategy  3 ETFs That Benefit From Higher Interest Rates Read about topics from this episode.  Salesforce Earnings: MuleSoft Shines In Another Overall Good Quarter Intuit Inc Snowflake Earnings: Long-Term Upside Is Far From Melting Here's Why Active ETFs Are So Hot Right Now  What to watch from Morningstar.Timing the Market Doesn't Work — We Did the Math Make the Most of Your HSA Benefits and Investments in 2024 Headwinds Hold Airlines Back, But Check Out These Travel Stocks for the Holidays Higher Bond Yields and Interest Rates Are Here to Stay  Read what our team is writing:Ruth Saldanha Ryan Jackson  Follow us on social media.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MorningstarInc/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MorningstarIncInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/morningstar... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/5161/ 

This week's episode provides a fascinating look into the art of communication in innovation. It's crucial for reaching audiences, teams, and the broader market. Carmen Collins is a name I've admired and spoken about at international conferences, even before we met for this podcast. Carmen's transformative work at Cisco, particularly in reviving the brand through employee voices and social media post-telecom boom, is inspiring. In this episode, Carmen, with her extensive experience in social media brand marketing and communications, delves into the art of creating compelling dialogues around innovation on social media. Her journey includes leading roles at Intuit QuickBooks and other notable brands, where she harnessed the power of storytelling to align corporate vision with engaging content strategies. We'll explore how Carmen's approach to social media transcends traditional marketing, focusing on tangible goals and priorities rather than just surface-level engagement. Her accolades, including being a top woman in communications and a four-time winner of the Social Media Professional of the Year, speak volumes about her expertise. Our conversation takes a deep dive into integrating social media strategy from the outset, using examples like a hypothetical Burger King Super Bowl commercial. Carmen highlights the pitfalls of not including digital and social teams in the planning phase, leading to potential flops on platforms like TikTok or Instagram. Moreover, we discuss the crucial role of personal connection in social media messaging. Carmen advises making content relatable by sharing the stories behind innovations, including the failures and challenges. This approach humanizes the brand and resonates deeply with audiences, tapping into our inherent attraction to stories of overcoming adversity. Join us in this insightful episode as Carmen Collins shares her wisdom on using social media to effectively communicate innovations, balancing the demands of platform algorithms with the need to engage and captivate audiences.  

In this special series focused on legal case management software, host Dan Lear explores various case management companies to help firms make informed decisions. In this episode, host Dan Lear discusses the world of QuickBooks, a cornerstone in both small business and small legal tech ecosystems. This episode features Matt Bright, a Senior Product Specialist at Intuit with 23 years of experience at the company. Together, they shed light on the various ways law firms leverage QuickBooks and how it can revolutionize their financial management. For more information and resources on choosing the right case management system for your firm, visit our legal case management center.

Is pitching  just about trying to get investors to buy something you're selling? Nope!  That's what I thought too before this interview. But, pitching is about captivating. It's something we all do daily, we just may not realize it, in the words of 13 times pitch champion, Precious Williams. So we'd better get good at it!   In today's episode, I'm joined by Precious Williams - elevator pitch champion,four time best selling author, and featured on Shark Tank, CNN, The Wall Street journal and black enterprise magazine and more for her killer pitches. Precious is a world-class speaker/trainer for global brands including BMW, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Harvard University, Columbia University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, George Washington University, Intuit Quickbooks, Yelp, and moreWe discussed it all and how women can start shifting their mindset of what it means to pitch and utilizing it to get in front of the right people - whether that's patients, managers or executives wanting to hire you. Let's get to it.   Connect With Precious Williams: https://www.perfectpitchgroup.com I https://www.instagram.com/perfectpitchesp  https://www.facebook.com/PerfectPitchP  https://www.linkedin.com/in/precious-l-williams I precious@perfectpitchgroup.com  Book Links:  https://bit.ly/Rainmaking101PLW  Upcoming events:  https://perfectpitchgroup.com/events/ Pitching for Profit Masterclass 1: https://bit.ly/Pitching4Profit1 Pitching for Profit Masterclass 2: https://bit.ly/Pitching4Profit2 Good morning Queen!  We are having a Labor Day sale on our Pitching for Profit Masterclasses.  Take $150 off! Here is the links: Pitching for Profit Masterclass Part 1: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pitching-for-profit-masterclass-part-1-tickets-705276690567?discount=LaborDay23 Pitching for Profit Masterclass Part 2: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pitching-for-profit-masterclass-part-2-tickets-707068800817?discount=LaborDay23   Like the podcast? Leave us a review! It just takes a couple minutes and really helps us spread the word to other working professional women like you! Let's Connect! Instagram: https://instagram.com/drrupawong Website: www.drrupawong.com  

Alysha Love, Executive Editor and Co-Founder of Payette Media House, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss her career journey going from journalism to editing and how she works with Corey on his content. Alysha describes why she feels it's so important to capture the voice of the person you're editing, and why editing your content makes a difference to those reading it. Corey and Alysha also explore the differences in editing for something that will be read silently versus something that will be read out loud, as well as the different styles of editing. About AlyshaAlysha Love is executive editor and co-founder of Payette Media House, an editorial agency serving startups and tech companies. Alysha is the treasurer of ACES: The Society for Editing, the nation's largest editing organization, and trains editors and writers in digital best practices.She was an editor at CNN and POLITICO during the Obama and Trump administrations. Alysha has a bachelor's in journalism from the University of Missouri and a master's in leadership and organizational development from the University of Texas. She's a big fan of the humble ampersand.Links Referenced:Company website: https://payettemediahouse.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Human-scale teams use Tailscale to build trusted networks. Tailscale Funnel is a great way to share a local service with your team for collaboration, testing, and experimentation.  Funnel securely exposes your dev environment at a stable URL, complete with auto-provisioned TLS certificates. Use it from the command line or the new VS Code extensions. In a few keystrokes, you can securely expose a local port to the internet, right from the IDE.I did this in a talk I gave at Tailscale Up, their first inaugural developer conference. I used it to present my slides and only revealed that that's what I was doing at the end of it. It's awesome, it works! Check it out!Their free plan now includes 3 users & 100 devices. Try it at snark.cloud/tailscalescream Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud, I'm Corey Quinn. And one of the, I guess, illusions about what I do is that I sit down at a keyboard periodically, and I just start typing and then, you know, brilliance emerges, and then my work is done. It turns out that this is rarely true, not to deflate my own image overly much. And a big part of how that works comes down to my guest today. Alysha Love is the executive editor at Payette Media House and has been my editor for just about three years now. Alysha, thank you for tolerating me.Alysha: Anytime.Corey: So, I want to start by dispensing with a few illusions that I'm not saying other people have, I'm saying that I have, where I was fortunate enough—or unfortunate as the case may be—to grow up with an English teacher for a mother and understanding how to put together a grammatically correct sentence was not exactly optional in my house, so what possible value could an editor present to me? And one of the things I learned along the way is that there are multiple kinds of editors, as it turns out. What are they and which are you?Alysha: So yeah, not only is editing a thing, we can look at your sentences, your story, and make it all better and clearer so that it really shines. But there are different types of editors who can do different specific functions. So, at the maybe most nitpicky level, you have proofreaders who are looking at what would be a final page, usually in something like a book, where it needs to look exactly right the way that it's going up, it needs to be sure that every last little detail is in place. At the next level up, you have copy editors. They're looking for things like spelling, grammar, punctuation, style, factual accuracy. That's sort of what you think of usually when you think of somebody who might peer-review a piece for you, or who you might ask to edit something. And then at the next level, you have people who are able to do the copy editing, but in addition to that, they look at the overarching arc of the story or the blog piece, and they're able to help look for some of those gaps and organize it into something that is clearer and easier to understand.Corey: Something I've always been curious about is that you, previously in another life, were an editor at CNN and then Politico during the Obama and then Trump administrations. Is editing what I do significantly different than editing, you know, journalists?Alysha: Yes, in a few key ways. One is that when we're writing news, we always come out and say the most important thing first. It's what we call the inverted pyramid style, so if you turn a pyramid on its nose and it's standing on the tip, you have the biggest part of the triangle or the pyramid at the top, and that's the most important thing that could never get cut, and you say it right out of the gate. I tease my husband a lot because he tends to bury the lede, and that's what we're talking about when it's not the first thing you say.Corey: Absolutely. And I do that, meanwhile, stylistically as a choice because, you know, don't put the punch line in the title.Alysha: Totally. So, that's a big difference between editing for news and editing you. You also use significantly more voice than we would use in a CNN or Politico article. That's also a choice. And it's actually something I have a ton of fun with is emulating your voice as I make edits.Corey: I found that as we've worked together, our comfort with one another has grown significantly over the past few years. At this point, just for folks who are wondering, anytime you have an edit that's just a reordering or something that clarifies something slightly or is basically low-level stylistic, you don't track those changes; you just go ahead and apply them because otherwise, I'll wind up, “Oh, here are 600 changes to make.” It's like, the article is 2000 words. Exactly how much was done? And so, much of it is white spaces and comma placement and the rest and just strange little things that frankly, are not that important to me past a certain point.The exception, of course, was always great. First, if you're making a change, tell me why. I have political opinions about the use of the Oxford comma, for example. I find it lends clarity to things. Fortunately, you and I aligned on that, so it's a non-issue. But I am curious as far as what do you see that I tend to do the most that I guess either annoys you or you disagree with stylistically or, honestly, is flat-out wrong.Alysha: So, there's not much you do that's flat-out wrong. I will say, like, the instances that I do see something… you've told me before that your mom was an English teacher and that these are things that you really pride yourself on being able to do well, so I don't know how you feel about it, but I'll usually leave a comment telling you about the change and linking you [laugh] to something that can explain it a little better. Maybe that annoys the shit out of you, or—sorry, can we cuss?Corey: No, no—oh, you absolutely can, and—Alysha: Great.Corey: Because it's—I was taught by a teacher, I want to say in third grade, that you leave two spaces at the end of every sentence before you begin the next sentence, and I only found out about six or seven years ago that's not really a thing. It took me a year to break myself of that habit, but I would rather go through that effort than, “Well, I've been wrong this long. I may as well double down on it now.” Just seems like that's not helping anyone.Alysha: [laugh]. Right. And we all have those things that there was some English teacher somewhere along the way who taught us things that were just wrong. So, my favorite thing about my magazine editing class, when I was in school at the University of Missouri, was that she started from the very, very basics because she said everyone has learned things that are wrong about how we write and how we edit and so we're just going to learn it all from scratch. And it was really brilliant. It was the best way to learn it all the right way.Corey: I'm usually gratified when I am trying to figure out what is the proper tense of this particular verb in this particular phrase. And my wife and I will wind up in debates on this constantly because she's an attorney and also writes a lot for a living. Who knew? And invariably whenever we finally get to an impasse and look it up—because, you know, we do have the sum total of human knowledge in the supercomputer that lives in our pockets—the answer is more often than not, it's a matter of choice. And both are considered accepted because English is, of course, a language defined by its usage, or one way is British and one is American, or some other aspect where it's not about wrong; it's about which is preferred in certain contexts. So, I'll take it.Alysha: That's—yeah, that's totally accurate. And those are the kinds of choices that I feel like, if I were to change all of those things in your writing, you would not appreciate it because they're preferences. So, those are the things that even if there's a style that's a little different unless what you've done is wrong in some sort of, like, widely accepted way, then I'm going to leave it the way you've got it.Corey: One way that I have found that I am both strong and weak, I think, as a writer—and I'm thrilled to be criticized on any of this; please don't spare my feelings any—is that I write like I speak. When—this is most noticeable on Twitter when I meet people who've never met me in person before, a very common refrain is, “Oh, you're just like your Twitter feed.”Alysha: [laugh].Corey: And partially that's because I'm sarcastic and irreverent and a class clown who never grew up, but another part of it is because I write like I would put together the sentence. In long-form writing, I feel like that can be something of a setback for me. When I'm making a sentence right now, for example, and talking to you, if I were to write this out as a literal transcript, it will be a long run-on sentence in a bunch of different ways. And it works conversationally, but it does not work that way in long-form writing. So, I feel like I have a bunch of clauses that continue to go on forever when I let myself. [transcriber note: yup]Alysha: You do. And the thing that you also love to do stick a bunch of semicolons between all of them, which is technically correct, but I do have a whole thing about distracting punctuation, so I will take out many of your semicolons.Corey: I would like credit though because before you were involved in this, Mike would periodically look at some of my blog posts before they went out and—because I wanted his perspective on, “Am I onto something here or am I a fool,” but then he'll go back and edit some of the things he sees—which I get. If I see a misspelling in something, I itch until I can fix it, or a grammatical mistake. But at one point, he was constantly onto me about overusing commas. And in one case, he took a bunch out. And then I looked at the tracked changes on this and it's forever one of my favorite things. You went through next and wound up returning all of the commas that he had removed. It's, “That's right.” But you got me on the semicolon thing. I'm trying to reduce usage and have shorter sentences.Alysha: Yes. And that's something that's really good for digital best practices and having a wide and varied audience. You know, with a diverse audience, with audiences that don't speak English as a first language, it's helpful to have much shorter sentences. For folks who are consuming content on the internet, in general, it's easier to skim and get the meaning out of a shorter sentence. However, when we think about your voice, it's important to leave some of those really long sentences in because we want people to keep thinking and, like, “Oh, yeah. This is a Corey Quinn piece,” when they read your article, whether your name is at the top of it or not.Corey: What I found is that varying the sentence structure and length also keeps reading from being fatiguing in some cases. And there are times I'll do things that are, quote-unquote, “Incorrect” to make a point stylistically. Like, normally you wouldn't put that word in italics and bold, but yeah, for this case, it is so egregious—probably Managed NAT Gateway or something—that I absolutely feel the need to wind up emphasizing the egregiousness of whatever it is I'm opining on that week.Alysha: Yes. And I think that is also part of what makes editing for you really fun is that there's a great balance of let's keep to the rules as much as we can when it makes sense, but let's be super strategic about how we break them to have better emphasis and to make it clear that this is a Corey Quinn piece.Corey: One problem that I've had, too, is understanding the difference in medium. I mean, most of my engagement with writing, when I was growing up, was books I read enthusiastically. And then I started writing a lot of newsletters and mailing lists and various written fora. I spent entirely too many years on IRC over the course of my life. And there are different rules and all of those circumstances, but never having written a book myself, how differently do you approach the editing process when you're writing something that is long-form or writing something that is essay length, or writing something that is a book?Alysha: So, I'm actually working on my first book now as the editor. So, that's a thing that I'm learning about, learning more about what that process looks like and how it's different. I think there's a lot more note-taking as you go along to track, you know, this is the story arc, these are the characters, what's a first reference and a second reference?Corey: When you overuse a phrase, it's easy to figure out if it's in a 2000-word essay. When you use it more than once, oh, great. Easy to spot. But okay, you write books—generally not in one sitting, I would assume—and you say, all right, that is the eighth time you have used that very particular turn of phrase. Stop it here's a thesaurus.Alysha: Totally. I don't know, maybe this is just a me thing or an editor thing, but do you notice when you hear, like, a very unique word, that's the thing, if—by the way [laugh], speaking of different, you know, if this weren't a spoken word podcast, then I would never say very unique; I would edit out ‘very' ahead of ‘unique' because unique is unique.Corey: Exactly. It's a pet peeve.Alysha: Totally. But I have very different rules for the way that we speak versus the way that we write. How fleeting are things? So, that gets back to your original question. Something that, you know, if I'm editing something quick, that's a quick hit, it's not going to live for very long. If you needed me to edit a tweet, I wouldn't spend a lot of time on that. I'm going to spend more time on things that have longer legs or that are going to a bigger platform. Books, you spend way more time editing than you would a 2000-word essay.Corey: I find that I don't have people edit tweets very often because first, it's moving too quickly for me to really take something out for opinion. The reason I'd have to do that is, “Is this too close to the edge?” Well, it turns out at this stage, if I have to ask that question, I already know the answer.Alysha: Mm-hm.Corey: Everything else is going to be more stylistic, like, “Is dogshit one word or two?” And you're, “Ah, it's a [unintelligible 00:13:24]. There we go. Excellent.” It's not the typical kind of problem or question that you would run into.Alysha: The BuzzFeed Style Guide has been a great resource for questions like dogshit [laugh].Corey: I didn't realize they had such a thing and that is absolutely amazing.Alysha: It is fantastic. Most of the internet things you need to know are there. CNN is where—well, CNN and Politico both—that's where we were always taking second eyes to look at a tweet before it goes out and you're doing that in about ten seconds. But we're looking at factual accuracy. Is there something that is about to be very wrong that we don't want to embarrass the publication with?Corey: I'm a prolific writer because I have to be. I have a content schedule that you could charitably call punishing. And that works super well with the way that I view the world, but the counterargument is that getting me to go back and review edits or go back and edit after I've written something is sort of like pulling teeth. So, something I found that works for me as a way around this is I record these essays as podcast episodes on the AWS Morning Brief. What that forces me to do is once the edits are in, I get one last read-through as I read it out loud in a normal speaking voice and don't power my way through it, and I'm forced to pay attention to every word at that point.And, “Oh, that doesn't quite make the point that I thought it did.” And you've edited them by this point, so it's not ever going to be something that is, “Oh, that's a run-on sentence,” or, “Huh, punctuation is probably a good idea.” It's something that is more abstract than that and often very tied to a domain-specific aspect of what I've written about. But I found that to be one of the best last filters for a lot of the stuff.Alysha: Yeah. That's a great tactic for catching errors, and… and not even errors, right? But it also comes back to, like, what's a difference between the way that we're going to write things and the way that you're going to read it out loud? I try to edit, keeping in mind that you're going to be reading these out loud, but then there are always going to be things that are going to sound better a particular way, and the way that we write them is going to be slightly different.Corey: One thing that I find as well, given that I read a lot more than I write, is that when I'm looking at articles for inclusion in a whole bunch of different places because I'm looking for creative content from the community, it is very hard for me to go ahead and greenlight including something that is poorly written. If I can't get through the first three sentences without seeing six mistakes in how the sentence is built, I judge the writing for it. It's you're talking about a technical topic, but if you can't even get to a point where the sentence is coherent, then how do I know you don't have typos littered throughout the code samples you're about to put up, or whatnot? And I don't think that that is an entirely fair assessment of mine, but it still feels like nails on a chalkboard, every time I encounter some of it.Alysha: It's actually something that's backed by research. I'm on the board for ACES, the Society for Editing, and we commissioned research about 13 years ago now, so it's getting updated. But what it showed was that readers can distinguish between edited and unedited content in significant ways. So, it may not be, like, “Oh, I know exactly how to fix this,” or, “I know exactly what's wrong with this,” but they get the sense that that content is not as reliable if it hasn't been edited. So, there's true value in exactly what you just said, in having content that's edited and the way that it makes people feel about the quality of the content that they're reading.Corey: It's one of those important things—which I'm not trying to shame people, particularly those for whom English is not a first language; you speak more languages than I do. Good for you—but I also will judge corporate blog posts far more harshly for this because it's no longer just one person. You should—in theory—have the ability to proofread and copy-edit the thing that is going out underneath your masthead. People are expensive. Writers are expensive unless you're ripping people off, which I don't advise. At least take the extra few steps to make sure that it doesn't drive people away for reasons other than the content.Alysha: Yep, I'm totally with you on that [laugh].Corey: I find myself having that same negative reaction to typos on your landing page when you describe what you do. There have been security vendors that I won't touch with a ten-foot pole because they talk about the standards that they follow, but they misspell the word ‘standards' on the webpage. And in a lot of these areas, details very much matter. One area that I want to get into as well that I think you and I have always been aligned on. Because I've worked with a number of editors—all of them great in different ways, I want to be very clear; I'm not trying to shame anyone—but challenges I've had from time to time have been editors who come from the marketing world who like to embody what I can only refer to as the bullshit marketing voice.And I don't know what exactly the elements of it are, but I know it when I hear it or see it. You can see this on almost every billboard out there, every press release that goes out. If I were to talk to a human in a way that the press release talks about the product and company, it would not go well for me, just because I would come across as incredibly condescending, entirely too self-promotional, and there's just something about the way that it's written that feels off-putting so much of my online persona and approaches have come from simply calling out the subtext in an awful lot of unfortunate marketing communications. You've never had a problem with that. I have never once looked at something you've edited for me and put something in where it's, “Ooh. That sounds a little bit too market-y.” And again, I consider myself something of a marketer. This is not me disliking marketing; it's disliking bad marketing. I don't believe that that's the sort of thing that just emerges out of nowhere. What's your history of marketing?Alysha: So, I did start working in marketing at Intuit QuickBooks a few years ago, back in 2018, when I moved out of journalism. So, I think the way that I approach marketing, and content marketing in particular, is always very journalistic. My bullshit meter really goes off, too, when I read something that's like, “You have a claim to back that,” or, “Oh, the evidence that you're using to back that is really thin.” And it just… it's just icky, right? Like, none of us like to feel like we're being marketed to in that way.And you're right, you would like, you would turn tail and run if somebody started talking to you that way in real life. So yeah, so it's just sort of a combination of journalistic instinct and like, you know, a lot of times, if you just say something straight, if you just say the truth, it comes out with even more impact than if you tried to fluff it up with marketing speak.Corey: The thing that I wish companies would figure out is that when you go out and talk about your product and mention the things it's bad at, it really engenders an awful lot of trust. Because it's not like you're going to hide that from the first people to use it, so call it out upfront that this is an area it's weak in. And that is anathema to some folks where they believe that you can say something is good, something is great, or you can stop talking. But it is unhelpful to the people you're trying to reach. I'm sure there are reasons for this. I don't believe for a second that I know better than the entire field of marketing, let's be clear here. But I know what I want to read what I'm trying to get when I'm presented with new information about a product or a service.Alysha: I think it just scares the bejesus out of people to think that they are going to publicly admit to things that aren't great. Yeah, and I don't know what the idea is after that. Like, that we're just going to sweep it under the rug and hope nobody notices or try to work on it in the background, and until then, we'll just talk about, you know, our one huge talking point and tell you that it's the best, most amazing in the world. It comes off as disingenuous to the rest of us. And that is something that you are not. You are… you're definitely the antithesis of that. You're very trusting because you call out all of the things that aren't quite right in a very honest way.Corey: And people love it until it's their turn to the hot seat, I think. That tends to, “Well, hang on, my product is perfect.” I assure you it's not but that's okay.Alysha: To being fair, you're also very good at calling out what others do great, and maybe in a way that you don't always get credit for, but—Corey: Well, no, I've done experiments on this. When I am unflinchingly positive about some aspect of what a cloud provider or other vendor has done or a feature that I really like, it gets almost no notice. But when I say, “Oh, and this part is crap,” that's the part that blows up and goes around the internet a bunch of times. And I think that's human nature. I don't know if, as an editor, you have a way to fix human nature, but if you do, I'm very interested to learn it.Alysha: [laugh]. No, we just all love to bitch and to talk about our pain points, and when somebody says it and all you can say is, “Yes, plus one million,” then it's going to get a lot of play.Corey: One aspect of what you do did scare me initially when we first started working together, and that was, you do a few things: you write as well—which that's not scary. I would expect someone who can edit would also know how to write. That does make sense. But you also do some SEO-facing work. And that in many ways feels like it is modern-day witch doctor-y because my approach to SEO has always been naive but also effective.I write compelling, original content that people like and as a result, link against or refer to. And I find the rest of it really takes care of itself. I haven't spent deep effort or large amounts of brain sweat figuring out how to appear at the top of Google search results for various terms.Alysha: Yeah. And one of the things I was tasked with as soon as I came in, was, “Please write an SEO description for each of Corey's pieces and make sure that we're writing for digital best practices, including SEO.”Corey: And I've read those descriptions and I've never had a problem with any of them because it's not something that is aligned with… anything that I hate. So, good for you on that. It's an active description using very direct, to-the-point phrasing about what it is I'm talking about. And yeah, that is, ideally what SEO should be. It's about, this is what this is, but you shouldn't have to read through a thousand meandering words while he circles the point to death like some sort of persistence hunter. I get it.Alysha: Totally. We're going to be direct and to the point, we're going to use the key nouns, but we're not going to be gross about it. And we're definitely not going to jump on the latest trend because honestly, Google's always looking to get ahead of what all of the SEO magicians are trying to magic up.Corey: I get so many emails in the course of a week for people asking to contribute articles to my blog. Which again, we do have a guest author program, but that's one of those, yeah, if that happens, we're paying you and then throwing an editor—read as you—to whoever it is that's contributing that so it comes out something that we're thrilled to have up there. But money flows one direction in that and it's from us to the guest author. Instead there, “Oh, we're going to provide high-quality content,” or they'll link to something on the site, usually a newsletter back issue, and say, “Hey, include our link to this because it's relevant,” and it's clearly for SEO juice. And first, I'm sure Google and the other search engines would just love if I suddenly have a bunch of crappy links to low-quality sites. But further, it doesn't serve the audience in any meaningful way, and… it just irks me.Alysha: And when you start playing that game, you get into the middle of all of that the link-swapping, and trying to up their SEO juice, and it is wild the amount of money that people will offer to pay for a link on a reputable site. It's super valuable. So, the way that I approach linking in your pieces is exactly the same way that I did it in news, which is, where do we need to show our sources, where will people want to verify information? Let's just go ahead and give them that link. And that's about it. Like, what do people need to know?Corey: I always worry, on some level, that I'm thinking about this all wrong. But if I'm being snarky and sarcastic with all of the SEO people emailing me who then try to offer me SEO services, it's frankly, if that's what I'm looking for, shouldn't I just Google ‘SEO' and pick whoever's at the top of the list? Because they clearly get it in one.Alysha: [laugh].Corey: It turns out, for some reason, they don't really have a good rejoinder to that when you ask them directly.Alysha: [laugh]. I love that. And might I mention, when I do search for topics that I know you guys have articles on, I won't necessarily include The Duckbill Group, but you do show up because you are a reputable and authoritative source who does not play the SEO game.Corey: I do have one more question that lies down this path that I'm actually deeply curious about, and I've always found it to be something that is incredibly helpful for my purposes. But your background is in journalism and writing and editing. It is not—for some unknown reason—the world of cloud. Almost like you want to be happy or something.Alysha: [laugh].Corey: How approachable or unapproachable is my writing to someone who does not live in the space the way I do?Alysha: Oh, that's a really interesting question. So, I'm married to somebody who spent ten years, just about, working specifically around AWS, in the—Corey: It took that long for them to stop the billing. I get it.Alysha: [laugh]. And my brother-in-law is also a software engineer. So, I have witnessed enough conversations between the two of them that I had a decent idea of what I was getting into. And those two are my resources when I have stupid questions that I don't want to ask you [laugh] in a Google Doc comment. So, I go to them, I get the lowdown, I do a little research sometimes, but by and large, we're talking about bigger concepts, and I think sometimes it might even help that I'm not in the weeds on some of the details of things that you talk about because it helps me see patterns that I'm a little—I can make some connections that maybe you're not making in the middle of the weeds.Corey: It's always tricky to figure out where to level-set what I'm talking about. I don't want to turn every article to have the first 18 pages of it be a primer on what Cloud computing is. I have to assume, at least on some level, people have a baseline level of understanding. But there are times I go too far in the other direction where I assume that, “Oh, well, I used to be a software engineer, so I'm going to write as if everyone reading is.”In fact, the audience is not overwhelmingly populated by purely software engineers. There's a lot of systems folk, there's a lot of managers at a variety of different levels, ranging from line management to executive, and it really takes all kinds. I'm always surprised when people reach out and mention they've been reading for a while, and then they describe what they do for a day job and it's nothing I would have ever considered. It would not have occurred to me early on that people who spent their entire life in the finance department would find most of what I talk about that isn't cost related to be interesting. But they assure me they do. Okay.Alysha: That makes sense because it gives them insight into what the other half of the business is doing.Corey: On some level, what I've found is you have to pick—and it can vary; it can honestly vary even within a piece, but at every given point, I feel like you have to have someone in mind that you're writing for because otherwise you're trying to write for everyone and in so doing, you write something that's valuable to no one.Alysha: Do you remember how much I hammered on you about who your audience was at the beginning of every single article when I first started editing?Corey: Oh, yes. That's what shaped the ideas. I mean, honestly, if you were telling me the same thing, now that you were two-and-a-half years ago, I'd wonder if—in your case—if I was even reading the notes that you put into these things. Editors make your writing better, but they also longer-term make you a better writer, is my firm belief.Alysha: Oh, that's lovely.Corey: I'm assuming that the mistakes I make are at least more interesting now as opposed to some of the ones that we had long conversations about. I hope.Alysha: Totally. It is interesting every time.Corey: So, I have to ask, given as someone who is a big believer in writing, and because it's a way of expressing myself and giving myself a platform that doesn't require me to be in the same room as a bunch of other people or them to be willing to fire up a podcast and listen to me or watch a video, they can access it anywhere they are at any given point in time, I love the writing process, but the editing process is challenging for me. You have—seem to be on the other side of that where you are much happier editing than you are writing. At least that's my perception of you and your background. If that is accurate, how do you think about this stuff because it's foreign to me?Alysha: That's really funny. So, I actually started out thinking that I wanted—well, I wanted to work with words, and I thought that the way that you could do that was by writing, and specifically reporting. So, that was the track I went down. And it actually wasn't until my first full-time job out of college—I was working as a copy editor at Politico—that I realized that I could wake up and edit every single day. That was what I had the energy for.And when I say wake up and edit, I mean, it was 4 a.m. and we were editing the newsletters that had to go out by 6 a.m. so quite literally, it was the thing I could wake up and do. And I think what I really love about it is taking something that's already good, that's already great in a lot of instances, and making it better, so it's just that little bit more clear, more understandable, that your message is getting across in a way that still feels authentic to you. Because I can tell you one of my least favorite things as a writer was having someone come through and edit and I could tell you every single spot that that editor had touched. And it sort of… it burned. It just didn't feel quite right.Corey: Suddenly the voice switches, like effectively, you have someone whose voice sounds like you, for example, and then for half a sentence, it suddenly sounds like James Earl Jones is delivering it, and then it goes back to your voice. It's hmm.Alysha: Totally. So, with my experience of editing as a writer, my goal is to make that as seamless as possible. So, I want to show you the changes that you're going to be most interested in and that I think you might want to learn from. And the changes that I do make, I want them to sound just like you.Corey: Honestly, because there's usually a week or two in time that happens between me writing a draft or something, and then going back, when you've just automatically made some of the quick rewrites on the fly, unless I go looking, I never realize which parts you've touched or not. And I'm the one that wrote it. So, I guess, honestly, you're in a terrific position to put words in my mouth if you want to. Have fun. But that is, to me, the mark of an editor who gets it.I just find it scary, on some level, to the idea, from my perspective, of fading into the background. I always lived in fear of not having my name front and center and being in the spotlight, for good or bad, just because it's that's who I am. That's what I bias for.Alysha: That's really interesting. Totally makes sense because you are very front and center. When I was working at Reuters in Brussels, one of the things I think is really cool that they do is they put their editors' byline at the bottom of articles, so the editors do get a hat-tip of recognition. But I think as somebody who's a little bit of a helper, I just get a lot of enjoyment out of making other people's stuff better.Corey: I can certainly say that you've been a smashing success from my perspective, although I'm sure now you're going to be inundated with people who are urging you to, “Okay, now make what he says less bullshit or at least something that I can agree with.” Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work that way most of the time.Alysha: No.Corey: Though you are getting very proficient at sanding off some of the more colorful metaphors. Thank you for that.Alysha: [laugh]. Anytime. I got to keep my [unintelligible 00:33:28], too.Corey: If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to find you, and—take this as a personal recommendation—hire you to edit their stuff, so I don't have to claw my eyes out as much when I read their things?Alysha: You can find me at payettemediahouse.com. P-A-Y-E-T-T-E Media House.Corey: And we will, of course, put a link to that in the [show notes 00:33:50]. Thank you so much for taking the time to go through something different with me in a stranger way than we normally wind up communicating, which is via tracking changes.Alysha: [laugh]. I love it. It's nice to see your face.Corey: It really is. I have a face for radio though, so it's only for so long. Alysha Love, Executive Editor at Payette Media House. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. 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I'm excited to chat with Precious Williams on today's Seven Figure Consultant Podcast episode! Precious, known as the “Pitch Queen”, reveals her secret weapon and thoughts on knowing when you are seated at the wrong table. Precious has insights into packaging, positioning, and pitching. No one puts it quite like Precious does. If you want to be successful in any endeavor, get a copy of Precious's new book, Rainmaking 101, From Day 1. This discussion is fast-paced; you don't want to miss a minute. In this episode: [00:23] Introduction of the “Pitch Queen”. Precious describes her tumultuous childhood and the ups and downs that positioned her to be where she is today.  [07:48] Where do you turn when you don't have someone encouraging you, and how do you know your place within a group?  [13:35] Precious discusses when her backstory is appropriate to share and when it is not. She outlines the different media she has mastered.  [20:25] Precious shares her take on pitching and taking an interest in others.  [24:34] Precious discusses whether somebody can learn a talent or are you born with it and what about being a visionary?  [29:19] What is real entrepreneurship? Precious discusses her new book, Rainmaking 101 From Day 1.  Key Takeaways:  Precious's story proves positively that you can make it from any background, and even after failing, you can come back stronger than the first time. Often the language you use describing a situation or a product makes the difference in how successful it is. Elevate the conversation, elevate the terminology. Don't take no for an answer if you are determined to be accomplished and recognized in any field. Failure is not the end of a goal. Instead, it is a stepping stone towards accomplishment. Quotes:   “I just have to say to you at this moment; I receive your compliment. Because many of us as women can't accept a compliment. I need to receive what you just said because it's a testament to my grandmother.  It's a testament to my higher power.” - Precious Williams. “I had to go where I was celebrated, not tolerated. Also, if I'm not invited to the table, understand that rejection is the ultimate protection. There are some places you don't need to be, and if you're constantly fighting to be seen in certain groups, maybe that's the group you shouldn't be in.” - Precious Williams. Guest Bio:  Precious L. Williams CEO, Perfect Pitches by Precious, LLC #KillerPitchMaster Want to learn how to take your sales, investor, or elevator pitches from trash to straight CASH?  Or have your prospects throwing money at you every time you open your mouth?  Then, it's time to learn how to convert conversations into currency with the Pitch Queen, Precious L. Williams. Her company, Perfect Pitches by Precious teaches you the tools and tenacity to pitch with power, sell with storytelling, and develop a masterful mindset for communication. It's time for you to learn how to #SlayAllCompetition Precious busts norms and shifts perspectives to help teams own their awesomeness and bring out their “wow” factor.  Your leaders and teams will up their game — on their terms — to develop the cunning, clarity and confidence that's been inside them all along. What's more, they'll get unstuck and discover a renewed and refreshed energy to own the mindset of the pitch in a way they never thought possible. If you're ready to go from milquetoast to memorable, attracting and captivating your prospects while closing the sale in an authentic way, it's time to #pitchforprofit. And you can bet you're going to have fun doing it! Precious L. Williams is a 13-time national elevator pitch champion. She has also been featured on "Shark Tank," CNN, Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Black Enterprise Magazine, Essence Magazine, and the movie "LEAP." Her current clients include Microsoft, LinkedIn, Google, NBCUniversal, Federal Reserve Bank, Intuit Quickbooks, Yelp, Harvard University, and more. Precious is a dynamic international professional speaker, effective corporate trainer and 4X #1 bestselling author. Useful Links Get in touch with Jessica to discuss your consulting business Jessica's LinkedIn The Six Elements of a Seven Figure Business – Free Download Precious Williams - Linkedin Precious Williams - Instagram Rainmaking 101 - From Day 1 - The Book The Dames - 6, 7 and 8 Figure Business Community

Congrats! You started making money from your business. Now how do you manage your finances so you don't take any steps back? Hosts Austin and Jannese unpack the different types of business accounts and explain how to track your cash flow while determining which costs can be reduced. The hosts are later joined by Harlem Chocolate Factory founder, Jessica Spaulding who shares her story about how she learned to adjust her accounting processes to accommodate the success of her growing business. Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you manage your business: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/payments/manage-cash-flow/ https://quickbooks.intuit.com/payments/quickbooks-checking/   For more insights on cash flow and money management, visit:  https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/cash-flow/what-is-cash-flow/   For key takeaways from this week's episode, visit:  https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/running-a-business/mind-the-business-episode-3/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Precious Williams is a 13-time national elevator pitch champion, a four-time best-selling author, and has been featured on “Shark Tank,” CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise Magazine, and more for her killer pitches. We discussed all of this and more—plus her new book Rainmaking 101 from Day One—this week on the On Brand podcast. About Precious Williams Every time you open your mouth, your prospects will be throwing money at you.  Learn the simple steps to wowing your customers with a perfect pitch with Precious L. Williams, the #KillerPitch Master. Precious L. Williams is a 13-time national elevator pitch champion. She has also been featured on “Shark Tank,” CNN, Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Black Enterprise Magazine, Essence Magazine, and the movie “LEAP.” Her current clients include Microsoft, LinkedIn, Google, NBCUniversal, Federal Reserve Bank, Intuit Quickbooks, Yelp, Harvard University, and more. Precious is a dynamic international professional speaker, effective corporate trainer, and four-time #1 bestselling author.   Episode Highlights How do you become a 13-time pitch champion? “I did it out of necessity—my back was up against the wall,” Precious said as we began. “No one would listen to a fat Black woman.” Killer pitches became Precious's survival mechanism—even during challenging times. “What you want to do is interrupt the pattern of boring,” Precious said on her approach to crafting killer pitches. This includes owning and sharing your unique story. “When you sound like everyone else, you get treated like everyone else,” Precious cautioned. You also have to train your network on how to refer others to you. This is a focus of Precious's new book Rainmaking 101 from Day One. What brand has made Precious smile recently? Precious told another amazing story here—sharing how SA Sweets sent her both an amazing product with excellent service. “And the owner is another Black woman with a dream. I want to give ‘em some fire!” To learn more, check out her website and connect with her on LinkedIn. As We Wrap … Listen and subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, iHeart, YouTube, and RSS. Rate and review the show—If you like what you're hearing, be sure to head over to Apple Podcasts and click the 5-star button to rate the show. And, if you have a few extra seconds, write a couple of sentences and submit a review to help others find the show. Did you hear something you liked on this episode or another? Do you have a question you'd like our guests to answer? Let me know on Twitter using the hashtag #OnBrandPodcast and you may just hear your thoughts here on the show. On Brand is a part of the Marketing Podcast Network. Until next week, I'll see you on the Internet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Having a great product or service is just one part of having a successful business. You also need people to know about your business so that it becomes profitable. Hosts Jannese and Austin share how they effectively used social media to build their brands and explain different marketing strategies including loyalty/rewards programs, remarketing, SEO, one-to-one marketing, and email marketing.  Viral marketer Andrea Casanova joins the conversation to share her story of immigrating to the US and creating a marketing agency where she helps clients discover the best marketing strategy to take them to the next level. Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you start, grow, and market your business: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/ https://quickbooks.intuit.com/online/starting-up/ For more insights on marketing your small business, visit:  https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/marketing/marketing-plan-examples-for-small-business-owners/ For key takeaways from this week's episode, visit:  https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/running-a-business/mind-the-business-episode-2/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Having a great product or service is just one part of having a successful business. You also need people to know about your business so that it becomes profitable. Hosts Jannese and Austin share how they effectively used social media to build their brands and explain different marketing strategies including loyalty/rewards programs, remarketing, SEO, one-to-one marketing, and email marketing.  Viral marketer Andrea Casanova joins the conversation to share her story of immigrating to the US and creating a marketing agency where she helps clients discover the best marketing strategy to take them to the next level. Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you start, grow, and market your business: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/ https://quickbooks.intuit.com/online/starting-up/ For more insights on marketing your small business, visit:  https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/marketing/marketing-plan-examples-for-small-business-owners/ For key takeaways from this week's episode, visit:  https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/running-a-business/mind-the-business-episode-2/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode of the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast, we are joined by Julie Gordon White, Founder & CEO of Bossa Bars. Julie Gordon White is the founder and CEO of Bossa Bars Menopause Energy Bars, and advocates for women in all stages of "The Pause". Julie is also an award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling business author, and TEDx speaker. In 2020, Julie launched Bossa Bars after personally struggling with the "Menopause Middle" and watching her friends suffer in silence as their symptoms and increasing weight gain were robbing their confidence. Bossa Bars, named an Oprah Daily Best Menopause Product, are delicious plant-based, nutrient-dense, and low-calorie energy bars with all the goodness a menopausal body needs, along with a MenoLounge community to help women #menolikeaboss! Bossa Bars are available on Amazon and at www.bossabars.com. Prior to starting Bossa Bars, in 2004, Julie founded BlueKey Business Brokerage Mergers & Acquisitions, a boutique multi-million dollar firm, and authored a bestselling book, "EXIT! 12 Steps to Sell Your Business for the Price You Deserve". In 2012, Julie began living her next passion as the founder of The WELL for Women Entrepreneurs, teaching thousands of women how to crack the code of growing to a million and someday selling for a million through step-by-step training and coaching programs, media, speaking, and signature events.Julie has been a featured small business expert for Google Small Business and Intuit QuickBooks; and has been quoted in Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg Businessweek.com, New York Times, Enterprising Women, Black Enterprise, and San Francisco Business Times, Haute SF, Nextdoor, Thrive Global, Authority Magazine and others. To learn more about Bossa Bars, visit http://www.bossabars.com/     We would love to hear from you, and it would be awesome if you left us a 5-star review. Your feedback means the world to us, and we will be sure to send you a special thank you for your kind words. Don't forget to hit “subscribe” to automatically be notified when guest interviews and Express Tips drop every Tuesday and Friday. Interested in joining our monthly entrepreneur membership? Email Annette directly at yourock@ievolveconsulting.com to learn more.  Ready to invest in yourself? Book your free session with Annette HERE.  Keep evolving, entrepreneur. We are SO proud of you! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/annette-walter/support

Season 4 Episode 43 | Recorded July 18, 2022 In this episode, Scott and Jason sit down with Will Baker and Ford baker, CPA to discuss the world of accounting and software development. The conversation covers a range of topics, from the challenges of tax season to making changes at a firm, including adopting a Me First mindset and cutting down staff. They also delve into the world of accounting automation, exploring the Once software and its unique features. As the conversation progresses, they touch on rebranding a business and the challenges of compatibility issues and outsourcing in the post-pandemic world. They also share insights on how to sell Once and differentiate it from other solutions in the market.  Whether you're an accountant or simply interested in software development, this episode provides an inside look into the world of accounting automation and the challenges facing the industry today. Ford & Will Baker Texas A&M Ford's loss Blaming tax season Seeing improvements Making changes at a firm and getting rid of 1040 clients Me First mindset Other partners and firm size Cutting down staff Once accounting automation Why build the software? We used to have it figured out on paper What makes their software different Changing categories in the software Setting standards for your firm Other differences… Patent police Who'e idea was this? Name change/Rebranding Accounting High rebrand and other rebranding Funko pop and magnets Other solutions with Once The competition Access to data Compatibility issues of competing softwares What went wrong and solutions to these problems Post pandemic issues The outsourcing problem How to sell Once Rapping and Wrapping up Tax Twitter Rap and real music All the Shoutouts: Sage, AICPA's Engage, Nick Saban, Once Accounting, Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Nav, Xero, UltraTax, Wolters Kluwer, Go Systems, Thomson Reuters, AccountingWEB, Will's Twitter, Ford's Twitter --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accountinghigh/message

There is so much excitement around starting a business, but hardly any insight on what it truly takes to be your own boss. To help unpack the necessary tools you need to jumpstart your business, Intuit QuickBooks, in collaboration with iHeartRadio, is bringing you "Mind the Business: Small Business Success Stories" Every episode, join hosts Jannese Torres (Yo Quiero Dinero) and Austin Hankwitz (Rate of Return) as they interview business owners who will share their journey of trials and tribulations with entrepreneurship.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Season 4 Episode 33 | Recorded October 6, 2022 In today's episode, Scott talks to Dan Luthi, of Ignite Spot Accounting Services. Dan shares his story, from his younger days to how he got into accounting. He talks about how his Mormon faith has influenced his desire to help people. Dan also shares his insights on how to avoid issues in business, building good client relationships, and thriving in the industry. He discusses the firm's hard numbers, equity, and they also talk about cloud accounting. Dan advises on how to hire and work with CFOs, build a management team, and be cognizant of diversity in the workplace. Another episode that's sure to bring great value to all firm owners. The intro and the radio from hell Young Dan Building doors When he switched to accounting A little about Dan and his family Being a Mormon and helping people Helping people and accounting Time and hourly contributions Dealing with issues and not pointing the finger Having good clients Scope seep and scope creep Thrival Ignite Spot Firm and Hard numbers Equity at the firm Commitment to the organization App stack Cloud accounting and tax law Bookkeeping, CAAS, tax first, etc. Getting out of tax Leading with Tax and Bookkeeping differences Shifts in the industry CFO services Sales Personnel capacity Forecasting services and tools How to hire CFOs and margins Paying CFOs and working with them Management Team The CEO role Diversity and being cognizant The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Accounting Podcast All the Shoutouts: Ignite Spot Accounting Services, Ron Baker, Jason Ackerman, CPA, CFP®, CGMA, Jason M. Blumer, CPA, Karbon X, Judah Kosky, Ryan Lazanis, CPA, Xero, Intuit QuickBooks, BILL, Gusto, ADP, Rippling, Dext, Avalara, Ignition, Drake, Kanye, Canopy, Thomson Reuters, Envoy, Divvy, Nikole Mackenzie, Lorilyn Wilson, CPA --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/accountinghigh/message

Season 4 Episode 30 | Recorded LIVE March 12, 2023 follow along with the full brackets here After receiving thousands of nominations for the Accountant Bracket Challenge "ABC March Appness" aka ABC Tournament, we compiled all the results and split everyone up into 2 major categories, Accountant Applications and Accountant Education. From there, we continued to categorize the top nominated platforms into 4 Regions, 8 Brackets with 8 teams all competing for best in class in their respective brackets to advance to the Sweet Sixteen, plus a bonus 8 team Tax Bracket Here's a list of all the categories, regions, and brackets!! Accounting Applications Business Money Plooto, Expensify, Bill, Divvy, Gusto, Dext, Rippling, Relay Business Bridge Liveflow, Slack, Tallyfor, Once Accounting, Appstream, Zapier, G-Accon, Reach Reporting Accounting Practice Ignition, Rewind, Liscio, TOA, Karbon, TaxDome, Financial Cents, Practice Protect Accounting Books Keeper, Saasant, Intuit QuickBooks, FreshBooks, RightTool, Uncat, Xero, Excel BONUS Tax Bracket Avalara, Intuit TurboTax, UltraTax, CCH, Intuit Proconnect, Drake, SafeSend, SmartVault Accounting Education Learning School Earmark, CPA Academy, Rock the Books, Taking Your Firm Virtual, The Grove, Bookkeeper Launch, Tanya's Bookkeeper Bootcamp, AICPA Town Halls Learning Community FutureFirm, Bookkeeping Buds, Roundtable Labs, Workflow Wateringhole, Accounting Salon, Dark Horse CPAs, Realize, #TaxTwitter Media Podcasts Cloud Accounting Podcast, Drink While You Think, FAAS Evolution, Ambitious Bookkeeper, Accounting High, Oh My Fraud, Unique CPA, AutomationTown Media Influential Roman Villard, Heather Smith, Jason Staats, Ron Baker, Tax TeleGraf, Radical CPA, Bookkeeping Side Hustle, Appy Hour --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/accountinghigh/message

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