Accountants On Purpose

That's a wrap on Season 2 of Accountants on Purpose!

It has been an amazing 11 episodes showcasing some very talented entrepreneurs. Here are the top take aways that our guests shared with us from their journey so far…

We would also really like to thank our amazing sponsor, the University of Adelaide's startup incubator - ThincLab!

In this episode we cover:

• Be genuine and authentic - Miriam Holme

• There's no such thing as the perfect time for anything, jump in when you can - Chris Gray

• Set yourself up for success every day - Spencer Sheinin

• Stay curious, be grateful and let go of judgement - Paul Dunn
• The impact of having a purpose driven business will outweigh the challenges - Andrew Van De Beek

• Stay connected to your community and strive to help better peoples lives every day - Andrew Mattner

• Being an optimist can help to sell the vision but a good accountant is very valuable - Stuart Snyder

• You have to understand your barriers in order to choose your best growth strategy - Mark Lim

• Blockchain will become the norm and accountants need to be ready for it - Chris Hooper

• Your business can be a true reflection of yourself which includes your core values and your purpose - Harvee Pene

And many more! Check out the full episode.

[FOOD FOR THOUGHT]

• Season 3 is just around the corner - so stay tuned!

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[ABOUT THE HOST]

Sarah Bartholomeusz is the founder of You Legal, an Adelaide-based law firm that provides business leaders with the confidence and certainty they need to make bold decisions within their organisations. You Legal provides top tier consultative legal services to corporate clients, including ASX listed companies.

Sarah's clients also call her the Goddess of Governance because she works to protect and nurture her clients' businesses so that they can focus on having the impact that they want in the world.

When it comes to running a business with a purpose that is higher than profit, Harvee Pene is a master of it. He is the Co-Founder of Inspire - Life Changing Accountants and after overcoming many challenges in his life, has ultimately decided to dedicate himself to giving back with over 7 million "giving impacts" to date.

Harvee is a qualified Chartered Accountant, business owner, author, TedX speaker, podcast host, father and cancer survivor with a vision for building a better world which he is actually doing something about.

In this episode we cover:

• Harvee's mantra that he lives by following a life changing moment that completely blind sided him.
• Finding his life purpose.
• The story of Inspire Life Changing Accountants and becoming Australia's most impactful accounting firm.
• The inspiration behind Harvee's business.
• Saving clients over $10 million dollars in tax which allows for donating 10 million days of food, water, health and sanitation to families in need.
• Harvee's "Win for Win" model.
• Cashed Up - the intention of Harvee and his business partners book to help young families who are struggling with their finances.
• The importance of having a proactive accountant.

And much more! Check out the full episode.

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• Inspire before you expire.
• It's impossible to get cashed up if half of your earnings go to tax.
• When businesses have a purpose that goes beyond profit they tend to be more financially successful.
• There are two most important days in your life. The first is the day you are born and the second is the day you find out why.

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• Inspire Life Changing Accountants
• Cashed Up
• Inspiring Business For Good Podcast with Harvee Pene

[ABOUT THE HOST]

Sarah Bartholomeusz is the founder of You Legal, an Adelaide-based law firm that provides business leaders with the confidence and certainty they need to make bold decisions within their organisations. You Legal provides top tier consultative legal services to corporate clients, including ASX listed companies.

Sarah's clients also call her the Goddess of Governance because she works to protect and nurture her clients' businesses so that they can focus on having the impact that they want in the world.

Our guest Chris Hooper, at the time of this interview, was the CEO of Accodex. Unfortunately, Accodex has since gone into liquidation and we feel it's important to show this interview because it highlights the rollercoaster that is entrepreneurship and how real it can be.

Chris Hooper is an accounting futurist who believes that accountants can change the world! He is passionate about helping small business owners and he was one of South Australia's inaugural Top 40 under 40 Business Leaders last year.

We would like to give a shout out to Chris and say that we are here for you.

In this episode we cover:

• Chris' obsession with Disney movies and the meaning behind his favourite song from Aladdin - Prince Ali.
• How being involved in "Bake Sales" as a child, was the launching pad for Chris' accounting and business career and the lightbulb moment later on.
• Not finishing High School did not mean that University was out of reach.
• Why the most important step for young accountants is to have a mentor.
• The motivation behind starting Accodex with a friend from High School.
• What it means to be an accounting futurist.

And much more! Check out the full episode.

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• Accounting is the articulation or the expression of business.
• Google search: The 1099 Economy
• Article - The 6 Best Moves In My Early Accounting Career Moves In My Early Accounting Career

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[ABOUT THE HOST]

Sarah Bartholomeusz is the founder of You Legal, an Adelaide-based law firm that provides business leaders with the confidence and certainty they need to make bold decisions within their organisations. You Legal provides top tier consultative legal services to corporate clients, including ASX listed companies.

Sarah's clients also call her the Goddess of Governance because she works to protect and nurture her clients' businesses so that they can focus on having the impact that they want in the world.

Mark Lim is the CEO and Founder of award-winning growth services firm, Magnetic Alliance. Mark has over 17 years years experience working with ASX listed companies, Fortune 500 companies and fast growth entrepreneurs.

Mark was a winner of the InDaily Top 40 Under 40 Business Leaders for South Australia last year. Mark trained as an accountant but at his heart he's an entrepreneur and he's broken down many barriers to get to where he is today.

In this episode we cover:

• Why Mark listens to the epic sounds of Hans Zimmer and orchestral music to motivate him - and the scientific data behind it.
• How Mark stumbled upon Brazilian Jujitsu as his sport of choice.
• Mark explains what the turning point was for him when he decided to get out of the accounting industry.
• How having an accounting background has played a big role in being able to help clients now.
• The difference between an "I" shaped career and a "T" shaped career.
• Why CFO's call Mark to find out how to use numbers to change behaviours.
• Magnetic Alliance - what it is and how it came about.
• What makes a good entrepreneur and how to have a good strategy for business growth.

And much more! Check out the full episode.

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• Using what you currently know can bring a new dimension to a new field of interest.
• You can't be scared to broaden your skill base as your career will always change.
• To be an entrepreneur you have to have a bulletproof mindset and be unstoppable.

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[ABOUT THE HOST]

Sarah Bartholomeusz is the founder of You Legal, an Adelaide-based law firm that provides business leaders with the confidence and certainty they need to make bold decisions within their organisations. You Legal provides top tier consultative legal services to corporate clients, including ASX listed companies.

Sarah's clients also call her the Goddess of Governance because she works to protect and nurture her clients' businesses so that they can focus on having the impact that they want in the world.

Stuart Snyder was a Co-Founder, Director and CFO of YourAmigo Ltd, which was the SA Exporter of the Year in 2008. Your Amigo was incorporated in 1999 and successfully commercialised novel search technology from Flinders University. YourAmigo is a technology leader in the search marketing space with installations on websites in over 30 different countries including many of the world's top 100 companies in eCommerce.

Stuart grew up in Silicon Valley, starting his career as a CPA at KPMG in San Jose, California and migrated to Adelaide in 1993. He is now an investor in SA startups - Happy Inspector, Portalink Solutions, Frontier Microscopy, Ping and a limited partner in Blackbird Ventures.

Stuart spends time mentoring entrepreneurs and doing volunteer work - he's a self confessed lazy bum.

In this episode we cover:

• The biggest hurdles in Stuart's career so far.
• How the idea for YourAmigo came about.
• Raising capital for YourAmigo when people had not grasped the idea of Google yet.
• Being a startup investor in South Australia and the challenges within that startup space.
• The difference between working as an accountant in the United States compared to Australia.
• Being spiritual and finding his purpose from a young age.
• Going to High School with Steve Jobs.

And much more! Check out the full episode.

[FOOD FOR THOUGHT]

• "Working as an accountant, I always had a secure job but I never had job security"
• "To be successful you need to be an optimist"
• "Life is about having many different experiences"

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[ABOUT THE HOST]

Sarah Bartholomeusz is the founder of You Legal, an Adelaide-based law firm that provides business leaders with the confidence and certainty they need to make bold decisions within their organisations. You Legal provides top tier consultative legal services to corporate clients, including ASX listed companies.

Sarah's clients also call her the Goddess of Governance because she works to protect and nurture her clients' businesses so that they can focus on having the impact that they want in the world.

Andrew Mattner is the owner of Altitude Advisory and Catapult Wealth. He has over 25 years experience, consulting to the SME market and he helps business owners run better businesses so that they, their family and the people they work with have every opportunity for success.

He helps people to change their lives for the better every day.

In this episode we cover:

• Finding a sense of culture and connection growing up and having access to artefacts from the 1800's that belonged to his grandparents.
• Travelling to New Zealand, spending time with a monk and what he learned from that experience.
• Owning 6 brands and how they all came about.
• Having a strategy that allows Andrew to keep his head above water, mentally, when running so many businesses.
• Working cohesively with teams based in Adelaide and the Phillipines.
• Why Andrew has had enough of unethical recruiters and the positive outcome of a a bad experience.
• The importance of having a good shareholders agreement when things don't go to plan.

And much more! Check out the full episode.

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• "Improving lives is a key focus. Getting up and asking who can I help today."
• "Just keep having a go, it's not always going to be perfect but just keep having a go."

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[ABOUT THE HOST]

Sarah Bartholomeusz is the founder of You Legal, an Adelaide-based law firm that provides business leaders with the confidence and certainty they need to make bold decisions within their organisations. You Legal provides top tier consultative legal services to corporate clients, including ASX listed companies.

Sarah's clients also call her the Goddess of Governance because she works to protect and nurture her clients' businesses so that they can focus on having the impact that they want in the world.

Miriam Holme is a force to be reckoned with! Miriam has a long spanning career with a myriad of achievements. She is an entrepreneur, a lawyer, a qualified accountant, the host of a podcast show and has many accolades to her name.

Miriam is the founder of FAB Tax Accountants and has over 14 years experience helping people and small businesses across Australia. Her passion and drive for keeping accounting relevant and understandable has proven to be a successful formula for her as she continues to lead the way in the accounting and taxation industry.

In this episode we cover:

• How Miriam started Fab Tax Accountants and how she grew it from the kitchen table into the monster business it is today.
• Miriam's experience with Bitcoin and how she became an expert at it and gained media exposure for it - almost overnight.
• How having family support helped Miriam to build her business but it didn't mean instant success.
• Facing rejection and being authentic about it.
• Having a goal of being in the top 40 self-made women under 40.

And much more! Check out the full episode.

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• It doesn't always happen as they say, "if you build it, they will come", it is more like "if you build it and market and market and market, eventually they will come".
• I want to be genuine and authentic with sharing my journey.

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[ABOUT THE HOST]

Sarah Bartholomeusz is the founder of You Legal, an Adelaide-based law firm that provides business leaders with the confidence and certainty they need to make bold decisions within their organisations. You Legal provides top tier consultative legal services to corporate clients, including ASX listed companies.

Sarah's clients also call her the Goddess of Governance because she works to protect and nurture her clients' businesses so that they can focus on having the impact that they want in the world.

Andrew Van De Beek is pretty amazing! He is the Director and Co-Founder of Illumin8 and the Co-Founder of a social enterprise - Big Little Brush.

Andrew is passionate about working with people to help their business and investment performances meet their life goals and dreams. Knowing why they choose to do what they do puts everything into perspective. He's keenly interested in working with new businesses and original ideas, helping to discover ideal business software and technologies to help them succeed while providing the right level of advice for any need or concern.

Andrew really moves away from stereotypes that have covered the accounting profession in the past. A position where importance is given to ethical, reliable and genuine relationships with clients is paramount to him. It's only then that real change and growth can begin.

In this episode we cover:

• Being obsessed with what people are doing and what they could be doing.
• Being a whiskey enthusiast and his dream to open a whiskey bar one day as a life goal.
• Having a rebellious side and what it actually means - and it's not what you think!
• What makes Illumin8 different to the "normal" accounting firm and what's at the core of their purpose.
• Embracing technology as a completely cloud based business.

And much more! Check out the full episode.

[FOOD FOR THOUGHT]

• No one wins when you don't speak truth and honesty.
• People should be able to work where they live, not live where they work.

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[ABOUT THE HOST]

Sarah Bartholomeusz is the founder of You Legal, an Adelaide-based law firm that provides business leaders with the confidence and certainty they need to make bold decisions within their organisations. You Legal provides top tier consultative legal services to corporate clients, including ASX listed companies.

Sarah's clients also call her the Goddess of Governance because she works to protect and nurture her clients' businesses so that they can focus on having the impact that they want in the world.

Mark Jenkins has had a very successful career. He is the Director of 2020 Business Dynamics, which aims to help clients build a future-proofed business model. Mark is also the Director of The Gap, which provides systemised business development services to accountants.

Mark believes in always working with his team, clients and accounting firms to determine and achieve their goals using practically based systems, advice and coaching to get the best possible outcomes filtered through his core values.

In this episode we cover:

• Living with a pet pig which he considered his worst pet.
• What life was like, growing up in a transient family.
• His favourite memory as a teenager delivering milk on Christmas Eve.
• What Mark credits his ability to have had 3 successful businesses.
• The story of Mark's entrepreneurial father.
• Why it's important to love what you do.

And much more! Check out the full episode.

[FOOD FOR THOUGHT]

• Understanding the "3 Freedoms" consisting of financial freedom, time freedom and mind freedom.
• To grow your business, it's about connecting clients and prospects with what they want.

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[ABOUT THE HOST]

Sarah Bartholomeusz is the founder of You Legal, an Adelaide-based law firm that provides business leaders with the confidence and certainty they need to make bold decisions within their organisations. You Legal provides top tier consultative legal services to corporate clients, including ASX listed companies.

Sarah's clients also call her the Goddess of Governance because she works to protect and nurture her clients' businesses so that they can focus on having the impact that they want in the world.

Spencer Sheinin has a unique background with over 15 years as an entrepreneur combined with extensive financial experience as a CPA, CA and investment banker. He is the Founder and CEO of Shift Financial Insights, providing ridiculously simple accounting and financial insights for business on the rise.

Spencer has previously owned businesses in manufacturing, construction, cold storage and Real Estate. He has been recognised as winner of the Business in Vancouver's Top 40 Under 40 awards and finalist for the Surrey Business Excellence Awards. Spencer is an instructor for the Chartered Professional Accountants of B.C. and guest speaker at the University of British Columbia. He is a hyperactive member (since 2005) of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) and is the current Finance Expert for Canada and Past President of EO Vancouver.

Spencer is passionate about endurance sport and has completed several marathons, several more ultra-marathons (as far as 162 km), Iron man, distance cycling events, and most recently he completed his first marathon distance swim. Not surprisingly, both endurance sports and building a business require a ton of blood, sweat and tears.

In this episode we cover:

• How Spencer starts his day with a list of 40 things to check off.
• The importance of moving the needle.
• Living a life by design.
• The "aha" moment that started Shift Financial Insights.
• Creating financial empowerment
• The significance of the number: 86,400.

And much more! Check out the full episode.

[FOOD FOR THOUGHT]

• Don't lose sight in the difficult times and it will actually feed your passion later.

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[OUR SPONSOR]

Thinclab 90 Day Sprint

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[ABOUT THE HOST]

Sarah Bartholomeusz is the founder of You Legal, an Adelaide-based law firm that provides business leaders with the confidence and certainty they need to make bold decisions within their organisations. You Legal provides top tier consultative legal services to corporate clients, including ASX listed companies.

Sarah's clients also call her the Goddess of Governance because she works to protect and nurture her clients' businesses so that they can focus on having the impact that they want in the world.