How do spreadsheets and business finances make your life better? Think I’m full of it?

Today we’re talking self-employed and freelancer business finances 101. Treating your self-employed work and offerings as a business will bring more ease, structure, and stability into your life as a whole. Getting good at handling your business finances, and setting up the systems you need is self-care for your work, supporting you and nurturing you and your life, rather than draining you.

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This week on the Creatives Do Money Podcast, Episode #31

We’re going to touch on:

Here are the simple but key habits and systems to put in place too set your creative self-employed business up for success:

Why it’s important and will make life easier in the end.

Have a clear tailored-for-you Chart of Accounts, aka Business Finances Blueprint

What does that even mean, why you should care, and what is the basic structure of your Chart of Accounts

Stay up to date

How exactly this makes all the difference in your work as a whole

Prepare for taxes year round

What to think about and how exactly to do it

Savings in your business

Take care of your future self

Paying yourself

Why it’s so impactful to actually do this, and do it intentionally

The identity of a business owner

As a recent guest put it “it’s time for radically kind people to get comfortable with power and money.”

So, what if you could redefine ‘business owner’ for yourself, in a way that fits you, and invites you to take the financial management of your business and life seriously?

Lastly, I share a couple tips of how to get cracking with implementing (or updating) these systems for yourself

Resources / Links

Money Coaching with Eowyn - email [email protected]