Macy Smetzler learned the numbers before she learned the industry, entering QuickBooks for her parents' small business in southeast Idaho years before she ever sat in an accounting class. That early apprenticeship in hard work carried her through college soccer and into public accounting, but it also nearly burned her out before she made partner at Sorren. On Episode 17 of Common Threads, she talks candidly about the perfectionism that kept her up at night rewriting emails, the client who threatened her CPA license over aggressive tax positions, and the moment she decided to walk away from that account rather than compromise her integrity. Heath Alloway digs into how she rebuilt her approach around teaching her team instead of just fixing their work, freeing herself from being the only person who could handle her biggest clients. It's a conversation about ambition, boundaries, and what it actually costs to grow into leadership.

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