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My bookkeeping basics for small biz workshop is aimed at those who don’t have a solid bookkeeping system in place, or who do a poor job of maintaining their bookkeeping on a regular basis.

I hope to convince you why keeping on top of your books is not only important for tax time, but also for the growth of your business in general!

If you don’t know your numbers – you don’t know what your business is doing… and to be successful, you REALLY need to know what’s happening with your money.

In fact… keeping your books CAN actually be kinda fun and motivating (yes, I said it! 🙊).

In the workshop, I cover:

💸 Income, expenses, & deductibles… oh my!

I also give you a downloadable spreadsheet that you can totally steal and use for your own bookeeping!

Feedback from peeps who’ve taken the workshop..

“Great workshop Jess, I actually did enjoy it.”

“I’ve just finished watching this and yes it was a great kick up the pants. This may have been written for me. I need this! Thank you for demystifying something that I can safely say I have been avoiding. I would have been just like you in your first year and had a nightmare at tax time. But you’ve saved me! I have downloaded the spreadsheet and will start TODAY. Thanks.”

“This was a great video Jess. I have a major tendency to go spreadsheet crazy and make things more complicated then needed.”

“This is the first workshop I’ve watched Jess and I love your down to earth conversational style. I’ve seen some videos of people and they’re all professional, dressed up to the nines and perfect make up. You are someone who the every day person can relate to and not feel like a fail because we don’t dress up like a supermodel every day! Thank you!”

Access this workshop right now in the Thriver Circle – my private membership community for makers.

Once you join, just head over to the Resource Library, click on Workshops, and you’ll find it right there!

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Jess x

P.S. Fun fact – membership to the Circle can be added to your ‘tax deduction’ section! 😉

If not, you’re in for a treat.

In this episode, I interview Emily about what it means to be the boss of your business and your life.

We cover a lot of juicy mindset topics, and we discuss Emily & Kathleen’s new book – Being Boss.

I loved talking with Emily, and I hope you get a lot out of this episode!

In other news… I introduce you to something very exciting happening on the pod in July!

Listen below to find out more!

It was a tough choice – but I’ve narrowed it down to 5 solo shows and 5 interviews that will inspire you, educate you, and give you a ton of practical advice to help you grow your handmade business.

I also want to give a HUGE thank you shout-out to all the wonderful members of the Thriver Circle.

I know that most of you didn’t join the Circle to support the podcast – but you are, anyway.

The same goes for anyone who has ever bought a course, guide, critique, or anything else from me over the years.

I don’t accept sponsors on my show – it is completely self-funded – so to those of you who have trusted me enough to purchase one of my products – thank you.

You are a patron of the podcast, and I couldn’t do it without your support.

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Become a member of our amazing community – the Thriver Circle.

There are all tools I’ve tried and/or use on a regular basis to manage my own businesses – and I’ve shared a number of them over the last 6 months during my Facebook Live Q&A sessions. Today I’ve brought a number of them together into one big toolkit of things to try.

If you know of or use any particularly awesome digital tools or apps to run your handmade business, I’d love to hear about them!

Share them in your IG Story and tag me @createandthrive so I can check it out. I’ll be re-sharing a number of these to my own Stories!

Here are links to all the tools I mentioned in the episode:

What are they? You’ll have to listen to find out! Or, you know, click through the list 😉

I’ve booked 5 nights in a hotel at the beach, deleted all social media and email apps from my devices, and will avoid the internet as much as I can (my aim is to use it only for navigation as I go exploring the highlights of the local region I researched before I left).

As a 37-year-old person, I remember what the world was like before the internet. It sometimes blows my mind that my generation is the last who will.

And, as an introvert, I find being constantly connected tiring, draining, and invasive at times. Being someone who runs an online business, I have good ‘digital hygiene’ – that is, I make sure that work doesn’t infect my life by putting boundaries around my work hours – and my ensuring that all of my notifications are always turned off! I also avoid getting online on Sundays.

But sometimes, I need to go one step further and turn it all off for more than a day. That is what a digital sabbatical is.

Constantly being online, checking, looking and communicating can be unhealthy so it is important to recognise when it is time to take a break from the online world to give your mind space and rest. The hardest part of this is remembering that what you leave will still be there when you get back!

So, if you struggle at times to keep yourself in check, this episode can help you work out how and why to have a digital sabbatical.

This is a REDUX – a replay of an old episode, with a new intro. If you haven’t listened to it before – or, indeed, if you have but haven’t put this into practice yourself – I hope this episode will inspire you to schedule your own digital sabbatical into your year.