The Empowered CPA

In this episode I take a deep dive into what you need to do today, to get ready for the future. To make progress you need to see what is happening currently and forge a clear path to where you want to go. We talk strategy, goal setting, life cycles in business and in your personal life, and how it is up to you to create the business you want. I discuss what has worked for me personally, the boundaries I have put into place, why I quit taking on new clients this year and how I am working on other projects that continue to drive my business into the future and fill my cup.

In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with Amanda Hamilton, the founder of Hamilton Raye, a leading services Company whose mission is to provide Founders, Executives, and Leadership with reliable, professional, and trustworthy support to unlock their most valuable asset: time.

We’ll discuss how was Amanda was driven to create Hamilton Raye through her own administrative experience. We’ll discuss how she started off wanting to create a business with location flexibility, to now employing over 25 people all over the country. She’ll dive into her unique onboarding process that that has proven reliability, allowing clients to get off the ground smoothly and efficiently.

Of course, we’ll discuss how we can be better through tools…exploring help with calendar management, inbox curation, travel planning and content management.

I’m so pleased to be able to speak to Dr. Adia Gooden, licensed clinical psychologist, with a B.A. from Stanford and a Ph.D. From DePaul University. She is a TEDx vet, who spoke on Cultivating Unconditional Self-Worth which has cultivated almost a million views to date. In this episode, we pull back the curtain on what expecting mothers need to know before going out on maternity leave. What “work capital” us Moms need to raise with our clients before the due date, what key components of the business need to be identified and assigned (if possible), and what we need to do to ensure that when we’re ready to come back that there is work ready for us.

In this episode, we enter the world of social media with Cristy Harfmann, creator of the Happy Family Blog.  Cristy is a South Florida native, wife, mother, and one of the most sincere and genuine people I’ve met in my time here.  We discuss how the Happy Family Blog came to be, swallowing pride and reaching out for help and finding joy in the everyday.  We talk about the different ways to monetize your information and how to position yourself for exposure.  She’ll also discuss how her past role in marketing was a natural fit for blogging, how creating a business that helps others openly and honestly isn’t necessarily giving up the secret sauce, and why she hates the word “influencer.” 

In this episode of the podcast we speak to Josh Wenner, founder of Emotional Resilience Training (“ERT”) and co-founder of K4 & Valor. His curriculum and frameworks are being used to help men, first responders, veterans and medical professional who deal in high stress and trauma to reintegrate back into everyday life. We’ll discuss what led him to create ERT to service others, only to discover that the very creation of ERT itself was something he personally needed most. He’ll break down the frameworks he uses, and what tools you can use daily to shed the noise and truly be presents. We’ll also discuss high stress environments, the four levels of trauma and the different methods of armor he teaches in his programs to combat emotional instincts and allowing you to thrive in your personal life.

In this episode of the podcast, I talk with Meghan Phillips. Meghan is the founder and owner of Honey, a creative studio based in Sacramento, California.  She is an entrepreneur, accomplished businesswoman, wine lover and Sonoma Valley native.  Honey focuses on supporting brands in their creative process in a holistic, collaborative way.  

We talk about what it was like to restructure her business, being vulnerable with people to achieve greatness and what she is planning for the next phase of her journey.  

In this episode of the podcast, I chat with Ashley, a jewelry designer, that I met in the lobby on the way into the studio to record. She was asking me some tax and accounting questions before I started recording and I asked if she would like to join me for an episode. We talk about how she went from
corporate sales, to running her own business and the challenges she encountered.

We talk about Fashion Week, goals, shame and why planning during the good times is essential to long term success. We even talked about what it is like to live on a boat - and why you don’t want seals as neighbors!

In this episode of the podcast, we talk about some of the most important things you can do right now as an entrepreneur to get for tax season.  We discuss how to organize your information and why you need to quit mixing personal and business accounts NOW, to what is a quarterly tax payment and why it is essential for an entrepreneur.  

The goal of this episode is to educate and instill confidence to one of the most daunting parts of running a business.   

In this podcast we discuss how leaving my comfort zone led me into the world of beauty and partnerships…with an emphasis on both! Erin Martin, wife, mother, photographer and my now business partner dives into her background as a South Florida photographer and purveyor of glamour in our community.

We discuss how she has grown to appreciate the process around running a glamour
business, and how our unlikely meeting resulted in an education for both her and I on working together to run a business and how to pivot to keep moving forward despite what was going on around us.

Nani, of Nani’s Dough, and I talk disruption, the path less traveled, when to put down the cold brew and how new adventures fuel his consistent passion for change.  How Nani went from tech to donuts, and the experiences along the way that changed how he approaches Entrepreneurship.