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“Not Yours Yet” is a reminder to slow down before certainty hardens into story. This track lives in the space between impulse and judgment, where things are still forming and truth hasn’t fully introduced itself yet.

Feedy & the Bank Feeds lean into restraint instead of resolution, letting distortion and weight carry a message about patience, humility, and resisting the urge to “fix” what hasn’t finished speaking. It’s grunge with a conscience. Heavy, grounded, and deliberate.

This song isn’t about hesitation. It’s about respect.
 Respect for process.
 Respect for meaning.
 Respect for the quiet moment before ownership begins.

Sometimes the strongest move is not to decide.
Sometimes the truth needs room to breathe.

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In this episode of The QuickBooks Wizard, Brian introduces a new voice to the show: Bitey McSlashypaws—the tiny, confident, absolutely convinced problem-solver who represents every shortcut instinct you’ve ever had in bookkeeping.

Bitey means well.
 Bitey is fast.
 Bitey is certain.

And Bitey is exactly how books get quietly broken.

This episode explores the moment when irritation replaces clarity, when something feels “small enough to fix,” and emotion starts steering decisions. It’s the point where speed feels more attractive than understanding, and where confident guesses start replacing professional judgment.

You’ll hear how:

• Annoyance becomes more dangerous than confusion
• Certainty is often emotional, not factual
• “Fixing” can be a form of avoidance
• Letting something breathe protects the story of your books
• Authority doesn’t rush. It listens first

Through humor, character interaction, and grounded accounting psychology, this episode reminds you that good bookkeeping is not about reacting faster. It’s about staying senior to the moment.

Don’t let Bitey fix your books.
 Let clarity do it instead.

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The QuickBooks Wizard is not about speed, hacks, or pressure.
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Before You Decide is a quiet conversation between instinct and judgment.

It’s about the moment just before certainty.
 The breath before a choice.
 The pause that keeps speed from becoming mistake.

This song isn’t anti-technology.
 It isn’t anti-progress.
 It’s about staying human inside systems that move faster than understanding.

When interfaces feel confident, when dashboards look resolved, when everything seems “ready,” this song asks a gentler question:

What if clarity needs one more second?

It’s a reflection on restraint, professionalism, and the kind of authority that doesn’t rush to close stories before they’ve finished speaking.

This isn’t hesitation.
 It’s discernment.

And sometimes, that pause is where the truth becomes visible.

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In this episode of The QuickBooks Wizard, we talk about why change so often feels like failure… even when your skills are solid and your work is sound.

A new interface doesn’t erase your competence.
 It disrupts your map.

When layouts shift and familiar paths disappear, your brain reads that as uncertainty, not inconvenience. And uncertainty is heavy. It slows you down. It makes you question yourself. Not because you’ve lost ability, but because your orientation system is rebuilding.

This episode is about reclaiming authority inside that moment.

Not by fighting the software.
 Not by rushing to “get fast again.”
 But by understanding what your role really is when tools evolve.

You’ll hear how:

• Confidence isn’t created by polished screens
• Authority doesn’t come from speed
• And why judgment still belongs to you, not the interface

It’s a calm conversation about professionalism, restraint, and the quiet confidence that returns when you stop letting design changes define your worth.

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“Don’t Name It Yet” is about the moment before certainty hardens — when speed feels safer than truth, and labeling something too quickly offers quiet at a cost.

Built around themes of pressure, shortcuts, and premature answers, the song explores how easy it is to staple down a guess just to make the tension stop — and how heavy that decision becomes later. Every system tells a story, and every label we apply turns uncertainty into narrative, whether it’s accurate or not 

The Wizard appears here as a steady presence, not pushing for answers, but reminding us that restraint is not fear, and waiting is not failure. Some questions deserve space. Some truths arrive only if they’re not forced.

This track sits with the discomfort most people rush past — the waiting room between “I don’t know yet” and “I’m sure.” It’s a refusal to trade clarity for quiet, or honesty for relief.

If you’ve ever felt pressure to explain something before you really understood it — or watched a small guess turn into a story you had to defend — this song lives right there.

Stay in the workshop.
And don’t name it yet.

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Most bookkeeping problems don’t start as mistakes.
They start as moments.

A moment when something feels slightly off.
A moment when you don’t have time to chase it.
A moment when you tell yourself, “I’ll come back to this.”

And then you don’t.

In this episode of The QuickBooks Wizard, we slow that moment down.

You’ll learn why labeling a transaction too quickly often creates more cleanup later — and how one simple pause can prevent confusion before it starts. This isn’t about being perfect or moving slower. It’s about being honest about what you know, what you don’t, and leaving context behind for future-you.

The Three-Question Weekly Review

This episode also introduces a short weekly review designed to restore orientation without turning into a fix-everything session. Once a week, ask:

1. What changed that I should understand?
2. What am I still guessing about?
3. If nothing else changed next week, what would actually cause trouble?

This review isn’t about cleanup.
 It’s about clarity, sequencing, and reducing unnecessary pressure.

You can find a one-page version of the three-question review 👉 here.

If this episode helped you think more clearly, a quick rating or review helps other listeners find the show — especially those who need a calmer, more grounded approach to their books.

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After It Settles

After It Settles is a reflective, atmospheric companion track to Season 2 of The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast.

This song isn’t about fixing anything.
 It’s about what happens after the noise fades.

Written as a quiet counterpoint to pressure, urgency, and constant decision-making, After It Settles sits in the space where nothing broke — but everything needed to slow down. It explores pause as wisdom, stillness as alignment, and clarity as something that often arrives only when you stop forcing answers.

No verdicts.
No deadlines.
Just the calm that returns when motion settles and the story can continue on its own terms.

This track is meant to be listened to, not solved.
Let it sit.
Let it speak.

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What Carries Forward

Season 2, Episode 5

January doesn’t erase December.
 It reveals it.

In this episode of The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast, we slow down and talk about what actually carries forward when the year turns. Not resolutions. Not reinvention. But continuity.

You’ll hear why January often feels heavier than December, even when there’s less work…
 why unfinished items aren’t failures, but markers…
 and how confidence quietly returns when you stop reacting and start understanding.

This episode isn’t about fixing everything.
 It’s about orientation.
 About knowing what deserves attention now, what can wait, and how to move forward without carrying shame.

If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, consider passing it along to someone who might need that same permission.

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🎵 When the Story Can Wait

Feedy & the Bank Feeds

This track was created as a companion piece to Episode 4, Season 2 of The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast.

“When the Story Can Wait” is about restraint in the middle of noise — the choice to pause instead of forcing resolution, and the quiet confidence that comes from knowing not everything has to be finished right now.

Built with layered textures, steady rhythm, and space to breathe, the song mirrors the heart of the episode: December is loud, urgency lies, and clarity often arrives later — when time has done some of its work.

This is not a song about rushing.
 It’s about letting the story continue.

Use it as background, reflection, or simply a reminder that waiting — when done intentionally — is not failure. It’s judgment.

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When the Story Can Wait

Season 2, Episode 4

December is loud.

More transactions.
 More pressure.
 More urgency to finish strong — even when the signals stop making sense.

In this episode, we talk about what really happens to good systems under year-end overload — and why confusion in December is not the same thing as failure.

You’ll hear from:

• Carl, who explains what overload does to decision-making
• Tangle, who feels the noise before anyone else
• The Wizard, who reminds us that wisdom includes knowing when to wait
• And a special seasonal visit from Santa, who understands tight deadlines and incomplete information better than anyone

This isn’t an episode about fixing everything before the calendar flips.

It’s about learning when later is the wise choice.
About preserving the story of your numbers when clarity hasn’t arrived yet.
And about releasing the pressure to treat every unfinished thing as a personal failure.

If December has you questioning your books — or yourself — this episode is an invitation to slow the panic without stopping the work.

Because good bookkeeping isn’t about finishing clean.
 It’s about finishing honest.

🎧 Bonus: A Feedy & the Bank Feeds seasonal track accompanies this episode, created to hold the mood — not teach the lesson.

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