Is it just me, or are you also hearing a lot more about having a personal brand? When you think of the word “brand” what comes to mind? Do you think of big brands like Amazon, Apple, or McDonalds? Or do you think of smaller things like the brand of toothpaste your family likes or the brand of mechanical pencils you can’t live without at work? The interesting thing when it comes to having a personal brand is that, whether you realize it or not, you already have a personal brand. You may not agree...
Jan 02, 2022•26 min
Have you ever had something happen and you weren't able to get closure around the situation? Where something ended, like a relationship or a job, or maybe something changed in some way, and you were left trying to move forward without being stuck in the past? If you've ever struggled with getting closure, we're here to tell you that it’s not only possible, but that it’s also incredibly powerful. You no longer have to feel conflicted or distracted, because there is a way to get closure so that yo...
Dec 26, 2021•25 min
As accountants, we live in an exceptionally data-driven world, surrounded by facts and figures all day, every day. We are the compilers, synthesizers, and analyzers of our company and client’s data, helping to make sense of it all so that decisions can be made today and in the future. Unfortunately, because of the data-driven work that accountants do, we can frequently get caught in the trap of not being able to delineate between data versus drama. That accountant brain of ours is great for anal...
Dec 19, 2021•28 min
While excuses can often be considered a polite way of getting out of doing something you don’t want to do, like bowing out of the invitation for dinner by saying you can’t get a babysitter when you really just don’t want to go, sometimes excuses are actually getting in your way more than you realize. Sometimes your excuses keep you stuck, have you doing things that aren’t in your best interest, or create results that you’re not happy with. The truth is that we ALL make excuses at various times a...
Dec 12, 2021•27 min
What actually makes a good leader? If you ask 100 people what they think makes a good leader, you’re going to typically have very different definitions, often depending on the person’s experience with good and bad leadership. The simple, but powerful truth is that leadership operates from one of two places - above the line or below the line - but not in the way that an accountant would assume: Above the line leadership is open, curious, and committed to learning Below the line leadership is clos...
Dec 05, 2021•32 min
If you were to Google “accountants and time management”, you’d see over 80 million hits, ranging from workshops, to templates and products, to articles promising to give you the BEST time management tips for accountants. It’s as if the whole world knows an accountant’s achilles heel - time and time management. While some of the suggestions work temporarily, the best time management system or software cannot outrun one very important thing - time scarcity. Time scarcity is a term that describes t...
Nov 28, 2021•25 min
Have you ever worried about what a particular person, or other people, think of you? Join the club! Of course it’s natural to like it when people respect, admire, or like us, but have you ever considered the cost? Think about it for a minute - how much effort have you put into managing how other people think about you, whether it’s socially, personally, or professionally? This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we discuss the reason why we worry about what other people think about us and how to let pe...
Nov 21, 2021•27 min
Every CPA has a story - we all have a journey we’ve taken to get us to where we are. Every entrepreneur also has a story and journey as well. This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Lauren Hale, CPA. Lauren is a mom of two-year-old twins with another baby on the way in a few weeks! Lauren worked for various public accounting firms before deciding to become a franchisee and shares that it was the best decision she ever made for her career and her family. Find out how the pandemic shifted her...
Nov 14, 2021•37 min
If you've ever considered working with a coach, we've got a treat for you! This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we count down the top 5 things one of our CPA MOMS coaches learned from being coached as an accountant and a mom, and how coaching might also help you. Here are the highlights from this episode: What I discovered working with a coach is that I was trying to solve my problems with an unmanaged, accountant brain and that I was creating a lot of unnecessary stress, wasting a lot of my time, ...
Nov 07, 2021•29 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we discuss what really creates our relationships and how to improve yours. Here are the highlights from this episode: If you want to have fewer health problems, get more work done, as well as experience less stress, addressing your relationships can be a great place to start. Thankfully, no matter who the relationship is with or what you believe the problem is, learning a better way to handle any relationship is an incredibly important skill you can learn and ap...
Oct 31, 2021•26 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we discuss how to get clear about what you want for your career, how to tap into your talents, the key to networking and how to take care of your introvert needs. Here are the highlights from this episode: While your introvert nature has many benefits, it isn’t necessarily going to help you succeed in your accounting career without some guidance. When you combine your high intelligence and introverted problem-solving skills with something you are passionate abou...
Oct 24, 2021•24 min
Are you still trading time for dollars? Well Dominique Molina, CPA, found a way to charge 30x what other accountants charge and to have clients on a waiting list for her services. Not only did she discover a much better way to service her clients and still have boundaries around her time, but when she had other accountants clambering to know her secret, she co-founded The American Institute Of Certified Tax Planners so that she could teach accountants how to become tax planners, as opposed to ta...
Oct 17, 2021•45 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we discuss some of the misperceptions about boundaries and how to set better boundaries. Here are the highlights from this episode: As women’s issues are thankfully coming to the forefront of many social injustice movements, and more and more women are empowered to stand up for themselves, we’re also left with a lot of questions around the subject of boundaries. If you’re confused about setting boundaries, join the club! As a working mom it can be challenging to...
Oct 10, 2021•27 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we discuss why you should love your job before you leave it, and an exercise you can use to love it before you leave it. Here are the highlights from this episode: No matter what your reason is for wanting to leave your job, I promise you that learning how to love it before you leave it, is going to be helpful no matter what your next chapter is. The truth is that if you hate your job, or just dislike it a lot, you will naturally wind up finding things you hate ...
Oct 03, 2021•27 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we discuss 3 reasons why it’s important to be more effective and the 7 habits of highly effective accountant moms. Here are the highlights from this episode: The issue for a lot of women is that once you’ve gotten a rhythm going that makes it possible for you to do everything you do, you might just be on a rinse and repeat cycle, not stopping to take a look to see how you could be more effective. When you learn how to be more effective, you get clear about what ...
Sep 26, 2021•30 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we discuss where our comfort zone comes from and why it exists, as well as why it’s important to step out of your comfort zone and how. Here are the highlights from this episode: What happens for a lot of accountants is that we gravitate towards, and can often get stuck in, comfort zones that can make it challenging to grow and evolve. The issue is that, if you don’t take an honest look at your comfort zones every now and then, consider how they might be holding...
Sep 19, 2021•24 min
Every CPA has a story and this week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we had the pleasure of interviewing Bridget Kaigler, CPA, CGMA, CMA, MBA. She is a seasoned professional with more than twenty years of experience in tax and financial analyses. Bridget’s humble beginnings and non-traditional path to becoming a CPA was the foundation and encouragement to begin her own company, Bringing Leadership Back, LLC. The company was founded to help aspiring leaders grow. Bridget is the recipient of the 2021 Socie...
Sep 12, 2021•41 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we discuss why we tend to struggle so much with disagreements, as well as two strategies to help you handle disagreements. Here are the highlights from this episode: For a lot of women, we often don’t want to disagree with others out loud because we’re afraid of what they will think of us, often making us go along with other people’s differing opinions in order to “keep the peace”. Another interesting thing is that most of us enter a disagreement feeling bad abo...
Sep 05, 2021•26 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we discuss what causes us to constantly feel emotionally focused on work and easier ways to disconnect at the end of the day. Here are the highlights from this episode: Because of the pressure accountant moms can often feel to be high performers in our careers, it can be challenging to not check our work email while we’re making dinner or to glance at our phone and be tempted to answer a Slack message while we’re watching TV with our family. There have been many...
Aug 29, 2021•25 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we discuss the things that might be causing you to be an insecure overachiever and what you can do about it. Here are the highlights from this episode: The bigger reason why so many accountants work so hard, don’t set clear boundaries, and don’t feel fulfilled, is because we are an industry of insecure overachievers. Unfortunately, being in an industry of insecure overachievers like accounting, you wind up setting the bar higher and higher for each other, eventu...
Aug 22, 2021•23 min
This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Elana Roumell, MD. Dr. Elana is a Naturopathic Doctor with a passion for pediatrics. She initially founded Nourish Medical Center in San Diego, CA providing holistic care to the whole family, and later created Med School for Moms. Dr. Elana is also a co-host of the popular “Doctor Mom” Podcast, nearing one million downloads! Podcast episodes air weekly which give her the opportunity to share her knowledge, stay up to date with new health topics, ...
Aug 15, 2021•38 min
This week we discuss what “having what it takes” means and how to overcome what’s holding you back. Here are some of the highlights: Just know that you’re not alone with your concerns about whether you have what it takes to go out on your own. While it’s normal, it’s also important to know that there’s a reason you’re feeling that way, and it has nothing to do with whether you’re capable or not. It’s important to understand that your doubts are just your brain’s way of trying to protect you from...
Aug 08, 2021•21 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast, we discuss the difference between jealousy and envy, the connection between self-confidence, jealousy and envy, and a better way to handle them both. Here are some of the highlights: It seems like wherever you turn, there’s someone that has something that you want, or you have something that you’re afraid they want. Jealousy and envy can apply to where you live, your intelligence, where you went to school, how successful your children are in school, where you g...
Aug 01, 2021•25 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast, we discuss why being resourceful is important for accountant moms and how you can become more resourceful. Here are some of the highlights: I don’t believe you need to be quick or clever in order to be resourceful; I believe that being resourceful means you just need to be willing to solve your own problems. When you’re not resourceful, you tend to think a lot about how you have a problem, complain about the problem, worry about the problem, but don’t believe y...
Jul 25, 2021•23 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast, we discuss the surprising reason why you feel unfulfilled, as well as what you can do about it. Here are some of the highlights: I speak to and coach so many accountant moms who have done their best during these trying times, but now that there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel, they’re left feeling dissatisfied, unhappy, or disillusioned and understandably not knowing what to do about it. The first thing I want you to know is that it’s not your f...
Jul 18, 2021•27 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast, CPA MOMS Franchisees Lori Hinelsey and Nicole Kehl are back to discuss what their first year experiences have been being a franchisee. They share what it was like, what surprised them, and how much they grossed in their first year. Here are some of the questions we discussed: What do they wish they knew in the beginning of their career, that they know now? What the first year of a franchisee entails? What kind of training, mentoring, and coaching did they recei...
Jul 11, 2021•37 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we discuss what emotional intelligence actually is and how to improve your emotional intelligence. Here are the highlights: Although our industry was warned years ago about the need to tap into the skill set of emotional intelligence, most practitioners and educational programs ignored the warnings. The truth is that emotional intelligence isn’t only crucial for you as an accountant, but it’s also something you will want to master as a mother. Since the introduc...
Jul 04, 2021•24 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we discuss where self-esteem comes from and 4 steps to take to boost your self-esteem. Here are the highlights: Unfortunately, when it comes to accountants and self-esteem, it's often assumed that it’s not an issue because of our intelligence and the challenging work that we do. For accountant moms, having healthy self-esteem is something worth exploring because of one very important factor - the healthier your self-esteem, the less vulnerable you are to anxiety...
Jun 27, 2021•26 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast we discuss why it’s challenging for women to say Yes less and how you can start. Here are the highlights: Are you the person who says Yes more often than you’d like to? Does saying No feel uncomfortable to you? Do you cringe at the thought of other people being disappointed or unhappy with you? Do you worry about what other people will think or say if you said Yes less? You’re not alone. You’ve been getting messages and programming that your brain has stored you...
Jun 20, 2021•24 min
This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast I discuss the three habits that create issues for your inbox and how to take back control. Here are the highlights: Unfortunately, when you don’t have control of your inbox, not only does decision fatigue set in when it comes to email, but it also affects how well you can do your job. Whether you realize it or not, there are so many things associated with email and email notifications that are incredibly draining to your brain. The problem is that when you let y...
Jun 13, 2021•24 min
