If you’ve been around LinkedIn the past couple months, no doubt you’ve gotten FOMO from all the accounting conference posts. (Yes, I’m also part of the problem. Yes, I did take part in an impromptu wheelbarrow race while dressed as Ricky Bobby.)

A couple weeks ago, I got out of my office and met up with a bunch of accountants celebrating the end of tax season.

Once in a while, I’ll get a DM conversation like this:

Accountant: I want to go to an accounting conference this year! Which one is the best?

Me: Depends. What do you want to get out of it?

Accountant: Um…accounting conference…stuff?

Oh, 2025…what will I say about you? You were a doozy. It’s probably not an exaggeration to say that after 8 years of firm ownership, 2025 was my most emotionally taxing (no pun intended) to date.

I started my firm in 2018, slowly, quietly, and watching every penny. It wasn’t until a few years in that I decided to head to my first accounting conference. 2020 was going to be the year I attended my first conference! (cute, right?)

I’m still processing Bridging the Gap (more on that next week?), but the biggest stop-me-in-my-tracks moment happened even before breakfast on the first day.

Last week when I was at the Intuit Connect conference in Vegas, I put myself on a mission...

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