Quietly, behind the scenes, Lou (my web designer), my daughter (the 14yo), and I have been toiling away getting all past newsletters loaded up onto a website. And…

Here’s a recent win from an Aligned member (shared with permission):

My first real corporate internship was when I was 19 years old, at a place called Hewitt Associates. At the time, Hewitt was a privately held company, headquartered in Chicago’s northern suburbs. The particular building I sat in was surrounded by wooded acreage right off I-94.

Last week was county fair week. For context, I spent my entire life in the suburbs of Chicago until our family moved to very rural, very small town Idaho 6 years ago.

Only 110 days until Christmas, but more importantly…Only 25 more days until the Fall Selling Season. Why is September thru early-December a selling season for small accounting firms?

We’re talking about the “casual drop” today…

When I was about 1 year into my accounting firm ownership life, I was in a Girl Scout carpool headed to a weekend jamboree camp.  Me in the driver’s seat, my newish mom-friend Amy in the passenger seat, and lots of 8 year old girls in the back. (I later found out that my spiritual gift is not carpooling lots of small children, but I digress.)

It’s no secret that I do my best to run my firm with iron-clad boundaries. But I do this from a place of being part of a two-income household with my husband holding a W-2 accounting job that offers health insurance.

I was raised as a kid in typical American culture where “success” was defined as 1st place trophies in little league, straight As, high scores, and perfect attendance in school.

I'm also former KPMG but with 25 years of financial services industry experience in various finance and controlling functions.  I'd like to make the jump like you did but don't have the tactical experience just yet.

Most importantly…congrats to all who made it through this week’s deadline!! You’re almost there!!

A picture is worth a thousand words, so let’s start with that…

I hope the past 2 weeks brought some relaxing and peace to store up as we enter this coming season. For me, we kicked off the holiday with almost everyone in our house contracting pink eye within 6 hours of each other on Dec 22nd, but THEN it was very relaxing and rejuvenating. :o)

I’m far from a sales expert, though I’ve become far more comfortable at them after taking some sale training. (highly recommend)

You're the first to see my new ebook! 🤩

I'd like to hear more about your weekly/monthly client schedule, especially how you juggle and prioritize all 10 of your clients on a monthly basis

A fellow reader asked a great question in response to last week's email. I'm sharing the question below with their permission...

a little background on me and my journey

3 podcasts episodes you'll want to listen to

sharing the results from the survey you took

quick intro from the LinkedIn signup