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Dangers Of The Low Cost Bookkeeper
For those that have never gone through the process of replacing their bookkeeper or have never worked with a professional accountant, let us share some of the lessons we learned the hard way. When we started our company, we were an accounting firm that...
Top 10 List Accounting Services For Entrepreneurs
An entrepreneur’s accountant should be doing more than just keeping the books. The entrepreneur’s accountant should be adding value to the business by providing the following services, asking the following questions, or handling the following business...
Tax CPAs Do Not Review Your Books
Some business owners are relieved because they have a qualified tax CPA filing their returns. Well, I hate to break the bad news, but by design a tax CPA is there to help business owners reduce their tax liability. Tax CPAs generally don’t review the...
Designing a Career Around Your Life—Not the Other Way Around
At CPA MOMS, we hear it all the time. Accomplished, hardworking women feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and quietly unfulfilled. You’ve climbed the ladder, checked all the boxes, and done everything “right,” but something still feels off. In this week’s podcast, Nicole...
Stop Driving on Autopilot: How to Reclaim Your Career and Confidence
If you're a CPA mom, chances are you've had moments where your life feels like it's stuck on cruise control. You're driving the car, heading toward the next milestone, checking all the boxes: degree, job, promotion. But somewhere along the way, you look up and...
Connection, Curiosity, and Career Moves: How Women Help Women Move Forward
We all know the story: get the degree, follow the traditional accounting path, climb the ladder. But what if you get to the top and realize—it’s not what you want? Lindsey Head, founder of Pulse Business Group, knows that feeling all too well. From Hedge Funds to...
Stop Chasing Balance: Why Work Life Harmony is the New Goal
If you’ve ever felt like work life balance is a myth you’re failing to live up to, you’re not alone. For years, women in accounting have been told that success means perfectly managing a packed calendar, checking all the boxes, and giving 100% to everything at all...
What Work-Life Harmony Really Looks Like
We’ve all heard of work-life balance. For many women in accounting, it's been the gold standard. But what if that standard is broken? In this episode of The CPA MOMS Podcast, Nicole Kehl and founder Mayumi Young challenge the outdated balance model and offer something...
Mindset Before Metrics: Lessons from Building a Business as a Mom
If there’s one thing CPA and entrepreneur Nikki Bushaw wants you to know, it’s this: your mindset matters more than your metrics. Yes, the numbers are important. Revenue, efficiency, client load—they all count. But in Nikki’s journey from accountant to founder of...
From 20 Min Meditation to Major Moves: Nikki Bushaw on Building a Life-Aligned Firm
On this episode of the CPA MOMS Podcast, Nikki Bushaw gets real about her journey from working in a traditional accounting firm to founding her own thriving practice. What started as a roll-of-the-dice decision to go into accounting became a decade-long...
Why Women in Accounting Undervalue Themselves—And How to Stop
If you’ve ever second-guessed your rate, hesitated to go after a promotion, or felt like you had to prove yourself twice as hard, you’re not alone. For many women in accounting, confidence doesn’t come easily—and that lack of confidence can quietly chip away at your...
The Most Undervalued Skill in Accounting: Confidence
Why Confidence Is the Most Undervalued Skill in Accounting It’s not Excel shortcuts or tax law updates that make or break your career. It’s confidence. And for women in accounting, that confidence is often the hardest thing to hold onto. In this week’s podcast, Nicole...
What If You’re Chasing a Dream That Was Never Yours?
When Aubrey Cypert, CPA, first stepped into the world of accounting, she did what most of us do: looked around, took note of the path in front of her, and started climbing. She worked hard. She became a partner at a mid-sized firm. By all traditional standards, she...
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