Business By The Books with Danielle Hayden
Welcome to Business By The Books, the podcast for women entrepreneurs who want to leverage their financials to grow their business and achieve their goals.
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3 Questions That Separate a CEO From a Business Owner (opens the original)
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Revenue and team size get the attention, but neither tells you if you're running your business like a CEO. It comes down to three specific numbers, and whether you know them without guessing. In this episode of CEO Numbers Network, I get into three questions I ask every CEO about her own numbers: her year to date profit and profit percentage, what her business owns compared to what it owes, and whether her cash reserves are enough. I also cover three bookkeeping errors our team sees during onboa
The 30-Day Burnout Diagnosis Every CEO Needs to Run (opens the original)
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A team member once asked me how we help clients who show up to their financial review calls completely burnt out. My answer surprised even me, and it led to a 30-day exercise I now recommend to every business owner I work with. In this episode of CEO Numbers Network, I talk about why burnout gets misdiagnosed so often in business ownership, and I walk through a real client example of growth mode colliding with family obligations. I also push back on trending labels like burnout and soft girl era
How to Know If You Can Afford to Hire Your First Employee (opens the original)
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Your profit and loss statement can look fine, and your stomach can still drop when you think about hiring. I know that feeling, because it's exactly where I was the night I hired my first employee. I walk through the three methods I use to decide if a business can afford to hire: the look back method, the averages method, and the look forward budgeting method. I cover how profit and cash flow can tell two different stories, how much cash to have saved before hiring, and the real costs of bringin
The 4 Step CEO Reset Method for a Stronger Fourth Quarter (opens the original)
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You made it through summer, and now the fourth quarter is staring you down. The instinct is to catch up on everything you let slide, but that's exactly what backfires. This episode shares the four step reset I use every fall to close out the year with focus instead of overwhelm. It's built for business owners who come out of summer feeling behind and try to fix everything in the business at once, which usually backfires by January. Instead of chasing every goal, this framework helps you pick one
Can AI Actually Replace Your Bookkeeper? (opens the original)
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I ran our own business financials through AI three different ways and got three completely different answers. What that revealed about trusting AI with your numbers might change how you use it in your own business. I share what happened when I fed our real financials into AI and changed only the tone of my prompt, from neutral to positive to negative, and watched the same numbers produce three completely different financial narratives. I talk about why AI won't push back on you unless you ask it
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