Beginning Balance
By Jesse Mecham
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Episodes: 120
Description
Jesse Mecham and Mark Butler teach you how to manage your business cash flow, hone your business model, and not freak out about money.
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Stop Trusting Your Gut: Try The Constanza Protocol
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Jesse Hires Mark, and the Inevitability of Change
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Jesse Introduces Spendfulness
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Distractions, Anxious Activity, and Finding Focus
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Bitcoin, Depreciation, and the Most Important Price in the World
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Why You Should be Collaborating
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Diet Coke, Listeners Chime In, and UBI
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Doing Scary Stuff for Personal Growth
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Slippery Slopes: Economics, College Degrees, and Questionable Credentials
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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From Barista to Billionaire (Mo' Money, Same Problems)
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Gardening, Compost, and Business Complexity
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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The Economics of Content, and the Case for Word of Mouth
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Escaping the Gravity Pull of Phones
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Taking a Hard Look in the Reality Mirror
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Lessons from YNAB's Price Increase
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Cheap Business Advice
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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ChatGPT and Learning to Let Go of Control
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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The Hero's Journey of Customer Service
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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What Is Your Working Genius? How to Avoid Frustration and Do the Work You Love
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May 24, 2024 |
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Why You Should Be Tracking Your Net Worth
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May 10, 2024 |
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You Are Money, Money Is You
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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You Need Core Values, Not Strategy
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Systems: Not as Boring as They Sound!
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Signs of Success: When Business Growth Plateaus
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Is College Worth It Anymore? Looking for the Value in Education
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Strategic Stress: Discussing Morgan Housel's "Same As Ever"
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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New Years Resolutions and Why They're Awesome
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Firing Clients: It's Not You, Well...
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Diversification... or Distraction?
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Joy, Guilt, and Second Guessing: Money Doesn't Have to Stress You Out
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Harness Your Unique Ability: Mark and Jesse Read the Book This Time
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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10x Is Easier Than 2x: Mark and Jesse Discuss a Book They Haven't Read (Yet)
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Money Dogma and Hard Work
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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How Mark Gets Things Done: A Tale of Two Time Management Styles
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Meetings for Introverts, New Business Books, and Mark Running a 60k?!
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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How Much Money Knowledge Do You Need? And the Folly of Future Proofing
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Charlie Fixes Brakes
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Team Compensation: How to Set Expectations and Avoid Landmines
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Your Next Easiest Dollar
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Striving for What? When Enough Is Enough
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Finding Clarity in Difficult Situations with YNAB
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Charlie Changes Oil
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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A YNAB Success Story (and Taxes)
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May 19, 2023 |
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It's All Borrowing: Taking Care of Future You
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May 05, 2023 |
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What Do You Do When You Get Paid? Profit First
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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The Curse of Skilled Labor on a Small Team
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Letting Someone Go
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Welcome AI Overlords | How Will It Affect Your Business?
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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How's It Going Without the Credit Card?
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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New Years Resolutions: Simplifying the Plan
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Jesse Drags Mark Into a Credit Card Discussion
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Taxes and Fear
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Doom and Gloom... Now What?
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Your Code Is Not Your Moat
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Reminiscing about YNAB's Early Days, New Projects, and More
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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How Do You Improve Employee Morale? Try AMP
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Standards, Protocols, and Transacting in Information
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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There's No Such Thing as "One and Done"
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Quiet Quitting, Quiet Firing, and the Victim Mentality
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Rule Four: First Principles | The Age of Desire
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Rule Three: First Principles | Bend But Don't Break
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Rule Two: First Principles, Forward-Oriented Thinking, and Tending the Tomato Patch
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Rule One: First Principles & Making Better Decisions Through Tradeoffs
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Running Your Business on YNAB: Mark's Complete Onboarding Process
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Employers, Employees, and Their Financial Stress
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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When Is It Time to Retire? Deciding to Be Comfortable
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Clear Thinking, Team Dynamics, and Clear Organization Direction
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Mark and Jesse Start a Business: What Do They Pick?
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Accounting Is Cooler Than You Think: Contribution Margin and Breakeven Analysis
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Exceptional Process, Not People
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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ARC: A Few Easy Steps to Prevent Fraud
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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A World Without "Email," Mark Actually Likes a Book
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Q&A: Can You Run a Coffee Shop on YNAB
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May 27, 2022 |
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Scarcity by Design: The Four Day Workweek
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May 20, 2022 |
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Profit Sharing: A Tool for Employee Alignment or a Dangerous Precedent?
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May 13, 2022 |
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Focus, the Pickaxe, and Mining the Vein
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Marriage and Partnerships
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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How to Do YNAB in Your Accounting Software
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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W-2's vs 1099's: Don't Mess It Up!
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Realized vs Unrealized Debt: Rule Two by Another Name?
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Mark and Jesse Share Their Investment Asset Allocation (Secrets Revealed!)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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If Your Business Isn't Growing, Is It Dying?
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Messy Books... Messy Business
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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How to Do Meetings Right
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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An Inside Look at Hiring at YNAB
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Battling New Shiny Syndrome
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Leading Indicators for Growth, and A Little Groveling
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Your Team Isn't Your Family
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Four Thousand Weeks: Mortality, Time, and the Paradox of Choice
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Forecasting, Modeling, and Planning
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Who Doesn't Need a Budget?
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Luck, Success, and Increasing Your Surface Area
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Creation Over Consumption: The Danger of Books and "Content"
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Desires and Tradeoffs: What Do You Want Your Business to "Do?"
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Three Lies Business Owners Tell Themselves About Cash
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Saving for Big Ticket Purchases
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Transparency, Context, Profits, and Begging for Team Members
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Margin of Safety: The Key to Surviving and Thriving
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Starting vs Scaling a Business
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Building a Referral Business
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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All Your Needs are Wants
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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The Most Boring Episode Ever... and Maybe the Most Important: Process
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Busting Tax Myths with Casey, Pt 2
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Busting Tax Myths with Casey, Pt 1
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Cruel Accruals: Understanding Accrual Accounting
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Core Values are Everything (But They're Not What You Think)
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Tracking, Intending, Forecasting
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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When Do You Pay Yourself?
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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When Is Enough... Enough?
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Simplify Everything
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Reconciliation: Way Cooler and More Critical Than You Think!
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Rule Four: Age Your Money, Not Your Strategy
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Rule Three: Budget Is a Verb, Not a Noun
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Rule Two: Dealing with "Fluke" Expenses
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Rule Two: Sleep Better at Night by Embracing Your True Expenses
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Managing Your Emotions Around Money with Rule One
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Rule One: Your Cash Is Your Strategy
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Rule One: Scarcity and Clarity - How Do You Play the Game?
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Your Business On a Budget
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Coming Soon: Budgeting for Your Small Business!
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May 24, 2021 |