Description

Conversations with Ami is a podcast for entrepreneurs and business owners building without a safety net.

Each episode is built to do one (or more) of five things:

• A peer story — proof you're not crazy for finding this hard, from someone actually in it.
• Nuanced literacy — understanding a service or system before you're in a position to misuse it or get burned by it.
• Future planning — not what to do today, but how to think about a decision once you actually reach that stage.
• What not to do — the specific, expensive mistakes people make, straight from people who watch others make them.
• Core skills — beginner-level competency in the stuff every entrepreneur eventually has to do themselves: sell, manage, hire, read your own numbers.

No guest here tells you to "just delegate it" or treats $50K like it's nothing. This show respects how hard your resources are to come by — because knowing what's coming is its own kind of protection.

Hosted by Ami Morgenstern, an entrepreneur and operator who also runs:

• Better Ledgers (betterledgers.net) — bookkeeping and back-office support for growing businesses that need their financial foundation handled right.
• Dash Staff (dashstaffers.com) — offshore staffing that lets entrepreneurs build a real team without the cost of hiring locally.

New episodes feature founders, leaders, and experts talking straight about what they wish someone had told them earlier.