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The Fulfilled Accountant

Sarah Nemecek

123 episodes

9 months ago

What does it take to be successful in accounting? What is a successful career path and what is it like on the way and when you get there? Whatever you answered is likely what is making you miserable at work right now and causing you to avoid things that might actually be great for your career and your life. That's why I'm talking about the three biggest misconceptions I see in how we define success in accounting, today. And then helping you challenge those and give yourself the success tha...

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Entrepreneurship,

Self-Improvement

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What does it take to be successful in accounting? What is a successful career path and what is it like on the way and when you get there? Whatever you answered is likely what is making you miserable at work right now and causing you to avoid things that might actually be great for your career and your life. That's why I'm talking about the three biggest misconceptions I see in how we define success in accounting, today. And then helping you challenge those and give yourself the success tha...

Show more...

Entrepreneurship,

Self-Improvement

Episodes (20/123)

The Fulfilled Accountant

122. 3 Misconceptions About Success in Accounting

What does it take to be successful in accounting? What is a successful career path and what is it like on the way and when you get there? Whatever you answered is likely what is making you miserable at work right now and causing you to avoid things that might actually be great for your career and your life. That's why I'm talking about the three biggest misconceptions I see in how we define success in accounting, today. And then helping you challenge those and give yourself the success tha...

1 year ago

14 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

121. The Easy Way to Master Your Morning Routine

Are you always looking for a better morning routine while also feeling like you just can't (or don't want to) deal with it? This is your episode. I'm sharing 3 simple steps to create an easy morning routine that actually makes your life easier, and that you can follow. I don't believe there is a perfect, best, or right way to start your day. But there are things you can do that will help you get what you want without suffering, judging yourself, or hating every second of it. To l...

1 year ago

13 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

120. How to Reduce Your Hours, Even During Busy Season

Working too many hours, never having enough time for it all. It's the story of almost every person working in accounting and finance at least part of the year. And sadly, it's a story most people don't believe they can change. It's just the way it is, right? Wrong. Today I'm helping you see when overworking is actually a problem for you, deciding if you want to solve it, and what the underlying cause of overworking is. And then helping you solve the top 3 issues that le...

1 year ago

15 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

119. Seven Surprising Time Sucks for Accountants

One of the top complaints I hear from the accountants I coach (and my accounting friends) is that there is never enough time. You want to get all the things done, and feel like a successful, skilled professional who always achieves and follows through for your clients and team, but you also would love to have a life, see your family, sleep, and maybe even workout sometimes. There are so many ways to solve for creating enough time and managing your time. But, I think there are ac...

1 year ago

18 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

118. Set Yourself Up for a Year of Success (Ditch the Resolutions)

Ditch the pressure and negative basis of New Year's Resolutions and set yourself up for a year you actually want. And get some tips from my 12 year old son who sometimes is wise way beyond his years. Find out why we don't play the New Year's resolutions game and what we do instead. It involves feeling good about yourself, having fun, and actually achieving the things you want each year. To learn more or work with Sarah: sarahnemecek.com Connect with me on LinkedIn and tell...

1 year ago

14 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

117. Transforming client judgments into strategic insights

Everyone judges their clients at some point, in some way. It’s just human nature. What you do with that judgment, how it guides your work, and how you feel at work and after work is what matters. Today I’m going into detail on why judgments are normal, how you can use them to make your client relationships and solutions even better, and how you can stop feeling guilty or embarrassed for having the judgments in the first place. When you apply the concepts I cover in this episode, you wil...

1 year ago

15 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

116. Mindset strategies for sound decision making

Do you have a reliable process for making decisions? It sounds so logical and simple, but most of us are flying blind and hoping for the best when we make decisions. We think our process is great, especially if it is slow and deliberate. In this episode, I'm challenging what you think you know about good decision making, and proposing a simpler, more effective approach to decisions. One that will help you make decisions more quickly and simply so you can spend more time ...

1 year ago

17 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

115. The CEO mindset: Interview with Laura Roeder

Today I’ve invited my client, Laura Roeder, onto the podcast to talk about business, entrepreneurship, mindset coaching, and using tools that make your business easier. Laura is a successful serial entrepreneur, having started, grown, and successfully exited multiple companies that are still operating successfully today. And, she grew each business by doing things her way and challenging conventional business advice and norms for how things should be done. One of the norms she has challen...

1 year ago

23 minutes

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114. Successfully combining mindset with strategy

Recently I’ve been covering several aspects of setting goals, planning for the next year, and setting yourself up for the future you want. I've shared several strategies and actions you can take to set yourself and your business up to achieve the success you want next year. However, even the most well thought out strategies and plans can fail if you don’t also look into your mindset as you create and execute your plan. If you've ever been inspired by a great business stra...

1 year ago

18 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

113. Using metrics to drive your success and fulfillment

Today we’re talking about how to use specific metrics in setting goals for yourself and your firm so that you steer yourself to the success and fulfillment you actually want. Instead of going through the motions of work every day only to end up in the same place again next year, with the same frustration and stress as usual. I'm sharing the type of detailed metrics that can completely change how you set and achieve goals as well as specifically why this works compared with how you have like...

1 year ago

14 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

112. Stop asking your employees to read your mind

While you probably would never consciously expect your employees to read your mind, almost every manager and business owner is actually expecting exactly that at some point every day. It confuses the heck out of your team and it keeps you feeling frustrated and wondering why you can get them to do what you want, how you want it, and when you want it. Luckily, there's a very simple solution to this. It's all about deciding what you actually expect from each employee, telli...

1 year ago

15 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

111. The simple approach to growing your financial service firm

Growing your accounting or financial services firm can be incredibly challenging, frustrating, and downright painful some days. You've managed to get this far, but what does it actually take grow to the next level? Unfortunately, a lot of small firms reach a certain point and then struggle to manage their growth past that point. Today I'm talking about common reasons firms struggle to grow and what you can do to avoid or overcome them. I'm sharing 4 simple steps to follo...

2 years ago

20 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

110. Ditch the same old problems in your accounting firm

You know how every year you make these great plans to do better next year? Not just to exercise more or drink more water. I'm talking about plans to improve and grow your firm. To change your pricing. To hire new or better employees. To niche down to a client base you actually want to work with and have really great expertise at serving. And even better, to work fewer hours and take home a bigger profit. But then the year goes by and you're busy and stressed, and you find yourself m...

2 years ago

16 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

109. Expert tips for marketing your financial services (Interview with Catherine Tidd)

Today we’re talking about marketing your small financial services firm or practice. Marketing isn't usually on my financial clients' list of favorite topics, but it really is one of the most important parts of running your own firm or practice. Without marketing, no one knows you exist! And if no one knows that you exist or how you can help them, they can’t hire you. So, today I’ve invited my friend Catherine Tidd to unravel some of the mysteries and uncomfortable ...

2 years ago

29 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

108. How to get motivated in 5 minutes (or less)

How do you get motivated to do all the things you need to do every day? I'm talking big projects, small mundane tasks, working out, even just getting out of bed some mornings. Motivation is not automatic. And it doesn't magically happen when the time is right. It's actually something you can create for yourself. And I'm sharing exactly how to do it and why it works today. Even better, you can do it in 5 minutes. So stop procrastinating and dreading things and wishing for moti...

2 years ago

17 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

107. Strategies for accountants with less than stellar bosses

Today I'm talking about a question that I think a lot of smart financial pros struggle with, but that isn’t addressed publicly or constructively very often. That question is this: How do I reconcile working for incompetent people? Or how should I handle working for a less than stellar boss? No boss is perfect. But sometimes all you can do is focus on their shortcomings to the point where it's hard for you to focus on your own work and feel good about showing up each day. Listen in to ...

2 years ago

14 minutes

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106. The accountant’s illusion of working enough

The question of whether you’re doing enough at work seems to weigh heavily on many financial pro’s minds. And it is closely aligned with a general feeling of being behind most of the time. Your to do list pretty much never ends, and seems to just grow every day. You can work 14 hours a day (and more) and still leave your desk feeling like you didn’t accomplish enough that day. So, today we’re talking about how to know if you’re doing enough at work, or not. And what to do about...

2 years ago

14 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

105. Un-Busy your life: Strategies for accountants

Why are you always so busy? That's just how it is in accounting and finance right? Is that true? Being busy is like a badge of honor in the accounting and financial world. But the long term impact of busy-ness on you, your business, your team, and your clients is not good. And it isn't just at work. The habit of being busy has crept into the other parts of your life, too. In this episode, I’m explaining what busy-ness is, why exactly it has taken over your life an...

2 years ago

19 minutes

The Fulfilled Accountant

104. Bridging the communication gap in accounting

You may think that all your value comes from knowing the rules, crunching the numbers, and being an expert with all the analytical skills. Those are great, but if you can't communicate what you know in a way that others understand and respond to, your other skills fall kind of flat in today's world. To stay competitive, effective, and valuable today, good communication skills are critical for accountants. So today I'm diving into the common communication gaps accountants ...

2 years ago

20 minutes

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103. Oops! Navigating errors with clients

In the world of finance and accounting, there’s a so much pressure for perfection in your work. There is not a lot of room for error. You expect yourself to know the answer to anything and everything a client might pose to you. And you expect yourself to never be wrong, misunderstand, or make the wrong decision on behalf of your client. But inevitably, mistakes and errors happen. It doesn't matter how hard you try to avoid them or how perfect you are. It will happen. So what do...

2 years ago

17 minutes