Money Talk For Real People

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So let's talk about what I mean by money.

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Talk for real people.

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Now, a lot of us have encountered countless professionals, right?

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Lawyers, accountants, parents, other people that mean well,

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but maybe they don't break down.

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All the finances and money in the way that actually makes sense for the average

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person and with the way that they work and the words they use, it's not relatable.

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You have a tough time understanding what they're saying maybe, or just

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really being able to put what they're saying into practice for yourself.

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So here we are dropping the shame we're dropping the guilt.

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We are deconstructing all the internalized shit that you have around money and your

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business and your personal life and your relationships with your friendships.

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You know, if you're still in corporate, like we are breaking down those

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money barriers and we're having real conversations for real people about money.

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So.

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Our whole mission here is to remove the stigma . You know, I know that

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there's the saying that there is no stupid questions and I don't think

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that there are stupid questions.

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I think that we , very frequently end up with answers that don't make

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sense or answers that aren't ideal.

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And so here, we're working to break them down into bite-size

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pieces that are actionable.

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If you're a business owner, if you have a side hustle, It's time to stop

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putting your business on the back burner.

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And for many of us, what that looks like is focusing on the money, because

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for pretty much all of us, I'm sure we're in this for the money at the

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end of the day, you know, you're not here to be doing something.

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Yes, you can have philanthropic desires and I'm all about that.

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I am here for it, but we're in business to solve a problem, to

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make money and I sure as fuck.

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Hope do something fun while we're at it, right.

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We want to make an impact, make some money and have some fun doing it.

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So why do so many of us spend time just tiptoeing around the money in our

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business and in our personal lives.

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So we're going to focus on how to stop, ignoring your money, how to stop

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burying your head in the sand, how this is going to change your business.

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It's going to change your personal life.

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By making you more profitable by actually understanding your

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numbers by being able to make.

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Competent educated financial decisions and move your business and your personal

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life and your financial goals forward.

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Now you buying into all of this and you taking control of your finances is going

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to change how you show up in your life.

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It's going to change how you show up in your business and your

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relationships with your friends as a parent, as a human being,

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because you're going to have energy, excitement, clarity, and confidence.

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Hence the title confidence when it comes to dealing with your money.

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That is what I'm all about here.

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And we are going to shift the narrative when it comes to talking

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about money and making it fun.

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Now, how do we shift this?

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When it comes to a lot of our least favorite areas such as taxes, how are we

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looking at, you know, paving the way for.

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Setting ourselves up for success.

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How are we realizing that within reason paying more in taxes is actually a

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good thing, because if you're doing everything correctly, it means that

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you've made significantly more profit.

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If you're paying significantly more in taxes.

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Now, again, we'll talk about, you know, strategies and S-corp elections and things

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that you could be doing that make, you know, most of us just kind of want to

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glaze our eyes over, but we're going to make it really digestible so that you

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can have action steps to move forward.

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with confidence in your business because it's time to stop

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burying your head in the sand.

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And it is time to understand that we're going to package it up with

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the dessert side of it, right?

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Like I'm here to tell you the great things, the sexy things, the things that

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we really like that come with money.

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However, we're also going to have the vegetables business coaches

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are not teaching all of the foundations that you need to know.

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For your business finances and to understand your accounting

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and your bookkeeping.

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And in this season, we're actually going to dive specifically into that,

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how to be doing your bookkeeping, your accounting, understanding your

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registration with confidence so that you can make decisions to move forward that

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you know, are the right path for you.

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So we're all in business to make money.

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We want to secure our financial futures and we want to

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understand how to build wealth.

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So when it comes to wealth building, we're going to talk about

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this in a lot of different ways.

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There's wealth building in your business.

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There's wealth building in investing in yourself.

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There's wealth building.

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When it comes to your retirement to your families.

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If you choose to have one, you know, if you choose to have children,

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if you decide to get married, how do we make sure that we are owning

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what is ours and moving forward with confidence, but also, still protecting.

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You know, securing our bag, right?

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So this is a really new topic, which I know sounds ridiculous, but it's only

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been 50 years since women have been able to get checking accounts on their own.

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Women were first able to get checking accounts on their own and

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the 1970s, which is shocking that was the decade, my mother was born.

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Which means that for a lot of us, our grandmothers weren't able to

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have their own checking accounts until they were having children.

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Now think of the situation that, that can put you in.

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The lack of power that a lot of us had had.

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Money can be freedom.

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It can be freedom of choice.

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It can be opportunity.

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It can be.

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The ability to leave a situation that's not healthy.

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So we're here to deconstruct that and to understand what we need to

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be talking about, what metrics we need to be looking at and building

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confidence so that we are able to live our most fully expressed life.

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I believe firmly that money makes us more of who we are.

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Not less.

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It further allows us to express our truest selves and it allows us to

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live a life that we are most aligned.

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Does that mean that if you are, you know, if you're not rich, if

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you're not wealthy that you can't make an impact on this world?

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Absolutely not.

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However can you snowball that effect when you have more money, can you

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live a life that allows you to donate to more causes to, , move forward?

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Things that you want to see put in place, you know, efforts that you

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want to see changed passion projects that you really feel just absolutely.

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That you embodying your core.

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Yes.

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So for those of you wondering.

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I'm Katelyn Magnuson and I run a full-service financial

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accounting and educational firm.

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I, I love what I do.

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I love what I do.

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, we have a team here now of six employees plus contractors,

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, which is absolutely insane.

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, and we are working on the premise that we're building an

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organization that has no shame.

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That creates custom plans for our clients that allows them to move

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their business and their lives in the direction that they want to drive.

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Now, for some of them that may be a digital nomad.

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For some of them that may be a white fence, you know, two and a half

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kids, the house, the whole thing for some that may be, being a cool

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auntie or whatever, lights them up, but we spend time listening to them.

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Understanding where they're at or where they've come from and where they want

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to end up, whether it's in the next three years, five years, 10 years,

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30 years, some people don't know and that's fine, but where can we help

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fill in the gaps in the knowledge to guide them towards what they want,

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not what we think they should want or what society thinks they should want.

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And for a lot of us.

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There's a debt that we have to talk about, which we'll dive into

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in here, because I have kind of an unconventional take on debt.

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I'm very, this is not a Dave Ramsey fan podcast.

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, this is not your parents' financial advice.

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These money talks that we're having.

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This is going to be like talking to your best friend turned accountant.

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So if you're ready, Buckle up because we have a lot coming