Day 125: Summit, Intro, and Bookkeeping
The summit is shaping up! We went through and selected the “Hell yea” presenters, the “hopefully you can tweak your talk a bit” presenters, and the “sorry its not a fit” applicants.
Not completely sold on the theme but will give it some time to marinate. I also have a handful of people I want to contact to see if they are interested. Carin had a couple swipe files from past summits and I have what I used for the Connector Conferences. One of the docs Carin has is a promotion calendar. You add the proposed date and the sheet autopopulates! Insert head exploding emoji! That’s going to be so helpful.
I was pretty brain dead after that meeting and updating the past 4 podcast episodes with a new intro and better fades. We realized in the intro we didn’t mention our names so Carin had to rerecord. Now it says who we are.
Because I have the new (well since Sept or Oct) editing software I had no idea how to fade music in or out, and it showed… did a quick help search in the software and it was confusing so I googled: video of fade out on Descript and watched a 40 second video and had it done. I love all these creators that record videos that help with tech making my life easier.
Speaking of easy: I just wrote an email to the lady who did my bookkeeping for the second half of 2024. I started my biz around April of 2024 and one of my ultimatums with myself before starting another business was I would hire someone to do the bookkeeping and provide me with a cute (and accurate) P&L.
My mother-in-law (a CPA) files our tax returns and she tried to help me with my first business, a product based business with inventory and depreciation and a whole bunch of ballywho. Then from that business I had the membership. Every year it was a major stressor because I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. And she wasn’t sure of the accounting software from the user end, instead of as the CPA, so it would ended up being a huge mental block for me. I used to have SO much mental drama around it.
So last January or February I put in one of entrepreneur ADHD groups a request: “6 months of about 15 transactions average per month in 2 accounts”. I had like 5 quotes by the end of the day and ended up hiring Megan. it was the best money I ever spent.
Tomorrow at 8 am she’ll have my email in her inbox. She better be available. Haha, jk. But all the tax commercials are seriously starting to get under my skin. If she can’t do it, someone will let me hire them.
