Épisodes

  • Tool Spotlight: Credit Karma and Experian — Monitoring Your Personal Credit for Free
    Oct 19 2026

    Your personal credit score can shift month to month based on your activity, and as a business owner juggling loans, personal guarantees, and fluctuating balances, there's more going on than the usual amount. The good news is that monitoring your credit costs nothing, and doing it regularly is one of the easiest personal finance habits you can build.

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    5 min
  • Good v. Bad Debt For Business Owners - How To Use Debt
    Oct 12 2026

    In this episode, we talk about debt, the various types, and how business owners can take advantage of debt.

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    7 min
  • How Starting a Business Affects Your Personal Credit Score
    Oct 5 2026

    In this episode, we talk about the real impact of business credit inquiries, guarantees, and debt on your personal credit profile.

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    4 min
  • Separating Personal and Business Finances: Why It Protects You Personally
    Sep 21 2026

    In this episode, we talk about why separating your personal and business expenses is important, and how the legal protections work. The personal, financial, and legal reasons to keep these completely separate go beyond just good bookkeeping.

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    4 min
  • Tool Spotlight: Betterment — Automated Personal Investing for Busy Owners
    Sep 14 2026

    In this episode, we talk about how this robo-advisor helps business owners invest consistently without having to think about it daily.

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    6 min
  • Retirement Accounts for the Self-Employed: SEP-IRA vs. Solo 401(k)
    Sep 7 2026

    If you had a 401k at your last job, you probably just... had it. HR set it up, you picked a contribution percentage, and the money went in automatically.

    As a business owner, nobody sets it up for you. Which means a lot of business owners just don't have one. And they're missing out on some of the most powerful tax advantages available to them.

    Today we're fixing that.

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    4 min
  • Self-Employment Tax — The Bill Nobody Warned You About
    Aug 31 2026

    There's a tax that a lot of new business owners don't find out about until they owe it. It's called self-employment tax, and when you first see the number, it feels like a punch in the stomach.

    Here's what it is, why it exists, and more importantly, how to plan for it so it never surprises you.

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    4 min
  • Tool Spotlight: Keeper Tax — Finding Deductions You're Missing
    Aug 17 2026

    Here's a real number: the average self-employed person misses over $1,000 in tax deductions every year. Not because they're doing anything wrong, just because tracking every deductible expense throughout the year is genuinely hard.

    There's an app that tries to fix that. Let's talk about Keeper Tax.

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    4 min