You've hired to get your time back and somehow ended up with less of it, more payroll pressure, and a team that still needs you for everything. This episode is for the founder who's stuck in the weeds and wondering if the next hire will actually fix it or just make things worse.

I'm a CPA and business coach, and I fell into the hiring trap at my own firm before I figured out the sequence to get out of it. I'm walking through why hiring first almost always deepens founder burnout, what you have to sort out before you post another job description, and how I now run my practice with fewer people, more profit, and half the hours.

00:00 - The Hiring Trap and Why More People Rarely Means More Freedom

03:58 - What I Changed in My Own CPA Firm

05:00 - Role Clarity: What You Want to Be Doing Every Day

07:31 - Offer Profitability and Aligning What You Sell With What You Love

12:29 - The Five-Favorites Exercise and Running a Tiny Experiment

14:47 - Why Saying No to Clients Is a Kindness, Not a Retreat

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You're tracking revenue, working harder than ever, and watching the profit not show up. This episode is for the founder who's starting to wonder if chasing that top-line number is what's keeping them stuck.

I’m a CPA with nearly 30 years of experience, and my take on revenue is direct: it's a vanity metric. Small business profitability determines whether your business is working, and most founders aren't measuring it with enough precision to make good decisions about what to sell, what to cut, or what to say no to.

00:00 - Revenue as a Vanity Metric and Why the Market Gets It Wrong

06:35 - What Jennifer Changed in Her Own CPA Firm

08:48 - How to Identify Your Most Profitable Offer

13:53 - Gross Margin, Job Costing, and Getting Your Books to Tell You Something

17:00 - Why Saying No to Clients Is a Cash Flow Strategy

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You're a successful founder who's working harder than ever and falling further behind. This episode is for the owner-operator who's tired of being the one everything runs through and wants to know if there's actually a way out.

This is the first episode of Founder, Get Your Life Back, and I'm starting here because this is where most of my clients start, too. I'm a CPA who owned my own firm for over 20 years, and I lived this exact trap before I figured out how to stop being the bottleneck in my own business.

00:00 - What the Wall Is and Why Successful Founders Hit It

03:16 - Why the Business Books Fall Short on Implementation

05:20 - The Problem With Hiring More People and Adding More Software

07:14 - Why Founders Blame the Team and What's Going On

08:15 - The Three Questions Keeping You Stuck in Your Current Role

16:45 - How to Build the Roles Your Business Actually Needs

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If you built your business to have freedom, and it's starting to feel like a job you can't leave, you're exactly who this show was made for. Founder, Get Your Life Back is a podcast for small business owners who've become the bottleneck in their own company, where every decision routes back to you, and nothing moves forward without you.

Host Jennifer Todd is a CPA and MBA who has spent 28 years working directly with founders. She built this show because most business advice comes from people who only see part of the picture. For instance, an accountant focused on the tax bill, or a coach who can't read a P&L. This show covers the whole business because being stuck is never just one problem.

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