Welcome, I am so glad you made it to my little corner of the interweb. I am your earthly guide and host, Serah based out of coastal Northern California. I would like to invite you on a journey to self-discovery, self-recovery, and empowerment through feeling confident in your business (biz) finances.
In my 13 plus years as a bookkeeper I have learned a lot about finances, peoples feelings and self worth around making money, and business stuff.
This newsletter will get to the good stuff and offer entrepreneurs and small business owners an opportunity to connect with an expert who has also personally made a lot of mistakes and gone through the gauntlet. It will be led from a more holistic approach as I move away from one on one client interactions and collaborate with those who light me up on a project basis. This newsletter will support me in pursuing creative endeavors, and staying on track to release my first and subsequent novels, on navigating my 20βs and 30βs, and some fantasy writing as well.
This newsletter is for you if
π you have no idea where your personal finances are at
π you are struggling to understand how much you actually make
π you are thinking of starting an LLC and incorporating
π you have hired people and been burnt overspending
π you are starting over and need to know where to start
π you know nothing about finances, donβt really want to do your bookkeeping but can not afford a bookkeeper yet
π you downloaded QuickBooks Online* over a year ago and have no idea where to start
π you messed up your books pretty bad and need to fix them
π your tax accountant disappeared and you donβt know what to do
π you started a tax return in a tax software and left it unfinished because you were overwhelmed and needed some extra support
Let me share a bit more about myself. . .
I grew up in between Berkeley and Oakland, California. I aspired to become an aerial silks dancer for Cirque du Soleil but had a very bad fall where I broke my right arm and reconsidered my path. I love gardening, herbalism, libraries, museums, and writing, and I hike at least twenty miles per week in my new coastal home of Humboldt County, California. I love language learning and am currently enjoying enriching my mind through study. My deep work in this lifetime is to show up, share, and support collective healing. I am a single parent, sole provider to a wonderful daughter who makes my job pretty easy most of the time. Of course, itβs no walk in the park having a teenager, but we have it pretty sweet. I really love the earth and am interested in being a steward of the land. One of my favorite singers is AURORA, and I pursue creative endeavors as well.
I wouldnβt call accounting my day job. I am meticulous and love to sort, decipher, and figure things out. My hobbies as a child were Wedding and QuinceaΓ±era planning spreadsheets, puzzles, plant identifying, books, and untangling necklaces, so bookkeeping fits right in. I also am vastly creative, have a potty mouth which I regret encouraging, and love to make art with my hands.
One things I have noticed in my field is that people carry a lot of trauma around money. Whether it was a childhood with lack, the rug pulled up from under your kush life, feeling like you donβt deserve it or, that money is inherently bad, I find so many clients can not get past the trauma that money holds.
But get this, money is magic.
It is a tool that offers freedom and opportunity and can release and recirculate generosity into your communities and beyond.
With extra money you could
β¨ Re-home someone displaced
β¨ Send funds to someone in need in a country that could use extra support
β¨ Donate to your local food banks and shelters
β¨ Take a class at a local community center
β¨ Support a biz that is struggling to make ends meet and could use your support
β¨ Pay for your kids school to have a new *insert the blank*
Money is good. In closing, I want to leave you with a song I wrote a last year which I call my money mantra. I wrote it during a time of immense hardship, and I like to enjoy it during moments when I am low. For non music industry folks, it is what is called a rough demo, and I have thousands of these as I enjoy making up songs all the time. Donβt call me the singing accountant because I am not that, I am simply someone who has a very even split of left and right brain qualities.
Safe for me to be rich money mantra
June 3, 2023
It starts off like this:
I make alotta money and I help alotta people
It is safe for me to be rich
I make alotta money and I help alotta people
It is safe for me to be rich
This is the start of a new era where I am leaning into merging all the parts. They can no longer be split and distorted as they need to harmonize.
In this newsletter you can expect to learn
I am going to teach you about various things such as ::
Money dates where you sit down each week and review your expenses and income. This supports you in planning and so you can get out of the trap of seeking clients when money is low and keep the flow consistent
How setting calendared time to do your bookkeeping supports your sanity
Releasing exercises to let go of money thoughts what is no longer serving you
You will be able to tap into resources such as ::
Passing the love gifting subscriptions to those who need it and really can not afford it
Wellness checkups which is an AMA* of sorts to dive into the nitty gritty and get those accounting system and biz questions answered
Access to spontaneous offerings such as ::
One on one consulting sessions for those starting a business and who would like some support
Downloadable resources such as the 50 best accounts to set up in QuickBooks Online and a downloadable Chart of Accounts for Service Providers which you can customize
Accounting systems implementation class offerings
Training on best practices and more
This is an interactive, revolving door of possibilities and I am curating this off of what would help you most so be vocal, share what feels supportive, and release what no longer aligns.
Disclaimer
Mind you, I am a Gemini and both my mind and classes do move fast, so you can be reassured that there will be a replay, and no question is a silly question, so ask away!
Letβs make this fun so that money feels like less of a block and your biz can find flow.
If things are not flowing, maybe you need to pause, rest, and reevaluate your offerings.
Remember that money flows and the thoughts we think grow
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Written under a Gemini sun and a Cancer moon feeling fertile with ideas.
Photo credit at top to my sweet daughter.
Notes:
*ask me anything
*I am a QuickBooks Online expert and have worked in other software systems. I can not advise on a deep level on other systems, but I do offer advising on QuickBooks and can support with the set-up of a good system to track expenses and income however your biz would feel most supported. If you are curious or interested in booking 1:1 time with me, feel free to complete my brief 1 minute intake questionnaire.
Photo credit at bottom: my own
There will be freebies, which you can enjoy as long as you want. To access the full plethora of offerings, you can choose the monthly investment option or a founders investment offering which has a sweet gift wrapped into it for 2024.
Finally, if you read to the bottom, let me know what YOU would like to learn about that would feel supportive. Any big questions for me? Any big questions on money tjat you canβt resolve? I am all ears!