Brooke Lively: “Give yourself grace.
Starting a business is full of ups and downs, highs and lows, and every time you have a fail … fail fast and fail forward – and ask yourself: what can you learn?
It’s not pleasant and it sure doesn’t feel good at the time – learn the lesson.
Give yourself the grace to learn the lesson”
In This Episode:
Brooke Lively says that she came to realise that most business owners are a little intimidated by their numbers, they don’t know what they’re saying and they don’t know how to use them.
“People start a business from a point of passion” she says “and they don’t have the training and so they feel stressed and frustrated. That’s why my business is here – to help small companies become more profitable”
Brooke Lively is Founder of Cathedral Capital which serves as bookkeeper, accountant, fractional CFO to (mostly) law firms
No matter what your business, Brooke has help for you in this episode.
She goes into detail about pricing from a few different perspectives.
She talks about her “Rule of thirds” which is their unique way of working with clients. Take revenue after COGS and 1/3 to pay employees, 1/3 to paying overheads and 1/3 to profit.
Makes perfect sense!!
Brooke is super smart and funny and cares enormously about her clients and her team.
She has built this highly successful business completely from scratch – she has a team of more than 10 people – and it happened “almost by accident” and she shares her story in this episode.
You can find Brooke Lively:
website:
https://www.cathcap.com
social media links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brookelively/
https://www.instagram.com/cathedralcapital/
https://www.facebook.com/CathedralCapital/
Book by Brooke Lively:
From Panic to Profit: How 6 Key Numbers can make a 6-Figure Difference in your Law Firm
In our conversation she mentioned this video that she called: The Above the Line, Below the Line video
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My guess is you are here because …..
My guess is that you are here because you are a business owner and what you really want – is to build and grow a successful business – whatever that means to you.
We know that business owners want to feel more confident when it comes to the money side of business.
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Having a successful business might mean making business decisions with reliable information – facts & data as well as your “gut feel.”
… ultimately you want to do what you do best AND have a successful business AND make a difference.
I’m here to help you.
Everything I do in my business, every decision I make is based on this question:
Will this make a difference? Will this help you, my listener – will this help you to build your business? will this help you to create your successful, viable and robust business so you can achieve Financial Independence?
This is why I do what I do
There are 2 ways you can access all my best material:
I regularly run webinars on a range of money related topics:
- Managing Cash Flow so you never run out of money
- Understanding where your money goes – getting those expenses sorted out
- Understanding the Profit First book
- Pricing – getting it right for your studio
- The things you need to know before signing a commercial lease
- How to make more money
- … and many other topics
If you’d like the replay of any of these recent webinars, please email me ingrid@healthynumbers.com.au and put “Replay” in the subject and let me know which one you’d like to watch. I’ll send you the link to the replay
AND
Read my book! It is a Business 101 and can answer pretty much all your business questions.
This book is designed to help you build your business – whether you are starting from scratch and creating something new or you have been in business for a couple of years and want to build from your foundations.
The book is your step by step guide to building a business smarter and faster.
“So You Want to Start a Business”
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