Get the inside scoop on how Kenza can connect you to the professionals, courses, and programs you need to succeed as a parent entrepreneur. Learn 2 important lessons that Tiffany learned this summer and key takeaways to help you not repeat the same mistakes and see how we’re expanding The Kenza pod to bring you even more value!

Hunter shares his favorite tax strategies geared towards parent entrepreneurs and he gives advice on how you can save on taxes as a business owner and parent. Plus, learn about the benefits of putting your kids on the payroll, find when they’re eligible, and learn how to best utilize them in your business!

You’ll learn what information you need to gather before sitting down and making a budget. You’ll get advice on how to create a budget that makes sense for your business based on both your expected and unexpected expenses, anticipated income, and what you ideally want to take home in a paycheck.

Life is busy right now and we're all just trying to finish out the year strong. So in this episode, we’re giving you the five tasks that you need to do by year-end in order to set yourself up for success come tax season. C’mon - just five little tasks are all we’re asking for here. You can do this!

Join us and insurance expert, Octavio Jara from Potlache Benefits, to learn how COBRA works, stipulations and timing to be aware of, and how it can help your family so that you can finally make the leap into freelancing!

Running a small business is hard enough without adding the complexity of understanding how to do your taxes every year. That’s why in today’s episode, we talk with CPA, Shannon Weinstein, about how to get prepared for the year-end so that you can keep more of what you’ve earned and avoid expensive mistakes.

Over the last year, we’ve connected with dozens of talented, hard-working, ambitious parents who are tired of working for The Man and ready to transition into freelance or consulting work, so that they can create a life, a schedule, and a career that actually works for their families.

Wealth consciousness coach AJ Bishop focuses on helping women define and create their own wealth consciousness, eradicate their financial anxieties, and empower themselves to be in full control of their wealth and financial futures.

Tiff and Beth spoke with Executive Director, Rafael Espinal on how he got his start as a freelancer advocate, why the Freelancers Union is so important, and how you can take advantage of all the Freelancers Union has to offer, including access to affordable health care and a ton of other benefits traditionally offered by larger companies.

Kenza CFO Beth Gummere walks us through how to read your P&L, how to understand and categorize different expenses, how to determine your gross and net profits, and how to use these nuggets of information to expand your business and focus on growth.

If you’ve been avoiding your financial reports because you either don’t know what to do with the info, don’t understand what you’re looking at or why it matters, or are just plain intimidated by business finances (we’ve all been there!), this is the episode for you!

On this episode of The Kenza Pod, we sat down with Annie Hilman of Atlas Bookkeeping to discuss why it’s vital to know your books, inside and out. You’ll get a good idea of what it’s like to work with a bookkeeper, why profits matter more than sales, how to get started learning the basics of bookkeeping on your own, and how to conquer your fears and vulnerability around this topic.

We sat down with Kirstin Smith, Enrolled Agent and Owner at Balanced Tax Solutions and our go-to resource for all things business taxes, to walk us through how to get yourself organized for taxes. This is a MUST listen if you are a freelancer in the U.S.

A few weeks ago, Beth and I met up to discuss our plans for Kenza in the first quarter. Because our time is limited - we both have clients to serve still, and family obligations - we need to be laser focused on what we’re hoping to accomplish. So we worked to keep our plans simple and achievable.

If you are a small business owner who is considering having a baby, this is a must-listen episode! Mariah Stockman, Founder and Creative Director at Ms. Creative, a marketing agency for women, shares with us the four areas she’s evaluating and tightening up in her business as she looks ahead to starting a family with her husband. Plus, Tiffany shares tips from the other side of parenthood - things she wishes she had known going into it as it relates to juggling a career and parenting.

In this episode, Beth talks to us about her perspective on creating and maintaining a cash reserve, how much should be in there, and easy steps you can take today to get started!

If you’ve been around for a while, you know that one of our main goals is to help you avoid painful, stressful, costly mistakes that can be prevented with education and discipline. So for this episode of the Kenza Pod, Beth pulled together the top 10 mistakes that she has seen small businesses make time and time again with the goal of helping you to avoid them!

Beth Gummere, Kenza's CFO, and Brandon Smith, Attorney at Law, share with us the ins and outs of the new(ish) AB5 Law in CA. Even if you work outside of California, this information is still great to know, as other states either have similar laws or will most likely adopt something similar in the years to come. ⁠⁠

In this week’s Finance Friday, we sit down with Kirstin Smith, Enrolled Agent and small business tax expert, as well as Beth Gummere, Kenza’s CFO, about the when and why of incorporating.

This is one of those areas that we really want to help provide clarity on - not just taxes, but your entire business financial situation. We want you to feel informed, empowered, and educated on how this all works together. We want to help you figure out who to talk to, what questions to ask, and how to truly understand your financial picture.