101 Why you need to start understanding the numbers in your business with Melissa Houston
Making Money Online with Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson
5.0 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Joining me today is Chartered Accountant and Entrepreneur, Melissa Houston. Melissa empowers business owners to be financially literate so they can make profitable decisions. Today we discuss why it's so important to understand both the numbers in your business and your relationship with money.
What You'll Learn In This Episode:
- How despite being a money expert Melissa found herself in debt when credit became an emotional crutch.
- Spending can become a habit and even an addiction, today Melissa shares how you can become aware of your patterns to avoid emotional spending.
- Once you understand the numbers in your business they can provide you feedback and can give you all the information you need to take things to the next level.
- Money is emotional so having a positive money mindset is so key to success. In this episode, Melissa shares some of the ways you can improve your relationship with your finances to get cash confident.
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- Join the discussion at @thefabulous5percent
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Making Money Online with Lisa Johnson, the podcast that tells you what it really |
| 0:09.2 | takes to build a business and the simple steps to get you there. I'm determined to share with you |
| 0:13.9 | the reality of easy, simple business marketing tips to make passive income so that you can start |
| 0:19.5 | making money online. |
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| 0:38.3 | business. Visit NJRPR.com for more details and read Nicola's bestselling book, The Power of |
| 0:46.4 | PR. Hello and welcome to this week's podcast. Today we're talking money. I know you love it |
| 0:52.5 | when we talk money. So I bought on somebody |
| 0:54.5 | brilliant to talk money with us. So I have here, Melissa Houston, and she empowers people with |
| 1:01.4 | business financial literacy, which is so important and not enough people talk about it. So Melissa, |
| 1:07.1 | welcome to the podcast. Hi, Lisa. Thank you so much for having me here today. |
| 1:11.4 | No, I was. |
| 1:11.9 | I'm really excited to talk to you about this. |
| 1:13.4 | It's one of my favorite subjects. |
| 1:15.1 | And I know we've chatted about this before. |
| 1:17.7 | Tell me, first of all, because I obviously know the story of how you are somebody that understands financial literacy really well, |
| 1:28.2 | but you yourself ended up in debt at one point, didn't you? |
| 1:32.8 | I know it's crazy, right? |
| 1:34.2 | Being a CPA, I have over 20 years of experience. |
| 1:37.1 | I'm a money expert, and I ended up blowing through $100,000 worth of credit in about a year. |
| 1:44.5 | And it was just a crazy time in my life. |
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