1135: Managing Money in Your Business...Better. Guest: Melanie Hopkins, Founder of Finance Friend

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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You might be great at making money in your business...but can you manage it, too? The pain point of many business owners and entrepreneurs is, funny enough, figuring out the money stuff and running that aspect of the business more smoothly. Guest Melanie Hopkins, founder of Finance Friend, helps business owners become empowered in their financial management. Finance Friend is a business management and financial consulting firm. Her client roster ranges from human rights nonprofits to artisanal cheese makers to tech startups. She's saved businesses from financial ruin and can help them find better ways to keep the money they make. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Money
0:02.8	Hopkins, founder of Finance Friend.
0:05.0	You're listening to So Money
0:08.0	with Award-winning Money Guru Farno Shorabi.
0:11.0	Each day, get a 30 minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top business
0:15.7	minds, authors, influencers, and from Farnuus yourself. Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons?
0:24.0	Sorry, you're in the wrong place.
0:26.0	Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life.
0:29.0	Welcome to So Money.
0:32.0	What I do is... Welcome to So Money.
0:46.0	What I do is I help entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses by filling in those knowledge gaps about the finance and operations of small business. You might be running a business, but are you good with money?
0:50.0	Welcome to So Money, everybody. I'm your host, Farnoosh Terabi. My guest today is going to sort out some things for us. And by us, I mean those of us that running a business or thinking about running a business, whatever size business, whatever kind of business, you have to be able to manage the books.
1:07.0	Melanie Hopkins, this is her forte. She is the founder of finance, friend, a business management and financial consulting firm.
1:15.2	Melanie works with a client roster ranging from human rights nonprofits to artisanal cheese
1:20.4	makers to tech startups. And she helps these business owners become more
1:24.4	empowered in their financial management. In some cases she's saved them from
1:29.9	financial ruin. How does she do it? What does she look for? And what kind of
1:33.8	numbers should you be looking at? I thought this would be a timely episode as we
1:37.2	hope to finish 2020 strong. And as we look ahead to the new year, focus on
1:41.3	rebounding our business or growing further.
1:44.3	Here's Melanie Hopkins.
1:48.3	Melanie Hopkins, welcome to So Money, my finance friend.
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