Hello and welcome to Being is being in it.

It's being who we are, doing the work, breaking some rules,

and even though we each have to do it on our own,

being boss is knowing we're in it together.

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So with that, today we are going to talk about money.

Emily and I were going through some of our past episodes and which ones

seem to do really well and which ones you guys wanted to hear more about and money

is the thing that is constantly coming up. It's the biggest stressor and people are just freaking out about it.

Right? Well and as a...

whenever you combine creatives and money, something you have to do money. You have to play the

money game when you're running a business. There's a lot of tension there

between the two mindsets of being creative and just making art or doing your thing or

whatever it is but also asking for money for it. But to be a creative entrepreneur

you got to do it. So this a bit of tension is something that Kathleen and I run into a lot

whenever we talk to our bosses and so it's a conversation I think will continue

forever until all of you are just making bank and feeling great about it.

All right you guys I want to take a moment here and talk about how awkward it can be to ask for money

doing what you love. Early in my career whenever I started

using Fresh Books Cloud accounting I found that it almost felt like I had my own

assistant or personal accountant asking my clients for money instead of me

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