Dorothy Kolb, Fractional CFO and Strategist
Your World of Creativity
Mark Stinson
5.0 • 45 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Dorothy Kolb
After a foundational start at Deloitte and building a 20+ year career in media finance & operations across notable companies including CBS Sports, FOX Sports, NBC & HGTV/Food Network, Dorothy launched dk east associates to bring her world-class background to emerging businesses to help them grow to their fullest potential through outsourced CFO, accounting strategy and HR services. To date, she has helped clients increase their profitability by as much as 85% year over year and hit 7-figure revenues through innovative processes, structure and strategy. She has overseen several horizontal industry acquisitions, making her clients major players in their industries. Dorothy understands the importance of balancing things in life! She became an entrepreneur while raising her 4 teenage sons (including twins!) as a single mom! Part strategist, part basketball coach, part founder!
Questions Dorothy is always ready to answer
- What in my business do I need to look at today in order to be succeed in 6 months from now?
- How do I make sure my business is profitable?
- What made you finally realize that staying in your marriage would cause more harm than leaving? How did you find the strenght?
- How did you prepare for the divorce knowing you would have zero financial support?
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| 0:00.0 | Happy to your most original thinking, organize your ideas, and create the opportunities to launch your creative work. |
| 0:14.0 | Unlocking your world of creativity, with best-selling author and brand innovator, Mark Stinson. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to our podcast. Our guest today is Dorothy Cole. |
| 0:28.0 | Thanks so much, Mark. It's great to be here. Dorothy had a foundational start at Deloitte, |
| 0:32.4 | and she built a 20-plus year career in media finance and operations, with notable media companies |
| 0:39.0 | such as CBS Sports, Fox Sports, NBC, HDTV, and the Food Network. And now, her own company, DK East |
| 0:48.0 | Associates. She brings her world-class backgrounds to emerging businesses through |
| 0:52.1 | outsour CFO accounting strategy and HR services. Dorothy, I think the first thing that people would |
| 0:59.9 | hear when I shared your bio was, why is a CFO on a creativity podcast? But I think with all your |
| 1:08.0 | background in the media, I think the answer is pretty clear for you, but share it with our listeners. |
| 1:12.8 | Oh my goodness. That's how much time do you have? Wow, it's our podcast. We'll do what we want. |
| 1:18.4 | There you go. Having my background in broadcasting and media, I have been surrounded by creatives |
| 1:24.8 | my entire career. And in fact, my dad worked for NBC for 40 years. So I have been surrounded by |
| 1:30.9 | this type of mind for my entire life. I'll expand it to that. And I am always amazed at just how |
| 1:39.2 | creative minds work. That is so far different from mine. But at the same time, how they don't work. |
| 1:45.1 | And often there is so much passion and so much emotion that goes into being a creative |
| 1:51.2 | thinker, but it doesn't equal out to the financial part. And there's so many creatives are just, |
| 1:58.3 | they just want to, they want to help people. If it's social impact, they want to help people. They |
| 2:02.2 | want to help people rebrand or get their message out there and all that to the detriment of their |
| 2:07.1 | own business and their own financial well-being. And so I support that by being that end of their |
| 2:14.6 | business for them by helping them with that part of it. And do you feel like it's a gap or do |
| 2:19.9 | you feel like it's a block? And maybe if I could, you know, visualize that a little differently, |
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