Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

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James McKinney, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Oh man, I'm so excited to be here. This is incredible.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a quick summary of your background.

Wow. Just recently, a couple weeks ago, I launched my own

episode of my startup story. So as of right now, I'm a creator and host of the startup story.

Similar to what you're doing for those in finance industry, but really around entrepreneurship

and startups and small businesses. My background is rooted in accounting and finance.

So it's kind of funny that where I'm at today comes through the same journey

that a lot of your listeners are at now.

And so, yeah, undergrad accounting in Cal State Fullerton,

you know, I took an accounting 101 course in junior college and I thought,

well, this is stupid easy.

And so I immediately started selling

bookkeeping services off of an accounting 101 course. So for all the CPAs out there, you're

probably just cringing right now. But, and so yeah, so I had a few bookkeeping clients based on that.

And I thought, man, if I'm going to actually have people pay me for this, I should probably

know a little bit more than accounting 101.

And so at that point, I shifted gears.

And I wanted to be a teacher most of my life.

I shifted gears completely in pursuit accounting.

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