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What is up, my friend? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Graham Baldwin. Good to have

you here with us today. We are on episode 72. And today we're going to be talking about a subject and topic that I know many of you love to talk about. It's something that you get so geeked out and excited about. It's the necessary evil of taxes. Dun, done, done. I feel like we should have some type of, like, dramatic music there because, oh, taxes suck, but they are part of business and you really, really, really got to pay attention to your taxes. And so today we've got my personal CPA, my personal accountant and both the business and personal side. Josh Bowerley is going to be talking with us today. Now we did back in

episode 33, I talked a little bit about taxes, kind of how I run things. And then also in episode

38, we talked about business structure differences between sole proprietorships, LLCs,

S-corp's, all of that stuff. But again, I'm just kind of at those episodes, those again,

episodes 33 and 38. Those are kind of my experience and just kind of at those episodes, those again, episodes 33 and 38.

Those are kind of my experience and just kind of talking through my thoughts on it.

But today we've got an actual tax expert in the house. No disclaimer needed from me that I am

not a tax professional. So again, we're going to get into it today with Josh again here on

episode 72. Hey, before we get into that, let me quickly remind you. Again, if you haven't already registered, you can stop by free speakerworkshop.com. As you may know, on a regular basis, we host these online free trainings, teaching you all about how to find in book speaking engagements, knowing how much to charge, whether or not you should speak for free, and just how does start and and grow your speaking business? And so that again is just a free speakerworkshop.com. Free speakerworkshop.com is where you can register for that, and we would love to have you come hang out with us sometime soon. All right, without further ado, let's get into it. Here's my conversation, my chit-chat chatt-chateroo with my buddy Josh Bowerley. Enjoy. What's up, my friends?

Grant Baldwin here. My chit-chat-chateroo with my buddy Josh Bowerley. Enjoy.

What's up, my friends? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Today we are joined by my buddy Josh Bowerly. Josh is a CPA and tax wizard. So we're going to be getting

into all of that today of talking about taxes, talking about deductions, talking about tax entities or business entities, and should you be a sole proprietor and LLC and all that, all the stuff that like we're supposed to know, but none of us really have a clue on Josh actually knows something about. So, Josh, what's up, man? Welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having me. All right. First of all, give us a nutshell of your business, kind of what you do and maybe even a snapshot of how you got into it.

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