As a fractional CFO, when you step in, what are people looking for you to help with? And maybe what's some of the most practical outcomes that come from your expertise and what you end up helping businesses with?

Typically, I come in as very strategic.

My undergrad's in accounting, but it bored me to tears.

I worked for the first couple years of my career in accounting, and I'm like, "Oh my gosh, this is like way too far in the weeds for me." Typically coming in and helping a business, a lot of times they're businesses that probably a lot of people can relate is they've been in business for eight, ten, fifteen, twenty years, and you kind of start to get a little bit of tunnel vision, and you start to get the, "This is the way we've always done it" mentality.

And having a fresh set of eyes to come in and say, "Wait a minute, guys, why are we doing this?" It's so often I come into a business and there's so much low-hanging fruit of ways to improve and make massive changes where managing their margins better.

In a nutshell, meaning that for every dollar you're bringing in in sales, you're keeping more of it.

More of it's ending up in your pocket at the end of the day.

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As a fractional CFO, when you step in, what are people looking for you to help with? And maybe what's some of the most practical outcomes that come from your expertise and what you end up helping businesses with?

Typically, I come in as very strategic.

My undergrad's in accounting, but it bored me to tears.

I worked for the first couple years of my career in accounting, and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is like way too far in the weeds for me.

Typically, coming in and helping a business, a lot of times they're businesses that probably a lot of people can relate is they've been in business for eight, 10, 15, 20 years, and you kind of start to get a little bit of tunnel vision, and you start to get the, this is the way we've always done it mentality, and having a fresh set of eyes that come in and say, wait a minute, guys, why are we doing this? It's so often I come into a business And there's so much low hanging fruit of ways to improve and make massive changes where managing their margins better in a nutshell, meaning that for every dollar you're bringing in in sales, you're keeping more of it, more of it standing up in your pocket at the end of the day.

And that's not just cutting expenses and things like that.

It's a lot of other strategic things to do and making sure you're pricing things.

What is formulated Mr. Biz? Is this nature or nurture? Are you a student of some form of business technique or you've read a billion business books and you've just distilled it into your own thing? Or is this just