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Bookkeepers On Fire with Deb & Donna

Deb Kilsheimer & Donna Reade

Where bookkeeping meets bold ideas, disruptive strategies with a whole lot of laughter. Donna with her genius in Systems, Processes, and Optimization and Debbie sharing Quick Wit, Funny Insights, Resolute Belief in people, break down what’s working - and what’s not. Unlock the brilliance behind every episode. Experience the heat, the laughs, and the hard truths of virtual bookkeeping—come see what actually works. Join us for the fire, the laughs, and the unfiltered truth about running a

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44:19

🔴 Bookkeepers On Fire | Live with Heather Satterley

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2025/12/16

🔥 Bookkeepers on Fire is back—and this one is equal parts innovation, horses, and four-leaf clover magic ☘️🐴✨This week, we sat down with the incredible Heather Satterley .And whew… Heather brought the heat and the heart. ❤️‍🔥Here’s what hit hardest (and brightest) 👇🧠 Change doesn’t need more “push”… it needs more empathy. Heather broke down real change leadership: validate the emotions, have a plan, communicate clearly, and create a safe space for people to speak up. (Yes—clients AND

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38:44

🔴 Bookkeepers On Fire | Live with Martha Yasso

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2025/12/09

Bookkeepers who get it don’t just balance books. They build communities, change lives, and nerd out on spreadsheets together. 🔥📊In this episode of Bookkeepers on Fire, we sat down with Martha Yasso. Wall Street alum, AI pioneer (her thesis was on neural networks… in 1996 🤯) and founder of Fiscal Clinic, a niche community for advisors serving independent healthcare practices.Here’s what we dug into:💚 From cutthroat Wall Street to radical communityHow Martha left a backstabbing Wall

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7:29

Balances Aren't Bookkeeping

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2025/12/03

⚡️If you think balances = bookkeeping, we need to talk… ⚡️🔥 Balances Aren’t Bookkeeping 🔥Ever been tempted to just drop in a monthly total and call it “done”? Yeah… no. Bookkeeping isn’t a shortcut game—it’s about details, clarity, and yes, a little bit of struggle (even for the pros).✨ Here’s the real deal:📊 Reconcile like a pro → It doesn’t matter if the bank cuts statements midweek—reconcile to the statement date and keep moving.🧾 Transactions matter → Totals won’t cut it. Every

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47:41

🔴 Bookkeepers On Fire | Live with William "Murph" Murphy

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2025/12/02

🔥 New Episode Drop: Bookkeepers on Fire with the legendary William “Murph” Murphy of Insightful Accountant 🔥This week we went deep on what it really looks like to lead, serve, and stay all-in for our profession — even while life is throwing curveballs.Here’s a taste of what we unpacked with Murph 👇💥 From funeral homes to QuickBooks royalty – How Murph’s wild career path ran through medicine, paramedics, health economics, offshore financing (😳) and eventually into accounting, data

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9:40

Hackers Love Bookkeepers

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2025/11/30

💥 “Hackers don’t break into banks anymore—they break into bookkeepers.”🚨 Traveling with tech? It’s not just about convenience—it’s about protecting your client’s goldmine of data. Hackers love bookkeepers (because that’s where the juicy stuff is 💳🔐).Here’s what we spilled in this week’s episode of Bookkeepers on Fire:✨ Laptop > Tablet – iPads are great for Netflix, not payroll. Functionality matters when you’re working on the road. 🔒 Security isn’t optional – VPNs, WISP docs, and

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8:05

Fake Support Scams

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2025/11/28

⚡️ “If it smells scammy, it IS scammy.” 🚨Ever been told by “QuickBooks Support” that it’ll cost you $249.99 to fix your books? Yeah… fake support scams are real (and pricey 💸).✨ 3 Hot Takeaways:🛑 If “support” asks for upfront $$$ — HANG UP. Legit QuickBooks support doesn’t charge like that.📂 Banks have quirks: some go back 7 years, others only 60 days. Know your bank’s limits before you panic.🤖 AI + CSV uploads > manual entry. Train yourself now, and you’ll thank yourself later.🔥

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10:50

Processing Fees Rock

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2025/11/26

⚡️“Hot take: If you’re whining about processing fees, you’re already doing it wrong.”⚡️💳 Processing fees got you grumpy? Think again. Paying those fees means you’re actually making 💵 (congrats 🎉). But here’s the kicker—stop nickel-and-diming your clients with “convenience fees.” It’s not convenient. It’s annoying.✨ Key Takeaways from this week’s Bookkeepers on Fire:🚫 Don’t scare clients away with extra line-item credit card fees (they’ll walk—just ask Vegas 🎰).💡 Instead, bake the cost

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3:42

Worldwide Worker Woes

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2025/11/25

🚨 Hiring contractors overseas? Don’t overcomplicate it. We just broke it down on Bookkeepers on Fire and here’s the 🔥 truth:✅ Contractor ≠ Employee – If they’re outside the U.S., they’re not subject to U.S. payroll taxes. 📝 W-8BEN is Your Friend – Have it on file, don’t send it anywhere. Just keep it for your records.🌍 Simple, Not Scary – Unless you’re setting up payroll in another country (👀 Canada anyone?), don’t make it harder than it needs to be.Sometimes the biggest bookkeeping

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6:51

Nine Years Late

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2025/11/23

🚨 Nine years of messy books later… and guess what? They finally called a bookkeeper. 🙃When clients come in with chaos, here’s the deal:✨ Fresh Books, Fresh Start – Don’t dig through a decade of dust. Get what’s needed for the tax return and move forward. 💸 Charge What It’s Worth – Cleanups aren’t charity. Minimums matter. Yes, even $10K+ for the mess they created. 📝 ROI Reality Check – No one cares if that 2016 repair was “office supplies.” The IRS just wants the return filed.👉

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4:53

Always Be Posting

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2025/11/21

🔥 Bookkeepers, let’s get real... do we really need to sit around waiting for bank statements before entering transactions? Spoiler alert: nope. Business keeps moving, and so should you. 🚀Here’s the spicy takeaway from our latest Bookkeepers on Fire episode:✨ 3 Hot Truths About Reconciling:💻 Enter First, Reconcile Later → Don’t let missing statements slow your workflow. Keep the books rolling.🏦 Bank Feeds Rule → If balances match, statements start to look like yesterday’s news.🌟 Old

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4:38

Congrats Not Yet

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2025/11/19

🚨 Just landed your “first client”? Hold up… not so fast. 🚨Here’s the real deal from our latest Bookkeepers on Fire episode 🎙️👇✨ 3 Hot Truths:💸 Prospect ≠ Client → Until there’s 💵 on the table (and a signed engagement letter), you’ve got a maybe, not a client.🍔 Fries Still Cost Extra → Minimum pricing is non-negotiable. You don’t get a discount just because you don’t eat the fries.🤖 Transactions vs. Transformation → Are you a keystroke-counter (AI bait) or the advisor who changes

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35:42

🔴 Bookkeepers On Fire | Live with Matt Tait

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2025/11/18

Bookkeepers are DONE playing small. 🔥In our latest Bookkeepers on Fire episode, Deb and Donna sat down with Matt Tait of Decimal – a “recovering attorney” turned multi-business founder who's blowing up the traditional firm model and turning bookkeeping into a scalable, lifestyle-friendly business opportunity.Here’s a taste of what we got into 👇💥 Stop building yourself a job. Most firm owners stay stuck “doing the work” instead of building a business. Matt breaks down why founders should

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6:26

Bookkeepers Not Police

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2025/11/16

💸 Cash + Coaches = Chaos?Sometimes bookkeeping questions aren’t about how to record… but why the heck it happened in the first place.Here’s the hot take from this week’s Bookkeepers on Fire 🎙️🔥:🚨 Red Flags Everywhere – Paying a “business coach” in cash? No invoice? No W9? Yeah… sketchy.💼 Bookkeepers ≠ Police – Our job is to record, advise, and guide. Not cuff clients for bad decision.💡 Transform, Don’t Tattle – The win is coaching clients toward smarter choices (not letting them

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6:00

Communities Beat Gurus

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2025/11/14

💡 Ever thought you needed a QuickBooks mentor to finally “get it”?Here’s the truth (with a little tough love): nobody can make you learn. You’ve got to do the work. But the right communities can absolutely change the game.✨ Here’s the real scoop:🚀 F1 was my first mentor → yup, that little help key taught me more than I ever expected.🎥 YouTube University FTW → Hector Garcia & Veronica Wasek mentored me for years before they even knew I existed.🤝 Communities beat gurus → you’ll learn

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6:08

Race To The Bottom

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2025/11/12

🚨 Stop scrolling. Let’s talk about why you’re stuck in analysis paralysis instead of building your business.Too many new bookkeepers are:🤯 Comparing prices to $200 “McBookkeeping” shops (spoiler: it’s a race to the bottom)📝 Counting transactions instead of transforming clients’ businesses (transactional = cheap, transformative = premium 💎)🌐 Obsessing over websites instead of landing actual clients (newsflash: your first five don’t care about your homepage 🚫)💡 The truth? You’re not

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🔴 Bookkeepers On Fire | Live with Randy Crabtree

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2025/11/11

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4:11

Define Audit Again

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2025/11/09

🚨 Ever had an insurance provider, mortgage broker, or workers comp auditor throw around the word “audited” like it’s free candy? 🍬 Spoiler alert: it’s not the same thing we mean in accounting.Here’s the real talk:🔹 Audited ≠ Audited – Capital “A” audit means third-party, deep dive, $15K+ bill 💸 … small “a” audit means “does this look okay?” 👀🔹 Push Back – When they demand “audited” statements, ask them who’s paying. (Hint: not you, unless they’ve got $15,000 burning a hole in their

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6:56

Favorite Client Fails

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2025/11/07

💸 Favorite clients can still fail… and it’s not your fault. Sometimes, tough love is the best kind of bookkeeping.🔥 Here’s the hard truth we don’t like to admit:☕ Starbucks ≠ Sales. If your client spends more than they sell, no spreadsheet magic can fix it.💳 Loans for payroll? That’s not strategy, that’s survival mode (with interest).🚪 No sales, no business. A website doesn’t pay the bills—customers do.At the end of the day, you can love your client… but you can’t fund their denial

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12:36

Theory Meets Reality

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2025/11/04

🎓 School told us confidence comes with a degree. 😅 Reality handed us dusty ledgers, 100° fields in business suits, and office supply “theories” that no one uses.Here’s what we actually learned:📚 Theory is nice… until you’re sweating through your blazer counting grain silos in Bakersfield.🤯 Confidence tanks fast when your shiny diploma doesn’t match real-world chaos (spoiler: it never does).🚀 Real growth happens when you mess up, fix it, and keep showing up. No permission slips

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12:10

Vendor? Nope, Expert

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2025/11/02

🔥 Elite? Please. Let’s set the record straight.Being a top-tier bookkeeper isn’t about some fancy title. It’s about how you show up.Here’s the truth 👇💪 Confidence Counts → Stop acting like a vendor. Walk in as the expert you are.💸 Costly ≠ Expensive → You’re not “too expensive.” You’re an investment. Cheap mistakes cost way more.⚡ Deliver or Don’t → Bold promises mean nothing if you can’t deliver. Do the work. Every. Single. Time.✨ You don’t need permission to call yourself an

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