This week in the Virtual Cafe there is some bittersweet news we are sharing. Tune in to hear the details of the changes that are coming as Season Six wraps up. The last few weeks there have been some really hard decisions made. Kerry doesn't have a crystal ball Making hard choices Kerry has her cape on for her clients Grieving the changes and celebrating at the same time Pausing isn't quitting forever Over 200 episodes to binge on during this intermission Changing and evolving are part of business Becoming a published author and doing all the things that has caught the attention of those arou ..read more

This week in the Virtual Cafe listen in to the conversation about Kerry's bean-o-meter and the confessions that go with it. Coffee and money are always a topic at the table here. The Money Barista herself is answering some great questions from a listener. Questions can be hard to ask Calendar, schedule, timing 'The Day' vs Bite Size Pieces Excuses from overwhelm Deadline for taxes is a higher level of stress Inflicting more pain on ourselves Adding unnecessary pressure Being mindful of your business finances Little pieces of effort add up Learning and repeating with practice Kerry shared wh ..read more

Welcome to the Virtual Cafe where coffee meets money. This week we are chatting about The Money Barista coffee mug and how not to be 'pedestrian' or 'basic' with our beans. The discussion gets spicy when speaking of the perfect world vs when getting started it may look very different. When to separate the beans What to keep that are the most important things How things can change over time and to know when to separate records Make sure what is required in your area The right advice from certain professionals is important Not getting overwhelmed or sucked down the technical rabbit hole Which t ..read more

Welcome to the Virtual Cafe where we have discussions about the beans in your business. This week we are dreaming about more coffee while skating full throttle through the changing seasons across the globe. Kerry is comparing two sides of the coin of categorizing income and expenses when you are so busy. Balance in information about categories Discovering through pain points how much info is needed Minimum of requirements Lean & Mean vs Extra Details Information for making decisions Where to focus your energy Based on our business and us Having the information you need to make decisions ..read more

We all have phone-a-friend moments in business especially when it comes to money and finances. It can be compelling to go to a search engine when it's an embarrassing question, but be careful when searching online because it can be a slippery slope. The so-called answers online can be overwhelming and we can get off answers. Asking someone you know has experience and sincerely wants to help you is a much better choice, but how do you know who to ask? Kim called Kerry while live on a podcast to see if she knew the answer to a game question she was being asked relationships that we can have for ..read more

Decisions are fire-hosing us every single day. Part of the decision fatigue is having the right systems in place that are going to work for you. When we think about sitting down and working on our Business Finances, we need to make that decision first. When am I going to do it, where am I going to do it, what day, what time, am I going to get interrupted? Join Kerry and Kim in the Virtual Cafe and prepare to make fewer decisions. Decision fatigue is real A recipe for our Business Finances Having the Digital Shoebox as a tool There are tiny little things that we can do as we are running at a ..read more

Pretty early in the writing of her book, Business Finances Made Simple in the Virtual Cafe, Kerry got sick to death of writing out the words 'business finances' and wanted to short cut. In the virtual cafe in this episode Kerry and Kim are having coffee with their BFs and our BFF and you! If you think about your 'BF's instead of your Business Finances, it's kind of cool, you get to work with your BF's One you want to avoid and the other you can't wait to get to If we can mentally change this for ourselves and turn it into a fun time, have some way that we get to enjoy this, it can make a huge ..read more

If you don't like something, you don't understand it, or you don't know how to do it, like our business finances, we self sabotage a lot of times by looking for ways for some tool or person to take the pain away. Can you strip any of that away to simplify your Business Finances so that it's easier? As an Entrepreneur maybe we just need to keep it simple and bring it back to the basics of a spreadsheet and start somewhere. Join Kerry and Kim in the virtual cafe for today's conversation. Are you complicating your business finances? Sometimes we make things complicated because we just don't like ..read more

There's a confidence that comes naturally when we get to do these things that are just not our fave thing to do and we have this extra sense of achievement. When we sit down and work with the numbers we build our confidence muscles, as Kim calls it. Join Kerry and Kim in the Virtual Cafe for a chat about the superpowers that can come with the confidence we gain in our business finances. How do I take control of my Business Finances? How do I build confidence in that control? Spend time with your Business Finances Stepping away from our Business Finances for extended periods of time makes it h ..read more

Business finances can be simple when you know how to do it, but really hard when you don't. They can be really intimidating! Let's get simple about reconciling our bank accounts with Kerry and Kim in the Virtual Cafe, it doesn't need to be complicated. Why do we have to reconcile our bank accounts? What is the simplest way to get started doing it? Why is it a good idea to do it? Let's stop stuffing the hard stuff into the pile and start understanding our business finances together. Make knowing what is supposed to come out and what is actually coming out simpler for your business finances ..read more