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On Monday I got a text from a client who had just given us access to his books the deadline was last week. He was stress...
27/05/2026

On Monday I got a text from a client who had just given us access to his books the deadline was last week. He was stressed, worried about penalties, still searching through an overflowing inbox for documents that should have been ready months ago I see this every single year and it never gets easier to watch I have to remind myself every time someone else’s emergency isn’t my urgency.

Here’s what nobody tells you about wealthy people and tax.

They’re not stressed when the bill arrives and it’s not because they pay less it’s because they’ve known the exact number all year. The money has been set aside since July, earning interest while it waits. Every deduction captured. Every receipt there. They pay it last minute in full every single time. They accept tax as the cost of choosing to build something in this country. They don’t fight it they plan for it and that shift from victim of the bill to owner of it - is everything.

The mindset that rich people don’t pay tax is the exact reason the people who believe that never move beyond where they are. It’s a cycle of staying broke because you’re reactive and you pay top dollar every single time. While the prepared are flying first class to Europe on the points earned on the ATO bill most are paying and extra 10.96% per annum compounding daily asking why they aren’t.

I spent Christmas in Japan last year and something stayed with me. There is always another train. You are in full control of how you arrive. You can sprint to the platform, squeeze through the doors, heart racing and already behind or you can be the person who arrived early, waited calmly and walked through when the doors opened with their head up and excited for what was next.

The destination is the same the preparation is everything.

ATO debt is not normal. It is common and common is exactly what keeps small businesses small.

Stressed people make less money that is it, that is the whole point of this post.

If you have no idea what your tax bill will look like this year, that is where we start.

Book a Mini Audit through the link in bio before June 30 closes the door.

The founders who scaled the smoothest aren’t the ones who say yes to every shortcut when their small. They’re the ones w...
25/05/2026

The founders who scaled the smoothest aren’t the ones who say yes to every shortcut when their small. They’re the ones who built the right habits before they needed them. Your team of two deserves the same systems your team of 20 will run on so does your future self.

12/05/2026

17 users in one xero file should be a red flag

not one of them knew the business. not one of them asked the right questions. they processed what they were given and moved on and the owner had no idea her reports were wrong until we looked.

this is the reality of volume accounting. you are one of hundreds. your file gets touched by whoever is available. bookkeeping gets treated like admin instead of the intelligent strategy it actually is.

your accountant works from what they’re given. If what they’re given is wrong, everything built on top of it is wrong.

wrong reports. wrong tax position. wrong decisions.

we found $40k that would have gone to the ATO unnecessarily. gone. because nobody was actually looking not one stopped to actually think. That’s what you don’t pay for thinking. They assume you have.

If you ready to stop being processed and start being understood book a mini audit it’s the clearest $150 you’ll spend this year. i go into your xero myself. Give you a report on what i’ve found that needs fixing before june 30

Comment or DM “AUDIT” for the link

17 users in one xero file should be a red flag not one of them knew the business. not one of them asked the right questi...
12/05/2026

17 users in one xero file should be a red flag

not one of them knew the business. not one of them asked the right questions. they processed what they were given and moved on and the owner had no idea her reports were wrong until we looked.

this is the reality of volume accounting. you are one of hundreds. your file gets touched by whoever is available. bookkeeping gets treated like admin instead of the intelligent strategy it actually is.

your accountant works from what they’re given. I

f what they’re given is wrong, everything built on top of it is wrong.

wrong reports. wrong tax position. wrong decisions.

we found $40k that would have gone to the ATO unnecessarily. gone. because nobody was actually looking.

If you ready to stop being processed and start being understood book a mini audit it’s the clearest $150 you’ll spend this year. i go into your xero myself. give you a report on what i’ve found and you’ll know exactly what needs to be done before june 30

DM “AUDIT” to book yours

honestly part of me considered letting this be a standalone course but i knew i’d always wonder if you did the work. i w...
28/04/2026

honestly part of me considered letting this be a standalone course

but i knew i’d always wonder if you did the work.

i wouldn’t have the oversight to check that when your BAS came around, everything we covered inside CONTROL was actually being implemented.

so i built the oversight in.

every quarter when i’m in your books auditing and preparing your BAS lodgement i can see what has and hasn’t been done.

i can refer you back to the supporting lessons and if i keep seeing the same thing come up across members, i can make the lesson better or build the lesson that doesn’t exist yet.

this is fully built with you in mind. and it’s not complete. there is so much more to bring to it.

May 5th we start with the basics not everything you need to know to be a bookkeeper that’s not the goal just everything you need to know to be a founder doing the bare minimum right.

founding rate $350/month DM to make sure CONTROL is right for you or find the link in bio.

a decade in the books of multi-million dollar companies will teach you things no accounting degree covers I know because...
28/04/2026

a decade in the books of multi-million dollar companies will teach you things no accounting degree covers I know because I’ve done both, while raise two kids on my own and founding 3 businesses.

I know what makes them. what breaks them and it’s almost never what people think.

it’s not the service, the sales team or the marketing. it’s the financial systems and decisions happening behind the scenes the stuff we don’t talk about enough and accountants don’t cover.

that’s what I talk about here and if you stick around long enough, it might just change how you run your business.

if you’re ready to go deeper CONTROL opens may 5th - save you space on the waitlist link in bio

27/04/2026

financial literacy isn’t your accountant’s job. It’s yours and nobody’s been teaching it.

There is a difference between compliance and comprehension most business owners hand everything over to their accountant once a year and hope for the best but by the time your accountant sees it the decisions have already been made the data is pulled together with errors, the money has already spent and the structure has been wrong for 9 months

Control bridges that gap comment ‘CONTROL’ to get on the waitlist
We open the doors May 5th

There is a version of June 30 that feels like any other day.Your books are clean. Your number is known. Your accountant ...
24/04/2026

There is a version of June 30 that feels like any other day.

Your books are clean. Your number is known. Your accountant gave you an estimate months ago so nothing is a surprise. You close the financial year feeling like you ran it.

And then there’s the other version.

The one where June arrives and you realise a year’s worth of work is sitting unlooked at. Where the tax bill lands in July with no context and no warning. Where avoidance kicked in somewhere around February because it felt too hard and there was nobody to help you start. Twelve months of catch-up in thirty days.

I see both versions every year. The difference almost always comes down to whether someone looked at the numbers before the year closed.

Here’s what looking actually means.

It means your Xero balance and your bank statement balance match because if they don’t, something is wrong. This is the most common flag we raise in every Mini Audit we do. When those two numbers don’t align it usually means a payment has been marked as paid but never matched to a transaction. Revenue counted twice. If you’re on accrual basis you will pay tax on that sale twice.

It means knowing your actual net profit not your revenue.

It means reviewing what you haven’t claimed.

It means calling your accountant now and asking for an estimate.

I recently onboarded a client with a significant number of invoices allocated incorrectly or never followed up. Revenue earned and never collected. I know a founder who had $20,000 sitting in her Stripe account that had never been paid out. When you’re busy it is genuinely easy to miss. The more often you reconcile the more accurate your picture is and the more certain you can be that you’re being paid for everything you’ve earned.

And if you don’t know where your books actually stand right now that’s exactly where a Mini Audit starts. We go through your Xero file, identify everything that needs attention before June 30 and hand you a clear list of what to fix and in what order. No guessing. No surprises. Just a real picture of where you’re at while there’s still time to do something about it.

Link in bio to book yours.

If you’re a sole trader thinking about moving into a company structure or you’re already in one and flying solo this pos...
23/04/2026

If you’re a sole trader thinking about moving into a company structure or you’re already in one and flying solo this post is for you.

This is something that goes unnoticed and untalked about all the time and education is the main reasons small businesses don’t make it past the two year mark.

Here’s what actually happens.

In year one you don’t pay your tax until the end of the year if you haven’t planed for it it’s on a payment plan.
So year two you’re paying last year’s tax AND the current year in instalments. By year three, you’re paying in advance that’s one part of ATO debt.

What you just read in this carousel is another.

A structure that doesn’t actually make sense for where you’re at. Money leaving your business the wrong way a $150k problem that built quietly in the background while she just kept showing up and working hard.

So many founders are doing exactly that. Working so hard. Building something real and at the end of the day feeling like they’re losing it to the ATO.

But they’re not losing it BECAUSE of the ATO.

They’re losing it because nobody taught them the financial side of running a business. How to read their numbers. How to make decisions around hiring. How to actually use their accounting software for the outcome they want not just to tick a compliance box.

That’s what CONTROL is.

The education that should have come first.

CONTROL opens May 5th.
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she didn’t want to outsource her bookkeeping because she likes looking at her numbers every week and honestly? i love th...
21/04/2026

she didn’t want to outsource her bookkeeping because she likes looking at her numbers every week and honestly? i love that for her.

i told her “as you should” looking at your numbers weekly is exactly what you should be doing.

but here’s what outsourcing actually does it doesn’t take that away from you it gives you your time back so you can think at a higher level.

instead of being buried in reconciliations and data entry the stuff that’s necessary but genuinely tedious you get to look at the full picture you get to actually dive into profitability and most business owners never get there.

i see it all the time people chasing big financial goals with pricing and business structures that aren’t actually built to hold them and they don’t even know it because they’ve never sat down and done the math.

knowing your numbers isn’t just “are my books up to date” it’s knowing your capacity knowing your margins and knowing specifically what YOUR dream life actually costs.

it’s breaking that down into achievable targets

because if you don’t know the number you’re chasing, you’re just chasing BIG hoping it’ll be enough and from my experience it never is it’s just more of what you have right now which already probably feel like pressure and responsibility

and sometimes when you actually do the work to find the true cost? you realise you don’t need as much as you thought but at least your set up for it anyway

that’s what this prompt is for DM “CLAUDE” and i’ll send it to you

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