The Accounting Leads Now Podcast
by James Donovan
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- 🇮🇩ID · Marketing#129500 to 3K
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30+ Acquisitions, a $10M Budget, and Zero Marketing Strategy | Mike Payne
Sep 3, 2026
32m 22s
The AI Math Every Firm Owner Is Getting Wrong | With Blake Oliver
Aug 27, 2026
43m 48s
The Banker Behind 500 Accounting Firm Acquisitions Says Buyers Get This Wrong | Shannon Hay
Aug 20, 2026
26m 06s
The Fix for a Firm That Eats Your Whole Life? Charge More, Serve Fewer | Marit Burmood
Aug 13, 2026
30m 41s
He Named the Real Reason Firm Owners Stay Stuck (It Is Not Clients) | Will Hill
Aug 6, 2026
28m 51s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 9/3/26 |  30+ Acquisitions, a $10M Budget, and Zero Marketing Strategy | Mike Payne | What if your firm never ran a single ad, never sent a cold email, never hired a marketing agency, and still grew fast enough to expand across multiple states? Episode 89 features Mike Payne, Chief Growth Officer at Haga Kommer, Ltd. and founder of BOSS Advisors, the first Arizona firm approved as an Alternative Business Structure. Mike is a lawyer and a CPA who ignored every colleague who told him to wear one hat, built a CPA firm and a law firm side by side, then sold to a group doing 30+ ac... | 32m 22s | ||||||
| 8/27/26 |  The AI Math Every Firm Owner Is Getting Wrong | With Blake Oliver | Most firm owners calculate the ROI of AI in hours saved. Blake Oliver says that math is exactly why the savings never show up in the bank account. Episode 88 features Blake Oliver, CPA, founder and CEO of Earmark and co-host of The Accounting Podcast, the most popular show for accountants and bookkeepers in the world. Blake started as a cello major, talked his way into a bookkeeping job during the Great Recession, became one of the first Xero partners in the United States, sold his firm Cloud... | 43m 48s | ||||||
| 8/20/26 |  The Banker Behind 500 Accounting Firm Acquisitions Says Buyers Get This Wrong | Shannon Hay | He has closed over 500 accounting firm acquisitions. Not 50, but 500. He knows exactly which deals fall apart and why. Episode 87 features Shannon Hay, Senior Vice President of Commercial Lending at United Midwest Savings Bank, where he leads SBA and commercial lending for accounting and tax firms nationwide. Over 30 years in commercial lending, with stops at Bank of America and Live Oak Bank, and nearly $500 million in accounting and tax firm transactions behind him. In this conversation Sha... | 26m 06s | ||||||
| 8/13/26 |  The Fix for a Firm That Eats Your Whole Life? Charge More, Serve Fewer | Marit Burmood | Most firm owners think the problem is the market. Sometimes the problem is that you do not believe the number you are about to say out loud. Episode 86 features Marit Burmood, CPA, EA, MTax, owner of Flair Financial LLC in Salt Lake City. She holds a master's in taxation from Weber State, was named a 2026 Top U.S. Tax Advisor by Insightful Accountant, speaks at GrowCon and AICPA Engage, and writes for OnPay. She also tripled her firm's revenue in eight months, and not by finding a better nich... | 30m 41s | ||||||
| 8/6/26 |  He Named the Real Reason Firm Owners Stay Stuck (It Is Not Clients) | Will Hill | Most firm owners who feel stuck are not short on skill or short on clients. They are short on clarity about what they are actually worth, and what they actually want. Episode 85 features Will Hill, founder and owner of Will Hill Consults, LLC, a coaching and consulting firm serving the tax and accounting profession. Will has been working with firms since 2001 and was named to Accounting Today's "Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting." In this conversation, Will breaks down the two v... | 28m 51s | ||||||
| 7/30/26 |  15 Years to Build His Firm. Under 2 Years to Beat It | Emil Abedian | It took him 15 years to build his book of business. He rebuilt the same thing in under two years after niching down. Episode 84 features Emil Abedian, CPA, founder and CEO of Counsel CPAs, a firm that works with law firms only. Emil started his practice around 2009 in Los Angeles after beginning his career in Sweden, and for years he said yes to everything: tax, bookkeeping, payroll, sales tax, cash flow analysis. He was working 80 to 100 hours a week and building what he calls a high-paying ... | 36m 09s | ||||||
| 7/23/26 |  He Built a $1.5M Accounting Firm, Then Walked Away From Operations. Here's How | Scott Scarano | He's an Enrolled Agent, a franchise firm owner, and a rapper. And the craziest part? His firm makes more money now that he's not involved in the day-to-day. Episode 83 features Scott Scarano, the visionary behind Padgett Business Services in Raleigh, NC, also known as Scotty OKR (yes, OK Rapper). Scott grew Padgett NC to $1.5 million, replaced himself in every seat on the org chart, and then did something most firm owners only dream about: he walked away from operations entirely. In this conv... | 36m 10s | ||||||
| 7/16/26 | accountingcareer advice+4 | David Leary | IntuitEarmark CPE+1 | — | accountingCPE app+5 | — | 34m 26s | ||
| 7/9/26 | bookkeepingentrepreneurship+3 | Heidi Ryder | Healthy Books LLCkeepful | United States | bookkeepingentrepreneur+3 | — | 30m 35s | ||
| 7/2/26 | lawaccounting+3 | Christopher Papin | ForbesThomson Reuters+2 | — | lawyerCPA+5 | — | 29m 49s | ||
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| 6/18/26 | business valuationaccounting firms+3 | Justin Farmer | — | — | accounting firm transactionsbusiness intermediary+3 | — | 31m 51s | ||
| 6/4/26 | accounting firmsAI impact+4 | Erica Goode | AI-assisted offshore firmsBookkeeping+1 | — | accountingAI+5 | — | 21m 38s | ||
| 5/21/26 | sales strategiesclient acquisition+3 | Drewbie Wilson | — | — | accounting firmsclient retention+3 | — | 29m 53s | ||
| 5/7/26 | burnoutaccounting+3 | Randy Crabtree | Tri-Merit Specialty Tax | — | burnoutCPA+5 | — | 36m 42s | ||
| 4/23/26 | client acquisitionaccounting+3 | Sean Duncan | West Point | Frisco, Texas | machine gunsbourbon+3 | — | 41m 17s | ||
| 4/9/26 | career changebusiness growth+4 | Katie Helle | Scaled Accountingfinancial advisors | — | career changeScaled Accounting+4 | — | 28m 35s | ||
| 3/26/26 | sales strategyprospect objections+3 | Brian Mayoral | accounting firms | — | sales callsprospect objections+3 | — | 33m 10s | ||
| 3/25/26 | podcast format changeCFO Chronicles+3 | — | CFO Chronicles | — | podcastCFO+5 | — | 8m 20s | ||
| 1/15/26 | innovationpayroll software+3 | Brian Clare | Canadian accountants | — | payroll softwareaccounting innovation+3 | — | 31m 39s | ||
| 1/8/26 | accountingbusiness acquisition+3 | Nik Watson | — | — | accounting firmbusiness acquisition+5 | — | 33m 57s | ||
| 1/1/26 | resiliencebusiness challenges+4 | — | — | — | business challengesclient acquisition+3 | — | 28m 18s | ||
| 12/25/25 | client retentionmeeting efficiency+3 | Jordan Vickery | Vinyl | — | client meetingsrevenue loss+3 | — | 34m 09s | ||
| 12/18/25 | hourly billingpricing models+3 | Dylan Fabbi | Fabbi | — | hourly billingtime-based pricing+3 | — | 37m 26s | ||
| 12/11/25 | business modelvalue-based pricing+4 | Michael Ly | Reconciled | — | hourly billingpricing strategies+4 | — | 36m 36s | ||
| 12/4/25 |  Why So Many Accountants Are Broke by December, Even the Good Ones - With Tony Proctor | Why are so many firm owners flat broke in Q4, even after six-figure tax seasons? Tony Proctor’s been running a firm for 20 years, and he’s seen it all: tax pros who bleed cash every December, clients who push for fraud, and practitioners who won’t raise prices because they’re scared to lose “friend” clients. In this episode: Why Proctor fired a paying client (and what it cost him)What he really thinks about Profit First (it’s not what you expect)The cash flow trap that keeps firms broke after... | 37m 39s | ||||||
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Chart history for The Accounting Leads Now Podcast
Peaked at #129 in ID, currently #129 in ID.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| ID | — | #129 | #129 | — |
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.