He Had a Stroke. Then He Built a Conference. Here's What Accounting Got Wrong | With Randy Crabtree

He Had a Stroke. Then He Built a Conference. Here's What Accounting Got Wrong | With Randy Crabtree

May 7, 2026 · 37 min · Season 4 · Episode 76

About this episode

Randy Crabtree shares his journey from burnout to building a successful accounting firm and the lessons learned after a life-changing stroke.

You're exhausted. You keep telling yourself it's just tax season. But deep down, you know it's been longer than that. Randy Crabtree pulled over at a phone booth to quit his job and become a CPA. He built a firm, burned out, sold it, co-founded Tri-Merit Specialty Tax and landed on the Inc. 5000 three years running. Then a stroke in 2014 forced him to rethink everything. In this conversation, Randy gets real about what burnout actually looks like before it takes you down, why niching down acc...

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