Melissa HoustonFinancial Flossing: Guiding Dental Professionals to a Brighter Future with Ross Brannon Episode 030: Your Money Tells a StoryMelissa Houston is founder of The Fractional CFO Agency, a columnist at Forbes.com, and the host of The Business Society podcast. A licensed Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), she’s a Financial Strategist for CEOs and she helps successful business owners increase their profit margins without having to increase revenue so that they keep more money in their pocket while increasing their personal wealth. Melissa's seen the bottom and climbed her way back up, she personally and financially bounced back from concealing $100k in personal debt from her husband. She shares her story to remind people that your mistakes don't define you, and as humans, we all make mistakes and can recover from them. Now she uses that to teach entrepreneurs to become financially literate in order to create profit in their businesses. She has over 20 years of business experience with large and small corporations, government, and not-for-profit industries while specializing in Internal Controls, corporate accounting, budgets, financial reporting, corporate & personal tax, audit, and SR&ED. Listen to this information-packed Financial Flossing episode, where Melissa takes us through how she helps her clients, dental and otherwise.Here is what to expect on this week’s show:The importance of having a basic understanding of accounting principles, no matter what field you’re employed inHow Melissa, as a CPA and fractional CFO, helps her clients grow their businessesHow Melissa worked herself out of a large debt, and the emotional and financial lessons she learned from the experienceWhy a lot of dealing with money is about mindset shift, and dispelling pervasive myths or insecurities and just going for itA look inside Melissa’s 5-Step Road Map to Business Financial FreedomConnect with Melissa:WEBSITE: https://www.melissahoustoncpa.com/LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissahoustoncpa/FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/melissahoustoncpaTWITTER: https://twitter.com/melissahcpaINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/melissahoustoncpa/PINTEREST: https://www.pinterest.ca/melissahoustoncpacga/_created/Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
