Beginning Balance

Jesse Mecham and Mark Butler teach you how to manage your business cash flow, hone your business model, and not freak out about money.

Beginning Balance is a business podcast hosted by Jesse Mecham, with 120 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jesse Mecham hosts Beginning Balance, a business show with 120 episodes published.

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  Episode #121

  Stop Trusting Your Gut: Try The Constanza Protocol

  Mar 22, 202531 minS0

  <p>In today's episode, Mark takes inspiration from George Constanza, the perpetually underachieving and romantically inept character from Seinfeld, to confront his negative business habits. In the episode "The Opposite," George realizes that he's always followed his intuiton, but every decision he's made has turned out to be wrong -- he's dissapointed in where his life has ended up, and in his failures with women. So, he decides to do the opposite, that is, everything his intuition tells him to do, he does the opposite. The result is predictably hilarious, and leads to George talking to women previously out of...

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  Episode #120

  Jesse Hires Mark, and the Inevitability of Change

  Feb 21, 202529 minS0

  <p>Jesse shares his experience working on the YNAB books for the first time in many years, while YNAB's head accountant is out of maternity leave. Working through monthly and quarterly close  got him thinking about how software automation could free up the accounting departments time wrangling spreadsheets to do more impactful work for the business. To that end, he engaged Mark to consult on how YNAB can improve their accounting processes. Mark and Jesse continue with a discussion about the inevitability of change, and how employees and companies can position themselves to handle the disruptions that technological innovation create.</p...

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  Episode #119

  Jesse Introduces Spendfulness

  Feb 7, 202534 minS0

  <p>Recently YNAB announced a major shake up in the way it talks about money. Jesse explains how the realization that each of YNAB's Four Rules was really just a variation of Rule One ("give every dollar a job") led to a deeper conversation about YNAB's core identity. Every year when the executive team met to reasses the company's purpose and direction, the team would change the stated purpose of the company. It became clear that YNAB wasn't a budgeting app, and it wasn't a set of rules for managing money -- there was some self-actualization happening in users that...

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  Episode #118

  Distractions, Anxious Activity, and Finding Focus

  Jan 27, 202537 minS0

  <p>Mark and Jesse discuss the pervasive distractions that cell phones and computers cause, and how to fight back against them. Jesse champions the Freedom app blocker, which locks your phone or other device from distracting websites like social media, YouTube, blogs, etc. Since implementing Freedom, he boasts a phone usage time of only 20min per day (!), working toward his stated goal of "making the phone in my pocket feel weird."</p> <p> </p> <p>Mark questions his propensity to continually start new ventures as part of an anxious reaction to having free time. He realizes that creating leverage in y...

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  Episode #117

  Bitcoin, Depreciation, and the Most Important Price in the World

  Jan 10, 202532 minS0

  <p>Mark and Jesse kick off the New Year with a deep discussion on inflation and how it creates confusion about the most important price of all -- the price of money.</p> <p> </p> <p>Mark Butler</p> <p>The Money School: https://moneyschool.works</p> <p>https://markbutler.com</p> <p>https://letsdothebooks.com</p> <p> </p> <p>Jesse Mecham</p> <p>YNAB</p> <p>https://www.youneedabudget.com</p>

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