Being a Business Owner

Join Alexis, entrepreneur and digital finance expert while she shares her business journey, insights and challenges since being a business owner.

Being a Business Owner is a business podcast hosted by Alexis Charkiw, with 101 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.

Alexis Charkiw hosts Being a Business Owner, a business show with 101 episodes published.

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  Episode #15

  Should Your Accountant Tell You When They Start Using AI?

  Aug 17, 202617 minS2

  Earlier this year, I emailed my clients to explain a new partnership between two platforms I use, Xero and Anthropic, the company behind an AI tool called Claude. I gave every client the choice to opt in, opt out, or have a chat if they weren't sure. Then someone questioned why I'd bothered, since accountants don't usually announce every software change. I'm always interested in other people's point of view so started thinking about their opinion and why I felt different when it comes to AI. I'm sharing: Why I chose to proactively tell clients about a new AI partnership, and gave them a real say in whether to use it. The pushback I got and why someone believed AI deserves no more transparency than any other software update. What actually makes AI fundamentally different from traditional software, in a way that affects your financial data. Why even the companies building AI can't fully explain how it reaches its answers. Why staying informed doesn't mean becoming an expert, it just means paying attention. Transparency isn't about being an AI expert. It's about giving people the choice to understand what's actually happening with their own information. Let's Connect: Website LinkedIn Instagram TikTok Be sure to check out: Ways to work with me Right Click Accounting Blackline Academy Useful Links: AAT Bookkeeper Community Call Diary Of A CEO with Daniel Kokotajlo

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  Episode #14

  The Opportunities You Almost Talk Yourself Out Of Are Usually The Ones That Grow Your Business The Most

  Aug 10, 202611 minS2

  Every big opportunity I've taken this year started the same way: nerves, doubt, and almost saying no. Saying yes to a speaking event outside my comfort zone led directly to becoming a fractional CFO for a growing tech company. Now I've said yes again, to exhibiting for the very first time, at The Business Show at ExCeL London this November, and the nerves are back. I'm sharing: The link between one nervous "yes" to speak at an event, and the completely new career chapter it opened up. Why I always visit an event as an attendee first, before I ever commit to being an exhibitor. Everything that goes into exhibiting long before the day itself: furniture, banners, talk length, budget, the lot. Why Blackline Academy and Right Click are exhibiting side by side at ExCeL, and what that actually means for anyone who visits the stand. Why I'm sharing all of this in real time, nerves included, rather than after it's already polished. Every big moment on socials is built on months of quiet prep that nobody sees, and I think that's worth showing every now and then. Let's Connect: Website LinkedIn Instagram TikTok Be sure to check out: Ways to work with me Right Click Accounting Blackline Academy Useful Links: Business Show Live - Event

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  Episode #13

  From Co-Founder To CFO: Why I've Said Yes To A Job I've Never Done Before

  Aug 3, 202614 minS2

  I've got an announcement, actually two! I'm handing the Blackline reins over to my co-founder Tom, and taking on a fractional CFO role I've never done before. Neither decision happened overnight. One is about knowing when to step back. The other is about knowing when to say "yes" to something that scares you a little. But this week I'm chatting about how I got to both. I'll be sharing more on: Why I believe Tom is ready to run Blackline without me, after everything he's grown into over the last year. What a fractional CFO role actually means, and why I said yes despite never having done the job formally. How I weighed up my family, my apprentice and my existing business before committing to anything new. Why I'll be under an NDA, and exactly what that does and doesn't mean for what I can share here. These are the moments that shape a founder's story just as much as the wins do! (Even when they take weeks of quiet thinking to get right.) Let's Connect: Website LinkedIn Instagram TikTok Be sure to check out: Ways to work with me Right Click Accounting Blackline Academy Useful Links: Check Out Tom Phillips MTD for Limited Companies MTD for Self Employed GOV - Making Tax Digital

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  Episode #12

  You Can't Build The Business Without Building The Founder

  Jul 27, 202616 minS2

  Nobody warns you that growing your business also means growing yourself. After speaking to thousands of founders over the years, I've noticed the same thing holds almost every business back at some point: confidence. Not skill, not the market, not the support around them. Confidence. I'm sharing: Why founders don't have the structure employees do and what that does to your self-belief The moment I realised my mum, my very first employee, taught me more about letting go than anyone since My "rubber band" way of picturing why delegation feels so hard when it's genuinely your baby Why founders who've been burnt by a bad hire hesitate to try again and why that's worth naming Why I believe you can't separate the growth of your business from the growth of you as a person Because the business only grows as far as you're willing to grow with it. Let's Connect: Website LinkedIn Instagram TikTok Be sure to check out: Ways to work with me Right Click Accounting Blackline Academy

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  Episode #11

  I Nearly Pulled Out Of The Biggest Talk Of My Career

  Jul 20, 202611 minS2

  Three days before my biggest talk yet, I turned to my husband and said I couldn't do it. I'd said yes to speaking at the ICC in Newport, my biggest stage yet, and by the Wednesday before, I was ready to back out. This week's a bit different: a personal, unedited reflection on the anxiety, the doubt, and the prep that got me through it. I'm sharing: How I ended up speaking there in the first place and why I hadn't even applied The moment I found out I was filling a slot meant for someone I deeply admire and what that did to my head What anxiety actually feels like in my body and why I think that's worth talking about The conversation with my husband three days before, when I genuinely considered pulling out The unglamorous prep that got me on stage: from charging my clicker twice to sorting my outfit down to the underwear Because confidence isn't the absence of fear. It's doing the thing anyway, toes curling and all. Let's Connect: Website LinkedIn Instagram TikTok Be sure to check out: Ways to work with me Right Click Accounting Blackline Academy Useful Links: Lucy Cohen Substack The CLEAR Way to AI-Ready Finance (Talk)

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