The Holistic Accountant

A holistic accountant goes beyond tax returns, aiming to offer proactive advice to maximise clients' wealth after all taxes. Stuart Wemyss and Mena Abraham explore multifaceted considerations weekly, highlighting the need for a holistic approach. Each episode is succinct and to the point with no fluff or sales pitches. For further details, check out www.prosolution.com.au.

The Holistic Accountant is a business podcast hosted by Stuart Wemyss & Mena Abraham, with 193 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.

Stuart Wemyss & Mena Abraham hosts The Holistic Accountant, a business show with 193 episodes published.

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  Episode #81

  Ep 193: Stop scaling until someone actually pays you what you want/need

  Aug 18, 202623 min

  Send us Fan Mail Founders love to scale, but scaling before anyone has paid a real price for a real outcome simply converts a slow failure into a fast, expensive one. In this episode, the first in a deep dive on Value, Stuart names the trap: scaling doesn't fix a weak offer; it just gives that weak offer more customers, more overhead, and more cash to burn. Mena draws the crucial line between attention and demand. Compliments, engagement, and "I'd definitely buy that" are evidence of interest, not a sale. The only test that matters is whether someone has actually paid, in cash, at or near your target price, and heavy discounting is itself a signal the offer isn't yet standing on its own. Stuart offers a sharp three-way diagnostic for when an offer isn't landing: is the problem the segment, the offer, or the message?, illustrated with Segway, Quibi, and early Dropbox. Mena explains how to read the data rather than your feelings, and Stuart lays out fast, cheap tests you can run this month, from pre-selling to price testing. The gate before you scale: paid customers, at the price the business actually needs. If this episode resonated with you, please leave a rating on your favourite podcast platform. It helps us reach more incredible listeners like you. Thank you for being a part of the journey! Click here to subscribe to our weekly email. Work with Mena & Stuart's team: At ProSolution Private Clients we encourage clients to adopt a holistic and evidence-based approach when making financial decisions. Visit our website . Follow us : Stuart: Twitter/X and LinkedIn . Mena: LinkedIn IMPORTANT: This podcast provides general information about finance, taxes, and credit. This means that the content does not consider your specific objectives, financial situation, or needs. It is crucial for you to assess whether the information is suitable for your circumstances before taking any actions based on it. If you find yourself uncertain about the relevance or your specific needs, it is advisable to seek advice from a licensed and trustworthy professional.

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  Episode #79

  Ep 191: Why your business has four problems, not forty

  Aug 4, 202626 min

  Send us Fan Mail The three "killers" thin margins, poor reach, and weak demand- tell you what's failing, but not what to build. In this episode, Stuart and Mena introduce VERT: Value, Engine, Reach, and Team the operating system underneath those symptoms, and the four things you actually control. By the end, you'll have a single model to run every business decision through, instead of juggling forty disconnected problems. Mena maps the four pillars onto the three killers: margins sit at the intersection of Value (what you can charge) and Engine (what it costs to deliver); Reach gets you chosen but can't manufacture demand; and Team touches everything, holding the whole system together. Stuart then explains why VERT is a flywheel, not a checklist, each pillar reinforcing the next, so momentum comes from consistent pressure on the right point rather than one dramatic push across everything. Mena shares the green flags and red flags for spotting your weakest pillar, and the misdiagnosis trap, where the symptom and cause live in different pillars. Stuart closes with the four-bucket test: a two-question filter for every decision, and a rule to focus your weakest pillar for ninety days while the rest run in maintenance mode. If this episode resonated with you, please leave a rating on your favourite podcast platform. It helps us reach more incredible listeners like you. Thank you for being a part of the journey! Click here to subscribe to our weekly email. SPECIAL OFFER : Buy a one of Stuart's books for ONLY $20 including delivery. Use the discount code blog here . Work with Mena & Stuart's team: At ProSolution Private Clients we encourage clients to adopt a holistic and evidence-based approach when making financial decisions. Visit our website . Follow us : Stuart: Twitter/X and LinkedIn . Mena: LinkedIn IMPORTANT: This podcast provides general information about finance, taxes, and credit. This means that the content does not consider your specific objectives, financial situation, or needs. It is crucial for you to assess whether the information is suitable for your circumstances before taking any actions based on it. If you find yourself uncertain about the relevance or your specific needs, it is advisable to seek advice from a licensed and trustworthy professional.

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  Episode #77

  Ep 189 : Does anyone actually want what you sell?

  Jul 21, 202613 min

  Send us Fan Mail Before you fix your product, your marketing, or your team, Stuart and Mena argue you have to pressure-test something more fundamental: demand. Get it wrong, and everything else simply compounds a weak foundation. The uncomfortable question most owners skip is deceptively simple: what problem are you solving, for whom, stated specifically rather than in flattering generalities? Plenty of clever products are just solutions looking for a problem. The single best test is asking what it costs your customer to do nothing. When the cost of inaction is high, financially, emotionally, socially, motivation is real. Mena turns that instinct into a practical filter: urgency, frequency, and affordability, including whether a customer can actually fund the purchase at the moment the need hits. Stuart then draws the crucial line between demand you capture and demand you must manufacture, why educating a market that doesn't know it has a problem is brutal, and the rare exception where a big player does the heavy lifting for you. Mena asks whether your market is quietly growing or dying, and how to read the early indicators. The verdict? Compliments tell you nothing. Only a paid invoice tells the truth. If this episode resonated with you, please leave a rating on your favourite podcast platform. It helps us reach more incredible listeners like you. Thank you for being a part of the journey! Click here to subscribe to our weekly email. SPECIAL OFFER : Buy a one of Stuart's books for ONLY $20 including delivery. Use the discount code blog here . Work with Mena & Stuart's team: At ProSolution Private Clients we encourage clients to adopt a holistic and evidence-based approach when making financial decisions. Visit our website . Follow us : Stuart: Twitter/X and LinkedIn . Mena: LinkedIn IMPORTANT: This podcast provides general information about finance, taxes, and credit. This means that the content does not consider your specific objectives, financial situation, or needs. It is crucial for you to assess whether the information is suitable for your circumstances before taking any actions based on it. If you find yourself uncertain about the relevance or your specific needs, it is advisable to seek advice from a licensed and trustworthy professional.

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  Episode #76

  Ep 188: Most failing businesses are failing at one thing, not twenty

  Jul 14, 202617 min

  Send us Fan Mail When a business underperforms, owners tend to assume the cause is complex and set about fixing everything at once. It feels productive, and it almost always fails. Stuart and Mena open with a contrarian claim: struggling businesses are far simpler to diagnose than their owners think. The trouble usually traces to a weakness in just one of three fundamentals. They lay out the three "killers" plainly. First, the revenue you don't keep: thin margins can make a business look healthy while leaving no buffer for mistakes, volatility, or investment. Second, a great business nobody finds, where genuine quality is worth little if the right customers never see it, and referrals get mistaken for a strategy. Third, the cost of demand you have to manufacture: the difference between capturing urgent, existing demand and slowly, expensively educating a market that doesn't yet feel the pain. Running through all three is one sharp distinction, whether a weakness is structural (the industry makes it hard) or self-inflicted (your model or execution), because the fix is completely different in each case. They finish with a two-minute self-score and a rule: work your weakest link for ninety days, and let the rest wait. If this episode resonated with you, please leave a rating on your favourite podcast platform. It helps us reach more incredible listeners like you. Thank you for being a part of the journey! Click here to subscribe to our weekly email. SPECIAL OFFER : Buy a one of Stuart's books for ONLY $20 including delivery. Use the discount code blog here . Work with Mena & Stuart's team: At ProSolution Private Clients we encourage clients to adopt a holistic and evidence-based approach when making financial decisions. Visit our website . Follow us : Stuart: Twitter/X and LinkedIn . Mena: LinkedIn IMPORTANT: This podcast provides general information about finance, taxes, and credit. This means that the content does not consider your specific objectives, financial situation, or needs. It is crucial for you to assess whether the information is suitable for your circumstances before taking any actions based on it. If you find yourself uncertain about the relevance or your specific needs, it is advisable to seek advice from a licensed and trustworthy professional.

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  Episode #74

  Ep 186: The Holiday Test: Can your business run without you?

  Jun 30, 202618 min

  Send us Fan Mail The holiday test is deceptively simple. If you took four weeks off with no phone, would your business hold its standard, or would it quietly degrade without you? For most business owners, the honest answer points not to a workload problem but to a design problem, and this episode tackles it directly. Stuart opens by reframing the issue: a business that depends on the founder for most decisions is not really a business. It is a job that pays the owner to turn up. That dependency creates a single point of failure, limits growth, and reduces the business's value to any future buyer or successor, since the value is tied to the founder. Mena challenges the most common objection that professional or technical work is too bespoke to systemise, and explains why the real barrier is usually that expert judgement has become automatic and invisible, not that it is genuinely impossible to document. The episode then moves through a practical framework: how to prioritise the critical few processes rather than documenting everything at once, how to turn implicit judgement into decision trees and case libraries, why modern documentation lives in workflows rather than manuals, and how to give every process a named owner with real authority to maintain it. Stuart closes with the metric that matters: count how many decisions escalate to you each month, and treat driving that number down as the real measure of progress. If this episode resonated with you, please leave a rating on your favourite podcast platform. It helps us reach more incredible listeners like you. Thank you for being a part of the journey! Click here to subscribe to our weekly email. SPECIAL OFFER : Buy a one of Stuart's books for ONLY $20 including delivery. Use the discount code blog here . Work with Mena & Stuart's team: At ProSolution Private Clients we encourage clients to adopt a holistic and evidence-based approach when making financial decisions. Visit our website . Follow us : Stuart: Twitter/X and LinkedIn . Mena: LinkedIn IMPORTANT: This podcast provides general information about finance, taxes, and credit. This means that the content does not consider your specific objectives, financial situation, or needs. It is crucial for you to assess whether the information is suitable for your circumstances before taking any actions based on it. If you find yourself uncertain about the relevance or your specific needs, it is advisable to seek advice from a licensed and trustworthy professional.

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