Your Numbers Are Talking. Here's How to Listen and Grow Them

Checking the bank balance and hoping it says something nice? This episode is for the business owner who is ready to read their numbers like a map and use them to grow.

Co-host Rebecca Kaufman, Amanda's sister and a former member of her team, gets nerdy with Amanda about using numbers productively inside a business. Amanda, founder of Clairvenu, gets into what she avoided in her first business and what it cost her, the difference between data and strategy, the first number worth tracking, building a business on paper, and the reason revenue bragging rarely tells the full picture.

In this episode, you will learn:

🙈 What nine years of avoiding the numbers cost Amanda in her first business

🧭 Feelings as a terrible compass, and the speedometer most people ignore

📊 Data versus strategy, and what makes a number rise or fall

🤖 The AI employee token bill that showed how decisions drive cost

🗺️ Building the business on paper, and the reason not every $5,000 is the same

🔁 Braggy revenue numbers versus a result you can actually repeat

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Financially illiterate, and doing our own books