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How to Use Financial Data to Make Confident Business Decisions Featuring Kirsten Graham
Episode 83123rd March 2026 • Smashing the Plateau • Smashing the Plateau
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Kirsten is a business strategist and outsourcing expert with a decade of experience helping entrepreneurs take control of their finances and scale with confidence. She has guided countless business owners through the process of hiring and working with Bookkeeping Virtual Assistants, giving them the tools and systems they need to understand their numbers and make smarter financial decisions. Her work through the Love Your Profit program focuses on simplifying bookkeeping, reducing financial stress, and helping business owners build the support teams that allow them to thrive.

In today's episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn how to build confidence through financial clarity and strategic delegation to scale your business.

Kirsten and I discuss:

  1. What is behind becoming a business strategist and outsourcing expert [01:50]
  2. Why understanding your numbers builds confidence [03:26]
  3. How to protect and build your confidence as an entrepreneur [05:35]
  4. Key things corporate refugees can do to make their business thrive [07:41]
  5. Examples of entrepreneurs who left corporate and succeeded [10:02]
  6. How to determine when it's time to pivot [12:22]
  7. Data versus intuition in business decisions [14:03]
  8. Working yourself out of your business as a growth strategy [15:51]
  9. What Kirsten helps people outsource and why [16:58]
  10. Stories of entrepreneurs who outsourced bookkeeping [18:27]
  11. The importance of community and peer support [21:56]

Learn more about Kirsten at:

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@sixfigurebusinesscoaching

Website: https://sixfigurebusinesscoaching.com/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/SixFigureBusinessCoaching

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kirsten.graham.3517

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstengrahamsfbc/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sfbizcoaching/

Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@sfbizcoaching?_t=ZS-90tUPiAZqvl&_r=1

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About Smashing the Plateau

Smashing the Plateau shares stories and strategies from corporate refugees: mid-career professionals who’ve left corporate life to build something of their own.

Each episode features a candid conversation with someone who has walked this path or supports those who do. Guests offer real strategies to help you build a sustainable, fulfilling business on your terms, with practical insights on positioning, growth, marketing, decision-making, and mindset.

Woven throughout are powerful reminders of how community can accelerate your success.

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