I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Magical elves visit our farm before our grandchildren’s weekly visit. First, they plant seeds in the soil at night. Then, you won’t believe what happens the following morning — up pops a Pez dispenser loaded with a couple of treats for each child!

At Red Sunflower Farm, Barry and I are committed to eliminating waste and reducing our carbon footprint as much as possible. Some of the steps we’ve taken, like installing solar panels and a geothermal heating and cooling system, were grandiose. But most are small, simple shifts that require little effort.

Hi, I'm Mackey McNeill and I want to talk to you about growing your bottom line. What if by simply changing your focus you could build an amazing bottom line? One that truly reflects the risk and effort of ownership.

Hi, I’m Mackey McNeill. And today I’m gonna talk to you about building a better toolbox. I’ll share a measure that you won't find anywhere in the accounting literature. It’s an essential measure for every privately owned business. I’ll walk you through what it is, how to use it and why it matters.

On a recent trip to Hocking Hills with my husband, Barry, we stumbled upon a “hearts bursting with love” plant. An appropriate name, my heart overflowed as memories of my late Aunt Hickie flooded back to me.

Hi! I'm Mackey McNeill, the founder of Mackey. I'm going to talk about using data as a convener. I've spent my career iterating and innovating ways to help business owners live more prosperous lives, to enjoy the three freedoms of prosperity - money freedom, time freedom, and freedom from worry. And, what I've learned is there are five key ideas that have implemented, allow a business not only to profit but to prosper. First, bring your head and heart to work. Two, change your focus. Three, use data as the convener, a unifier. Four, stop being a fulcrum and build a circle. And five, build a better toolbox. 

Hi! I'm Mackey McNeill and in this video I want to explore how a very common idea that the sole purpose of business is to make a profit can actually damage your business. Milton Friedman, the Nobel prize winning economist, advanced this idea in an article in 1970 and while has come to  be taught as gospel, I am one of many voices currently beating the drum that this is a short-sighted idea of why business exists. 

Hi. I'm Mackey McNeill, founder of Mackey and in this video I'm going to explain how to stop being a fulcrum and build a circle in your business and why it matters. For 40 years I've worked with business owners to help them prosper, to build amazing bottom lines, to enjoy time freedom, and be confident in their decisions. What I've learned is there are five critical areas that have adopted allow a business not only to profit but to prosper. First, bring your head and heart to work. Two, change your focus. Three, use data as a convener or unifier. Four stop being a fulcrum and build a circle. And five, build a better toolbox. 

Over the years, I've worked with thousands of business owners and they've taught me a lot. In fact, almost everything I've created in our prosper process was something I learned by either seeing other people do it or trying it out then letting me try it out and experiment with them. Usually, they knew I was experimenting but we just was, you know, it the whole process of creating something new was just trying out new things but it was always magic that when some I was up against something and when I couldn't seem like make something happen, like faster for clients inevitably, when I was focused on that issue the solution would arise.

I became a CPA because I really wanted to help small business owners rock their goals. And I went through my training, got my degree, set my for my certificate, and as I began to practice accounting what I realized is that this isn't what accountants do. What accountants really do is they put together a lot of information mostly that's looking in the past and that's not really very helpful. It doesn't really help the business owner move forward and most of us got in business to move forward, right? 

You have a system for how you do everything in your business, but my experience is thatmost business owners don't have a financial operating system. They don't have something that looks both the past and the future that starts at the top and goes to the bottom of their business.

I'm going to share with you how this one simple act changing your focus will change everything in your business. It's important as a business owner to change your focus. Every business owner I've ever met loves to talk about their sales and sales are important but you cannot sell your way to success. The success comes on your bottom line and we have to really learn to focus on the things that improve our bottom line. 

I'm going to show you on this video how to stop being a fulcrum. The point at which everything has to go through in your business and becomes the stuck point so you're not moving forward to creating a wheel, a circle - the strongest form in the universe, so you can go have a little more fun in your life. You can have some more energy. You can reap the rewards that you should be reaping from your business and you can have everyone come along with you and take some of the load off. Wouldn't be good to have a little more freedom with your time, your energy, have a little more time for your family. it's all possible if you just create a wheel and I'm going to show you how. Let's go.

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During my career, I have been blessed to serve my profession in many capacities, local committee chair, national financial literacy board member, public relations spoke person and active member. A few months ago, I was asked to serve in a new way. To develop a series of podcasts that revealed h...

Being in the people business of personal financial planning often requires shifting from an expert with all the answers to a coach who ask questions and listens. In this episode of the PFP Section podcast, Mackey McNeill, CPA/PFS, gives you the framework she uses for her first meeting with her retirement clients...