Us accountants are interesting creatures, in this episode Natalie shares her tips on how to make your accountant happy - and pay less accounting fees!   Show Links: Find Natalie on instagram @natlenno or Tiktok @natlenno Check out Natalie's accounting firm: www.twosides.com.au

Do I really need a company or can I trade as a sole trader? This is a question that comes up quite a lot and the average person does not actually understand the difference between the two - which is totally fine, that is what us Accountants are here for :)   Show Links: https://www.twosides.com.au/product-page/therightstructure Find Natalie on instagram @natlenno or Tiktok @natlenno Check out Natalie's accounting firm: www.twosides.com.au  

Don't shoot the messenger.... but not everyone gets tax back at tax time.  This tax time there has been huge media coverage of many people not very happy as their tax refunds (if any) have been significantly less & a lot of confusion as to why. Listen to this episode which explains all of this in 12 minutes. Show Links: Individual Tax Rates Private Health Insurance Rebate Income Thresholds and Rates Find Natalie on instagram @natlenno or Tiktok @natlenno Check out Natalie's accounting firm: www.twosides.com.au

This episode was recorded live at the International Accounting and Tech conference "Accountex" in Sydney on 23 March 2023. This is a topic that the accountants will be interested in as well as other listeners. Natalie wanted to have a little fun with it so she put a call out on all of her socials to get a list of some creative things people have tried to claim as tax deductions. Disclaimer this is not a guide of what to try and sneak past your accountant this tax time but the opposite, to try to explain the types of things that cannot be claimed… Find Natalie on instagram @natlenno or Tiktok @natlenno Check out Natalie's accounting firm: www.twosides.com.au

In this episode Natalie discusses the importance of understanding the following in relation to GST aka Goods and Services Tax: when you should register for GST what type of registration you should have when to report the GST to the ATO how to report the GST to the ATO record keeping  types of things that may not have GST A nice and short 11 min episode to listen to in the car. Find Natalie on instagram @natlenno or Tiktok @natlenno Check out Natalie's accounting firm: www.twosides.com.au

In this episode Natalie discusses the importance of setting SMART goals for your small business for the new year. SMART is an acronym that stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. We breakdown how using this criteria can help you set clear and achievable goals for your business, and give you the tools to measure your progress and success. A nice and short episode to listen to in the car. Find Natalie on instagram @natlenno or Tiktok @natlenno Check out Natalie's accounting firm: www.twosides.com.au

In this episode Stefanie Valakas Founder of The Dietologist & Award Winning Australian Expert In Fertility Nutrition shares her learnings from starting a business in her 20's and everything she has learned along the way to have a successful business with a team behind her. We also discussed how COVID was the best thing to happen for her business and why she felt a little guilty about it, strategies on how to build trust and sell online. Stefanie Valakas APD is an expert fertility dietitian & nutritionist and founder of The Dietologist. Stefanie and her team of fertility & pregnancy dietitians are dedicated to excellence in nutrition for reproductive health concerns, fertility & pregnancy. Her passion for nutrition in this space has truly grown from her experience helping her clients online from around the world and also through her own personal experiences of navigating a diagnosis of endometriosis.   Stefanie has been recognised for her contributions in the fertility nutrition arena as a finalist for the Dietitian of the Year Awards for 2020-21, The Dietologist has been awarded multiple awards for their excellence in nutrition care and Best Pregnancy & Fertility Nutrition Clinic in 2022.   Find Stef and The Dietologist: Website: www.thedietologist.com.au Instagram @the_dietologist and @endo.dietitian Facebook Pages: The Dietologist and The Endometriosis Dietitian Podcast: Fertility Friendly Food - http://thedietologist.com.au/podcast/ Find Out More about our online courses at: http://thedietologist.com.au/podcast/ Find Natalie on instagram @natlenno or Tiktok @natlenno Check out Natalie's accounting firm: www.twosides.com.au

Personail is an online nail wrap company based in Sunny Sydney, Australia. Personail was started by Alice, a lover of cool design, great nails, and all things nail art. After quitting a pretty sweet job in design and marketing, Alice started Personail in her parent's lounge room with $700. Alice was passionate about finding a solution to printing out nail designs using her printer. Needless to say, she injected the printers ink with nail polish and the printer broke down.... and then how her event only business had to transition to online due to covid which has helped her business have exponential growth   Find Alice and Personail: - Instagram & Tiktok @itspersonail - Facebook - Website Find Natalie on instagram or Tiktok @natlenno Check out Natalie's accounting firm: www.twosides.com.au

Burnout is something that usually isn’t talked about and is something we always think will never happen to us.  In this episode Natalie shares her experience with burnout throughout 2020 & 2021.   Find Natalie on instagram or Tiktok @natlenno Check out Natalie's accounting firm: www.twosides.com.au

This episode features Cassandra Hili, founder of Millennium Communications a serial Entrepreneur and PR Queen. Cassandra is a passionate, honest, down-to-earth communicator who helps businesses connect the dots with an end-to-end approach, creating long-lasting relationships between brands and their key audiences to achieve sustainable success and true business value.  Affectionately known as Cass to her clients, family and friends, her journey to becoming one of Australia’s most successful and youngest female entrepreneurs began as a lifestyle and fitness blogger. With a devoted following in excess of a quarter of million fans across YouTube, Instagram and Tumblr, Cass was regularly asked to feature on media platforms around the world to inspire others, and during this time truly mastered the best ways to forge connections with audiences, by being genuine and paying attention. Thanks to this journey, it included her to help other businesses through a variety of social media and PR contracting goals, to expand their brand traction. Eventually, this led to the birth of Millennium Communications in 2016. Having worked with a number of businesses who have had unbelievably poor experiences with a PR offering; from the exorbitant cost and often unrealistic goals and outcomes, not to mention poor customer service, Cass is leading the charge in exemplifying what good PR is - and how it can turn a business around to ‘back in the black’. Find Cass: www.millenniumcommunications.com.au instagram.com/cassandra.hili ______________________________________________ Find us/Natalie: Follow us on instagram: www.instagram.com/totallybossingit Check out Natalie's accounting firm: www.twosides.com.au