08 | Take Your Wins With You: Transform Your Career with Confidence and Clarity - Meredith Nicklas, CEO, The CFO Solution

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In this edition of The Podgress Report, host Jen Phillips is joined by Meredith Nicklas, CEO, The CFO Solution. This episode is for you if you've ever thought..."I want to spend more of my time at work doing the work that energizes me". It's a masterclass in "helpability". Meredith has a fantastic way of finding the people, resources, and partners in her community to support her career development.
Meredith is a former CFO and long time finance leader. As the CEO of the CFO Solution, she's taken her skills and passion for partnering with business owners to identify their financial trends, and guiding them towards their goals in a fractional capacity.

Meredith's shift into solopreneurism after a successful executive stint in corporate finance began with unexpected change. It proves you can successfully begin your "what's next" from your "right now". Meredith's approach to planning and ramping into entrepreneurship is powerful and helped her de-risk her leap.
In this episode, we talk about embracing the power of "I don't know, but I'll find out", and keeping your cheerleaders close, while muting or muffling your detractors.
99.9% of American businesses are small businesses, and 43% of those are women-owned. I love shining a spotlight on Meredith's endeavor, her decision-making process, and how absolutely incredible it feels to launch.

Episode Resources

• Ask Jen Anything! I’m looking for workplace wellness and burnout recovery questions to be featured experts episodes.
• Connect with Meredith Nicklas on LinkedIn. Need to talk finance? She'd love to!
• Recommended companion episode | 03 | The Superpower Discovery Framework: Energizing Work & Your Expertise
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1. Change Happens (Through You, With You, or To You) (00:00:00)

2. Welcome Meredith Nicklas, Founder, The CFO Solution (00:02:18)

3. When the 10 Year Plan Becomes a 6 Month Plan (00:05:15)

4. Not Only Was My Job Changing; Life As We Knew It Was, Too (00:08:01)

5. So Here You Are...On The Runway (00:09:52)

6. Get You A Runway (00:15:25)

7. Investing in Accelerators (00:19:29)

8. You Are Who You Say You Are (00:25:33)

9. Trust in All The Skills That Got You Here (00:28:45)

10. Breaking News: People Want to Help You (00:30:20)

11. Community Happens When You Open Your Mind and Your Mouth (00:32:53)

12. The Power Of IDK (00:37:36)

13. Scary, But Not in the way Most People Think (00:40:14)

14. Find Your Cheerleaders. Mute Your Detractors. (00:48:01)