by Edie Gardner | Jul 25, 2024 | Articles
It takes an enormous amount of sweat, time, money, and endurance to become a licensed professional. After completing graduate school, you must get experience to become licensed. Both of my CPA and LCSW licenses in California required 3,000 hours, and I haven’t...
by Edie Gardner | Apr 25, 2024 | Articles
Unfortunately, I have had two personal therapy experiences where I felt manipulated because I was a private pay patient. In my opinion, two different therapists preferred working with full pay clients, and they increased how often they thought I needed to be seen....
by Edie Gardner | Apr 25, 2024 | Articles
You have to know your business expenses at tax time, but how much thought do you give to your personal expenses? Tax time is a great time to also review where you have prioritized your money and if your spending matches what you value most. One time a potential client...
by Edie Gardner | Apr 25, 2024 | Articles
I was once at a conference where the expert presenter was telling the audience about a free resource that we could obtain from his company’s website. He said, “My accountant really wanted me to charge for this resource. ‘You can even charge just...
by Edie Gardner | Apr 25, 2024 | Articles
At the last dance lesson in my 8th grade year, the owner of the dance studio offered me a possible job, but he wanted to see how I performed during a dance lesson. After the trial run, he offered me a job because he said he watched me on how I was able to predict...