Inspiring episodes + interviews, helping shape the future for entrepreneurs, business owners + experts in their field.
Tune into the Business Habitat podcast with Sam Dean.
[Previously known as ‘The In Demand Accountant’ podcast].
In our expert professional services businesses, where the rules were written last century and the world keeps changing around us...how do we as experts who have spent years, sometimes decades getting our technical skills to the ultimate level and proportionally little time learning the ones required to grow our businesses based on our own terms, re-write the rules for ourselves.
That’s the question and this show explores the answers.
Stay tuned and enjoy some brave conversations.
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Episode 7: How to Shift From an Expert to an Advisory Mindset in 6 steps (Part 2)
Following on from Part 1 in last week's episode, Sam dives deeper into mindset shifts that accountants and advisors need to make to have better conversations with clients, build different styles of businesses and meet or even be the disruption in a more agile way going forwards.
Episode 6: How to shift from an Expert to an Advisory Mindset in 6 steps (Part 1)
Sam dives deeper still into the mindset shifts that accountants and advisors need to make to have better conversations with clients, build different styles of businesses and meet or even be the disruption in a more agile way going forwards.
Episode 5: Reimagining the Conversations We Have With Ourselves
Sam explains why it’s so powerful and important to reimagine these conversations, carve out time and space to really listen to ourselves, as well as some of the reasons accountants, advisors and professional services experts don’t do this.
Episode 4: The Art of Difficult Conversations
There’s two main aspects to why accountants find conversation difficult: the mindset piece and the training piece. Sam covers both of these, and shares practical advice on how to build conversation muscles in business and in life.
Episode 2: The Dual Need for Business Advisory + Digital Marketing, with Ellen Ronalds Keene
Ellen’s story is a classic example of why accountants and advisors need to be educating current and potential clients so that they receive the advice they need in a timely fashion and can get ahead of some of the common pitfalls in business.
Episode 3: Three Lessons for Accountants + Advisors
Sam shares practical tips for you to be able to get to know your clients better so you can better serve them and how to make them feel safe so that they will come to you sooner rather than later when there are problems to address.
Episode 1: Introduction to Conversations with Sam Dean: What is the Advisory Mindset?
Welcome to Conversations with Sam Dean, exploring conversations accountants and advisors can have with their clients to cultivate business mastery.
In this episode, Sam shares a bit about her journey of over three decades in the accounting industry, why she founded Blueprint HQ and what to expect from this podcast going forwards.