Author Archives: Briana Cavanaugh

About Briana Cavanaugh

Financial Coach and Accounting Consultant for small businesses. To be more specific, I help small businesses work in alignment with their values so that they can be happier, more empowered, and more effective in the world.

Upcoming class: 9/29/11-11/3/11 What To Do When Prosperity Work Doesn’t: Creating Clarity

What To Do When Prosperity Work Doesn’t: Loving Ourselves When it Matters Do you have a story that you’re not good with money? Have you ever tried “prosperity work” and it didn’t work for you? Do you experience confusion or … Continue reading

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More tools: Branding for Your Small Business

One of my dear friends John Van Dinther of 2Hats Consulting wrote this amazing post about branding for small businesses. One of the reasons I was loving it was that he also has a section about personal values. It looks … Continue reading

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Values-Based Accounting: Part Three – Changing Habits

Ok, so take a look back at Part Two and get together those scores, you’re going to need them. Take a look at your two lowest scores. Now breathe. (Feel free to hear the judgement out, but that’s not what … Continue reading

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Values-Based Accounting: Part Two – Determining Your Values

A value must meet seven criteria: It must be prized and cherished It must be chosen from among alternatives It must be chosen freely, without coercion It must be chosen after thoughtful consideration of the consequences of each alternative, not … Continue reading

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Money Matters When You’re Talking About Money

So I saw something that looked like a big financial headline today. Akin to “Oh Noes! American’s More Worried about Money Than Anything Else! Ever!” As it turns out, this is what they were talking about. Just to be clear, … Continue reading

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How much is $15 trillion dollars anyway?

I thought this visualization of US debt was cool. And by cool I mean made the numbers seem more real to me. It would be more interesting if they did this with $20 bills because it’s really rare for me … Continue reading

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The Real Cost of Tax Cuts – Top line, Bottom line

There’s a lot of talk about budgets and budget cuts and all manner of idealogical stuff around budgets from two seemingly polar opposite sides. A budget is pretty simple actually. (No wait! really let me explain!) Budget: noun an estimate … Continue reading

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Values-Based Accounting – Part One: Where to Start?

One of the things that I’m best at is helping people work in alignment with their values. I was talking to some folks the other day that made me realize again that for most people money is their life’s energy. … Continue reading

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Are you really a contractor?

There’s a set of questions that I get frequently: Am I/Is this person a contractor or an employee? (Or some version of, “do I have to pay payroll taxes for…” The IRS has information about this here. It has all … Continue reading

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The Economics of Enough

I’ve been watching some RSA (Royal Society of the Arts) videos on various topics because they are pretty amazing. This one is about the economics of enough. I don’t agree with all of it, but that’s part of what makes … Continue reading

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