Entrepreneur Conundrum

From Struggle to Success: Ashley Chamberlain’s Journey & Financial Insights

Jan 20, 2025

47:09

Join Virginia Purnell as she interviews Ashley Chamberlain, a powerhouse in financial strategy and cash flow management. Ashley’s mission at Chamberlain & Good Company is to help service-based businesses streamline their finances and achieve long-term sustainability.

Key Takeaways:

How to manage cash flow effectively—especially in seasonal businesses.
Common financial mistakes business owners make (and how to fix them).
Why DIY bookkeeping often leads to costly errors (and when to hire a pro).
How small businesses can prepare for growth and avoid financial pitfalls.
The importance of business culture and employee satisfaction in scaling successfully.

Ashley also shares her personal journey of resilience and how she turned her expertise into a thriving business that helps others succeed.

Key Questions

(01:21) Can you tell us a bit about how you got to where you are?

(04:50) Who would you say is your ideal client now?

(07:18) Is it just in your geographical region or are you all over the US?

(07:55) Is there a common stake, misconception, I don't know that your clients tend to have when they first start working with you?

(14:32) What is a big goal that you have in the next year or two?

(16:37) How would that goal, expansion, acquiring more businesses, stuff like that, how would that affect?

(25:29) Do you have any tips for how you're incorporating more, let's say, immediate job satisfaction aspect into the workplace? Or have you found anything that's working?

(40:25) What's the best advice that you have ever received?

(42:25) What's the best advice you have ever given

(45:43) We've covered a bunch of different stuff, but is there something that we haven't talked about yet that you would like to?

(46:41) So where can we reach you?