BEHIND THE SCENES
My “year in review” has evolved over time.
My first year in business, my review was very informal. I downloaded my Profit & Loss from QuickBooks, checked the total revenue, and hoped I’d get more clients next year.
The second and third years in business, I wanted to see where my revenue came from since I mostly did subcontract bookkeeping work while getting new clients. So I updated my P&L to show subcontract work separate from my client revenue. And celebrated each month client revenue increased.
And this past year, 2025, I built a Notion dashboard to help me better track my marketing and sales experiments with their results (still a bit messy, but much easier to get data on how well my quick experiments went).
And this past January, I looked at all my financial statements, reviewed my Notion dashboard, and then recorded a Loom for Future Me walking through it all. I talked through my statements, my dashboard (updating it as I talked through it) and then voiced my feelings and thoughts on what I wanted to do (and not do) in 2026. And at the end of the process, I felt settled (and excited) about where I’d been and where I was going.
Some 2025 highlights:
5 of my clients have been with me for 2+ years!
I served 15 businesses in 2025 directly + partnered with other accountants on projects to serve another 13-ish
2025 was the first year all of my family (my husband and I)’s income came from Yellow Sky. My husband’s only W-2 was MY BUSINESS. My 2022 self would have a coughing fit of disbelief.
MAKING BUSINESS NEURODIVERGENT-FRIENDLY
Does anyone else have email PTSD?
When a contract bookkeeping role turned sour, I ended up with what I call “email and Slack PTSD”. Getting work emails or hearing Slack notifications made my heart race and my stress spike. I had to take deep, calming breaths before looking at my email inbox.
The reaction has subsided over time, thankfully, and I’ve learned that emails with clear subject lines are less likely to cause the stress spike. I think because I feel prepped for the emails contents. So I’ve started writing my email subject lines to be super duper clear, not clever, just in case the recipient also has “email PTSD”.
MONEY SYSTEMS
I’m hosting a free event on Feb 27 about paying yourself as a service provider without guessing.
I’ll unpack why taking money out feels stressful and uncertain, why that’s usually a money-system gap (not a “bad at math” problem) and what it looks like to build enough structure to see what’s true. The goal is a simple, repeatable way to pay yourself with more calm and less second-guessing.
If that sounds good, check it out here:
