S3 Ep12: "Rapidly scaling a business is rapidly scaling yourself" with Rachel Harris, Accountant She - Video

Rachel Harris aka Accountant She is an impressive woman and business owner. She’s taken her company from the dining table to £1.5million turnover in 4 years. And as Rachel says, ‘rapidly scaling a business is rapidly scaling yourself’. Which sounds to me a lot like motherhood.

Not only does Rachel and her business offer a best in class consultancy service for parental planning, but since going self employed at 26, a family has been in her business plan. AND she has some incredible advice for business owners who want to improve their services and scale their business. While, of course, potentially raising a family.

Finances can be scary, and women often have a lot of imposter syndrome around them. But financial wellbeing is a muscle, we just need to build it into our routine to make it strong.

Rachel is full of insight about building a wildly successful business, creating a culture that is accessible and inclusive for clients and her team alike and having those difficult conversations about parenthood that move the collective conversation forward.

If you're scaling a business, planning parental leave, dealing with a disability, building motherhood into your business plan, or want to know more about your mat leave options, Rachel has some excellent advice for you.

This episode is sponsored by Accountant She. Rachel and the team at StriveX are there to support you going from Bump to Business Owner and beyond. Not only do they offer a huge range of business and personal support, but Rachel offers a HUGE amount of valuable and completely FREE financial education via her IG account.

Links:
Website: www.bumptobusinessowner.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bumptobusinessowner/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinepooley/


About Rachel Harris and Accountant She:

Rachel Harris, Accountant She is an award winning content creator, author, a speaker, a business owner of Strive X and most importantly, an accountant!
She was named as one to watch on the 35 under 35 list, she recently won the First Intuition Apprenticeship mentor of the year award for 2023 and won breakout star of the year by Accounting Excellence and accounting personality of the year 2023 by PQ Magazine.

In addition to the above, She is the director of striveX, which she runs with her husband James which is a much broader, paperless accountancy and tax advisory firm that uses cloud software to provide a digital solution for your everyday accounting.

Rachel was awarded with the Apprenticeship Mentor of the Year award in 2023 for her close work with her team to strive towards their professional qualifications.

Rachel has also grown her accountant_she community to over 90,000 people which is a portfolio of social media platforms where she creates long and short form content for accountants in training, qualified accountants and small business owners who want to learn more about finance.

She wanted to build the community that she didn't have when she decided to become an accountant and become the role model she wished she’d had. She is a role model to aspiring accountants and in 2022 she became the youngest ever director and trustee of AAT. In January of 2023 she launched the first ever corporate bursary scheme which is fully funding a person in financial hardship through AAT level 2, 3 and 4 supported by 1:1 mentoring, study support and full tuition covered.


Accountant She Links:

Website: https://www.accountantshe.co.uk/
https://strivex.co.uk/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accountant_she/
https://www.instagram.com/strivexuk/
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-harris-a3192372/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/strivexuk/