When you know what your profit is, you unlock the power to know what things cost you, whether you need to raise your prices and how much you owe in taxes way before the deadline. So how do you do it, and what is the one key action step that will help you right now? Click through to find out on my latest mini episode of the I Like Your Work Podcast.

In one of four new mini episodes of the I Like Your Work Podcast, I talk about my journey as a painter who had miserable experiences with accountants when I was starting out. So how did I decide to become one? I share the origin story of Sunlight Tax and talk about how the magic and love of the artist community was the right motivation to build a business that serves artists with the tax education they need. Visit the Sunlight Tax blog to listen the first episode.

A Money Bootcamp member reached out to me to ask me to share my observations about creators, since I sit at a vantage point to see what happened to so many people’s financial situations. As I wrote, I realized that these observations are so numerous that it would help to split them into three categories: General observations from our Covid Hell-Year, Observations about the effect of the Covid stimulus bills, and a more evergreen set of observations about creative people’s financial situations more generally. So with that, here is the first in a three-part series about my unscientific conclusions about creators’ finances. Part One: Creators During Covid: Lost work, creative fundraising, bright spots, and burnout.