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The Diary of a CFO, 74 episodes.

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The AI Danger Triangle: What Finance Leaders Must Check Before Using Any AI Tool (with Lauren Elizabeth Pearl)

2

The 3 Conversations Every CFO Must Have With Their CEO with Alex Curran

3

Former McKinsey's Top M&A Advisor on What CFOs Get Wrong About Deals

4

The Difference Between Getting the CFO Job and Keeping It (My 2-Year Check-In)

5

5 Reasons ERP Implementations Fail and How To Get Yours Right, with Sharon Barboza

6

From CAO to EVP Supply Chain: How to Make a Big Career Pivot at the Executive Level

7

How Operations Experience Makes You a Better CFO, with Donna Cohen, CFO of CarMax Auto Finance (Live in Atlanta)

8

How to Evaluate a CFO Role in Private Equity Before You Say Yes - Chris Voudouris, 3x PE CFO

9

From Big 4 Auditor to CFO: How to Make People Want to Work With You in Finance - James White (Live in Atlanta)

10

From 6x National Champion to Fortune 500 Chief Audit Officer - Lori Kaczynski on Leadership and Resilience

11

How Finance Teams Should Be Using AI Right Now, with Chad Gold, CFO of Fullstory

12

Former Starbucks IR SVP: How a Homeless Teenager Ended Up Managing $130 Billion Market Cap on Wall Street

13

The Unlikely Journey of a $3 Billion CFO, William Washington III

14

How to Cut Your Board Reporting Process From Weeks to Days (with Fabian Ferrada)

15

Excel vs FP&A Software: When to Make the Switch (with Paul Barnhurst)

16

Mistakes founders make during fundraising (from a cfo who has done 50+ M&A and Exit deals)

17

insightsoftware President Jennifer Warawa on How AI is Changing the Office of the CFO

18

Former Caterpillar Group CFO on The Leadership Skills Finance Professionals Must Master to Reach the Top

19

Building an AI-Ready Finance Team Without Losing the Human Side, with Tariq Munir

20

The First‑Time CFO Playbook: The First 90 Days, Imposter Syndrome and Leading the Business

21

Wassia Kamon’s 15-Year Journey from Staff Accountant to CFO

22

Beyond the Numbers: Leadership Lessons from Three-Time Nonprofit CFO, Teri Kozub

23

Executive Presence Explained: Why Top Performers Still Get Overlooked, with Executive Coach, Jill Avey

24

Real Fraud Stories and Legal Protection for Your Fractional CFO Firm with Attorney Natalia Greene

25

What CEOs Want from Today’s CFO, with Executive Recruiter, Mark Johnson

26

80/20 Rule for FP&A Experts to Transform Decision-Making Through Analytics with Andrew Hull

27

Agentic AI for CFOs, with Vivienne Wei, COO of Salesforce Unified Agentforce Platform

28

Building a Finance Function That Drives Growth: Lessons from Liberty Bank’s CFO, Paul Young

29

Why Every CFO Feels Stretched and What to Do About It, with Tom Hood

30

Getting the most out of your tech stack, with Anna Sagan

31

Leading Through Market Cycles, with Real Estate and Construction CFO, Bona Allen

32

Non-Traditional Pathways to the CFO Seat, with Axile Talout

33

The CFO Playbook for Handling Crises and Building FP&A Functions, with Mike High

34

Moving From Big 4 Auditor to Controller to CFO, with Andrea Hecht

35

Accounting vs FP&A: Which Path Gets You to CFO Faster?

36

Sheryl Shaw on Scaling Finance Teams and Embracing Technology

37

Inside FP&A: Christian Wattig’s Guide to Smarter Forecasting and Strategic Impact

38

The Role of Treasury in M&A and Business Strategy, with , AVP of Treasury at Victoria’s Secret & Co, Summa Simmons

39

Why Culture Is Your Biggest Cybersecurity Risk, with Dutch Schwartz

40

How the Best Finance Leaders Operate, Plan, and Forecast, with Christina Ross

41

The Art of Becoming a Strategic CFO, with Dr. Tamer Alsayed

42

The #1 Mistake Keeping Controllers from Becoming CFOs

43

What I Wish Finance Professionals Knew Sooner, with Syed Nadeem

44

Solving Revenue Recognition Nightmares for SaaS Companies, with Apurv Bansal

45

Beyond Compliance: Kendra LaFleur on Becoming a Trusted Advisor

46

From Combat Zones to Corporate Finance: Stephen McLain on Leading in High-Stakes Environments

47

Why Treasury is More Than Managing Cash, with Matthew Harlan

48

Leading Finance with Curiosity and Cultural Intelligence, with Jenny Fuss

49

From School Teacher to CFO, with Atlanta Food Bank CFO, Tamica Williams

50

Secrets of Rockstar CFOs: Jack McCullough on Developing the Next Generation of CFOs

51

Meet The CFO Who Went Viral on TikTok: Professor Bee Nance

52

Is the Climb to CFO Worth It?

53

The Critical Role of Accounting in Business Success, with Edwine Alphonse

54

What Technology Can (and Can’t) Fix for Finance Teams, with Campfire CEO, John Glasgow

55

How to Get on High-Impact Projects and Lead Major Change, with Sindy Wilson

56

What I’ve Realized After Six Months as CFO

57

Nonprofit Finance Isn’t as Simple as You Think, with Stephen Newland

58

Leadership Lessons from a CFO-Turned-Coach, Jeremy Earnshaw

59

Aligning Strategy and Execution, with Beverly Davis

60

Balancing strategy, risk, and leadership decisions as a CFO (with Scott Meyers)

61

Taking on bigger roles before you feel ready and how it shapes your path to CFO (with Janice Stucke)

62

Reducing month-end close time and leading finance transformation as a CFO (with Basem Waheed)

63

The day-to-day of managing a finance team as a CFO (with Jessica McClain)

64

What kind of experience builds a strong finance career (with Bryan Lapidus)

65

How executive hiring decisions are made (with Amy Sulgrove)

66

What it takes to move from strong performer to executive

67

Taking on roles where you are expected to fix things (with Brenda Hodo-Iddris)

68

My first 90 days as CFO and what I learned early on

69

Stepping into a new CFO role and getting up to speed (with 2x CFO Matt Ziegler)

70

How marketing and finance can work better together (with Elaine Benfield)

71

Where and why CFOs have to say no

72

Working across the business as a CFO, not just inside finance

73

What changes when you step into a CFO role for the first time

74

How I became a CFO and why I started this podcast