I was born for this!
This week I witnessed Money Trauma big time. A new CEO, who apparently didn’t understand the upside-down finances of their new business, received a fairly ordinary bank notification indicating “insufficient funds". What happened next was shocking. If you ever went to college btw or have kids - you’ve personally probably seen this notice before. It’s normal. Most people live paycheck to paycheck. And occasionally- whoops - that auto debit from Amazon gets held up because it’s the beginning of the month and your credit cards and rent just came due. So instead of trying to understand the situation this CEO immediately starts yelling at ALL of the finance staff. How could you let this happen?! Why didn’t I know about this?! You didn’t know about this - they replied? THIS is why they hired you! To fix the business. So instead of the ...