She Counts

The Evolution of She Counts: Taking Our Own Advice

What happens when something you love no longer fits the life you need to live? Season 4 opens with Nancy McClelland interviewing her friend and founding co-host, Questian

The Currency Between Women

Nancy is joined by Madeline Reeves, founder of Fearless Foundry and creative director of Advisory Amplified, for an uncomfortable but necessary conversation: the ways wom

The Power of Your Own Voice: Finding It, Trusting It, Using It

What changes when you discover who you are, trust what you have to say, and recognize the impact your voice can make? In the final episode of our Curtain Call series, Nan

Understanding Yourself: Honoring How You’re Wired and Who You’ve Become

What happens when the way you’ve always moved through the world stops working for you? Nancy brings Mellisa Miller Furgeson (filling in for Questian) two more conversatio

Beyond Fear: The Courage to Begin Again

Big changes rarely happen all at once. And when fear has been making our decisions for a long time, even the first small step can feel enormous. Nancy and Questian bring

Two Sides of Leadership: Building Resilient Firms & Guiding Client Change

Nancy and Questian compare notes on their two very different sessions from Scaling New Heights that turned out to have more in common than expected, leading to insightful

LIVE Recording at WAVE-Seattle Conference!

Live from Wave Seattle, Nancy and Questian are joined by conference founder Erin Pohan to put the audience's own definitions of success on trial. Nancy explains why she'd

Trashie Cassie aka “Why You Need an Alter Ego: Acting With Authority Before You Feel Ready”

We all have moments that ask more of us than we think we're capable of giving: the difficult client conversation, the boundary that needs to be set, the meeting where it'

Presence, Not Performance: The Confidence Others Feel Around You

The need for “executive presence” is the vague phrase that shows up in performance reviews as the reason women don't get the promotion – even though almost no one can def

The Courage to Be Nominated: Wanting It, Dreading It

Nancy and special guest Melissa Miller Furgeson, stepping in for Questian, get honest about the awards nomination cycle in accounting: the longing for recognition tangled

Conference Season, She Counts Style

Nancy and Questian make the case for why conferences can have such impact for women in accounting, and how to get the most out of them when you show up. They share their

Why Brilliant Bookkeepers Undervalue Themselves

In a special crossover episode with the Unofficial QuickBooks Accountants Podcast, Nancy and Questian are joined by Alicia Katz Pollock to dig into why so many technicall

The Big “D”: Divorce - Radical Acceptance and Rebuilding in Real Time

When Questian read through 31 pages of divorce paperwork and added it to her Ta-Da List (see Ep. 25), it cracked open a conversation she and Nancy had been circling for a

Ta-Da! Celebrate the Little Things (They’re Actually Big)

Questian and Nancy close out Season Two with Valerie Heckman, Accountant Community Manager at OnPay, and a deceptively simple idea: the “Ta-Da!” list. Instead of measurin

Tell Me You’re A Woman In Accounting

It's Questian's birthday, and your hosts are celebrating with the most creative gift they could think of: a crowdsourced collection of "You know you're a woman in account

Credit Where Due: The Hidden Cost of “Borrowed” Ideas

After one of Nancy's slide decks recently turned up in someone else's presentation without her name or her invitation, she and Questian decided to dig into the many forms

Pancakes, Power Suits & Personal Autonomy: What Women Wear at Work Isn’t the Problem

When an Ernst & Young seminar told female executives that women's brains absorb information like pancakes soak up syrup, as opposed to retaining information like men, who

When There’s No App for What You Need: Building the Tool You Wish You Had

Judie McCarthy's team was spending a third of their time chasing down information—then one of her biggest clients called in tears, completely overwhelmed by the constant

 Unmuted: Turning Down the Self-Doubt, Turning Up the Volume

Questian and Nancy sit down with Misty Megia of the Theatre of Public Speaking to explore why women so often stay muted—in meetings, on stages, and in their own heads. Th

LIVE from Women Who Count, Part Two

Recorded live at AFWA’s Women Who Count Conference, Questian and Nancy are joined by employment attorney Kami Hoskins and HR leader Julie Thiel for an unflinching convers