In the inaugural episode of the Making Cents with Charlie (MCC) podcast, the host explains why the show was created and what listeners can expect. The podcast aims to make corporate finance, FP&A, and strategic finance topics engaging and less dry by injecting humor and a people‑first mindset. It emphasizes the importance of balancing serious financial work with personal well‑being—physically, mentally, and spiritually—through automation that reduces late‑night and weekend work for both the team and their clients. The host also highlights a commitment to scaling the business while fostering a fun, healthy culture, and promises to share personal career learnings and guest insights to give back to the finance community.
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Family, friends, um, this is a special episode for us. This is our first ever episode. We're gonna have some hiccups, we're gonna have some issues, probably some IT bugs as well, but it's a learning opportunity for us. And I want to share why we're doing this. It's, uh, something that we're— new muscle we're building. And what— it's fun giving back to community. It's fun learning and from each other and sharing our learnings with everyone as well. And For us, this making sense with Charlie Podcast MCC. I'm sure everyone understand why it's MCC, but it's we're trying to build another. We're trying to build a finance podcast that's not just the lack of better words, the boring bits as day-to-day stuff. We'll we'll be talking through that stuff as well. They're all very serious. I don't think they're boring necessary, but I I do want to. bringing out the unserious side as well, because I think, I think I'm a fun person, and I think my team, everyone, we're, we're a fun group. So we want to make FP&A, we want to make corporate finance, strategic finance fun as well. But I think a big piece what made us successful, made me do better, is also connecting with that personal side. I think there's too much in terms of just the serious business side, and a lot of us forget that We're people on the other side. CFOs, VPs, our clients, ourselves are people on the other side. And there's a reason why we do what we do. I often tell my team, it's so that the team on the other side, they don't have to work late nights. They don't have to work weekends now. They're getting that better automation with us. They're able to go home earlier. But to me, that aspect of tying that serious professional side, but also taking care of ourselves physically, mentally, spiritually. is a huge journey as well. And I really want to share in terms of my learnings through my career to also just the different guests I have on the show with me as well, so that we can give back to the community. Um, I started MCC. I wanted to scale this business. I wanted to build an environment that takes care of ourselves, our clients as well. And I wanted to make sure it's, uh, it's a fun and healthy environment as well. So, on this show, we'll be showing in terms of how you can be experts and still be people first.
