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“Don’t Name It Yet” is about the moment before certainty hardens — when speed feels safer than truth, and labeling something too quickly offers quiet at a cost.

Built around themes of pressure, shortcuts, and premature answers, the song explores how easy it is to staple down a guess just to make the tension stop — and how heavy that decision becomes later. Every system tells a story, and every label we apply turns uncertainty into narrative, whether it’s accurate or not

The Wizard appears here as a steady presence, not pushing for answers, but reminding us that restraint is not fear, and waiting is not failure. Some questions deserve space. Some truths arrive only if they’re not forced.

This track sits with the discomfort most people rush past — the waiting room between “I don’t know yet” and “I’m sure.” It’s a refusal to trade clarity for quiet, or honesty for relief.

If you’ve ever felt pressure to explain something before you really understood it — or watched a small guess turn into a story you had to defend — this song lives right there.

Stay in the workshop.
And don’t name it yet.

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Most bookkeeping problems don’t start as mistakes.
They start as moments.

A moment when something feels slightly off.
A moment when you don’t have time to chase it.
A moment when you tell yourself, “I’ll come back to this.”

And then you don’t.

In this episode of The QuickBooks Wizard, we slow that moment down.

You’ll learn why labeling a transaction too quickly often creates more cleanup later — and how one simple pause can prevent confusion before it starts. This isn’t about being perfect or moving slower. It’s about being honest about what you know, what you don’t, and leaving context behind for future-you.

The Three-Question Weekly Review

This episode also introduces a short weekly review designed to restore orientation without turning into a fix-everything session. Once a week, ask:

1. What changed that I should understand?
2. What am I still guessing about?
3. If nothing else changed next week, what would actually cause trouble?

This review isn’t about cleanup.
It’s about clarity, sequencing, and reducing unnecessary pressure.

You can find a one-page version of the three-question review 👉 here.

If this episode helped you think more clearly, a quick rating or review helps other listeners find the show — especially those who need a calmer, more grounded approach to their books.

And if you know someone who’s carrying too much financial noise, feel free to share this episode with them.

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After It Settles

After It Settles is a reflective, atmospheric companion track to Season 2 of The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast.

This song isn’t about fixing anything.
It’s about what happens after the noise fades.

Written as a quiet counterpoint to pressure, urgency, and constant decision-making, After It Settles sits in the space where nothing broke — but everything needed to slow down. It explores pause as wisdom, stillness as alignment, and clarity as something that often arrives only when you stop forcing answers.

No verdicts.
No deadlines.
Just the calm that returns when motion settles and the story can continue on its own terms.

This track is meant to be listened to, not solved.
Let it sit.
Let it speak.

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What Carries Forward

Season 2, Episode 5

January doesn’t erase December.
It reveals it.

In this episode of The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast, we slow down and talk about what actually carries forward when the year turns. Not resolutions. Not reinvention. But continuity.

You’ll hear why January often feels heavier than December, even when there’s less work…
why unfinished items aren’t failures, but markers…
and how confidence quietly returns when you stop reacting and start understanding.

This episode isn’t about fixing everything.
It’s about orientation.
About knowing what deserves attention now, what can wait, and how to move forward without carrying shame.

If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, consider passing it along to someone who might need that same permission.

⭐ Ratings and reviews help more people find the Workshop, and they truly matter.

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Thanks for being here.
We’ll be at the bench when you come back.

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🎵 When the Story Can Wait

Feedy & the Bank Feeds

This track was created as a companion piece to Episode 4, Season 2 of The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast.

“When the Story Can Wait” is about restraint in the middle of noise — the choice to pause instead of forcing resolution, and the quiet confidence that comes from knowing not everything has to be finished right now.

Built with layered textures, steady rhythm, and space to breathe, the song mirrors the heart of the episode: December is loud, urgency lies, and clarity often arrives later — when time has done some of its work.

This is not a song about rushing.
It’s about letting the story continue.

Use it as background, reflection, or simply a reminder that waiting — when done intentionally — is not failure. It’s judgment.

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When the Story Can Wait

Season 2, Episode 4

December is loud.

More transactions.
More pressure.
More urgency to finish strong — even when the signals stop making sense.

In this episode, we talk about what really happens to good systems under year-end overload — and why confusion in December is not the same thing as failure.

You’ll hear from:

• Carl, who explains what overload does to decision-making
• Tangle, who feels the noise before anyone else
• The Wizard, who reminds us that wisdom includes knowing when to wait
• And a special seasonal visit from Santa, who understands tight deadlines and incomplete information better than anyone

This isn’t an episode about fixing everything before the calendar flips.

It’s about learning when later is the wise choice.
About preserving the story of your numbers when clarity hasn’t arrived yet.
And about releasing the pressure to treat every unfinished thing as a personal failure.

If December has you questioning your books — or yourself — this episode is an invitation to slow the panic without stopping the work.

Because good bookkeeping isn’t about finishing clean.
It’s about finishing honest.

🎧 Bonus: A Feedy & the Bank Feeds seasonal track accompanies this episode, created to hold the mood — not teach the lesson.

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Leaving a rating or a short review helps this Workshop reach people who are quietly carrying the same weight.

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Your support helps keep the lights on, the characters talking, and the Workshop open.

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🎶 Bonus Track: First Number Wins

Feedy & the Bank Feeds

First Number Wins is a gritty, 90s-inspired grunge instrumental born out of the tension that lives inside messy books, flashing warnings, and decisions made under pressure.

This track isn’t about teaching QuickBooks.
It’s about the feeling that comes before the teaching.

The hum of uncertainty.
The pull of the shortcut.
The moment when the first number that makes the screen go quiet… wins.

Written as a creative companion to the Workshop universe, First Number Wins captures the energy of automation chaos, late-night reconciliations, and the strange satisfaction of making things “balance” even when something still feels off.

No rules.
No instructions.
Just distortion, momentum, and atmosphere.

If you’ve ever stared at a number and thought, “That’ll do for now,” this track understands you.

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🐾 Episode 3: O-Cat Loves a Label

Why does it feel so good to slap a label on a transaction and move on?

In this episode of The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast, we meet O-Cat—the shortcut-loving creature who thrives on neat labels, quick fixes, and the sweet relief of a green checkmark. She’s not evil. She’s efficient. And under pressure, she’s very convincing.

Together in the Workshop, Brian, Carl, and the Wizard unpack a habit that quietly causes more bookkeeping stress than almost anything else: using labels to stop discomfort instead of understanding the source of the money.

This episode isn’t about rules or memorization. It’s about:

• Why labels feel so comforting when you’re overwhelmed
• How Opening Balance, equity, and “close enough” categories become hiding places
• The difference between classifying a transaction and understanding its story
• How to leave simple “breadcrumbs” that preserve clarity without slowing you down

Along the way, the Wizard offers perspective and grace, Carl brings calm explanation, and O-Cat… well, O-Cat still loves her labels.

By the end, you won’t just know what to do differently—you’ll understand why your books start to feel lighter when context is preserved.

If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, consider sharing it with someone who’s wrestling with their books. Ratings and reviews help this quirky little Workshop reach the people who need it most.

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Your books don’t need to be perfect.
They just need their story back.

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