About this podcast
She Counts brings together respected educators Nancy McClelland, CPA, and Questian Telka, EA, for candid conversations about what it’s really like to be a woman in accounting. Whether you’re in corporate, at a firm, or running your own show, this podcast offers a space to feel seen, heard, and understood. From taboo topics to everyday challenges, She Counts is more than a podcast—it’s a community where women in accounting, tax, and bookkeeping can come together and get real.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 40 episodes
- Designing What's Next for Accountants: The Ideas We Couldn’t Stop Talking About at Bridging the Gap · 53 min · Episode 40Live from Bridging the Gap, Nancy is joined by Al-Nesha Jones, Jennifer Dymond, and Dena Martin to explore what it takes to build a sustainable career, a firm that works for you…
- When Ambition Costs Too Much · 1 h 4 min · Episode 39Women in accounting know how to evaluate an investment, calculate a return, and explain opportunity cost to a client. So why are we so bad at doing the same thing for ourselves?…
- The Evolution of She Counts: Taking Our Own Advice · 59 min · Episode 38What 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 Telka…
- The Currency Between Women · 1 h 7 min · Episode 37Nancy is joined by Madeline Reeves, founder of Fearless Foundry and creative director of Advisory Amplified, for an uncomfortable but necessary conversation: the ways women…
- The Power of Your Own Voice: Finding It, Trusting It, Using It · 1 h 1 min · Episode 36What 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, Nancy and…
- Understanding Yourself: Honoring How You’re Wired and Who You’ve Become · 56 min · Episode 35What 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 conversations from…
- Beyond Fear: The Courage to Begin Again · 50 min · Episode 34Big 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 · 1 h 1 min · Episode 33Nancy 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 lessons…
- LIVE Recording at WAVE-Seattle Conference! · 53 min · Episode 32Live 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 rather…
- Trashie Cassie aka “Why You Need an Alter Ego: Acting With Authority Before You Feel Ready” · 1 h 1 min · Episode 31We 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's time…
- Presence, Not Performance: The Confidence Others Feel Around You · 58 min · Episode 30The 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 define it…
- The Courage to Be Nominated: Wanting It, Dreading It · 53 min · Episode 29Nancy and special guest Melissa Miller Furgeson, stepping in for Questian, get honest about the awards nomination cycle in accounting: the longing for recognition tangled up with…
- Conference Season, She Counts Style · 57 min · Episode 28Nancy 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 industry…
- Why Brilliant Bookkeepers Undervalue Themselves · 57 min · Episode 27In 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 technically…
- The Big “D”: Divorce - Radical Acceptance and Rebuilding in Real Time · 1 h 1 min · Episode 26When 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 while…
- Ta-Da! Celebrate the Little Things (They’re Actually Big) · 58 min · Episode 25Questian 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 measuring your…
- Tell Me You’re A Woman In Accounting · 57 min · Episode 24It'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 accounting…
- Credit Where Due: The Hidden Cost of “Borrowed” Ideas · 1 h 12 min · Episode 23After 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 · 1 h 1 min · Episode 22When 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, whose…
- When There’s No App for What You Need: Building the Tool You Wish You Had · 1 h 4 min · Episode 21Judie 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…
