FINANCIAL FOUNDATIONS™
Your Personal + Business Financial Reset
Your personal finances and your business finances are married.
But most entrepreneurs manage them like they’re divorced.
You can be generating strong revenue and still wonder:
Where is all the money going?
Why doesn’t my personal financial life reflect how successful my business looks?
How much should I actually be paying myself?
How much does my life really cost?
What does my business need to produce to comfortably support that life?
How much should I be setting aside for taxes, reserves, debt, growth and wealth-building?
And why, after working this hard, does money still feel stressful?
If any of that sounds familiar, you probably don’t need another revenue goal.
You need a financial framework.
Financial Foundations™ is a private, done-with-you experience designed to bring the financial side of your business and the financial side of your life together—so you can stop guessing, understand your real numbers, and intentionally build a business that funds the life you want.
Know what your life costs. Build the business to fund it.
YOUR BUSINESS SHOULD DO MORE THAN GENERATE REVENUE.
It should create profit.
It should pay you well.
It should allow you to prepare for taxes instead of fearing them.
It should create reserves.
It should support your personal financial goals.
And ultimately, it should help you build wealth and fund the life you’re working so hard to create.
But here’s what I’ve learned after decades as an entrepreneur and years of working directly with business owners:
Making more money isn’t necessarily the answer.
Knowing what your money needs to do is.
Too many entrepreneurs are managing their finances reactively.
Money comes in.
Bills get paid.
Money goes out.
Taxes arrive.
Personal expenses pull from the business.
A great month provides relief.
A slower month creates stress.
Then everyone starts chasing the next revenue goal.
Financial Foundations™ changes that.
WHAT IF YOU COULD FINALLY SEE THE WHOLE FINANCIAL PICTURE?
Not just your P&L.
Not just your bank balance.
Not just your household budget.
The whole thing.
Your business finances.
Your personal finances.
Your lifestyle.
Your goals.
Your cash flow.
Your profitability.
Your taxes.
Your reserves.
Your debt.
Your owner compensation.
Your spending patterns.
And the future you’re trying to create.
Because these things don’t operate independently.
They are one financial ecosystem.
Financial Foundations™ helps you understand how all of those pieces work together and gives you a financial operating system for managing them intentionally.
INTRODUCING FINANCIAL FOUNDATIONS™
Powered by the Path To Profits™ Framework
This isn’t a budgeting course.
And I’m not handing you another spreadsheet and telling you to figure it out.
Financial Foundations™ is a high-touch, done-with-you financial implementation experience.
Together, we answer three critical questions:
1. What does the life you want actually cost?
We get clear about your personal lifestyle, financial commitments, goals, priorities and the future you are building toward.
2. What does your business need to produce to fund it?
We connect your personal financial requirements to the financial performance of your business.
3. What systems need to be in place to make those numbers work together?
We build the tools, cash-flow structure and financial routines that allow you to manage your money proactively instead of reactively.
This is where my Path To Profits™ framework comes to life.
You stop treating your business finances and personal finances as two separate conversations.
And you start making financial decisions from one integrated plan.
WE START WITH YOUR REAL NUMBERS.
Before we build anything, we need to understand what is actually happening with your money.
You’ll provide approximately six months of relevant personal and business financial information.
We analyze the data to identify patterns including:
Recurring business expenses
Recurring personal expenses
Average variable spending
Cash-flow patterns
Subscriptions and commitments
Owner compensation and distributions
Debt obligations
Tax-related cash requirements
Lifestyle spending
Potential cash-flow leaks
Areas where spending and priorities may be out of alignment
Your average monthly business operating requirements
Your average monthly personal lifestyle requirements
Technology and AI help us analyze the data efficiently, but this is not an automated financial report you’re left to interpret yourself.
The technology finds the patterns.
I help you understand what those patterns mean for your business, your life and your future.
Your experience is designed around six strategic phases.
PHASE 1 — FINANCIAL DISCOVERY
We begin with your vision.
What are you building?
What do you want your business to provide?
What does success look like beyond revenue?
Where are you experiencing financial pressure today?
What personal and business goals need to be supported?
If you are married or share finances with a partner, there may be opportunities to include them in appropriate parts of this process.
Because before we can build the numbers, we need to understand the life those numbers are meant to support.
PHASE 2 — YOUR FINANCIAL REALITY
This is where we look at what your numbers are actually telling us.
Together, we review the analysis of your personal and business finances.
We identify:
Where your money is going
What your normal monthly spending actually looks like
Recurring financial commitments
Cash-flow patterns
Areas of overspending or leakage
Potential blind spots
Financial obligations that may not be adequately planned for
Areas where your business and personal finances are out of alignment
No shame.
No judgment.
Just information.
Because you cannot change what you’re unwilling to look at.
And financial clarity creates options.
PHASE 3 — LIFESTYLE REDESIGN
Now we answer a question most entrepreneurs have never been taught to calculate:
What does the life I actually want cost?
Not simply what you spend today.
What does the life you are intentionally building require?
We look at areas such as:
Household expenses
Lifestyle
Travel
Family priorities
Debt reduction
Savings
Investing and wealth-building goals
Future purchases
Personal reserves
Owner compensation
The experiences and freedom you want your business to make possible
This becomes your personal financial target.
PHASE 4 — BUILD THE BUSINESS FINANCIAL ENGINE
Once we know what your life requires, we turn back to the business.
What must the business produce to support both itself AND you?
Together we work through:
Revenue requirements
Operating expenses
Cash flow
Profitability
Owner compensation
Tax reserves
Business reserves
Debt obligations
Growth investments
Strategic financial goals
Now revenue has a purpose.
Instead of simply saying:
“I want to make $1 million.”
We can begin answering:
“What does this business need to produce, keep and distribute in order to fund the life and wealth I am building?”
That is a very different way to run a company.
PHASE 5 — IMPLEMENT YOUR PATH TO PROFITS™
This is where knowledge becomes a system.
We build your customized financial planning tools for both sides of your financial life.
You’ll implement:
Your business cash-flow planning system
Your personal spending plan
Your virtual envelope structure
Tax allocations
Reserve allocations
Owner compensation planning
Financial targets
Money-flow routines
Your customized Path To Profits™ structure
You will no longer simply know that you “should be better with money.”
You’ll know where the money needs to go when it arrives.
PHASE 6 — OPTIMIZE
A financial plan only works if it works in real life.
So we come back together to evaluate:
What is working?
What needs adjustment?
Where are old habits creeping back in?
Is actual spending aligned with the plan?
Is the business producing what we projected?
Are the systems realistic?
What has changed?
What is the next financial target?
The goal isn’t financial perfection.
The goal is financial awareness, confidence and intentional decision-making.
What's Included
Your Financial Foundations™ experience includes:
Private strategy and implementation sessions with Michelle Jacobik
Personal financial data analysis
Business financial data analysis
Six-month spending-pattern analysis
Recurring-expense identification
Average monthly spending analysis
Business cash-flow planning tools
Personal financial planning tools
Lifestyle-cost analysis
Customized Path To Profits™ financial framework
Virtual envelope system for your business
Virtual envelope system for your personal finances
Strategic revenue and profitability targets
Tax and reserve planning conversations
Owner compensation strategy
Implementation and optimization support
First-year access to the recommended virtual envelope technology for both your personal and business systems
And most importantly:
A financial framework you can continue using long after our work together is complete.
THIS ISN’T ABOUT BECOMING “GOOD AT BUDGETING.”
It’s about becoming a financially informed CEO.
There is a difference.
A financially informed CEO understands:
What the business needs to produce.
What the business needs to keep.
What they can afford to pay themselves.
What needs to be reserved.
What their personal lifestyle requires.
What growth actually needs to accomplish.
And whether the business they are building is moving them closer to—or further away from—the life they say they want.
That level of clarity changes the way you make decisions.
FINANCIAL FOUNDATIONS™ MAY BE RIGHT FOR YOU IF…
You generate good revenue but don’t feel like you have enough to show for it.
You aren’t completely sure where your money goes each month.
You regularly move money between business and personal accounts.
Taxes create anxiety.
You know you should have better reserves.
Your personal spending and business cash flow feel disconnected.
You make financial decisions based on what is currently sitting in the bank.
Your revenue has grown faster than your financial systems.
Your spouse or partner doesn’t fully understand what is happening financially inside the business.
You want your company to start building personal wealth—not simply generating more revenue.
You’re tired of wondering:
“I make good money. So why doesn’t it feel like it?”
THIS IS NOT ABOUT SHAME.
Many highly successful entrepreneurs were never taught this.
You may know how to sell.
Market.
Lead.
Serve clients.
Build teams.
Create revenue.
Solve problems.
Take risks.
And grow a company.
But no one ever taught you how to connect the financial engine of the business to your personal financial life.
That doesn’t get solved by simply earning more.
It gets solved by building a framework.
Special Enrollment:
$3,997 Paid in Full
Or:
3 Payments of $1,497
Your investment includes the financial analysis, private consulting, customized planning tools, implementation support and the first year of your personal and business virtual envelope technology.
This is intentionally hands-on work.
Because I don’t want you leaving with more information.
I want you leaving with a financial system.
WHAT CAN CHANGE WHEN YOU FINALLY KNOW YOUR NUMBERS?
My clients have described the transformation in ways that go far beyond spreadsheets.
They talk about:
Finally feeling in control.
No longer treating every expense like an emergency.
Understanding why increased revenue wasn’t translating into increased wealth.
Feeling empowered to make decisions.
Having clearer conversations with their spouse.
Getting out from underneath the guilt and shame they carried around money.
Creating systems for cash flow instead of reacting to whatever happened that month.
And finally connecting the success of the business to the life they are trying to build.
Jeanine Thompson | Retired Fortune 50 Executive at Best Buy Speaker, Author
When the student is ready, the teacher appears. And so it is! To my business friends and peers seeking next-level clarity of vision, service, and profitable growth, in alignment with who you are and your desired life experience, this is for you. Best. Decision. Ever. My clarity of mission, confidence, and tangible assets and plans exceeded what I imagined and hoped for. You are a sage and a masterful guide grounded in proven business expertise. Partnering with you is indeed an ‘unfair advantage.’ Michelle is a game changer.
Paula Turley | Turley Coastal Properties
Working with Michelle is one of the best investments you will make in your business by far in any given year. Her expertise and insight into looking inside your business and formulating solutions to implement THE HOW you can shift and scale was just what I needed. Each time I work with her I have more peace of mind and an understanding of running my business. Hire Michelle when you really want to know what is working and what is not working in your business.
Diana Miller-Lloyd, CPA, CVA, CFF | PRIVATE EQUITY CONTROLLER; FORENSIC CPA
As a Forensic Accountant with a thriving practice, I’m super busy. But I too need guidance and support. The value I get from my 1-1 strategy time with her has helped me sift and sort through growth decision-making. She graciously makes connections, offers an abundance of resources, and brings so much guidance from her years of experience. What happened for me can happen for you.
WHY I DO THIS WORK
I’ve spent 37 years as an entrepreneur.
I know what it means to build businesses, generate revenue, make difficult decisions, navigate financial pressure and reinvent through different seasons of life.
And one thing has become very clear to me:
Entrepreneurs are taught how to make money long before they are taught how to manage what that money needs to do.
That is the gap I’m committed to closing.
My mission is to help entrepreneurs understand the business of business—and the financial frameworks that connect business success with personal financial stability and wealth.
Because I don’t believe the goal is simply to build a bigger business.
I believe the goal is to build a business that makes your bigger life possible.
YOUR BUSINESS AND PERSONAL FINANCES ARE MARRIED.
It’s time to make that marriage work.
Know what your life costs.
Know what your business needs to produce.
Know where your money needs to go.
Build the systems.
Create the profit.
Fund the life.
Build the wealth.
Financial Foundations™ is where we put those pieces together.
You’ve worked hard to create the revenue.
Now let’s make sure that revenue is actually creating the life, stability and wealth you’re working for.
Financial Foundations™
Your Personal + Business Financial Reset
Special Enrollment: $3,997
Payment option: 3 payments of $1,497
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