Your Financial Maven®
Your Financial Maven®, a Gold Award Winning Podcast, is hosted by Samantha Mittman Besnoff, CPA. It will challenge you to change the way you think about and understand money to be more financially empowered and less stressed. As Your Financial Maven® I will be bringing you my insights and expertise as well as through my guest interviews. It’s important to think about the psychological aspect of how our upbringing and experiences change how we make spending and financial decisions. I’ve spent almost 30 years in the accounting world in various areas and that is why I am known as Your Financial Maven®. Hosted and Produced by Samantha M. Besnoff, CPA Edited by Kris Zarnoch of KMZen Creative Music Written, Composed, and Performed by Daniel Shore
Episodes
After nearly 20 years as a sales and sports-technology executive, Melyssa Jaskiewicz read one statistic on a flight home — only 24% of C-suite executives are women, and 94% of them played sports. From this she decided to leave her career and she became the founder of Leveling the Fields, a Charleston nonprofit removing the cost, options, and access barriers that keep girls out of sports. In this wide-ranging conversation, we ...
In Episode 62, I sit down with attorney and founder strategist Scherrie L. Prince — host of the Play Big Faster Podcast — for a candid conversation about what it truly takes to protect a business you’ve worked hard to build.
Scherrie advises entrepreneurs and closely held companies at the intersection of business strategy and estate design, and she makes a compelling case that these two disciplines should never liv...
In this episode of Your Financial Maven®, I sit down with Megan Schwan, founder and CEO of Sidekick Accounting Services, a national virtual firm on a mission to change the statistic that eight out of ten small businesses fail. Megan shares her path from teen mom and high school accounting student to running her own firm for twelve years, and together we dig into what actually helps overwhelmed entrepreneurs find clarity: starting w...
Your Financial Maven® Podcast is excited to have reached 60 episodes!!! Join me as I chat with Catherine Lang-Cline about "The Rules of the Game for Women in Business." We had an exciting and thought provoking conversation about what women need to know when they are running their own business or working in the corporate business setting. You can check out more about Catherine Lang-Cline here: https://catherinelangcline.com/.
In this episode of Your Financial Maven®, host Samantha Mittman-Besnoff, CPA, sits down with Jennifer Kornoely, founder of the She Reads, She Leads book club — a community for women entrepreneurs to build financial literacy and business skills through reading and discussion. Jen shares how losing a corporate job became the catalyst for launching her own real estate photography business and, eventually, a thriving monthly book...
Do you ever feel financially stuck and just want a simple and easy framework to get unstuck? Then you will enjoy my latest episode where I chat with Financial Strategist Carilyn Marrero. She went from living paycheck-to-paycheck to building lasting wealth after immigrating to the United States. After experiencing financial pressure, debt, and starting over from scratch, Carilyn became determined to understand how money truly works....
In July the OB3 Tax Bill was passed with information on Overtime and a deduction starting in 2025. On Friday January 23, 2026, the IRS made clarifications on this deduction. I summarize what it all means for you.
Also make sure to read and follow Kelly Phillips Erb and her indepth article on the Overtime deduction here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2026/01/23/irs-offers-more-info-on-how-the-new-overtime-deduction-wo...
I'm back from my holiday break! Hope everyone had a great holiday season and Happy New Year. Tax Season Opens Soon! Here is just some insights on what you need to know.
Here is a link to my Resources tab where you will find all kinds of great information: https://www.yourfinancialmaven.com/resources.
Feel free to reach out to Your Financial Maven® at www.yourfinancialmavenpodcast.com. I would lo...
It's the end of the year and you need to make sure your planning for taxes whether you are a small business or individual. In this episode, I give some overviews related to what you need to know. I will be back in January/February with some more updates as it relates to the new tax law and any other tax changes.
Wishing you all a Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!!
In this episode, I sit down and chat with Tina Coleman about Empowering Women 50+ to Reinvent, Thrive & Live Boldly and how understanding our money is part of that. She is the author of "50 Fabulous and Fuckable" and shares her journey to how she became a voice to help women 50 and over become empowered.
Her Call to Action: https://beacons.ai/transformbecourageous
This link takes listeners to my main hub where they can conn...
In today’s episode, I sit down with Jen Fizer, CEO of MKB, where they provide CFO and bookkeeping services. Jens background spans, startups, and multimillion dollar organizations. She loves to say that she specializes in turning the messy financials into clarity, cash flow, and profitability. Our conversation was filled with great information and talking about what she likes to quote “Cash in, Chaos out.”
Join me in my latest episode where I sit down with Shari Rash, Wealth Advisor, Speaker, and Podcast Host of "Everyone’s Talkin’ Money"—an award-winning, New York Times–Top 4 personal finance podcast. We had a great conversation about, you guessed it, Money. And not just about money but how to provide money mindset for Women. Shari blends financial strategy with money mindset to help women, families, and entr...
In this episode I sit down with Linda Grizely, Motivational Speaker, Financial Educator, and Realist with a Heart. Linda helps women who feel behind—financially or emotionally—reconnect with their self-worth and start making money decisions that actually reflect who they are and what they want. She is the creator of MeMoney™. She has a no-fluff approach to growth, became the foundation of her signature framework&m...
Here is part 2 with Therese Nicklas, Certified Financial Planner™, Certified Money Coach(CMC)®, and Certified Success Principles™ Coach. Therese empowers mid-life executive and entrepreneurial women with smart strategies to build a new big, bold life with certainty, clarity, and confidence. She’s passionate about inspiring women to reach their full potential by helping them design a life they love, filled with joy, purpose, a...
In this episode I sit down with Therese Nicklas, Certified Financial Planner™, Certified Money Coach(CMC)®, and Certified Success Principles™ Coach. Therese empowers mid-life executive and entrepreneurial women with smart strategies to build a new big, bold life with certainty, clarity, and confidence. She’s passionate about inspiring women to reach their full potential by helping them design a life they love, filled with joy...
A new tax law was signed on July 4th and this episode is Part 2 of the OBBBA. I will share what we know so far for Small Business Owners and some important takeaways.
You can find more information on the OBBBA here: IRS Guide to OBBBA
You will find a summary of the OBBBA facts for Small Business Owners here under the Small Business Tab.
Feel free to reach out to Your Financial Maven® at www.yourfi...
A new tax law was signed on July 4th and this episode is Part 1 of the OBBBA. I will share what we know so far for individuals and some important takeaways.
You can find more information on the OBBBA here: IRS Guide to OBBBA
IRS has released the tax inflation adjustments for 2025: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-releases-tax-inflation-adjustments-for-tax-year-2025
You will find a summary of the OBBBA facts here under the Indivi...
As Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners, we sometimes feel like maybe we are alone in this, but you not! I sit down in this episode with Melinda Jackson, a Grammy and Emmy Award-Winning Publicist about understanding your business as an entrepreneur and about the public relations business. Melinda shares her money story and the dichotomy between how she learned from both her Mom and Dad. She takes an "untraditional approach to Pu...
Part of Understanding our Money is to pay attention to Eldercare. Join me in my latest episode as I am joined by Amy Friesen, Eldercare Trailblazer Expert and Bestselling Author of "BreadCrumbs." Amy is the co-founder of Tea & Toast Company that "takes the overwhelm out of senior living decisions, through bold ideas, fresh strategies, and an ever-growing library of helpful content." Our chat provides some great insights o...
Do you want to feel "Financially Free?" Check out my latest episode where I sit down with Coach and Author Paul Craan. He is an author of two books: "How to Be Financially F.R.E.E!" and "Go From Boring to Brilliant!" Paul has been helping professionals for the past 15 years improve their presentation skills and also helping clients live a financially stress free life. He has a passion for helping others grow, professionally, ...
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