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Your Financial Maven®, a 2x w3 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

Recent Episodes

Ep65 Money Problems Are Rarely About Money with JD Rose, Financial Well-Being Coach

On this episode of Your Financial Maven®, Samantha welcomes JD Rose, Financial Well-Being Coach and creator of The Whole Money Method, for a conversation about why money problems are rarely about money. JD explains how emotional regulation shapes every financial decision, why the word “budget” can trigger a physical stress response, and how earning more won’t ease money stress until the underlying stories are addressed. In this episode, you’ll hear: Why JD sees money as a mirror and a doorway...

47 MIN

Ep64 Healthcare, Small Business, and the Money Nobody Talks About with Dr. Danielle Miller

On this episode of Your Financial Maven®, Samantha talks with Dr. Danielle Miller, family physician and founder of Luz Medicine — a practice whose name means "light," fitting for one built on transparency in an industry that often keeps patients in the dark. Together they connect healthcare and financial empowerment, starting with a hard truth: medical bills remain a leading cause of bankruptcy. Dr. Miller shares how she went from reluctant business owner to scaling Luz Medicine to a second L...

65 MIN

Ep63 Level the Field, Change the Future — with Melyssa Jaskiewicz of Leveling the Fields

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 talk about her "money like a river" mindset, why she runs a nonprofi...

51 MIN

Ep62 Control by Design, Not by Accident: Ownership, Succession & Exit Planning

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 live in separate files. Drawing on her own path — from a Mississippi farm, through...

48 MIN

Ep61 Soul Sisters in Accounting: Megan Schwan on Profit, Boundaries & Building a Business That Works for You

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 with a separate business bank account, understanding that "know...

40 MIN