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Are you running a business that looks profitable on paper—but still struggling to keep cash in the bank? You’re not alone. Most business owners believe that more revenue, more customers, or lower costs are the key to success. However, the real secret to long-term growth and resilience lies in mastering cash flow. In Cash Flow: How to Build a Great Company That Endures in Tough Economies and Thrives in Booming Ones, financial strategist and entrepreneur Steve Coughran lays out a clear, actionable system that focuses on the seven levers of cash flow.

In the Strategic Financial Leadership podcast, finance expert and former CFO, Steve Coughran, covers the latest in business strategy, corporate finance, and economics. This weekly podcast is a forum for candid conversations with leading voices to discuss the trends, approaches, and innovations shaping the future of business and the finance function. Increasingly, CFOs are mired in detail and complexity at the risk of neglecting true value creation activities – analysis and strategic improvement. Irrelevant data, complex planning and budgeting systems, and impertinent measures keep finance ...

The Boosting Your Financial IQ podcast deconstructs accounting and financial concepts to provide listeners with a holistic understanding of how money works and how to create more value. The host, Steve Coughran, brings his wealth of experience working as a business owner, management consultant, and CFO to share examples, stories, and analogies that deepen business acumen and build skills related to financial literacy. Boosting Your Financial IQ centers in on financial and accounting topics that will empower you to identify value drivers and boost financial performance. Whether you are new to ...

The ReEnergize podcast dissects market trends and focuses on crafting timely strategies to maximize financial performance and organizational health. The host, Steve Coughran, brings his wealth of experience working as a business owner, management consultant, and CFO to tell relevant stories about disruption and transformation. ReEnergize blends a variety of topics and valuable tips to empower business leaders to help break through organizational and mental barriers to elevate performance. This fresh podcast brings you real, authentic conversations on the things that matter most in strategy ...

Transforming Construction is a weekly podcast that discusses cutting-edge strategies, innovations, and trends that will shape the future of construction and its surrounding industries - engineering, infrastructure, renewable energy, and real estate. Steve Coughran, Founder of Coltivar and prior CFO of a large construction and renewable energy EPC, is your guide through the narratives of top industry leaders, exploring the bold moves and tradeoffs they make to power meaningful progress.The construction industry is one of the biggest and most impactful in the world. However, confronted with ...

In the increasingly competitive business ecosystem, adopting a narrow strategy will render a business obsolete. As external pressures increase, it is vital to build intrinsic value to strengthen a company from its core. Steve Coughran employs over a decade of business research and international business expertise to provide listeners with a comprehensive framework that demonstrates the six authentic drivers of firm value.

Do you want to grow your business? Have you struggled to realize the desired outcomes of your strategy? Do you feel that you’re making all the right business moves but are still coming up short? In Outsizing, author Steve Coughran assembles decades of research, hundreds of interviews, and multi-industry consulting experience to identify the strategic factors that dictate the difference between exorbitant success and bankruptcy. This helpful guidebook walks you through crafting and implementing proven strategies to outgrow your limitations to achieve extraordinary results.

The Margin Method™ Podcast is for founders who want to grow intentionally—creating profit, systems, and freedom at every stage.Hosted by Steve Coughran, a founder and strategic finance expert who’s led billion-dollar turnarounds and worked with construction leaders across the country, this show shares real-world strategies to build financial, operational, and leadership margin—the true foundation of a business that scales, sustains, and sells.Rooted in the realities of running and scaling construction businesses, the podcast brings practical insights for anyone building a company with ...

Welcome to Finance With Kids, a podcast that teaches kids all about money. In this show, Steve Coughran and his daughter Ava will help kids understand the fundamentals of financial fitness, including topics such as: planning, earning, spending, borrowing, investing, and giving. We collect questions from kids around the world and provide answers to help boost their financial IQ and to become financially successful on their own. Kids-ask your parents to help you record your question using a smart phone voice recording app and send them to hello@financewithkids.com so you can be featured on the ...

Investing in Stocks is the ultimate resource for those seeking to build wealth through value-based investing strategies, regardless of their starting point or financial knowledge. This podcast combines fundamental finance principles with proven Wall Street-like investment tactics, providing a fast-track to a better financial life, without any get-rich-quick schemes.

Reframing Rich is a compelling and insightful book that will empower you to change the way you think about money, yourself, and others so you can reach your full potential. With a refreshingly positive and compassionate tone, Reframing Rich will enable you to discover more fulfilling mindsets when it comes to wealth and success that align with your personal goals and relationships.