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Canadian tax for owner-managers — the practical, plain-English take, read with a coffee.

Money & Mind

Karen Mathewson

All week, I’ve been sharing my own inherited money story and the foundation of my Money & Mind framework… but this

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Money as a Tool for Creation

Money is almost exclusively marketed to us in terms of lifestyle. What it allows you to buy. Where it allows you to

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Money & Mind

From Inherited to Intentional

We have spent this week looking backward. We’ve looked at the money stories we inherited, the ways they shape our professional

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Success and Discomfort

You likely imagine success as a feeling of arrival. A moment when the effort finally pays off and life settles into a

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When Money Starts Carrying Responsibility

When people imagine running a business, they usually think about freedom. Freedom of schedule. Freedom of decision-making. Freedom to operate on

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Leaving the System

For someone who grew up below the poverty line, the structure of a large accounting firm felt like the ultimate sanctuary. It’

2 min readJan 2026
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The Money Story You Inherited

Most people assume their financial decisions come from logic… but long before you earned your first paycheque, you were already learning how

2 min readJan 2026
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