Totally Bossing It

The episode is almost entirely filler - a personal check-in explaining why the podcast is going quiet during tax season. The only remotely tactical point (send clients a deadline warning email) is obvious to any practitioner, and it is buried under extended rambling about COVID PTSD, gym attendance, and wine on weeknights.

“I just wanted to hop on say hi and you know explain why the podcast will drop off a bit uh from now until july”

“it's a similar thing, right? It's tax season. It's when we're in the thick of it. It's crappy. We don't like it. We hate life.”

There is no original thinking whatsoever. The 'washing machine' metaphor is a mildly colourful label for an entirely clichéd observation (busy season is stressful). Every claim - it passes quickly, we care about clients, self-care matters - is a platitude circulating in every accounting community.

“it's a small period of time in the financial year. And yes, it happens every year. We should be more well-prepared”

“we generally really care about our clients and making sure that they're looked after”

There is no guest at all - the episode is a solo, unstructured monologue. The host has legitimate credentials (chartered accountant, former partner, firm founder) but demonstrates none of that expertise in this episode; it reads as a personal diary entry rather than practitioner insight.

“I'm Natalie Lennon. I'm the founder and director of Two Sides, an 100% remote accounting and bookkeeping firm”

“I became a partner at 28 and five years later, I sold my 40% share and started Two Sides”

The only concrete details are the May 15 lodgement deadline and the end-of-April client-information cutoff - both well-known statutory facts for Australian tax agents, not original data. No metrics, no firm-specific outcomes, no named tools or processes are shared.

“trying to get every everyone every old bugger who's left their tax returns to the last minute to meet the May 15 deadline”

“we did send out some emails the other day basically saying if we don't have your tax return information by the end of April we may not actually be able to do your tax return for you this year”

There is no guest, no interviewing, no questions, and no dialogue of any kind. The episode is an unstructured apologetic monologue with no arc, no follow-ups, and no productive tension - purely a note to listeners that content is being paused.

“I guess I just wanted to hop on say hi and you know explain why the podcast will drop off a bit”

“that's enough rambling from me”