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The Accounting Leads Now Podcast

The Accounting Leads Now Podcast

By: James Donovan
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The accounting industry has a growth problem. This podcast is the solution.

The ALN Podcast is the premier show for firm owners and financial professionals who are serious about building something significant. Hosted by James Donovan, this is where the most successful operators in the industry stop gatekeeping and hand you exactly what's driving their growth.

Every episode is built to be the most valuable 30-60 minutes of your week. Solo episodes deliver James's unfiltered analysis, field-tested frameworks, and the insights most people in this industry never get access to. Interview episodes go deep with elite firm owners, industry vendors, and the professionals quietly reshaping what modern accounting looks like, giving you a front-row seat to the conversations that used to happen behind closed doors.

Lead generation. Client acquisition. Sales strategy. Pricing. Marketing that actually works. The real numbers behind fast-growing firms.

If it moves the needle for ambitious accounting professionals, we cover it.

This isn't background noise. This is the podcast you pause, rewind, and take notes on. Subscribe now and get an insider edge on the industry's most important conversations, before your competitors do.

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Episodes
  • The #1 Thing Accounting Firms Refuse to Do That Costs Them Clients | Drewbie Wilson
    May 21 2026

    Your prospects already know they need what you do. So why aren't they signing?

    Most of the time, it's not your pricing. It's not your niche. It's that nobody picked up the phone.

    Drewbie Wilson built a movement around three words, Call the Damn Leads, after watching a client demand a refund on 100 hot leads he never once called. In this episode, Drewbie breaks down how to figure out whether your prospect values time or money, why "playing it safe" in sales conversations is quietly killing your growth, and the real reason your referral partner retiring could wipe out your pipeline overnight.

    You'll walk away with a two-step process to audit your time and a fresh framework for closing the clients who keep saying "I'll think about it."

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    Ready to turn your firm into a lead-generating, profit-driving machine?
    We help Bookkeepers, Accountants & Fractional CFOs generate consistent local leads, book perfect-fit appointments, and close premium clients, without cold outreach or ad guesswork.

    Let’s map out your growth plan together → Book your free strategy call


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    30 mins
  • He Had a Stroke. Then He Built a Conference. Here's What Accounting Got Wrong | With Randy Crabtree
    May 7 2026

    You're exhausted. You keep telling yourself it's just tax season. But deep down, you know it's been longer than that.

    Randy Crabtree pulled over at a phone booth to quit his job and become a CPA. He built a firm, burned out, sold it, co-founded Tri-Merit Specialty Tax and landed on the Inc. 5000 three years running. Then a stroke in 2014 forced him to rethink everything.

    In this conversation, Randy gets real about what burnout actually looks like before it takes you down, why niching down accelerated his growth instead of limiting it, and the one client-list exercise that can change how you run your firm starting today.

    If you're running on fumes right now, this one's worth your commute.

    Send us Fan Mail

    Ready to turn your firm into a lead-generating, profit-driving machine?
    We help Bookkeepers, Accountants & Fractional CFOs generate consistent local leads, book perfect-fit appointments, and close premium clients, without cold outreach or ad guesswork.

    Let’s map out your growth plan together → Book your free strategy call


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    37 mins
  • He Landed a Client Shooting Machine Guns | Sean Duncan
    Apr 23 2026

    A West Point grad invites you to shoot fully automatic machine guns and drink bourbon. You go. You meet a fractional CFO. Three months later, he's a multi-thousand dollar a month client.

    That's not a marketing strategy. That's Sean Duncan's life and it's only the opener.

    Sean built the largest accounting firm in Frisco, Texas, then torched two-thirds of his revenue on purpose and rebuilt around a fixed-fee, proactive advisory model before anyone in the industry had a name for it. In this conversation he breaks down exactly how he did it, what almost ended him in 2017, how he niched into medical practices and video game developers, and the one calendar habit he credits for every major decision he's made since.

    You'll walk away with his "Work On the Business Day" framework, a new way to think about who you actually want as clients, and proof that shooting guns in Texas is a legitimate business development strategy.

    Send us Fan Mail

    Ready to turn your firm into a lead-generating, profit-driving machine?
    We help Bookkeepers, Accountants & Fractional CFOs generate consistent local leads, book perfect-fit appointments, and close premium clients, without cold outreach or ad guesswork.

    Let’s map out your growth plan together → Book your free strategy call


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    41 mins
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