Mike Whitmire

Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets

Business EN ↓ 71 episodes

The accounting profession is in a state of flux. With a shocking number leaving the industry and fewer students opting to major in Accounting, it's clear that change is needed — and fast. Hosted by FloQast co-founder and CEO Mike Whitmire, inactive CPA, Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets explores the modern accounting landscape to identify how to uplift the profession, ways in which leaders can evolve operations to empower employees, and highlights individuals making material impacts in finance and accounting.

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Mike Whitmire

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Business

Latest episode

Feb 23, 2026

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Episodes

Backed Against a Wall, Accordion’s Nick Leopard Had No Choice but To Succeed 02.02.2021

In this episode, Mike Whitmire, CEO & Co-Founder of FloQast, chats with Nick Leopard,  Chief Executive Officer & Founder at Accordion.

How to Build a Firm with No Sales or Marketing with Gary Klintworth, CPA 19.01.2021

In this episode, Mike Whitmire, CEO & Co-Founder of FloQast, chats with Gary Klintworth, CPA & Co-Founder and Managing Director of ARC Consulting LLC. 

Sean Jacobsohn: Season 2, Episode 7 05.01.2021

In this episode, Mike Whitmire, CEO & Co-Founder of FloQast, chats with Sean Jacobsohn, VC & Partner at Norwest Venture Partners.

Bob Kavner: Season 2, Episode 6 22.12.2020

In this episode, Mike Whitmire sits down with a man who's had A LOT of experience in his time - Bob Kavner. This episode is filled with many great stories about success and failure in the finance world, and had a rocket ship of a career auditing at 21 years old in New York City with clients like AT&T and Pam Am Airways.

Michelle Murray: Season 2, Episode 5 08.12.2020

In this episode, Mike Whitmire, CEO & Co-Founder of FloQast, chats with Michelle Murray, Founder and Managing Director of Segue Partners.

Gary Swart: Season 2, Episode 4 24.11.2020

 Interview with Gary Swart, Working with the founders of Netflix and beyond.

Ryan Polk: Season 2, Episode 3 10.11.2020

In this episode, Mike Whitmire, CEO & Co-Founder of FloQast, chats with Ryan Polk, Chief Product Officer of Insight Partners. 

John Hussey: Season 2, Episode 2 27.10.2020

In this episode, Mike Whitmire, CEO & Co-Founder of FloQast, chats with John Hussey, NFL Referee, and CEO/ Founder of the animal-focused start-up CUDDLY.

Rob Meinhardt: Season 2, Episode 1 13.10.2020

Mike Whitmire CEO & Co-Founder of FloQast talks entrepreneurship with Rob Meinhardt , Co-founder of the venture production studio, Furious Collective, and the former Co-founder and CEO of KACE, which was acquired by Dell.

We are changing our name 22.09.2020

Hi everyone, Thank you for listening to From CPA to CFO. We are still going to be diving into accounting and career growth in the financial world, but also expanding into topics around entrepreneurship, the start up world and what it takes to be successful. With that we are changing our name to Blood Sweat & Balance Sheets. We are looking forward to some amazing episodes and big things. Thanks...

Jerry Raphael, CFO at Stack Overflow | From CPA to CFO Ep. 11 19.06.2020

In this episode FloQast CEO/Co-founder Mike Whitmire sits down with Jerry Raphael, CFO at Stack Overflow. - CPA to CFO Podcast is dedicated to teaching young CPAs the steps they need to take to climb the ladder to CFO. Hosted by FloQast Co-founder & CEO Mike Whitmire, these are conversations with financial thought-leaders about their rise to success. https://floqast.com https://instagram.com/f...

Daniel Hood, Editor-in-Chief at Accounting Today | From CPA to CFO Ep. 10 03.04.2020

In this episode, we are pivoting from the CFO role to chat with Daniel Hood, Editor-in-Chief of Accounting Today - one of the most prominent publications for the accounting and finance industry. In the many conversations and research Daniel has conducted for Accounting Today, he's learned a great deal about what it takes to be a great accountant and what it means to perform the job in a moder...

Angela Smoller, CFO at SeekOps | From CPA to CFO Ep. 09 16.03.2020

In this live episode from FloQast's User Conference TakeControl, FloQast CEO/Co-founder Mike Whitmire sits down with Angela Smoller, CFO at SeekOps.

Darian Hong, CFO at SmartRent | From CPA to CFO Ep. 08 25.02.2020

In this episode, FloQast CEO/Co-founder Mike Whitmire sits down with Darian Hong, CFO at WebPT. Darian has admittingly had an unconventional path to his CFO position, first springing into sales roles to up his business acumen, then on to being a product manager. But the FP&A side of him started to come out over the years which eventually landed him as CFO of AT&T Interactive for a number o...

Bob Kavner, former CFO at AT&T | From CPA to CFO Ep. 07 13.01.2020

In this episode, Mike sits down with Bob Kavner who's had an illustrious career across various finance and leadership roles including those with AT&T & Pandora. Bob has a lot of great stories to share from when he was fresh out of school and all the way up to today. Don't miss this one.

Servaes Tholen, CFO of Calm | From CPA to CFO Ep. 06 10.12.2019

In the 6th episode of CPA to CFO, Mike sits down with Servaes, CFO at Calm - a meditation a relaxation aid that is so good it was awarded the iPhone app of the year in 2017 by Apple.

Gabi Loeb, CFO of PlayVS | From CPA to CFO Ep. 05 26.11.2019

In this episode of the From CPA to CFO Podcast, Mike chats with Gabi Loeb, a seasoned finance vet who started as a consultant, then spent time with The Walt Disney Studios, Macrovision, and more before joining e-sports platform start-up PlayVS, based in Santa Monica, CA. Great talk about how finance teams integrate with all departments including product and marketing, and finance teams need to loo...

Lee Raymundo, CFO of Waggl | From CPA to CFO Ep. 03 21.10.2019

In this episode, FloQast Co-founder and CEO Mike Whitmire sits down with former FloQast interim CFO Lee Raymundo. Lee is a highly effective finance pro who spent time helping to build infrastructure at tech companies Grindr and Whisper before joining FloQast briefly to now leading the finance team at Waggl - a real-time employee feedback platform.  Lee has a very interesting backstory fueled by en...

Ronette Kite, Start-up CFO / SoCal Lead at Countsy | From CPA to CFO Ep. 04 21.10.2019

In the 4th episode of CPA to CFO, Mike sits down with Ronette Kite, an excellent CFO that helps start-ups create process and organization in their financial departments when they do not have the full-time resources to do so. Great talk with Ronette.

Rob Krolik, General Partner & CFO at Burst Capital | From CPA to CFO Ep. 01 14.10.2019

This is the very first episode in our new CPA to CFO series, where FloQast Co-Founder and CEO Mike Whitmire chats with financial thought-leaders about their rise to success.  In this episode, Mike chats with General Partner and CFO at Burst Capital, Rob Krolik. Rob's resume is impressive with CFO stints at Yelp & Move, Inc., and VP of Global Finance at Ebay. Great talk. Listen in!

Jennifer Ceran, CFO at Smartsheet | From CPA to CFO Ep.02 14.10.2019

This is episode two of CPA to CFO, where FloQast Co-Founder and CEO Mike Whitmire chats with financial thought-leaders about their rise to success.  In this episode, Mike chats with CFO at Smartsheet, Jennifer Ceran. Jennifer has held finance leadership roles at companies such as Sara Lee, Cisco, Ebay, & now Smartsheet - so, she knows a thing or two about carving a path to career success.

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