The Unique CPA

Randy Crabtree and Terrell Turner team up to co-host Episode 276 of The Unique CPA , previewing what's coming July 28th at Bridging the Gap 2026 in Charlotte . Four years in, the conference has moved past simply naming burnout and connection as problems worth discussing, with the focus now turning to implementation: accountability structures, longer workshop formats, and the potential for speakers...

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Additional support is also provided by Magnetic. AI prepared 1040s with remarkable accuracy and form coverage, so your team gets complete returns ready for final review. Check it out at MagneticTax.com .  Scott Showalter has spent more than 50 years in accounting, with 33 of them at KPMG, the last 22 of which were as a partner. Since 2008 he's been bringing that experience into the classroom at NC...

Randy is put in the unusual position of being a guest on his own show at Bridging the Gap 2025, as Terrell Turner sits down with him just hours after a keynote that left much of the room in tears. On Episode 273 of The Unique CPA , our final entry in this special BTG series, Randy talks about his speech, which was years in the making and drew on pivotal moments from Randy's early career, including...

Terrell Turner sits down with Lisa Simpson of the AICPA, who leads the organization's Transforming Your Business Model initiative, live from Bridging the Gap 2025 on Episode 272 of The Unique CPA . Lisa makes a compelling case that the old model, with its long, billable hours where firms carry too many of the wrong clients, is not only unsustainable, but actively unnecessary. Firms that have right...

Recorded live at Bridging the Gap 2025 in Denver, Randy Crabtree sits down with founder of LiveCA, tech commentator, and full-time glamper Chad Davis for a wide-ranging conversation that captures exactly what makes BTG different from every other conference on the calendar. On Episode 271 of The Unique CPA , Chad talks about why he rerouted his entire week just to be there, and the two get into the...

The Unique CPA is also supported by Magnetic. Magnetic's AI-prepared 1040s are built for accuracy with every return checked before it comes back to your firm. Learn more at  MagneticTax.com . Recorded live at  Bridging the Gap 2025, Terrell sits down with Questian Telka, co-host of the She Counts Podcast and a late-diagnosed ADHDer, for a conversation that goes well beyond the typical conference i...

Continuing the conversation at Bridging the Gap 2025 in Denver, Randy Crabtree sits down with Krystal Joiner from the conference's marketing team on Episode 269 of The Unique CPA for an honest look at what goes into making BTG what it is. Krystal talks through the months of behind-the-scenes planning that attendees never see, and why the relaxed, connected energy on the conference floor doesn't ha...

Recorded live at Bridging the Gap 2025 in Denver, Terrell Turner sits down with wealth advisor and speaker Rory Henry on Episode 268 of The Unique CPA to talk about what he calls "return on relationship." "ROR" is the idea that when you genuinely invest in understanding the people you serve, the ROI takes care of itself. Rory makes a compelling case that the real work of financial professionals is...

Support for this episode comes from BILL. Simplify your workflows and accelerate your growth with BILL's Accountant Console. Take a demo today at BILL.com/uniquecpa for a $250 gift card – terms apply.  Repeat guest Roman Villard built Full Send, his Boulder-based accounting firm, on a deliberately contrarian premise: hire leadership first, reject the CAS label, and train your team to think like th...

Recorded live at Bridging the Gap 2025, Terrell Turner sits down with Chayton Farlee, a Gen Z accountant whose first-ever conference was Bridging the Gap itself, on Episode 266 of The Unique CPA. What started as a LinkedIn ad turned into a career-defining experience, and Chayton has been vocal about BTG ever since. He makes a pointed case to Terrell for why accounting firm owners should stop sleep...

Support for this episode comes from BILL. Simplify your workflows and accelerate your growth with BILL's Accountant Console. Take a demo today at BILL.com/uniquecpa for a $250 gift card – terms apply.  In 2008, John Sensiba became managing partner of what is now Sensiba, and promptly watched revenue fall from $18 million to $13 million. On Episode 265 of The Unique CPA, live from Bridging the Gap...

Accountants aren't supposed to embrace failure. It runs counter to everything the profession is built on. But K.C. Eames, who leads operations at Dark Horse, has spent time thinking carefully about why that instinct holds firms back, and what it actually takes to build a culture where people feel safe to experiment. Recorded live at Bridging the Gap 2025, her conversation with Terrell Turner on Ep...

Support for this episode comes from BILL. Simplify your workflows and accelerate your growth with BILL's Accountant Console. Take a demo today at BILL.com/uniquecpa  for a $250 gift card – terms apply. Recorded live at Bridging the Gap 2025 in Denver, Randy Crabtree sits down with Nancy McClelland—CPA, community builder, and self-described member of the BTG "hive mind"—to talk about what keeps dra...

Support for this episode comes from BILL. Simplify your workflows and accelerate your growth with BILL's Accountant Console. Take a demo today at BILL.com/uniquecpa  for a $250 gift card – terms apply.  Recorded on April 15th, a day Randy describes as one he's never been fond of, and now has even more reason to dread, is this conversation with Rozeta Atlas on Episode 262 of The Unique CPA . The Di...

Support for this episode comes from BILL. Get clear insight into payment status and cashflow with BILL's Accountant Console. BILL uses AI to simplify your tech stack so you can increase productivity and spend more time delivering truly personalized client service. Take a demo at BILL.com/uniquecpa  and you'll get a $250 gift card. Terms apply. Six and a half years in, Randy Crabtree and new co-hos...

Support for this episode comes from BILL. Simplify your workflows and accelerate your growth with BILL's accountant console. Take a demo today at BILL.com/uniquecpa  for a $250 gift card. Terms apply. Randy Crabtree sits down with CPA turned leadership coach Erin Daiber on Episode 260 of  The Unique CPA . The founder of Well Balanced Accountants, Erin digs into what it actually takes to build a fi...

Support for this episode comes from BILL. Simplify your workflows and accelerate your growth with BILL's accountant console. Take a demo today at BILL.com/uniquecpa  for a $250 gift card – terms apply.  In part two of their conversation on Episode 259 of The Unique CPA , Randy and Cosmin Nicolaescu, co-founder of Accrual, get into the harder questions: What happens to pricing when a hundred-hour r...

Support for this episode comes from BILL. Simplify your workflows and accelerate your growth with BILL's accountant console. Take a demo today at BILL.com/uniquecpa  for a $250 gift card – terms apply. Cosmin Nicolaescu spent years at Stripe and Brex building the financial infrastructure that millions of businesses depend on. Now he's turned that experience toward a different problem: Why are acco...

Big thanks go out to Magnetic for backing The Unique CPA . Most AI tools only handle basic forms, but Magnetic prepares the entire 1040 with industry-leading form coverage, so your team just reviews and signs.  MagneticTax.com . Chad Davis helped build LiveCA to 120 people and then made the deliberate decision to cut it nearly in half. On Episode 257 of The Unique CPA, he tells Randy that at that...

Speaker and leadership strategist Brian Hilliard joins Randy Crabtree on Episode 256 of The Unique CPA to make a case that burnout in the accounting profession isn't a character flaw, it's "good qualities gone out of bounds." The work ethic and integrity that make CPAs excellent at their jobs are the same traits that, left unchecked, drive them straight into the ground, and to illustrate, Brian dr...

Randy Crabtree sits down with Mark Gallegos, partner at Porte Brown and one of the more broadly active figures in the accounting profession, on Episode 255 of The Unique CPA. Together, they work through what HR-1 actually means for tax practitioners right now in practical terms. Mark has a knack for staying relentlessly neutral on legislation while still finding the angles that benefit clients, an...

Randy didn't expect to ever sit through an entire conference session, but Elliott Bastien Morin's "narrative archeology" workshop changed that pattern. What started as curiosity about excavating stories became a months-long collaboration that transformed Randy's keynote from five scattered narratives into a single arc that earned a standing ovation, and plenty of Kleenex. On Episode 254 of The Uni...

The Unique CPA is evolving. On Episode 253, Randy Crabtree and Terrell Turner sit down to announce a significant shift: Terrell is joining as co-host, and the podcast is becoming fully independent. But this isn't about changing the mission: mental health, peak firm performance, and elevating the profession remain central. It's about expanding how those conversations happen. Randy and Terrell brain...

Sharrin Fuller has built and sold two accounting firms, and the second time around, she knew exactly what mistakes to avoid, except for one she didn't see coming. On Episode 252 of The Unique CPA , she tells Randy that the business side of an exit is straightforward, but the emotional aftermath? That sent her into two levels of counseling and off her life insurance policy due to skyrocketing blood...