Down to 25 Hours
CPA Mastermind

A small-group coaching program for CPAs ready to go down to a 25-hour week without dropping revenue.

Next cohort runs Jan 7 - Apr 22, 2025

Dial in processes • Optimize systems • Enjoy work again

You’ve Made So Much Progress

1. You’re operating inside capacity

2. You know who you want to work with (and don’t)

3. You packages and prices feel solid

4. Your website lines up with the kinds of clients you want to attract

5. Work feels steady and calmer

You’re Not There Yet

• Your onboarding, monthly, and tax systems could use some love

• You’re holding onto work you could delegate

• You still chase the occasional client for documents, which is frustrating, annoying, stressful, and disrespectful

• You’re the only one with the technical expertise, so the hard stuff still lands on your desk

• A few residual whales keep sucking you back into direct client work; it’s a lotta revenue that’s scary to let go of… but you know:

Now You Want To Go To The Next Level, Where…

1. Your systems are smooth, dialed in, and you can rely on them

2. Your workload is predictable and incredibly manageable

3. You’ve simplified so there’s so much less tedium and minutiae

4. You create value for clients easily; they’re delighted to work with you

5. You feel completely free from the burden of work: you set your own calendar, take plenty of time away from the office, and don’t feel guilty when you’re done at 3pm

You Know You Can’t Get There Alone

If you could have done it alone, you would have by now. You know you need guidance, help, and accountability. Otherwise you risk get sucked back into doing it the old way.

What Got You Down to 40 Hours Won’t Get You to Down to 25 Hours

You fixed the main problems that were leading to overwork, and gotten out of the chaos and intensity. But going down to 25 hours requires a new set of skills.

How To Get Down To 25 Hours

It’s a little different for each CPA, but the bones of the process include:

1. One more pass through your client roster for those who need a new home

2. Letting go projects you’ve been holding on to that no longer fit where you’re going

3. Identifying work on your plate that can be systematized, then delegated

4. Freeing up your staff to receive work: comb through their processes to find missing steps and inefficiencies

5. Getting your staff doing higher-quality work so you don’t have to fix their stuff all the time or get interrupted to field their questions

6. Automating steps that are currently done manually

7. Planning your time in advance, so you use your time more effectively

8. Getting ruthless about simplifying and saying no, so you have time to say Yes to what matters most

9. Getting in your bones the concept that work is in your way of making money

10. Seeking ways to create value for clients that don’t require effort or time

What It Is And How It Works

The format of Down to 25 Hours is similar to Down to 40 Hours:

1. Weekly Office Hours on Zoom

2. Tuesdays at 1pm MT

3. Which are recorded and the audio is uploaded to the Private Podcast

4. 24/7 Slack for anytime community support

5. Unlimited 20-minute private mindset coaching sessions so you can think more clearly

6. Down to 25 Hours Content Library with more advanced lessons

7. Max size = 8 so you’re not lost in a crowd but have enough people to bounce ideas off of

100% Satisfaction Guarantee

Make the investment risk-free. If you’re not happy inside Down to 25 Hours, make me aware, and we’ll find a way to make it right. No questions, no hassles.
Guaranteed.

Just imagine a 25-hour workweek.

It might be hard to imagine only working 25 hours a week, and still making just as much money as you did when you worked 60 or 40 hours a week. But that’s what we do in Down to 25 Hours.

We know it’s not rocket science, and that there’s no single magic bullet. Getting Down to 25 Hours happens when you commit to solving one single problem at a time, and permanently solving problems week after week. It’s a matter of focus, commitment, going step-by-step, and being willing to stay with a problem until you’ve worked through it.

We keep you moving. One of the reasons so many accountants get stuck on a growth plateau is that the hard things are sometimes just. too. hard. to do, and they allow fires pull them away. So the hard things, that are often the most important things, get left unaddressed. And when this happens for too many years, the accountant becomes surrounded by multiple hard things whose size and appearance has become enlarged over time. Change has become too daunting.

We end the overwhelm. We take one problem at a time, and break it down until the steps are short and manageable.

But Don’t Take My Word For It…

Here’s what other folks have said:

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FUTURE DATES QUESTIONS

I want to plan ahead. When can I get into Down to 25 Hours?

Cohorts launch in January, April, and August.

What-If Questions

Can I go directly to Down to 25 Hours without doing Down to 40 Hours first?

Most people benefit from working with the concepts in Down to 40 Hours first: disengaging, pricing, packaging, niching, and marketing. If you have those dialed, it may make sense to skip Down to 40 Hours, but email me first at gc@geraldinecarter.com and give me a sense of your situation.