Hosted by Wendy Brookhouse · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 165 episodes
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The Number is a business podcast about the numbers that actually run your business.Each episode focuses on one number. Revenue, profit, cash flow, capacity, time, valuation, customer cost, risk, or exit readiness.Hosted by Wendy Brookhouse, and often joined by Kelsey MacAulay, the show breaks down what that number means, why it matters, and how it should influence the decisions you make as an owner.Some episodes feature guests. Some are honest conversations. Some are solo deep dives.If you own a business and want better clarity, better decisions, and better outcomes, it starts with knowing your numbers.
Wendy Brookhouse hosts The Number, a business show with 165 episodes published.
The Canada Pension Plan comes off almost every paycheque, but most business owners never stop to ask how it works or what it means for them. In this episode, Wendy Brookhouse and Kelsey MacAulay use the average CPP payme
Most business owners have run a few prompts through ChatGPT and assumed that counts as using AI. Susan Diaz, CEO and founder of Northlight AI and author of Swan Dive Backwards , joins Wendy and Kelsey to make the case fo
The number is 44,000: businesses that closed in a single year, most of them not sold, just shuttered. Manja Horner, leadership strategist and founder of Boost Learning Design, joins Wendy and Kelsey to unpack why so many
Money is still the number one source of stress for Canadians, and this episode gets into what the data actually shows. Wendy and Kelsey walk through the 2026 FP Canada Financial Stress Index — nine years of tracking fina
The Number | Episode 004 — Long-Game Thinking Bryan Clayton built a landscaping company from a single push mower to 150 employees and eight figures in annual revenue — then sold it. Then he started over. In this episode,
The Number | Episode 3 — The One Number Most people manage money reactively — checking their bank account after the fact and hoping it adds up. In this episode, Wendy and Kelsey dig into The One Number: Black Star Wealth
Got it — noted and saved. Kelsey MacAulay, and he. I'll make sure both the skill files and all future content reflect that correctly. Here are the corrected show notes: From Interested to Committed: What 500 Sessions Tea
Twenty years. That’s the number that launches The Number. The milestone number 20 marks Wendy’s twentieth year in the financial industry. What began as business consulting evolved into an independent financial planning p
This episode takes a turn. Wendy’s not in the host chair. I slide in to interview her and Kelsey as we wrap up 2025 and look straight into 2026. We cover what surprised them about business owners this year, where owners
AI is showing up everywhere in business. And a lot of owners are turning it on without realizing what they just gave access to. In this episode, Wendy sits down with Darryl Cresswell, CEO and founder of myDWARE, to talk
I invited Graham Barlow onto The Real Bottom Line because his founder journey is one of the wildest I’ve ever heard. He started out as a teenager selling virtual game items on eBay, scaled that “hobby” into almost six fi
FinTech leader Carrie Forbes, CEO of Rockstar Advisory, joins Wendy to unpack the shift from startup energy to running energy, the corporate habits worth keeping, and how to make AI projects succeed with tiny, low risk w
Wendy talks with Dr. Susan Reid, revisioning specialist, author, and keynote speaker, about designing life after work. They explore identity beyond titles, why meaning matters in retirement, and how a simple “being visio
Episode: The Real Bottom Line with Wendy Brookhouse Guest: Jennifer Williams, Founder of Firefly Insights In this episode, I sit down with Jennifer Williams, founder and partial owner of Firefly Insights, to unpack one o
Guest: Ray Samuels, Growth Advisor and Founder, Cer Capital Episode in a sentence: Ray shares how “done beats perfect,” why relationships are the real currency, and how a simple idea plus disciplined iteration can create
In this episode, I'm joined by the incredibly insightful Lissa Daub, founder of Strong Impact Academy. We met online through a couple of mutual groups, and it was a meeting that just felt like kismet. Lissa hails from Ed
150 episodes. Honestly, when I started this podcast, I wasn’t thinking about milestones. I just wanted to have conversations with entrepreneurs and share the lessons hidden inside their journeys. And yet here we are....1
Some entrepreneurs build one business and call it a day. Dalene Allen has built — and sold — more than one… and kept right on making powerful connections. In this episode of The Real Bottom Line, I sit down with Dalene t
In a world obsessed with algorithms, trends, and going viral, what if the true key to social media success was simpler and more human? This week's guest, Ingrid Deon, founder of the organic social media agency Word-Craft
In this episode, I chat with Gord Stevens, former owner of Uncommon Grounds, Rum Runners, Sugar, and more. Now the COO at Halifax Partnership, Gord shares what it was like to build multiple businesses with heart — and ho
Julie Ellis
author of Big Gorgeous Goals and podcast host of Figure 8 · The Chef’s Table
1 appearance on this show
Angela Mulrooney
branding expert, ex-dentist, creator of a personal branding AI app
1 appearance on this show
Brad Walsh
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1 appearance on this show
Tracey Bissett
CEO Bissett Financial Fitness
2 appearances on this show
Wendy Brookhouse
Founder & Chief Strategist · Black Star Wealth
2 appearances on this show
Terry Tucker
cancer survivor, former police officer, author of 'Sustainable Excellence: Ten Principles to Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life' · Motivational Check
1 appearance on this show
Corey Poirier
author, speaker, entrepreneur · bLU Talks
1 appearance on this show
Jesse Adams
The Ivy Exile
1 appearance on this show
Alison Taylor
NYU Stern professor, sustainability advisor to KKR and Unilever, author of Higher Ground · New York University Stern School of Business
1 appearance on this show
Justin Lee
former Army Special Forces Green Beret Veteran · University of Michigan
1 appearance on this show
Anthea Mumby
2 appearances on this show
Laura Simpson
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