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49. Turning Creative Chaos into Financial Clarity with Samantha Eck of Firestorm Finance

• Whitney Aguon • Episode 49

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Today on Caffeinated Chaos, we're diving into the numbers (but in a fun way, promise!). I’m joined by the incredible Samantha Eck, the founder of Firestorm Finance, where she helps creatives make sense of their finances and transform financial chaos into clarity.

With six years of corporate accounting, two creative businesses under her belt, and the kind of QuickBooks wizardry most of us dream of, Samantha brings a rare blend of left-brain logic and right-brain creativity to bookkeeping. She's here to share how your numbers tell a story—and how learning to read it can unlock big, dreamy business moves.

We also talk about:

  • How Samantha came up with the name Firestorm Finance (spoiler: it’s deep AND badass)
  • Her journey from messy systems to streamlined success
  • What bookkeeping services creatives actually need
  • Why systems and SOPs are game changers (even for finance pros!)
  • A hilarious moment involving pregnancy, Call of Duty, and a trash can 🫣
  • Our mutual love of Xbox, Overcooked chaos, and cozy bookish corners
  • Her podcast Creative Minds, Smart Money and how she’s making financial education feel like chatting with a friend

Whether you're spreadsheet-averse or a numbers nerd, this episode will leave you feeling empowered to take control of your money story—without losing your creative soul.

Meet Our Guest: Samantha Eck
Founder of Firestorm Finance | Bookkeeper for Creatives | Host of Creative Minds, Smart Money 🎧 Listen to her podcast everywhere you stream. CLICK HERE to grab your Freebie

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Welcome to Caffeinated Chaos, where business deals happen between diaper changes and friendships are fueled by caffeine. I'm Whitney GaN, your host, and I'm here to talk all things business parenthood, and of course keeping up with the BFFs, whether you're juggling the boardroom, the playroom, or just here for some coffee fuel chaos. We've got you covered. Get ready for real talk, laughs and a whole lot of heart as we dive into the beautiful mess that is entrepreneurship, parenthood, and everything in between. So let's embrace the chaos together. Ated, of course. On today's podcast, we have Samantha Eck, who is a powerhouse behind Firestorm Finance, where she transforms messy financials into crystal clear roadmaps for success. With six years of corporate accounting, under her belt of formal education in numbers and the street cred of running two creative businesses, she's uniquely equipped to help fellow creatives decode the story. Their numbers are trying to tell. And you know when Samantha's not wrangling QuickBooks, we can find her dominating on Xbox or curl up with a page turner. Two things I also very much enjoy. Her husband is always by her side, and her pup Vivy keeps watch. She knows that clarity in the books leads to big, dreamy business moves. She also has a podcast too, creative Minds, smart Money where she makes money talk. Feel like catching up with a friend. This episode is gonna be great, y'all. So I can't wait any longer. Let's sip on some coffee and let's welcome Samantha to the podcast. Samantha, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for joining us on Caffeinated Chaos. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. Yeah. Oh gosh. Okay, so listeners, Samantha was actually recommended to me by another person who had been on the podcast, and they're like, well, if you like this conversation, you need to talk to Samantha. And I was like, deal. And so I think it was either Threads or Instagram where I was like, Hey, this person sent me over to talk to you. Do you wanna be on my podcast? Yes. Which I think, which I love. Yeah. I think it was Cassidy, if I'm not wrong. Yeah, yeah. It's Cassidy, yeah. Who was the very first guest on the podcast. There was a list of people that like I had been in contact with and I was like, I wanna ask them. And I was like, okay, I wanna ask Cassidy. But I was like, Ooh. But you know, that imposter syndrome is like, I don't know if I should ask. Like I, let me get someone under the belt. And I was telling Cassidy about the podcast and. She was like, well, if you need a guest, I volunteer. And I go, I was gonna ask you, but I like felt like totally imposter syndrome, that like I should have waited and like got more experience. And so it was actually nice because we had that preexisting like conversations and friendship that it made having the first guest ever be really like. Easygoing. Yeah. And so whenever like Cass is like, you need to talk to someone, and I'm like, deal. Yeah, definitely. Because if it's coming from Cass, you know, then I'm like, Ooh, this person's gonna be top notch. Yeah. I love that. She's such a great person. We had like almost an hour and a half long conversation on my podcast and I was like, oh my gosh. I'm like, we just kept talking. We're like, we got this. It just feels so conversational, so it's great. Yeah. Oh gosh. I love that. About cast and our Yeah, our first episode too. It, it went like everywhere and we're like, we talked about that. We talked about this chaotic moment after chaotic moment, and I was like, this is cool. This is kind of how I want all my episodes to flow. Like I want it to be free flowing, like. Of course, you know, my listeners know this. We have an application and then so we have a center, like a base to get back to. Yeah. But if we turn left or turn right, at a certain point I'll bring us back to center. You never know what you're gonna talk about. And sometimes those are like the best golden nuggets in a conversation. Samantha, will you tell our listeners who you are and what you're about? Yeah, absolutely. So my name is Samantha Eck and I run a small bookkeeping firm for creatives called Firestorm Finance. And I'm all about helping creatives read the story that their numbers are trying to tell them so they can make bolder, profitable moves. Nice. So smooth. I'm curious, how'd you come up with Firestone Finance as your name? Because like most people will like, name it after themselves. Yes. So Firestone Finance is kind of two pronged, so mm-hmm. Me and Cassidy also share like a faith, so my faith is like rooted in that. And fire is supposed to be like a big. Picture like in the Bible and things like that. So that was part of it. But another part of it is that, I've always thought of fire, it sounds bad when you say this, but fire is like some sort of like transformation. Mm-hmm. Like when you walk through fire, you go through this transformation. Yeah. So my thoughts behind that were like, okay, firestorm finance, you're walking through this like really crazy storm of fire and when we get in there and we work together and you walk out of it, you just get transformed. Nice. I love that. Okay. That I was like, oh, I'm gonna definitely ask that question. I wanna know, because, I'm like, Ooh, that sounds so intense. But like, so like, like you said, it's just like firestorm is like an intense fire. And then coming out of it, it just reminds me of the Phoenix, you know? Yes. So I love that. Awesome. Okay, so we are gonna get into it. Okay. First off, um. Listeners, you won't see this on the podcast, but if you're watching this eventually on YouTube, Samantha has like bookshelves behind her and so I was like commenting on the books and like the figurines, but also your bio, at least the one that you sent me, not the one on your page, but so you dominate on Xbox, like you're a gamer too? Yes, yes. Big gamer. Me and my husband, his setup is like right next to mine over there. So Nice. My husband too, he has an Xbox too, and like he, he goes Ham. I used to play Call of Duty with them until I got pregnant and then I realized it never made me sick to play Call of Duty until I was pregnant. I was playing Call of Duty and I was not playing with my husband and our friends. It was just like I was doing it, with online friends, and all of a sudden. I started getting completely motion sickness, right? And I had never ever gotten that before. And I was like, oh my God. So I reach up and I thought, I click the mic off on my headset and I just like vomit into the little trash can at my desk and. And then all of a sudden all the three other guys I was playing with was like, oh my God, Asana, which is my gamer tag. And they're like, Asana, are you okay? Like, are you okay? And I'm like, oh my God, I am so sorry guys. I. They're like, did you just throw up? And I was like, I did, I'm sorry. So I'm pregnant. And then so then it turned into like, what? It was funny'cause, they're just online gamer friends that you know, yes. That we have. And I'm just like, one, I'm like, oh my God, I'm mortified. I just like. Puked and my husband came home and I was just sitting on the couch and I was just watching TV and he goes, oh, I thought you'd be gaming. And I go, this is what happened today. And I feel so bad. I just literally threw up in like three guys' ears like. Oh my gosh. But what a story. I know. And, they were really chill with it. Like they, you know, they were like, oh my God, are you okay? Like, do we need to call somebody for you? And I was just like, no, no, no, I'm pregnant. I have motion sickness. Apparently now all of a sudden, and they're just like. Do you want us to quit this game? And I was like, no, no, no, no. Let's finish. Let's finish. I'm gonna go get to my sniper perch.'cause that was like my job. I was like the sniper. When we lived in Canada, me and my husband actually had a Twitch stream. Mm-hmm. And we streamed overcooked. And I still, every time someone tells me about the game, all I think about is this, clip that we had where we were looking, we were working on the conveyor belts together, and I accidentally put the item I needed back on the conveyor belt. And so I'm sitting there screaming at him. I'm like, oh, my salmon, my salmon. And then I put the cucumber back on there and I'm. Laughing and I was like, oh my God, it's such a good game to play with people. Like Oh my goodness. Yeah. Yeah. And, me and my husband are alpha testers for a video game and so we obviously met other people'cause an MMO. And so while we're waiting for the test periods, we decided like, Hey, we're just gonna form a group and be gamers again together. And so now. When we're not testing the new game, we're playing overcooked with each other. And so we're just like, this is a wildly different game from what we're testing, and we're just like, oh my God. Just like you, like, oh my God. No, no, no. I didn't mean to put the pot there. Oh no. Yeah. Where's the fire Extinguisher? Extinguisher. Yeah. It's such a good game. Like it's really good for communication though too, if you can cook in the overcooked kitchen together, you and your husband or your partner can definitely cook in a real kitchen together. It might not taste as good, but you guys will be able to move around in sync of like, okay, I need this chopped. Okay, stir the soup. Okay. Three onions, guys. Yes. Yes. Oh my goodness. Okay, so cool. Nice little tangent about the Xbox, which I love, like, I feel like I haven't had a gamer like talk on this podcast yet, so that's really nice. I've had book talks, already'cause I, I love books, okay, so I wanna get more into what you do. So one. Do we have a chaotic moment about your business or anything?'Cause we have to throw a little chaos in there first. I,'cause I also just felt like I told you a chaotic moment when I like threw up too. Yeah, before I started really working on the systems of my business, um, it was really chaotic in my business period because it was a lot of trying to remember stuff and I didn't have any sort of. Systems or processes in place, so, like I have a really good system now. I have the project management tools that I have now, but I think in the days before threads even, because, you know, threads is such a great resource to like ask people, Hey, how does this work? How does this do? But a lot of the times I would end up forgetting certain things for clients because, they wouldn't be written down anywhere. It's just. I was like, okay, it's month end. Let's do all their work that I need to do. I reconciled everything. And then they would me, they would message me after I gave them the report and be like, Hey, did you happen to do this thing? And I'm like, oh my gosh, I forgot. It wasn't until I found like the so software that I have now that now everything is more streamlined and interesting. Like, I don't know if I have anything like super chaotic, but. It was definitely a chaotic moment for me when I was like, oh my gosh. Like they're gonna think I'm stupid or something because I don't have everything written down. Yeah. I mean, it happens. I am a big systems person, but to my husband, I was like, babe, can you, uh, can you do this for me? Or can you write up this for me? And he is like, how do you do that? I was like, oh God, Whitney, you really need to write SOPs like you. You like need instructions. Even for my husband who is my business partner, right? There were things that I do for the business and things he does for the business, and I'm just like, I really need to write down systems, so I totally understand you and I totally get where you're coming from. The reason why I asked too is because I feel like. I am not great at math, reading and like writing comprehension. That's where I excel at. Psychology, that's where I excel at math, not so much. For someone, you know where you do finance and you teach this. I am kudos to you because I would. When someone comes to you, what services do you provide? Yeah. So I mean, it really depends on what they're looking for. So we have like baseline bookkeeping where it's not just about compliance. I always add like a little bit of a financial analysis in there and everything like that. Especially for people who are just starting out in their business. Um, and then we have. A little bit of a higher level where we're doing like cashflow forecasting and we're making sure that they we're tracking their receipts, everything like that. And then if someone is like, yeah, I need to go like full on, we're doing CFO level services, where we've got projections, budgeting, things like that. So really is customizable depending on what they want, but that they'd fit into one of those kind of three packages. Nice. And then you had already mentioned your podcast, so I wanna make sure that we get to that too, what's your podcast? How can people find you? And I will also listeners link everything in the show notes as well. Yeah, absolutely. So my podcast is Creative Minds Smart Money, and it's everywhere you can find podcasts, Spotify. Oh my gosh, apple Music. I was like, what is it called? Apple Music. But I also post about it every week on my Instagram on my newsletter. So if you're interested in joining those, of course, there's my website, firestone finance.com, and I'm most active on threads at Firestorm Finance and then on LinkedIn as well. If someone's like me where I'm like, Ooh, finances. Luckily I have my husband and he'll take care of all that backend system. I love to just be the creative, I like to work with the people. And he will literally, he's just like, I'll watch the kids, I'll make the deliveries and I'll do the books. And I was like, love you, you know? I feel like one person in the relationship and it, whether it's a business partnership or a romantic relationship, needs to be book savvy. Yes. Yes. So if someone's out there who is maybe a solopreneur, or doesn't have that other partner like I do, and they're like, Samantha, I'm bad at math too. What do you like, suggest, would be like first good actionable steps to get a handle on their finances if that's something they're struggling with. Yeah, I mean this is a two-parter for me. So first of all, I definitely think you need to be tracking it and you don't have to use a fancy software to do so. A lot of people will say, you need QuickBooks from the start, or you need some sort of accounting software. You don't. You just need a spreadsheet where you track your income and your expenses. And just getting that on there is so helpful. Even if you are not being super fancy, even if you're not understanding your numbers on a deeper level, at least you're tracking your income and expenses. That's the first part. Then. You are, even if you are using an accounting software, you wanna sit down with your numbers on a monthly basis. And I always call it like to call them money dates. So, you know, put on some music dance, grab some coffee, grab some wine, whatever it is that you wanna do, and make it fun because everyone talks about how a boring accounting is and how boring your books doing your books are, but make it fun like. Put on something interesting and look at your numbers, uh, and do that at least once a month.'cause I think that's, that's the most helpful. So track them and then sit down with them at least once a month and you're like, on a roll. Yeah. I'm very education based, so a lot of people are like, oh, don't, don't share too much. People won't work with you. Don't. I'm like, I, you know what? If someone wants to work with me, I think they'll work with me because they appreciate all of the value that I'm sharing, not because I'm holding back all the value that I'm sharing. So I'm all about sharing as much value as I can. Yeah. And your content really makes it look like finance is very approachable for, you know, and this is coming from me where I'm just like, ooh. Like I know if I'm in the green or in the black, I know like my profit margins and all that. Because when I do, like, when I base my products or when I quote somebody, yeah, you wanna know your numbers, even if you are just, even if you're the creative part of the partnership. But I find, I'm always like enjoying your content when I'm like scrolling and I see it come up, I'm just like, Ooh, like I don't even need to like really know this right now. But I'm like, this is fun. And I feel like that's so important too, is that. Something that some people, you know, get that like dread or, get that like anxiety when they think of money. That the way that you're approaching it and then the fact that you also have a podcast about it is like. You're making money talk approachable. And that I think is so important.'cause many people still to this day, you know, will keep it inside. I know people who used to hide it from their partners, and I'm like, no, you guys have to have open conversations. They're like, but my money's my money and his money's his money. I'm like, but you are together. And especially if you're married. Yes. You know? Um. And so me and my husband, we used to do this thing too. And I'm just like, oh, okay. So like it was payday and he was like, yeah. And he would just like turn his phone around. He goes, that. And I would go, cool. Big number. And it was like one of those things too where he's like, you don't have to tell me. And I'm like, I don't. I know I don't have to tell you, but I'm going to tell you'cause I want to tell you.'cause I wanna be transparent and in your bio you wrote that your podcast is making money talk, feel like you're catching up with a friend. And so I love that and I love the way that you approach it. Yeah. And I think that's so important because you have all these like people who are super serious about it, but then that also brings that kind of like air of like judgment and shame around it. Mm-hmm. And I'm like, there is so much shame around money, especially because a lot of people don't have the best habits when it comes to money. Right. But I wanna make it clear that there is no judgment, like there's no shame. Whatever situation you're in, come at it from that situation and just space it head on. Like make it fun, make it interesting. Don't think of your numbers as this bane of your existence, like you are the hero of your story. Go and fight the dragon and the dragons, your numbers. I love that. I just throw a little fantasy gameplay in there, you know? Yes. Okay. I love that. Okay. But I do have to ask and we're going completely take a left turn. Yeah. What's your favorite book right now? Oh, that's such a's, such a tough question.'cause I'm a ser J ma, like original SJ Mask girl. Like I read Ser J Mask back in 2015. So when it started getting super popular again, I was like. What is happening? I'm like, why is everybody suddenly finding her again? But so Throne of Glass is my all time favorite series. I have a tattoo from it on my arm here. Oh, that's cool. I like the star too. Yeah, thank you. That's from Kingdom Hearts. I love Kingdom Hearts. Yes. But my favorite book series, like right now that I'm really into is The Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson. Because I'm a big, high fantasy girl, like I love High Fantasy, so I'm digging that serious. They're thick books. They're beasts, but they're so good. Yeah. The reason why I ask is one, because I love reading. And again, my like pile by my bedside is like 12 books deep because my husband will literally go onto my Barns and Noble app and be like, look at my wishlist, and then go get that book. And I'm like, I haven't even finished the last one. Yes. And I was like, I haven't even looked at the last one. You got me, but. He is an amazing husband who just is like, you didn't sleep last night. Here's a book. And I'm like, well, now I'm not gonna sleep tonight. You know? Yes. I just finished Quicksilver, which I'm, I loved Quicksilver, so, so good. And it's, and it's really good on audiobook, like, yes. Really good. So that one I just finished audiobook and now I'm on to, I don't know if you've ever heard, the. Gilded Prisoner series. It's yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's on my show. Glint. Yeah. Yes. Just finished Guild and now I'm on Glint. So I'm on the second book, that's on audio, but I'm reading the dark Olympus books, which are okay. Like it starts with neon gods, which is the Haiti Persephone. Yes. Modern take. And so it's cool because that one was my husband's like first set that he got me into.'cause he's like, he loves Greek myths and all that. Yeah. So he's like, this is a book about Greek myths. And I go. Okay. And he goes, but it's spicy so that you'll like it too. And I was like, love you. And so now I have, I'm on book three, but he bought me up to book five already. There's so many good ones. So there are so many good ones. Do you people call them book trophies? Do you have book trophies where you, like, you listen to the audio book? And then you go, yeah. Yes. Because I feel like as a service provider, like I'm always listening to books instead of reading them.'cause I'm like, I don't have time to sit and like open a book anymore. So I'm like, mm-hmm. If I do it while I'm working, at least I'm still consuming them. Oh, 100%. Like the other day it was like, you've reached two hours of listening to your audiobook and I was like, oh. I guess I have been doing time cards for the last two hours.'cause I I work as assistant for my day job and I was like, oh, okay, well that's a good reminder that I need to get up and stretch and go look out the window for a second and look at the sun. Yeah, the time cards are probably the closest you'll ever get to me doing any type of finances is like time cards and reimbursements.'cause I can read a receipt and I can write down how much you spent. Okay. Woo. We've talked about so much. I love this. Do you have any other tips Yeah. For me, I like to always mention that numbers are more than just what they are on the page. So a lot of people only look page deep. They'll like look at their profit loss and be like, oh yeah, like I made money. That's not, it is the point of your bookkeeping, obviously. But if you wanna really grow and you wanna understand your numbers and you wanna like purposefully and intentionally. Get better at what you're looking at. You need to look at them with like a criticizing eye, so, the way I always like to say it is, if you don't have me as your bookkeeper, take your profit loss and divide your expenses by your revenue, okay? Because if you're just looking at the number, you're just looking at the number. But if you look at a percentage, like let's say for example, you spent$300 on coffee last month, and that's 40% of your revenue. That's gonna hit you a lot harder than seeing maybe$200 because maybe you made 400. I don't know. Like, okay, so I'll be honest with you, I'm bad at math, like I'm bad at math. You're like, oh, you're so good at, like, I'm bad at math. I can do numbers all day long. I can do financial analysis, but math is not my strong suit because for me, it's the financial analysis part. That's my strong suit, but, looking at that percentage and seeing that percentage is gonna hit you a lot harder because now it's, you're gonna look at that percentage, that coffee percentage and. Did I really wanna spend 40% of my revenue on coffee? And if you do and you're like, that's awesome, I spent 40% of my revenue on coffee. Great. Like, great, that's awesome. Go for it. But if you're looking at that and you're like, what the heck? I spent 40% of my revenue on coffee, then maybe that's where you need to take a step back and be like, okay, I know I'm overspending on coffee. How do I curb that? And like, how do I fix that? Because that's how you. Continuously improve your numbers and how you start to become proactive in them because a lot of people are reactive. They wait till tax season to do their books. They only look at their financials, but don't actually look at their financials. So if you start to question that, you're gonna start to become a lot more proactive and you're gonna see a lot of things change in the way that you think about your money and how you handle your business. Yeah. And that's what you were talking about is having those monthly money dates. Yeah. Awesome. So we have your lead magnet in the show notes. So it's your, strategic success mini workshop. Do you wanna tell people about that? Yes. Yeah. So that's a really good sneak peek into kind of like what I do with my clients. Most of them I offer strategy sessions and it's like a sneak peek on how I start to get you to think outside of the page because exactly what I said. I don't want you to think of just numbers on a page. I want you to think outside of that because your business is connected to your personal life. Your business is connected to your goals, your business is connected to so much that I want you to think of more than just. What you're seeing at the end of every month on a profit and loss statement. Awesome. So listeners, that's done in the show notes. So just, look for strategic Success mini workshop and click that link. And then you'll be brought to, Samantha's landing page where you can sign on up. That's also a very good first step for people too, is a good actionable step is to get on that and check it out. Yes, absolutely. Awesome. Okay. Other than that, how can people get in contact with you? Like where, I know that you said you're like on threads and you're on Instagram and all that. Yeah. So I have a website, firestorm finance.com. It is under construction. There's some magic happening there, so, Ooh, stay tuned. I'm excited for that. But also. If you wanna, I'm not afraid to share my email. It's samantha@firestormfinance.com if you have any questions. I never charge for questions. I know a lot of people will be like, oh, hey, you gotta go through a consultation. You've gotta meet with me to pick my brain. I don't do that. So if you're like, am I doing this right? Like, what software is best? Or any questions you have, just toss'em away. I'll be happy to answer them even if I don't get back to you right away. I love that. Yeah, GaN Studio is our business. We offer like 30 minute, like free consults where it's just like, if you have a question, one, I answer questions anyway on email or on Instagram, but like somebody's like, I don't know if I'm explaining this right. Like, can we talk? And so I was just like. Yeah, like here's a link to a 30 minute zoom. Just hop on and somebody will be just be like, Whitney, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, A, B, C, D. There you go. And then they're like, oh, awesome. Wait, can you do that for me? And I go, I can do that for you. Do you wanna have that conversation? And then they're like, yes. And I was like, okay, well here you go. Like, I never intended to be sales salesy. Like it's just, it is just like a quick little 30 minute zoom windows that I have open in my day where it's kind, it's kinda like having open office hours where I'm like, I'm available here. Hop on if you want,'cause Zoom will tell me if someone's trying to get into the zoom room and I was like, Hey, what's up? And they're just like, blah, blah, blah. And hey, if they ask me if I can do it, of course I'm gonna be like, yeah, I can do it. You know? Yes. People want value and if they like what you're giving them and they trust you, then they're more likely to also work with you too. And so I think that's so important which is why I love making sure that, if someone's like, Hey, I have this question like you, like you said, like you don't charge for question. That if I know the answer, I'm gonna just tell you like it's, there's no gatekeeping here. And if a lot of people ask me the same question, well, guess what's going on in the podcast? You know? Yes, exactly. Because I'm, yeah. I'm like, oh, okay. Well, this question's been asked me like 10 times. I'm, I think it's time to start writing a podcast episode. Yes. Any final thoughts before we wrap this up? No, no, I think that's everything actually I wanted to mention,'cause I know you were talking about like audio books and how you like dual audio narration, like total I do. But have you ever read graphic audio books or like listen to graphic audio books? No. Okay. I want you to like, when we're off here, like look up graphic audio books because I swear they'll like change your world. Okay. Okay. I will the, I will tell you the motto for them is literally like a movie in your mind. Wait, are those like the drama citation one? Like where it's like multiple, it's kind of, yeah. So it's like a full cast. Like it's a full cast. There's like the audio books for the storm archives. There's like action scenes. You can hear the swords. There's music, there's emotion. Like when someone dies, I'm like literally in tears'cause I'm like. This is so good. Like why is this so good? So, oh my god, that sounds so amazing. But I'm like, oh my God, is that gonna ruin it, ruin all the other audio books for me? I will be honest, it has ruined some for me.'cause I'm like, I want a full cast. Like, where's the full cast? I know. Which is, yeah, that's exactly what I was saying was like, I like when. People who are narrators can do different voices. Yes. Because if you, if they don't have the budget for a full cast, it's like having a full cast. Yeah. And they can pull it off. Another podcaster I follow, this is now a book podcast, another podcaster, who is friends with my sister and friends with the family. Um, she informed me, she has a, called the Fan Girls Podcast. So they do, like, they do sometimes they do books, TV shows, movies, and so. I started posting what book I'm reading on Caffe Chaos, and she reaches out and she's like, did you know that Netflix just paid to have the rights for Quicksilver? And I was like, no. And on, she's like, yeah. And then she's like, I was just looking at it and she sent me the article and, and I was just like, oh, but if they don't get. If they don't get, oh, fish, I was fish odor. Not fish odor. That's from Bob's burgers. King Fisher's, if they don't get King Fisher's character. Right. Like I don't want them to ruin it you know what I mean? Yeah. Because I mean, he's literally on the cover of the book. Yep. Yep. We'll have to see and now especially'cause I listened to the audio book. I have a voice, I have Anthony Palm's voice as Kingfisher, so we'll see. Yeah. Yes. I'm just gonna clip this out and we're just gonna, we're just gonna be a book podcast from now on. Hey, but that's what you love and it works. Yes. It helps soothe the chaos, you know? Yes. So, awesome. Well, thank you for joining us today, Samantha. I had like a really fun conversation. I'm so glad we hit on so many things, definitely financially, but also like gaming and books. And listeners, remember all the links are down below. Awesome. Thank you so much for having me. All right everyone, I will see you in the next podcast episode. That's a wrap on another episode of Caffeinated Chaos. I hope you're leaving with a little more clarity, a lot more inspiration, and maybe even an extra shot of motivation. If you love today's episode, don't forget to follow us. Leave a review and share it with a friend who could use just a little chaos and caffeine in their life. Until next time, keep embracing the mess. Chase your dreams and make magic happen. One caffeinated, chaotic moment at a time. I will see you all soon. Bye now.

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