Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets Podcast
1) How AI Will Transform Accountants: Future-Proofing Your Career | FloQast CAO Dan Callaghan
In this episode of Blood, Sweat, and Balance Sheets, FloQast CEO Mike Whitmire sits down with Dan Callaghan, FloQast's Chief Accounting Officer, to discuss his 30+ year career journey and share his bo...Show More
2) Former Big 4 Accountant to Fintech CEO: Brett Turner's Journey to Trovata
Brett Turner has raised nearly $200M and generated over $700M in shareholder value across 4 tech companies. But his journey from Big 4 CPA to serial fintech founder wasn't smooth—and every failure tau...Show More
Former Big 4 Accountant to Fintech CEO: Brett Turner's Journey to Trovata
1:07:02 | Dec 16th, 2025
3) The AI Imperative: How CFOs Are Embracing a Smarter Future
Five years ago, a CFO's main focus was cutting costs and boosting efficiency, but that conversation has dramatically shifted, with artificial intelligence (AI) now topping the priority list. In this e...Show More
4) Accounting Year in Review: What's Changed? (Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets, Best Of)
Welcome to a very special "Best Of" episode of Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets! Join host Mike Whitmire and longtime producer John Siegel as they revisit the most impactful and entertaining moments fr...Show More
5) Reimagining Accounting with Ramp’s Edwine Alphonse: Career, AI, and Transformation
On this episode of Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets, FloQast co-founder and CEO, Mike Whitmire, CPA (inactive), sits down with Edwine Alphonse, Senior Controller at Ramp, to discuss how she’s shaping the...Show More
Reimagining Accounting with Ramp’s Edwine Alphonse: Career, AI, and Transformation
49:11 | May 12th, 2025
6) Ethical AI in Action: Compliance, Innovation, and Accounting's Next Frontier
On this episode of Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets, host Mike Whitmire sits down with Vicky LeVay, Sr. Director of Compliance, Risk, and Information Security at FloQast, and Jaysen Dyal, Product Marketi...Show More
Ethical AI in Action: Compliance, Innovation, and Accounting's Next Frontier
46:15 | Mar 17th, 2025
7) How Two Ex-Accountants Help Drive Innovation at FloQast
On this episode of Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets, Mike Whitmire is joined by Shivang Patel and Megan Gallagher, two former accountants whose expertise in audit and accounting paved the way for their s...Show More
8) From Talent Gaps to Tech Gains: What 2025 Holds for Accounting
2025 is upon us, but what does that mean for the accounting profession? From dwindling headcounts to heightened expectations, an expected bullish IPO/M&A market to a new emphasis on utilizing technolo...Show More
9) Shift Happens: Taking a Deep Dive Into Our New Book on the Future of Accounting's Operational Change
In this special episode, cohosts Mike Whitmire and Stefan van Duyvendijk join forces to delve into their forthcoming book, "Shift Happens: The Rise of the Operational Mindset and How Controllers Can D...Show More
10) Breaking the Barrier: AICPA and NASBA Overhaul the 150-Hour CPA Rule
In this special emergency episode of Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets, Mike and Stefan dive into the groundbreaking news shaking the accounting world — the AICPA and NASBA have proposed a radical shift i...Show More