Mariel fry
Founder | Bookkeeping Expert | Small Business Advisor
Guest Intro:
Mariel Fry is the founder of FM Bookkeeping, where she helps small service-based businesses stop avoiding their numbers and start using them with clarity and confidence.
Before building her own company, Mariel spent nearly a decade in corporate roles across travel, media, finance, and operations, including time supporting major entertainment brands like HBO and BBC. After being laid off, she turned that pivot into momentum and built a business rooted in relationships, trust, and practical financial guidance.
What makes Mariel’s story stand out is that she is not just building a company. She is building a life with intention. As a mother, entrepreneur, and soon-to-be host of her own podcast, Raising Hustle, she speaks openly about the realities of balancing business growth, motherhood, outsourcing, boundaries, and personal alignment.
In this episode, Mariel shares what it really takes to build a sustainable business, why networking still matters, how financial confidence changes everything, and why women need more options than the traditional 9-to-5 path.
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Topics That Discussed on Podcast
➤ Building a business after corporate layoffs and turning uncertainty into opportunity
➤ Why small business owners need clarity around their numbers instead of fear around money
➤The connection between entrepreneurship, motherhood, and designing life on your own terms
➤ How networking, relationships, and referrals helped grow her business organically
➤ Why outsourcing can buy back time and create more room for growth
➤The importance of boundaries, direct communication, and knowing your role as a founder
➤ Creating financial confidence for women, mothers, and business owners
"You free up time so you can make more money"
MONEY, MOTHERHOOD, AND BUILDING ON YOUR OWN TERMS
A conversation about entrepreneurship, financial confidence, networking, and creating a business that supports the life you actually want.