Questian Telka, EA & Nancy McClelland, CPA
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Accounting work, named out loud.
She Counts pairs warm banter with plain-spoken critique of accounting culture. Nancy McClelland and Question Telka turn stories about tax season, conference stages, client work, and office expectations into practical conversations about feeling seen at work.
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She Counts looks at accounting through the daily realities of the people doing the work. Nancy McClelland and Question Telka use the profession's ordinary scenes as entry points: tax software stress, conference rooms, client needs, wardrobe policing, remote-work relief, and the late-season fatigue that makes small wins feel invisible. The show is warm, but it is not timid. It makes room for laughter, overlap, and self-correction, then turns toward questions that are harder to laugh off. Who gets credit for the idea? Why is saying yes treated as professionalism? What does it cost to compensate for ADHD for years? Why do women's clothes still become a workplace issue? Those questions are handled through stories first, which keeps the show grounded. A borrowed-presentation story becomes a conversation about intellectual labor and status. A discussion of celebrations becomes a reminder that humility should not erase accomplishment. A live conference session on harassment becomes a practical look at accountability, policy, and whether people can safely speak up. Guests widen the lens without making the show feel stiff. Judy McCarthy brings the perspective of building Client Hub after years running a bookkeeping practice. Cammie Hoskins and Julie Thiel bring employment-law and HR framing to harassment and workplace culture. Jenna Etienne connects ADHD, gender expectations, and the long effort of compensation. Brandi Jordan helps examine the discipline of starting with no. The result is a professional show with a very human pulse. It is strongest when it names something many accountants have quietly absorbed, then gives it clearer language, a little humor, and a path toward better boundaries.
Made for: She Counts is for women in accounting, tax, and bookkeeping who want candid conversation about the profession's human side. It also fits people thinking about credit, culture, boundaries, and feeling seen at work.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by using specific workplace stories as evidence, not decoration. Its warmth makes the serious topics easier to enter, while its directness keeps the conversations from becoming generic career advice.
She Counts brings together respected educators Nancy McClelland, CPA, and Questian Telka, EA, for candid conversations about what it’s really like to be a woman in accounting. Whether you’re in corporate, at a firm, or running your own show, this podcast offers a space to feel seen, heard, and understood. From taboo topics to everyday challenges, She Counts is more than a podcast—it’s a community where women in accounting, tax, and bookkeeping can come together and get real.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
She Counts gives workplace bias in accounting a practical vocabulary grounded in personal experience and professional guidance.
Nancy McClelland and Question Telka turn the working life of women in accounting into candid, practical conversation. Their subjects include stolen credit, ADHD and the strain of masking, recognition of everyday accomplishments, tax-season pressures, and sexual harassment.
Tax-season survival meets that jaw-dropping moment when someone presents your slide as his own.
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A small professional win turns into a clear reminder to notice progress instead of brushing it aside.
The season-two wrap-up treats a software switch as more than a routine fix. It turns into a quiet look at humility, pride, and the relief of getting unstuck with help from a colleague.
A warm, candid accounting hangout that leans on shared experience more than tidy takeaways.
She Counts turns a birthday installment into a warm, story-led look at the lived realities, challenges, and unspoken tensions of women in accounting.
A sharp look at credit, visibility, and the quiet damage of having your work claimed by someone else.
Credit Where Due makes a plain case: borrowed ideas have a real cost, and the worst part is how ordinary the theft can look from the outside. The episode starts with a conference story and keeps coming back to the same sore point: one person did the talk, the slides, the data…
A live conversation about harassment, culture, and accountability at work.
She Counts uses its live conference setting to talk plainly about sexual harassment in accounting, and that plainness is what gives the episode weight.
A warm accounting conversation about ADHD in women, why it can go unnoticed, and how people try to manage it.
She Counts keeps its focus on the lived realities of women in accounting, with Question Telka and Nancy McClelland joined by Jenna Etienne in a conversation about how ADHD can show up differently, why it can go unnoticed, and the ways people try to manage it.
Accounting firm growth, with the human factors included.
Bookkeeping firms, built with clearer systems.
Accounting tech, firm growth, practical change.
Season two closes with a ta-da.
Nancy McClelland and Question Telka celebrate Question’s birthday with a playful, unscripted conversation about what it means to be a woman in accounting.
Question Telka and Nancy McClelland open with a blunt conversation about borrowed ideas and who gets erased when credit lands in the wrong place.
This episode of She Counts discusses how women's clothing is unfairly scrutinized in the workplace, particularly in accounting, and challenges the notion that attire is a distraction.
Judy McCarthy, founder of Client Hub, discusses how she built a client collaboration platform to solve workflow bottlenecks in her own bookkeeping firm after 25 years of practice.
She Counts brings a live Women Who Count conference session to the feed.
She Counts brings Jenna Etienne to the table.
Exploring the power of starting with 'no' to act with intention, featuring guest Brandi Jordan on the She Counts podcast for women in accounting.
This episode discusses the importance of women in accounting taking their seat at the AI table, featuring guest Twyla Verhulst.
Nancy shares her experience of dealing with a severe medical crisis while working in accounting, highlighting the challenge of maintaining business operations during personal turmoil.
Hosts discuss the importance of mentorship for women in accounting, sharing personal stories about female mentors who believed in them before they believed in themselves.