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Live from Kaleidoscope 2025 in Austin, Scott Berry interviews fractional CFO and CPA Kelley Brubaker of Profit Scale Thrive about building a next-step blueprint for your firm with clean, decision-ready data. What you will learn: • How to verify data integrity before acting • Why P&L ≠ cash and where the money “went” • The role of debt payments and owner distributions • The time study that designs your next hire • Metrics that matter at $250k, $1M, and $10M • When to simplify your tech stack and why integrations break • How fractional CFO support is priced and when to bring it in Guest: Kelley Brubaker, Profit Scale Thrive Find Kelley: LinkedIn @KelleyBrubaker | profitscalethrive.com Hosts: Scott Berry, Law Firm Growth Lab (MarketCrest) ----------------------------------------- Chapters: 0:00 Welcome to the Law Firm Growth Lab 0:12 Live from Kaleidoscope 2025: Meet Kelley Brubaker 0:40 Managing by Data, Not Vibes 1:40 Why Accurate Numbers Don’t Lie 2:30 How Kelley Meets Firms Where They Are 4:00 Understanding Profit vs Cash in the Bank 6:30 The P&L Gap: What Your Numbers Aren’t Showing 8:00 Growing Pains at $500K, $1M, and $10M 9:20 Lessons from 20 Years as a Firm Owner 10:10 The Time Study: Data-Driven Hiring Decisions 12:00 What a Fractional CFO Really Costs (and Why It’s Scalable) 14:30 How Kelley Became the Go-To CFO for Law Firms 16:50 Trust Accounting and the Stakes for Lawyers 17:40 Finding the Right Fractional CFO for Your Firm 21:00 When You Need Marketing Help Before Finance Help 22:00 Systems That Talk: MyCase and Integrated Tech 23:30 Final Takeaways: Data, Hope, and the Next Step 24:20 How to Connect with Kelley Brubaker ----------------------------------------- Welcome to the Law Firm Growth Lab, where we turn law firm marketing into a science. Join top immigration and family law attorneys as they reveal the strategies, experiments, and systems that actually move the needle. No hype. No fluff. Just proven methods tested in the real world. Visit our website to learn more: https://lawfirmgrowthlab.com Submit to be a guest: podcast@lawfirmgrowthlaw.com For help launching your own podcast: marketing@marketcrest.com All episodes can be found on your preferred podcast platform (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and more) ----------------------------------------- Hosted by the digital marketing pros at MarketCrest, each episode breaks down what’s working right now to help you scale your firm with data, clarity, and confidence. Hit subscribe and start running smarter marketing experiments today. Welcome to the Lab. ----------------------------------------- This podcast has been prepared for general information purposes only and is not legal advice. This information is not intended to create, and receipt of it does not constitute, an attorney-client relationship. ----------------------------------------- Transcript: Welcome to the Law Firm Growth Lab, the science of scaling your practice. Live from Kaleidoscope 2025 in Austin, Scott Berry sits down with fractional CFO and CPA Kelley Brubaker of Profit Scale Thrive to talk about turning data into direction for law firms. Kelley explains that too many firm owners run their practices on gut feelings instead of verified numbers. Accurate data, she says, doesn’t lie—when it’s correct. Her mission is to teach law firm owners how to question their numbers, understand what they’re really saying, and use them to make smarter, faster decisions. Kelley shares her journey from starting her own accounting firm twenty years ago to becoming a trusted fractional CFO for law firms nationwide. She’s worked with solo practitioners, multimillion-dollar firms, and everyone in between. Across all stages, she finds that financial frustration usually stems from not knowing which numbers to look at or how to interpret them. A P&L only tells part of the story—it doesn’t show debt payments or owner distributions. Once those are understood, firm owners can finally see where their money is going and start planning with confidence. Kelley also introduces her “time study” method, a one-week exercise where firm owners log every task they do. Reviewing the list helps identify what they love, what they hate, and what should be delegated. That list becomes the foundation for the next hire. She explains that as firms grow, problems change but never disappear—each new revenue milestone brings a new set of challenges. Fractional CFO services, Kelley emphasizes, are not just for large firms. They’re affordable because they scale with revenue, giving smaller firms access to executive-level insight without a full-time salary. She closes by stressing the importance of integrated systems—tools like MyCase can bridge marketing, case management, and accounting to keep data clean and connected. Her ultimate goal is to give law firm owners clarity, confidence, and a clear next step toward profitable growth.