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Entrepreneur podcast. I am, of course, your host for the most feel better. You'd think I'd be able to speak a little better doing a hundred of these episodes. But today, we're gonna talk to a guest that excels at transforming data into actionable insights and helping businesses thrive and scale with confidence. Our guest today is a certified director of operations and certified dashboard designer who has a passion for serving online business owners. Their expertise lies in turning business ideas into tangible results by providing clarity, building automated systems for number numbers tracking, and freeing up precious time for business owners. Her approach allows entrepreneurs to make advised, confident decisions without being bogged down by datas and metrics. Who loves those? Apparently, our guest does.

But her skills are not just about crunching the numbers. She helps business owners understand how their ideas are performing, identify the gaps, and implement strategies that save time and money. She her work is all about helping you work smarter, not harder. As a result, you'll gain the freedom and flexibility you need to make a greater impact on the world. One of her former clients, Melissa Lance, owner of the Fresh twenty, praises Carrie as a data master who transformed their number tracking system, providing immediate access to real time information and essential reports. What better testimonial is that? But beyond her professional compliment compliment accomplishments, our guest is married to a handsome engineer who runs his own business, entrepreneurial family, and they have three incredible tweens. She loves reading, especially holding a paper copy in her hands like I do. And throughout although audiobooks audiobooks have become a, close second, it's good for the business books, I find.

Music is another passion, having joined a choir at 12, sparking a lifelong desire of singing. Maybe we'll get her to sing on the episode. But today, we're gonna talk about her journey, the importance of making business decisions with data, and, of course, how you can turn your ideas into results and claim reclaim your time. So please put your hands together for the amazing Carrie Pumpledon. Carrie, thank you so much for being here. Well, that was quite

the welcome. Thank you so much for having me.

It was my pleasure. You're an amazing entrepreneur, amazing guest. I'm so excited to have you on because I don't like data that much. Numbers are very interesting to me because I, as a podcaster, I need to know, but that's about it. I'm like, okay. They're going up. That's all I need to know. But I know you love the minutiae getting into the dirt and deep and dire dark secrets of the numbers that they provide.

So I'm happy to have you here. Happy to pick your brain and everything in between.

Thank you so much. And I mean, I think you're definitely not alone in feeling that way. I think the vast majority of business owners, they either kind of put up with numbers or they actually really dislike them. So I love being able to come alongside people and help them realize that they don't have to be scary. It can be fun. You can build a lot of confidence using them, and it can actually be something that people look forward to actually digging into and utilizing. It just sometimes it takes a little bit of time to get there, but I like kind of coming alongside people and helping them get it done.

I love that. That's that's the story of all entrepreneurs helping others solve problems. I wanna go back to the beginning, though. What made you decide to take your number crunching abilities and put it into the entrepreneurial world?

Mhmm. That's a really great question. So I actually started my first business about fourteen years ago, kind of in between when my second and third kids were born. And it happened very accidentally. My husband always joked that if I was going to write a biography, it would be the accidental entrepreneur. I know some other people kinda find themselves in that position too. And, it was a homemade, or like a handmade, ecommerce business. And it really started, out of you know, I was making things for my own kids.