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Ashley Green is a certified public accountant, freelance financial strategist, and the founder of Greenlight Financial Coaching, a practice dedicated to helping independent professionals take control of their money. Over the past fifteen years, she has worked with more than two thousand freelancers, contractors, and small business owners across the United States, guiding them through the financial challenges unique to variable-income careers.
After graduating with honors from the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, Ashley spent seven years at a top-tier accounting firm, where she specialized in tax strategy for high-net-worth individuals and closely held businesses. She left the corporate world in 2014 to build her own practice after realizing that most financial advice — and most tax preparation — was designed around the assumption of a steady paycheck. Her firsthand experience with the feast-or-famine cycle of self-employment inspired her to develop the income averaging and tax optimization systems that form the core of this handbook.
Ashley's writing has appeared in *Forbes*, *The Freelancer's Union Blog*, and *Kiplinger's Personal Finance*. She is a regular speaker at Freelance Business Week and the National Association of Tax Professionals annual conference, where she teaches courses on self-employed tax strategy and retirement planning for nontraditional workers. She also hosts the podcast *Irregular Income*, where she interviews freelancers, solopreneurs, and small business owners about their financial strategies and the lessons they've learned running their own businesses.
When she's not crunching numbers or recording episodes, Ashley lives in Portland, Oregon with her partner and two rescue dogs. She is an avid cyclist, a passionate home cook, and a firm believer that financial freedom is not about how much you earn, but how thoughtfully you manage what you have.
