Safietou D. Russell’s YouTube channel is where the questions that come up in every consultation get answered in plain language, a weekly Tax Tip Tuesday Short, plus longer workshops when a subject needs room. Built for mental health and wellness practice owners who would rather understand their numbers than dread them.
Published 21 August 2026. Your business changes across the year, and the financial plan you set in January is rarely the one that still fits in August. This one asks three questions worth revisiting every quarter.
That is the shape of most of what is here: one idea, one minute, something you can act on before the next filing deadline. The full set is below, grouped by the problem it solves rather than by the date it went up.
Sorted by subject rather than by date, because you probably arrived with a question rather than a chronology. Pick a theme, then tap any Short to watch it without leaving the page.
Habits that move the tax bill before the year closes, not after.
Review Your Business Goals Quarterly
💡 Tax Tip Tuesday: Review Your Profitability
Make Decisions Using Numbers
Don't Wait Until Tax Season
Tax Tip Tuesday: Revisit Your Tax Strategy for the Year
Focus on What You Can Control
Have a Plan Before You Need One
Stop Trying to Predict Everything
Mid-Year Financial Checkup
Tax Tip Tuesday: Start Your Mid-Year Financial Check-In
Tax Tip Tuesday: Look at Your Practice’s First Quarter Performance
Tax Tip Tuesday: Take a Step Back Before the Month Ends
💡 Tax Tip Tuesday: Take Action Before December 31
Election timing, reasonable compensation and what your entity choice actually changes.
The four payments and the filing dates that decide whether April is calm or expensive.
Preparing for Estimated Tax Payments
Tax Tip Tuesday: Prepare for Your June Quarterly Tax Payment
Tax Tip Tuesday: Adjust Your Estimated Tax Payments
Tax Tip Tuesday: Prepare Early for Quarterly Taxes
Tax Tip Tuesday: Your First 2026 Quarterly Payment Is Due April 15
Tax Tip Tuesday: Review Your April 15 Tax Payment and Make Adjustments
Tax Tip Tuesday: File Your 2025 Return or Request an Extension
Tax Tip Tuesday: Give Your Return One Final Look
Tax Tip Tuesday: Plan Ahead for Refunds or Balances Due
Tax Tip Tuesday: Address Any Outstanding Questions Before Filing
Tax Tip Tuesday: Look for Any Changes That Impact Your 2025 Return
Tax Tip Tuesday: Start Collecting Your 2025 Tax Documents
Tax Tip Tuesday: Get Ready for the February 2nd Filing Deadline
The small weekly routines that make filing season a formality instead of a scramble.
Cash Flow Is Your Business Lifeline
Tax Tip Tuesday: Monitor Your Cash Flow Consistently
Separating Business and Personal Finances
Tax Tip Tuesday: Keep Your Bookkeeping Current
Tax Tip Tuesday: Review Your Expense Categories
Proper Expense Tracking Makes Tax Filing Easier.
Tax Tip Tuesday: Clean Up Any Bookkeeping Gaps
Tax Tip Tuesday: Strengthen Your Systems After the April Deadlines
Tax Tip Tuesday: Make Sure Any 2025 Cleanup Is Complete
💡 Tax Tip Tuesday: Finalize Your 2025 Bookkeeping
What is genuinely deductible, and the records that make each one hold up.
Getting the people side filed correctly, staff, contractors and the January deadlines.
New Shorts land most weeks. The channel always has the current set.
See every Short on YouTubeWorkshops, guest conversations and the multi-part S-corp walkthrough, 30 longer videos, grouped into the three things people most often sit down to learn properly.
A step-by-step walkthrough of the election most practice owners ask about first, eligibility, savings, reasonable compensation, state rules and the costs nobody mentions.
The #1 IRS Red Flag for S-Corps – Ep.09
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The Truth About S-Corp Compliance & Costs – Ep.08
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Tip #1: Consult with a tax professional before moving forward with an S corporation.
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Tip #2: S Election Eligibility Requirements
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Tip #3: Evaluating the Self-Employment Tax Savings
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Tip #4: The Importance of Reasonable Compensation
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Tip #5: Paying Taxes as an S Corporation
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Tip #6: Understanding State and Local Rules
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Tip #7: Considering the Costs of Making an S Corporation election
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Decrease Your Tax Liability with this 3 Step Entity Analysis
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Longer sit-downs on the questions that come up in almost every first consultation, how you pay yourself, what bookkeeping is for, and what the IRS expects each quarter.
How you pay yourself as a business owner
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Paying taxes as a business owner
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Quarterly Taxes
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What is bookkeeping and what are tax write-offs
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Personal & Business Financial Planning
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Upcoming Changes to Retirement
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CPA Q&A
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CPA Q&A (2nd Edition)
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Overwhelmed by Tax Season? Let’s Fix That Together
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Why Investing in Your Financial Education Is Crucial for Your Business's Success
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Recorded workshops and guest conversations, scaling a practice, protecting your own capacity, and the course sessions from Business Basics 101.
Expanding Your Practice Masterclass
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Strategies to Scale: Increase Your Revenue and Profits with a Revenue Expansion Matrix
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How You're Different: Creating a Consistent and Predictable Inflow of Clients
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Engagement Workshop S6 Episode 5
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Elevating Success: The Transformative Power of Health and Wellness in Business
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From Burnout to Balance
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Using LinkedIn To Create a Welcoming Culture
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Why Mental Health Practice Owners Must Keep Financial and Legal Professionals in Sync for Success
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Course Overview: Business Basics 101 – Tax Essentials for Mental Health Practice Owners
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Sneak Peek: Business Basics 101 – Tax Essentials for Mental Health Practice Owners
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The channel has been running since 2014, so there is more in the archive than fits here.
Browse the full video tabNot because they are fashionable, but because they are the ones that cost practice owners real money when they go unattended.
The election that comes up in almost every consultation once profit passes a certain point, when it helps, when it costs more than it saves, and the deadline you have probably already missed but may still be able to fix.
See the S Corp Strategy ReportFour dates a year that decide whether April is a formality or a surprise. How to size a payment, when to adjust it mid-year, and what actually happens if you underpay.
Estimate your SE taxMileage, supervision, continuing education, the home office, the part of your phone bill that is genuinely business, and the record-keeping that makes each one defensible rather than merely claimed.
Get the free e-bookSeparating personal from business, keeping categories consistent, closing the month before you forget what a charge was for. Small routines that turn tax season into a handover rather than an excavation.
Bookkeeping servicesReasonable compensation once you are on payroll, contractor versus employee, and the January filings (W-2s, 1099s, W-9s) that arrive faster than anyone expects.
Payroll & retirementProfit and cash are not the same thing, and only one of them pays your rent this month. Reviewing the numbers often enough that decisions get made on evidence rather than on how the month felt.
All six calculatorsA Short is a prompt. These are where the same subjects get room to breathe.
More than 50 episodes of SDR’s Business Basics, with guest experts, on tax, cash flow, marketing and burnout.
Listen freeThe written versions, with the worked examples and the thresholds a video cannot pause long enough to show.
Read the articlesSix tools (self-employment tax, withholding, 401(k) room, payroll cost) so you can run your own figures.
Open the tools12 Overlooked Tax Write-Offs for Mental Health Professionals, the deductions most often missed, in one place.
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