Hala Taha

Young and Profiting Podcast 🚀 CEO & Founder 💁🏻‍♀️ YAP Media Network - #1 Business Podcast Network 🚀 The Podcast Princess 👸🏻 YAP Media - #1 Linkedin Marketing Agency 💁🏻‍♀️ LISTEN. LEARN. PROFIT 🤓💕🔥🚀

Hala Taha, known as “The Podcast Princess,” is the host of Young and Profiting (YAP) Podcast, a #1 Entrepreneurship podcast with over 30 million downloads. A Top 100 podcast globally, YAP features star-studded guests like Matthew McConaughey, Gary Vee, Alex Hormozi, Deepak Chopra, Daymond John, Mel Robbins, and countless others. The show was recognized as a 2022 Webby Honoree, and Hala graced the cover of Podcast Magazine in January 2021.

Hala is also the Founder and CEO of YAP Media, an award-winning, premier white-glove social media and podcast production agency for CEOs, celebrities, and top podcasters. With nearly 60 employees and a dozen high-profile clients, YAP Media was named the #1 LinkedIn Marketing Agency and voted Best Podcast Agency of 2022.

In 2022, Hala launched the YAP Media Network, a podcast network that helps top podcasts land sponsorship deals with major brands like LinkedIn, Airbnb, and Shopify. YAP Media is pacing to hit 8-figures in 2025, and represents some of the most popular business podcasters in the world including Jenna Kutcher, Russell Brunson, Neil Patel, and John Lee Dumas. 

Hala is well-known for her engaged following and influence on Linkedin, leading to the creation of YAP Academy. Her first two-day LinkedIn Secret Masterclass has had 9 cohorts with hundreds of new influencers following Hala’s expertise to achieve successful LinkedIn growth and monetization. The next YAP Academy Masterclass is currently in the works with a focus on podcast creation, growth and monetization.

Hala is a 2025 Real Leaders Top 50 Keynote Speaker, sharing her expertise in podcasting, LinkedIn, social media, personal branding, sales and entrepreneurship through in-person keynotes and panels such as Funnel Hacking Live 10 and IAB Upfronts.

Hala has had a knack for inventing successful products and motivating teams since a young age. She began her career in radio production while in college, working at HOT97 on The Angie Martinez Show. In her senior year of college she founded The Sorority of Hip Hop, building a community of 50 female bloggers who hosted a popular blog, events, concerts, and radio shows. When the blog boom slowed down, she got her MBA, graduating #1 in her class with a 4.0 gpa, and spent the next 6 years in various corporate marketing roles at Hewlett Packard and Disney Streaming Services.

Host of Young and Profiting Podcast

Host and Producer of #1 Education Podcast, Young and Profiting.

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Most people think they chase opportunity.

But that’s hardly true.

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Continuing education Taking courses  related to CPA . Reconciled month end close services for a small business clients 0623-01/24 Trained citizenship for mother she passed became USA citizen

Senior Accounting Analyst

Chef Works & Bragard UK

Managed Inventory Reserve Analysis for Canada and US, Freight Accrual Reporting and AP Reconciliation. Realigned Inventory reporting for better visibility in inventory analysis and potential losses in inventory. Sales and Cost Reporting for Month end close. Documented all Procedures for client for future employee training via Zoom

Sr cost accountant

Bimbo Bakeries USA

Inventory reconciliation procedures for biweekly meetings and improved processes for profit or loss in material. Improved efficiency in reporting by using excel.
•	Lumos Diagnostics. 5/2022-06/2022 – Prepared new contract reviews for setting up the company to expand operations in San Diego to assist with preparing for FDA approval.

Lumos Diagnostics

Lumos Diagnostics ( Spring 2022) consultant 
• Prepared new contract reviews for setting up the company to expand operations in San Diego not yet FDA approved. Short contract.

Senior Consultant

Personal time

Covid time took care of my mom
And prepared her for her citizenship test she passed

Covid time

Grifols

• Prepared new standard costing and helped minimized cost financial impact for new 2020 costs. Saved 1.5 million dollars in cost reduction by analyzing variances. Prepared Had-Hoc reporting for Director.
• Analyzed weekly manufacturing variances, worked directly with operations to review mfg. variances.
• Took over the Leadership and Coordinated external physical inventory audit as a result we successfully became in audit compliance .
• Reported budget for operational spending & direct labor. Worked closely with operations and purchaing on spending  labor and material control. Documented all variance procedure analysis SOP.
• Prepared 2 day-monthly close journal entries P&L COGS and Balance Sheet, SD Division.

Sr cost accountant sr financial analyst

Thermo Fisher Scientific

•	Calculate 2019 budget absorption for indirect operational spending & direct labor.
•	Clinical trials budget and valuation as a Data set validation & project approval launch.

Sr Cost Accountant

Swiss Life

Lived in Switzerland Europe

Spinal Elements

Spinal Elements- Medical and SMAC-Sr. Cost Accountant					(June 2015-March 2016)
Reconciled Inventory schedule for 2015 year end audit in two days. Improved process of reconciliation two months prior of submission by using complex excel formulas. -Spinal
Prepared cost schedule for 2015 year end. Provided new FIFO December cost calculation for year end audit.
Cost Accounting Analysis and redesign cost recognition for financial presentation.-Spinal
Accounts Receivable and Payable coordinator, accounts reconciliations bank and Fixed Assets. Quarterly tax submission.-Smac

Consultant Manufacturing and Medical Biotechnology

BIT Group France

Medical device company with major income from client consulting. Company acquired and restructured.
Redesigned and prepared monthly gross margin and analytical explanations for upper management.
Performed month end close duties for cost accounting.
Prepared reconciliation for billing to customers based on engineering time.
Supported several ad-hoc administrative duties such as payroll and accounts payable processing due to extensive volume in Irvine.
Reported Revenue based on Units sold in distribution center and recognized revenue under ASC606 standards GAP and IFRS Standards.

Cost Accountant

SUMMARY:
·        15+ years of hands-on experience as a Sr cost Accountant with proficiency in accounting, coordination and compilation of audit requests, analysis, and financial reporting etc.
·        Highly experience in the preparation of Balance sheet, Cost Month-end close cycle duties, journal entries & reconciliations, accrual management, profit, and loss analytics, manufacturing variances, budget and roll ups
·        15 years working for pharma and manufacturing from Sr cost accountant to financial Analyst and reporting directly to the Associate Director level.
·        Proficient in actively participating in the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process; Annual inventory cost revaluation, inventory analysis & audit support.
·        Working knowledge of either US Generally Accepted Accounting Standards or International Accounting Standards.
·        Proficient experience as an auditor for PWC (Price water house coopers and Lybrand), before moving international to the USA.
·        Experienced in preparing new standard costing and helped minimized cost financial impact for new 2020 costs.
·        Operations metrics reporting – department spend, headcount, inventory turns by product line, production efficiency, Direct Labor utilization, scrap & rework.
·        Ability to use general office equipment and various software programs, including but not limited to Microsoft Office 365 products (especially Microsoft Excel).
·        Excellent administrative, organizational and communication skills.

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