I connect ideas, people, and possibilities that probably should've met a long time ago.
Sometimes that looks like building businesses. Sometimes it's teaching. Sometimes it's a microphone, a stage, a book, or a ridiculous idea somebody was smart enough to say out loud. The common thread? I help people think, so they can grow. And we'll always have some fun doing it.
Dr. Tim Naddy is a CPA and creator who refuses to let brilliant ideas die from bad financial decisions. As an entrepreneur, professor, author, and strategic advisor, he helps dreamers speak the language of business, ask the next question, and negotiate from a position of strength.
Naddy blends financial expertise, storytelling, and humor to turn accounting into one of the tools on his belt. Because every decision you make costs something, underneath the numbers, the businesses, the classrooms, and the stages is a pretty simple mission: Help people see their worth so they can build something that lasts.
The former CFO of the national sensation Savannah Bananas, Naddy's next chapter has him developing emerging markets for Jockey International while engaging communities all over through teaching at SCAD, speaking around the country, hosting Business Biceps & BS, and helping build a new generation of bold, financially fluent leaders through his nonprofit, Legaci Forge.
Different lanes. Different audiences. Same mission.
Ideas only matter if you can make people care about them. From keynotes and boardrooms to classrooms and podcasts, Naddy combines real-world experience, storytelling, humor, and a teacher's instinct for making complicated ideas click. The goal isn't just to entertain the room. It's to leave people thinking differently when they walk out of it.
Better questions. Better business fluency. Better decisions that build something that lasts.
Turn experience into influence and bring the right voice into the room before it becomes expensive.
What happens when culture, creativity, and customer experience become part of the business model.
Challenge assumptions, test better ideas, and turn “what if?” into “what's next?”
Reconnect people to purpose through storytelling, meaning, and human connection.
The Nonprofit
Talent opens doors. It doesn't prepare you for what happens when they open.
Dr. Naddy founded Legaci Forge to help athletes and emerging leaders build the financial acumen, business confidence, and real-world skills that talent alone can't provide.
Because opportunity without preparation isn't a gift. It's exposure.
Legacy is not inherited … it's forged.Financial acumen and strategic discipline for professional, collegiate, Olympic, and NIL athletes… built to command the decisions where contracts, capital, and influence collide.
Entrepreneurial structure and financial discipline for student innovators, emerging leaders, and veterans. Students don't just learn about business… they build one.
The media engine of the Forge: curated storytelling, strategic placement, and a signature gala pitch event that turn quiet preparation into public signal.
We do not romanticize potential. We forge capability.
Smart people. Big ideas. No script required.
Executives. Athletes. Entrepreneurs. Educators. Creators. Occasionally somebody who defies every useful category.
We start with business, leadership, careers, culture, money, or whatever brought them to the table.
Then we see where the conversation goes. Rabbit trails encouraged…
Come for the guest.
Stay for the rabbit trail.
Every episode produced alongside the Georgia Society of CPAs.
A 3-question self-study exam per episode, worth 1 hour of credit.
Dig into the full archive — business, biceps, and a healthy dose of BS.
Most accounting books are written for future “Suits.” This one is written for today's boldest dreamers. Accounting isn't about spreadsheets and memos; it's the language of business strategy. If you don't know the numbers, you're forced to trust the people who do. EDYM gives you the financial clarity to protect your ideas, negotiate with confidence, and understand what it truly costs to build something that lasts.
Command your cost environment.
Build budgets that drive execution.
Protect cash like your business depends on it.
Analyze like a Suit and negotiate like a boss.
Master the language of business.
The best things I've helped build usually started with a conversation.
Books. Businesses. A nonprofit. A podcast. Turning a wildly slippery idea into a full-blown national championship league. And hundreds of students who walked into a classroom with a dream and left a little better equipped to build it.
So whether it's speaking, media, Legaci Forge, a collaboration, or a half-baked idea that might actually be brilliant, I'm always up for an interesting conversation.
Start here. Let's see where it goes.