I grew up in Romania in a home where every dollar mattered. There was no safety net. Hard work was not a choice. It was survival. That shaped how I see money, risk, and opportunity. It also taught me that numbers are never just numbers. They tell the story of real people and real lives.

In my twenties I immigrated to the United States, built a career in finance, and worked my way into leadership inside complex healthcare organizations. I spent two decades in multi-site platforms and PE-backed environments, often as the person in the room trusted to explain what the numbers really meant and what to do next.

Early stage companies through $500M enterprises. EBITDA outcomes from $2M to $40M. Buy-side diligence, integrations, exits. ERP conversions. Turnarounds where the finance function had to be built from almost nothing. What I found again and again is that the number in the model was rarely the number in the business, and finding the difference became the work.

Along the way, life kept expanding. I became a wife and a mother. I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro not long after my second child. I led teams through integrations, turnarounds, and board meetings while navigating school drop-offs and bedtime stories. The theme never changed. Show up fully, keep going, find a way through.

What I saw over and over is that the most important decisions are rarely just financial. They sit at the intersection of money, leadership, identity, and fear. Executives, founders, and physicians carry that weight alone. They rarely have someone in their corner who understands both the technical side and the human side.

That is why I built All Seasons Consulting.

Today I sit in the CFO seat and the operating partner seat inside PE-backed healthcare platforms. I rebuild finance functions that hold without me. I find where the numbers and the operations have come apart, and I fix it before a buyer's diligence team finds it first. I bring the rigor of a finance executive, the willingness to ask the question everyone else is avoiding, and the practicality of someone who knows that life does not stop for quarter end.

If you want a partner who will tell you the truth and protect your downside, we should talk.

Georgeta Elena Precup, CPA, CGMA, MBA