Sophie Nguyen

Hi, I’m Sophie

I help founders build durable wealth without trading away health, family, or life.

Founder, writer, and strategic tax advisor. I write about what it actually takes to keep growing — in business, in health, in family.

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Bio

I've spent years as a founder — through the hard wins (scaling a tax practice serving high-earning entrepreneurs) and the hard losses (closing my restaurant during COVID, losing my best friend the same year). What I've taken from both is a conviction I now write and advise on: the most durable businesses are built by people who refuse to compartmentalize wealth, health, family, and growth. My newsletter at sophieso.beehiiv.com threads the full picture — recurring revenue, sleep, gratitude as a business practice, midlife reinvention, building companies your family wants to be part of — and my professional practice as a strategic tax advisor (in partnership with Paramount Tax and Bookkeeping) is where those ideas meet the P&L for founders making $400K+ a year. I work with founders on what it actually takes to keep growing — as a business, as a body, as a family — past the first million and into the next chapter of life.

What I think about

Six themes that show up across my practice and my newsletter — the lenses I bring to advising founders.

  1. 01

    Strategic tax planning for founders past $1M

    Why most high-earning founders are still running a reactive April tax process — and the year-round moves that actually shift effective rates.

  2. 02

    Health first, wealth next

    Why the fittest founders tend to build the most durable businesses — and what breaks when a founder treats their own body as infrastructure debt.

  3. 03

    The scaling game: recurring vs. project income

    Why project-based service businesses ceiling out — and the mindset and structural shifts that move owners into recurring revenue.

  4. 04

    Mental health as a founder’s compounding asset

    How unexamined psychology quietly caps revenue — and the practices high performers keep hidden because they sound soft.

  5. 05

    Midlife reinvention for business owners

    Career pivots, identity restructuring, and goal-setting that actually changes outcomes — for founders who suspect their 40s are the real game.

  6. 06

    Building a business your family wants to be part of

    Entity structure, estate planning, and generational wealth framed as family-design rather than tax accounting.

Press & speaking

Recent podcast guesting and speaker engagements.

  • Caddo Convos

    Sophie Nguyen — Paramount Tax and Accounting

    Oct 30, 2025

  • VietCRE · with Trinh Wong

    How to get started in Commercial Real Estate (in Vietnamese)

    Jul 13, 2022

  • Real Estate Investors EXPO · with Nick Tang

    Sophie on stage at the EXPO

    Jan 27, 2024

My newsletter

A short letter every few weeks on building wealth that lasts — the tax and entity moves that compound, plus the health, mindset, and family habits the strongest founders quietly keep. Read a few issues if you want a feel for how I think before we talk.

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Recent issues

Browse the archive at sophieso.beehiiv.com →

Get in touch

Have a question? Want to chat before scheduling? Drop me a note and I’ll follow up within a business day.