In this episode of Max Value, Ben Towne of Town Advisory sits down with valuation project manager Becca Zigga to explore the labor and pipeline challenges in business valuation, and how a flexible, part-time, remote work model offers meaningful solutions. Becca shares her professional journey — from financial analyst to MBA graduate to stay-at-home mom — and how she eventually found the right balance by joining Town Advisory. The conversation covers the day-to-day reality of remote work, the high-concentration nature of valuation, and why part-time roles can actually drive greater focus, productivity, and profitability. Both speakers agree that a distributed team of part-time professionals provides scalability and access to dynamic, multifaceted talent. They also address career growth opportunities, including Becca’s CVA certification and aspirations for local business development. The episode closes with reflections on the possibility of having both a meaningful career and a fulfilling family life — not in spite of, but because of, the flexible model.
Chapter 1. Welcome to Max Value
Ben Towne introduces the episode and his guest, Becca Zigga, a valuation project manager who works remotely from Florida and has been with Town Advisory for approximately three years. Ben outlines the focus of the conversation: the labor and pipeline challenges in business valuation, and the benefits of flexible, part-time, and remote work arrangements for both sides of the equation.
Chapter 2. Balancing Parenthood and Remote Work
Becca traces her professional background — financial analyst, MBA in finance, work at a national labor laboratory — and how motherhood prompted her to step back from full-time office work. After having three children and feeling “pulled in two directions,” she searched for a long time for a role where she could feel she was “really contributing” on both the work side and as a parent, ultimately finding that opportunity at Town Advisory.
Chapter 3. How Remote Work Enables Work-Life Balance
Becca walks through her daily routine — gym at 5:30 AM, school drop-off, then settling into focused work from her home office — emphasizing that she starts “from a place of not feeling frazzled.” She highlights the margin that remote, part-time work gives her: volunteering at school, book club, spontaneous Disney days with her kids. Ben reinforces that at Town Advisory, keeping project loads manageable is a deliberate strategy to maintain quality and increase the velocity of both projects and fees.
Chapter 4. Business Valuation: The Perfect Blend of Finance, Problem-Solving & Flexibility
Becca explains what drew her to valuation specifically: it feels like “accounting plus creativity — an art and a science together,” combined with a people component she genuinely enjoys. Though she had no prior valuation experience, her MBA in finance and business-side background gave her the foundation to connect with owners and CEOs. The part-time model appealed because it allowed her to engage the analytical, problem-solving part of her brain while still being present for her family.
Chapter 5. Challenges of Remote Work in Business Valuation
Becca acknowledges that valuation has a real learning curve — “every business is different, so every project’s going to be a challenge” — but frames this positively as something she genuinely enjoys. On the remote side, she admits missing the spontaneous hallway conversations with coworkers. However, she notes that Town Advisory has managed to build a strong company culture despite everyone working separately, something she finds “pretty amazing.”
Chapter 6. How Part-Time Roles Improve Focus, Productivity and Profitability
Becca argues that valuation is “high-concentration work” — not mindless — and is therefore especially well-suited to a part-time model where people work during their peak focus hours. She questions whether moving to full-time would yield double the productivity, concluding it would only produce “marginally more.” Ben adds that the project manager role demands both communication and technical oversight, and that the “give it to a busy person” principle applies: part-time professionals don’t waste time on fluff.
Chapter 7. How Flexible, Part-Time Teams Drive Talent, Scalability and Profitability
Becca contends that the part-time flexible model attracts “multifaceted, dynamic people” whose outside experiences keep the team’s talent fresh — “none of our talent is stale.” Ben adds that having six people on a part-time basis instead of two full-time employees allows the team to flex capacity more effectively: in a busy week, everyone can contribute extra hours, creating up to 50% more capacity than he could generate alone. Weekly load-balancing meetings keep the workflow feeling like “a wave, not a cliff.”
Chapter 8. Career Growth and Advancement in Flexible Business Valuation Roles
Becca sees growth as built into the nature of valuation itself — every project, every client, every industry is different, so “you’re constantly growing.” She recently earned her CVA (Certified Valuation Analyst), supported by the firm. On advancement, she acknowledges it is “a little tricky” in a remote setting but sees potential in delegation as the team grows, and is excited about developing local client relationships in Florida as a form of personal and professional expansion.
Chapter 9. Can You Balance a Meaningful Career and Family?
Becca reflects on the personal impasse she once faced — not knowing if it was possible to have “both a career and the caregiving” at the level she wanted — and the leap of faith it took to step back from work. She now feels she can “have it all at the same time,” but credits the flexible model for making that possible. Ben echoes that the challenges of balancing career and family are equally relevant to him as a father, and that the flexible, remote structure has allowed both of them to be active and present in the ways they want.
Chapter 10. Final Thoughts
Ben asks Becca what she is reading and what she finds rewarding about her job. She shares she is reading a draft novel by a friend and recently finished “The Tell” for her book club. On job satisfaction, she keeps it simple: her friends all know she loves her job, and each client and individual she gets to meet and work with is what makes it fulfilling. Ben closes by affirming that the episode demonstrates it is “totally possible” for both employer and employee to derive great benefit from a part-time, flexible work arrangement.
