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43: Rachel Brenke Livens Up the Legal Stuff

The Life Story Coach

Release Date: 12/17/2018

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The Life Story Coach

Karin Jones believes sex and intimacy are a big part of our lives, and she challenges personal historians to gently explore this topic with their storytelling clients.

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Gloria Nussbaum of Real to Real, a personal history company that produces audio projects, talks equipment, prices, and more.

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Personal historian Gloria Nussbaum captures clients' voices and stories on audio recordings. She tells us why it's important and how she does it.

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Lisa Kagan talks about creating illustrated heirloom books for clients, and how other personal historians help her produce her books

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Lisa Kagan's workshops and retreats help people find their creativity, and help them find her personal history services.

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Lisa Lombard O'Reilly of Your Stories Written joins us for a conversation about personal history. Listen as we discuss:

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Personal Historian Lettice Stuart on how much her life story books cost, why strangers make better interviewers, more.

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Long-time Personal Historian Lettice Stuart shares her advice and insight on growing a life story business

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Steve Pender of Family Legacy Video talks to The Life Story Coach about helping people create the personal history projects he does best: video biographies.

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In six short years, Starts at 60 has grown to a platform with a million and a half visitors per month. 

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Going into business for yourself can be scary. There are forms to fill out, licenses to apply for, new checking accounts to set up. And then there's the whole business about contracts, services agreements, insurance—do I need it or not?—along with lots of other things that can send your head into a spin.

Even if you're already in business and have been for a while, you might not feel like you have the best grasp on the legal, tax, business entity-ish side of things. (Maybe I'm talking about myself—yes, definitely—but I'm guessing I'm not alone.)

That's why I invited Rachel Brenke to talk to us. Not only is she a lawyer, she's also a business consultant specializing in helping people in creative fields (like us!).

Listen as we talk about:

  • separating your personal and business "buckets"
  • protecting your business (and yourself) with the proper business entity; contracts, services agreements, and web terms; and insurance. (Who knew there was such a thing as insurance for computers, scanners, printers, etc?)
  • why you should NOT be operating a Sole Proprietorship
  • how contracts can be the bad guy, so you don't have to be
  • four important types of legal documents you might need

 

Links & Stuff:

Rachel Brenke's website

Rachel's books

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It's free and open to anyone working (full-time, part-time, or as a volunteer) in the life story business. Fill out the form here.