Kristen Ley, founder of Thimblepress® shares her wholesale secrets from being in the stationery businesses for more than a decade. Thimblepress is an international lifestyle company that encourages kindness and inspires fun, through her artisan cards, Push-Pop Confetti, and viral hits like the “Your butt looks great in those jeans!” card. In their interview with […]

Want to avoid the 7 biggest legal mistakes that physical product and eCommerce companies make? Attorney Brittany Ratelle walks through the most common mistakes that land modern product companies in legal hot water and how you can avoid these headaches as a small business owner.   Creative Counsel Episode: 74   Here are the top […]

Serial entrepreneur Sierra McCleve, founder of two successful Utah-based food businesses, Thirst and Dottie’s Kolaches shares on the Creative Counsel Podcast how created a positive team culture in the challenging food industry. She shares her wisdom as a baker, manager, owner, mom, wife, garage gym fitness enthusiast and now investor in other projects. Sierra talks […]

    Carina Wytiaz joins the Creative Counsel podcast to share how having an abundance mindset allowed her to pivot as a content marketer working in tech, to her time as a solo freelancer, and then how she rolled that experience back to corporate leadership.   Carina shares how she discovered what she is REALLY […]

Today, we are joined by my sweet friend Heather Fujikawa! We are so excited about the arrival of her little girl and reminiscing on our journeys as wives and mothers who are also busy in their careers!    Heather, my friend since college, started her company and entrepreneur journey as an interior designer in Los […]

What is a vampire client (bad clients who “suck you dry”) and how can you avoid them? Or are there no bad clients but only bad “systems” for managing those clients? (and let’s be clear…we’re not talking about brooding vampires with extra “sparkle” or annoyingly hot vampire brothers…) We’re all with Team Jacob on this […]

Kylie Chenn, Founder of Acanela Expeditions, shares her story of growing her email list and strategically using promotions to build a booming $5 million dollar travel business, and then how that came to a crashing halt as the global COVID-19 pandemic shut everything down.   Tune in to hear Kylie’s secrets on how she worked […]

Listen in to this killer conversation with food and media personality, chef, author, and Food Network Start Kelsey Nixon. Kelsey came in fourth place on the fourth season of the Food Network series Food Network Star and hosted the Cooking Channel series Kelsey’s Essentials, which ran for five seasons from 2010 to 2013 as one of the first pieces of original programming on Cooking Channel and earned […]

Want to avoid some of the most common legal mistakes that new business owners make? Wondering how you can skip over some unnecessary frustration, worry, overwhelm or costly fixes that come from starting a new business and wanting your legal foundations to be solid? Creative Counsel Episode 66   In this episode, you will learn […]

Ever wondered if we really “need” contracts and how you can use them without putting up a wall between you and your client, customer, vendor or business partner? This video will cover 10 tips for how to build collaborative contracts — contracts that actually help protect and clarify roles and expectations for BOTH sides and […]