In this episode of Create Your Own Economy Podcast, host Bunmi Ajibade chats with Kristin Santamaria, attorney and co-founder of Dotted Lines. Kristin shares her journey from traditional legal roles to helping online entrepreneurs gain confidence through legal protections.
With over a decade of experience, Kristin highlights common legal challenges for online entrepreneurs, from understanding scope of practice to knowing when to get legally protected. She underscores the importance of starting with proper legal frameworks...
In this episode of Create Your Own Economy Podcast, host Bunmi Ajibade chats with Kristin Santamaria, attorney and co-founder of Dotted Lines. Kristin shares her journey from traditional legal roles to helping online entrepreneurs gain confidence through legal protections.
With over a decade of experience, Kristin highlights common legal challenges for online entrepreneurs, from understanding scope of practice to knowing when to get legally protected. She underscores the importance of starting with proper legal frameworks to ensure a successful business and maintain positive client relationships.
Kristin talks about overcoming initial hurdles in her business, like marketing and bookkeeping, and emphasizes the value of legal resources offered by Dotted Lines, such as contract templates and educational materials.
Listeners will learn the critical role of contracts in protecting business interests, aligning expectations, and safeguarding intellectual property. Kristin introduces the "Legally Ready Guide," outlining 15 essential steps for legal business preparation, available at dottedlinesco.com.
The episode concludes with Bunmi and Kristin urging entrepreneurs to seek legal peace of mind. Kristin offers gratitude and openness to future discussions, while Bunmi emphasizes using available resources for comprehensive legal protection.
Tune in to discover how to fortify your online business with essential legal measures and gain the confidence needed to thrive as an entrepreneur.
Key Moments :
00:10 Podcast for side hustlers and entrepreneurs. Legal advice.
05:43 Transition to entrepreneurship spurred by a health journey.
06:49 Passion for coaching, guiding entrepreneurs to success.
09:54 Entrepreneurs face unexpected challenges learning diverse skills.
16:34 Legal templates useful for online entrepreneurs. Legal protection advised early in business.
18:36 Uncertainty about laws can dampen entrepreneurial spirit.
25:12 Agreeing liability, protecting payments, and limiting use.
26:43 Content usage limited for personal purposes, prohibits redistribution.
31:01 Legal protections for entrepreneurs, downloadable legally ready guide.
About the Guest :
Kristin Santamaria is one of the two attorney co-founders of Dotted Lines, where she and her BFF, Kelly, help coaches and online entrepreneurs get confident and have peace of mind with a comprehensive legal protection strategy. Kristin has over a decade of legal experience and started her career working at a large international law firm, where she helped entrepreneurs ranging from small start-ups to Fortune 100 companies draft their contracts, form their legal entities, and protect their businesses. She now loves serving the cause of coaches and online entrepreneurs through legal contract templates & legal education so they can grow their reach and amplify their impact.
Connect Kristin :
Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/dottedlinescontracts/
About the Host:
Bunmi Ajibade is the CEO, Executive Trainer, and Coach of Clarole Growth Resources, LLC. She impacts the lives of individuals, groups, and corporations through Coaching, Training, and Mentoring. Bunmi’s strategies include Creating Awareness, Clarity, and Navigating to be more and do more to achieve success. Through her love, passion, care, and empathy, Bunmi has helped her clients navigate, gain clarity and find solutions that will make them live their best lives and become successful. Bunmi has organized workshops, Seminars, led Leadership discussions, and conducted one on one coaching sessions. Bunmi is happily married and raised three successful sons. She resides in Texas, USA.
How to connect with Bunmi Ajibade:
Website: https://clarolegr.com
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bunmiaj/
Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/Clarole14
Book a call with Bunmi - http://clarolegr.com/meet
