Law Chat with Girija

Our guest today is an "accidental entrepreneur", after listening to her journey, we happen to love accidents now!

Episode Introduction:

She started with a website that was so "terribly designed" that she wants to block it out of her memory, today - she rules the design industry. Our guest today is a true example of the wonders that can come out of choosing progress over perfection.

Episode Summary:

Bonnie Bakhtiari shares the recipe to her secret sauce of success which was marrying her skills with her creative drive and voila, she got herself a thriving six-figure business. Bonnie walks us through her journey of starting where she was, moving forward with imperfection, and gives us all the tea on the perfect brand strategy. This episode is jam-packed with golden nuggets of knowledge.

Main Takeaways:

• Starting with imperfection is so much better than not starting at all.
• It's okay to not know where your destination is as long as you believe that your journey is leading you to someplace meaningful.
• If you believe something is possible, you end up creating a reality for yourself where it actually is possible.
• Instead of having misconceptions of reality, focus your energy on having faith in your own actions.
• No one is going to be able to work with you if you don't tell them that they can work with you.
• It's important to consistently show up and serve value online and then point people to how you can help them achieve the transformation they're looking for.
• Instead of thinking that someone is saying "No" to you as a service provider, think of it as them saying "No" to the transformation that your service provides doesn't resonate with them.
• Once your primary revenue stream is generating consistent clients, you can start looking into developing passive income sources such as e-courses and other resources.
• Bonnie's top tips on creating a solid brand strategy:

1. Before getting to the brand aesthetics, work on clearly breaking down and defining your brand strategy.
2. Clearly define what your business is, what your business offers, who your ideal client is, what kind of growth should your ideal customers experience through your services, etc.
3. Even if you are a seasoned professional, revisit the basics from time to time to perfect your brand strategy further.

• Create a mission for your business and understand your purpose. It'll keep you coming back to your calling even on the days you don't feel like showing up.
• If you are a service provider, it is crucial to have a contract outlining the scope of the work before you start the project.

Fun Facts About Bonnie Bakhtiari:

• Bonnie is a coffee person.
• Some of her favorite business tools are Honeybook, Asana, and GSuite.

Find Bonnie Bakhtiari:

Website: https://bisforbonniedesign.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bonniejoymarie

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-brand-strategy-podcast/id1446601347

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BIsForBonnieDesign

Pinterest: https://in.pinterest.com/bonniejoymarie/_created/

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Our guest today spent years disrupting the health industry so that you wouldn't have to struggle with body image issues the way she did.

Episode Introduction:

Dee Gautham is the founder of The Boss Body Method of coaching to help women get into their best shape ever, not just physically but mentally as well. In today's episode, she shares her views on body image issues as well as how she's working towards making sustainable changes to one's health instead of following random diets here and there.

Episode Summary:

From struggling with body image issues to disrupting the health industry with her signature Boss Body Method, Dee Gautham is truly an inspiration for every woman who is looking to make healthy changes to her body. No crash diets, no hours sweating off on the treadmill, and definitely not copying an influencer's diet chart - she believes in making sustainable changes specific to your body type so that you don't end up relapsing every time you lose a few inches.

Main Takeaways:

• When you're working on improving your physical health, it is equally important to work on the underlying psychological body image issues so that you're truly becoming healthy in all aspects.
• In order to work on your body image issues, you need to start by acknowledging them and educating yourself about what it is that's affecting you.
• Learn to value yourself outside of your materialistic traits such as physical appearance, money, educational institute, etc.
• Sometimes you need to let go of control over certain aspects of your life.
• It is crucial for you to feel connected with your body in order to actively heal it inside out.
• Restricting your children from eating certain types of food is only going to make them want to consume more of it. Instead, focus on maintaining a balanced diet.
• When you're choosing a name for your product, make sure it represents the vision and mission of your business.
• Everyone has the potential to scale, you just need the vision, desire, and guidance to do so.
• Dee's top tips to hire an employee:

1. Make a list of the qualities you're looking for and then rate each candidate on a scale of 1-5 with respect to them possessing those qualities to help you better sort out the ideal employee.
2. If you're looking for someone to join your internet-based business, also consider their social media presence.
3. Consider their technical skills, cultural fit, and values too.

Fun Facts About Dee Gautham:

• Dee's favorite self-help book is Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program that Works by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole.
• Her favorite business tools are Instagram, TikTok, and Canva.

Find Dee Gautham:

Website: https://bossbodyrevolution.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dee_gautham/

TBBR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebossbodyrevolution/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deegautham/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dikshagautham

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Time to kill some of those well-known rumors about all things Copyright!

Episode Introduction:

In today's episode of Law Chat With Girija, we'll be debunking some of the major myths that surround the topic of copyright.

Episode Summary:

Girija Patel walks you through the importance of copyright and how it elevates your legal protection. She also talks about some of the most commonly heard myths about copyright and debunks them while giving you tangible solutions to all your copyright issues.

Main Takeaways:

• Under the common law, we all have inherent copyright protecting our original work of authorship.
• Registering for copyright boosts your protection level from common law to statutory protection.
• Just because something is available on a public forum such as Google, Pinterest or Facebook, doesn't make it open for use to all.
• When using stock images, make sure you're following the rules of the platform where to get it from.
• Sending yourself a copy of your work may prove possession of the work but it doesn't prove authorship unless it has been copyrighted.
• No matter how little you copy from someone else's work, it is still copyright infringement.

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Our guest today fought all odds to become successful in life and now she works on sharing her wisdom with other women to help them feel empowered.

Episode Introduction:

Our guests today walks us through her journey from being bound to marry at the age of 20 to graduating as a lawyer in the UK and passing the bar in New York. Today's episode is truly a testament to what can be achieved if one believes in themselves and channels their faith towards their goals.

Episode Summary:

From building a career after being inspired by a Bollywood movie to losing a hundred percent of her monetary investment, Meena Kumari Adnani walks us through the various chapters of her life and how her mindset evolved throughout as she made some drastic pivots in her career.

Main Takeaways:

• You shouldn't intertwine your life with another person to the extent where you don't have any goals of your own.
• Sometimes all you need to do is get up in the morning, put your feet on the floor and take the first step - the rest can be figured out as you go.
• Instead of thinking about how your bad experiences destroyed you, think of them as to how they built you.
• Every single experience that we go through in our lives happens for a reason.
• Most of us seek power on the outside without realizing that we already have it on the inside.
• Instead of focusing on your physical experience, ask yourself what lesson it taught your spirit.
• If we were born only to serve ourselves, we wouldn't be surrounded by so many living beings.
• Meena's top tips to hone into your best self:

1. Create a new spiritual identity to become confident.
2. Learn how to have a clear vision.
3. Understand the art of becoming a conscious creator.

• Cultivate the mindset that the universe is not working against you but for you.
• You can never overcome something you keep running away from.
• Have some sort of a morning ritual that keeps you replenished during the day.
• If you focus on gratitude, all you'll see around you are things to be grateful for.

Fun Facts About Meena Kumari Adnani:

• Some of her favorite books are The Miracle Morning: The Not-so-obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life Before 8 AM by Hal Elrod and Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
• Her favorite business tools are Trello, Loom, and Zoom.

Resources Mentioned:

Jody Spencer Meditation: https://jodyspencer.com/

Abraham Hicks Affirmations: https://www.abraham-hicks.com/

Find Meena Kumari Adnani:

Website: https://www.strongandshine.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/strongandshine/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1707792316213663

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjLN0uJpv33vmS4ZeBlGzAQ

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meena-kumari-adnani/

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Our guest today shares with us a variety of experiences right from his love of music to his walking in the wilderness period to now being a successful entrepreneur.

Episode Introduction:

Graham Cochrane walks us through his journey of failing to be successful at what he was passionate about and yet ending up building the creative career of his dreams.

Episode Summary:

This episode is a testament to the wonders that can be done in one's life if only they start working smart instead of working hard. This episode helps you become strategic about using social media tools, reducing your work hours while increasing your income and making time for the things that actually matter.

Main Takeaways:

• Entrepreneurship is an avenue to be creative.
• Entrepreneurs should be leveraging YouTube as a toll for being discovered.
• How to convert people from your YouTube Channel to your Email List:

1. Don't mention the fact that you want them to join your email list, this creates a feeling of being spammed by your emails and people tend not to sign up.
2. Instead, offer them a free resource that gets delivered to their email as they sign up for it. This way they are entering the email relationship where you establish yourself as an expert right at the beginning.
3. Mention the link to the resource in your YouTube video, enter it on top of your video description, place a card on the video with the link and link it to the end screen so that it is easy to access for your audience.

• As a content creator, one should be very strong and clear about their opinions.
• As an entrepreneur, the number one thing you should seek is maximum eyes on your business.
• Emails are an essential part of running a strategic business.
• Take at least one day a week to relax and spend time with your loved ones instead of working.
• Your client doesn't care how many hours you spend working on their project, they are concerned with the results so work a creative way to spend less time while driving in more results.
• Graham Cochrane's top tips for someone who's looking to start their business:

1. It's never too late to do what you want to do.
2. Rise above the noise and give people what they want, that is, clear instructions.
3. Just start.

Fun Facts About Graham Cochrane:

• Graham's favorite book is The Go-Giver by Bob Burg.
• Graham's faith and his wife are the anchors that get him through the tough times.

Find Graham Cochrane:

Website: https://www.grahamcochrane.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/GrahamCochrane/featured

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-graham-cochrane-show/id1461762316

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegrahamcochrane

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cochranegc/

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If you thought that using social media comes without rules, think again!

Episode Introduction:

In today's episode of Law Chat With Girija, we'll be talking about the unspoken yet very essential rules that one must adhere to when they use social media.

Episode Summary:

Girija Patel walks you through the unspoken rules of social media that you wouldn't even have thought of otherwise. These rules look fairly simple but not following them can have a catastrophic legal impact on your business.

Unspoken Legal Rules of Social Media

• Be careful of the images that you're using for your social media content. You do not want to use copyrighted images and make sure you give credits where it's due.
• When reposting content from someone else's website, get their permission and give them attribution.
• As an affiliate, make sure to disclose the information about your work partnership to your consumers.
• While promoting a product, ensure that whatever you're saying is true and verified by your own experience.
• Make sure you only use honest testimonials from your clients and that you get permission to use them as well.

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Our guest today transformed her passion for helping people into an organizational development hub for CEOs looking to expand their business teams.

Episode Introduction:

From spending over a year in a foreign country to having her enthusiastic spirit crushed, only to flourish in her field of expertise later - Haley Grayless walks us through her journey of creating Växa Collective, an organizational development hub.

Episode Summary:

Haley Grayless tells us about everything from her immense love for people and her extroverted personality to learning how to bargain in a foreign land. She shares her professional journey with us with highlights on how those experiences impacted her personal life.

Main Takeaways:

• You can't cultivate your true passion and purpose in a toxic work environment no matter how much you love it.
• Don't let other people's opinions navigate the trajectory of your life.
• Have two core values in your life and align everything else that you do to be in sync with them.
• We all live in cages with the doors wide open, we just need to find the courage to walk out.
• When you want to do something, all you have to do is to just do it.
• If you can't vote for yourself, nobody in the world is going to vote for you.
• A confused mind doesn't buy.
• If you have the time to gossip about someone behind their back, you have the time to talk directly to that person.
• Conflict is uncomfortable but it is inevitable.
• Haley's top tips in creating the environment that induces team spirit:

1. Manage by walking around, get to know all of your employees.
2. Get to know their personality assessments.
3. Focus on Psychological Safety.

• As a leader, have regular check-ins with your team so they know they can open up to you about their work progress and obstacles.

Fun Facts About Haley Grayless:

• One of Haley's favorite books is Life Of Pi by Yann Martel.
• Some of Haley's favorite apps are Trello and Slack.

Find Haley Grayless:

Website: https://vaxacollective.com/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/vaxacollective

Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/revolutionaryleadershipcollective

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/haleytheleadershipcoach/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vaxa-collective/

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Our guest today shares the true meaning and significance of authenticity for individuals in their professional and personal lives.

Episode Introduction:

Erika Gerdes shares her journey of "graduating" from Google to finding her true professional purpose in life. Today, Erika is an authenticity coach who helps several other individuals with the "Art of Undoing".

Episode Summary:

Erika Gerdes brings us along for the happening journey of her life where she shares several personal details that shaped her into the person she is today. Jam-packed with value and full of fun (and emotional) anecdotes, this episode will have you hooked right from the beginning.

Main Takeaways:

• Our jobs don't hold us from doing what we want to, our mindset does.
• Once you're honest about your identity, who you are, who you want to be, and what's holding you back, you can then open yourself up to new meaningful experiences in life.
• It is natural for you to be faced with limiting beliefs that you thought you had put behind you.
• We need to learn to accept our fears without letting it impact our journey.
• Shift your actions from a place or reaction to a place of intention.
• Confidence comes from action.
• Our bodies always give us a sign when there's something wrong with it.
• Most times we just unconsciously repeat the behaviors that we believed to be necessary for our survival during our identity-forming years.
• Any time that you try to find your happiness other than inside yourself, you're looking in the wrong place.
• Erika's step by step guide to step into your most authentic self:

> Awareness - What is it that you're not facing?

> Ask - What is the story you're telling yourself?

> Accept - Give yourself space to process.

> Act - From a place of intention.

• The three pillars of trust are Authenticity, Empathy & Logic.

Fun Facts About Erika Gerdes:

• Erika's favorite book is The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
• A book that really fascinates Erika is Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Find Erika Gerdes:

Website: https://erikagerdes.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ErikaGerdesIntl/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erika_gerdes/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikagerdes/

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If you're in the event planning industry, here's everything you need to know about the perfect client contract.

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Episode Introduction:

In today's episode of Law Chat With Girija, we'll be covering the essentials of a client contract for event planners.

Episode Summary:

Girija Patel walks you through the seven essentials of a client contract in the event industry and also gives you a detailed description of how to get each of them right so you can do what you do best without worrying about the legal logistics.

Essentials of a Contract:

1. The terms of your contract.
2. Client expectations and responsibilities.
3. Designer discretion.
4. Mention you're an independent contractor, not an employee.
5. Description of work delegation.
6. Communications clause.
7. The venue, time, and date of the event.

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Our guest today went from wanting to be an assassin to being a social media content coach.

Episode Introduction:

Keri Henry shares her journey of becoming a social media content coach along with her top tips and strategies to master video content on TikTok and Instagram Reels. If you're looking to boost your social media engagement, this episode is for you!

Episode Summary:

Keri Henry walks us through the several hats that she's worn in her professional journey before she ended up as an entrepreneur selling wine and coaching people on social media. From being raised by rocket scientists and brain surgeons in the family to returning home after her graduation, Keri opens up multiple cards from her life inspiring you to walk on your own entrepreneurial path.

Main Takeaways:

• When you don't take NO for an answer, you make things happen for yourself.
• One of the most important things about getting into a business with someone is to believe in the integrity of it.
• Keri's top tips to making an aligned pivot:

1. Ask yourself what it is that you're extremely passionate about.
2. Turn your expertise into your niche.
3. Find the audience that aligns with your niche.

• If you're posting something you're passionate about, it's not exhausting or time-consuming to create that content.
• Videos create a greater impact than still images and help you cater to a larger audience.
• Authenticity plays a huge role in the success of your content.
• Your mess is your message.
• Put the strategy and time into planning your content.
• You don't have to wait until you're an expert to do something.

Fun Facts About Keri Henry:

• One of her favorite memories is the 2004 Super Bowl when she watched it with Snoop Dogg.
• Her favorite book series is You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero.

Find Keri Henry:

Website: https://kerihenry.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/keriscellar/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keri_henry/

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