Aug 16, 2016
Rachel Rodgers (@RachelRodgersEsq) is a
business lawyer turned business coach, intellectual property
strategist, and the creator of Small Business Bodyguard.
In 2013, she created the Small Business Bodyguard:
Cover Your Bases, Cover Your Assets, Cover Your Ass. This
game-changing legal resource has been called “fun and engaging” by
New York Times bestselling author Chris Brogan and a
“graduate-level course on how to build a strong foundation for your
business” by CEO of OurDeal, Kyle Durand.
Rachel is known in the legal industry and beyond for being an
innovator and master of productizing services and creating
high-quality, high profit products. SBB and the other legal kits
she has created have been transformative, generating half a million
dollars in revenue in just two years and serving 1,700 small
businesses around the country. And she achieved those results with
almost no active marketing because she simply didn’t have the time
(she literally launched SBB with a newborn in her arms).
When she’s not taking care of clients, she enjoys baking in the
kitchen (barefoot, with rosé in hand), lifting weights, juicing
(the green kind, not the steroid kind), reading to her toddlers,
being a “dance mom” to her girls and going on new adventures with
her family (her favorite destination being the South of France, of
course!).
In this episode, we discussed:
- Critical first steps every business owner should take to
prevent legal headaches.
- How to stop working "in your business" and start working "on
it" to catapult your success.
- How to establish strategic partnerships and alliances with
other entrepreneurs.
Resources
The Rodgers
Collective
Small Business
Bodyguard
Slack
Helpscout
Mastermind Dinners by Jason Gaignard
The Alchemist by Paul Coehlo
The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
NEWS
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Curt Woodward at the Boston Globe reports that, as financial
firms and retail outlets have significantly tightened their fraud
prevention tactics,
criminals have now turned to hacking health care records. The
health care records of 4.5 million people have been compromised
this year, and while this is down from last year, the long term
consequences are much more severe than those of financial data
breaches.
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Three House Democrats are calling for GOP leaders to investigate
Donald Trump for encouraging Russia to hack into the 30,000
emails still missing from the private email server Hillary Clinton
used when she served as Secretary of State. Congressmen Patrick
Murphy from Florida, Andre Carson from Indiana and Eric Swalwell
from California are all asking a House panel to investigate. Check
out Haroun Demirjian’s (DE-MEER-JOHN'S_ full coverage in the
Washington Post.
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The federal 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled last
week that
entities that mimic government agencies must observe the
Fourth Amendment warrant requirement for searches and seizures.
The case involved a defendant who sent child pronography via his
AOL account, which AOL then flagged and sent to the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which it was required
to do. A Department of Homeland Security special agent then
obtained a tip through NCMEC’s system and then a search warrant to
search the suspect’s home. The court found that NCMEC should never
have opened the email without a warrant in the first place, since
it was acting on the government’s behalf. Cyrus Farivar has more
full coverage at Ars Technica.
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A federal judge on the
DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued a largely sealed ruling last
week criticizing the FBI’s new gag order rules. Gag orders
demand secrecy from companies regarding data requests the FBI makes
to investigate national security cases. The new gag order rules
require the FBI to review either on the “close of an
investigation” or on the “three year anniversary of an
investigation”, whether a gag order is still necessary. So this
means the FBI could, theoretically at least, at the close of every
single investigation, deem the gag orders to still be necessary,
and keep them in place indefinitely. But these are just criticisms.
The judge did not order a revamping of the rules. Ellen Nakashima
at the Washington Post has the story.
Finally,
Greenberg Traurig—the international law firm— will be lobbying on
behalf of the Pokemon Company International, which has come
under scrutiny after the release of its widely popular Pokémon Go
game. The game has caused concern among lawmakers regarding
distracted driving and the potential for pedophiles to exploit the
game to harm children. For example, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
banned sex offenders on parole from using Pokemon Go for fear they
would put down lures to entice children to come to a particular
location. Greenberg Traurig will work to counter that negative
perception among federal lawmakers. Megan Wilson at the Hill has
more.