Handling Business

The Handling Business podcast brings you a new interview each week with business owners and industry experts. We’ll ask about their story, drive, techniques and tips that you can bring into your daily operations. This week's guest is Heather Carhart, owner and founder of Pet Smiles pet care in Winchester, Virginia. After years of practice Heather has become a master of balancing children, life and owning a business. We talk about how beneficial it is to teach kids about operating a business and how you can instill entrepreneurial, hard working values into your children at a young age. We also discuss the growing pains that business owners go through as you continue to grow your business and how important it is to let go in order grow. Heather takes us down her path to success, while giving insight into the importance of treating every aspect of business as a relationship that must be nurtured and supported.

We’re back with Handling Business, our new Business Podcast! Each week we bring you an interview with business owners and industry experts. We’ll ask about their story, drive, techniques and tips that you can bring into your daily operations. This week we sit down with Stephen Kane, a small business and startup attorney, fellow at the Stanford CodeX Center for Legal Informatics and founder/ CEO of ArbiClaims, an online dispute resolution platform. His extensive resume also includes former time at O’Melveny & Myers and Lex Machina, a litigation analytics platform that sold to Lexis Nexis. Stephen continues his work as founder and Board member of GRID110, a 501c3 working partnership with the LA Mayor’s office to build up the startup community in downtown LA. Stephen calms our fears and explains why small business legal issues aren’t so scary after all. He details the key steps to protect your small business today, as well as the various stages of your business that will need specific legal action. This must-listen episode will outline the most commonly overlooked steps to legal security and will give you the tools to walk away confident in your small business. Employees VS. Contractors? Stephen Kane, small business attorney, breaks it down. Handling Business Podcast

Welcome to the Handling Business podcast! We wanted to start off our podcast with a bang by talking to one of the most successful dog walking business owners in the country. Lauren Cora is the owner of Dogs Deserve It, a Chicago based business that employs over 70 dog walkers, 5 managers and takes care of 300-400 dogs per day. Lauren started law school with intentions of becoming a lawyer, but quickly knew that she needed to capitalize on her eternal entrepreneurial fervor. After much research and contemplation, Lauren started DDI in 2009 by herself and has since grown the company to 70 walkers and five in-house managers. Her focus has been and always will be on innovation and reliability. Dogs Deserve It was the first company to utilize walker tracking using time stamped pedometers and the first to provide our walkers with salary and benefits. Dogs Deserve It believes that accountability and walker happiness will continue to set them apart from their competition. Dogs Deserve It is a perfect model of what a professional pet business should be and Lauren is here to tell us how she did it and how you can too. For Lauren, it hasn't always been a walk in the park, but with her business sense, know-how and persistence she has created a multi-million dollar business that is an industry leader.