1. Entrepreneurship and Law: Turning Fears into Foundations of Success

Ever felt like business law was an intimidating ogre ready to crush your innovative ideas? I, Tamsen Horton, am here to tell you that it doesn't have to be this way. With a personal journey that weaves through entrepreneurship and into law, I've lived and breathed the challenges you're facing and I'm here to help. Let me take you through the inception of BIZLEBOX™, a creation born out of my own frustration, designed to transform the ogre into a key ally for your business - offering stability and a foundation for success.

In this journey, you'll discover how BIZLEBOX, envisioned as an integral part of your team, helps you navigate the labyrinth of business law. It's not just about legal support, it's about securing profitability and making your venture legally secure. Drawing parallels between the unpredictable world of parenting and the constantly evolving landscape of law, I share insights on how to adapt and thrive. Tune in for an enlightening narrative that demystifies law and helps you talk to the 'ogre' - making it less of a threat and more of a valuable ally in your entrepreneurial journey.

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Chapters

• 0:06 BIZLEBOX Origin Story
• 10:06 Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed and Thrive

Transcript

Kip Horton: 0:06

Welcome BIZLEBOX the Podcast, the go-to source for out-of-the-box entrepreneurs. Here you've found business and legal in a box, all neatly packaged, how thoughtful, with entertaining stories and unforgettable metaphors from licensed attorney Tamsen Horton to design and achieve a profitable and legally secure business that makes an impact and allows you to fully live on your terms. Can you ever have an attorney without a disclaimer? Nope, never gonna happen. Here's one just for BI ZLEBOX. provides high quality info on business and legal issues, but to get the best advice for your situation, find an attorney you know like and trust. Tamsen is an attorney, but she's not your attorney. She is my mom. Now here's Tamsen.

Tamsen Horton: 1:01

Welcome. If you are anything like me, you love business. You are some way connected to a business. Most of you are probably running your own or considering running your own business or a side hustle, and I want to make sure that you have a place to really see how cool the law is, how vibrant and fun and exciting and truly law is here to support you. Law is here to make your life easier. Law is here to help you make more money. It is here to save your money.

Tamsen Horton: 1:41

And this is all coming from myself and the vantage point of I didn't set out to be a lawyer. Yes, I am a lawyer, most definitely, and I love having that knowledge. I love the experience. I love the depth that it has brought to me as a person and also has allowed me to make a vibrant impact that has rippled out into the world for many, many years. But I didn't set out to be a lawyer. I came into the law because I was working in business. I loved business, I love ideas, I love creating, I love setting new things out into the world, and it just felt like in my experience that very often the lawyers and the law would come in and it felt like this big ugly ogre. That was like kind of scary and when you least expected it would like jump up and slam you with a club. I didn't like that. I was, like you know, all bubbly and excited and ready to go with these ideas. And then it was like the law would just jump up and smash it. And so that is when I decided I would go to law school, I would become an attorney, and it really allowed me to create this resource, this solution, this really team member employee called Bizzlebox and yes, it is business and legal in a box for out of the box thinkers. That is what I consider myself. Am I a business owner? Yes, am I an entrepreneur? Yes, but more importantly, it's being the out of the box thinker that allows me to be the business owner and the entrepreneur and the creator. So Bizzlebox is truly designed to stand in the gap, and I'm going to give you the two extremes, because this is why it exists, why I pour so much of my own creative energy into it, and that is when I entered my own business, when I took ownership of the fact that I really, I really bought everything, wanted to call the shots, I wanted to design the business, I wanted to run the business. I didn't want to be the Employee any longer. I really wanted to be the creator and the decision-maker.

Tamsen Horton: 4:21

And what I saw looking around in my realm, this was around 2011 in the online space. So still still a lot in a lot of ways. A lot, a lot of ways, wild Wild West, to say the least was these panicked late-night Google searches of like, oh crap, I got a cease and desist, what am I gonna do? Or, oh blank, someone else is using the name that I gave my course, you know, six months ago. That was on one hand, and, on the other hand, was the traditional, accepted, available law firms that had a lot of mahogany and a lot of people and a lot of overhead and Just were not conducive to Myself but, more importantly, not to the friends around me that we're all starting these fledgling online businesses that we were so excited about.

Tamsen Horton: 5:25

So Bizzlebox truly is designed to Become part of your business team. You need legal, you have to hire legal. It is essential and it pops up all the time, which is a part of the law. That, yes, is incredibly frustrating, because just when you think, oh, I've taken care of that, another set of facts and circumstances, blends its way in and changes that. Now, for those of you that are parents, this might not be as frustrating, because if you are in any way, shape or form Involved with or around little humans, you know that there's days where you think, oh, I can check this off the list. And then you wake up the next morning and the facts and circumstances have changed and you're like, oh crud, okay, new day, new tool, new trick, and and that's just part of the gig. That is just part of the parenting gig. Now, for those of you that are not parents, a pet Might serve a similar role, but and I apologize for anyone that is not a parent but if you can even look around to the people who have little humans in their world I happen to have two.

Tamsen Horton: 6:48

I have blended babies and business since the very beginning. They will show up in many of my metaphors and that is, in many ways, the law. It is our businesses. Just when we think we've got something all set and ready to go, there's a tech mishap, or there is a rogue employee, or there is an unhappy customer, or there is a Seeson desist that arrives on the doorstep, or there are books that got misprinted and we can't track down the printer. There are so many different things, and that is where Bizzlebox really it's there to. It is there to be on your legal team, affordable, accessible, reliable, easy to use, and I am Incredibly proud of how each and every one of us are finding ways and navigating the world in such a way that, yes, bizzlebox is one of my contributions but, more importantly, you're sitting on so many contributions that are also Making an impact. You want to make an impact and, at the same time, be able to fully live on your terms with a business that is profitable and is legally secure. So this is Bizzlebox.

Tamsen Horton: 8:16

I am looking forward to spending many, many hours with you, introducing you to all of the ways that the law is so Incredibly cool.

Tamsen Horton: 8:30

It's exciting, it is cool. It is Not this big, scary ogre, because if you know how to talk to the ogre, you know let's use Shrek as an example for any of you that have not there's a movie called Shrek. He is a big green ogre, but when you get to know him, he's a nice guy. He's not, you know, big and scary, and so I really hope to give you the opportunity to Engage and see and learn and ask questions in terms of how Law really is such a key part to giving you a Solid business, giving you a secure business, giving you a business that will Sustain your success, however you define that success. So we are going to have a lot of really Cool conversations, I think, conversations that you might not have heard from an attorney, and especially a lot of discussions where the law comes alive and you can see how it can Breathe life into what you're doing and, at the same time, give you incredible Stability and a foundation that you can build on for many, many years to come.

Kip Horton: 10:06

Thanks for tuning in. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review and share it with a friend. At BIZLEBOX, we love helping entrepreneurs succeed. We offer a variety of reliable, easy to use tools. At bizlebox. com, our goal is to help you have a profitable and legally secure business so you can make your impact while living fully on your terms. Until next time, take what you've learned and put it to work for you.