Legal Essentials for your Biz: An Interview with Christy Westerfeld

Apr 19, 2023

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Making sure your business is legal is foundational and brings you so much peace of mind. Knowing everything is good allows you to focus on the more fun parts of building your coaching business. But how do you insure legality? What do you need? Where do you even begin?

To answer these questions, I’m very excited to bring you the second episode of my new Foundations for Your Coaching Business series. For it, I interviewed Christy Westerfeld, an attorney and legal resource for online entrepreneurs and coaches. Christy offers templates and resources to guide you in several areas of legal compliance, including privacy policies, contracts, trademarks, copyrights, and more. She shared how not all online templates are compliant, and proceeded to online the common mistakes coaches make. Christy included the legal dangers of missing documents and policies, but also emphasized the benefits and trust it brings to client relationships when you are properly covered.

“Your goal is to build a huge business that changes millions of lives… [So] set up your foundation right so that you can be a force. Right? You don’t want to get knocked down halfway through because none of your stuff was right.” – Christy Westerfeld

What You’ll Learn

Clear task list to remove the mystery
Online templates that aren’t compliant
Family and business can both win
Mistakes coaches make
- No privacy policy (this mistake can be very costly)
- Unclear contracts and disclaimers (including right to use)
- Missing contracts and disclaimers (and lost client trust)
- Accepting payment before a signed contract (and what to do instead)

Contact Info and Recommended Resources

I encourage you to not miss a single episode of my Foundations for Your Coaching Business series: mollyclaire.com/the-masterful-coach.

Connect with Christy Westerfeld

Christy is an attorney and legal resource for online entrepreneurs and coaches. She is the founder of Coach Legally, LLC, has been an attorney for 10 years, and has dedicated nearly 6 of those years to JUST working with online business owners, and developing educational resources for entrepreneurs, etc.

Christy graduated at the top of her class from law school, and was a top associate at the firm she was with before leaving to go out on her own.

She truly cares about her customers and fellow female entrepreneurs. If you’ve seen her trainings or lives, you know Christy can get FIRED UP about some of the most common legal myths, or INCORRECT legal advice non-lawyers (or lawyers who do not know this field) give others in this space.

Work with Christy: coachlegally.com/?aff=mollyclaire
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Get Christy’s FREE Legal Roadmap: coachlegally.com/legalroadmap
Join Christy’s Membership with monthly trainings, calls, and the ability to get answers to your legal questions: coachlegally.com/membership

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