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Today's episode, titled "Know Your Legal Requirements to Run Your Business Ethically" is with Shalini Nandan-Singh.

Drawing on more than 15 years of experience as a lawyer and a woman in business, Shalini Nandan Singh helps Australian service-based entrepreneurs protect their businesses and profitability with  empowered legal advice and contracts.

Shalini founded Love Your Legals (formerly Legally Shalini) in 2015 from a desire to work with small  businesses that faced the same lean start-up and business-building highs and lows that she did in her  previous life in legal practice and small business in Fiji and Australia.

Her keen insight into the nuances and practicalities of law as a tool for protecting and empowering  women in business has seen her engaged as a speaker for digital and live events, presenting to both  Australian and international audiences.

Shalini has encouraged listeners to #loveyourlegals at numerous small business development events,  workshops, podcasts, and summits. Her goal is to educate audiences that, rather than confusing  legalese, business legals should be designed to create positive business boundaries that drive client  relationships founded on compassion and understanding.

A regular guest mentor in several high-profile masterminds, Shalini is an engaging and informed  presenter who firmly believes that business legals (service agreements, terms and policies) should  be an authentic extension of any business.

Since 2015 Love Your Legals, under Shalini’s watch and care, has provided legal support, advice,  contract creation and legal templates for over 2000 entrepreneurs setting out to change their own  lives and that of their community.

www.loveyourlegals.com.au

The key take away messages include:

1. The importance of having a service agreement that is connected to your business.
2. You must be aware of your communication skills with your clients and customers. (Your service agreement or your terms of sale, or your licensing agreement, or your membership terms or your cost terms, they are platforms for negotiation.)
3. How do you protect your ideas and innovations?
4. Don't be afraid to start. The biggest learning comes from when you do start.
5. Find someone professional that is going to help you establish the foundations that are going to help you grow as a person,  and enable you to run your business and make decisions. That's investment!
6. Don’t share your business information before you’re ready.

Links discussed in this podcast:

Shalini Nandan-Singh Website: www.loveyourlegals.com.au 

Holistic Vision Instagram account:www.instagram.com/holisticvisionconsultancy

Ameeta Gangaram on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameetagangaram/

Holistic Vision website: www.holisticivision.com.au

Free resource "Marketing on a Page' template: www.holisticvision.com.au/strategy