Podcasts about equinox business law group

Join us for another special episode of The Seattle Shrimp Tank featuring all of Seattle's weekly hosts! Dan Weedin / Founder of Dan Weedin Unleashed Dan Weedin is an experienced entrepreneur, author, and award-winning international speaker who has a passion for consulting, developing and guiding entrepreneurs and business professionals. He has helped drive growth, performance and resilience improvement with well over 300 small and mid-sized companies across the country along all types of industries. Dan is a 1987 graduate of the University of Washington where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History. In 2012, he was inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant™ Hall of Fame by the founder, Alan Weiss. Dan is an active Rotarian and community volunteer. Dan has been married to his high school sweetheart, Barb for over 30 years. He enjoys playing golf, listening to books, and being walked by his two faithful canine companions Captain Jack and Bella. Craig Swanson / Board Member & Accelerator Chair of Entrepreneurs' Organization At the age of 18, Craig founded Swanson Tech Support and worked as a tech consultant for 6 years before founding CreativeTechs which lead to over a million dollars in sales. Soon after Craig co-founded the creative online learning platform CreativeLive, an idea that was birthed from a failed video training program for his IT business. CreativeLive would grow from a small start-up team to 70+ employees offering workshops with the top creative industry leaders like Tim Ferriss and Brené Brown. Now Craig partners with creators, educators, and influencers by providing the missing piece that they need to get to the next stage of their business and is helping build $1 million dollar businesses one step at a time. Linda Popky / Founder & President of Leverage2Market Associates Award-winning Silicon Valley-based marketing expert Linda Popky, founder and president of Leverage2Market Associates, helps organizations and individuals get heard above the noise by creating compelling content that matters. Her clients include startups, small businesses, mid-sized companies, and large Fortune 500 enterprises. Named one of Silicon Valley's Top 100 Women of Influence and to the Alan Weiss Million Dollar Consulting® Hall of Fame, Linda is Executive Director of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting and past president of Women in Consulting. She's the author of Marketing Above the Noise: Achieve Strategic Advantage with Marketing that Matters, and Top of Mind: 101 Insights to Transform Your Business. Linda also helps authors create more compelling self-published and commercially published books. A classically trained pianist, Linda recorded Night Songs, a CD of classical piano music. She and her family share their home in the San Francisco Bay Area with a small pack of Siberian Huskies. Michelle Bomberger / CEO & Managing Attorney of Equinox Business Law Group As a small business founder and a fellow entrepreneur, Michelle understands the emotional and practical aspects of owning a business. This makes her an effective guide for business leaders in evaluating risk and opportunity in their decision making. Michelle has been honored by the Puget Sound Business Journal as one of its “40 Under 40” in 2012, and Equinox Business Law Group was awarded the King County Executive's Woman Small Business of the Year Award in 2013, along with being listed as one of the Puget Sound's 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2020. Michelle serves on the Board of Directors for Bellevue LifeSpring and Youth Theatre Northwest, serving youth and families in the community. Michelle is also an active member of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing Puget Sound which provides a community for networking and learning for manufacturers. Phil Symchych / Founder of the SME Business Wealth Builder Phil's consulting firm helps entrepreneurs and business owners to grow their companies, access more capital, and build business wealth for shareholders. He is also the founder of Global Business Advisors Forums where advisors from around the world collaborate in an exclusive online community. Phil grew up in a family business when interest rates were 23% and business owners didn't know where to turn for unbiased, professional advice. He started his first business in 1996 to help business owners prevent the challenges his family faced and to successfully achieve their entrepreneurial potential. Phil is a Certified Management Consultant, CPA, and MBA. He co-authored The Business Wealth Builders and currently published quarterly ebooks to help small/medium enterprise leaders. He lives in Regina, Canada with his wife Kerry and their canine chief morale officer, Lola. https://youtu.be/yh_pNJ4peT8 Dan Weedin / First Underwriters Insurance Brokers (Host) Craig Swanson / Entrepreneurs' Organization (Co-Host) Linda Popky / Leverage2Market Associates (Co-Host) Michelle Bomberger / Equinox Business Law Group (Co-Host) Phil Symchych / SME Wealth Builder Corp (Co-Host)

Michelle Bomberger is the Founder, CEO, and Managing Attorney at Equinox Business Law Group. As a small business founder and entrepreneur, Michelle understands the emotional and practical aspects of owning and scaling a business, which makes her an effective guide for business leaders in evaluating risk and opportunity in their decision making. She received her MBA and law degrees from Northwestern University and undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame. Michelle serves on the Board of Directors for Bellevue LifeSpring and Youth Theatre Northwest, serving youth and families in the community. She was honored by the Puget Sound Business Journal as one of its “40 Under 40” in 2012. In addition, she and Equinox Business Law Group were awarded the King County Executive's Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year Award in 2013, along with being listed as one of Puget Sound's 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in 2020. In this episode… If you are a new business owner, do you have a trusted person to go to for legal advice? If you are an established company, have you been investing in regular legal counsel? This is a very important aspect of running a business that many owners often neglect. Having seen how many small business owners fail to seek legal advice when starting their organization, Michelle Bomberger was driven to become a small business consultant. She later created Equinox Business Law Group to provide legal services to such companies. She advises them to plan for their future, manage their businesses in a smart and strategic way, and pay attention to their people and organization in general. In this episode of the Lead Like A Woman Show, Andrea Heuston is joined by Michelle Bomberger, the Founder, CEO, and Managing Attorney at Equinox Business Law Group, to talk about the value of receiving legal advice as you grow a business. Michelle also talks about her law firm's business model, how she serves her clients, and she shares her experience being a guest co-host on The Shrimp Tank Podcast. Stay tuned.

Michelle Bomberger / Equinox Business Law Group Michelle Bomberger is the Founder, CEO and managing attorney of Equinox Business Law Group. Her background as a businesswoman, entrepreneur and business lawyer enable her to provide strategic business and legal counsel.  She was honored by the Puget Sound Business Journal's “40 under 40” in 2012 and awarded […]

Ryan Knicely / Windermere Abode Ryan's story began in Staunton, Virginia. After graduating from Virginia Tech with a B.A. in Public Relations and Marketing, Ryan moved to Montrose, Colorado. He accepted a Youth Ministry Director position with 1st Presbyterian Church, and faithfully mentored, coached and walked with middle school and high school students. During the […]

Russ Shiplet / Kitsap Building Association The Kitsap Building Association (KBA) was founded in 1955 in an effort to support residential home builders, contractors, developers and associate members of the building industry.  Serving as advocates for affordable housing, KBA works closely with Kitsap County officials and surrounding jurisdictions

Pat Larsen / ZenLedger ZenLedger is a Seattle based startup that was founded in 2017. They help cryptocurrency investors and accountants with their taxes. ZenLedger helps to quickly bring all of their clients exchange and wallet transactions together to automatically create tax forms for them. ZenLedger has thousands of customers and hundreds of millions in […]

Aaron Murphy / ADM Architecture ADM Architecture was created and founded by Aaron D. Murphy, a Poulsbo, WA Architect with over 15 years of experience in both commercial and residential design, permitting, and construction documents. Over the course of his career, Aaron has been a part of designing and permitting projects of all types, styles, […]

Alanna Imbach / Vibe Coworks Alanna is the CEO and Cofounder of Vibe Coworks which is Kitsap's largest and cutting-edge shared workspace and coworking environment.  Alanna is a returning guest to our podcast.  Her original podcast with us was back on August 9th, 2017!  She is here today to give us an update on Vibe […]

Jackie Wood / SparkWood Events Jackie Wood is the founder and Chief Experience Officer of SparkWood Events. She brings over 25 years of corporate marketing, strategy and event planning experience. With positions at both large corporations such Starbucks and Washington Mutualin additional to start-ups such as Qpass and Kozmo.com, she provides the leadership and overall big […]

Stacey Ogle / Cole Graphic Solutions, Inc. Stacey Ogle is the President of Cole Graphic Solutions, Inc., a commercial screen print and digital print manufacturer of durable decals, signage, overlays, banners, point-of-purchase displays, fleet graphics, retail graphics, and more.  Stacey and her husband/partner, Ed Ogle, worked their way up from ‘deeper than the bottom'

Arti O’Brien / Advanced Government Services Arti is a self-driven and results oriented, strategic entrepreneur with 30 plus years of documented successes in business development, brand development and leading to increased sales.  She is a savvy negotiator leading to win/win results while effectively managing all facets of highly successful strategic initiatives.

Hugh Blane / Claris Consulting Hugh Blane is the president of Claris Consulting and is an advisor to executives and entrepreneurs for creating dramatic, positive and measurable change in the leadership of individuals and teams: guaranteed! His work centers on helping executives and entrepreneurs challenge assumptions

Russell Fuller / Fuller Living Construction In the span of six years, Russell had transformed every section of the 1910 craftsman, including fully remodeling the basement and attic into separate apartment units. With an assortment of talents in his tool belt – from electrical and plumbing to carpentry and design

Monica Blackwood / West Sound Workforce Monica is a lifelong resident of Kitsap County, growing up in Indianola and now currently living in Silverdale.  She has held positions with the Tacoma Rainiers Baseball Club and Paladin Data Systems, and then joined Rice Fergus Miller in 2001 as their Marketing Director.  In 2005 Monica was promoted […]

Seattle Two-Year Look Back Special Celebrating two years of Seattle Shrimp Tank and looking back at the common entrepreneurial elements of 48 past guests that have been on the show!

Kathy Thaut / At Your Service Plumbing At Your Service Plumbing, Inc. was founded in 1984 under the name of K & M Plumbing Service, Inc. The primary focus was new residential construction. In 1999, this family operated business, started by Mr. Rod Thaut who was our “wizard of plumbing”, quickly built a solid reputation […]

Bill Peregrine / Earthdance Organics Bill Peregrine, EPC and President of Earthdance Organics, is a designer, builder and care professional of organic and sustainable landscapes. He has a passion for understanding Nature's natural systems and replicating those systems in the built landscape. With more than 30 years of horticultural experience, Bill has learned to listen […]

Jeff Hora / Social Sapiens I have over 20 years' experience as social media strategist and digital marketer, community strategist, builder and manager, educator, technologist, consultant and customer advocate. I practice collaborative leadership and dialogue designed to arrive at consensus across teams, geographies and business functions.

Gina Marken / Sound Benefit Administration Meeting the needs of customers is the driving force behind Gina Marken, owner of Sound Benefit Administration (SBA). Having worked for an insurance broker and as a former bookkeeper, in 2003, Gina saw a need for consumer directed healthcare plan administration to assist companies in managing federally regulated plans […]

Brenda Wall / LegalShield Brenda is a successful business woman who enjoys helping others.  She is an independent associate with LegalShield.  LegalShield offers a portfolio of legal and identity theft services – protecting and empowering the legal rights and identities of familes, small businesses, and commercial drivers.

Chad Lyons / Lyons Painting & Design, LLC Drawn to the majesty of the North Cascade Range and a thriving music scene, Chad Lyons and his wife Jamye moved to Seattle in 1994 in pursuit of the Rock & Roll Dream. Having grown up in the heavy heat of Southeast Texas, they quickly fell in […]

Kelly Kincaid / Jetlagged Comic Cartoonist, author and illustrator Kelly Kincaid is best known for her cartoon strip “Jetlagged Comic.” She's the author of two books Airplane Mode and Jetway Reunion. In addition to cartooning, Kelly illustrates children's books and develops creative design solutions for businesses.  She's also a flight attendant for a major US […]

John Martinka / Martinka Consulting John Martinka is known as The Escape Artist® because of the work he does in three areas: Helping executives escape the corporate world by buying the right business the right way, creating large exits for small businesses so the owner can exit their business with style, grace and more money

Kevin Mills / PlayCzar, LLC Kevin Mills is a product designer, artist, inventor and master craftsman with 25 years of experience designing and building limited-production and one-of-a-kind solutions for fine art museums, children’s museums, furniture boutiques, private aircraft, and a permanent 4-ton bronze monument at the Hoover Dam.

Michael Pickles / Cornerstone Financial Strategies Mike, a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Professional, joined Cornerstone Financial Strategies as a Managing Partner and Co-Owner, in September 2012, bringing his now twenty years of experience in the financial-services industry to benefit the family of Cornerstone clients. Previously with Vanguard, one of the world's largest mutual-fund companies, 

Steve Rabago ZimpleMoney.com Steve Rabago is a seasoned advisor, entrepreneur and professional CEO with over 40 years of experience in financial services, oil production, mobility, location technology, education and consulting.

Ruben Arias Jr. / EL Toro Restaurants Ruben Arias Jr. is the executive manager and partner at EL Toro Restaurants, a family owned and operated group of restaurants founded by his father in 1979 in Lakewood, WA.  Ruben is a Tacoma, WA native graduating from Bellarmine Preparatory School in 2001.

Nic Lind / Commencement Bay Brokers Nic  is co-founder and Principal of Commencement Bay Brokers. An expert negotiator for their clients, Nic provides leadership and accountability to the team as well. He is passionate about sharing a world class experience with his clients to create raving fans and lasting relationships.

Dr. Peter Lehmann / Vintage Direct Primary Care Dr. Peter Lehmann is a Board-Certified Family Physician who has practiced Family Medicine since 1996 as a shareholder owner of Doctors Clinic, a privately owned multispecialty group of 60+ physicians in Kitsap County, providing fee for service traditional outpatient medical care.

Aaron Hendon / Christine & Company Aaron Hendon is a Seattle Realtor, real estate investor, author, educator and speaker. He is managing partner of Christine & Company, a Seattle Magazine awarded, Five Star Real Estate Agent, winning team for the past 6 years and an individual Rising Star in Seattle Real Estate winner.

Kip Boyle / Cyber Risk Opportunities Kip Boyle is the CEO of Cyber Risk Opportunities, whose mission is to help executives become more proficient cyber risk managers. He has over 24 years of cybersecurity experience serving in such roles as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for PEMCO Insurance and Director of Wide Area Network Security for […]

Mike Anderson / PayNorthwest Mike Anderson is the Founder and CEO of PayNorthwest – a Human Capital Management software and services firm focused on helping small and mid-size organizations more effectively manage their workforce. Over Mr. Anderson's 25 year career he has worked both the system and the human side of organizations, both as an […]

Paul Menig / Tech-I-M Tech-I-M is a business accelerant, helping companies drive faster, profitable results. We get you more money from business, especially when exiting, and more time for life while building your future. We examine 7 forces external and internal to your business helping determine long range strategy and near term business actions.

Erin Jones / Erin Jones LLC Erin Jones has been involved in and around schools for the past 26 years. She has taught in a variety of environments, from predominantly Black to predominantly White to some of the most diverse communities in the nation.

Ralph Nilssen / The Entrepreneurs Source With over 40 years of experience in both corporate and entrepreneurial roles, Ralph has gained a great deal of knowledge and insight in the world of business. He understands what it takes to be successful, and has faced and overcome the many challenges of business ownership.

Ty Belknap / MyCoach.Life Ty Belknap, CEO of MyCoach.Life (link: www.mycoach.life), is a professional success coach, best-selling author, public speaker, webinar creator, and recently earned the distinguished Doctor of Strategic Leadership in Life Coaching, a degree held by fewer than 200 people in the world.

Dan Weedin / Toro Consulting Dan Weedin founded Toro Consulting, Inc. in 2005. He is an experienced entrepreneur, leader, and award-winning speaker who has a passion for consulting, coaching and mentoring business leaders.

Brad Berger / Cornerstone Financial Strategies Brad is a CERTIFIED  FINANCIAL  PLANNER™  Professional  and brings a quarter of a century of comprehensive financial planning  experience to Cornerstone  Financial Strategies.

Rachel Young / Miss Moffett’s Mystical Cupcakes Rachel Young, owner of Miss Moffett’s Mystical Cupcakes, is a public speaker, writer and spokesperson. Her appearance on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars helped bring about her three local retail cupcake shops. She's a Puget Sound Business Examiner's 40 Under Forty award recipient, Women United of Thurston County incoming […]

Pam Leno / Ideal Wellness Northwest Pamela's interest in wellness began in her 20's with a position in a random fitness club.  It evolved over the next 30 years to include many certifications including Fitness Class Instruction IDEA, Triathlon Coaching ITCA, and more. This included an 18 year career with the Washington Athletic Club in […]

Michael Megalli / indie.biz Michael has  spent most of his career helping large and small companies build great brands. As the founder of indie.biz, he's now focused on helping anyone successfully start and run their own business. 

Alanna Imbach / Vibe Coworks Alanna Imbach is the CEO and Cofounder of Vibe Coworks, Kitsap’s largest, most cutting-edge shared workspace and coworking community. She uses her expertise as a storyteller, partnership builder and scrappy innovator to revolutionize the world of work+life, build communities and help businesses and nonprofits drive people to action.  

Amy Sanford Schmidt / Lilypad Business Services & Consulting As a child, I enjoyed putting jigsaw puzzles together and could concentrate for hours on end.  I always started with the outside pieces then worked my way in by color groupings.  This activity prepared me for business well.  I knew I would be in business at […]

Aaron Schmookler/ The YES Works Aaron Schmookler had his first article on creativity and innovation published at the age of eleven, when the editor of a parenting magazine noticed his innovative mindset and asked him to write about taking inspiration for play wherever you can find it.

Dave Frederick / The Coffee Oasis Dave Frederick is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Coffee Oasis. The Coffee Oasis' vision is to change the world for homeless youth in one community after another through evidence-based programs supported by sustainable coffee businesses.

Jason Erickson / Vehicle Films Jason Erickson is an award winning filmmaker who just finished editing Alan Rudolph's latest feature film, Ray Meets Helen, earlier this year.  The film stars Keith Carradine, Sonda Locke and Jennifer Tilly.

David Shapiro / Excell Puget Sound Dave Shapiro is the CEO of Excell Puget Sound. He draws on his extensive leadership experience to mentor CEOs and business owners throughout the Puget Sound and West Coast.

Earl Bell / EarlBell.com Earl Bell is the founder of EARLBELL.com. He is a success coach and trainer who works with company owners and leaders that want to learn how to compete and win in the game of business.

Dr. Craig Adams / Poulsbo Animal Clinic Dr. Craig Adams is Medical Director and Owner of Poulsbo Animal Clinic in Poulsbo, Washington.  He has owned Poulsbo Animal Clinic with his wife Bethany, also a veterinarian, since 2009.  Although the practice has been in Poulsbo since 1952, before they purchased it, it was stagnant with approximately $500,000 in […]

Michael & Kathryn Oskouian / First Underwriters, Inc. First Underwriters, Inc., located in Kirkland, Washington.  We pride ourselves in providing insurance for the Small, Medium Businesses. Our clients benefit from competitive, sophisticated insurance and risk management solutions. First Underwriters, Inc. team of insurance professionals consists of individuals with a wide range of expertise, many of whom are […]

John Sechrest / Seattle Angel Conference & Lean Startup Seattle As an entrepreneurial collaborator, I focus on entrepreneurial and innovation efforts as a way to develop new projects and companies. My efforts are focused building the tools , skills and processes that enable people to make a positive impact on the world.

Jeff Levy / The Entrepreneur’s Source Jeff is a coach to individuals interested in exploring self-employment with an emphasis in franchising.   His experience includes participation in new technology companies, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, raising investment capital and coach to hundreds of startup ventures.  Jeff has coached over 700 individuals and approximately 200+ who have become franchisees.

Diana Smeland / Port Ludlow Associates Diana Smeland became President of Port Ludlow Associates in 2007, after serving as the interim President during 2006.  Smeland has a long career in the financial arena, starting with Weyerhaeuser, moving to Pope Resources, then to Controller for Port Ludlow Associates.

Tom Jones & Sean Jones / TV Jones Tom's first encounter with the guitar was at the age of 14 when he purchased his first guitar. His interest led him on a passionate journey toward becoming a self taught musician, luthier, and eventually, pickup maker.

Nick Johnson / Libro.fm & Cima Creative Nick Johnson is the Creative Director at Libro.fm, a Seattle based startup that provides independent bookstores the ability to sell digital audiobooks. He is also the Owner of Cima Creative, a Branding and Marketing firm based out of Poulsbo, WA.

Ryan Fournier / Fournier Insurance Solutions Ryan Fournier has been the President of Fournier Insurance Solutions since 2006. His primarily responsibility at Fournier is acting as owner with a focus on new business development and relationship management of current select clients.

Michele Doyle / MD Design Group Michele Doyle is the founder of MD Design Group, formerly known as Michele Interiors, Inc. Good design is her passion. Before pursuing that passion, she spend 20 years in the corporate IT sector supporting Fortune 1000

Ingemar Anderson / Kitsap Publishing Ingemar Anderson is a founder of four successful businesses, book author, professional speaker, investor, analyst executive offering 25+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams of technical experts and business management.

Jeff Rounce / The Business Examiner Jeff Rounce is a graduate of Washington State University and a veteran of the United States Airforce. Before founding the Business Examiner in 1986 he had a career in on-air news management throughout each of the four Pacific Northwest states.

Mark Lunde / Cuz-D Industries Inc. Mark Lunde brings over 30 years of senior management and strategic business development experience.  He was formerly the President of BluHaptics and Vice President of National Sales at LINE-X.

Jim Tschimperle / Pacific Machine Inc. Pacific Machine Shop was established in 1912. I became the 4th owner in October of 1985 and it became Pacific Machine Inc. and just started 32nd year of ownership.

Rusty George / Rusty George Creative Rusty George is Principal of Rusty George Creative, one of the most revered branding and marketing agencies in the South Sound. His firm's award-winning work for a variety of clients across many industries including

Matthew “Griff” Griffin/ Combat Flip Flops Matthew “Griff” Griffin is a 2001 United States Military Academy graduate commissioned into the Field Artillery. Between 2003-2005, Griff deployed four times to Iraq and Afghanistan with 2d Ranger Battalion as a Company Fire Support Officer.