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Sep 14, 2026
Ellen DuncanGUEST
The other side is... really leaning into, and I think there's a lot of this sort of thematically within the industry as I've continued to learn of owning your business.
Ellen DuncanGUEST
So whether you're that, your own tech stack, your database, your brand, so DBA, team names, all those things that they feel like they're being supported by their lender, but to sort of have their ecosystem of business that they could bring and transfer somewhere else and not being blocked out from that.
Ellen DuncanGUEST
So it's just sort of learning how people are handling and sort of asking questions around who owns the data in the CRM, who can I have a team name or DBA, all those types of things as well.
Robbie ChrismanHOST
we will keep the sports analogies going.
Robbie ChrismanHOST
And there's two that come to mind.
Jean CaggianoGUEST
Well, that would take us a lot more than the time I have here, but ultimately my own life experiences led to some discoveries that I understood and that I began to understand.
Jean CaggianoGUEST
And so Gems of Hope, DBA, my doing business as Gems of Hope, it stands for Justice, Education, Mercy, and Stewardship.
Jean CaggianoGUEST
Those four words reflect how I approach people I serve.
Jean CaggianoGUEST
I believe in meeting people where they are while helping them recognize where they are today.
Rachel StricklandHOST
If I do, maybe I'll have a part two of this episode.
Rachel StricklandHOST
So at this point, I also want to mention that as soon as you decide to go legit, the thing to do would be to separate not just your personal self from your business in terms of legality and business structure, like getting an LLC or at least a DBA, that means doing business as, and once you get your business license, you can do that, but to separate the finances.
Rachel StricklandHOST
So all of the money that comes in from your freelance income should go to a business account.
Rachel StricklandHOST
You can get a business account once you get a business license.
Dave RamseyHOST
You don't have to have anything except your social security number.
Dave RamseyHOST
It's called a DBA account, a Doing Business As account.
Dave RamseyHOST
It's Skylar so-and-so, DBA, Doing Business As, Skylar's Pressure Washing, or whatever the name of your company is.
Dave RamseyHOST
That's all it's got to be.
Dave RamseyHOST
Then here's how the math works, and it's going to help you get organized.
Marian EsanuHOST
It's a much better entity format.
Marian EsanuHOST
But in this case, DBA, you can have multiple, so in Cosmina's case, because we changed the name of the brand a couple of times, the actual LLC, it's Limitless Beauty Boss LLC, and then it's DBA doing business as Limit Lashes.
Marian EsanuHOST
Then you get doing business as Limit Lashes Academy.
Marian EsanuHOST
That one you can change it as many times as you want.
Marian EsanuHOST
I
speaker_3GUEST
did not specify.
Marian EsanuHOST
Okay, you can have DBA.
Marian EsanuHOST
So that would, you would go into the, at city hall in middleborough if that's where the address is and you would ask uh you would apply for a certificate of business it's like 30 bucks for i don't know two years or something like that and that's you can that's where you'll be able to write the business as the reason that i said that is you shouldn't stress too much about the the name itself because you can always change it but the problem is on google you
Ethan StimelHOST
On today's show, we talk with set designer Seth Howard, who is freelancing out of the Midwest.
Ethan StimelHOST
We discuss Roth IRAs, being a good person, high-yield savings accounts, getting work from social media, and DBAs doing business as for tax purposes, our actual design fees on recent projects, discussing production budgets while in academia, and theatrical light boxes, which have nothing to do with finances, but hey, we are theater people, so they came up in the discussion.
Ethan StimelHOST
A big thank you to Seth.
Ethan StimelHOST
He is such a fantastic person.
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Seth HowardGUEST
yeah
Ethan StimelHOST
all right uh do you have an entity uh corporation llc anything like that
Seth HowardGUEST
I'm just a sole proprietor and just, and then I have like a, what is it? DBA or like doing business as like SH designs sort of thing, but it's all just like, I have an EIN.
Seth HowardGUEST
It's tied to me.
Megan ThrockmortonGUEST
I named it after our sons or whatever.
Megan ThrockmortonGUEST
And then, you know, later on I rebranded just DBA to Megan Septic.
Megan ThrockmortonGUEST
But when I first got started, what I did was looked at every more research, looked at all the septic companies around to see what they were doing on social media and to see what they're, you know, compare their Google pages.
Megan ThrockmortonGUEST
And it was not very hard to set yourself apart.