We’re 29 days away from 2026. What if instead of starting another year with “I’ll figure out the business stuff someday,” you walked into January with everything officially official?
If you want to get legit… let’s do it together (for free).
We’re hosting a completely free Get Legit Workshop inside GeekPack.
Thursday, December 18
11am ET
Free
We’ll walk you step-by-step through:
Choosing your business structure Registering with your state Getting your EIN Opening a business bank account
No overwhelm. No Googling (or AI-ing). No confusing ads.
Just clear action steps you can knock out before the champagne pops… so you can walk into 2026 feeling like the bada$$ business owner you already are.
Ready to stop googling and start legit-ing?
Register: Get Legit Workshop | Let’s Make It Official! | AddEvent
Julia Unfiltered
Being homeschooled in the late 80s/early 90s wasn’t cute or trendy… at least not like it is now. It was weird.
Especially in the tiny North GA town I grew up in, where a grand total of two other families homeschooled their kids.
We were very much “the weird kids.” (No joke, ask my high school best friends… we still laugh about it today).
Which meant me and my big brother, Dash, spent a lot of time together.
Garage basketball games (he was Michael Dash, I was Larry Julie).
Traveling the world with our mom on her flight-attendant trips.
Inseparable as kids → ignoring each other in high school → becoming great friends again in college
And through all of it, he’s always been the one I look up to… literally (he’s 6’3″) and figuratively (he’s the epitome of “everything is figure-out-able”).
So a few weeks ago, when he called and said he was finally ready to start his own business and wanted to ask me a couple questions about how to get everything set up… I couldn’t have felt more proud.
59 minutes later and we’d mapped everything out.
He already had the idea. He already knew what he wanted to do.
But he was stuck in the same place so many people get stuck:
“Okay… but how do I actually get started and make it legit?”
Not the exciting creative part.
Not the “let me design a fancy logo” part.
The part where the internet hands you 47 ads and zero clarity.
So I walked him through the real steps:
• choose your business structure
• register with the state
• get an EIN
• open a business bank account
And then… he did it. All of it.
It was this soft, unexpected moment of pride… not “I coached someone,” but “my big brother trusted me with something important.”
And it reminded me how big that first step really is.
Not just legally. Not just financially. But mentally.
There’s something powerful about saying, “I’m a business owner now.”
Because “legit” isn’t paperwork… it’s identity.
It changes how you see yourself and how the world sees you.
