87: Jo-Ná Williams, Entertainment Attorney Discusses Protecting Your Work and Rising to the Top

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is a professional musician turned entertainment attorney and business coach. Jo-Ná Williams is the founder and CEO of J.A. Williams Law firm which helps artists, content creators and entertainers navigate legal and intellectual property matters. In addition to her legal practice, Jo-Ná runs the Artist Empowerment Group, which she established to empower artists to take charge of their careers and advise them on branding and marketing. Some of her clients have written best-selling books, created award-winning blogs, been nominated for Grammys and hit the Billboard Top 100 and iTunes Top Album Charts. Prior to venturing out on her own, she served as a legal clerk for a New-York based entertainment law firm and did pro bono work for the Arts in Massachusetts where she worked on intellectual property and entertainment law matters for low-income artists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Money
0:03.4	Williams.
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0:27.1	Welcome to So Money.
0:31.0	Welcome back to So Money everyone. I'm your host Farnush. Thank you for joining me whether you're on your jog, you're on your way to work, home from work, lunch break. Thanks for spending some time with me. Today's guest is a professional musician turned entertainment
0:46.0	attorney and business coach. Joanie Williams is the founder and CEO of J.A. Williams Law
0:52.4	firm which helps artists, content creators, and entertainers
0:56.5	navigate legal and intellectual property matters.
0:59.8	So if you're a blogger, if you're an artist, if you are an actor, if you're a blogger if you're an artist if you are an actor if you are a musician
1:06.0	if you're an author you want to listen to this episode because there's a lot of
1:10.8	information that you may need to know to help you secure your
1:15.6	business and this is her expertise. She decided to specialize in fact in helping
1:20.6	this particular group of individuals, artists and content creators because she thought that they were particularly vulnerable to exploitation and she speaks from experience.
1:31.5	You know, years ago, Joanie, she was a victim.
1:34.8	She was not compensated or credited for her work.
1:38.8	And that is what ultimately fueled her life's passion now
1:41.8	to educate and protect the creative people in this world.
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