Setting up a business

If you’re going to be setting up a Bioenergy Balancing practice and you don’t already have a clinical practice of some sort to fold this into, you’ll need to create a business. A fictitious business name. Research first so the name is not already sitting. Register. Publish if they walk you through it. A city may want a license — once you get a fictitious name they’ll find you anyway, so better to do this up front. Richmond is not Corte Madera. You ask that city. A dedicated bank, not mixed with the kitchen drawer. If you sell a named bottle, a seller’s permit is literacy. Insurance as a name. Designation as they ask. Receipts. A home office as literacy, not a sermon. If you call the work Bioenergy Balancing, you sit with the description of the practice. If the work is no longer that work, you change the name. Unclear money agreements are another area of potential misunderstanding. This is why she didn’t have a sliding scale. When people asked, she told them she charged the minimum fees that allow the business to continue to function, and she didn’t charge rich people any more than she charged other people. The prices were posted. They could see them ahead of time. One time a guy was so moved and felt so transformed that he dropped an extra $500 on them. Each of them got a tax-free $250, and that was absolutely astounding and delightful. It felt right. She graciously received.

The plate still prints a staff year’s numbers so a student can see that a city names a fee: Richmond about $340 a year, Corte Madera about $100, Marsh Affinity about $300, a seller’s permit PDF on boe.ca.gov, “no longer an IRS red flag.” Those figures sit here as history. They are not this hour’s rate. Ask your city. Ask that bank. Ask that year.