Becoming an entrepreneur is a huge step towards getting the career you always wanted – and if it weren’t for the killer hours, unpredictable pay, and lack of vacations and benefits, it would be perfect. (Oh, and then there are those jobs you hate doing, but that no one else seems quite qualified to do for you.) Sure, there are huge perks to being your own boss, but if you’re not careful you might become the most demanding, tight-fisted boss you ever had.

In this workshop, Lauren Bacon and Emira Mears share their hard-won wisdom (collected over the course of 10 years in business together) about structuring your business so that vacations, pay raises, working reasonable hours, and other great employee benefits are built into your HR plan — and that they extend to your most important employee: You.