Taking Your Name Off the Door
Jacqueline Radebaugh, Managing Partner & Majority Owner, and Jason Wiener, Founding Partner, CurrentShift Legal
Episode #028 · Bonus
What does it take to build a business that can outlast you when it started with your name on the door?
In this bonus episode of Ethical Exits, Hannah sits down with Jacqueline Radebaugh and Jason Wiener of CurrentShift Legal. Formerly Jason Wiener PC, the firm is now a Latina-owned public benefit corporation helping mission-driven businesses design ownership, governance, and capital around their values.
This time, the ownership transition they are discussing is their own.
Jacqueline became majority owner in 2024. Jason handed over leadership, took a sabbatical, and made room for her to shape the firm’s future. Together, they have now taken his name off the door.
They unpack three transfers that do not necessarily happen at the same time:
Equity. Authority. Identity.
What does it mean to hand over real authority? How does someone begin to see themselves as an owner? And what happens when the next owner decides she does not want her name on the door either?
The conversation also turns into a lively debate about why shared ownership is hard to scale when trust takes time. Hannah, Jacqueline, and Jason explore ownership readiness, the relationships behind legal structures, and what it takes to build a team that can carry a business through difficult periods and into its next chapter.
They also discuss why values-aligned legal work needs to be both accessible and economically sustainable.
And Jason shares why he considers his exit not only an ethical exit but one that matched his dreams.
About Jacqueline Radebaugh & Jason Wiener
Jacqueline and Jason have spent their careers helping others rethink who owns a business, who makes decisions, and who benefits from its success.
Jacqueline is the managing partner and majority owner of CurrentShift Legal. She has practiced law in Brazil, France, and the United States, working with businesses, nonprofits, funders, and community initiatives. Her work focuses on cooperatives, shared ownership, governance, and other values-driven structures that support economic justice.
She founded Ohio’s Cooperative Law Conference in 2018 to bring practitioners together to learn from one another. Her own path to ownership reflects many of the questions she helps clients navigate: belonging, responsibility, decision-making, and the confidence to claim a leadership role.
Jason is the firm’s founding partner. His background spans labor law, litigation, entrepreneurship, and work inside an employee-owned solar company. Raised by public school teachers and trained in labor relations, he approaches business through questions of worker power and economic opportunity.
He has advised cooperatives, employee-owned firms, B Corps, and social enterprises on ownership transitions, governance, and capital. He also served as the inaugural chair of Colorado’s Employee Ownership Commission.
Jason remains part of CurrentShift Legal as the firm moves forward under Jacqueline’s leadership and a name that makes room for the whole team.
👉 Read more about Jacqueline and Jason, and follow CurrentShift Legal.
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At Ethical Exits, we champion profit-for-purpose capitalism, leveraging business as a force for scaling philanthropy and meaningful change.
Each guest is invited to spotlight a cause or organization they want listeners to know about.
Jason highlights the ACLU and U.S. Co-ops, formerly NCBA CLUSA. He points to the importance of defending civil liberties and supporting the cooperative institutions that have spent generations building more democratic ways to do business.
Jacqueline highlights World Central Kitchen, whose work providing food in communities facing crisis, including in Palestine, has been especially close to her heart.
🔗 Learn more or support their work:
ACLU
U.S. Co-ops
World Central Kitchen
