Are you making time and room for love in your life? Working as a lawyer often leaves little time for relationships. So how can you prioritize it?

How can you set yourself up for success and land your dream job? If you're a go-getter like our guest today, you'll love how she approached landing her biglaw job.

These two ladies are proving that it can.

What are the three income pillars you should establish in order to rethink success, reinvent rich, and realize the life you want?

How would you handle something as life-changing as receiving a cancer diagnosis? Would you let it completely change your life…for the better? My guest today did.

If you had a clearer vision for your future, would you have the courage to chase it down? I chat with Heather Hubbard about locking in your vision, clarifying your goals, and setting up your strategy for a better 2019.

New year, new host (sorta!) I'm updating you on where I've been up to and where this show is going.

As the year comes to close, I’m joined by Nicole to reflect on the year that was and share our top resources, apps, and actions that got us closer to our goals.

Talitha Gray Kozlowski and Kristin Tyler are Co-Founders of LAWCLERK, where attorneys go to hire freelance lawyers.  LAWCLERK was designed to allow solo practitioners and small firms to tap into a nationwide network of skilled freelance attorneys and add subject matter expertise or an extra set of hands whenever they need it without increasing their overhead by adding full-time employees.

LISTENER SURVEY  www.bit.ly/gwl2019 We appreciate your feedback! Please enter for a chance to win one of 2 $50 Amazon gift cards – deadline to enter is December 21, 2018. Thank you to our show sponsor Lexis Nexis. Visit http://lexisnexis.com/podcast and see how you can get a custom solution tailored precisely for your budget. About this episode: Mike Whelan is an author and podcaster. He writes about the future of attorney work, effective collaboration, and the legal supply chain.

LISTENER SURVEY  www.bit.ly/gwl2019 We appreciate your feedback! Please enter for a chance to win one of 2 $50 Amazon gift cards. So you have the latest tech tools, iPhones, iPads, latest AirPods etc but you're not sure how you use those tools to make your life easier at this office? In this episode, iPhone JD founder Jeff Richardson shares with us his experiences with these latest tools and how he uses them to run an efficient practice.

LISTENER SURVEY  www.bit.ly/gwl2019 We appreciate your feedback! Complete our survey for a chance to win one of 2 $50 Amazon gift cards. ________________________________________ So you have a never ending to do list and feel like most days get away from you, in this episode we cover automation tools and efficiency hacks to make you more efficient.

Regina Edwards is the Owner and Managing Attorney of Edwards Family Law. Thank you to our show sponsor Lexis What You’ll Learn in this Episode: How to delegate your intake practice and grow your business, How to scale your practice up or down to fit your personal needs, How to best market yourself.Nexis. http://lexisnexis.com/podcastand

Jordan Couch is an attorney and Cultural Ambassador at Palace Law where his practice focuses on plaintiff's side workers’ compensation and personal injury litigation. Outside of his practice Jordan is heavily involved in state, local, and national bar associations, advocating for a better, more client-centric future to the legal profession. In this episode, we chat about the importance of installing values in your law firm and discuss some legal tech tool and productivity hacks.

I am honored to have Carolyn Elefant join us on the Gen Why Lawyer Podcast.  She’s truly inspiring! In this episode we discuss serving the community, niching and focusing new practice areas and bridging the access to justice in rural areas. 

Billie Tarascio a family law attorney and owner of Modern Law, a six attorney family law firm in greater Phoenix, Access Legal, a legal technology company providing do it yourself resources for self-representing family law litigants, and Modern Law Practice, a plug and play operational model for law firms looking to scale. Thank you to our show sponsor Abby Connect, the live receptionist service loved by small businesses. Check them out at abbyconnect.com/genwhy for your discount

Former product development engineer Neil Thompson is the founder of Teach the Geek, an online platform for STEM professionals. The platform's first offering is the public speaking course, Teach the Geek to Speak. Neil turned his early failings in public speaking into a 6 step process to deliver any speech, and he is committed to sharing the process with fellow geeks. Thank you to our show sponsor Abby Connect - get your free trial at http://abbyconnect.com/genwhy

As we round out the year, my guest, Nicole Abboud, and I look back on our goals for the year, assess what success looks like, and discuss minimalistic marketing.

Stephanie has been coaching law students and attorneys for the past decade – helping them navigate the profession, build their reputation, and develop their careers. Having been a prosecutor, judicial staff attorney, solo practitioner, magistrate, and law firm associate, Stephanie understands the dynamics at play in each environment. She has been successful in different settings and has been elected by her peers to serve the profession and the community at high levels.

As a former teacher and corporate trainer, Cindy Nicholson works with entrepreneurs who have dreams of building their business beyond just trading dollars for hours. They’re ready to grow their business by offering online courses but have no idea where to start. Cindy helps walk them through the process so that they can create a course that they’re proud of and that their clients will love.

Megan saves lawyers’ careers. She defends lawyers before the State Bar of California in disciplinary investigations and proceedings.  She also looks for new ways to help lawyers face ethics challenges, including creating The Playbook: The California Bar Discipline System Practice Guide, a membership website for lawyers defending themselves on disciplinary charges; podcasting on Lawyers Gone Ethical; writing for online and print publications; and speaking to lawyers on ethics issues.

Award-winning immigration attorney Alexandra Lozano is author of Be the CEO of Your Law Firm and founder of the Association of Mother Immigration Attorneys (AMIGA), which helps solo women attorneys transform their practices into thriving businesses. In this episode, Ally and I chat about the mistakes she’s made as a solo practitioner and the steps she took to take her practice to 6 figures and now to a 7-figure practice.

Phil Singleton is a web designer, an SEO expert and an award-winning author. Phil co-wrote SEO for Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers & Entrepreneurs. In this episode we chat about the basics of Search engine optimization and how writing a series to articles then publishing a book can boost your rankings online.

Neha Sampat is CEO, founder, coach, and consultant at GenLead|BelongLab, where she focuses on building belonging and true inclusion. Through consulting, training, speaking, and writing, she helps organizations create peak-performance, inclusive teams by addressing hidden barriers to belonging, such as Imposter Syndrome and internalized bias, unconscious bias, generational diversity, and distrust in teams.

Starting a law firm is exciting and daunting at the same time! After a year in solo practice, I share what worked and what hasn't worked, and how having vision for your practice, a solid marketing and good systems in place can go a very long way!