In Episode 15 of the Legal Genie Podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with Claire E. Parsons.  Based in Kentucky in the United States, Claire is a local government and school law attorney, speaker, best-selling author, certified meditation teacher, founder of the Brilliant Legal Mind blog, proud introvert, and mum to two unruly girls. Claire shares the following: ·         Her background coming from a family of attorneys and remaining in Northern Kentucky after she qualified.  ·         Her career journey and specialism in local government work relating to school law, and special education in particular.  ·         Her early career and progression to partner at Adams Law. ·         How being involved in her local community and having an impact there brings her a sense of fulfilment and also benefits her practice. ·         How she did not know where to start with business development but figured it out for herself and what works for her as an introvert. ·         How she built her reputation through speaking, writing and being active on LinkedIn. ·         How she learnt to be a leader by following her passion for local community projects. ·         How insight meditation has helped her and the benefits of loving kindness meditation.  ·         Discovering LinkedIn’s power to connect with other women and share experiences and support each other, which ended up as a best-selling book called #Networked. ·         How Claire has leveraged LinkedIn and lifted her profile and won new work. ·         Her advice for younger lawyers on not jumping to leave your firm because your unhappiness there may not be due to the firm, but other things within yourself that you need to work on first.  To learn more about Claire E. Parsons, you can find her on LinkedIn and connect with her here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claireeparsons/ You can find her Brilliant Legal Mind blog here: https://brilliantlegalmind.com/ Also: ·         If you liked this episode, please rate the show, and leave a review wherever you listen to your podcasts to help the Legal Genie reach a wider audience. ·         Look out for the next episode coming soon. You can connect with Lara Quie as follows: ·         On LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/laraquie/ ·         Website: https://www.laraqassociates.com/ ·         You can also listen to Lara’s other podcast, The Coach Potatoes on Apple Podcasts here:  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/coach-potatoes-podcast/id1529949563/ If you have a question or guest idea, please do drop Lara a line at [email protected]               Lara Q Associates A boutique business and executive coaching consultancy