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Krista Nash had what many law firm owners work toward: a busy practice, plenty of clients, and strong revenue. But behind that success were 18-hour workdays, mounting responsibilities, and little time for her family. She was making good money, but the way she was running her firm wasn't sustainable.
After attending the Atticus Summit in 2022, Krista recognized how much needed to change. Through ongoing coaching with Atticus practice advisor Daniel Struna and a series of strategic changes, she has tripled her firm's revenue, built a fully virtual team, and reduced her personal billing from roughly 80 hours a week to 80 hours a month. Along the way, she learned that growing a profitable firm didn't have to mean doing more of the work herself.
In this episode of Great Practice, Great Life, Steve Riley sits down with Krista to discuss the decisions, challenges, and changes that transformed her practice. She shares how coaching, accountability, and learning to let go of responsibilities helped her build a law firm that supports both her passion for child advocacy and the life she wants outside of work.
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Children First Family Law, PC https://childrenfirstfamilylaw.com
Krista Nash https://childrenfirstfamilylaw.com/about
Children First Family Law Podcast https://childrenfirstfamilylaw.com/podcast
Daniel Struna, Attorney and Practice Advisor https://atticusadvantage.com/team/daniel-struna
My Great Life Focus https://mygreatlifefocus.com
The Summit https://atticussummit.com
Emerald City Productions https://emeraldcitypro.com
Byrd & Associates, LLC https://www.lawyercpafirm.com
The Little Wren Shop (Morrison, Colorado) https://thelittlewrenshop.com
Atticus Newsletter https://atticusadvantage.com/newsletter-signup
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Curious about growing your own practice without burning out? Contact Atticus to see whether our law firm coaching can help you strengthen attorney success, refine your law firm business strategy, and build a practice that actually supports your life. This podcast for lawyers is part of our broader legal podcast library, offering practical insights on how to grow a law firm through stronger law firm leadership, law firm pricing and management, smarter marketing, intentional hiring, efficient operations, healthy law firm culture, and sustainable profitability, all while addressing law firm burnout and the realities of modern practice.
You can also sign up for our newsletter to get practical insights on how to grow a law firm: from law firm leadership and management to marketing, hiring, operations, culture, and profitability, so you can build a Great Practice and a Great Life.
What if the reason your new hires aren't meeting expectations has less to do with who you hired and more to do with how you onboarded them?
Hiring the right person is only the beginning. How you prepare, train, and support them can determine whether they become a valuable part of your team or another responsibility on your plate.
In this episode of Great Practice, Great Life, Steve Riley talks with attorney Lin McCraw about the 100-day onboarding process he's developed at McCraw Law Group. Lin shares how his firm approaches training, introduces new hires to its culture, and builds the accountability needed for employees to succeed.
They also discuss why building team capacity should come before taking on more clients and how investing in your people can improve the client experience and support long-term growth.
If you're hiring but not seeing the results you expected, Lin's approach may change how you think about your next new hire.
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Supporting Resources:
Lin McCraw https://mccrawlawgroup.com/team/john-l-lin-mccraw
McCraw Law Group https://mccrawlawgroup.com
Onboarding as a Competitive Advantage: 7 Essential Tips for Law Firms with Lori Pulvermacher https://atticusadvantage.com/podcast/strategic-onboarding-for-law-firms
Law Firm Coaching https://atticusadvantage.com/coaching
My Great Life Focus https://mygreatlifefocus.com
Atticus Newsletter https://atticusadvantage.com/newsletter-signup/
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Curious about growing your own practice without burning out? Contact Atticus to see whether our law firm coaching can help you strengthen attorney success, refine your law firm business strategy, and build a practice that actually supports your life. This podcast for lawyers is part of our broader legal podcast library, offering practical insights on how to grow a law firm through stronger law firm leadership, law firm pricing and management, smarter marketing, intentional hiring, efficient operations, healthy law firm culture, and sustainable profitability, all while addressing law firm burnout and the realities of modern practice.
You can also sign up for our newsletter to get practical insights on how to grow a law firm: from law firm leadership and management to marketing, hiring, operations, culture, and profitability, so you can build a Great Practice and a Great Life.
Your law firm needs your attention. So do your family, finances, health, relationships, and everything else that matters to you. Trying to keep each part perfectly balanced can leave you feeling like you are constantly playing whack-a-mole and waiting for the day when things finally settle down.
In this episode of Great Practice, Great Life, entrepreneur and One Big Life author Elaine Ralls joins Steve Riley to challenge the idea that work and life need to be managed as separate compartments. She shares what can happen when you make decisions with the whole picture in mind, surround yourself with people who can help you move forward, and focus on putting clients, team members, and others in what she calls their "place of most potential."
For law firm owners, that perspective has implications far beyond work-life balance. Elaine and Steve discuss overwhelm, client trust, business relationships, and finding the gap that makes your firm meaningfully different. Listen for a practical way to think about building a successful law firm without putting the rest of your life on hold.
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Supporting Resources:
Elaine Ralls https://www.linkedin.com/in/elaineralls
Book: One Big Life: Turn your messy, chaotic life into a bold, beautiful masterpiece. by Elaine Ralls https://a.co/003CLQgV
One Big Life Wheel https://atticusadvantage.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/the-big-life-wheel-sm.jpg
The Summit https://atticussummit.com
Atticus Newsletter https://atticusadvantage.com/newsletter-signup
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Curious about growing your own practice without burning out? Contact Atticus to see whether our law firm coaching can help you strengthen attorney success, refine your law firm business strategy, and build a practice that actually supports your life. This podcast for lawyers is part of our broader legal podcast library, offering practical insights on how to grow a law firm through stronger law firm leadership, law firm pricing and management, smarter marketing, intentional hiring, efficient operations, healthy law firm culture, and sustainable profitability, all while addressing law firm burnout and the realities of modern practice.
You can also sign up for our newsletter to get practical insights on how to grow a law firm: from law firm leadership and management to marketing, hiring, operations, culture, and profitability, so you can build a Great Practice and a Great Life.
Twenty-five years advising attorneys. Twenty-eight years of military service. Glenn Finch has spent much of his career learning what it takes to perform at a high level without letting every demand dictate your time.
And after decades of working with law firm owners, he's seen which lessons tend to matter most.
In this episode of Great Practice, Great Life, Steve Riley sits down with Glenn to talk about what his unusual career has taught him about helping law firm owners build more profitable practices without letting the practice consume their lives.
They discuss knowing what your time is worth, hiring people you can trust, becoming more selective about the clients you take, and protecting your capacity as the firm grows. Glenn also shares how his military experience shaped the discipline and boundaries he brings to his work with attorneys, and why fear and old assumptions can quietly influence some of the biggest decisions a law firm owner makes.
After 25 years of helping attorneys build stronger practices, Glenn has plenty to say about what works, what gets in the way, and what law firm owners may need to think differently about if they want both a great practice and a great life.
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Supporting Resources:
Glenn Finch, Senior Practice Advisor https://atticusadvantage.com/team/glenn-finch/
Previous Episode: Can You Protect Your Law Firm from Inflation? https://atticusadvantage.com/podcast/can-you-protect-your-law-firm-from-inflation/
Previous Episode: Well, What Did You Expect? With Glenn Finch https://atticusadvantage.com/podcast/well-what-did-you-expect-with-glenn-finch/
Book: The Power of Beliefs: How Strengthening Seven Core Beliefs Predicts Greater Success and a Better Life by Shawn Achor https://a.co/d/03CTTADM
Coaching https://atticusadvantage.com/coaching/
My Great Life Focus https://mygreatlifefocus.com/
Brené Brown Above/Below the Line Practice https://brenebrown.com/resources/above-below-the-line/
DISC Assessment https://atticusadvantage.com/disc-assessment/
Time Management Self-Assessment https://atticusadvantage.com/assessments/time-management/
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Curious about growing your own practice without burning out? Contact Atticus to see whether our law firm coaching can help you strengthen attorney success, refine your law firm business strategy, and build a practice that actually supports your life. This podcast for lawyers is part of our broader legal podcast library, offering practical insights on how to grow a law firm through stronger law firm leadership, law firm pricing and management, smarter marketing, intentional hiring, efficient operations, healthy law firm culture, and sustainable profitability, all while addressing law firm burnout and the realities of modern practice.
You can also sign up for our newsletter to get practical insights on how to grow a law firm: from law firm leadership and management to marketing, hiring, operations, culture, and profitability, so you can build a Great Practice and a Great Life.
"I can't find good people" is one of the most common frustrations in law firm management.
But what if the people aren't actually the problem?
Rushed work, competing priorities, poor scheduling, and broken workflows can make capable team members look like they're underperforming. And when the work starts falling apart, who usually steps in to fix it? The law firm owner.
In this episode of Great Practice, Great Life, Steve Riley talks with business transformation strategist Matt Symes about why hiring another person, adding more training, or throwing AI at the problem won't necessarily fix what's happening inside your firm.
They discuss how to identify what's really slowing your firm down, rethink the way work moves through your team, and determine where AI can actually make a difference.
Before you decide you have a people problem, Matt argues there's a more important question to ask: Is the way your firm works setting good people up to succeed?
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Matt Symes https://levership.com/about-us
Levership https://levership.com/
Matt Symes LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-symes-8328a765/
The Summit https://atticussummit.com
Atticus Newsletter https://atticusadvantage.com/newsletter-signup/
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Curious about growing your own practice without burning out? Contact Atticus to see whether our law firm coaching can help you strengthen attorney success, refine your law firm business strategy, and build a practice that actually supports your life. This podcast for lawyers is part of our broader legal podcast library, offering practical insights on how to grow a law firm through stronger law firm leadership, law firm pricing and management, smarter marketing, intentional hiring, efficient operations, healthy law firm culture, and sustainable profitability, all while addressing law firm burnout and the realities of modern practice.
You can also sign up for our newsletter to get practical insights on how to grow a law firm: from law firm leadership and management to marketing, hiring, operations, culture, and profitability, so you can build a Great Practice and a Great Life.
Imagine getting a call from someone who thinks they hired you, paid you, and trusted you with their legal problem.
Except you've never spoken to them before.
That's what attorney Angel Leal faced when scammers began using his name, image, voice, and law firm to impersonate him online. What started with fake social media accounts quickly became something much bigger, leaving Angel and his team to deal with people who genuinely believed they had been working with his firm.
In this episode of Great Practice, Great Life, Angel joins Steve Riley to share what happened, how his firm responded, and what he wishes more attorneys understood about protecting their identity online.
They talk about fake websites, AI-generated videos and voices, client verification, documenting fraud, and what to do when someone else is using the reputation you spent years building.
If you have a website, a social media presence, or simply a name people can find online, this is a problem worth paying attention to.
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Supporting Resources:
Angel F. Leal, Jr. P.A. https://www.angelleal.com/en/
Ep 184: From Burnout to Thriving Law Firm: What Angel Leal Did Differently
https://atticusadvantage.com/podcast/burnout-to-thriving-law-firm-angel-leal
Ep 197: Build a Million-Follower Legal Brand Without Letting Growth Overwhelm Your Firm with Angel Leal https://atticusadvantage.com/podcast/million-follower-legal-brand
Lori Goetz, COO & Practice Advisor https://atticusadvantage.com/team/lori-goetz/
The Summit https://atticussummit.com
Atticus Newsletter https://atticusadvantage.com/newsletter-signup/
Have you or your law firm been targeted by an AI scam? Steve has resources that may help you navigate what to do next. Contact Steve Riley directly at [email protected] for more information.
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Curious about growing your own practice without burning out? Contact Atticus to see whether our law firm coaching can help you strengthen attorney success, refine your law firm business strategy, and build a practice that actually supports your life. This podcast for lawyers is part of our broader legal podcast library, offering practical insights on how to grow a law firm through stronger law firm leadership, law firm pricing and management, smarter marketing, intentional hiring, efficient operations, healthy law firm culture, and sustainable profitability, all while addressing law firm burnout and the realities of modern practice.
You can also sign up for our newsletter to get practical insights on how to grow a law firm: from law firm leadership and management to marketing, hiring, operations, culture, and profitability, so you can build a Great Practice and a Great Life.
If you stepped away from your law firm tomorrow, what would stop working?
For Dr. Ruth Mannschreck, that question became very real when her daughter's traumatic birth forced her to cut her dental practice from five days a week to two and a half.
She could have accepted that working less meant earning less. Instead, Ruth and her team changed the way the practice operated. They returned to their previous revenue, continued to grow, and built a business that no longer depended on Ruth being involved in everything.
In this episode of Great Practice, Great Life, Steve Riley talks with Ruth about what law firm owners can learn from her experience. They discuss building a team that takes ownership, creating a better client experience, hiring the right people, and letting go of work without losing accountability.
If your firm still needs you to answer every question, solve every problem, and make every important decision, Ruth's story offers a different picture of what your practice could look like.
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Dr. Ruth Mannschreck https://shorelinestrategies.com/about-us/
Shoreline Strategies https://shorelinestrategies.com/
The Summit https://atticussummit.com
Atticus Newsletter https://atticusadvantage.com/newsletter-signup
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Curious about growing your own practice without burning out? Contact Atticus to see whether our law firm coaching can help you strengthen attorney success, refine your law firm business strategy, and build a practice that actually supports your life. This podcast for lawyers is part of our broader legal podcast library, offering practical insights on how to grow a law firm through stronger law firm leadership, law firm pricing and management, smarter marketing, intentional hiring, efficient operations, healthy law firm culture, and sustainable profitability, all while addressing law firm burnout and the realities of modern practice.
You can also sign up for our newsletter to get practical insights on how to grow a law firm: from law firm leadership and management to marketing, hiring, operations, culture, and profitability, so you can build a Great Practice and a Great Life.
AI can help you get legal work done faster. But if you bill by the hour, that creates an uncomfortable question:
What happens when the work that used to take three hours takes 30 minutes?
And billing is only part of the conversation.
In this episode of Great Practice, Great Life, Jennifer Felten and Fred Felten join Steve Riley to talk about what they're actually doing with AI inside their law firm. They share how they're using technology to capture knowledge, train their team, improve processes, and rethink work that has traditionally depended on an attorney's time.
They also get into some bigger questions about staffing, flat fees, subscriptions, AI agents, and what a law firm could look like when technology creates more capacity instead of simply helping everyone work faster.
If you're trying to figure out where AI actually belongs in your firm, this insightful discussion offers a firsthand look at what happens when you start putting it to work.
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Supporting Resources:
Jennifer Felten, Esq. https://relawapc.com/team/jennifer-felten
Fred Felten https://relawapc.com/team/fred-felten
RELAW, APC https://relawapc.com
Previous Episode: Let Go of Guilt and Build a More Profitable Law Firm https://atticusadvantage.com/podcast/let-go-of-guilt-and-build-a-more-profitable-law-firm-with-jennifer-felten
Previous Episode: Breaking Into Growth: How We Grew Our Law Firm 400% Over 6 Years and Learned to Take 6 Weeks Off Annually https://atticusadvantage.com/podcast/breaking-into-growth-how-we-grew-our-law-firm-400-over-6-years-and-learned-to-take-6-weeks-off-annually-with-jennifer-fred-felten
The Summit https://atticussummit.com
Book: Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy https://a.co/d/0bz6GFDS
My Great Life Focus https://mygreatlifefocus.com
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Curious about growing your own practice without burning out? Contact Atticus to see whether our law firm coaching can help you strengthen attorney success, refine your law firm business strategy, and build a practice that actually supports your life. This podcast for lawyers is part of our broader legal podcast library, offering practical insights on how to grow a law firm through stronger law firm leadership, law firm pricing and management, smarter marketing, intentional hiring, efficient operations, healthy law firm culture, and sustainable profitability, all while addressing law firm burnout and the realities of modern practice.
You can also sign up for our newsletter to get practical insights on how to grow a law firm: from law firm leadership and management to marketing, hiring, operations, culture, and profitability, so you can build a Great Practice and a Great Life.
What would happen if one of your most important employees was suddenly out for three weeks or three months?
For Sam Price, a team member's gallbladder surgery exposed a problem many law firm owners don't recognize until it's too late: too much of the firm depended on what one person knew.
Sam joins Steve Riley on Great Practice, Great Life to talk about reducing key-person dependency through better law firm systems, training, delegation, and cross-training. They explore how unclear instructions and hidden assumptions create bottlenecks, and how better processes can keep your firm moving when someone is unavailable.
In this episode, you will hear:
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Supporting Resources:
Sam Price https://atticusadvantage.com/team/sam-price/
Price Law Firm https://pricelawfirm.com/
Previous Episode: How to Fast Track Your Growth with a "Think" Day with Sam Price https://atticusadvantage.com/podcast/how-to-fast-track-your-growth-with-a-think-day-with-sam-price/
Sam's Podcast: Probate Notes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/probate-notes-your-guide-to-navigating-california-probate/id1808728561
Book: SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems by David Jenyns https://www.systemology.com/
Book: Systems Champion: Simplify Business Processes, Unlock Team Potential & Achieve True Freedom by David Jenyns https://www.systemology.com/scbook/
Previous Episode with David Jenyns: SYSTEMology for Law Firms: The 7 Steps to a Systems-Driven Firm and the Champion Who Makes It Stick https://atticusadvantage.com/podcast/systemology-for-law-firms-david-jenyns/
Recording of the member event with David Jenyns is in your member portal. https://atticusadvantage.mykajabi.com/login
Law Firm Coaching https://atticusadvantage.com/coaching/
Loom https://www.loom.com/
Scott Pioli episode: https://atticusadvantage.com/podcast/why-work-ethic-isnt-enough-scott-pioli-part-1/
The Summit https://atticussummit.com/
Team Leader Certification Program (Code TLC500 for $500 off) https://atticusadvantage.com/law-firm-team-leader-certification/
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Curious about growing your own practice without burning out? Contact Atticus to see whether our law firm coaching can help you strengthen attorney success, refine your law firm business strategy, and build a practice that actually supports your life. This podcast for lawyers is part of our broader legal podcast library, offering practical insights on how to grow a law firm through stronger law firm leadership, law firm pricing and management, smarter marketing, intentional hiring, efficient operations, healthy law firm culture, and sustainable profitability, all while addressing law firm burnout and the realities of modern practice.
You can also sign up for our newsletter to get practical insights on how to grow a law firm: from law firm leadership and management to marketing, hiring, operations, culture, and profitability, so you can build a Great Practice and a Great Life.
You return from a conference or coaching session with a clear plan for your law firm. Then the emails pile up, a client emergency takes over, your team has questions, and the change that felt so important starts slipping away.
Why is it so hard to make meaningful change stick?
In this episode of Great Practice, Great Life, Steve Riley welcomes Rich Bracken back to share the thinking behind his book, Shiftward: How Small Shifts Create Sustainable Change. Drawing from his own experience with lasting personal transformation, Rich explores why big goals and good intentions are rarely enough to create lasting progress.
Steve and Rich dig into what happens when you approach change differently, both for yourself and for the people you lead.
If you've ever known exactly what you wanted to change but struggled to make it last, this conversation offers a more sustainable way forward.
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Supporting Resources:
Rich Bracken https://www.richbracken.com
Shiftward: How Small Shifts Create Sustainable Change by Rich Bracken https://www.richbracken.com/book
Episode 183 Why Emotional Intelligence Helps Lawyers Make More Money with Rich Bracken https://atticusadvantage.com/podcast/emotional-intelligence-for-lawyers-rich-bracken
Men's Health "How This Guy Dropped Over 100 Pounds—And Has Kept It off for 26 Years" https://www.menshealth.com/weight-loss/a64151045/rich-bracken-weight-loss-transformation
My Great Life Focus https://mygreatlifefocus.com
Law Firm Coaching https://atticusadvantage.com/coaching
Workshop: The Path to a Great Practice & Great Life https://atticusadvantage.com/workshops/the-path-to-a-great-practice-great-life/
The Summit https://atticussummit.com/
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Curious about growing your own practice without burning out? Contact Atticus to see whether our law firm coaching can help you strengthen attorney success, refine your law firm business strategy, and build a practice that actually supports your life. This podcast for lawyers is part of our broader legal podcast library, offering practical insights on how to grow a law firm through stronger law firm leadership, law firm pricing and management, smarter marketing, intentional hiring, efficient operations, healthy law firm culture, and sustainable profitability, all while addressing law firm burnout and the realities of modern practice.
You can also sign up for our newsletter to get practical insights on how to grow a law firm: from law firm leadership and management to marketing, hiring, operations, culture, and profitability, so you can build a Great Practice and a Great Life.
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