"Working ON your business and not IN your business"

I am interviewing Patricia Baxter, Managing Partner at Morgan & Akins, PLLC

In this episode, we talked about:
✔️ Making the shift from being an employee to becoming a Manager/Partner
✔️ Growth mindset and how it helped her career soar high
✔️ On leadership: how she manages her time and sustained growth for her business
✔️ Her versions of self-care and how to practically implement it in her life
✔️ and more!

Connect with Patricia here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patriciabaxterattorney/

About Charlotte:

Charlotte Smith is the founder of the Limitless Lawyer podcast. She is a professional Executive Coach for Lawyers based in Silicon Valley, California. She is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and is a member of the International Coaching Federation.

https://www.charlotte-smith.com/

Connect with Charlotte here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottesmithlawyercoach

"These unconscious biases, whether they are from a benevolent place or under the surface, are creating barriers, invisible walls that women have to hurdle in the workforce."

In this episode, I am interviewing, Michelle Browning Coughlin, IP Lawyer and Founder of Mothers Esquire

We will be diving into:

✔️ The challenges that women encounter in the law

✔️ Internal expectations of ourselves, and how this can block or limit us

✔️ Facing the feelings of imposter syndrome and perfectionism
✔️ Her perspectives on being a Limitless Lawyer
✔️ AND MORE!

About Charlotte:

Charlotte Smith is the founder of the Limitless Lawyer podcast. She is a professional Executive Coach for Lawyers based in Silicon Valley, California. She is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and is a member of the International Coaching Federation.

https://www.charlotte-smith.com/

Connect with Charlotte here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottesmithlawyercoach

"We're responding to the changes of the time and trying to meet people where they are"

In this episode, I am interviewing Hannah Genton, Founding Partner at CGL Legal, a fully distributed, transactional law firm, reimagining legal services and placing the health, and well-being of their employees.

In this episode, we will be diving into:
✅ The differences between Big Law and launching your own law firm
✅ Examining some of the mindset blocks that lawyers struggle with and how to let go
✅ Some really important advice to our younger selves and how we can use that to build really strong legal careers

Connect with Hannah here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahgenton/

About Charlotte:

Charlotte Smith is the founder of the Limitless Lawyer podcast. She is a professional Executive Coach for Lawyers based in Silicon Valley, California. She is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and is a member of the International Coaching Federation.

https://www.charlotte-smith.com/

Connect with Charlotte here: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottesmithlawyercoach

"Having come from a large firm going to a company where you absolutely standby the mission, it feels really good to represent that."

In this episode, I am interviewing Rachel Larrenaga
Rachel is the Vice President & Legal Counsel at ChargePoint

We discuss: 
>> Leaving BigLaw and going in-house
>> Working as counsel in a high growth tech company
>> Creating a purposeful career
>> Finding balance in life as an in-house lawyer
>> Key attributes to be successful as an in-house lawyer
>> Management and leadership as an in-house counsel

Connect with Rachel here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachellarrenaga/

About Charlotte:

Charlotte Smith is the founder of the Limitless Lawyer podcast. She is a professional Executive Coach for Lawyers based in Silicon Valley, California. She is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and is a member of the International Coaching Federation.

https://www.charlotte-smith.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottesmithlawyercoach

"When I am interviewing I ask–– Is this person brave? Is this person willing to take a risk? Are they willing to battle with their own personality to get better? Are you ready to face up to your own negative self?"

In this episode I am interviewing Alistair Maiden

Alistair is a former lawyer turned legal technologist and founder of Syke, a legal technology company.

We discuss: 

• Leaving practice to launch a legal tech company. 
• Technology and innovation in the legal profession. 
• Why legal tech frees up lawyers to do what they are trained to do. 
• Thoughts for lawyers and corporate legal teams about adoption of legal tech. 
• Why law firms are slower to adopt legal technologies. 
• How perfectionism and fear of failure hold lawyers back, and how as lawyers if we can embrace failure, innovate and pivot this can be incredibly powerful. 

Connect with Alistair here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistair-maiden-04853927/

About Charlotte:

I'm Charlotte Smith a Lawyer turned Executive Coach and I support legal talent from around the globe with creating more purposeful and effective ways of doing business and practicing the law. My intention is to inspire the next generation of “lawyer leaders,” and play an incremental role in the shifting of the legal landscape into a new era. I work with lawyers, attorneys, in-house counsel and corporate legal teams. 

I stand for:

• More inclusive and human-centric law firms. 
• Law firm innovation.
• The harnessing of legal tech. 

The possibilities for the legal sector are limitless, if we choose to think freely, be bold and reimagine “law firm life” as it could (and should) be. As the late Steve Jobs said, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower”. 

Today on the show I am speaking with the incredible Leadership Coach, Amy Sanchez. 

Amy is an amazing career and leadership coach, and I have so much love and respect for Amy. She supported me through my career transition and we wouldn't have this podcast had it not been for working with Amy. 

In this episode we dive deep into the "why" behind our career transitions, we share open and honestly the discomfort that lead to our career transitions. 

"When you are on a path, and you want to make a change it's super scary."

"You can't get to the rainbow, without the storm."

Tune into this episode & enjoy the conversation. 

https://swim-against.com/

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Charlotte Smith is founder of the Limitless Lawyer podcast. She is a professional Executive Coach for Lawyers based in Silicon Valley, California. She is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and is a member of the International Coaching Federation.

https://www.charlotte-smith.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottesmithlawyercoach/

Charlotte and Natasha – real talk!

We dive into discussing common mindset blocks which come up when considering leaving the legal profession. 

We discuss our respective journeys of leaving the law and pivoting out of practicing the law.

• Natasha moved into legal recruiting.
• Charlotte moving from the UK to California.

We talk about the fear that is kicked up, how we start questioning ourselves, and how we managed to navigate through these challenging times. 

• Our lawyer brains, perfectionism.
• Who am I if I am not a lawyer. 
• What if I can't land a job. 
• Uncertainty and fear of failure. 

Connect with Charlotte here

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottesmithlawyercoach/

Connect with Natasha here 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/natashaalladina/ 

Charlotte speaks to Corporate Counsel and Founder of Contract Nerds, Nada Alnajafi as they dive deep into what makes you limitless as a lawyer. 

During our conversation we discuss:

1. Finding the inspiration to build a business in a pandemic. 
2. How Linkedin is an incredible tool to connect with other lawyers and discover opportunities. How to embrace virtual networking to take your career to the next level. 
3. Why having an an open mind to possibility and not settle for the comfort zone is great life and career advice.  
4. The difference between law firm life and in-house life. 
5. Being a first generation American and channeling her passion for language into her legal career. 

Join us for this conversation, connect with us on Linkedin. 

Thanks for listening to the show. 

 About Nada

Nada Alnajafi is an award-winning attorney with deep experience serving as in-house counsel for startups and public companies over the past 12 years. She currently serves as Corporate Counsel for Franklin Templeton, a Fortune-500 global financial services organization. Previously, she worked in-house for Faraday Future, Lexus, and Concannon Business Consulting where she gained experienced in the automotive and tech industries. Nada is passionate about leveraging the latest in legal tech to gain efficiencies in the contracts management process. With her dynamic legal and consulting background, she is more than just an attorney; she is a trusted advisor, business partner, project manager, creative problem-solver, and skilled negotiator.  In addition, Nada enjoys training contract negotiators on the ins and outs of contracts negotiations and redlining etiquette. During the pandemic, Nada wanted to find a way to connect with other contract professionals and, as a result, she created Contract Nerds – the new home for everything contracts.

 About Charlotte

"I was offered partnership at a top travel law firm before I turned 30, and to the outside world, I had quickly achieved the career success I had been striving for. But something felt off. The work was challenging and high-level, but I didn’t enjoy it anymore. I wasn’t happy. I wanted more but couldn’t put my finger on what that was.

I know how it feels to be at the top of your game yet deeply dissatisfied. Like something’s missing but you can’t quite figure out what because there’s so much going on in your life and you don’t know where to start.

That’s why I created the Limitless Lawyer Program – to simplify and demystify the process of figuring out what you want from life and how to get there, whether that’s pivoting to a new role within the legal industry that feels more aligned with your core values, pivoting out of law entirely and starting your own business, or simply making conscious mindset and lifestyle changes to achieve a more balanced and satisfying life.

Introduction Season 2 Episode 1

Charlotte and new co-host Natasha Alladina chat about what it means to be a limitless lawyer. We discuss:

• Health
• Wellbeing 
• Nourishment 
• Peak Performance
• Preventing Burnout

We dive deep into our journey around pursuing all that is limitless. 

We hope you enjoy the episode. 

Connect with us! 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottesmithlawyercoach/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/natashaalladina/

Book a 45 min complimentary call with Charlotte 

https://calendly.com/charlotte-smith-coach/45minstrategysession

Season 2 starts next week, and I have some BIG announcements. 

Listen to hear how the podcast is changing and what you can expect for the second season of Limitless Lawyer!