#TalkToMayo

0:00 Montse Introduces herself
4:15 Getting into Human Rights
5:45 Harvard and Career Change
7:10 Making the decision to leave Biglaw
10:11 Transferable legal skills
15:30 What Montse would have done differently
18:00 Do you love your job?
19:28 Associate Salaries and Taking the Pay Cut
24:50 Montse's Current Work 
26:50 War Crimes: Pillage
33:50 Covid helping crime
40:00 Personal security
43:00 Perpetrators of War Crimes
48:40 The Military Limited report - Myanmar
54:40 Environmental Crimes
57:30 Advice on how to make the change

0:00 – Chris and Sarah discuss the charity Ultra Marathon 

3:20 – The Social Mobility Foundation, and what they do

6:00 – Why Social mobility makes people more empathetic

9:30 – The Barriers to Social Mobility in the UK

11:00 – Why Social Mobility efforts need to be channeled correctly

16:30 – The effect that mentoring has on mentors and how it spreads

18:18 – Why the Cream doesn’t rise to the top on its own

24:30 – A level results scandal 

26:40 - How Lockdown affects social mobility

36:30 – you can be a mentor at any level in your career

43:40 – Feel Good stories from people they’ve helped!

Podcast Time Stamps:

0:00 - Jayne introduces herself and the PCP (professional career partnership)

4:50 - The idiosyncrasies of a legal career

6:20 - Leaving the firm/the law

8:07 - What happens after Partnership?

9:20 - Managing your own career as a lawyer

11:11 – Having tough conversations

16:20 – Therapy in law

22:39 – Types of Therapy 

30:00 – Lockdown and Mental Health

34:30 – Trainees in Lockdown 

36:00 – Wellness in Law firms

48:15 – Saying thank you can matter more than money

49:50 – How are you really? Being honest about mental health 

1:10 - Beers open, minimising the damage of alcohol
3:00 - Recruitment 
7:30 - Recruiters behaving badly, roll on friday
14:30 - Yiddish, and Judaism
16:50 - Leaving law
17:30 - Pro bono employment work
21:50 - Legal tech to help individuals
22:20 - New Law, Kepler Wolf, and The Litigation Friend 
26:50 - Acting for corporates against individuals
40:03 - Social mobility in law firms
49:45 - Law isn't like suits
51:00 - Jake tells the vac schemers the truth about law careers 
54:00 - Being real with candidates
55:30 - Recruitment as a career
1:00:38 - Jake's Kombucha brand

Faiza Mukith - (Employment Lawyer)

·        1:00 – Cats, and trying to zoom when living next to a train station

·        1:48 – Lockdown life, working from home pitfalls

·        4:20 – Disconnecting from Social Media and the news, 

·        6:50 – Faiza’s role, fighting Islamophobia

·        9:15 – Doing a job that means something to you

·        10:16 – From the hood to becoming a lawyer (Faiza’s backstory)

·        15:00 – Simmons & Simmons Scholarship, 

·        17:40 – Diversity in law firms and social mobility

·        24:00 – “Making it” but knowing it’s not what you want

·        26:40 – The benefits of working in the corporate world

·        28:00 – The need for passion in your work 

·        31:30 – A chance meeting that changed the game

·        34:31 – The challenges of working with victims 

·        35:48 – The perks of working for individuals

·        37:00 – How to keep motivated in the face of injustice

·        38:00 – the difference between corporate clients and her new clients

·        39:00 – Dealing with Islamophobia as a Muslim

·        42:00 – The state of Islamophobia in the UK 

·        43:40 – Why speaking up is important

·        45:40 – Shifts in Society

·        47:20 – The Media, stealing the narrative

·        53:40 – Making change in society 

·        57:30 – A woman takes on an Islamophobe and wins

·        1:00 – The positives

·        1:03  - Social media vs real conversations, keyboard warriors

·        1:06 - Faiza calls Chris out for not buying her coffee

Our second Wellness Wednesday - Former banking lawyer turned psychotherapist Uxshely Carcamo, TalksToMayo about mental health, food, social media, and neuroscience! 

Chris Daw QC is a leading criminal defence barrister, BBC TV presenter, campaigner, and Author of new book Justice On Trial. We discussed how the UK Justice system is broken and what we need to do to fix it. 

Charlène Bourliout is a City lawyer turned Primal Health Coach, she sat down to #TalkToMayo about how her all encompassing philosophies on health and wellness can help us to live our best lives, and be more effective in our careers.