The Resilient Lawyer with Jeena Cho

https://jeenacho.com/mindful-pause

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In this episode, I am excited to have on Sona Tatiyants to talk about building and growing her all-female law firm while navigating life changes.

Sona is the founder of Lynk Law, Inc., a law firm (including an all-female staff of seven) dedicated to servicing families and businesses with their estate planning needs. She is also a co-founder of The Exchange LA and a board member of the Glendale Education Foundation. In addition to an incredibly rewarding career, Sona is most proud of being part of her local community with her husband Alex and their two young daughters, Emily and Elis.

Topics Covered

• Creating a practice that you want, and why and how she started her law practice nine years ago after transitioning out of a toxic work environment.
• Changing gears in your practice - as her life and priorities change so does her practice. She gives us an inside look into what her practice looked like when she started, and what it looks like now.
• How pursuing her passion has made her a better lawyer, and how she has incorporated baking into her practice of law.

  Find the 1-hour webinar on relaxing the thinking mind at jeenacho.com/podcastwebinar

Questions? Comments? Email Jeena! [email protected]. You can also connect with Jeena on Twitter: @Jeena_Cho

For more information, visit: jeenacho.com

Order The Anxious Lawyer book — Available in hardcover, Kindle and Audible

Find Your Ease: Retreat for Lawyers

I’m creating a retreat that will provide a perfect gift of relaxation and rejuvenation with an intimate group of lawyers. Interested? Please complete this form: https://jeena3.typeform.com/to/VXfIXq

Free Webinar

Learn to relax the mind, worry less, and decrease stress. https://jeenacho.com/podcastwebinar/

MINDFUL PAUSE: Bite-Sized Practices for Cultivating More Joy and Focus

31-day program. Spend just 6 minutes every day to practice mindfulness and meditation. Decrease stress/anxiety, increase focus and concentration. Interested? http://jeenacho.com/mindful-pause/

Thanks for joining us on The Resilient Lawyer podcast. If you’ve enjoyed the show, please tell a friend. It’s really the best way to grow the show. To leave us a review on iTunes, search for The Resilient Lawyer and give us your honest feedback. It goes a long way to help with our visibility when you do that so we really appreciate it.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you next week.

In this episode, I am excited to have on Rielly Karsh to talk about reframing the conversation around politics and motherhood, and why having more moms in positions of leadership matters.

Mom motivator and kid wrangler, Rielly is a former attorney, photographer, and passionate community leader. Lately, she answers to mom and councilwoman. An elected official in Clinton, NJ, where she lives with her husband and two kids, Rielly is dedicated to increasing the political engagement of moms at every level of the political landscape, helping them "run like a mother."

Topics Covered

• Her journey running for office and why having more moms in positions of leadership matter.
• Why we need more moms to run for office AND serve in leadership roles on campaigns, and how to deal with the nagging feelings of self-doubt.
• How the process of running for office starts, and what tools Moms Running offers to women to get more moms to run for office.
• How we help moms and society see beyond the label "just a mom," and see value in who they are and what they do.

Find the 1-hour webinar on relaxing the thinking mind at jeenacho.com/podcastwebinar

Questions? Comments? Email Jeena! [email protected]. You can also connect with Jeena on Twitter: @Jeena_Cho

For more information, visit: jeenacho.com

Order The Anxious Lawyer book — Available in hardcover, Kindle and Audible

Find Your Ease: Retreat for Lawyers

I’m creating a retreat that will provide a perfect gift of relaxation and rejuvenation with an intimate group of lawyers. Interested? Please complete this form: https://jeena3.typeform.com/to/VXfIXq

Free Webinar

Learn to relax the mind, worry less, and decrease stress. https://jeenacho.com/podcastwebinar/

MINDFUL PAUSE: Bite-Sized Practices for Cultivating More Joy and Focus

31-day program. Spend just 6 minutes every day to practice mindfulness and meditation. Decrease stress/anxiety, increase focus and concentration. Interested? http://jeenacho.com/mindful-pause/

Thanks for joining us on The Resilient Lawyer podcast. If you’ve enjoyed the show, please tell a friend. It’s really the best way to grow the show. To leave us a review on iTunes, search for The Resilient Lawyer and give us your honest feedback. It goes a long way to help with our visibility when you do that so we really appreciate it.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you next week.

In this bonus episode, I share 3 concrete strategies for working with the negative inner chatter or the "inner critic."

Please join me for my 6 week 20-minute Beyond Anxiety Workshop from 10:30 – 10:50 AM PST starting Monday, August 5th.

I’ll be sharing with you with concrete strategies you can immediately implement and each class will have a short exercise that you can do throughout the week.

Register here: https://jeenacho.com/workshop

In this bonus episode, I share how to use the body scan meditation to soothe the worried and anxious mind.

Please join me for my 6 week 20-minute Beyond Anxiety Workshop from 10:30 – 10:50 AM PST starting Monday, August 5th.

I’ll be sharing with you with concrete strategies you can immediately implement and each class will have a short exercise that you can do throughout the week.

Register here: https://jeenacho.com/workshop

In this episode, I am excited to have Jessica Hylton-Leckie on to talk about her journey from law to food blogging, and the resiliency of being a black female entrepreneur.

Jessica is the author of the online cookbook "It's That Easy," which helps readers easily transition to a plant-based lifestyle. She is also the founder of Jessica in the Kitchen, a multi award-winning vegetarian and vegan recipe website, sharing hundreds of whole foods recipes. Jessica has been featured in numerous interviews and websites, including ESSENCE's July 2017 issue, The Huffington Post, SELF magazine, Buzzfeed, Yahoo! Food, and many more.

Topics Covered

• Her history in law and baking, what switching from law to food blogging looked like for her, as well as what her business model and average day looks like.
• How she successfully switched, unexpected challenges she came across, and how she found her tribe and community.
• The different aspects and skills that go into being a blogger, and how she finds herself using the skills she learned in law school in her business every day.

Find out more about Jessica at:

Jessica in The Kitchen website Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube

Find the 1-hour webinar on relaxing the thinking mind at jeenacho.com/podcastwebinar

Questions? Comments? Email Jeena! [email protected]. You can also connect with Jeena on Twitter: @Jeena_Cho

For more information, visit: jeenacho.com

Order The Anxious Lawyer book — Available in hardcover, Kindle and Audible

Find Your Ease: Retreat for Lawyers

I’m creating a retreat that will provide a perfect gift of relaxation and rejuvenation with an intimate group of lawyers. Interested? Please complete this form: https://jeena3.typeform.com/to/VXfIXq

Free Webinar

Learn to relax the mind, worry less, and decrease stress. https://jeenacho.com/podcastwebinar/

MINDFUL PAUSE: Bite-Sized Practices for Cultivating More Joy and Focus

31-day program. Spend just 6 minutes every day to practice mindfulness and meditation. Decrease stress/anxiety, increase focus and concentration. Interested? http://jeenacho.com/mindful-pause

Thanks for joining us on The Resilient Lawyer podcast. If you’ve enjoyed the show, please tell a friend. It’s really the best way to grow the show. To leave us a review on iTunes, search for The Resilient Lawyer and give us your honest feedback. It goes a long way to help with our visibility when you do that so we really appreciate it.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you next week.

In this episode, I am excited to have on Katy Young to continue our parenting series on what her IVF treatment journey looked like while managing her firm and caseload.

Katy represents plaintiffs and defendants in business and real estate disputes, including matters for cannabis industry litigants. She graduated from University of the Pacific, and then she went to University of San Francisco for law school. She is a Northern California Super Lawyer Rising Star for 2014 through 2019. In 2018, she was named to Benchmark Litigation's 40 & Under Hot List. She is also the President of the National Cannabis Bar Association.

Topics Covered

• Both how she found herself working in cannabis law and what that growing segment of law looks like from the inside.
• What infertility treatments look like while practicing law, and dealing with the associated impatience while having a breast cancer scare that postponed her treatments.
• How she balanced running her firm, managing her caseload, and the emotional energy that it takes to go through IVF at the same time.

  Find out more about Katy at:

Astra Legal Facebook Twitter

Find the 1-hour webinar on relaxing the thinking mind at jeenacho.com/podcastwebinar

Questions? Comments? Email Jeena! [email protected]. You can also connect with Jeena on Twitter: @Jeena_Cho

For more information, visit: jeenacho.com

Order The Anxious Lawyer book — Available in hardcover, Kindle and Audible

Find Your Ease: Retreat for Lawyers

I’m creating a retreat that will provide a perfect gift of relaxation and rejuvenation with an intimate group of lawyers. Interested? Please complete this form: https://jeena3.typeform.com/to/VXfIXq

Free Webinar

Learn to relax the mind, worry less, and decrease stress. https://jeenacho.com/podcastwebinar/

MINDFUL PAUSE: Bite-Sized Practices for Cultivating More Joy and Focus

31-day program. Spend just 6 minutes every day to practice mindfulness and meditation. Decrease stress/anxiety, increase focus and concentration. Interested? http://jeenacho.com/mindful-pause/

Thanks for joining us on The Resilient Lawyer podcast. If you’ve enjoyed the show, please tell a friend. It’s really the best way to grow the show. To leave us a review on iTunes, search for The Resilient Lawyer and give us your honest feedback. It goes a long way to help with our visibility when you do that so we really appreciate it.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you next week.

In this episode, I am excited to have on Allison Holzman to continue our parenting series on her journey balancing her career in family law and her 2 sons as a single-by-choice mother.

Allison is an attorney at Weinberger Divorce and Family Law Group, a midsize firm in New Jersey. She has been practicing for nearly 18 years and has focused exclusively on family law since 2002. Allison is also a single mom by choice to two adorable boys, ages 2 and 3 months, who make sure her life is never boring. When she isn't running after her boys, she enjoys pilates, Netflix, and warm chocolate chip cookies!

Topics Covered

• Being a single mom by choice as a practicing attorney and the steps one would take in starting down a single mom by choice path.
• Single mom does not just mean "get some sperm" - Allison goes into the online dating-like process of finding a donor and the many facets of control she had in deciding on the best candidate.
• Strategies for coping with the loss of pregnancies, and dealing with the waiting and rising out-of-pocket costs.

Find the 1-hour webinar on relaxing the thinking mind at jeenacho.com/podcastwebinar

Questions? Comments? Email Jeena! [email protected]. You can also connect with Jeena on Twitter: @Jeena_Cho

For more information, visit: jeenacho.com

Order The Anxious Lawyer book — Available in hardcover, Kindle and Audible

Find Your Ease: Retreat for Lawyers

I’m creating a retreat that will provide a perfect gift of relaxation and rejuvenation with an intimate group of lawyers. Interested? Please complete this form: https://jeena3.typeform.com/to/VXfIXq

Free Webinar

Learn to relax the mind, worry less, and decrease stress. https://jeenacho.com/podcastwebinar/

MINDFUL PAUSE: Bite-Sized Practices for Cultivating More Joy and Focus

31-day program. Spend just 6 minutes every day to practice mindfulness and meditation. Decrease stress/anxiety, increase focus and concentration. Interested? http://jeenacho.com/mindful-pause/

Thanks for joining us on The Resilient Lawyer podcast. If you’ve enjoyed the show, please tell a friend. It’s really the best way to grow the show. To leave us a review on iTunes, search for The Resilient Lawyer and give us your honest feedback. It goes a long way to help with our visibility when you do that so we really appreciate it.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you next week.

In this episode, I am excited to have on Nancy Giles to talk about her journey from big law to starting her own practice and balancing running a practice as a parent.

Nancy created Giles Law, PLLC to support, advise, and represent businesses facing legal issues and conflicts. Nancy considers herself a member of her firm's clients' teams, staying in close contact with them to keep their goals and strategies in focus. Equipped with 20 years of experience in commercial litigation, Nancy and her team use inventive and efficient solutions to create exceptional results.

Topics Covered

• Starting out in "Big Law," looking back on the major differences between the different types of law practices, and what her transition looked like.
• How she ended up being a happy litigator, happy mother, and happy business owner.
• How her personal journey affected her work and both how she found herself co-parenting and what that looks like for her.
• What advice she would give to other lawyers feeling stuck, uninspired, or worse.

Find the 1-hour webinar on relaxing the thinking mind at jeenacho.com/podcastwebinar

Questions? Comments? Email Jeena! [email protected]. You can also connect with Jeena on Twitter: @Jeena_Cho

For more information, visit: jeenacho.com

Order The Anxious Lawyer book — Available in hardcover, Kindle and Audible

Find Your Ease: Retreat for Lawyers

I’m creating a retreat that will provide a perfect gift of relaxation and rejuvenation with an intimate group of lawyers. Interested? Please complete this form: https://jeena3.typeform.com/to/VXfIXq

Free Webinar

Learn to relax the mind, worry less, and decrease stress. https://jeenacho.com/podcastwebinar/

MINDFUL PAUSE: Bite-Sized Practices for Cultivating More Joy and Focus

31-day program. Spend just 6 minutes every day to practice mindfulness and meditation. Decrease stress/anxiety, increase focus and concentration. Interested? http://jeenacho.com/mindful-pause/

Thanks for joining us on The Resilient Lawyer podcast. If you’ve enjoyed the show, please tell a friend. It’s really the best way to grow the show. To leave us a review on iTunes, search for The Resilient Lawyer and give us your honest feedback. It goes a long way to help with our visibility when you do that so we really appreciate it.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you next week.