Wake Up Call (The Reboot)

 Renee Bauer is the mastermind behind a Connecticut divorce and family law firm branded as Happy Even After Family Law.  The enterprise also includes the Happy Even After Podcast and the D Course with Ms. Renee Bauer.  Renee has taken the traditional law firm business to another level.  She has paid her dues though.  She built her firm from the ground up, wearing various hats as a litigator simultaneously handling the business end of things.  She found that should could be more effective, help more people and be happier herself if she focused on building the law firm.  The turning point really came when she was authentic. She shared her personal story of divorce, not once but twice, and it spoke to her audience.  Now she's on a mission to help others so they can be Happy Even After, too. 

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NJ Divorce Lawyer Supti Bhattacharya is next in the #FEMSQUIRE Series.  Coming from a conservative Indian family with a pitstop in Omaha, Nebraska, Supti is accustomed to being in her own lane.  One constant in her life has been her mother's strong influence and encouragement for Supti and her sisters to be educated and financially independent.  (Supti is the under-achiever in the family with "only" a law degree).  Supti is among those setting the new standard for Indian women.  Included in this conversation:

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Susan Smith Blakely's ABA Journal article, "Are women lawyers paying enough attention to upward mobility?" has sparked widespread debate and criticism in the legal community. The ABA Journal quickly attached a disclaimer to the article while the present ABA President and 9 past presidents published a response discrediting the article.  Susan Smith Blakely, Esq. has been largely silent until now. I had the opportunity to interview Susan and find out more from her about why she wrote this article, what she intended in writing the article, what she really thinks of women and "lawyer moms" and the legal profession today.  Included in this conversation:

Mentioned in this interview is Susan's prior ABA Journal article "What is holding women lawyers back?"

Susan's website where you can find other examples of her work, prior articles, and her blog: https://bestfriendsatthebar.com/

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Marqueta Plum Jenkins talks about her tumultuous childhood growing up on the streets of Norfolk, Virginia, her first entrepreneurial experience as a kid, then smashing the glass ceiling in the street drug trade as the first girl “corner boy,” and escaping it all to join the military. Her hopeful military career was tainted by Military Sexual Trauma (MSA). She’s spent a lot of time running but this girl is on the way up.  Her book Something Beautiful Out Of Me is a sincere message of revelation, enlightenment, courage, and hope. Marqueta shares with you her relationship with God, her time spent in the military, and her learned lessons of breaking family "curses and chains."  Included in this conversation:

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 Dr. Avi Varma, a Co-Host of the Brown Girl White Coat Podcast, has spent her career dedicated to public health as a family practitioner in Atlanta, Georgia, for uninsured/underinsured HIV and AIDS patients. She currently serves the community as a medical doctor while she's working towards a Masters in Public Health.  Dr. Varma explains how far we have come with HIV and AIDS treatments, the present reality of living with HIV or AIDS, and what we can still do better.  Included in this conversation:

Learn more about Dr. Varma at https://www.avivarmamd.com/

Educate yourself. Learn more about AIDS (and other infectious diseases) here: https://www.idsociety.org/ 

Here too: https://www.hiv.gov/

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Jennifer Gillman is one of those entrepreneurs that is always ahead of the curve.  She has the uncanny ability to see what trends are ahead and get in front of the crowd.  Although she is a “recovering” attorney, she loved practicing law.  She simply found another calling. As you will see, she’s had several pivots. She also has the unique ability to recognize easily when something isn’t working for her.  She doesn’t waffle.  She moves forward like lightning. This is a lady who has really mastered the art of being comfortable being uncomfortable.  Now she helps rainmakers connect with law firms so they can reach their full potential.  And she can tell in 5 minutes if you really want to keep practicing law.  

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Jennifer's Reading List:

The Savage Truth by Greg Savage

The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann

The Success Principles by Jack Canfield

Referral of a Lifetime by Tim Templeton

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www.GillmanStrategicGroup.com

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You've undoubtedly seen Kerri on TV. She's an outstanding actress, writer, and director that has co-starred with celebs like Jennifer Lopez on Shades of Blue (NBC), Julian McMahon on FBI Most Wanted (CBS), and Peter Coyote on Blue Bloods (CBS). Kerri's acting career was quite a detour from her original plan of medical school. She caught the acting bug in a monologue class in college at West Virginia University and the rest is history, eventually studying acting in the William Esper Studio.  Kerri also gets very real about what it is like to be a woman in the TV/film industry. She is currently working on her first feature film: Awaken Her, a female-driven, surreal, psychological thriller set in the plastic surgery world. 

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Kerri is raising equity for Awaken Her, be a part of this promising project and invest here: https://wefunder.com/awakenher

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If you think all salespeople are pushy, you definitely haven't met Theophan McKenzie. He is an Executive Sales Coach and the founder of S3, a company that offers sales training using a modern selling system (Smart Systematic Selling), with a conversational approach. Theophan shares with us how his extensive career in sales started and the one circumstance that led him to discover this new method of selling. He shares valuable information you don't want to miss and that ANYONE can benefit from, because, seriously, sales apply to all of us. Selling your product or service doesn't have to feel like the hardest job on the planet and Theophan has a solution for that, he even shares some really interesting personal anecdotes. Did you know his first sales job was actually as a Sales MANAGER?! If you're an attorney with your own practice, you have to listen to this! Sure you'll leave with some good takeaways. Included in this conversation: 

Are you still using traditional sales methods in your business? You may want to reconsider that! For more information on S3, send an email to: [email protected] 

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If you ever find yourself in the ER up in NYC, I hope you get to meet Dr. Siri Chamarti, MD.  She's cool, she's smart and she's got "MD" after her name.  She is also an Instagram sensation with 20K+ followers at last count.  She's a foodie, world traveler and has mad ultrasound trivia skills, and she's totally non-judgmental if you get foreign objects lost in your body.  (More on that later).  

**(Note this interview was recorded in January 2021.  COVID-19 information may have been updated since then).**

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You’ll surely learn a lot in this interview with Dr. Kaveri Karhade, who brings a preventative perspective to dermatology, influenced by her Indian background. She is a board-certified general and cosmetic dermatologist at Berman Skin Institute in the Bay Area (San Francisco & Los Altos), specializing in laser cosmetic and medical skin care. Having different interests, she first explored the world of Chemistry, studying an undergrad, and a major in Comparative Culture in Politics, which she says helped her understand the world from a micro-level and also how humans function on a macro level, in a sociological aspect, only to later find out in medical school that Dermatology has a mix of both, which woke her interest.

Dr. Karhade graduated from Michigan State University with a BS degree, Summa Cum Laude. She attended the University of Michigan Medical School, did an internship in Internal Medicine in the New York University School of Medicine, and later attended Brown University for dermatology residency.

Dr. Karhade shared multiple skin care tips, her personal preferences in brands and products, and explained the importance of addressing and preventing skin conditions early on. Are you thinking about splurging on that luxurious moisturizer? Think twice! She also explained how to optimize where you’re spending your money when it comes to skin care so you don't break the bank. Turns out you don’t even need that many products!

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AND MORE SKIN CARE SECRETS YOU CAN'T MISS! Seriously, your skin will thank you for it.

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Find a board-certified dermatologist in your area here: https://www.aad.org/public

Check out what's on the shelves of other skin care experts (Dr. Karhade's included) here: https://shopmyshelf.us/home

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