Mom Life and Law
Mom Life and Law gives lawyer moms strategies on how to thrive in the face of the soul-crushing expectation to both parent as if they have no job, and lawyer as if they have no children. As a mom to two toddler boys and a litigator, Megan Whiteside is on a mission to empower lawyer moms find clarity and happiness in their lives. Megan helps lawyer moms to reframe their mindset, own their power, and set themselves up for success each week with reflections from her own journey and from inspiring interviews with women who own their power. In this podcast, you'll get mom advice to find joy in the chaos, coaching to help you tap into your power, career advice for when you're ready to step into a job that truly fulfills you, mentorship from the lawyer moms who paved the way ahead of us, insightful interviews, encouragement to brave the challenges of our male-dominated field, and so much more! Re-heat your coffee and set aside 30 minutes to feed your soul.
Episodes
60 episodes
59. Lawyering On Your Own Terms with Kailey Jacomet
Kailey Jacomet has created a law career that fits around her priorities and her lifestyle, not a life that fits around her law practice. When she first told me that, it struck me that most of us have built lives around our law practice. We fit ...
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35:44
58. Setting Priorities in Life & in Death with Randi Johnson
Randi Johnson is a former law firm owner, mother of two daughters, business strategist, and end of life and bereavement doula. Before meeting Randi, I had never known you could seek support from an advocate at the end of your life in th...
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30:58
57. Doing What Energizes You with Kori Carew
Kori Carew is the Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer at Seyfarth Shaw, a former law firm partner and litigator, a TedX Speaker, a mother, an artist, and a force for good in this world. Kori is someone who is not afraid to tell the truth an...
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58:54
56. Taking a Big Leap with Loraine Martinez Bellamy
Loraine Martinez Bellamy is a public interest lawyer, mom, wife, and life & business coach. In her coaching business, she helps ambitious women get crystal clear on their dream career or business and create a master plan to obtain it. She c...
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30:15
55. Setting Boundaries & Practicing Mindfulness with Jeena Cho
Jeena Cho is a mom to a two-year-old daughter, mindfulness and meditation teacher, coach for anxious lawyers, and recovering lawyer with nearly 15 years of practice experience. Since leaving the practice of law, Jeena has focused her career on ...
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40:19
54. The Power of Changing Your Thoughts with Nicole Kuklok-Waldman
Nicole Kuklok-Waldman calls herself "The Lucky Lawyer." She calls herself lucky because she has found tools to face difficult choices with clarity to truly enjoy her life and career. Nicole spent many years working in BigLaw, before shifting fo...
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46:14
53. Building Influence & Connection with Nonverbal Communication with Kristin Bock
Kristin Bock can help you build a nonverbal advantage so you can better connect, engage, and lead others. She's a mom of three and a Certified Body Language & Communication Specialist. She helps you tap into empathy and utilize emotio...
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33:44
52. Prioritizing Health & Releasing Guilt with Megan O'Neill
It can be easy to say, "I don't have time," or "I can't," when it comes to prioritizing your health. While there may be many reasons why you believe you can't eat healthy or can't exercise, Megan O'Neill is here to encourage you to break that b...
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35:44
51. Ditching Overwhelm with Time Management with Kelly Nolan
Kelly Nolan is a lawyer mom turned entrepreneur and time management strategist. She helps busy professional women manage their time with simple, actionable steps to calm the overwhelm.As a patent litigator working at a big law fir...
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33:09
50. Dreaming Big & Finding Joy in Creating a Podcast from My Basement
It's amazing how taking action on a dream propels you to take more action, and more action. It is in pushing past the fear and taking courageous action that you will see your life transform. This has been the biggest lesson I've learned...
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19:47
49. Navigating the Path to Partnership with Taylor Poncz
Taylor Poncz is a law firm partner, mother to three, podcast host, and outspoken supporter of lawyer moms. In this episode, Taylor talks about how she took an unconventional path to law firm partnership. She had three kids in roughly two years ...
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39:18
48. Leveraging Technology with Nicole Clark
Nicole Clark is a litigator turned technology company CEO. As a litigator, she saw a pain point in state court litigation. She wanted to be able to access and search state court data. She was often frustrated by sending internal emails ...
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32:49
47. Building a Network on LinkedIn with Jamie Sternberg
Jamie Sternberg is a trademark lawyer, mom of three, and LinkedIn networking maven. It all started with a career move to a smaller law firm, where Jamie had to develop her own book of business. She turned to networking in her local community an...
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39:33
46. Owning Your Worthiness with Arivee Vargas
Arivee Vargas is a certified life and high-performance coach for women professionals. She helps women shift their mindset to overcome fears, limiting beliefs, self-doubt, and other roadblocks in order to have the lives and careers they really w...
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57:13
45. Practicing Self-Love with Angela Han
Angela Han is an in-house lawyer, mom, podcast host, and life coach for lawyers. She helps her clients transform their blind spots into transformational a...
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37:02
44. Finding Calm in the Chaos with Jamie Spannhake
Jamie Spannhake is here to help you manage your mind and your time to be able to do what you truly value. It is possible to calm the chaos as a lawyer mom. Sound too good to be true? Listen in for some actionable strategies, in addition to exam...
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40:25
43. Being Mom & Breadwinner with Jamie Szal
Jamie Szal is a state and local tax litigator and lawyer mom to a three year old daughter. You may recognize her from her consistent presence on LinkedIn and Above the Law. One issue she speaks and writes passionately about is her experience as...
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41:44
42. Making Moves & Owning Your Worth with Annie Little
Annie Little is a real estate lawyer mom turned career coach. Annie specializes in supporting lawyers through their job searches and career transitions.Part of navigating a career transition is the salary negotiation. We dive into the r...
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47:57
41. Eliminating Debt & Building Freedom with Rho Thomas
Do you have over six figures in law school debt? Have you ever calculated your net worth? Do you earn a sizable income but wonder where the money goes each month? These are all questions we tackle in this episode. Up next in the Mom Lif...
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34:47
40. Building Wealth & Your Legacy with Jennifer Belmont Jennings
Up next in the Mom Life and Law Podcast series on money is lawyer mom turned Certified Financial Planner and Wealth Advisor, Jennifer Belmont Jennings of Hightower Wealth Advisors.Jennifer is a former estate planning and family law atto...
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33:45
39. Finding Financial Freedom After BigLaw with Jessica Medina
Up next in the Mom Life and Law Podcast series on money is lawyer mom of twins and Accredited Financial Counselor, Jessica Medina of Jessica Medina, LLC.Have you had an inflection point in your life, where you knew you had to make a cha...
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38:32
38. Using Money to Design Your Best Life with Kristin Brandli Printon
Up next in the Mom Life and Law Podcast series on money is Senior Partner & Wealth Advisor, Kristin Brandli Printon of Moxie Wealth Management. Her goal is to motivate and educate women so that they can make better financial decisio...
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31:08
37. Getting Curious About Your Financial Goals with Jacquette Timmons
For the rest of the month of May, the episodes on the Mom Life and Law Podcast are going to be all about money, from how we think about it, to the goals we set, to some practical guidance on ...
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36. Empowering Yourself and Others with Estelle Winsett
Estelle Winsett is a lawyer mom, a professional development director at an Am Law 200 firm, and a empowering force for other women lawyers. Estelle practiced in employment defense litigation before utilizing her law degree in a non...
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38:13
35. Taking Action Even When You're Scared with Laura Yaeger
Laura Yaeger is a trial lawyer, a mom of twins, a leader in mass torts litigation, a legal consultant, a role model for women lawyers everywhere.Laura leads by example. She supports her network fiercely and helps other lawyers build con...
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