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Your Professional reputation
When you think about your professional reputation, you first need to acknowledge that this is not about people “liking” you. Not everyone you come across will like you – no matter how you treat them. If this is your measure, you are setting yourself up for failure. Rather, we encourage you to think about your reputation as what people can expect from you when they interact with you professionally.
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness can take many different shapes and certainly looks different for different people. Mindfulness in your life may manifest itself in different ways depending on what you are looking to focus on at that moment.
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Amy’s LLM Journey
Getting an LLM in taxation is something that was always in the back of Amy’s mind as she worked in an estate planning firm with a tax focus. Finally, after seven years in practice, she felt ready to investigate. She was hesitate to go back to school, but wanted to learn more - what’s the harm in applying?
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Imposter v. inexperienced
Imposter syndrome is something that affected both of us very significantly in law school. When you are put together in a competitive circumstance with the highest achievers from various aspects of life, feelings of inadequacy and not measuring up are commonplace.
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Time v. money - home edition
How do you make the decision between something that you want to take the time to do or delegate to some other source at a cost? We discuss how to simply make these decisions for yourself.
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Measuring Success
The key to true success for you is the why behind the goals you set for yourself. These must be tailored to fit your personal and professional values.
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Finding balance
Balance is an illusion, and yet, a common goal. We strive for it, and likely you do too. But is it realistic?
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Mission Statements
In this episode we discussed the importance of developing mission statements, the different aspects of your life you can develop missions statements for, and set out of framework to begin to develop your professional mission statement.
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Your best work day
There are a few keys to setting yourself up for your best work day. The first is knowing yourself and how you work. However, this self-awareness is not enough because, if it was, we would all be able to work efficiently more easily. But you need to take that awareness of how you work and identify strategies that help you in your work day and things that are less effective ways of accomplishing your tasks.
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Who Has time for hobbies?
Hobbies may seem like a luxury that a busy professional does not, and maybe should not, have time for. However, our hobbies enhance our lives in ways that make us better women, wives, mothers, and attorneys. For us hobbies are not just fun, but they are critical to our well being.
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list lovers
We both really love using lists in many aspects of our lives because they help us get a grip so things do not spiral out of control, and if we start a downward spiral it is an easy way to bring us back.
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Meet the lawyers who launch
We are law school besties who met on the very first day of law school orientation. We could never have known then how this chance encounter was going to impact our futures; all we knew was we found a friendly face and an instant connection.