Author: Karima Gulick

Recognizing and overcoming imposter syndrome and unconscious bias [GWL156]

Neha Sampat is CEO, founder, coach, and consultant at GenLead|BelongLab, where she focuses on building belonging and true inclusion. Through consulting, training, speaking, and writing, she helps organizations create peak-performance, inclusive teams by addressing hidden barriers to belonging, such as Imposter Syndrome and internalized bias, unconscious bias, generational diversity, and distrust in teams. Through professional development coaching, she helps her individual clients develop job situations and leadership styles that engage their true and best selves. Neha practiced law at both large … Read More

Starting a law firm: vision, marketing, and systems [GWL155]

After a year of solo practice, I wanted to share the good, the bad and the ugly of starting a law firm.

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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:

– Starting a law firm,

– Having a vision for your firm,

– Marketing for your firm,

– Setting up systems and processes … Read More

Understanding and overcoming procrastination, burnout and anxiety with Will Meyerhofer [GWL154]

A lawyer and a therapist Will Meyerhofer has many accolades after this name: JD LCSW-R.  He is a psychotherapist and former biglaw attorney with a private practice treating lawyers and others in TriBeCa, New York City (visit http://www.aquietroom.com for more information.)  He is the author of four books, including “Way Worse than Being a Dentist: the Lawyer’s Quest for Meaning,” and its sequel “Still Way Worse…” about life in biglaw, as well as a book introducing and elaborating upon … Read More

Fine tuning your career to improve quality of life with Robert Baird [GWL153]

From professional musician to CEO of a 60 year old non-profit, Bob’s climbed the career ladder through a series of career pivots.Before becoming a CEO, he was a Navy Supply Corps Commander, technology consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and IBM Business Services, a risk management consultant and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for a major insurance company.  He’s successfully pivoted 12 times to obtain career success and is a career transition practitioner and expert. As a former “C” level … Read More

Managing your Finances and Student Loans with Travis Hornsby [GWL152]

Travis founded Student Loan Planner after helping his wife figure out her six figure med school loans and realizing that all their friends needed help too. He’s consulted on more than $250 million of student debt, which is more than any one person in the country. He loves helping clients realize that financial freedom and security is possible no matter how high their student loan balance. He lives in St. Louis, MO.

Thank you to our show sponsor Abby Connect, … Read More

Keeping up with Privacy Laws with Lily Li [GWL151]

Lily Li is a privacy lawyer and the owner of Metaverse Law, a practice dedicated to helping businesses comply with privacy and cybersecurity laws across the United States and Europe. She is a graduate of Duke Law School, and holds the Certified Information Privacy Professionals’ certificates for the United States and Europe from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Prior to founding Metaverse Law, Lily was a commercial and intellectual property litigator at Brown Wegner in Irvine, and an intellectual property … Read More

The importance of having a community to achieve your goals with Dan X. Nguyen [GWL150]

Dan X. Nguyen is an attorney in Orange County, California that assist businesses with general counsel, franchising, trademark, and immigration matters, and facilitates a monthly mastermind for attorneys. He is a business nerd and his wife and 2 kids loath about his soliloquies on business strategies. Fun fact, in 2016, he tried out for a professional basketball team. In this episode, we chat about the importance of quarterly goals and importance of having a community … Read More

Save time with legal templates by attorneys for attorneys with Somya Kaushik [GWL149]

Somya Kaushik is a former litigator turned legal tech entrepreneur, having started the company EsqMe, Inc. (http://www.esqme.com), a legal document marketplace and legal service platform for lawyers, by lawyers. Kaushik is an expert in legal tech and has spoken across the country on entrepreneurship, legal technology and its rapid advancements in the practice of law, and most recently gender bias in the law and technology.  In this episode, we chat about how you can save … Read More

Using chatbots to maximize efficiency with Tom Martin [GWL148]

Tom is a legal bot advocate, lawyer, author and speaker. He is CEO and founder of LawDroid Ltd. (a bot development and consulting company for the legal industry). Tom is also co-founder of Vancouver Legal Hackers, advisor to ATJ Tech Fellow Program, member of ARAG Technology Innovation Committee, and Chair of Education for Group Legal Services Association. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Tom now lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife and two daughters. In this episode, we discuss … Read More

Do what you do best and delegate the rest with Dina Eisenberg [GWL147]

Dina Eisenberg prepares lawyers to let go, delegate effectively and lead with assurance.  Her passion is helping lawyers create the law practice that fits the life they desire, earns them more and practically runs itself. She likes to give people power through knowledge. She works with fellow attorneys to give them the power and tools to create a better law experience for them and their clients. (Happy lawyer, happy clients).

A huge thank you goes out to … Read More