The Authentic Professional

Join host, Jacinta Gallant, for a 20-minute workout (ok, for this episode, it's 30 minutes) for your heart and your mind. In this episode, Jacinta sits down at a cafe in London, England with the incredible and inspiring international family lawyer, Melanie Bataillard-Samuel, for a chat about law and life - over prosecco! No need for a warm-up, hop right in! 3 more, 2 more, 1 more... let's go! List...

Join host, Jacinta Gallant, for a 20-minute workout for your heart and your mind. In this episode, Jacinta tells a personal story of how she "detoxified" her practice and discovered a path to a more curious, insightful personal and professional life. No need for a warm-up, hop right in! 3 more, 2 more, 1 more... let's go! Listening resources: (4) Book – Living Beautifully With Uncertainty and Chan...

Join host, Jacinta Gallant, for a 20-minute workout for your heart and your mind. In this episode, Jacinta examines the lost art of asking and embarks on a quest for good questions (and discusses the many problematic questions - and problematic ways of asking them). No need for a warm-up, hop right in! 3 more, 2 more, 1 more... let's go! Listening resources: (4) Book – Make Just One Change, Teach...

Join host, Jacinta Gallant, for a 20-minute workout for your heart and your mind. Doing more asking and less telling – sounds so simple, right? But for most of us, it is definitely not! In this episode, Jacinta introduces a powerful skill that comes from the Insight Approach to Conflict: Noticing. Then Wondering. No need for a warm-up, hop right in! 3 more, 2 more, 1 more... let's go! Listening re...

Introducing Season Two (!!) of the Authentic Professional - The 20-Minute Workout. Join host, Jacinta Gallant, for a workout for your heart and your mind. In this episode, Jacinta tackles the problem with problem solving and how our tendency to “tell” gets in the way of being authentically present and helpful. No need for a warm-up, hop right in! 3 more, 2 more, 1 more... let's go! Listening resou...

In this episode, Jacinta chats with Francesca King! Francesca is a collaborative family lawyer and mediator in Milano, Italy, as well as the president of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP). Jacinta and Francesca discuss their pathways to law school, their experiences as lifelong learners, and their journeys to finding purpose and authenticity in their careers. Francesc...

In this episode, Jacinta chats with Greg Evans, collaborative lawyer and musician (not necessarily in that order!) in Winnipeg, Manitoba about the challenge of choosing waiting room music in a divorce law office. All of those melodic break-up and falling-in-love songs make creating the Office Playlist problematic. Whether you are still in lock-down or starting to return to a new "office normal", w...

Jacinta sits down with Alexa Turner, a Toronto-based lawyer and mediator, to discuss law as a business and the importance of authentic branding, as well as generational differences for millennials practicing law. They also dive deeply into the importance of knowing who you are and what you bring to the table, and why that knowledge is essential for success and satisfaction in business, in law, and...

Jacinta sits down with Lisa Standish, a lawyer, and Dr. Deb Gilman, a psychologist, both located in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. They have a fun discussion about work life "balance," interdisciplinary friendships, and whether you can actually "have it all."

Jacinta chats with long-time friend and colleague, Kevin Scudder, an attorney from Seattle, Washington, discussing peacemaking within law.

While at the International Academy of Collaborative Professional (IACP)'s Annual Collaboration Forum in Chicago, Jacinta sat down to chat with Cath Karlin (Cath Karlin Family Law, Scotland), Roman Kern (Roman Kern Mediation, Switzerland) and Katje Ziehe (Goldbach Law, Switzerland).

Jacinta discusses parenting and lawyering with Robin Aitken, partner at Cox & Palmer, and Sean Corcoran, associate at McInnes Cooper, both located in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Jacinta Gallant and Kirstin Lund discuss personality type, using the Myers Briggs Type Inventory.