Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo

Anger seems like a good thing until...it's not. In today's episode you'll learn how to create better results in your life after you've recognize how the emotion of anger is working in your life -- maybe without you even recognizing it. Why is it important to understand this emotion? What's the difference between useful anger and the kind that keeps us from seeing reality? How do we use anger, so t...

Wouldn't it be great to make anything you wanted a reality with a snap of your fingers? Unfortunately, it's not quite as easy as that for those of us who need a mindset shift. I have a strategy for you if you're dreaming big, but your dream hasn't become a reality...yet. It's a step-by-step mindset shift for achieving anything you can imagine. Sound too good to be true? It is. It's hard work. Ther...

Alexis Katz is not your typical lawyer. She graduated from Georgetown Law. Built multiple million dollar businesses. Went bankrupt. Then rebuilt her legal practice to enhance the lives of other lawyers and their clients to become financially prosperous once again. Only this time, she's cultivated happiness along the way. How did she change her mindset to go from bankrupt to abundant? What did she...

Are you happy being you? Today I talk to Kendra Q. Dodd, and we cover a lot of ground. All of what we talk about has one aim: making a breakthrough in your life. We cover:  Self-acceptance  The question that's challenging for successful people to answer and why it's so hard for them to answer it.  What it takes to truly make a breakthrough in your life Obstacles we create for ourselves  Creating a...

Creating awareness around our thoughts and feelings is essential for achieving our goals without the stress. Today I'm sharing something to pay attention to when you're working towards a goal with intention. It makes the difference between creating more stress in our lives unintentionally and creating a goal with confidence and ease with intention. Which one sounds more fun to you? If you want to...

Goal setting doesn't have to be drudgery. Chances are you've achieved a lot following someone else's plan...graduating law school, completing graduate school, finding a high-powered career...but what happens when it's up to you to set new goals? Are you trying and failing? And when you fail, do you give up because you expect perfection out of the gate? In this special bonus episode I walk you thro...

What exactly does it mean to be coached? What happens when you're coached? What do you talk about during a coaching call? How can coaching work for me? What if I don't know what to talk about? How can I create lasting change? I answer all these questions -- and more -- in today's episode. Lawyers, I go deeper into the thought processes we talk about in today's episode in my free Masterclass for La...

The mindset shifts I'm sharing with you today are not something that we're taught. I came by these chance through accidental experiment rather than through intention. Now that I can create change intentionally, it comes much more easily when I want it.  Maybe you're looking to change your diet, your workout routines, your business planning, or do something else entirely. Whatever your goal, these...

In this BONUS episode of Soul Roadmap Podcast, I'm sharing with you why I created the Lawyer's Soul Roadmap and how I designed it for maximum effect on people's lives -- specifically, on the lives of lawyers. As I began creating big shifts in my life, I realized that I could help others do the same. Here I'm sharing my step-by-step process in this group coaching program. If you're ready to create...

I held onto these 5 beliefs we're talking about today for too long and they prevented me from growing as a human, creating more ease in my legal practice, and from really just living my best life. I'm sharing them with you, so you don't make the same mistakes. While these were my personal beliefs, they're beliefs that a lot of us hold onto unconsciously.  When you hear them, ask yourself where the...

We have a path set out before us for a lot of our life. If we want to be a lawyer, we have a clear path: get good grades, do some activities, go to undergrad, take the LSAT, get into a law school, pass the bar, become a lawyer.  What happens when there isn't a clear path? What do we need to see to create something out of thin air? Whether you have a solo firm or want to lose weight, what we talk a...

Feel anxious or overwhelmed? Take a moment to listen to this episode. This episode goes hand in hand with Episode 64 where we talked about interpretations.  Today we talk about: - The cumulative effect of meditation - What it means if you meditate - Why we can't stop our brain - I walk you through a quick, easy and effective meditation you can do anywhere - The question I ask when I start my medit...

Today we're making sense of thoughts we believe are the problem. It's actually the interpretations that we make that are the problem. Our interpretations influence everything we do, so it's important that we recognize what we're doing and make the chances we need in our thought processes to make decisions from a clear point of view. The free guide that accompanies this episode can be found at  htt...

My guest today is an emotional eating disorder and digestive expert. She's the founder of AmberApproved where she supports professional women in achieving optimal health through mindful eating, self-care and overcoming self-sabotage with food, Join my chat with Amber Romaniuk today and learn more about her and links to everything we talk about in the show here:  https://www.dinacataldo.com/63 Lawy...

Perfectionism blocks us from finding out who we really are…of  becoming  who we really are…because we don't allow ourselves to see what we're truly made of. My guest today is a recovering perfectionist who shares his experiences overcoming his own blocks. Travis Baird is a mindful business coach, speaker, and founder of Mindful Productive where he helps ambitious professionals to get the clarity,...

Isn't it amazing what we're capable of? We can create incredible goals — crazy goals — and make them happen. But sometimes we can let a setback hold us back from fulfilling our potential.   This episode is about how we can evolve ourselves to make the crazy goals happen. WARNING: Reaching your goals will require you to get uncomfortable. If you're ready, let's do this! I created a free mini traini...

One of the most crippling thoughts is, "I don't have enough time.'   If you're saying you don't have enough time, you're not taking 100% responsibility.   And when we're not taking 100% responsibility for our lives, then we're always going to be the victim.   Even worse, you're  never  going to achieve the results you want to create in your life.   It's not about not having enough time, it's about...

If you're reading this, you're a doer who feels guilty when you're not getting "all the things" done in your practice, your business, or in your personal life.   THIS is the episode you need to hear to start getting your life back on track.   My guest today is Kole Whitty. She's sharing how at 26 her body was rebelling against her, and she had to figure out what was going on.  Kole Whitty is a Bio...

Stephanie Hanna is a lawyer and the founder of the Other 85 where she teaches lawyers how to build relationships in their practice. Whether you're a lawyer or not, you'll want to hear what Stephanie has to say about the best practices in networking.  Stephanie shares with us how she helps lawyers create meaningful relationships while networking and remove some of the awkwardness from networking. I...

Today we're talking about something that may bring you joy or get your stomach in a twist: art. If you're in a twist, it may be because you're a perfectionist. Or maybe you had someone tell you that art wasn't worth your time.  Let me put you at ease.  You don't need to be an artist to take action on what we talk about today, you don't need to draw a single thing, and it doesn't take a lot of time...

If you're anything like me, you're going to hear a lot of yourself in Michael O'Brien's story. I was taught to value the grind of hard work, and it took huge life events for each of us - which we talk about during our conversation - to shake things up in our lives for the better.    Not only does he share an inspiring story - which he gets in to detail about in our conversation and even more so in...

We all think we have a personality type, right? We actually have several, and we can use them to leverage how to succeed - however we define that word - and bring awareness to where we need to do our most important work on ourselves. Today I'm talking to Charlena Smith. She's the founder of Optio, a matched and Guided Accountability™ framework that empowers women to live their best, most inspired...

In today's episode we talk about... How to discover if we're settling The 3 levels of care and how to determine how caring we are to ourselves Speaking up for what we want and need How to reduce negative self-talk What it means to say the transformation is in the transaction I walk you step by step through all the questions I ask and give you space to answer them in the free workbook for this epis...

Have you ever said "yes," when you really wanted to say "no?" Have you ever felt angry and resentful at someone, but you couldn't figure out why? Maybe you just didn't know how to get someone to respect your wishes despite what you thought were clear messages about what you want. Today we're talking about a small segment of what it means to have boundaries. Boundaries is a HUGE topic, but what we...

Today we're talking about chronic stress and the toll it takes on our bodies and our brains daily. My guest today is Sharon Holand who's a functional nutritionist and healthcare disruptor. She specializes in helping people understand how their bodies interact with food and medicine because our bodies all respond differently to them. She learned this the hard way as she shares in today's podcast. S...