Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo

How do you show up in your life every day? Do you feel like you're at your best? That you're contributing the way that you're meant to? Do you feel like you're making the decisions and shifts that you need to make to live the life you really want? Jim Fortin leads Transformational Coaching which changes your thought process fundamentally. After taking his group coaching course, I've made bigger le...

This episode is about my breast cancer story, but it's more than that. It's meant to help anyone facing a health crisis and anyone who has a family member going through something similar. I talk about questions you may want to ask your doctors, blind spots in my life I discovered that you may have too, and figuring things out along the way. My hope is that my story will give you some food for thou...

Today's episode may bring back flashbacks for those of us who went to law school.    But this episode isn't just for the lawyers out there. It's for everyone who's felt confused or weren't sure they were living the life they were meant to lead.    If you know anyone considering law school, you may want to share today's podcast with them. It will give them food for thought when considering where…or...

Are you smart, successful and hot but still can't find love? Do you ask yourself: am I intimidating? Are all the good men taken? How can I find time to date when I'm so busy? My guest today debunks dating myths and will set you on the path to finding love. Raeeka Yaghmai is the founder and CEO of Dating with Confidence ™ , a certified life coach and a dating and relationship expert for single wome...

Looking for quick wins and fast personal growth? This journaling technique I'm teaching in today's podcast is great if you don't have access to a coach who can talk you through your patterns. The only way we can change our lives is if we  see our patterns. If you're not into journaling, this episode may just change your ways. Are you a high-achiever who doesn't have time for journaling? That's oka...

Jennifer L. Scott is giving you tips on the art of living well today. She transformed her experience during her study abroad program in Paris into three New York Times bestselling books that are not only entertaining but give lessons on how we can each live our lives with a bit more ease and connection.   You can find all the links to her books and websites we talk about are in the show notes incl...

Today I'm talking about three things you must do to create excellence in any of your pursuits. These three shifts are the same shifts that artists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and parents must make to become the very best at what they do. You can do them too to reach your goals. Another one of the tools that's helping me reach my goals is meditation. I've created 5 free (and short) meditations that I'...

Today we're talking about 7 Steps to Discovering (and Eliminating) Our Self-Sabotaging Behaviors.  What is self-sabotage? It's when we create problems for ourself to interfere with our own goals. We ALL do it, so you're not alone. Maybe you have a goal to be in a committed relationship, but you get into multiple relationships to complicate your personal life, so that you can never truly commit to...

Our words reflect what we believe and determine what we get in life. Life doesn't just happen to us. We create the results we receive. If we're committed to reducing stress and to changing negative feelings into positive ones, then we need to commit to becoming aware of everything we do including the words we use. When we step back to see what words we're using, and how they impact our world, we c...

Today we're talking about a topic that we must be aware of if we want to live life better. It's called buffering.   What is buffering? My definition is that it's a temporary fix to a negative emotion. It creates a false sense of happiness that leads to a negative consequence.     Examples of buffering can include: overworking, overexercising, overeating, jumping from relationship to relationship,...

Today we're about goals and goal setting. We're talking to the creator of the 90x Goal Planner.   You know I'm all about goals. I wouldn't be doing anything I'm doing - lawyering, podcasting, coaching, without having goals.   But how can we move through our fear surrounding goals, and just do it?   I first mentioned 90x back in episode #11 - How to Snap Out of Procrastination So You Can Reach Your...

This episode may be a bit controversial, but it's a topic we need to have more conversations about.   We're talking about our relationship with alcohol, and you'll want to listen in whether you've struggled with alcohol or not because this episode is about more than alcohol. This episode is about creating a better relationship to ourselves.  You can find all the links we mention in the show at:  h...

Time - we all want more of it. If you're listening to this, you're likely a hard-working person, and sometimes you may feel burnt out or overwhelmed.   You don't have to feel this way.   Why is it so difficult for us to ask for help when we need it? Sometimes we say it's the money - we don't have enough of it. Maybe we think we can do it better or faster than anyone, so we don't want to hand a tas...

This episode could just as easily have been called "How to Know if You've Found Your Calling" because you may have a wonderful job or career, and be uncertain about whether you want to continue moving in the same direction you have for years.   Maybe you feel stuck right now, and you're not sure whether you've made the right move to get where you are. You've done all the things you were "supposed"...

Tony Robbins is one of a kind. Presidents have sought his counsel, leaders of industry have given him unprecedented access to their lives and mindset tips, and he has made it his mission to positively impact others. He's also that informercial guy from the 1980s and 1990s. Whatever your impression of him, I encourage you to listen today because he has opened my mind and helped me change my life fo...

Is procrastination normal? Why do we procrastinate? How do I stop procrastinating? I answer these questions, help you to recognize procrastination, talk about the psychology of procrastination, and I give you 5 steps to snap out of procrastination faster. You can get any of the free resources I mention in the podcast here: https://www.dinacataldo.com/episode11

I'm walking you step-by-step through the 5 things you can do to create a morning routine that will transform your life. One of the things that held me back from creating the life I wanted was not being intentional about how I wake up and what I did first thing in the morning. I'm sharing what I've learned with you here. Getting intentional about what you do in the morning will set your day up for...

Have you ever told yourself that you're not living your dream for any of these reasons: I have a full-time job I'm too busy to think about it I don't have any money I have kids I don't know how to... My family is holding me back I'm too young or too old Kristin crushes these excuses and tells it like it is. At only 24 years old, Kristin digs deep and shares her personal goals and struggles as a fu...

Carollyne Corner detects what's holding her clients back in business and in life. Today she shares with us how we can detect our own roadblocks to success in business and relationships, and how we can bust through them to create more happiness in whatever we do. She also shares how her intuition has brought her amazing gifts in her life. Go to the website to get meditations to help give you clarit...

Lawyers and non-lawyers alike: listen up! You'll want to hear how one habit can help you change your life. Lexlee Overton is my guest today on Soul Roadmap. Lexlee is a lawyer who coaches lawyers to use mindset tools to not only become better at their job but to become better people in the world. Whether you're a lawyer or not, you need to hear what Lexlee has to say about mindset and how a single...

We get to dip our toes into the Japanese culture today! Our guest, Erin Niimi Longhurst is an author, food blogger, and social media strategist for charities. She's also half-Japanese and half-English, and she was steeped in both cultures as a child. Her new book,  Japonisme , explains some of the timeless treasures of the Japanese culture and explains step-by-step how we can incorporate tradition...

Marion Bacol Uba and Dina Cataldo talk about Marion's struggles with depression after a childhood of sexual abuse. She discusses attempted suicide, and how she coped with her trauma until a near death experience shook her to her foundation. Marian tells us four ways she found to cope with her trauma to finally thrive and how she helps others do the same.

Dina Cataldo and Lyena Strelkoff talk about Lyena's amazing transformation after losing the use of her legs in a hiking accident. She talks about how to face a challenge head on and avoid 4 instinctual reactions we have to challenges in our lives. We talk lawyers, the difference between being in control and in command, faux positivity, and more...

Candice Thomas is an intuitive coach who's helped entrepreneur clients create real monetary results. One topic Candice and I talk about in this episode of Soul Roadmap is discovering that even though she had everything she was taught that she was supposed to have - the house, the car, the great job - she had to learn to trust herself and trust that her intuition was telling her. She explains how w...

Today we're talking to Sylvia Salcedo whose experience spans both Western and Eastern medicine. We had a lot to talk about between her experiences with infertility and miscarriages to my experience with cancer. She's going to share techniques each of us can use. Y ou'll want to hear what she has to say about how we're impacting our health with habits we may not be aware of. She's also going to sha...