Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo

In today's episode, I walk you through the mindset it takes to hit your goals in 2023. Grab your pen and notepad because this is the mindset training you need to make your goals reality. You'll learn how to: integrate the lessons from 2022 even if you think successes were just plain luck become more present in your life and practice, so you can notice when your mindset is out of alignment with you...

Calming anxiety is easier than you might think. A few things you need to know: 1. Anxiety is normal. There's nothing wrong with you. We simply weren't given coping skills for it. 2. Anxiety is nothing to be afraid of. When we attempt to push through or avoid it, we can actually make it worse. 3. What us high-achieving/over-achieving lawyers tend to call anxiety is a general term. Most of the time...

Are you feeling "blah?" It's probably because you're not taking care of yourself. In this episode of Be a Better Lawyer Podcast, you'll learn what to look out for, so you don't stay "blah" questions to ask yourself to have more fun nspiration for your next move (to get you out of "blah") Taking care of yourself is the game-change you didn't know you needed. Listen in to get out of the "Blahs." RES...

You may be thinking billable targets are impossibly hard to make or that you don't have enough time to hit your targets. Making more billables doesn't have to do with how much time you have. It actually comes down to your billables mindset. Your billables mindset is how you think about billables. What I'm sharing today is a brand new perspective to help you make hitting your billable targets easie...

Ever sit at your desk thinking about what ifs? What if you started your own practice? What if you expanded your practice? What if you made partner? What if you started that blogging or podcast idea that's been rolling around in the back of your mind? This episode is for the dreamers. The ambitious lawyers who have this nagging tug at their heart that they're meant for more. This episode is for law...

Talking to your spouse or other loved ones can feel vulnerable. We want them to tell us that our idea is amazing and that we can do anything we put our mind to. What happens when they don't? We can shut down and stop pursuing our dreams altogether. In this episode, you'll learn: how to prep for a conversation with loved ones about your dream what it means when they question your dream what you nee...

I'm sharing a fun conversation I had with Suzi Hixon. She interviewed me and two other lovely lawyers for her podcast Legally Blissed Conversations, and we talked about how high-achieving female attorneys push ourselves and tell ourselves we need to work harder. This conversation is important whether you identify as male or female because we get so acclimated to the legal culture of grinding and b...

A couple years ago a client gave me a testimonial that said, "Dina helps me focus on what I CAN do instead of focusing on what I CAN'T." This was such a perfect way to describe coaching and overcoming Focus Errors. When lawyers come to me, they have Focus Errors. Over the years they've created the habit of focusing on what HASN'T happened yet instead of what WILL happen. Another way of saying this...

Every thought we have either moves us closer to or further away from our the goals we have for our law practice. In this episode, I'm sharing 5 (okay, really 7) thoughts that sabotage the way lawyers: approach their work show up for clients bill their work, and prioritize their time This impacts how much money you make and ultimately how you feel when you show up in your practice day-to-day. Liste...

Imagine this: You're living the dream you used to have. You own your own firm. You've made partner. Or you became a lawyer like you'd planned, and you feel trapped. It feels really big and impossible to get out of. People rely on you. You've invested a lot of time, money and tears in your dream. You built exactly what you'd planned to build. You just thought you'd feel differently when you had it....

The other day I was talking to a lawyer about what it meant to slow down her brain. Thinking of slowing down felt scary to her. She was working so hard and not seeing the progress she wanted. She thought slowing down would mean she'd fall behind. Here's what slowing down really means: Imagine you're peddling a bicycle down the street as fast as you can. You're huffing and puffing trying to get to...

I'm sharing 9 power moves to improve your law practice and life in this episode of Be a Better Lawyer. Over this past year, I've paid attention to my clients' wins and my own wins. You'll get the benefit of hearing the 9 most impactful strategies and decisions we made to improve our practices, our ability to hit goals, and to enjoy our personal lives more. You'll learn: 3 changes you can make to i...

Meet Nancy Cogar: an elder and estate planning attorney as well as my client. In this special episode we talk: learning to build her own practice w/o the overwhelm the turning point in her practice when she started making more money what's even more important to her than making money our least-favorite TV show + how it showed up in a coaching session her former life as a journalist + the major eve...

Meet Gary Miles. He's a family lawyer and a coach. On this episode, we talk: Gary's multiple lives as a lawyer the consequence of not going after our dreams, and how to go after what you want Listen in to get inspired to take action on your own life.     RESOURCES Busy Lawyer's Guide Show notes CONNECT WITH ME On Instagram  @dina.cataldo On  LinkedIn WORK WITH ME When you're ready to start impleme...

One of the most important things I work on with my clients is nervous system regulation. It helps them feel better no matter what's happening in their life or how anxious or overwhelmed they feel at work or at home. It also helps them go after big goals with more ease when their sympathetic nervous system (the system that governs fight/flight responses) kicks in. In this episode, you'll learn what...

Today I want to introduce you to my new friend, Judith Gaton. She's smart, she's sassy, and she has a fashion sense. Judith also happens to be a former managing partner turned style coach. In our conversation, we talk exactly how she shifted from litigator to coach while practicing full time. As you know, I made the same shift, and that means we talk time management, mind management, and trying ne...

How we talk to ourselves makes the difference between hitting our goals and missing them. It also makes the difference between loving our life and making it as difficult as possible to love it. In this episode, you'll learn how to talk to yourself when your brain tells you nothing is going the way it should. RESOURCES Calendar Masterclass: Bye-Bye Burnout Show notes CONNECT WITH ME On Instagram  @...

What's your relationship with money? Like any good relationship, it takes connecting on a deep level. Most people do not have a deep connection to money because we've never talked about it. In today's episode of Be a Better Lawyer Podcast, I've invited Rho Thomas to share her incredible story with you to inspire you to take action on bettering your relationship with money. You'll hear the: money s...

There's a difference between taking any action and taking massive action. Not just any action will do. But when we're poised to take massive action, our body rebels. It goes into a fear response that stops most people in their tracks. Not you though because you'll have this episode to fuel your desires. If you've ever wanted to make more money in your practice, start a solo practice, or leave the...

Masculine and feminine lawyering styles are usually discussed as if they're at odds with each other. In this episode of Be a Better Lawyer Podcast, you'll discover why they're not at odds. They complement each other when balanced. You'll learn: the difference between masculine and feminine energies in your law practice the problems with over-indexing in the masculine OR the feminine energies how t...

Time is power. People with money buy time because time creates opportunities. You can create opportunities to grow your business, connect with loved ones, generate new ideas, and live your life fully. Join me for Time Management Coachapalooza where you'll learn to use your time masterfully. Save your spot here. I'll coach you one-on-one, so you can learn how to master your time. RESOURCES Busy Law...

Three beliefs are in the way of you feeling more peace-of-mind every day in your practice and in your life. Not recognizing these beliefs and changing them is costing you your peace of mind. Our peace-of-mind is everything, but we undervalue it. We think that it's a "nice to have" rather than a "must have." Without peace of mind, we feel tense and everything feels harder.   What you'll have in you...

How do you feel when you hear the word "networking?" If you're anything like me, you want to avoid anything has to do with networking. What if I asked you if you wanted to get to know some people? A little better? When I changed how I framed networking, I learned that it could actually be fun. In this episode, you'll: learn what it really means to network hear a few of my recent adventures in netw...

Whatever results you have in your life right now were created because of a belief you had in yourself, your abilities, or what was possible. You went to law school. Presumably you believed that you'd make it through law school, pass the Bar, and get a job. You'd only invest 6 figures in yourself ahead of time because you had that belief. Even though there was no guarantee of getting any of that, y...

If you're putting off the hard stuff in your practice or personal life, there's nothing wrong with you. Your brain is working exactly as designed. However, you may take issue with what it's doing because you're not doing the hard things you need to do to up-level your life. In this episode, you'll learn: how our brain works why our brain was designed to put off the hard stuff, and how to override...