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Michelle was a former partner at Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, serving on the Intellectual Property Protection & Litigation Service team. Michelle brings her years of experience and skill to managing her client’s brands, protecting client’s rights of publicity, and drafting and negotiating complex technology agreements. In addition to her law practice, Michelle is the founder and president of the...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Kristin Little, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Collaborative Divorce Child Specialist and has provided therapy for children and families for 20 plus years. She is the contributing author of "The Coparenting Handbook" with Collaborative Divorce Coach Karen Bonnell and the Author of “No More Us; Navigating a Divorce or Separation You Didn’...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Iffy Ibekwe! Iffy is an estate planning attorney evangelist for intergenerational wealth transfer and legacy building with effective wills and trusts. She activates intentional women so they can take agency over their lives and build impactful legacies. As a Black businesswoman and attorney, she is not your garden-variety estate planning attorne...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie talks about sending her 6th and final kid off to college, how as mother’s we’re so hard on ourselves, and reminds us to not forget to follow your passion. Subscribe to Maximum Mom on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode!

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Eve Rodsky as they discuss Fair Play, Unicorn Space and everything in between. Eve Rodsky is working to change society one partnership at a time by coming up with a new 21st century solution to an age-old problem: women shouldering the brunt of childrearing and domestic life responsibilities regardless of whether they work outside the home. In he...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Ali Smedley. One of South Jersey’s leading matrimonial lawyers, AllynMarie (Ali) Smedley, Esq., has focused her practice solely in the area of family law, including divorce, pre- and post-marital agreements, support and alimony, child support and custody, college contribution matters, spousal support,  grandparent visitation, equitable distributi...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Carol Williams, the founder of Williams Immigration LLC, a boutique immigration law firm. Carol is a former Adjudications Officer at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and focused on policy issues at its headquarters in Washington, DC. As a result, she provides added insight to the agency practices when working with cl...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Brooke Lively and Pam Meissner of Cathedral Capital . Brooke Lively is the Founder of Cathedral Capital, a team of CFO’s and Profitability Strategists who help entrepreneurs turn their businesses into profitable companies.  With expertise in growth management, creative problem solving and profitability strategy, Brooke has been featured in intern...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins real estate guru Jennifer Nelson. Jennifer has been at this for 18 years now! Real estating is dynamic, it is always changing and the needs of clients are always changing. Jennifer gets jazzed to continue to learn and grow as my clients' needs change and grow. She comes from a background of education and has the pleasure of incorporating that int...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Sara Frasca. With the curiosity of Galileo and the tenacity of a street fighter, Sara Frasca is an innovation and business growth expert.  Honing her skills at senior leadership roles in both Corporate America and the world of startups, Sara now serves as Chief Marketing Officer for Fireproof, a global business coaching firm. She helps leading or...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins her integrator Kathryn Silk. Kathryn is an experienced family law attorney with a passion for the collaborative approach. After graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in 2010, she moved to Wenatchee where she practiced law, was on the board of the Domestic and Sexual Violence Center, served as the President of the local Young...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Sophya Raza and Stephanie Jones. Sophya Raza is a Founding Member of Raza and Jones in St. Louis. Sohpya had wanted to be a lawyer ever since she drafted a contract  at the age of 12 for her mom and sister to sign involving her sister’s desire for a perm. It was this  first instance of helping two individuals resolve their dispute in a fair manne...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Renée Bauer.  Ms. Renée Bauer is an award-winning divorce attorney, published author, and founder of the family law firm, Bauer Law Group. Renée’s insights are sought after by local, national and international media outlets, podcasts, and conferences where she speaks on co-parenting, blended family dynamics, relationships, and the art of reinvent...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins her associate Andrea Seymoure.  Andrea's extensive family law practice focuses on all aspects of family law including dissolutions, legal separations, division of assets/liabilities, parentage, child support, post-decree enforcement and modifications, and domestic violence, primarily in King and Snohomish counties.  Andrea grew up in the Pacific...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Brita Long . For over 22 years Brita practiced law and saw how people’s lives, including other attorneys, were negatively affected by complexity, a lack of purpose and a miss match between what they said was important in their life vs what their behavior showed was important in their life. Brita herself struggled for many years to create a life t...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Claire Parsons, a Member at Adams Law, PLLC in the Cincinnati area.  Claire is a skilled local government attorney and litigator, a best-selling author, a recognized advocate for lawyer-moms and women professionals, and the mom of two adorable but admittedly unruly girls.  Claire relies on her mindfulness practice to balance these roles and her p...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Amy M. Gardner, a certified Career and Career Transitions Coach and Team Development and Leadership Consultant with Apochromatik .  Amy coaches lawyers and other professionals one-on-one, in small group masterminds, and delivers workshops for employers. Her work draws on her unique experience as dean of students at the University of Chicago Law S...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Natalie Norfus! An attorney turned HR/DEI CEO - The Norfus Firm.  Natalie is a creative and proven problem solver with over 15 years of experience counseling employers on diversity & HR strategies, compliance, and litigation. Natalie has worked with global employers in various industries including quick services restaurants, manufacturing, fi...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Théda Page! In 2002 Théda opened The Page Law Firm, which focuses on bankruptcy and family law.  Ms. Page began her career in 1986 representing debtors in consumer and business bankruptcies with a boutique law firm in Dallas and then with a sole member firm.  In 1988 Ms. Page joined J. C. Penney Company, Inc. in the corporate legal department whe...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Angela Hansen and they discuss the Sandwich Generation! Angela H. Hansen is the owner of Hansen Legal & Mediation Services, P.C. in Rockville, Maryland. Angela brings 30+ years of experience in advocacy and conflict resolution to her firm and unapologetically provides clients with clear direction throughout their entire time under her care an...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Jasmin Haley! Jasmin Haley is an award-winning national speaker, podcaster, and pro educator. Almost 8 years ago, the woman you see today did not exist. Her passion and brilliance were simmered down to non-existence because she opted to play small and live her life in fear. She came to the realization it was time for a change. It was time to LIV...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined her team member Amy Carei. Amy comes from humble beginnings. She was the first person in her extended family to go to college, let alone attend law school. Raised by a single mother with limited means, Amy understands the importance of family and the value of a dollar. She takes neither for granted in her law practice. Amy prides herself on bein...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Bunmi Emenanjo, an attorney with a biotechnology background. Bunmi has a career that spans 17 years moving fluidly between the legal and biotechnology world. She started her career working in pharmaceutical litigation, before moving on to regulatory policy in emerging technology, such as synthetic biology and nanotechnology. She eventually made...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Billie Tarascio!  Attorney Billie Tarascio practices exclusively in divorce and family law in Arizona at the law firm she founded, Modern Law . Billie is a skilled practitioner, national speaker, podcast host of ‘Modern Divorce’, and law firm business consultant. She is also the author of Decode Your Divorce and a co author of Tiger Tactics, Pow...

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Melissa Shanahan!  Melissa Shanahan founded Velocity Work after several years at a consulting firm focused on the growth of private practices all across the U.S. After coaching over 350 doctors, dentists, and lawyers - she chose to narrow her services to attorneys only and started Velocity Work.   The host of the Velocity Work podcast and an ext...