The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers

Estelle Winsett is a lawyer turned professional stylist for women lawyers. She describes this pivot as a summation of all the different types of careers she's had, with the common thread of empowering women through their personal style. If you're ready to reconnect with your personal style and learn how to curate an intentional wardrobe that makes you feel amazing, listen in.   Estelle shares the...

In today's episode, I'm diving deep into what it really means to feel trapped in your legal career and offering concrete strategies to help you gain clarity, take back control, and start feeling better.   Learn three strategies that can help you move away from that feeling of being trapped. I guide you through an illuminating self-coaching process to shift your perspective, expand your sense of wh...

Joan Parsons Ziady spent 30 years in private practice at a national US law firm before founding Winslow Workplace Advisors, where she now helps lawyers and law firms advance professional development while fostering connection and well-being. Having experienced the pressure points of practicing law firsthand, she created the well-being roadmap she wished she had as an associate for working smarter...

Tomorrow marks our first call inside my new six-month group mastermind program, which has me thinking about transformation and the meaningful changes that can be accomplished in six months. I'm giving you a framework that will help you evaluate and measure your progress so you don't find yourself at the end of your journey unable to appreciate just how much you've transformed.   I review the tripl...

Do you identify as a perfectionist? If so, are you aware of where and how it's holding you back? The Pareto Principle is a powerful antidote to lawyer perfectionism, and I'm showing you why it's so effective and how you can apply it to your practice right now.   Learn how the Pareto Principle counterbalances perfectionism and how you can use this framework to your advantage. Hear how it can help y...

We all wish we could only be in relationships with the most wonderful people who make us feel amazing, but the reality is there are always going to be people in your life who you find stressful. If you find yourself feeling frustrated, ruminating about what you said or didn't say, and these interactions are pulling you away from what matters most, you're in the right place because I'm offering you...

Imagine the power of stepping into a coaching container full of women lawyers just like you. They're smart, high-achieving, values-driven, excellence-seeking women who want to pursue big goals, overcome their challenges, and grow their professional careers. For the last 18 months, I've hosted my own group coaching program for women lawyers where I help them do this, and I'm revealing everything yo...

This mid-year mark is the perfect time to check in, see how you're doing, and assess how you want to spend the balance of the year. If you have a gnawing feeling that you have more on your plate than you want or need and you're tired of feeling weighed down, a mid-year reset could be the ultimate way to pare things down so you can speed up your growth over the rest of 2024.   Listen in this week t...

The leadership mindset is a common and emerging theme in my work with women lawyers. They often come to me at an inflection point in their careers where they need to make a big decision around their development, and it usually involves examining the role that leadership plays in their lives.   Discover what it means to adopt a leadership mindset and the top five characteristics of a leader. I'm hi...

The legal culture is often one of "yes." There's a tendency in law to attract individuals who are helpers, high-achievers, or predisposed to want to do more. If this resonates with you, setting and asserting boundaries might feel like going against the grain of your work culture and your own internal wiring.   I highlight the challenges lawyers face around setting boundaries and receiving pushback...

Whether you're a lawyer who has ADHD, suspect you have it, or you're someone who supports somebody in your life with ADHD, this week, I'm sharing some of what I've learned about how coaching can help. In furthering my coach training specific to ADHD, I've discovered ADHD-specific resources that I've found to be helpful in my understanding of it, and I'm sharing my insights with you this week.   I...

Amanda Haverstick is a lawyer turned writing coach for lawyers. She has spent over 20 years in practice as a litigator in Big Law and in-house at a Fortune 500 company. As a writing coach, Amanda shares tips and strategies to help lawyers become better writers, and her book, Dear 1L: Notes to Nurture a New Legal Writer has been described as the 'it' book to read before law school.   Amanda shares...

The fear of making "bad" decisions is a topic that comes up often in my coaching conversations with lawyers. If you see decision-making as binary, where there are either good or bad ones you can make, you're not alone. However, have you ever asked yourself if decisions can be inherently good or bad? And how is your fear of making "bad" decisions keeping you paralyzed?    Learn my process for rewir...

In celebration of Mother's Day, this episode is dedicated to all of you lawyer moms out there. Navigating your roles as both lawyer and parent is objectively tough. Not only are you showing up in your professional work for your colleagues and clients, but you're doing so much behind the scenes in your home life too, and you are doing a fabulous job.   I celebrate you for everything you do and offe...

What comes to mind when you think about self-care? If self-care is something you shy away from or something you think you need to reserve a weekend or special occasion for, you're in the right place. Learn why self-care doesn't have to be a nice-to-have or something that overhauls your schedule, why self-care tends to be at the bottom of the priority list for lawyers, and strategies that will help...

If you find that what was working is no longer working for you, and you catch yourself complaining about the same things over and over again or wishing things were different, this episode is for you. While it's normal to assume feeling stuck is a problem, I'm inviting you to see how where you are right now could just be Eigenzeit.   I offer you a two-pronged approach to addressing feeling stuck at...

Erin Peters is a psychotherapist, registered therapeutic counsellor, and former lawyer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She provides therapy-related services to lawyers and adults with ADHD, and she's here this week to take a deep dive into ADHD among lawyers and proactive steps you can take to deal with some of the most common challenges that arise.   Erin shares some of the most common chal...

We're at the very beginning of spring, which means it's time for spring cleaning for many of us. Your mind might immediately turn to decluttering your physical space, whether that's your house, office space, or wardrobe, and experiencing the satisfaction that comes from the visual effect of before-and-after. However, while less tangible, I'm inviting you to spring-clean your speech this week.   Th...

Mylène Houle Morency is a professional organizer and a dear friend who was my first-ever podcast guest, and she's back today to share her insights on the topic of mental load and mental overload. She's a multi-passionate entrepreneur who now has her own TV show, has written a book, and continues to offer trainings on work-life balance, mental overload, and corporate organizing.   Discover the char...

Aman Costigan is a multi-faceted lawyer based in Edmonton and a yoga and mindfulness teacher for lawyers. She's also a life strategist for couples and runs various workshops with her husband Tom. Although her professional life was thriving, she realized she had let go of all of her hobbies and was lacking a sense of excitement, fun, and joy in life. The solution she's found? Investing in herself....

If you're currently thinking about working with a coach and you're wondering what you can expect, or how that relationship might unfold, listen in this week as I delineate what your coach can and cannot help you with.   I share both the possibilities and the limits that come with coaching. I'm answering the question of how working with a coach can create transformations in your life, what a coach...

A lack of mentorship is a common theme I've observed among the lawyers I'm in conversation with. Both junior and senior lawyers face the challenge of finding a mentor who supports, inspires, and connects with them on a deep level, and there are a number of reasons why cultivating a mentorship relationship can feel difficult.   If you're currently seeking out a mentorship relationship but don't kno...

Lawyers live in a world where we're expected to be confident. There's the notion that lawyers are trusted advisors who are practically omniscient and whom other people turn to for answers. We're expected to embody confidence, but how do we portray that when we operate in an environment with inherent uncertainty?   Hear how uncertainty influences your level of confidence and examples of the inheren...

What makes time management so challenging for lawyers? While the practice of law presents a few unique challenges that make managing your time feel close to impossible, the good news is I've got a five-stage roadmap that will help you identify your personal challenges and offer tools that will give you control, confidence, clarity, and a sense of calm around your schedule.   Hear why time manageme...

You ultimately want to feel calm and confident about your workweek, but the reality is that the lawyers I speak with often feel like they're at the mercy of their practices, exhausted, and overworked. If you're ready to learn how to create weeks that align with what you truly want, the truth is you need systems and strategies to make it a reality, and I'm sharing my top tips with you today.   Hear...