Wealthy Woman Lawyer Podcast, Helping you create a profitable, sustainable law firm you love

The last five years in tech have revolutionized how organizations do business, and the legal sector is no different. In this episode of Wealthy Woman Lawyer®, Davina speaks with Dorna Moini, attorney, and founder and CEO of Gavel.io. Gavel.io is a no-code platform for attorneys who want to streamline their practices and create passive income streams. Join us as Dorna explains what makes Gavel.io d...

Perhaps you've heard of a fractional Chief Financial Officer (CFO), but did you know you can also hire a fractional Chief Marketing Officer for your law firm business? A part-time CMO can help you develop and implement a marketing strategy for your business without the high cost of hiring a full-time in-house professional marketer. In this episode of Wealthy Woman Lawyer®, fractional Chief Marketi...

When you own your business, saving for retirement often takes a backseat to put money into the practice you’re trying to make successful. Many people even take money from their retirement accounts to fund their life transitions or businesses. The truth is the earlier you plan for retirement, the better it can be. Waiting until your 40s (or later) to think about it can be detrimental to your future...

Whether you use it or not, LinkedIn is a household name for creating professional relationships online. While it often has a masculine, stuffy energy, it is possible to employ your LinkedIn profile to work for you and your business. It’s also a platform that makes connecting with others in your niche incredibly easy. Cara Steinmann is a business development strategist who helps purpose-driven wome...

When you’re in the middle of running a successful business, getting stuck in a rut is easy to do. That can lead to burnout, which often leads to an unhealthy lifestyle. When you feel bad habits setting in, but your business is thriving, is it okay to take a step back? Managing other people and making a lot of decisions every day can take a toll on you. When your personal life is also experiencing...

The prospect of expanding your law firm and hiring new employees to take your business to the next level is exciting. Typically, scaling means hiring, and if you’re going to bring on new team members, training should be at the forefront. You may not believe you have time to train, but if you prioritize it, well-trained new employees can be an enormous time-saver for you and your business. Over tim...

Many law firm owners evaluate their businesses based on how much profit they take home every quarter or every year. What every entrepreneur should understand, though, is that revenue drives profit–the more revenue you bring in, the more you’ll have to invest in your business growth, and the higher the potential profit over time. It can feel counterintuitive to view hiring, training and setting up...

For any entrepreneur, managing cash flow can be cyclical. It’s especially common for attorneys because some operate on contingency, and others fall into a rhythm of marketing to create a lot of work, and then doing the work and not leaving time for marketing which leads to no new work. It creates a feast-or-famine cycle; if they aren’t careful, they will end up cash poor during the slow months. In...

More attorneys than ever before it seems are drawn to Intellectual Property (IP) law, in particular trademark law, because it’s an area of practice that allows for more location flexibility. However, there’s much more to trademarks law than simply filing applications for clients who want to protect their intellectual property. Successful trademark attorneys know they need to acquire deep knowledge...

Getting a handle on your business financials can be tricky--especially if you hate doing the math. Hiring a fractional Chief Financial Officer (CFO) could be the secret sauce you need to take your business up another notch. In this episode of Wealthy Woman Lawyer®, Davina speaks with guest Danielle Hendon, founder and CEO of 4 Corners CFO. Danielle is a Texas-based CPA who thrives on applying big-...

Nikki Rausch, CEO of Sales Maven, teaches professional women to have better and more effective sales conversations in a way that feels good to them. Nikki has more than 25 years of sales experience, including to organizations such as The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, and NASA. Over time, she also developed an extensive background in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) which...

In this unique episode, I have a conversation with not one, but TWO marketing and sales experts: Kim Garmon Hummel and Shawn Karol Sandy of Sauce Agency. Sauce Agency is a marketing agency that takes a holistic approach to business growth. Shawn has been a guest on the Wealthy Woman Lawyer Podcast podcast before and now she is back after creating Sauce Agency with her business partner, Kim! With S...

Laurore Jean Pierre is a unicorn in the legal world because she is not only an attorney but also a licensed financial advisor. Today she is the founder of JP Law and Wealth, a uniquely combined financial advisory firm in which she provides estate planning services and financial advising. In this episode, I speak with Laurore about her journey to the life and career she has created for herself, inc...

The month attorney Miriam Airington-Fisher started her law firm, she also was experiencing three of life’s most stressful events: separation and divorce from her spouse, the birth of her first child, and leaving the comfort of a job she had loved. Today, Miriam is the mother of three children, and the owner and lead attorney of Airington Law firm, a business that generates more than $1 million per...

We all have the same 24 hours in a day. However, we don’t always know how to use the hours we have. Some people seem to be able to accomplish more and be less stressed, while others struggle and get nothing done. The secret is to decide what your vision for your life is and make sure that your system and time management strategies tie into that vision. In this episode, I have a conversation with D...

Being a lawyer involves more than paperwork and courtroom litigation. Lawyers must network with other professionals, market themselves, and avoid burning out and selling out. As a wealthy woman lawyer, you also might struggle with juggling doing it all, having confidence in the courtroom, and maintaining what’s most important to you. In this episode, I interview Dena Lefkowitz, the founder and CEO...

There is no doubt that competing with other law firms to rank on Google and grow brand awareness is complicated and time intensive. SEO strategies are constantly evolving and require steady research. It’s not easy to run your firm and stay updated on your Google rankings and the algorithm changes. This is where it's imperative that should you decide to implement SEO, you hire a company that is kno...

This time of year, everyone’s favorite topic seems to be about ‘planning.’ I feel ya! I love me some good planning. In fact, it’s a key ingredient of my success and my clients’ success. BUT, it’s only one step of the journey. In this episode, not only am I celebrating some wins of this past year with you, but also, I am sharing with you the number one reason why all the planning in the world will...

Coaching is not for everyone. It’s a mistake, too, to believe that everyone is ready for coaching. So how do you determine if you are ready for a business coach to help you grow your law firm business? In this episode, I share with you three reasons why now may NOT be the time for you to hire a coach, and three reasons why there’s no time like the present. Listen in to discover: The difference bet...

In today’s episode, I’m busting MYTHS—7 law firm growth myths to be exact. These are beliefs I’ve had and other people have had about what it takes to own and operate a law firm business, and I’m here to tell you they are LIMITING beliefs that may be holding you back from the growth you desire. Listen in as I share: What one male attorney mentor told me when I opened my virtual law firm in 2011 Th...

In today’s episode, I’ll be discussing the 7 struggles that keep women law firm owners from successfully growing their law firm businesses. I was able to pinpoint these 7 based on conversations I’ve had over the last decade with 100s of you. Listen in as I share: What you absolutely MUST understand if you want to understand how long it’s going to take to reach you law firm growth goals How being e...

In today’s episode, I want to share with you the 9 Must-Take Actions for Women Law Firm Owners to Generate Wealth in their law firm business. Listen in as I share: Why setting goals is not enough and what to do instead Why you never seem to have time to work “on” your business How to stop doing #allthethings The one skill you MUST develop sooner rather than later The difference between systems and...

In this episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® podcast, I welcome Amanda DuBois, Founder of DuBois Levias Law Group, a woman-owned family law firm where those going through divorce could feel empowered to make courageous endings and chart brave beginnings. Amanda is also the Founder of the Civil Survival Project, an award-winning nonprofit that teaches basic legal survival skills to formerly incarce...

In this episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® podcast, I welcome Andrea Sager, Founder and CEO of The Legalpreneur, a legal tech startup that focuses on offering affordable legal services to businesses of all sizes. Andrea says she developed The Legalpreneur alongside her law firm business to offer an alternative to small businesses owners who didn’t feel they could afford to hire a law firm, yet,...

If you filed an extension for 2021, taxes are probably on your mind right now. Or perhaps you are gathering up your info and making sure you snag all the write-offs you can before year’s end. In this episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® podcast, I interviewed Josie Harris-Walton, the owner and managing partner at The Walton Firm, and manager of the law firm's corporate and tax division about all t...