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Your Solution to Burnout · Wealthy Woman Lawyer Podcast, Helping you create a profitable, sustainable law firm you love

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  Unknown: Hi, everyone, it's to be in a Frederick with wealthy
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  woman lawyer. I'm so glad you're here today. I'm hoping that this
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  topic will really resonate with you because I have had several
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  discussions lately with women, law firm owners who are
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  experiencing what I'm going to talk about today. And that is
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  burnout. Are you battling burnout? I want to tell you, my
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  friend, I have been there. I opened my own law firm business
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  fresh out of law school, I was 40 at the time, and I was
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  determined to make it a success, despite opening it in 2007, the
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  fall of 2007. We remember what happened in the fall of 2007,
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  leading into 2008. Yes, the 2008 recession. But for a while, I
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  was doing really well, because I became a foreclosure law firm. I
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  was working with lenders representing lenders in
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  foreclosure matters, among other things in my practice, but that
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  was really our bread and butter. And so Business was booming.
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  After about a year I of having my own practice, I brought in a
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  partner. And we grew our team, we moved into a bigger fancier
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  office. And profits were really pouring in. But at what cost?
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  Because while we were successful, I hadn't yet learned
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  how to stop trying to be all things to all people. So for
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  quite a while I was functioning as a senior partner, managing
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  attorney, firm administrator litigator with my own caseload.
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  I was functioning as my own assistant. And some days, many
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  days, I was an official, their unofficial therapist, for my
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  employees and my clients who I really needed boundaries back
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  then, I felt so overworked and overwhelmed and completely
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  exhausted. And that's when it happened. Everything blew up in
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  my face all at once, because I was overworking and I was over
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  worrying. It had a profound impact on my health and on my
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  most important relationships. So many things begin to spiral out
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  of control in my personal life. And I made a very difficult
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  choice to walk away from my law firm business. If only someone
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  had told me that there was another way, maybe I would have
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  made a different choice. It took me years of soul searching,
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  therapy, mindset coaching, business coaching, to discover
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  where and why I had gone wrong. Today, I'm on a mission to help
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  other women law firm owners avoid my mistakes. So they can
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  create wealth generating law firms and lifestyles they love.
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  So if you can relate, if you found yourself taking vacation,
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  quote, unquote, with your laptop more times than without it, if
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  you feel like you're always doing all the things, if you
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  feel like good help is impossible to find. Let me
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  assure you there is another way you don't have to do what I did
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  and blow it all up to get clarity and answers to your
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  business billing questions. You can build a wealth generating
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  law firm business without tearing yourself down in the
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  process. I know this because I have helped numerous numerous
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  women law firm owners over the past nine years do that very
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  thing. Just today I spoke with a woman law firm owner who said
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  she was ready to throw in the biz the towel on her business.
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  Just last week. She already had an appointment scheduled with
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  me, but she was so burned out last week that she didn't think
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  she could get out of bed and go another day. My advice to her
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  and it's my advice to you if you're feeling the same way is
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  don't do it. Until you have asked for help. There are so
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  many great resources available to you. Resources I wish I'd had
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  when I started my firm straight out of law school. So I want you
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  to learn from my mistake. Don't wait to ask for help until your
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  life feels like a dumpster fire. Reach out to me or to another
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  business coach, mindset coach ASAP. Your future self will
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  thank you.
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  This has been another episode of the wealthy woman lawyer
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  podcast. I know it's a quickie today because I'm taking my own
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  advice and next week I am taking off the week to celebrate my
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  birthday and going on a vacation sans laptop. I want To be
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  completely unplugged during my vacation and I want the same
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  thing for you. If you've enjoyed this episode of the wealthy
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  woman lawyer podcast, then do leave us a review. Particularly
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  if you're using Apple with they have a great place to leave
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  reviews. share this episode with another woman, law firm owner.
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  And if you are needing or wanting help in your law firm
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  business because you're on the verge of burnout, or you've got
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  some big revenue, goals, whatever your reason, whatever
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  it is that you want for you, you and your law firm business,
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  reach out to me, you can do so by going to www dot wealthy
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  woman lawyer.com and schedule if you're interested in private
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  coaching, schedule a one on one consultation with me. If you are
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  don't feel you're ready for private coaching yet, but you're
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  needing some resources to help you get to that $300,000 or
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  $500,000 Mark without working yourself to death in the
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  process. Then jump over to the wealthy woman lawyer league
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  page. It's www dot wealthy woman lawyer.com/league lea Gu II, the
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  links are in the show notes. I have a wonderful solution for
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  you for getting the help that you need. Without whatever your
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  circumstances are and wherever you are in your business. There
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  is a solution. If you can't find a solution with me, I might be
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  able to point you in another direction. But do not sit around
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  and wait for things to get better take action, step into it
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  and ask for help because help is out there for you. Thanks again
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  for being here. I hope you've enjoyed this very short episode
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  this week. And I will see you all when I get back from
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  vacation.