She Made Her World Smaller and Smaller to Survive Law. Then She Found the Happy Lawyers. | Emily Long

The Wellness Esquire Podcast: Happy, Healthy, Successful Lawyers · Aug 12, 2026 · 1h 7m · transcript

On this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, host Ariella Cohen Coleman sits down with Emily Long, a former prosecutor turned solo firm founder who knew she was going to be a lawyer at nine years old. Emily got the exact career she pictured: law school at 20, practicing by 23, in court every single day as a prosecutor. What she did not expect was how heavy it would feel, or that she had been carrying a lifelong anxiety she had never even named. To cope, she got very good at control, until she realized she had quietly shrunk her whole world down to a box she could manage. This is the story…