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6 Books That Will Change Your Life · Wealthy Woman Lawyer Podcast, Helping you create a profitable, sustainable law firm you love

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  Unknown: Hello, I'm Davina Frederick. And I'd like to
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  woman lawyer or follow us on Instagram at wealth woman lawyer
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  or connect with us on LinkedIn. Today, I wanted to share with
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  you a few of my favorite books. These are books that have
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  changed the way I think and altered the course of my life.
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  And I'm sharing them with you because so many women law firm
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  owners asked me for book recommendations to help them on
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  their growth journey. I am an avid reader. I remember from a
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  very early age, my parents taking my sisters in me to the
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  public library, we each had our own library card. And as soon as
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  we hit the door, we'd spread out in different directions, each
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  heading to our favorite section. And after a bit, my dad would
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  come round us all up and we'd head to the counter, and each of
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  us would have a stack of books and our hands to check out. As
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  soon as we return home, we'd spread out again, each finding
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  our own cozy reading spot. And then we would sit like that for
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  hours in silence each of us reading in my family of five. So
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  I really credit my parents for instilling in me not only the
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  magical world of books, but also my love of learning in general.
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  Because of them, I am a lifelong learner. And I'm always curious
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  to learn about subjects, which I might not otherwise have been
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  exposed at, but you know, but for my curiosity and seeking
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  them out. I don't know about you. But in law school for me,
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  it almost crushed my reading spirit, the spirit, the
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  requirement of reading 50 pages provide in each class was really
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  daunting to say the least. So every time the holiday break
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  would roll around. Instead of reading, which is something that
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  I love to do. I had to find another outlet for my
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  creativity. And so I turned to making art. That's when I
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  started painting was in law school. It took me a few years
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  to really get back to pleasure reading and my pleasure reading
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  habit. For many years. If I read anything, it was a business
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  book. And still today, I love business books, I'm always
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  reading them. But I have managed to get you know, novels back
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  into my work back into my schedule as well. Fortunately, I
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  also discovered audible, which really helped me to find the
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  time to read, you know, to create the time to read, I was
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  able to read during commutes back when we are driving places
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  still. And now of course while walking or apply makeup in the
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  morning. Between Kindle, audible and actual physical books, I
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  have three very full bookcases and other other places where
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  books have been shoved into nooks and crannies. My Library
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  is pretty vast, and I absolutely crave knowledge and I love to
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  share with others what I've learned. All which brings me to
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  today's topic. And that's six books that will change your
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  life. Now you can imagine as somebody who is widely read the
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  way I am, and he's been reading for so long, it's really hard to
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  narrow down to a list of your favorite books or favorite
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  authors, especially when you read across many genres. So the
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  books that I've selected here for you today are I select them,
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  because I think they're life changing. And while there are so
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  many books out there that are wonderful, and they can truly,
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  you know, change the course of our lives, do they truly change
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  the course of our lives and shape the way we think? That's
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  that is the question. And these books I'm going to share with
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  you have not only altered the course of my life, but they've
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  all by changing my thinking but they also changed my behavior in
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  some way. So after reading these books, I made some change to my
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  behavior that helped to create the life that I have now. And
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  they and I know that these books these books easily came to mind,
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  because these are books that I find myself citing wisdom from
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  in my daily life as I'm talking with other women law firm owners
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  We're friends and I'm giving advice to or whatever. These are
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  books that I sort of have internalized in some way. And
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  I'm able to remember, because they were so you know, I had
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  such aha moments. So if you're not driving or you're out are
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  out walking, while you're listening to this, you want to
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  grab your notes app, or pen and paper and jot these down. The
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  links will also be in the show notes for you. And also note
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  that I haven't really put these in any particular order, I've
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  just listed them here. So it's not order preference, or
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  anything. Number one on my list is number one, only because I
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  read it in the 90s. When it first came out, it was published
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  in 1989. And that is Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of
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  Highly Effective People. This book changed the way that I show
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  up in my work. And in my life. When I read this book, I, it is
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  a book that while I haven't read it, in many years, a lot of the
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  essays, the stories he tells in the book, still still are
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  implanted in my mind, and they change the way that I think and
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  the way that I act. One thing in particular is I'm always telling
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  my clients to put the big rocks in first, you might hear this,
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  if you've ever read eat the frog, you might hear that eat
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  the frog, it's the thing where you where you prioritize what is
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  most important, and you get that done first is basically the
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  concept. If you have ever read it, you'll know what I mean,
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  when I say put the big rocks in first, if not, then I recommend
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  you go and you read it, because this concept alone will change
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  your life. And that doesn't even include the other six habits. So
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  it is it is really a life changing book. And I recommend
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  that to you as the mind number one. Number two on my list is
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  Michael Gerber's event, or you can read the E Myth revisited.
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  Now he has a lot of E Myth versions, different types of E
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  Myth books, I in particular did not care much for the E Myth
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  attorney, because he's included some other authors in it who are
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  attorneys. And I think it changed sort of the tone of the
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  book. So I didn't care for that as much. But as an entrepreneur,
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  read the E Myth or the E Myth revisited. It is a mystery. If
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  you're still working in your business, instead of working on
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  your business, this book will help you understand what you
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  have been missing. So I really, I recommend this book very
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  strongly to a lot of my clients. Number three on the list is Don
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  Miguel Ruiz's four agreements. And you might have seen the Four
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  Agreements floating around as a meme on social media. And that's
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  great. But if you have not read the book, I really recommend you
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  read it, it is short, but it is powerful. And there's a lot more
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  depth to it than what you see in the social media. I mean, the
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  agreement that I have must bring myself back to again and again,
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  is the one to not take things personally. So when I'm stuck in
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  that space, I go and I reread this book, especially the
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  chapter on not taking things personally. It's something that
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  I find a lot of people struggle with, and understandably so but
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  this book will really help you to move out of that place very
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  quickly. And I just love the Four Agreements. It is such a
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  short book. That is something it's a pocket, pocket pocket
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  book book, right so you can really keep it with you. And
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  just refer to it again and again. Number four is Robert
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  Kiyosaki Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Not only did I read this book, but I
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  gave each of my nephews a copy of this book. As a person who
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  grew up in a household where college education and steady
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  paycheck are viewed as the keys to success. This book really
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  transformed my beliefs about how wealth is created. And does that
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  mean that I don't still believe in the value of a good education
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  or steady dependable flow of income? Of course not. I do see
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  the value in that. But this book opened my mind to a lot of other
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  possibilities. It made me think about the power that we all have
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  to create more of what we desire. And it also really
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  established for me, the, the power of having the ability to
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  connect, to connect with other people and also to be able to
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  sell anything. So a lot of value in this book. The interesting
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  thing about Robert Kiyosaki that
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  you find if you follow him at all, is Robert Kiyosaki has
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  written many many books We all have around this rich dad poor
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  dad theme. And Robert Kiyosaki also did not actually write the
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  books. He his books are all ghostwritten. Well, I think the
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  author actually gets credit on his book. But he, he makes it
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  known that he does not write books. And I think this is very
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  interesting because Robert Kiyosaki is a very, very wealthy
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  man. And one of his beliefs is that he should not he should
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  always spend his time doing what he does really well, the highest
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  best use of his time. And the highest and best use of his time
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  is not writing books. And so he hires other people to interview
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  him and write books for him. And I know this can be very shocking
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  for people when they learn this, but this is something for you to
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  think about. If you were to want to write your own book is that
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  you don't necessarily have to be the one to write it you can have
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  other people that these are very clearly Robert Kiyosaki these
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  concepts ideas stories, it is not that he is not that these
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  are not his concepts and beliefs. These are is just that
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  he has somebody else who's a better writer sit down and
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  actually capture all that and put it on paper. So number five
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  on my list is Michael McCalla wits is Profit First, Mike
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  McCalla watts, I would say Michael. Although so a lot of
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  you may have read this book. And although his exact formula does
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  not work, for me, for reasons to detail to go in here. In other
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  words, I had to kind of pick and choose different accounts and
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  sort of set things up in a little bit different way. His
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  pay your first philosophy really resonated with me. And that idea
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  of sort of hanging on to money, so that you can put it to work
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  for you to grow other money, is I absolutely love that. And if
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  you want to take it one step further, you can read the bonus
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  book I'm gonna share with you, which is the Automatic
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  Millionaire by David Bach. Again, somebody who's written
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  many, many books around this theme of the Automatic
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  Millionaire, but with different two different audiences. But the
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  idea behind it is just paying yourself first and then
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  automating your wealth growth. And combining both of those have
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  been life changing for me those two concepts. So now we're the
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  sixth book, or the seventh book, if you include the bonus book, I
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  just share that will change your life more than any other book.
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  And that is the book that you writes. Although I have been a
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  writer my whole life, I was never an author. until about a
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  year ago, when I published my first book, The wealthy woman
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  lawyers guide to law firm marketing in the virtual age. My
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  newest book, The wealthy woman lawyers guide to building a
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  systems driven law firm business has just been released and is
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  available for purchase on my website, as is my marketing
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  book. Are there are these two books as profound and life
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  changing as others I've listed here are listed here as well, I
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  don't know that's going to be up to the reader. But they are two
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  very solid books to help law firm owners grow their law firm
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  businesses. So if you are a law firm owner, we're lucky to
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  Kreger a law firm business. I believe there, there are some
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  concepts in each of these books that can change your life that
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  will be life changing for you.
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  I can tell you though, for me that these books have altered my
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  life in ways I've never expected and my business, it's the same
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  with every author that I need. While reading great books by
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  famous authors will surely influence your thinking and
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  maybe even behavior change some of your behaviors, the book that
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  you write, are really catapult your career and establish you as
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  a go to authority on a particular subject. It also will
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  help make you more visible to your target audience, you'll get
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  invited to speak more to be more podcast. It'll help you be seen
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  by your target audience and make you more visible in the world.
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  And also, like I said, will establish you as you know, the
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  go to person, you're the one who wrote the book on a subject. And
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  here's the exciting thing about writing and publishing a book in
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  today's world. You don't need to be approved by HarperCollins or
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  you know, any of these famous publishers to be taken
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  seriously. Many, many wonderful business books out there are
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  self published. And if you've been thinking about writing your
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  own book, I want you to shoot me an email at support at wealthy
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  woman lawyer and I'll put you in touch with my publisher. It's a
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  small press that helped me publish my first two books, and
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  very soon will help me publish my third book. So if you that's
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  something you're thinking about doing, I highly encourage you to
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  to do that. to write your own book and work on getting that
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  published out in the world, so other people can hear your voice
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  and learn your pointed point of view and perspective. And think
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  about, not only will it be life changing for you, but think
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  about, even if it only changes the lives of one or two other
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  people out there, what a wonderful legacy and impact to
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  leave in the world. So I do hope you've enjoyed today's episode,
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  and happy reading to all of you. I hope you enjoy these books. If
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  excited about meeting other successful women, law firm
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