The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers Paula Price

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.
 
The language you use on a daily basis might seem innocuous, but there is profound power that comes from making subtle shifts. Hear about three overused expressions that we use to our own detriment, and learn simple edits that will tidy up your speech and help you communicate with more clarity and confidence.
 
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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 characteristics that might make you susceptible to mental overload, and Mylène's favorite strategies for reducing your mental load to healthy levels. We’re exploring how we unwittingly tip ourselves into mental overload, the roles of perfectionism and anxiety in creating mental overload, and why our mental overload profiles will look different for each individual.
 
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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.
 
Hear why investing in yourself matters, and how Aman chooses to continually invest in herself. Learn why women, especially, are prone to not investing in themselves, how the reluctance to invest in yourself may be manifesting in your life, why it’s your responsibility to invest in yourself, and what happens when you do.
 
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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 cannot help you do, and questions that will help you figure out how a specific coach you might want to work with can support you toward your goals.
 
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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 know where to start, listen in this week. I’m offering you a three-phase process that will help you create the mentorship relationships you want and need, questions to ask yourself that will provide clarity on the mentor you’re looking for, and my top tips on being a great mentee.
 
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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 inherent uncertainty that exists in legal practice. I’m sharing some of the ways you might be trying to overcompensate for a lack of confidence, how this could create additional problems for you, and seven strategies that will help you cultivate confidence, even in the face of uncertainty.
 
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