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You Are A Lawyer is an interview podcast that promotes lawyers with fearless career changes, ambitious side hustles, and extraordinary lives.

On this top-rated podcast, Kyla holds space for lawyers to be transparent and honest about their law school experiences, transitions out of the law, or the leaps they took to become a filmmaker, yogi, beauty brand founder, entrepreneur, etc.

Ranked at 42 of the Top 90 Legal Podcasts, this podcast will motivate you to start that side hustle, challenge you to find a nontraditional career, and push you to embrace the hobby you’ve been hiding.

So ask yourself, are you an ambitious lawyer who feels limited in your career? A law student who daydreams about impacting the world? Did you struggle with the bar exam, and now you’re bored with the law?

Listen to You Are A Lawyer and discover new careers, amazing passions, and advice from lawyers who will motivate you to find new ways to use your law degree. Whether you’re working as an artist, tech investor, coach, or blogger, if you’ve graduated from law school, YOU ARE A LAWYER, and your law degree is valuable.

Find more episodes and resources at www.youarealawyer.com. Join the email list and get introduced to more fearless lawyers every week.

You Are A Lawyer Kyla Denanyoh

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You Are A Lawyer is an interview podcast that promotes lawyers with fearless career changes, ambitious side hustles, and extraordinary lives.

On this top-rated podcast, Kyla holds space for lawyers to be transparent and honest about their law school experiences, transitions out of the law, or the leaps they took to become a filmmaker, yogi, beauty brand founder, entrepreneur, etc.

Ranked at 42 of the Top 90 Legal Podcasts, this podcast will motivate you to start that side hustle, challenge you to find a nontraditional career, and push you to embrace the hobby you’ve been hiding.

So ask yourself, are you an ambitious lawyer who feels limited in your career? A law student who daydreams about impacting the world? Did you struggle with the bar exam, and now you’re bored with the law?

Listen to You Are A Lawyer and discover new careers, amazing passions, and advice from lawyers who will motivate you to find new ways to use your law degree. Whether you’re working as an artist, tech investor, coach, or blogger, if you’ve graduated from law school, YOU ARE A LAWYER, and your law degree is valuable.

Find more episodes and resources at www.youarealawyer.com. Join the email list and get introduced to more fearless lawyers every week.

    How a Tech CEO is Disrupting a Billion-Dollar Industry feat. Joshua Schwadron

    How a Tech CEO is Disrupting a Billion-Dollar Industry feat. Joshua Schwadron

    What Can You Do With a Law Degree? 
    While Joshua Schwadron believes that many areas of law will be impacted by technology, students can find ways to make technology work within the practice group and “be happy and make a lot of money.” 
    "I recommend that students develop an expertise that cannot be disrupted by artificial intelligence (AI) or technology," shared Joshua Schwadron on the You Are A Lawyer podcast. A law degree will take you anywhere. While Josh sees the impact of his law degree in his life, he cautions students to think about why they are going to law school before they take the giant leap because of the exorbitant costs of legal education.
    Josh used his law degree to become the CEO of Mighty, which was created to benefit accident victims and bring equity to the personal injury and insurance industry.
    "Mighty was founded to give the consumer more power and benefits and help to root out some of the bad practices that many people in personal injury have," explains Joshua Schwadron in Episode 82 of You Are A Lawyer. Lawyer Side Hustles
    Joshua Schwadron became a legal tech founder and CEO because he wanted to improve the lives of people affected by accidents. Traditionally personal injury law firms are all about settling a case and minimal client involvement while they work on the issues. Mighty develops products that will aid the client, like interest-free friends and family loans, which allow the client to get money to handle their bills without dealing with that issue themselves and adding chaos to a relationship. 
    Mighty is concerned with:

    How the consumer is feeling
    Is the consumer able to pay their bills? 
    Has the client’s car been fixed? 
    How can mighty help you get back to your new normal?
    Mighty is a nationwide service that allows accident victims to get better service. If you live in a smaller or remote area, Mighty can refer you to someone who can assist you after your accident.
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    Contact Joshua Schwadron
    Joshua Schwadron is licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey, and Florida. 
    Learn more about Mighty: www.mighty.com
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    REWIND! How To Create a Million Dollar Business and Skip the Bar Exam featuring Brandi Mowles

    REWIND! How To Create a Million Dollar Business and Skip the Bar Exam featuring Brandi Mowles

    Brandi Mowles teaches entrepreneurs to organize their businesses and streamline their onboarding processes to ensure that clients are impressed, retained, and know what to expect. Whether you manage a podcast, YouTube channel, or virtual assistant company, Brandi Mowles has trainings to get your books in order. 
    Brandi Mowles transitioned from working in sales to founding a multi-million dollar business. She uses her experiences and knowledge to mentor other business owners and assist them in stabilizing their businesses. 

    What Can You Do With a Law Degree? 
    Brandi Mowles explains that law school instructed her on owning a business, business formation, and contracts. But everything about scaling businesses and running a million-dollar business was learned through hard work and mistakes. 
    Lawyer Side Hustles
    Brandi Mowles created Serve Scale Soar, an education and marketing business to assist other entrepreneurs in succeeding. Early in her career, Brandi tried to find ways to earn money while staying home with her daughter. Branid tried Pinterest ads but didn't stick with them. Brandi looked at blogging, but that didn't last.
    Side Hustle Turned Main HustleSlowly Brandi started running Facebook ads and found great success with them. The confidence from being successful with Facebook led Brandi to look at Instagram ads. Soon, Brandi's ad strategy business made more than $400,000 yearly, AND Brandi was enjoying the work. Most fascinating is that Brandi used her experience to train others to scale their businesses. 

    Brandi Mowles hosts the podcast, Serve Scale Soar, where Brandi makes it easy for freelancers and business owners to scale their businesses. The one thing that freelancers need is more time to research, find, and decide what information is valuable or useless for their business. Brandi Mowles shares information, systems, marketing, and how to choose a client. These lessons are mandatory listening and will inspire any freelancer or entrepreneur to tune in. 

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    Brandi Mowles is not licensed to practice law. Learn more about Brandi Mowles:
    Website: https://brandimowles.com/
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandimowles/Watch Brandi Mowles discuss Serve Scale Soar: https://youtu.be/FNU61Uilg-4
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    How To Price Your Legal Services Using Law Firm KPI's featuring Mike Chastaine

    How To Price Your Legal Services Using Law Firm KPI's featuring Mike Chastaine

    Michael (Mike) Chastaine is a criminal defense lawyer in New Mexico, US, and believes lawyers are notoriously bad at estimating how long it takes them to complete a task. In fact, Mike is a business consultant for law firms because he knows lawyers are bad at getting client feedback and often complete tasks that should be delegated. 
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    Why Data Driven Lawyers are Better Lawyers featuring Laurie Pascoe

    Why Data Driven Lawyers are Better Lawyers featuring Laurie Pascoe

    Laurie Pascoe practiced law for 40 years while writing more than 50 law articles and working with countless clients. Laurie’s current passion is inspiring lawyers to innovate their law practices with legal service applications. In this episode, Laurie explains the value of thinking like a client and learning to analyze everything.

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    Lawrence “Laurie” Pascoe wanted to be a dentist for a long time. His family was full of doctors, dentists, and nurses, so working in medicine seemed like a natural fit for Laurie until Laurie took a business course in undergraduate school, where he became deeply interested in how the law touched every aspect of life. 
    Why Law School?
    Laurie Pascoe attended the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. After living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and meeting his wife, Laurie moved to Ottawa with plans to move back to Halifax, but “the rest is history.” Laurie and a law school classmate opened a law firm in Ottawa and thrived in their legal profession for 40 years.

    When a client works with Laurie, they will ‘Discover the Pascoe Way,’ which was the slogan of Laurie’s law firm. Lawyers frequently communicate with clients and focus on the three most important periods of working with a client:

    Before the client signs a retainer,
    During the attorney-client relationship, and
    After services are completed. 
    How to Think Like a ClientThere is no time when a client’s opinion or experience should not be sought out or considered. From finding out where the client found Laurie (15-25% of Laurie’s clients found him from the website) or determining what Laurie could do to improve his legal services.
    Laurie believes that the best lawyers know the “think like a client.” Laurie continues to explain that clients do not care about fancy offices or the famous pictures on the walls, except to wonder if they are paying for those furnishings. Clients are concerned with results; anything else is added for the lawyer’s benefit.
    Lawyers have Cool Interests 
    Laurie Pascoe is the author of Innovative Legal Services Applications: A Guide to Improved Client Services. Laurie defines legal service applications as any physical item or file that helps you better serve the client. Multiple computer monitors, manuals, receiving client feedback, etc., is a legal service application. The benefits of legal service applications began as marketing tools.  

    Laurie Pascoe is licensed to practice law in Canada. Buy a copy of Laurie’s book: bit.ly/3ya2oup Use code ILSAGICS23 to save 25% off the purchase of the book. 

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    Notes and LinksBuy a copy of Laurie’s book, Innovative Legal Service Applications here: bit.ly/3ya2oup
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    How to Build a Business Abroad featuring Christine Job

    How to Build a Business Abroad featuring Christine Job

    At 17 years old, Christine Job said she would live abroad in Spain. And she made it happen. After traveling to numerous countries, Christina made a home in Spain five years ago. She teaches women of color to build businesses abroad to sustain their travels and hosts the Flourish in the Foreign podcast.
    Christine Job's Background
    Christine Job studied business as an undergrad but needed help figuring out where to use her experience. The economy was terrible in 2009, and Christine needed a job that utilized her new college degree. So Christine took a gap year before she attended law school in Miami. But life outside of law school significantly impacted Christine: Christine she fought for job opportunities, negotiated and split the summer interning in two roles, worked with an entrepreneurial incubator and spent a few months with a startup. Not too bad for someone who didn't want to attend her law school graduation.
    What Can You Do With a Law Degree? 
    As a 1L student, Christine began working as a business consultant and strategist. With her book knowledge from undergrad and advocacy skills from life, Christine met with young entrepreneurs. She helped them identify business models and deal with the stresses of entrepreneurship.
    Lawyer Side Hustles
    Christine Job believed in being professionally fulfilled and financially well. When she created a home in Valencia, Spain, Christine revived her business strategy and consultancy to encourage her professional fulfillment. Every day, Christine used her experience and passion for building a business abroad and assisting women of color in becoming entrepreneurs.
    Additionally, Christine exercises her creativity as the host of the Flourish in the Foreign podcast. On this podcast, Christine speaks with women of color who live abroad and discusses their challenges, successes, and regularness (i.e., taking out the trash and buying groceries) internationally. 
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    How To Protect Your Legacy (and Assets) featuring Scott Rahn

    How To Protect Your Legacy (and Assets) featuring Scott Rahn

    Probate lawyers discover the legacy a loved one intended and how to implement that legacy most fairly. Scott Rahn meets clients during emotional and stressful times, but Scott’s zealous efficacy allows him to leave his clients in a better position regarding their loved one’s estates.
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    Scott Rahn's Background
    Scott Rahn attended undergrad in his home state of Wisconsin. Still, Scott has yet to make plans to leave sunny California. Although Scott wanted to become a mergers and acquisition lawyer, Scott discovered that he enjoyed probate litigation. Scott Rahn founded RMO Probate Litigation, a nationwide estate litigation firm.  
    Are Nice Lawyers Successful?Scott did not have to become some loud-talking, arrogant jerk, as most litigators are portrayed, to get results for his clients. Scott Rahn explains that when you work with jerk lawyers, you will pay more and get slower results when clients want to have their problems handled promptly for the least amount of money. You do not need a shark lawyer to receive results.
    Lawyer Side HustlesAfter practicing probate litigation for a few years while working for others, Scott Rahn decided to open his law firm, RMO Probate Litigation. RMO has grown and opened five offices nationwide.
    Probate law eventually touches every person's life, which is one of the challenges of probate law. Typical scenarios are when someone you know dies if you create a will or trust for yourself. When Scott Rahn became interested in probate litigation, Scott knew that he was ready to help people. 

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    00:00 - INTRO
    00:20 - WELCOME SCOTT RAHN
    00:29 - SCOTT’S BACKGROUND
    01:20 - MIDWEST LIFE & SPORTS
    02:30 - PROBATE LAW AFFECTS EVERYONE
    03:30 - INNOVATE PROBATE LAW
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    08:02 - PROBATE LAW & PANDEMIC
    09:22 - TRUST ACCOUNTS: PRO & CON
    12:37 - YOU ARE A LAWYER PODCAST
    12:50 - LAW SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
    15:12 - ZEALOUS EFFICACY
    17:30 - PREPARE FOR LITIGATION
    19:03 - DAY IN THE LIFE
    22:34 - POWER OF PROBATE LAW 
    23:44 - ADVICE FOR NEW LAWYERS
    25:30 - OUTRO
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18 Ratings

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Folks, this podcast is appointment-listening. Kyla is an energetic, compassionate host who really brings out fascinating and intriguing tidbits from her guests. Also, production-wise, it’s smooth listening. Very polished final product; I’m sure there’s a lot of skillful editing behind the scenes that Kyla also deserves credit for! — Brian D.G.

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