The Gen Y Lawyer Podcast

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What Lawyers Can Learn from Other Service Industries with Neil Thompson [GWL163] Oct 01, 2018

Show notes

Former product development engineer Neil Thompson is the founder of Teach the Geek, an online platform for STEM professionals. The platform's first offering is the public speaking course, Teach the Geek to Speak. Neil turned his early failings in public speaking into a 6 step process to deliver any speech, and he is committed to sharing the process with fellow geeks.

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

What lawyers can learn from other service businesses,
How Neil switched from STEM to entrepreneurship, and how he identified a need in the market when brainstorming for business ideas,
How Neil tried various methods to market himself before deciding to hire professionals,
Knowing when to switch gear and experiment with your business.

Contact Information:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/teachthegeek

Twitter: www.twitter.com/teachthegeek

Instagram: www.instagram.com/_teachthegeek_

YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCW-8BcMcqnJLAYOhJtwy5wQ

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/neilithompson

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Catching up on Growth Goals, Business Success & Minimalistic Marketing with Nicole Abboud [GWL 162] Sep 24, 2018

Show notes

As we enter the last quarter of the year, I decided it would be a good idea to reflect on goals I set at the beginning of the year to see how far I've come and to assess where I'm going with my law practice in the next 3 months. I decided to reach out and invite Nicole Abboud, former host of the Gen Why Lawyer Podcast and owner of Abboud Media, a video and podcast production and marketing company helping lawyers and law firms, to chat about both of our businesses and how we plan on growing them.

What we discuss in this episode:

How to make the decision to change practice areas or career trajectories when you realize you're not happy in your current position
Should you experiment with your marketing or should you stick to one method to see what happens?
Why the client is the real hero of your marketing efforts
How can you figure out whom your ideal client is?
How we set goals for the year and how we adjust them as we go
Does writing down financial goals actually help?
What is minimalistic marketing and how can we apply this concept into our practices?
How to avoid giving into the madness that is social media and instead, focusing on one or 2 platforms and posting quality content on those platforms
How do you measure success in your business?
The importance of tracking potential clients and noticing trends

Contact Information:

Connect with Nicole on Instagram @nic_abboud

www.abboudmedia.com

Resources:

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Building a network and managing your time with Stephanie Hanna [GWL161] Sep 17, 2018

Show notes

Stephanie has been coaching law students and attorneys for the past decade – helping them navigate the profession, build their reputation, and develop their careers. Having been a prosecutor, judicial staff attorney, solo practitioner, magistrate, and law firm associate, Stephanie understands the dynamics at play in each environment. She has been successful in different settings and has been elected by her peers to serve the profession and the community at high levels.

The secret? Mastering The Other 85. Stephanie knows what it takes to develop and maintain key relationships, how to value people skills, and how to fit it all into an attorney's busy practice and life. She has condensed all she has learned into The Other 85 and is excited to share it with you.

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

How to make building a network less awkward, and turn encounters into friends and colleagues,
Managing your time efficiently,
How to bring value to your network and newly built relationships.

Resources:

https://theother85.net/hire/ Make sure to use the Code GENWHY for 10% off

Contact Information:

www.theother85.net

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Teach what you know and create passive income with Cindy Nicholson [GWL160] Sep 10, 2018

Show notes

As a former teacher and corporate trainer, Cindy Nicholson works with entrepreneurs who have dreams of building their business beyond just trading dollars for hours. They're ready to grow their business by offering online courses but have no idea where to start. Cindy helps walk them through the process so that they can create a course that they're proud of and that their clients will love.

In short, Cindy helps amazing entrepreneurs turn their incredible content into effective and engaging learning material. So often, small business owners are experts in their field but struggle with how to translate their vast knowledge into an engaging, life transforming online course. They know they want to scale their business and reach a broader audience (and earn some passive income along the way) but need some help to make it happen. That's become The Course Whisperer, Cindy Nicholson's, calling.

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

How do people come up with their course ideas? Do most have an outline already? know the details of the course or does Cindy help them flush out their ideas?

Sometimes, it's hard to break down material to teachable portions when you're an expert in your field. Cindy shares advice for people to take a step back and think about the basics and what need to be taught.

Resources and Platforms Cindy recommends to people thinking about starting a course.

Resources:

http://coursewhisperer.co/genwhy

Contact Information:

http://coursewhisperer.co/

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The ethics of content marketing and adopting new technologies with Megan Zavieh [GWL159] Aug 27, 2018

Show notes

Megan saves lawyers' careers. She defends lawyers before the State Bar of California in disciplinary investigations and proceedings. She also looks for new ways to help lawyers face ethics challenges, including creating The Playbook: The California Bar Discipline System Practice Guide, a membership website for lawyers defending themselves on disciplinary charges; podcasting on Lawyers Gone Ethical; writing for online and print publications; and speaking to lawyers on ethics issues.

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

Ethical issues of content marketing, creating videos and blogging on topics, how to answer questions on platforms like Avvo and Justia or even your blog without violating ethical rules,
Ethical challenges of implementing new technologies that have not been regulated by state bars yet,
Why Megan started her podcast "Lawyers gone ethical" and some of the ethical rule changes she'd like to see in the upcoming years.

Resources:

http://zaviehlaw.com/

Megan Zavieh's Podcast: Lawyers gone ethical

Contact Information:

https://twitter.com/zaviehlaw

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Implementing great systems and building a 7-figure practice with Ally Lozano [GWL158] Aug 20, 2018

Show notes

Award-winning immigration attorney Alexandra Lozano is author of Be the CEO of Your Law Firmand founder of the Association of Mother Immigration Attorneys (AMIGA), which helps solo women attorneys transform their practices into thriving businesses. In this episode, Ally and I chat about the mistakes she's made as a solo practitioner and the steps she took to take her practice to 6 figures and now to a 7-figure practice.

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

- Starting a law practice, business development, practice management hacks, and best tools Ally has found,

- The transition from treating her business as a hobby to building a strong business after she made a few changes,

- Some of the main takeaways from Ally's new book: Be the CEO of your Law firm.

Resources:

Be the CEO of Your Law Firm: Gain Control, Turn a Profit, and Reclaim Your Life.

http://www.amigalawyers.com

Contact Information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/191122438092413/

https://www.instagram.com/allylozanoesq/

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Online marketing and dominating the search engine optimization game with Phil Singleton [GWL157] Aug 13, 2018

Show notes

Phil Singleton is a web designer, an SEO expert and an award-winning author. Phil co-wrote SEO for Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers & Entrepreneurs. SEO for Growth is an Amazon bestseller and has been listed as a top marketing book by Mashable, MSNBC, Entrepreneur and Search Engine Journal, and was named by Forbes as the #1 SEO book on its list of "Essential SEO Books for Every Startup to Read". He is also the author of a popular WordPress SEO plugin that has been downloaded over 200,000 times in the last year. Phil's latest startup venture, Podcast Bookers, is a service that helps marketers and executives get booked on established podcasts as way to develop authority and personal branding, improve SEO, and most importantly, generate new leads and sales.

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

Can you please briefly describe who you are and what you do

Basics of Search Engine Optimization ("SEO") - on page and off page SEO,

Timeline for SEO,

Reviving old content,

Local SEO, online reputation and building citations,

How writing a book can help with your SEO and authority

Resources:

Kansas City Web Design SEO for Growth Podcast Bookers

Blog Writing Services

My WordPress Schema Plugin

Grade.us Review Funnel

Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines (GSQEG)

Contact Information: Kansas City Web Design®

Kansas City SEO®

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Recognizing and overcoming imposter syndrome and unconscious bias [GWL156] Aug 06, 2018

Show notes

Neha Sampat is CEO, founder, coach, and consultant at GenLead|BelongLab, where she focuses on building belonging and true inclusion. Through consulting, training, speaking, and writing, she helps organizations create peak-performance, inclusive teams by addressing hidden barriers to belonging, such as Imposter Syndrome and internalized bias, unconscious bias, generational diversity, and distrust in teams. Through professional development coaching, she helps her individual clients develop job situations and leadership styles that engage their true and best selves. Neha practiced law at both large and boutique law firms, and later joined law academia as dean of students and adjunct professor of law and leadership, so she is a Gen Xer fan of Gen Y.

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

- Recognizing impostor syndrome,

- Overcoming impostor syndrome - exercises that Neha uses with some clients,

- How to deal with difficult situations and unconscious bias and how to deal with stress,

- GenZers and how they're disrupting work as we know it.

Resources:

learn more and register here for the online course, "Owning Your Value: 10 tactics to bust your self-doubt, step into your true value, and be your best self." Use the discount code: GENWHYLAWYER to receive 15% off.

sign up for Neha's newsletter to stay informed and receive free resources and tips on cultivating confidence and building belonging.

http://time.com/5066641/generation-z-disruption/

Nehas's Story

www.genlead.co

Contact Information: www.facebook.com/belonglab

Twitter: @BelongLab @nehamsampat

Instagram: @belonglab

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Starting a law firm: vision, marketing, and systems [GWL155] Jul 30, 2018

Show notes

After a year of solo practice, I wanted to share the good, the bad and the ugly of starting a law firm.

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

- Starting a law firm,

- Having a vision for your firm,

- Marketing for your firm,

- Setting up systems and processes for your firm.

Resources:

www.upwork.com – website for freelancers from around the world

www.udemy.com– website for online courses

www.moz.com

www.linkedin.com

www.wordpress.org

www.semrush.com – Great free courses on search engine optimization

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1924192371133759/?ref=bookmarks

Directory listings (Google Places, Bing, Yelp) linked back to your website. Lawyer directories (Avvo, Justia, Lawyers.com) linked back to your website.

Contact Information: karima@genwhylawyer.com

twitter.com/thepatentlady

https://www.instagram.com/thepatentlawyer/

https://twitter.com/thepatentlady

https://Kgulick.com

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Understanding and overcoming procrastination, burnout and anxiety with Will Meyerhofer [GWL154] Jul 23, 2018

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A lawyer and a therapist Will Meyerhofer has many accolades after this name: JD LCSW-R. He is a psychotherapist and former biglaw attorney with a private practice treating lawyers and others in TriBeCa, New York City (visit www.aquietroom.com for more information.) He is the author of four books, including "Way Worse than Being a Dentist: the Lawyer's Quest for Meaning," and its sequel "Still Way Worse..." about life in biglaw, as well as a book introducing and elaborating upon the central concepts of psychotherapy, "Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy." A graduate of Harvard College, The NYU School of Law, and The Hunter College School of Social Work, Will writes regularly for Above The Law, and maintains a blog about life, the law and psychotherapy, at www.thepeoplestherapist.com .

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

Understanding burnout and best treatment for it,
Understanding procrastination,
Anxiety and depression in the legal profession,
How therapy can help you regain control of your life.

Resources:

Articles on Burnout - https://thepeoplestherapist.com/2017/09/26/the-finish-line-problem/

Lawyer self-care - https://thepeoplestherapist.com/2015/12/16/something-upbeat-and-constructive/

Will's NEW book, a sequel to Way Worse Than Being a Dentist, cleverly titled Still Way Worse Than Being a Dentist

Will's first book, on the ideas underlying psychotherapy: Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy

His second book, about the state of the legal profession: Way Worse Than Being a Dentist

His third book, a comic novel: Bad Therapist: A Romance

A recent podcast

..and, finally, a television interview

Contact Information: www.thepeoplestherapist.com www.aquietroom.com

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