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Fine tuning your career to improve quality of life with Robert Baird [GWL153] Jul 16, 2018

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From professional musician to CEO of a 60 year old non-profit, Bob's climbed the career ladder through a series of career pivots.Before becoming a CEO, he was a Navy Supply Corps Commander, technology consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and IBM Business Services, a risk management consultant and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for a major insurance company,

He's successfully pivoted 12 times to obtain career success and is a career transition practitioner and expert. As a former "C" level executive, hiring manager, and on occasion job applicant, he knows what management's looking for. He believes that finding a better, higher paying job requires more than just a great resume and LinkedIn profile. You need a complete toolkit, which also includes networking, interviewing, and negotiation skills to name a few.

Thank you to our show sponsor Abby Connect, the live receptionist service loved by small businesses. Get your free trial and $95 off your first month at http://abbyconnect.com/genwhy

What You'll Learn in this Episode:

Career changes,
How to find what you enjoy,
Skills that translate through career transitions.

Resources

Career Do-Over Self-Assessment Tool

Online Career Assessment Tools

Get Noticed: 8 Great LinkedIn Hacks

Free Video: "How to Write a Resume that Lands the Interview" + Bonus Training: Resume Keyword Optimization

Blogs Discussed on the Podcast

Do you need a career do-over?

Online Career Assessment Tools

Resume Keywords: Beating the Applicant Tracking System (ATS)

How to identify your transferable skills for a mid-life career transition

What is the Toughest Interview Question You Will Ever Be Asked?

Contact Information:

www.fixmycareernow.com

bob@robertbaird.us

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Managing your Finances and Student Loans with Travis Hornsby [GWL152] Jul 09, 2018

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Travis founded Student Loan Planner after helping his wife figure out her six figure med school loans and realizing that all their friends needed help too. He's consulted on more than $250 million of student debt, which is more than any one person in the country. He loves helping clients realize that financial freedom and security is possible no matter how high their student loan balance. He lives in St. Louis, MO.

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

Managing your finances,
How to take control of your finances even with high student loans,
Your options for paying the loans back, and living a financially healthy life.

Resources:

https://www.studentloanplanner.com/refinance-student-loans/

https://www.studentloanplanner.com/hire-student-loan-help/

Contact Information:

https://www.studentloanplanner.com

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Keeping up with Privacy Laws with Lily Li [GWL151] Jul 02, 2018

Show notes

Lily Li is a privacy lawyer and the owner of Metaverse Law, a practice dedicated to helping businesses comply with privacy and cybersecurity laws across the United States and Europe. She is a graduate of Duke Law School, and holds the Certified Information Privacy Professionals' certificates for the United States and Europe from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Prior to founding Metaverse Law, Lily was a commercial and intellectual property litigator at Brown Wegner in Irvine, and an intellectual property consultant and director of marketing and business development at IP Checkups, a patent analytics and valuation firm in Berkeley. In her free time, she is a total geek and loves reading and watching anything science fiction.

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

General Data Protection Regulation,
How to stay compliant if you deal with European clients.
Your obligations as an attorney

Contact Information:

https://www.metaverselaw.com

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The importance of having a community to achieve your goals with Dan X. Nguyen [GWL150] Jun 25, 2018

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Dan X. Nguyen is an attorney in Orange County, California that assist businesses with general counsel, franchising, trademark, and immigration matters, and facilitates a monthly mastermind for attorneys. He is a business nerd and his wife and 2 kids loath about his soliloquies on business strategies. Fun fact, in 2016, he tried out for a professional basketball team. In this episode, we chat about the importance of quarterly goals and importance of having a community to keep you accountable and keep you on track.

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

Starting your practice,
Business development,
Practice management hacks,
Best productivity tools,
The importance of building a community to stay on track for your goals,
12 Week year,
Write-ups: a weekly time to get things done! 1 hour a week can change a lot.

Resources:

Dan's 12 week Write In: http://subscribepage.com/12weeks

zapier.com

zoom.us

Calendly.com

Uberconference.com

Contact Information:

Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

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Save time with legal templates by attorneys for attorneys with Somya Kaushik [GWL149] Jun 18, 2018

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Somya Kaushik is a former litigator turned legal tech entrepreneur, having started the company EsqMe, Inc. (www.esqme.com), a legal document marketplace and legal service platform for lawyers, by lawyers. Kaushik is an expert in legal tech and has spoken across the country on entrepreneurship, legal technology and its rapid advancements in the practice of law, and most recently gender bias in the law and technology. In this episode, we chat about how you can save time with legal templates by attorneys for attorneys and how you can generate additional income by selling the templates you have worked so hard for on Esqme.com

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

- How Somya started a legal tech company,

- Saving time by buying legal templates and editing them to your liking,

- Selling your legal templates and making money.

Resources:

Contact Information:

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Using chatbots to maximize efficiency with Tom Martin [GWL148] Jun 11, 2018

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Tom is a legal bot advocate, lawyer, author and speaker. He is CEO and founder of LawDroid Ltd. (a bot development and consulting company for the legal industry). Tom is also co-founder of Vancouver Legal Hackers, advisor to ATJ Tech Fellow Program, member of ARAG Technology Innovation Committee, and Chair of Education for Group Legal Services Association. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Tom now lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife and two daughters. In this episode, we discuss how chatbots can help you save time and convert leads into clients.

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

- What chatbots are, and how you can implement them in your practice,

- When chatbots would make sense for your practice,

- All the different options and flexibility of chatbots,

- How to use chatbots efficiently for your firm to save you time and convert leads into paying clients.

Resources:

LawDroid Receptionist Bot:

https://zaviehlaw.com/

https://eastbaylevinelaw.com/

https://www.spigglelaw.com/

LawDroid Legal Health Check:

https://www.palacelaw.com/patbot-intro-page/

Tom Martin's articles on chatbots:

Contact Information:

https://twitter.com/lawdroid

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Do what you do best and delegate the rest with Dina Eisenberg [GWL147] Jun 04, 2018

Show notes

Dina Eisenberg prepares lawyers to let go, delegate effectively and lead with assurance. Her passion is helping lawyers create the law practice that fits the life they desire, earns them more and practically runs itself. She likes to give people power through knowledge. She works with fellow attorneys to give them the power and tools to create a better law experience for them and their clients. (Happy lawyer, happy clients).

A huge thank you goes out to our show sponsor Abby Connect, the live receptionist service loved by small businesses. Get your free trial and $95 off your first month at http://abbyconnect.com/genwhy

What You'll Learn in this Episode:

- Identify which tasks can be delegated first,

- Learn to let go,

- How giving others clear directions can set you up for success when delegating

- It's okay not to do everything yourself and get some help!

Resources:

https://www.outsourceeasier.com/attract-your-ibc/ - This is a link to Dina's Free webinar on attracting your best clients www.rescuetime.com/‎

Contact Information:

https://twitter.com/DinaEisenberg

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinalyncheisenberg/

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Hiring your first staff and coping with impostor syndrome with Aastha Madaan [GWL146] May 28, 2018

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Aastha started her own practice focusing on business law, franchise law, and estate planning. She is a strong advocate of good planning, in life and in business. Aastha often writes and speaks on the topic of cultural competency in the practice of law. In this episode, we discuss moving out of a virtual practice and into an actual office, hiring your first staff and dealing with impostor syndrome

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

- Starting your own practice,

- moving from a home office to an actual office and creating some work separation,

- Hiring your first staff,

- Dealing with impostor syndrome.

Contact Information:

https://madaanlaw.com/

https://twitter.com/MadaanLaw

https://www.facebook.com/madaanlaw

https://www.instagram.com/move.associates/

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Cultivating the right mindset to excel in your career with Drew Amoroso [GWL145] May 21, 2018

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Drew Amoroso is the founder of Move Associates, an innovative training company that empowers associates to achieve their performance goals, accelerate their growth and development, stay professionally fulfilled, and take control of their practice. Prior to Move, Drew was a senior associate at an international law firm and served on the firm's hiring committee and as the head of its summer associate program. Drew also was the owner of his own firm where he practiced fitness law--representing innovators in the fitness and health and wellness industries. He's currently the President of the Barristers Club at the Bar Association of San Francisco and a visiting lecturer at UC Davis School of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law, and University of San Francisco School of Law.

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What You'll Learn in this Episode:

- How to set goals and a development path,

- Essential tools for professional,

- How to stay professionally fulfilled.

Resources:

http://www.move-associates.com

Contact Information:

https://twitter.com/fitlawdrew

https://www.facebook.com/move.associates/

https://www.instagram.com/move.associates/

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Launching a tech company and hiring the right people with Chris Smith [GWL144] May 15, 2018

Show notes

As a practicing attorney himself, Chris understands how important a native mobile experience is becoming for clients interacting with legal websites. When he couldn't find a white label native app for his firm, he built one himself. He launched Your Firm App, a practical development in legal technology. It may not be blockchain or AI, but it will help make life better for attorneys and clients.

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What You'll Learn in This Episode:

- How to start a tech company,

- How to hire the right people for the job,

- Partnership and how to make partnerships work,

- What makes partnerships successful.

Resources:

https://yourfirmapp.com

http://abbyconnect.com/genwhy

Contact Information:

chris@yourfirmapp.com

https://twitter.com/attychrissmith

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I really hope you enjoyed this episode. I would really appreciate it if you shared this episode with a friend who could benefit from listening to this particular episode. Get your 2 weeks of free trial and $95 off your first month using this link: http://abbyconnect.com/genwhy

If there is any topic you'd like us to cover or guest you'd like us to have on the show, you can email me at: karima@genwhylawyer.com

Also, please don't forget to subscribe to the GWL Podcast in Apple Podcasts or in Stitcher Radio. That way, every time I prepare a new episode for you, it'll automatically show up in your phone.

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