Mom Life and Law

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By: Megan Whiteside

Mom Life and Law gives lawyer moms strategies on how to thrive in the face of the soul-crushing expectation to both parent as if they have no job, and lawyer as if they have no children. As a mom to two toddler boys and a litigator, Megan Whiteside is on a mission to empower lawyer moms find clarity and happiness in their lives. Megan helps lawyer moms to reframe their mindset, own their power, and set themselves up for success each week with reflections from her own journey and from inspiring interviews with women who own their power. In this...

59. Lawyering On Your Own Terms with Kailey Jacomet
09/14/2021

Kailey Jacomet has created a law career that fits around her priorities and her lifestyle, not a life that fits around her law practice. When she first told me that, it struck me that most of us have built lives around our law practice. We fit family, fun, passions, and hobbies in the margins around our demanding careers.

But, how do you create the life and law career that you actually want?

Kailey knew from a young age that she wanted to be a lawyer and she wanted to be a mom. Reconciling how she...


58. Setting Priorities in Life & in Death with Randi Johnson
09/07/2021

Randi Johnson is a former law firm owner, mother of two daughters, business strategist, and end of life and bereavement doula.

Before meeting Randi, I had never known you could seek support from an advocate at the end of your life in the same way you do while giving birth. Birth doulas are more commonly known, but there are professionals who train to serve people who are dying. Randi Johnson took an unconventional path away from the practice of law and law firm ownership to follow her passion to do this work. She chose fulfilling her true...


57. Doing What Energizes You with Kori Carew
08/31/2021

Kori Carew is the Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer at Seyfarth Shaw, a former law firm partner and litigator, a TedX Speaker, a mother, an artist, and a force for good in this world. Kori is someone who is not afraid to tell the truth and disrupt the status quo. She is a leader in the legal industry when it comes to combating bias and fostering inclusion. 

When reading about Kori's many accomplishments, it would be easy to feel intimidated. However, Kori's warmth will immediately draw you in. She has a unique ability to reflect and get to t...


56. Taking a Big Leap with Loraine Martinez Bellamy
08/24/2021

Loraine Martinez Bellamy is a public interest lawyer, mom, wife, and life & business coach. In her coaching business, she helps ambitious women get crystal clear on their dream career or business and create a master plan to obtain it. She calls herself that bold friend who helps you see where you're holding yourself back and just do the thing you want.

In this episode, we discuss Loraine's journey to coaching. She hit a point as she was turning 30, when she had achieved major goals in her career and personal life but still felt like something was missing...


55. Setting Boundaries & Practicing Mindfulness with Jeena Cho
08/17/2021

Jeena Cho is a mom to a two-year-old daughter, mindfulness and meditation teacher, coach for anxious lawyers, and recovering lawyer with nearly 15 years of practice experience. Since leaving the practice of law, Jeena has focused her career on helping lawyers improve their wellbeing with stress and anxiety management through her book, speaking engagements, and one-on-one coaching.

Jeena shares details about her experience with anxiety and how it motivated her to help other lawyers.

Lawyers receive a lot of messages about wellbeing that focus on what you, the individual, can do, to improve your stress and...


54. The Power of Changing Your Thoughts with Nicole Kuklok-Waldman
08/10/2021

Nicole Kuklok-Waldman calls herself "The Lucky Lawyer." She calls herself lucky because she has found tools to face difficult choices with clarity to truly enjoy her life and career. Nicole spent many years working in BigLaw, before shifting focus to lobbying at her own firm in Los Angeles, CA.

After the birth of her first child, Nicole realized that mindset and thought work were powerful tools to find joy, even in difficult chapters of life. In this episode, we talk about how powerful our thoughts truly are and what happens when we realize we have the power...


53. Building Influence & Connection with Nonverbal Communication with Kristin Bock
08/03/2021

Kristin Bock can help you build a nonverbal advantage so you can better connect, engage, and lead others. She's a mom of three and a Certified Body Language  & Communication Specialist. She helps you tap into empathy and utilize emotional intelligence to communicate more effectively.

Kristin and I met at a virtual conference during the pandemic, and I've been fascinated with her work since.

By learning body language and nonverbal cues, you can better recognize those cues and respond effectively to others. This can help you to communicate in a way to build connections and strong r...


52. Prioritizing Health & Releasing Guilt with Megan O'Neill
07/27/2021

It can be easy to say, "I don't have time," or "I can't," when it comes to prioritizing your health. While there may be many reasons why you believe you can't eat healthy or can't exercise, Megan O'Neill is here to encourage you to break that belief barrier.

Megan O'Neill is a litigator turned health and wellness coach, personal trainer, and nutrition specialist. In this episode, Megan shares techniques that she uses with her clients to help them get started and to maintain a healthy lifestyle. 

We talk about setting realistic goals, ways to seek o...


51. Ditching Overwhelm with Time Management with Kelly Nolan
07/20/2021

Kelly Nolan is a lawyer mom turned entrepreneur and time management strategist.  She helps busy professional women manage their time with simple, actionable steps to calm the overwhelm.

As a patent litigator working at a big law firm, Kelly grew frustrated with how much time she wasted trying (and often failing) to slog through her never-ending to-do list and ever-full email inbox. She was stressed. She felt like she should just know how to manage it all. 

Learn about how Kelly found clarity in her own life. She started using time management strategies you can st...


50. Dreaming Big & Finding Joy in Creating a Podcast from My Basement
07/13/2021

It's amazing how taking action on a dream propels you to take more action, and more action. It is in pushing past the fear and taking courageous action that you will see your life transform.

This has been the biggest lesson I've learned in 50 episodes of podcasting.

This week, I share about the power of taking action, the power of storytelling, the power of building relationships with other lawyer moms online, and how taking time to pursue something that brings you joy is a powerful way to go from surviving to thriving.

Prioritizing...