Ep #99: How to Communicate with Confidence

The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers with Paula Price | How to Communicate with Confidence

This week, we’re talking all about confident communication. It’s a topic that comes up frequently in my coaching conversations with clients because it has a huge impact on your entire professional life. Confident communication isn’t just reserved for trips to the courtroom or boardroom, but it’s truly at play in every conversation you have at work.

 

Confidence looks and feels different relative to individuals. Whether you want to present with greater confidence in interview situations, when you’re negotiating the terms of your position, or as you navigate increased leadership, today, I’m inviting you to reflect on what confident communication might look like in these instances.  

 

Ep #98: How Obstacles Become Opportunities

The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers with Paula Price | How Your Obstacles Reveal Opportunities

Think about the obstacles you currently face in your life and practice. What are the goals that you aren’t making progress towards and why? Is it a lack of time or resources? Maybe it’s a difficult relationship in your life, not getting the level of support you want and need, or simply feeling exhausted. 

 

We usually think of obstacles as problems that get in the way of where we want to go. We’re told that things should be easy, and if they’re not, something is wrong. You might be waiting for the stars to align for a time when there are no longer any obstacles in your way, but the hard truth is that obstacles are here to stay. Let’s find a way to change the way you relate to obstacles. 

 

Ep #97: How to Deal with Anxiety

The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers with Paula Price | How to Deal With Anxiety

The feeling of anxiety is extremely common among legal professionals. Whether anxiety is part of your personal experience as a lawyer, you have friends and colleagues who struggle with it, or it’s something that you understand anecdotally, there’s been an increased awareness of anxiety in the field of law, especially during the pandemic.

 

There are lots of places anxiety can show up in various aspects of your legal practice, and it might be prevalent in your personal life too. From smaller day-to-day triggers to bigger-picture stressors, we’ve learned that the number of lawyers struggling with anxiety is significant. Today, I’m offering tools to help you navigate anxiety as it comes up. 

 

Ep #96: Create Peace and Productivity With Your Calendar

The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers with Paula Price | Create Peace and Productivity With Your Calendar

Do you feel like you’ve constantly got a full plate? Maybe it seems like you’re always running behind or there’s just too much to do and too little time. Perhaps there’s so much on your calendar that you’re often left feeling snowed under with no clue where to start making headway.

 

Even as a coach who spends her time living and breathing time-management strategies, I still find moments in my life where I need to revisit my own systems to address feeling busy and overwhelmed. Many lawyers and other busy professionals have multiple things competing for their time and focus. If you feel like you don’t have a clear idea of how to run your practice with a sense of calm, you’re not alone. 

 

Ep #95: Career Transitions for Lawyers

The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers with Paula Price | Career Transitions for Lawyers

One of the questions many lawyers reach out to me for is to understand what career options are available to them, and I offered my insights on last week’s episode. Another question that comes up just as often is about career transitions for lawyers, and this is what we’re diving into this week.

 

During the height of the pandemic, transitions were top of mind for many people. It was a theme we all dealt with in some form and it continues to come up in my practice. Transitions can be inherently scary, especially if you don’t know what to expect on the other side. However, we can all be more welcoming and excited about transitions, and this is what I hope you walk away with this week.

 

Ep #94: Career Options for Lawyers

The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers with Paula Price | Career Options for Lawyers

The question of alternative career options for lawyers comes up a lot in my work. What I often see are lawyers who are busy practicing in their day-to-day, trying to squeeze in their personal life, and aren’t entirely satisfied with their careers but find a large part of their professional community doing the same.

 

Maybe you feel like there’s a lack of information about what else is out there, or find it hard to access those resources. Maybe you start looking for alternatives and your initial discoveries aren’t that fruitful.  Perhaps everything has been lockstep in your journey up to this point, and stepping off the beaten path feels completely foreign to you.

 

Ep #93: Mentorship: Building Confidence, Connection and Contentment in Law with Jessica Forman and Sarah Ewart

The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers with Paula Price | Mentorship: Building Confidence, Connection and Contentment in Law with Jessica Forman and Sarah Ewart

Have you had a bad experience with mentorship? Do you find it intimidating to put yourself out there and approach people with a mentoring request? The truth is even if you’ve had a not-so-great experience with mentorship, it doesn’t have to stay that way, and it’s also a step that can accelerate your career trajectory.

 

This week, I’ve got two very special guests on the show. Jessica Forman and Sarah Ewart are both employment lawyers and workplace investigators who work at Forte Workplace Law, and they’re here to talk to us about mentorship. Jessica happens to be Sarah’s mentor, so you’ll be hearing the ins and outs of mentorship, both from the perspective of a mentor and mentee.

 

Ep #92: Succeed as an Internationally Trained Lawyer in Canada with Yanique Russell, Siobhan Lennox, and Gina Alexandris – Part 2

The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers with Paula Price | Succeed as an Internationally Trained Lawyer in Canada with Yanique Russell, Siobhan Lennox, and Gina Alexandris - Part 2

Last week, you heard part one of my conversation with Yanique Russell, Siobhan Lennox, and Gina Alexandris: three amazing guests who each has expert insights and unique perspectives to share on the topic of internationally trained lawyers in Canada. 

 

As we dive into part two of our interview today, we are getting into even more challenges internationally trained lawyers face while going through the process of qualifying and becoming licensed to practice in Canada. Yanique, Siobhan, and Gina are sharing their favorite strategies and resources to help you along. 

 

Ep #91: Succeed as an Internationally Trained Lawyer in Canada with Yanique Russell, Siobhan Lennox, and Gina Alexandris – Part 1

This week, you’re hearing part one of a two-part interview on a topic that will be an infinitely valuable resource for many of you. If you’re a lawyer trained outside of Canada and want to learn what the process is like to practice in Canada but don’t know where to start, you’re in the right place. 

 

There are so many internationally trained lawyers who are navigating the system, but when there’s no singular process that works for everyone, carving out your own path becomes extremely challenging. The good news is I have a panel of three amazing guests who each has a unique perspective on the topic of internationally trained lawyers in Canada, and I’m quizzing them on it all today. 

 

Ep #90: LinkedIn for Lawyers with Louise Brogan

The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers with Paula Price | LinkedIn for Lawyers with Louise Brogan

How are you currently engaging with social media? With a plethora of different platforms available to us, you’re likely splitting your time across them all. LinkedIn is probably one of those you regularly check, but it’s also very likely that you aren’t leveraging it for your business as much as you could. 

 

Louise Brogan is a LinkedIn Marketing Specialist for professional services companies who has over a decade of experience helping small businesses thrive on LinkedIn, and she’s also an international speaker, writer, and host of the podcast LinkedIn with Louise. She found that her time on LinkedIn resulted in not only closer connections but also more money far more quickly than other channels, and she’s here to offer her expertise.