✅ What do we do in a coaching session?

Coaching sessions are personalized to you.

Each time we meet, I gauge where you are and what you need most to move you towards the goals we've talked about early on in our coaching relationship.

Because the personal and work overlap, some sessions will likely cover personal issues that need clearing up.

When we talk during your complimentary Strategy Session, I'll give you a more detailed outline of what we'll need to cover to help you achieve your goals.

✅ How is coaching different from what I'm learning on Be a Better Lawyer podcast?

The podcast is like touring a gym – coaching is having a personal trainer and actually doing the workouts.

While the podcast gives you an overview of concepts and tools, coaching takes those concepts and customizes them specifically to your practice, your challenges, and your goals and helps you implement them.

✅ Am I going to be able to do this?

Absolutely!

In fact, the very fact you're asking this question shows you're already more capable than you realize.

Many of my most successful clients started exactly where you are – doubting themselves but hungry for change.

My private coaching program is specifically designed to meet you where you are and guide you step by step.

I don't just throw information at you; I provide a supportive framework that breaks down complex challenges into manageable, achievable actions.

Your potential is far greater than what you can currently imagine, and I'm here to help you unlock it.

✅ Will this take a lot of time?

Time is your most precious resource, and sometimes you may have a last minute hearing or 911. I'm a lawyer, so I get it.

That's why I've designed my program to work with you.

Our weekly sessions are 50 minutes.

There's flexibility for those days when a judge wants you in court or a client has a 911.

✅ I have hearings that pop up out of nowhere. What if I need to reschedule?

As a former prosecutor, I understand that lawyers sometimes get last minute hearings, assignments, etc.

I'm flexible with scheduling. We can talk more about this when you book your Strategy Session.

✅ Do you coach men?

Yes! If you're a lawyer, I can help you.

✅ What topics do you coach on?

My focus is time management and business growth, and coaching always expands into other areas of our lives. The reason? The way we do one thing is the way we do everything. It's natural that topics other than the law come up too.

Here's some topics I coach clients on:

• time management/overwhelm
• litigation strategy
• building your book of business
• employee relationships (hiring/firing/boundaries)
• self-confidence/self-doubt/imposter syndrome
• people-pleasing/client and employee boundaries
• building a new practice area
• leadership
• money mindset
• hearings/networking/speaking engagement jitters
• difficult conversations with spouse/family
• mother/father relationships
• grief when a loved one passes
• fertility treatments/growing a family
• and so much more

I'm here to make your life easier. You can come to me intending to work on time management, and we'll work on whatever you need in our session that week. I've got you.

Also, you NEVER have to come to a session feeling "ready" or with a topic to get coached on.

As a Master Certified Coach and over 15 years as a criminal prosecutor, I've got you covered. All you need to do is show up, and I'll take it from there.

✅ Are conversations confidential?

Absolutely. While we talk about your thoughts about partners, clients, and cases, we don't name names. Also, I don't share specifics about anything we talk about unless I get permission from you to share.

✅ Is coaching different from therapy?

Yes.

Therapy is past-focused while coaching is future-focused.

A therapist generally asks about your past and helps you work through unresolved issues impacting your present.

Coaching starts with your present, and it focuses on creating the future you want. We uncover the mindset leading to undesireable outcomes in your life, and we work through those to help you achieve your goals.

I've had clients in both therapy and coaching, and they found them complementary not redundant.

✅ I want to work with you, but shouldn't I be able to figure this out on my own?

I used to think this, so I'll share with you what I discovered.

This mindset so many of us have of believing we should be able to "figure it out on our own" comes from a broken paradigm many of us high-achieving lawyers have been taught.

We've been taught we should be independent and if we ask for help, someone will think we don't know what we're doing. And if someone thinks we don't know what we're doing, they'll think less of us; they'll think we don't belong or are incapable.

No one wants to feel judged, so it makes sense that it's hard for many of us high-achievers to ask for help.

This paradigm has made us work harder and longer hours until the wheels nearly come off the car.

It's madness!

Unfortunately, the legal profession doesn't always offer the supportive environments we need to feel comfortable asking for help.

Coaching provides a safe, supportive and non-judgmental environment for you to voice what you need and want for yourself.

​Book a call with me, and we'll take it from there.