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09/25/23 • 43 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Bridget O'Toole.
Bridget is a millennial environmental, land use, municipal and energy lawyer and mom to a 4-year-old son. She opened her own law firm on April 1, 2023 (April Fools Day) in one of New York's most rural counties after leaving a bougie downtown boutique law firm.
She’s been practicing since 2011 and represents clients all over New York State in her practice areas.
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01:11 Meet Bridget
04:58 Bridget’s practice in environmental, land use, municipal, and renewable energy law
09:37 The challenges of working from home
10:35 The persistent issue of schools contacting mothers first
16:42 Bridget's work in renewable energy and her experience working with commercial fishing associations in New York State
22:44 The benefits of meditation for stress management and the importance of unplugging from technology
29:18 Bridget’s fear of what others would think if she opened an office in a rural county and how she overcame it
31:26 The value of giving trusted referrals
34:56 The lack of access to justice and technology in rural communities and how it affects her practice
39:53 The different types of insurance that are necessary as a law practice grows
41:19 The significance of joining a mastermind group and connecting with other women who have similar experiences as working moms
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09/04/23 • 46 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Victoria Collier.
Victoria Collier, Founder and CEO of Quid Pro Quo: Victoria is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the legal industry. In addition to building and selling her own 7-figure law firm, she has been coaching lawyers since 2008 on how to add value to their law firms.
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08:15 Victoria Collier discusses how having children has influenced her entrepreneurial journey and the motivation it provides to show her children they can pursue their dreams
11:50 Introduction to Victoria Collier's business, Quid Pro Quo, which assists law firm owners in selling or buying law firms, focusing on finding a perfect match between buyers and sellers
18:51 The importance of being true to yourself and finding fulfillment in your work and personal life
19:56 The dangers of pursuing growth without considering personal values and alignment with clients
24:12 The importance of preserving the culture and legacy of a law firm when buying or selling, and the need for realistic expectations and a successful transition process
29:11 Discussion on the transition timeline when buying or selling a law firm, including the importance of respecting the seller's decisions and allowing them to stay as long as they want
30:50 Exploring the importance of going beyond surface-level conversations and understanding the fears and concerns that drive people's decisions
34:31 Steps involved in working with the speaker to evaluate and position a law firm for sale, including assessing the current state of the firm, determining the desired outcome, conducting a valuation, and creating a marketing package.
37:44 Discusses the rules of thumb for valuing law firms based on the services provided and the multiple of earnings before taxes and depreciation and amortization (EBITDA).
38:45 Explains the concept of sellers discretionary earnings and how it involves recasting personal expenses back into the net income of the law firm.
42:18 Emphasizes the significance of financial forecasting for law firms, including the ability to analyze trends, make strategic decisions, and understand the impact on the numbers.
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08/21/23 • 53 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Amy Cote.
Amy started Think Out because for most organizations prevention is an afterthought. With communication, consistency and execution, employees will perform well as teams that are prepared for the expected and unexpected.
Thanks to Amy’s training and experience, she has strong skills in leadership, communication, change management, operations, labor relations, policy development and best practices.
Thanks to Amy’s genes, she has an obsessive curiosity, keen ability to think out, problem solve and counsel.
If you have questions or just want to think out loud together, Amy would love you to take action and advocate for yourself, your people, your business, your future!
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11:34 How curiosity and innovative thinking play a role in Amy’s business
19:29 The need to question traditional ways of doing things and the benefits of thinking outside the box
20:38 A businesses to plan for the future
32:08 Amy starting her own business, including the initial uncertainty and the importance of perseverance
44:08 Personal growth and self-discovery that comes with owning a business
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08/07/23 • 49 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Rachel Clar.
Rachel is a divorced lawyer mom, and in deciding to launch a business. She had to first move through a tremendous inner journey of self-discovery and personal growth to develop the courage to take a big chance.
As lawyers, we often live our lives based on the model we learned in school, the lie that conflict is a binary only resolved with someone prevailing. As women, in general, we were raised to elevate ourselves through collaborative leadership instead.
Rachel believes in reconciliation work, humility, and collaboration. She wants women lawyers to find their sisterhood where they can speak freely, ask their toughest career questions, and level up to get the pay and the influence that they rightly deserve.
Rachel creates spaces where real conversations happen and women both deeply bond & craft brilliant career strategies. She is a woman, a lawyer, and entrepreneur, professionally. Rachel is a mom to two amazing teenage boys. She is an empath, an artist, and a student of non-violence.
02:48 Meet Rachel and Interconnected Us
06:40 The struggles and unhappiness experienced by women lawyers
10:32 Combating the pressure to always appear strong.
16:57 The value of time, the importance of setting boundaries, and the ongoing journey of learning to manage time effectively
23:27 The importance of celebrating personal wins and prioritizing self-care
27:34 Using exercise to shut the brain off
33:05 The joy of making connections
41:26 The lack of emphasis on emotional intelligence and communication skills in law school and the legal profession
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03/27/23 • 35 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Kara McKeage. Kara McKeage is the founder of Pepper’s Personal Assistants, a sourcing and placement agency for highly vetted personal assistants.
With the belief that support is not a luxury, support is a necessity. She is dedicated to helping professional women let go of the shame around outsourcing household tasks so they can find more time, feel organized and have peace of mind.
Kara provides a framework and mindset shift in releasing the fear of delegation and outsourcing household tasks and how to have a successful relationship with your personal assistants.
With a team of 24 employees, Kara can share the importance of embracing support, leadership for remote teams, and taking actions that align with your core values. You can expect Kara to share lessons learned and key takeaways on life and business.
01:20 Meet Kara!
04:11 Getting support
09:30 When starting to delegate to a personal assistant
14:57 Accepting that you actually cannot do it all
18:30 When you are worried about providing too much care and raising entitled kids
21:42 Personal work need to happen in order to grow a business
23:48 How to create your core values
29:47 Feedback - one of the biggest leadership failures
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Books Mentioned:
- Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky
- The Fair Play Deck: A Couple's Conversation Deck for Prioritizing What's Important Cards by Eve Rodsky
- Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World Paperback by Eve Rodsky
- Radical Candor: Fully Revised and Updated Edition: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean by Kim Scott
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03/20/23 • 45 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Michelle Bomberger. Michelle founded Equinox in 2005 to provide business leaders a more transparent, responsive, and business focused solution for their legal needs.
Over the past 17 years, she’s morphed the business model to offer a fixed fee General Counsel Services solution giving business leaders the confidence and freedom to include legal in their strategic and tactical planning -- they have a relationship with their lawyer and they know what they are paying, when they'll get a response, and that the solution is right for their business.
It's a tough model to manage and she’s learned a ton about how to make this work for her clients and for her own business. When Michelle started Equinox in 2005, she had a 1 year old at home and was pregnant with her second child.
Michelle’s kids have grown up with Equinox a part of their lives -- but also having their mom in their lives! While they've seen her work a lot over the years - and seen the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur and employer, she’s always been there for them.
Michelle committed early on to picking them up from school, taking them where they needed to go, and participating in what was important to them. These were priorities for Michelle and forced her to make decisions in her business and her life to make these work for her family.
Michelle has an undergraduate degree in business from the University of Notre Dame and a JD/MBA from Northwestern University. She is an active member and member of the Board of Directors of the Seattle Chapter of Entrepreneurs' Organization and a member of the Board of Bellevue LifeSpring and Youth Theatre Northwest.
04:42 The start of the law firm and having little children
11:55 When the firm office encourages the flexibility needed for motherhood and work
14:07 Strategic misses that are happening right now
17:47 Using fixed price
23:42 Books recommended by Michelle that have really shifted her thinking
29:25 How does Michelle streamline the administrative burden
37:55 Tips for how to succeed in life as “mom” and as a law firm owner!
40:55 Tips for handling email inbox #rabbithole
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Links Mentioned:
- Book: Range by Daivd Epseen
- Book: Traction by Gino Wickman
- Book: Crucial Accountability by Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillian, Al Switzler, David Maxfield
- Book: The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
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The Measure of “Success” with Steph Tuss
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02/27/23 • 46 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Steph Tuss. Women in particular are burdened with a double edged sword – society tells us that our values are built on being a mother to our children, but it also says we should go out and have a career or business of our own.
Raising children and excelling as an entrepreneur at the same time are two barely synchronizable endeavors. Mothers don't even have to fail in one of these areas to feel mom guilt.
Steph Tuss – CEO of the multimillion-dollar global consulting company Life Is Now, Inc – has been pretty familiar with this mom guilt feeling, all too well.
Before joining Life Is Now, Steph left her career as an educator to launch her own holistic nutrition business, having been inspired by her first daughter’s growing health challenges and her quest for the root cause.
Her sole focus when starting her business was to replace her teacher salary of $37,000/year. In spite of the people around her not being confident that she was going to make it, Steph was willing to do anything necessary to continue forward.
So much so, that she was working early mornings, late nights and weekends – it got to a point where she literally couldn’t do more and started to resent her business. She started her business because she wanted freedom, but ironically, she had created a jail for herself.
Steph realized she was diminishing her returns by not hiring someone to help in her business and with her kids. She let go of mom guilt, sold her business, and joined Life Is Now as the Director of Sales.
She was frequently traveling the world with the new company and during one of their events, she realized her ideal life would involve her daughters traveling with her.
Steph and her husband then made the decision to go for it: They pulled their kids out of school and hired a tutor + nanny that would travel alongside the family, regardless of people constantly questioning their decision.
What does "success" mean to you? What is your vision for your life and business? Listen in!
01:05 Meet Steph and the the unexpected ups and downs of empty nesting
05:20 The issue of hiring and firing and the emotions around the people piece of business and the standards that are agreed upon
10:21 How often do you check in with your team = micromanage vs. good management
14:33 How does a law firm come up with a 3D vision?
18:26 Running a business while running a family
26:00 Let’s deep dive into your mindset!
31:35 Finding so much opportunity on the flip side of a bad thing
41:20 Value conflict and how it will kill your business
Connect with Steph:
Website: https://www.lifeisnowinc.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeisnowinc/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DavidNeagleCommunity
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-is-now-inc/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LifeIsNow/videos
Links Mentioned:
- Create your 3D vision for your life video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaoaZdWJLcE
- Challenging Your Mindset With Daivd Neagle https://share.transistor.fm/s/8a8fb056
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02/06/23 • 36 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Latrice Latin. Latrice was a single mother, and law firm owner for over 13 years. She finished law school with one child and had a crazy career ride going from working for a firm to starting her own firm, all while navigating motherhood.
Latrice has secured millions in settlements for her personal injury clients over the span of her career. She works hard for her clients and gets the results that are needed on their behalf.
She has recently established a virtual law firm which allows for efficiency and easy access for her clients through the pandemic. She has recently taken on representing misdemeanor criminal clients for low rates to help them keep their records clean.
01:30 Meet Latrice
05:30 Running your law firm virtually --- the pros and cons of it!
09:57 How to get everything set up?!
17:23 Fulfilling your destiny ... even when things are unconventional
25:04 Finding balance as a single mom
28:23 Taking care of mental health and self care ... making sure you take the time
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Ambitious Like a Mother with Lara Bazelon
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10/17/22 • 41 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Lara Bazelon.
Lara is a law professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she directs the Criminal & Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinics and holds the Barnett Chair in Trial Advocacy.
Before that, she worked as a deputy federal public defender and the director of a Los Angeles-based innocence project. Along the way, she got married, had two children, divorced, and worked to create a different kind of family. Advocating for criminal defendants and writing about systemic breakdowns in courtrooms and in families have always felt interrelated and important.
So often, people stay within their silos, unaware of the rich possibilities for collaboration, support, and mutual understanding. Her writing seeks to break down those barriers and ask that her readers open their minds to unexpected—even unlikely—ways of thinking about problems that may not be so intractable after all.
To learn more, check out the profiles in MM LaFleur’s Lives with a Purpose and The Sun Magazine.
4:37 they're at great risk
7:24 it sparked a huge reaction
12:01 we’re choosing what to do
16:41 opening your mind
20:28 great lesson
24:21 missing a couple of hours, she was going to learn more
29:25 how do you look at these issues
34:40 turning that mirror on yourself
38:00 is it really anything such as too much information
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01/29/24 • 46 min
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This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Sarah Walton. Sarah Walton is a business coach and sales expert who’s been featured on The Today Show, speaks at women’s conferences all over the world and has helped hundreds of women start and grow businesses they LOVE.
From growing up in a low-income household with a single mom to helping moms turn their passion into a business they love that can support their families, Sarah’s lived experience shows how women can powerfully change their lives and the lives of their families and communities. Sarah’s transitioned from being “just another coach” to being a change-maker. It’s time to put more money in the hands of more women, and Sarah is all in.
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06:04 Reframing sales conversations and identifying problems to solve for clients
09:15 The concept of high functioning codependence among women and its impact on financial decisions
14:03 Sarah recommends books, including "Boundary Boss," and emphasizes the importance of doing unsexy tasks for financial success
15:52 Recognizing and addressing high functioning codependence and the physical manifestations of unhappiness
16:05 Encouraging children to do their own chores and the importance of teaching independence from a young age
17:18 Parenting challenges related to children's responsibilities and social media influence
19:12 How high functioning codependency affects physical and mental health, particularly in women
20:08 Strategies for self-awareness, including recognizing internal signals and making different decisions
22:05 Offload tasks and the impact of holding onto tasks for self-image
31:10 Recreating life to move through it with peace, calmness, and hope, and the impact on professional practice
31:27 Shifting mindset to find joy in daily tasks and the impact of a positive mindset on success.
32:18 Exploration of the positive impact women can have with money
34:18 The importance of empowering women with money to bring about positive change and the intertwining of power and money
35:37 Shifting mindset from saving to expanding opportunities and the impact of mindset on financial growth
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How many episodes does Maximum Mom have?
Maximum Mom currently has 85 episodes available.
What topics does Maximum Mom cover?
The podcast is about Mom, Lawyer, Entrepreneurship, Motherhood, Law Firm, Podcasts and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Maximum Mom?
The episode title 'Breaking Free: Women's Journey to Financial Independence with Sarah Walton' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Maximum Mom?
The average episode length on Maximum Mom is 43 minutes.
How often are episodes of Maximum Mom released?
Episodes of Maximum Mom are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Maximum Mom?
The first episode of Maximum Mom was released on Nov 11, 2020.
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