Are Your Clothes Helping You or Hurting You with Melanie Lippman

02/20/23 • 44 min

This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Melanie Lippman. Melanie is an Image Consultant and Personal Branding expert who helps high-powered women in male dominated fields use style to communicate confidence, build connections, and achieve next-level visibility.

Navigating the duality of motherhood and building your firm, Elise chats with Melanie about ‘How style can encapsulate both your leadership and motherhood persona’”. Deep diving into:

The challenges women face balancing their role as a boss and a mom when it comes to style (and how they can ensure neither get left behind)
Getting out of the ‘I should wear a suit’ funnel women in law often fall into
How to discover your own powerful personal style (and put it into action) based on your personal priorities and style goals
The types of opportunities that women pass up because they don’t have the clothes to suit the occasion
The transformational impact that showing up authentically as you can has on your career
And more!

Listen in!

02:00 Meet Melanie who believes that the only way to feel free is to know that it’s yours!

07:28 Finding power in dressing the way you feel is the “real” you ...

09:40 How to pull out peoples' styles of clothes out of them when they are hiding.

14:36 When you have a closet full of clothes but nothing to wear — what do you do?

19:44 How do finances play a part of dressing yourself

23:33 Hacks and tips for clothes shopping

29:07 “I don't have time to learn how to dress myself”

38:35 Teaching your kids how to dress for themselves

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Navigating the duality of motherhood and building your firm, Elise chats with Melanie about ‘How style can encapsulate both your leadership and motherhood persona’”. Deep diving into:

The challenges women face balancing their role as a boss and a mom when it comes to style (and how they can ensure neither get left behind)
Getting out of the ‘I should wear a suit’ funnel women in law often fall into
How to discover your own powerful personal style (and put it into action) based on your personal priorities and style goals
The types of opportunities that women pass up because they don’t have the clothes to suit the occasion
The transformational impact that showing up authentically as you can has on your career
And more!

Listen in!

02:00 Meet Melanie who believes that the only way to feel free is to know that it’s yours!

07:28 Finding power in dressing the way you feel is the “real” you ...

09:40 How to pull out peoples' styles of clothes out of them when they are hiding.

14:36 When you have a closet full of clothes but nothing to wear — what do you do?

19:44 How do finances play a part of dressing yourself

23:33 Hacks and tips for clothes shopping

29:07 “I don't have time to learn how to dress myself”

38:35 Teaching your kids how to dress for themselves

Connect with Melanie:

🎧Listen to the podcast here .

📹 Watch the interview here.

Resources:

Join the Guild Membership

Meet us in Austin, TX! The ZAPATHON Automation Workshop featuring Kelsey Bratcher! Become a member to purchase your ticket.

Subscribe to the Maximum Lawyer Youtube Channel

Join the Facebook Group

Follow the Facebook Page

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Unconventionally Starting Your Law Firm with Latrice Latin

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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The Measure of “Success” with Steph Tuss

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

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