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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!
Take a listen!
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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07/17/23 • 39 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Flora Garcia-Sepulveda.
Flora Garcia-Sepulveda, a founding partner of Woodman & Garcia-Sepulveda and a Certified Family Law Specialist, is an experienced trial lawyer who practices family law exclusively, focusing on diverse financial issues including business valuation, property division and child and spousal support. Flora is fluent in Spanish. Flora also represents clients in difficult custody disputes and move-away cases.
Before she opened her practice, she worked at Bay Area Legal Aid a non-profit Agency representing victims of domestic violence in their restraining orders, divorce and immigration matters. Flora began to practice family law exclusively in 2005, and has focused in this area of law since that time. Flora previous work at the San Mateo Court and her domestic violence litigation background results in the smooth management of her family law cases as they progress to trial. Her attention to detail and knowledge of the intricacies of family law procedure enable her to strategically plan her cases and prepare for settlement or trial in a way that ensures that clients are receiving the best and most comprehensive representation available.
Since 2012 Flora expanded her practice to include probate matters such as wills, trusts, guardianships, conservatorships and step-parent adoptions.
05:34 The importance of education in building resilience
07:53 Teaching her daughters to be self-sufficient
11:00 Discussion on the need to educate people about the long-term ramifications of staying at home
19:08 The value of teaching children self-sufficiency and the importance of not doing everything for them
30:58 The need to let go of bitterness and victim mentality
34:14 The importance of educating and empowering women
37:30 The benefits of remote work and flexibility, particularly for working mothers, and how it can lead to increased productivity and work-life balance
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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!
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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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01/23/23 • 42 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Nishea Clark. Nishea is not a lawyer but the is Founder and Owner of NVC Consulting, LLC market research and strategic planning customized services.
Since 2002, NVC Consulting has provided insights and analysis for customers in pharmaceuticals, consumer package goods, media and entertainment and financial services. Nishea experience spans from the most elite advertising agencies such as EURO RSCG, Leo Burnett and DDB to premier Fortune 500 clients including, Pfizer, IMG, Procter & Gamble, McDonalds, SiriusXM, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Microsoft and many more. Her team of seasoned professionals is equally skilled at delivering excellent insights with the highest level of customer service.
Nishea received her BS in Journalism from Northwestern University. She also earned her MBA from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern, where she has consulted and returned as a visiting lecturer to the business school. NVC Consulting is currently based in New York.
NVC Consulting has partnered with numerous pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Novo Nordisk and Eisai, conducting novel market research and strategic projects in areas such as rare disease, cardiovascular and mental health.
Nishea and her associates have provided a viewpoint that allows her clients to better anticipate issues/opportunities with the target audience prior to going into market. The philosophy of delivering actionable strategies led to an output that empowers the entire team to be more proactive versus reactive.
01:00 Meet Nishea
12:14 Being a mom is the most humbling journey in my entire life
17:48 Getting a parenting coach so you can parent the kids you have
21:38 Personality archetypes in the workplace are so valuable ... here’s why!
27:40 Have the label of intimidating — and coming to terms with people about it
33:13 Making it work for you! — back to boundaries
36:15 What does marketing research look like
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Reading: Find Your Unicorn Space by: Eve Rodsky
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Joy In the Journey with Bridgette Bennett
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12/12/22 • 44 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Bridgette Bennett.
Bridgette is the CEO & Founding Attorney at the Bennett Law Center. Bridgette, or Attorney B as clients call her, is a U.S. immigrant. While she will tell you that her immigration story was a positive experience, the same could not be said for her husband's immigration experience.
After immigration authorities attempted to deport her husband, Attorney Bennett realized she had a higher purpose in life. She left her corporate job to attend law school with the risk that she would lose everything she had built. Now, she is living her own American Dream.
As an immigration attorney, Bridgette can now tell clients that she knows exactly what they are going through, and will do everything in her power to help you achieve your own version of the American Dream.
01:00 Meet Bridgette ...
08:55 Getting started in immigration law by being an immigrant herself.
14:26 Fascinated by the practice of immigration, for all the people.
16:41 Working with a team of 14 people.
18:49 How does the business of immigration work during coivd and recession.
23:05 How education can help what we are facing today.
29:00 Self care in the form of travel.
Reading the book: 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman which is about accepting that you can not do it all. What do you want to do?
Reading the book: The Gap in the Gain by Dan Sullivan which is about intentionally taking time to look where you came from and to stop chasing the next goal.
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08/15/22 • 40 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Hillary Walsh.
Hillary’s first interaction with a lawyer was when she was being placed in state custody (foster care), and today she is an immigration lawyer who helps noncitizens get status based on abuse from their US citizen family members.
Hillary is the attorney and owner of New Frontier. More importantly, Hillary knows what it’s like to experience detainment personally. She understands the fear of being left to the hands of law enforcement officers. She understands the confusion of navigating the courts, the fear, and anxiety and is able to empathize with others. Her personal experience led her to pursue a career in law in her professional life in order to defend people who are vulnerable to what they do not know about the system. She’s been through it, and it’s her passion to protect people navigating Immigration Law in these harsh times today.
Additionally, Hillary is a mother of four, a military wife, a law professor, and an award-winning immigration lawyer. She has 10 years of experience winning appeals, hearings in Immigration Court and has represented appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court. You can feel assured that she will do everything within her legal means to help you or your loved one.
1:31 I got my teeth kicked in there
5:15 princess this or princess that
9:25 if you’re not on the same team
13:16 when our firm broke a million dollars
17:13 I do have a lot of endurance
21:16 to keep up with rockstars
25:37 it is what it is
29:29 always do your best
34:02 I want everything done yesterday
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Law By Design with Laura Hartnett
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05/09/22 • 54 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Laura Hartnett.
Laura started her early career interning on Capitol Hill and working for federal agencies while completing a Master’s in Public Policy, then became a management consultant advising federal agencies (IRS, the Pentagon, SSA) on how to be cheaper, better, and faster. Her friends didn't understand what she did, so they assumed she was a spy.
While she loved her job, she was sick of developing PowerPoints and missed writing in full sentences. She then went to law school and became a litigator. She recognized that while full sentences are helpful, sometimes clients need a digest, bullet points, and even a chart to understand the legal issue better.
Her first child was born, and BigLaw was draining. She joined the in-house counsel team at a Fortune 100 insurance company. Working directly with business clients, she saw even more that full sentences (and full memos) verged on uselessness. At the same time, she trained with her clients in design thinking - how do we provide services to humans, accepting them and operating first and foremost that the recipients of our services are humans?
It's a novel and revolutionary idea in the legal field. To her, it means developing an understanding of each of our clients, deliberating about the possible ways to be their legal expert, and delivering in new and different ways that delight clients.
She set out and formed a company with the mission of making lawyering better using these skills. She does not want women, minorities, and other marginalized groups leaving the practice of law. She wants them to ascend into legal leadership positions, and she recognizes that we're not going to get ahead practicing law the way that our largely white male predecessors did 50 years ago.
That's where she is committed to getting this work out there - teaching how to better communicate and connect with clients in ways that work better for lawyers and everyone involved.
2:35 cheaper, better, faster
6:27 body-positive messages
10:32 you’re serving a person
13:12 empathy
18:10 do it in bite-size pieces
22:01 do you delight in delivering these services
27:07 experiential people connections
30:00 giftology
34:58 you need all those perspectives together
38:02 authenticity
43:49 part of the solution
47:22 I became the spy
50:23 coming out with this mindset
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02/21/22 • 42 min
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Geannina Burgos.
Geannina Burgos is a first-generation (born in Chile), second-career attorney (previously in the non-profit arts education sector, and a classically-trained dancer). She went to law school part-time in the evening (started when her daughter was 6 months old) while working during the day. She is a partner at a plaintiff's disability insurance & ERISA firm, adjunct law professor, and serves on local non-profit/government arts boards.
3:29 it takes a village
7:34 thought process and emotion
11:18 dynamics
14:08 collaborative culture
18:10 collaboration not competition
21:49 disability close to my family
24:45 once a dancer always a dancer
28:15 art is in my heart
33:39 understand what you’re offering
37:14 maximum mom magic
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11/22/21 • 40 min
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Jennifer Hargrave and talk all things grief, teens and self-reflection.
Jennifer is the owner of Hargrave Family Law . She helps good people end broken marriages. When facing divorce, people need to know they have options. Divorce does not have to end in disaster. The best divorces are ones where both partners are empowered to make decisions - not where fear is the operating force. Building a business is very similar.
Jennifer recently lost her mother to cancer. She died four months from the date of diagnosis. Walking through this period of tremendous personal loss has strengthened her fortitude to help people find the blessings in the midst of very dark circumstances.
3:20 the teen years
10:50 having other things to fill you up
16:32 opportunity for growth
18:25 when your responsibilities shift
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02/19/24 • 52 min
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This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Brita Long. Brita is an attorney and attorney coach who teaches flat fees to other attorneys and more importantly mind set.
One of the workshops Brita provides is on our relationship with money. "It ain't about the money" isn't about the knowledge of personal finance or small practice finance, but about our thoughts, beliefs and feelings about money and how those affect our behavior. Including: charging flat fees.
When Brita began working with attorneys she quickly discovered that nearly all of them had money mindset/belief issues that were causing them to self sabotage in regard to money. Take a listen!
04:20 Brita’s mission to maximize attorneys by teaching flat fees and emphasizing personal development and mindset in the legal profession
13:44 Every problem in the office is a leadership problem
19:25 The importance of emotional intelligence in the legal profession
21:59 The impact of money mindset on legal practice
26:26 The financial challenges and self-sabotage tendencies observed in small law firm owners
28:29 Advocating for the adoption of flat feesLearning and Ego in Legal Practice
32:50 The role of ego in legal practice
41:11 Energy management
49:02 The lack of safety in expressing vulnerability in the legal profession and the potential for limitless reform in the profession
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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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