The Career Change Maker Podcast

In today’s episode I talk with two awesome guests - Donna Sewell and Helen Goldberg. They both share their journeys, what led them to leave the traditional legal route and start the business which is called LegalEdge. They share what they are doing now to facilitate flexible working and opportunities for lawyers to work in a way that's different, and impactful.
What you will learn:

• It takes time to create the ideal business model
• There's no such thing as failure - you either win or you learn
• Making sure your team is happy will lead to faster growth as a company

Donna shares, they set up LegalEdge to help businesses who needed an in-house lawyer on a flexible basis and didn’t want to hire. Donna was working In-house for a number of tech companies over several years. During that period of time began to think about a business model to facilitate flexible working and opportunities for lawyers.
After being terminated during maternity leave, Helen was keen to do something different so joined Donna to help her grow the business.
I asked Donna and Helen "how challenging was it to develop a model that wasn't the traditional law firm model that everybody was following?"
Donna highlights "it was quite challenging as it took some time to think through the model and how it would work and to not be just doing things the same way as every law firm was doing at the time. It got easier as time passed on and it feels like less of an uphill battle in terms of the education process."
LegalEdge was a fully functioning remote company that championed flexible working way before Covid and is continuing to lead the way with their people first culture.
Donna says they have been committed to finding different ways of doing things and making people aware that if they're not happy, they can do something about...13 years later and they are still making an impact and enjoying it.
Other episodes you may enjoy:
Episode 152: How To Make A Career Change Without Changing Income
Episode 144: How To Land Your Ideal Role Quickly
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In this week's episode, I chat with Brian Ballantyne about working fatherhood. Brian has been advocating for women's rights in the workplace for the last 10 years. I am really looking forward to sharing this perspective as we don't hear enough of the challenges that working fathers face who are juggling work and parenting.

What You Will Learn:

Some of the great insights that Brian shares:

What his career life looked like pre-children compared to post fatherhood

How family dynamics, priorities and time management have shifted

The challenges Brian has faced as a working father

How Brian's experience in diversity and inclusion has impacted how he now does things within his role at his organisation.

The impact his new book 'Confessions of a Working Father' is having and the conversations it is starting.

Links & References:

lightboxcoaching.com/program/

linkedin.com/in/brian-ballantyne-336754/

amazon.co.uk/Confessions-Working-Father-Brian-Ballantyne-ebook/dp/B07JMGJD84

savvyhippo.com/

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In today’s episode I interview Anjuli Obaro about her career change journey to landing an ideal role and securing a pay rise at the same time.
What you’ll learn:

• The importance of getting clear on your values
• Staying committed to the goal even When life happens
• How to reposition your experience to attract different opportunities

Getting clear of your values- Anjuli took the time to get clear on her values early in the career change process which made it easier for her to identify opportunities that were ideal for her.
Staying committed to your goals - Anjuli made her commitment to change her career and leaving her 10 year teaching career in 2020. Despite her plans to transition promptly life happened! She was forced to press pause on her plans but was committed to make her change regardless of how long it would take.
Two years on and she was able to make a transition that allows her to live the flexible life style that she desires as a mother of two.
She made honoured her commitment and kept taking action (even if small at times) to ensure she achieved her goal.
Sometimes you need to slow down, but know that if you stay focused you will achieve your goals.
Reposition your experience to attract different opportunities- Initially Anjuli had no idea how her teacher experience would translate in other settings or industries.
She took the time to learn about different opportunities through research and networking.
When she identified two roles that she was interested in different industries, she had to position her experience differently for both roles.
Through making targeted applications which focused on the needs of the role and goals for the organisations she landed two compelling roles and had the opportunity to choose.
If you are on a career journey, be inspired and know that your ideal role is out there waiting for you!

Other episodes you may enjoy:
Episode 109 - The Importance Of Tapping Into The Hidden Job Market
Episode 121 : You Don't Need To Retrain To Find Job Satisfaction

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In today's episode, I speak to Lulu Minns of Advocate My Success about her journey from being on the partnership track to running her own business. We discuss making tough career decisions, being true to yourself, equality in the legal profession, collaborating instead of competing, building your network and more.

To connect with or learn more about Lulu head over to lightboxcoaching.com/episode19 for the link to her website.

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In today’s episode, I am talking about the power of leveraging your strengths with guest expert Trudy Bateman, the Director of Strengths Profile.
Strengths profile is the tool that can help you understand how you can leverage your strengths to have optimal performance in the workplace.

What you will learn:

1. Preparing For Success- Success is about what we truly are motivated to enjoy, so we measure your energy, your strengths, and how you use it. If you're not using it, then we can help you or you can help yourself to start to use this a bit more. So performance is energy, energy is the magic, energy is life and it is the life force. This is where you will make a difference in your career.
   
2. Embracing Your Strengths - If everyone in the team knows what their strengths are then it's so much easier to make sure that you've got the right people doing the right roles and bringing the right energy and motivation to the work.
   
3. Understanding Your Uniqueness- It's the uniqueness that you need to be thinking about when you're transitioning at any point in your career.

Episode Highlights

· 01:45 - If you know, understand and can leverage your strengths in the work that you do, your level of fulfilment is going to go up as is the level of impact that you're able to make.

· 16:50 - Your uniqueness in terms of careers is fundamentally critical as to how you sell yourself, how you talk about yourself, and also how you decide on the right kind of career.

· 23:10 - If we can push and stretch ourselves in the areas of our strengths by trying those new careers, and pushing ourselves outside of our comfort zone in the areas of our strengths, then we’re going to have much more confidence and success.

Want to find out your top strengths? Take your FREE strengths profile assessment HERE
Connect with Trudy Bateman on LinkedIn

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Other episodes you may also enjoy:

Episode 180: How Other Lawyers Are Getting Career Clarity And Making
Life Changing Transitions
Episode 182: How Lack Of Alignment Is Costing You Thousands Every Single Year

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