1: Journey from Musician to Lawyer to a Coach for Lawyers - Nora Riva Bergman

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Her career journey takes her from musician to lawyer to bar association executive director to a coach for lawyers.
As a practice advisor at Atticus, Nora Riva Bergman founded Real Life Practice, teaching attorneys work-life balance and how to gain self-knowledge, to help lawyers become better lawyers, and better people. “Ampersands” is her term for life passages and turning points. Death of the “Auntie Mame” figure in her life jolted her to rethink her relationship to the law profession. Self-knowledge is key, she tells Don Hutcheson, host of podcast Discover Your Talent, Do What You Love.

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0:00.0	Hello, world.
0:11.0	Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.
0:15.0	I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:18.0	Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered her talents to do work she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:28.8	Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Nora Riva Bergman. Hi, Nora. Hi, Don.
0:36.6	Glad to be with you. Are you using your talents and doing work that you
0:40.4	love? I am blessed to be able to say, yes, I am. I am delighted to hear that. Nora Reva Bergman is a business
0:50.3	coach and practice advisor with Atticus and the founder of real life practice. She works with
0:57.3	lawyers and law firms across the country, coaching them on all aspects of law firm management
1:03.1	and leadership. Nora, that's the executive summary of your very rich life. Tell us what you're
1:09.0	up to and what's captured your imagination.
1:11.3	Really three phases of my professional life.
1:14.3	You mentioned that I'm a practice advisor with Atticus, and I have been coaching and working
1:19.8	with lawyers for about the last 10 years.
1:22.2	I guess I should mention that I'm also an attorney.
1:24.4	I got licensed in 1992 here in the state of Florida.
1:28.8	And although I've maintained my license for all these years, I haven't actively practiced
1:33.5	since about 1999 or so.
1:36.4	I do a lot of one-on-one coaching, essentially executive or business coaching with lawyers.
1:42.5	That's one phase of the professional work that I'm doing that I've
1:45.3	done for the last 10 years that I really love. The other component of my professional life
1:49.9	or what I would call kind of projects and things that I'm working on that go beyond the one on
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