Encore: Journey from Musician to Lawyer to a Coach for Lawyers, with Nora Riva Bergman

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Nora Riva Bergman's career journey takes her from musician to lawyer to bar association executive director to a coach for lawyers. “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. As a practice advisor at Atticus, Nora founded Real Life Practice, teaching attorneys work-life balance and how to gain self-knowledge, to help lawyers become better lawyers, and better people. Self-knowledge is key, she tells her clients.

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0:00.0	Hello, world, and happy holidays to you and yours from the Discover Your Talent team.
0:15.3	Our gift to you this week is five encore interviews of the most popular shows from the last 12 months.
0:22.6	We hope you enjoy them and we look forward to sharing the journeys of more fascinating guests
0:27.6	in the coming year.
0:28.6	Here's today's encore interview with Nora Bergman.
0:32.6	Hi Nora.
0:33.6	Hi, Don.
0:34.6	Glad to be with you.
0:36.6	Are you using your talents and doing work that you love?
0:40.6	I am blessed to be able to say, yes, I am.
0:44.1	I am delighted to hear that.
0:46.2	Nora Reva Bergman is a business coach and practice advisor with Atticus
0:52.0	and the founder of real life practice. She works with lawyers and law firms
0:57.3	across the country, coaching them on all aspects of law firm management and leadership.
1:03.7	Nora, that's the executive summary of your very rich life. Tell us what you're up to and what's
1:08.5	captured your imagination. really three phases of my
1:11.5	professional life uh you mentioned that i'm a practice advisor with atticus and i have been
1:16.6	coaching and working with lawyers for about the last 10 years i guess i should mention that i'm also
1:22.6	an attorney i got licensed in 1992 uh here in the state of Florida.
1:32.2	And although I've maintained my license for all these years, I haven't actively practiced since about 1999 or so.
1:35.1	I do a lot of one-on-one coaching, essentially executive or business coaching with lawyers.
1:41.3	That's one phase of the professional work that I'm doing that I've done for the last 10 years that I really love.
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