You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. Lawyer Stories was founded in July 2017 on Instagram and is an expanding global network of lawyers and law students sharing their personal journeys to the noble profession of the practice of law.

Join us on this podcast as we dig deeper into these stories and hear from lawyers and law students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession. Here at Lawyer Stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours?

Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Betty Gold. Today we welcome back, Sarah Shickman,

healthcare attorney and med spa expert, managing partner at LNG law, 20 plus years experience

of growing businesses. And you may remember from episode 195 about a year ago, Sarah, how are you?

I'm doing well. How are you? Good to be back here.

Yeah, it's always a pleasure to see you and catch up. I really enjoyed coffee with you in New York

City, live and in person. It's always so exciting to meet somebody from the internet on like lawyer stories or whatever, like in person. So thanks for doing that. That was fun. And welcome in.

Thank you. Yeah. Whenever people meet me in person, they always tell me I'm shorter than they expected me to be because I think maybe online I have a bigger personality. I'm not sure.

Oh, that's interesting. I don't know. Okay. Well, you never know what to expect, but it was all good things.

So, you know, we usually go through the story. We did that in episode 195. You have a great story. I love it because you were born in Ukraine, eventually moved to Brooklyn.

So, like, just tell me, I'm not going to go through, like, the details that we did.

But, like, what was generally, like, just the background?

Like, what was the transition like as a young person?

And, like, how did it shape your work ethic and your outlook on life yeah as a young person

going to school in brooklyn i was public school i didn't speak any english but no one spoke

english in my class like literally it was a class of immigrants so that kind of became the standard

like just being able to communicate with people in different ways

however we need to and I think everyone around us was like relatively poor and so we didn't

feel poor because the like everyone was really talking about how okay like who could what can we

trade can we trade the milk for the pizza lunch yeah

it wasn't like oh like I don't like milk so I'm not going to drink it you know my mom gave me

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