Ep 253 | Kara Vaval | Mindset, Hustle, and the Laptop Lifestyle Lawyer
The Lawyer Stories Podcast
Benjamin Gold
5.0 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
She Came to the U.S. from Haiti at 17 and Built a Powerful Legal Brand | Kara Vaval
The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 253 features Kara Vaval. Kara is a lawyer, author, keynote speaker, and business development coach. In this episode, we explore Kara's remarkable journey - from growing up in Haiti until the age of 17, to the tragic passing of her father, and her move to New York with her grandmother that set everything in motion.
Kara shares how she navigated college and law school, hustled her way through a highly successful Mary Kay business, and practiced Immigration and Family Law before ultimately finding her stride in Personal Injury law. She also discusses launching the Laptop Lifestyle Lawyer Podcast and building a career rooted in mindset, intention, and business development.
Kara lives by the philosophy, "What you think about, you bring about," and has written books and recently launched her newest concept, Main Karacter - encouraging lawyers and entrepreneurs to stop playing small and take control of their story. Above all, Kara is addicted to seeing other people win.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:16.9 | 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. |
| 0:26.0 | Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours? |
| 0:36.2 | Welcome to the lawyer stories podcast with Benny Gold. Today we have another special guest, |
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| 1:30.1 | All right, back to our guest, our good friend, Caravall, how are you? |
| 1:36.2 | I'm wonderful. |
| 1:37.7 | Benny Gold, I love, you know, I love being with you and talking to you, but you know, |
| 1:43.0 | last time I was on the other side doing the interview, So I'm glad the pressure's off me today. Well, I'm glad we finally got to do this because you're very dynamic. You're doing a lot of things. I know we could probably make this a three-hour recording, but we're going to try to not to. But I'm very, I'm excited to have you here and to chat and, you know, thank you for all the |
| 2:00.9 | assistance with our, our Miami event, our get together that we do. We really appreciate |
| 2:06.2 | your support as always. Yeah, it's such a great event, such great energy, you know, so I couldn't |
| 2:14.4 | pass up on the opportunity to obviously support and sponsor and all the good things. |
| 2:20.4 | So Kara is a lawyer and author, keynote speaker and business development coach. |
| 2:26.3 | She's the president of Vival Law, personal injury law firm and the CEO of Empowerment Institute, |
| 2:31.7 | an educational empowerment platform helping women lawyers build high profit, low |
| 2:37.4 | overhead virtual law firms without compromising, excuse me, time, freedom, or lifestyle. |
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