Episode 59: Nathan Interviews ‘The Hustler,’ Alison Monahan

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 59, Nathan interviews Alison Monahan: Columbia Law School graduate, co-creator of The Law School Toolbox and Bar Exam Toolbox programs and podcast, and creator of The Girl’s Guide to Law School.

10 Things You’ll Hate About Alison Monahan:

10- Nathan nicknamed her “The Hustler.” So awesome. (0:55)

9- She could have gone to medical school without taking the MCAT. (2:55)

8- She decided she wanted to go to law school, took the LSAT a few weeks later, and scored a 170 out of the gate. (12:25)

7- She couldn’t get laid off during the recession in 2010, even though she begged her boss to do it. (31:00)

6- Every day for a year, Alison woke up, asked herself what she felt like doing that day, and did that. (33:00)

5- She’s already lived in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles.

4- She now spends her summers in Mexico City and her winters in San Francisco. (37:30)

3- She also shares a ski cabin with friends in Tahoe. (46:00)

2- She gets to drink beer with Nathan. (56:00)

1- That, despite making you feel lazy and inadequate, you can’t hate Alison at all–she is too awesome! Alison knows her life is amazing, and she wants to help you make your life remarkable too. Check out her programs and tweet her for all your bar prep/law school/workplace needs.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 59 of the Thinking El-Sap
0:14.0	podcast in San Francisco, I'm Nathan Fox,
0:17.0	and with me, I think in San Francisco,
0:19.0	Allison Monaghan.
0:20.0	Are you here, Allison?
0:22.0	I am here and I'm in San Francisco, yes. How long have you been back from Mexico City?
0:26.4	I got back at the end of December, beginning of January, so about four months now.
0:31.1	Cool. Do you have plans to go back? I actually I'm going back in a few weeks
0:35.0	Wow awesome yeah should be fun awesome well we'll get into that for
0:40.0	for listeners who don't know Allison, boy, there's just so many things on your bio, Allison, I don't even know where to start.
0:48.0	It's a little bit of a weird mix.
0:50.0	Yeah, whenever I talk about you, I always describe you as a hustler.
0:54.0	Which I really mean that as a compliment.
0:57.0	I take that as a compliment, actually.
0:59.0	You are frighteningly smart, and you are a drinking buddy of mine which is awesome.
1:06.6	You probably shouldn't share that.
1:07.8	Why? You're not a practicing attorney. You can talk about being my drinking buddy all you
1:11.6	want and you are co a co-host of the Law School Toolbox Podcast.
1:18.1	Which was started, thanks to your inspiration.
1:20.6	Oh, thank you very much.
1:22.0	And we'll go through a lot of other stuff in your history, but I think the reason why thinking
1:26.8	El-Sat listeners should get to know you is because you have a really interesting story of going to law school, practicing law, and then leaving it to do other stuff.
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