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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Pre-UFYB 14: Taking Charge of Your Professional Development

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Education, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week, I’m sharing advice on how you can advocate for more professional development, get more opportunities, and take your career to the next level.        

Join us to find out why so many lawyers have a problem standing up for themselves when it comes to career-advancing opportunities and why you’re really the only person who can advocate for your own professional development.


Get full show notes and more information here: https://thelawyerstresssolution.com/professional-development/

Mentioned in this episode:

The Future Coach Podcast is Here!

The Future Coach: How to Succeed as a Life Coach Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond is finally here. Every other week, you'll hear practical advice about becoming a coach, improving your coaching skills, and antidotes to the most common concerns, questions, and brain drama that come up with this work, whether you're just starting out or you're years into your career. If you want to find out more, you can find it anywhere you listen to podcasts and hit that follow button.

The Future Coach Podcast is Here!

The Future Coach: How to Succeed as a Life Coach Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond is finally here. Every other week, you'll hear practical advice about becoming a coach, improving your coaching skills, and antidotes to the most common concerns, questions, and brain drama that come up with this work, whether you're just starting out or you're years into your career. If you want to find out more, you can find it anywhere you listen to podcasts and hit that follow button.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you like what you hear on this episode, you're going to want to come check out my new podcast

0:04.4

called The Unfuck Your Brain Podcast. What you're listening to right now, the lawyer's stress

0:09.7

solution, has ceased production of new episodes. But unfuck your brain is rockin' and rollin'.

0:15.6

Every week, I release a new episode of The Unfuck Your Brain Podcast, teaching you the same

0:20.8

great tools for taming your brain. But with even more applications to other areas of your life.

0:26.5

You can search for it by name. Remember, there's an asterisk instead of the you in unfuck because

0:32.3

we like to be polite. Or just click the link to it in the podcast description for this show. I'll see you

0:38.2

over there.

0:47.8

You're listening to The Lawyer's Stress Solution. The only podcast that teaches you cognitive

0:52.9

science-based techniques specifically created for lawyers. Learn how to manage your lawyer brain

0:58.6

and conquer the stress, anxiety, and overwhelm of lawyer life. Here's your host,

1:04.2

former lawyer and certified master coach, Kara Loan-Thyles.

1:11.3

Hello my lawyers. If you're reading The New York Times this week, you might have seen the op-ed

1:17.3

about how women lawyers don't speak in court as often as male lawyers. And the

1:23.0

writer of the op-ed who is a judge, a federal judge who I guess has just stepped down from the bench

1:27.6

was talking about the various reasons that women don't speak in court as much. And she laid most

1:32.4

of the blame with the feet of law firms and particularly senior partners who don't encourage

1:38.2

associates to participate in court as much and who don't encourage women in particular to

1:44.8

have those leadership opportunities. So today I'm going to talk about taking control of your own

1:51.1

professional development. So although I am kind of playing off of this op-ed, if you're a man you

1:57.4

should keep listening, because number one, part of being the next generation of legal leaders is

2:02.6

knowing about and working on this problem. And number two, really when I'm teaching goes for any

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