Why Female Founders Face Bigger Challenges in Business

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Carrie Trabue, a former litigator turned entrepreneur who’s redefining the legal industry. After 25 years helping lawyers navigate their careers, she founded LawSphere, an online community designed to bring lawyers and legal vendors together in meaningful ways. Carrie shares how her desire for long-term relationships over transactional ones inspired her platform’s unique focus on mental health, mentorship, and holistic support for legal professionals. We also talk about the uphill battle female founders face in raising capital, the role of purpose in midlife reinvention, and why building community is the key to a thriving legal career.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Playbook.
0:01.6	I'm Dave Belcher here at Fanatics Fest.
0:04.9	And guess what?
0:06.3	We got two recovering lawyers.
0:09.4	What the heck are we doing here for the playbook?
0:12.0	I will tell you what made my sports career was our shared experience in law school.
0:18.9	And I have Kerry Graveau here with me to the founder and CEO
0:23.9	of Lawsphere. Welcome, Gary, to Leba. David, it's so good to see you. It's been, it's been a minute.
0:31.3	Yeah. It's amazing how life is like a trolley. People go hop on to use a new Orleans club but on and off on and off
0:42.6	you and I went to law school together we had 25 year careers that very and you now have
0:50.5	ended up where I started in the legal sphere world that law sphere.
0:56.7	Yeah.
0:57.8	And I started my career, walked away from being a oil and gas litigator to build a hole
1:03.7	that I saw in the law.
1:07.7	And I got so excited when I found out what you're doing because you're doing the exact
1:13.5	same thing. I had the backing of a really big company. You're doing on your own, that building
1:20.4	a future empire on your own. What was it that you saw that automated you, inspired you to take this more difficult route
1:30.7	than your 25 year legal thrill?
1:33.8	Well, I think that when you reach our age,
1:36.8	we won't say what age that is.
1:38.2	Yeah.
1:39.3	Yeah, my age.
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