Latest Lawyerwellness Podcast Episodes
282: Planning for Growth
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - October 12, 2023 07:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsToday you'll get what you need to plan the growth of your law practice simply and sustainably in 2024. You'll learn: 👉 How many goals you should have each year for maximum growth and minimum headache 👉 What kind of goals to prioritize 👉 What you need to do to make implementation as simpl...
281: Strategic Mindset Principles for Your Law Firm
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - October 05, 2023 07:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsFeel overwhelmed in your practice? If so, you're not in Strategic Mindset. You're in Checklist Mindset. I was in Checklist Mindset for years, and you CAN get out of it. In this episode of Be a Better Lawyer Podcast, you'll learn: 👉 why adopting a Strategic Mindset is essential if you w...
280: Your Wake Up Call with Special Guest Jim Fortin
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - October 01, 2023 17:47 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsToday you'll hear from Jim Fortin. He's is a leader in transformational coaching, and he's a big reason I coach lawyers. This episode is for you if you're: 🫣 wondering why all the hard work you're doing isn't leading to a better life 😖 constantly thinking and feel like you have a busy brai...
279: 7 Blocks to Law Firm Growth
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - September 28, 2023 07:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsYou may be an amazing attorney bringing in tons of referrals. But do you have control of the leads you bring in? Whether you're building your own law practice or you're a partner bringing in business for your firm, today is a Masterclass in bringing in clients. There are 7 blocks I see to ...
278: The "I have to" Box
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - September 21, 2023 07:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsLast week we talked about how to become a powerful creator in your life. This week, we're talking about a potent strategy to help yourself become that powerful creator both in your law practice and in your life: your words. You may not pay attention to the words you use, but words reflect wh...
277: Becoming a Powerful Creator in Your Life
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - September 14, 2023 07:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsYou get to intentionally design your life. But so often we let inertia prevent us from creating change. In this episode, learn how to become a powerful creator in your life and your law practice and get inspired to take action to make the change you want. WORK WITH ME I help lawyers take co...
276: Calming Panic
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - September 07, 2023 07:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsPanic isn't something lawyers like to talk about because it feels vulnerable to talk about. Not only that, but feeling panicked can be paralyzing; we get a sense of overwhelm and don't know what to do to get out of it. Panic clouds our thinking and decision-making abilities. What if I told...
275: Mindset Essentials, Part Two
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - August 31, 2023 07:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsToday, you’ll learn the two key aspects of thought work most lawyers miss whether you’ve been doing this work for a while or are brand new to it. These two aspects were what I was missing for the longest time. Knowing the mindset basics we talked about in last week's episode helped me feel b...
274: Mindset Essentials, Part One
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - August 24, 2023 07:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis is a Masterclass on Mindset that’s essential for anyone who’s a student of this work. I decided to break this topic up into two parts. These episodes work with each other so don’t skip this one if you think you know the material already. In Part One of Mindset Essentials, you're going...
273: Elevate Your Law Practice
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - August 17, 2023 07:30 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsHow does your law practice feel? Hard? Scary? Anxious? Nauseous? Easy? Calm? Peaceful? Joyful? Pick one feeling that is the most predominant. This feeling you have in your body right now comes from what you’re thinking about your law practice. This feeling is the foundation you're...
272: Overcoming Resentment
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - August 10, 2023 07:30 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWhen was the last time you felt resentful? All of us have felt resentment before, but most of us don't know what to do about it. Staying stuck in resentment prevents us from creating open lines of communication and asking for what we want. In this episode of Be a Better Lawyer Podcast, you...
271: Are You Over-Learning?
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - August 03, 2023 07:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsEver wonder why you're not making the progress you want to see in your law practice or your life? You're a go-getter who works hard and gets things done. So what's happening? It could be because you're over-learning. What's over-learning? So glad you asked. In this episode o...
270: Believing in Your Potential
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - July 27, 2023 07:30 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsEver thought about changing up your appearance? You think about wearing red lipstick, but you hear a voice telling you, “That’s too much.” You want to wear a flashier suit, and you hear a voice asking, “What will people think?” You consider changing your hairstyle or hair color, but a voi...
269: The Feel Good Episode
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - July 20, 2023 07:30 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsToday's Be a Better Lawyer is all about feeling good, my friend. I'm sharing a tool I use with my clients to help them regulate their nervous system whenever they feel an emotion like stress, anxiety, overwhelm, shame, guilt, or any other unwanted emotion. When you practice processing your e...
268: Are You Playing it Safe or Evolving?
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - July 13, 2023 07:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsChances are, if you’re here, you want change. You want to evolve and expand. But in case you’re new to this podcast and aren’t sold on change, I want to ask you a question: Are you happy with where you are right now? I hope you are. Even if you are though, do you want to change anything ...
267: Seeking Significance
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - July 06, 2023 07:30 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWhat makes you significant? Is it your accomplishments? What other people think about you? Or maybe, is it something else entirely? We all want to feel significant, but I'm sharing the most helpful way to think about feeling significant, so you feel energized instead of depleted. You'l...
266: 6 Lessons Learned Growing a Business
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - June 29, 2023 07:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWhile I was a criminal prosecutor, I started building my coaching practice helping lawyers take control of their time and intentionally design a life they love. When I started this business-building journey, I didn't realize how differently I'd need to think transitioning from working as a law...
265: How to Use ChatGPT in Your Law Practice
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - June 22, 2023 07:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsToday we're talking about how to use ChatGPT in your Law Practice. ChatGPT can make your life easier, but there are some concerns you'll want to be aware of before you put it into practice. In this episode we're covering: ✅ ChatGPT Basics ✅ How to use ChatGPT to create content for busine...
264: Creating an Emotional Energy Refresh for Your Space
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - June 15, 2023 07:30 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsI love the idea of where we live, work and play being a temple, and I wanted to create an episode for you to get awareness around the places you spend time and how you feel in them. When you do, it will powerfully impact your quality of life. This is something I’m doing in each living and wo...
263: Values Alignment
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - June 08, 2023 07:30 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsA value is something we hold dear to us. It’s part of an image of who we are and what we want to project to the world. Most of us think we know what our values are, but if we take a closer look, a lot of our actions may prove otherwise. We may find we're not living in alignment with the v...
262: Boundaries with Employees
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - June 01, 2023 07:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsDo you know there's a problem with your assistant or associate but you keep putting off doing anything about it? This is how you know you're avoiding: 👉 you don't make time for meetings with them, or 👉 you feel resentful and angry towards them but tell yourself, "There's nothing I can do,"...
261: How to Follow Through
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - May 25, 2023 07:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOne of the things I hear most from lawyers is that they can't follow through. They think the problem is they need more discipline or they're lazy. But if you're driven to succeed that's definitely not the case. There's a very different problem happening in our brain that we have little or...
260: How to Use Content for Business Development
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - May 18, 2023 07:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis is going to be a fun episode. I’m a total marketing geek, and I loved learning about marketing while I was starting to grow my business. A lot of lawyers I work with own their own practices or are partners who get their time under control, and then they want to focus on building their p...
Special Announcement
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - May 15, 2023 00:25 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRegister for my new Masterclass here: https://dinacataldo.com/takecontrol It's called, "Why You Feel Behind (HINT: It's Not the Work): The 3-Step Method to Get More Done without Burning Out." It's happening this Thursday, May 18th at 9am Pacific and 12pm Eastern. Hope to see you there!
259: Result Atrophy and Overcoming Resistance
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - May 11, 2023 07:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsHave a goal or a task you've been putting off? You've hit resistance. Resistance is normal. It’s even desirable because it tells you there’s a next level for you. But if we don’t move though that resistance and into that next level, our results atrophy. They stay the same. We don’t g...
258: Productive Shortcuts vs. Wishful Thinking
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - May 04, 2023 07:30 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWant to boost your productivity and well-being at the same time? You need to know the difference between productive shortcuts and wishful thinking. We like shortcuts. Shortcuts are supposed to use less of our resources than other -- more taxing -- ways of doing something. But our brains c...
257: Your Foundation for a Life Reset
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - April 27, 2023 07:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIf you're feeling stuck or overwhelmed in your law practice, listen to this episode for a life reset. A reset starts by knowing where you are right now. When I talk to lawyers, there are three places they start. I'll share those with you. Once you know where you are, then you can take action...
256: Starting a Business
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - April 20, 2023 07:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWant to start your own law practice? Or maybe you want to start a business completely unrelated to the legal profession? Before you do, listen in to this week's episode of Be a Better Lawyer Podcast to find out what you need to know. I'm sharing what I learned starting a new business on to...
255: Why You're Not Planning Your Week (and How to Start)
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - April 13, 2023 07:30 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIf you're like a lot of lawyers I talk to, you want to plan your week, but you're not doing it. Sound like you? Then you'll want to listen in to this week's episode of Be a Better Lawyer Podcast. I break down: why you're not planning your week what you need to know to start making ...
254: Re-Balancing Your Life
Be a Better Lawyer with Dina Cataldo - April 06, 2023 07:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIf you're feeling disconnected from yourself or out of balance, you're not alone. I've been there, and there are 5 questions that helped me see where I needed to become more balanced in my life. Answer these questions, and you'll begin re-balancing your life whether it's personally or profes...
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