You should expect to spend approximately 3 hours per work on this Program – each week, there will be a 1 hour live lecture with Meredith (replays available), a 1 hour coaching call or guest speaker (replays available), and you should plan to spend about 1 hour working on the assignment for the week.  These assignments, taken together, will form your business and marketing plan.  You can work on them in our weekly co-working section, or on your own time.  Depending on the schedule for the coaching calls—and whether you choose group coaching or 1-1 coaching—some weeks you’ll spend less than 3 hours, and some weeks it will be a little more.

Right now, the Program is only open to attorneys that have at least 2 years of experience in practice (whether that’s at a firm, in-house, in government, or otherwise).  But, we are planning to develop a similar Program for female attorneys just starting out in practice in the future! We would encourage you to apply anyway, and note that you’re a new attorney just starting out, so that we can assess demand and expedite that program development as the group of interested applicants grows!

No. This Program is for all female attorneys, regardless of practice area.  One of the things we’ll explore together in the Program is what practice area is best for you—which may include some, all, or none of the practice areas you currently have expertise in!  (It really depends on what lifestyle you want to lead, and what practice areas you would love to specialize in… nothing is off the table.)

The current session runs from March 2022 through May 2022, but the final call schedule will depend somewhat on the time zones of the participants.  (We have a tentative scheduled created, but we want to make sure that the call times work for the majority of the group!)  You’ll receive a calendar of all relevant dates once your application is confirmed and you’ve paid for the course, and replays will be available to you in Kajabi if you miss one of the live calls.

You are already working too much! That’s the whole point! If that’s what you don’t want for your future, then we’re here to show you there’s a different way of doing things. 

Burning yourself out isn’t sustainable long-term.  How much longer can you really sustain the pace you’re working at right now?  6 years? 6 months? 6 weeks?  6 days? 6 hours?

If you want to restructure your life and reclaim your time, then you’ll need to get serious about what you want, what boundaries you need (and how to hold them!), and make this a priority. 

To be successful and get the most out of this course, we ask for a minimum commitment of 2 hours per week (watching/listening) and 1hour of personal work (doing the homework, reading one of the books we’ve recommended, or interacting with the community on Slack).  If you’re ready for change, you will find a way to prioritize this.  Setting aside the time is part of investing in yourself, and the more you do it, the better it will feel.  This will become your most favorite part of the week–as you relax and stretch and expand into who you’re meant to be and the life you’ve dreamt of living.

I get it. I was there, for a long time.  It’s so hard to see any way out when you’re stuck.  Your time is not your own, your brain space is swamped, you’re probably working with some toxic people who make it even harder.  

You need someone who is already doing it to see what is possible.  And, in my experience, you need to talk to someone other than yourself.  Investing money in a coaching program and being intentional about setting aside time every week to work on the plan may seem like another item to add to your “to do”—but it will quickly become your favorite part of the week.

For me, coaching was where I could show up fully and create space for myself.  It took someone outside of myself to be able to see the masculine, over-controlled, patriarchal, toxic habits that have been ingrained in me, first at law school and then at the law firms I worked at.  These rigid structures and focus on non-stop billing led to adrenal fatigue, burnout, exhaustion, weight gain, and turning to substances like alcohol to numb myself.  I could never complete the stress cycle–and it was hard to believe that anything else could exist. 

This course, this coaching, and this community, is the path out of that darkness. (It’s the path I wish I’d had, when I was where you are now.)  You’ve got to set aside the time to focus on what’s next, so that you can begin to see (remember) that something else is possible.  You were someone completely different before law school, and it’s time to integrate the lawyer parts of you with the nonlawyer parts of you. 

You won’t always feel as exhausted and overwhelmed as you feel right now.  I’d love to help you leave the overwhelm behind and step into your new life, with a business that requires only the time you choose to give it! 

This was the biggest fear that held me back from starting my own firm… for years.  We were fed the message from Day 1 in BigLaw that you could never do it yourself. When you start at a big firm with HR personnel and hospitality and support staff, it seems overwhelming to think about how you could possibly start a new firm and scale to the size of the firm you’re in.  You got where you are today by studying law, not business–and you have no clue if you need a separate server, or how to create a website, let alone where to find health insurance as a self-employed business owner.

But I promise: Everything is figure-out-able.  The scariest part is just not knowing what decisions you need to make, and what exactly you need to have in place (and what’s a must have vs. a someday).  The unknown is scary, but that’s exactly why having a course and coaches to guide you through the decisions and decide which things you need to invest in–and when–will ensure that you start your firm with the smallest up-front investment, and a super clear plan you can execute to grow as quickly as you want!

We know lots of female lawyers are often the primary breadwinners in their households, and that can come with a lot of pressure. But, for me and for a lot of women working in BigLaw or in-house right now, the reality is that the security of paycheck was tied to how badly we felt all the time—it was false security.  Until we started our own firms, we didn’t realize how quickly you can recoup the (low) start-up costs of starting your firm, and then the sky’s the limit from there! And “needing the paycheck” is a different ballgame when you have almost no expenses, so every minute you spend on billable work is profit! 

We had so many of those same fears when we started our firms.  This idea that we won’t be able to find enough business on our own is one of the primary ways the partners at our old firms kept us stuck.  Believing that business development is hard, unpredictable, and something we wouldn’t be good at on our own.  That we will have to “eat what we kill” and we won’t “kill enough”...  even typing those words feels gross.  But we’re on the other side of those fears, and we’re here to tell you: they aren’t true.

The reality is that there is far more demand for legal services than there are competent attorneys to serve that demand, and it is surprisingly easy to distinguish yourself in a crowded field of lawyers who haven’t taken time to really nail the basics of running a business. When you can step out of the toxic, patriarchal culture of most law firms you will discover that there are thousands of successful women running lucrative law practices making 6-, 7-, and 8-figures while easily making time for their kids, their partners, their hobbies, and to travel. 

As lawyers, we have an incredibly valuable and lucrative skill set. And we have access to all of the same business and marketing tools that other business owners do–if we just widen our view a bit and stop imitating the law firm cultures we came from.  Many of us give that value away to our employers for too little money, or we give it away for free at CLEs and workshops.

We will help you see that your unique experience and speciality makes your practice even more valuable.  We’ll also help you teach you ways to package and share your expertise with clients that will not only make you more money than you can imagine, but do so without billing 1600, 1800, or 2000 hours a years.

Yep! You got in to law school, studied your ass off, graduated, and passed the Bar.  You’re a legit badass and there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it. 

BUT… there are some things that are a lot easier to do when you have a guide to walk you through what you need to learn/do (who didn’t love a good study guide in Law School?!), and most things are a lot more enjoyable when you’ve got company (um, study groups exist for a reason, right?).  You probably could figure out how to set up and scale a profitable six-, seven-, and eight-figure law firm all by yourself… by do you really want to? 

We’ve built a course and a community that allows you to do that faster, more efficiently, and with an amazing group of fellow badasses supporting you. Come join our study group, Rockstar! (And good news: there’s no curve, we can ALL make millions!) 

Plus: if the only example that’s been modeled for you is one that prizes overwork, non-stop billing, and sacrificing everything in the name of client service—you may end up recreating the same toxic workplace you’re leaving behind.  We want to help you heal from the stress and overwhelm, so that you can create the life you want and then build your law firm to support it.

We get it.  When you’re in a scarcity mindset, you’re not confident in yourself and your goals, and it’s hard to justify spending money on yourself and your business.  Especially when you’re trying on the idea of leaving a steady paycheck and going out on your own for the first time, investing in yourself can feel scary AF.

But it’s a question of how much you value your time and sense of peace, how aligned your life is right now with how you want it to go. If you’re ready to make a change in how you feel everyday, and you’re ready to build a business that works for you, instead of you working for it (or someone else), then the first step is investing in yourself. 

Committing to this process means committing to put in the work to build the law firm of your dreams—not ours and not anyone else’s.  And if you make that commitment and put in the work, a few months or years from now, you’ll look back on this investment as one of the smartest you’ve ever made. (And you’ll probably laugh about how small an amount of money it is compared to the income and profits you’re making in your amazing, lucrative business while living the life of your dreams… that’s how I feel now about my first investment in coaching!)