This podcast is al about sharing cool stories about unique lawyers. Lawyers who take risk, lawyers who change careers, and lawyers who have fun. These are popular topics on You Are A Lawyer:
- How law school impacts your life and money
- Bar Exam challenges and wins
- Leaving the law for cool jobs like filmmaking or Lego brick sculpting
- How to transition to different careers or away from the law
Lawyers can do anything.
Every week, Kyla Denanyoh interviews a game-changing lawyer to discuss how their legal education impacts their life. Because whether you’re working as an artist, tech investor, yogi, or blogger, if you’ve graduated from law school, YOU ARE A LAWYER.
By sharing their experiences during and after law school, podcast guests expose how law school promotes competition and perfectionism and their creativity and talents are often hidden.
Until now.
You Are A Lawyer promotes lawyers and law school graduates with exciting hobbies, interests, and career changes. This podcast will motivate you to start that side hustle, challenge you to find a nontraditional career, and push you to embrace the hobby that you’ve been hiding. So ask yourself, are you an ambitious lawyer who is limited in their career?
A law student who daydreams about impacting the world? Did you struggle with the bar exam and now you’re bored with the law?
You Are A Lawyer will remind you that your law degree is valuable wherever you are and whatever you are doing. Join the email list and get introduced to more fearless lawyers every week.
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Mark C. Fava has had a career unlike most lawyers. A former naval flight officer, aviation lawyer, and now a vice president at the world’s largest aerospace manufacturing company, Mark has spent decades leading in high-pressure environments. His new book, Lessons from the Admiral, Naval Wisdom and Sea Stories for Leaders, shares leadership insights from his time working with an admiral and how those lessons apply to law, business, and life. In this episode, we dive into his career pivots, risk-taking, and why understanding people—not just legal rules—is the key to success.
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