Do you hate working as a lawyer? Are you sick of doomscrolling LinkedIn hoping the perfect non-legal job will appear? The Former Lawyer Podcast is hosted by Sarah Cottrell, an ICF-certified career coach who has worked with hundreds of lawyers to help them identify an alternative career. Join her each week for advice and strategies for lawyers who dream of an alternative career, and interviews with former lawyers who have left law behind to find careers and lives that they love.
The Former Lawyer Podcast is a production of Former Lawyer LLC, a career coaching consultancy founded by Sarah that helps lawyers who want to leave law identify the alternative career that is right for them.
A question that comes up for a lot of lawyers, especially when they’re trying to figure out something else to do with their law degree, other than practice law, is “How to Know When It’s Time to Hire a Career Coach?” I actually think that the answer to that question is pretty simple: You should hire a coach when you’re…
Jennifer Park decided to chart her own path outside of Biglaw after law school, working for a legal tech company instead. On this episode, Jennifer shares why she decided this path was right for her, how she made the tough decision despite external pressure, and how you can get into legal tech or another booming industry with the skills you…
This week on the show I want to talk to you about a question that I get asked a lot, which is some variation of, “is now the time to leave the law, am I ready to leave the law, have I given the law enough of a chance, etc.?” Generally speaking, when people ask me a question along these…
Katherine Porter is a former lawyer turned consultant at her firm The Resource Woman, who now helps law firms cultivate a culture that attracts people and invites them to actually want to stay. On this episode of the podcast, Katherine shares how the idea of Designing Your Life and human-centered design changed her career trajectory and is now changing the…
Heather Horton is a lawyer by training who now operates her own grief recovery company, The H-Squared Group, LLC. On this episode of the podcast, Heather Shares how she moved from accounting to law and now into her current role advocating for and teaching stigma-free grief recovery for lawyers and non-lawyers alike. Heather’s Path To Grief Recovery For Lawyers Heather…
Loly Orozco is a former financial restructuring lawyer who went from Biglaw to running a creative business. Her stationery design company, Little Postage House, sells curated vintage postage stamps and designs and prints all types of paper items from birth announcements to wedding invitations to save the dates. On this episode of the podcast, Loly shares how she took something…
