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.
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.
The question comes up constantly – in podcast interviews, on Collab group calls, and in emails from listeners. “What if the grass isn’t greener on the other side?” It’s tied to this idea that maybe being miserable at work is just what it means to be an adult with a job. Maybe every workplace is toxic. Maybe no one really…
You’re a lawyer who’s good at your job but something feels off. You’re performing well, making good money, checking all the boxes that are supposed to matter. But there’s a growing disconnect between who you are and what you’re doing every day. Sound familiar? Ben Chiriboga lived this exact experience. Today he’s an executive at Nexl, a legal tech company,…
You’ve taken CliftonStrengths. You’ve done the MBTI. Maybe you’ve worked through a few other career assessments too. You have pages of results about your strengths, your work style, your preferences. And you’re still sitting there thinking, “Okay, but what am I supposed to do with my life?” Sound familiar? Sarah gets emails about this all the time. Lawyers who’ve done…
You’ve probably seen the headlines about major law firms pulling out of diversity programs and capitulating to executive orders. Sarah has been calling out these decisions and explaining why DEI isn’t actually the problem in Biglaw. But what does someone who works specifically with diverse attorneys see when firms make these choices? Sarah recently talked with Bryson Malcolm, a legal…
