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Hello, everybody. 
Welcome to another episode of 

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Studying Law around the World. 
Today I'll have the opportunity 

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to welcome Calling Levy. 
Calling is a general counsel and

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educator and author and advisor 
and so many other important 

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roles. 
He's also an advocate for mental

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health and lots of good things 
out there on the Internet. 

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So please join me in welcoming. 
Thank you so much for joining us

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today. 
Thanks so much for having me. 

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Fantastic. 
Well, I know that you know, way 

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you're, you don't need much of 
an introduction. 

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I feel like a lot of people who 
might be listening to the 

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podcast already know you follow 
you on social media and all of 

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that. 
But I'd love to hear a little 

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bit about, you know, your path 
and especially because I feel 

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like you're legal journey has 
taken many unique turns and 

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you've built such a nice 
practice for yourself. 

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So I'd love to hear a little 
more about, you know, that this 

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direction that your career has 
taken and and how you got where 

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you're at. 
If someone had asked me, you 

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know, do you envision yourself 
doing what you do now? 

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When I started as a lawyer, as 
with a lot of folks who would be

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asked this question, I would say
yeah, no, you're you're crazy. 

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There's absolutely no way I be 
4:00 AM doing what I am doing. 

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But that just speaks to, I think
this unpredictable journey that 

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I've been on. 
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looking back, the journey kind 
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So one in the talk back a little
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college, I worked for a year for
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paralegal, do an ediscovery 
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And because I was interested in 
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going to law. 
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of experience in before I 
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So this, you know, opportunity 
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way to to achieve that goal. 
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It gave me exposure to 
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I was able to understand how 
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Some of the tools are used in 
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But at the same time, I also saw
the disconnect between the 

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lawyers that I was performing 
this worked for at their request

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and the technology I was using. 
The lawyers didn't seem all that

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interested in the technology at 
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They seemed interested in just 
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get to achieve what they want to
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Come Fast forward a little bit 
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Law school for me was a bit of a
disappointment in that there was

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very little discussion of 
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A lot of it was focused just on 
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of how the law came to be, as 
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on that. 
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more convinced that either I was
crazy or that there really was a

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gap between the practice of law 
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terms of how technology was 
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healthcare, insurance, and other
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So we're going graduated from 
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as a lawyer. 
I kind of became more and more 

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interested in discovering 
whether indeed there were other 

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folks that were trying to kind 
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legal world and the tech world. 
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folks that were doing that. 
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time, bold enough to reach out 
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engage with them to learn more 
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trying to do to bridge that gap.
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educate me, orientate me to the 
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And I reached the point where I 
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lessons from those conversations
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And that really started sort of 
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legal tech and also was 
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to build off of. 
That's fantastic. 

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Thank you sharing that. 
It's, it's been so interesting 

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to see how different lawyers 
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different, you know, technology 
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principles into their career. 
Recently I spoke with a lawyer 

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who went into privacy and they 
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bit about it might not be the 
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you know, a year, 2 ago, you 
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much using this specific niche 
because there aren't any lawyers

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who have been 10 years into this
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But to continue our conversation
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more about, you know, you've 
held these many hats I mentioned

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before, GC educator, author, 
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How do you balance all of these 
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your core purpose? 
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You know, I'm, I'm just the type
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being engaged in a variety of 
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So I think that I stay grounded 
through kind of just couple 

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things. 
One, we're on minding myself 

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that it's important to take a 
step back and to be grateful for

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what I've achieved and what I'm 
doing to, to really just at 

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times kind of refocus myself on 
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place, which was to help people 
and to also challenge myself 

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intellectually. 
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being engaged in all these 
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to remain connected to the 
community that empowers me and I

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find so inspiring. 
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motivates me to remain active in
doing what I do because I'm so 

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inspired by others I encounter 
in the community and in seeking 

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to help. 
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I love that. 
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that you're online presence is 
pretty, it's pretty interesting.

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It's incredibly intentional, 
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You've raised awareness to so 
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So if I may ask you, what role 
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shaping your voice and building 
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connections within the legal 
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in legal tech? 
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So it's interesting that 
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really beneficial platform for 
me because I kind of intuitively

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understood the value of the 
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informative content and to build
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And LinkedIn really facilitates 
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And one of those ways was how I 
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the platform, which is to 
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and kind of provide my own 
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them. 
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part, those folks did engage 
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comments that I made, which then
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and connect with them and learn 
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So I'd say that LinkedIn really 
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toolbox in terms of building my 
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of building my own expertise in 
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support and inform others. 
And it remains a very powerful 

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tool, one that I very much love 
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And I think it's important for 
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well to not be distracted by 
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numbers or numbers of followers 
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views on a post are really just 
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informative and inspiring 
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you'll gain benefit from using 
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Indeed, that's been the case for
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I love the idea of using it with
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I just find it awesome. 
The idea that you can use it 

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authentically and you're writing
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also practicality. 
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about first in the legal space, 
how do you continue to encourage

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legal professionals to embrace 
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technology into their day-to-day
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And then seeing that in the 
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do you put all these things 
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How can you continually do this 
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really try to do is make 
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real per se as I can for others.
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that is through date, through, 
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studies, sharing data and 
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to kind of ground it in some 
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this is not just isolated to 
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It's really, I think, a broad 
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where there is so much noise and
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especially these days around AI.
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I'm attracted to others who try 
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the hype and try to provide sort
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possible, what's not possible, 
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And it's a constant challenge, 
but it's one that I happily take

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on because I do think it's 
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understand a couple of things, 
that technology is here to stay 

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and that it shouldn't be 
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overwhelming, but really should 
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them being others, being more 
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what they're doing. 
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showing that I've I've seen 
where you where you said that 

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standing still is not an option 
in this market. 

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So how does that you know and 
helps you to stay curious to 

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help others and also to avoid 
the complacency in in the 

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workplace? 
Yeah, so I am just one who is 

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never happy to just not be 
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So for me, I just see myself as 
a constant learner because I see

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learning as a lifelong process. 
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endpoint, doesn't really have an
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So that means that I constantly 
have to learn and have to adapt.

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And I think that's important for
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us knows everything or is good 
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So we all have to be 
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shortcomings and our strengths 
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And so I often kind of been 
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more I know, the more reminded 
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And so that inspires me to keep 
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experimenting. 
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technology being very 
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learning really is something 
that needs to be constantly 

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focused on and done because 
otherwise you're going to lose 

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sight of what's going on in 
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You yeah, absolutely. 
And, and talking about that same

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topic about the workplace and 
and where you're at, I'd love to

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hear a little bit about 
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A few weeks ago, I feel like we 
both saw one of chat about post 

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chat about and I think his post 
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He talked about intentionality 
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And I feel we both connected in 
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So I'd love to hear from you. 
What does a a fulfilling career 

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look like to you and how have 
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professional life? 
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So for me, a fulfilling career 
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helping others and that is 
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contentment and happiness. 
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legal tech, my role as general 
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sort of legal tech educator 
gives me a strong sense of 

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fulfillment and contentment 
because I'm helping others, I'm 

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helping myself. 
And so it's just sort of a 

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really rewarding place to be. 
And I feel very lucky and 

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grateful to be in this position 
because it certainly took a lot 

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of work and time to get there. 
But now that I'm here, I'm 

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really, really, just, as I said 
before, grateful to be doing 

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what I'm doing at this point. 
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And in that sense, you know, a 
lot of people are starting up 

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their careers and I feel like 
the legal field has so many 

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different things that you can 
explore and maybe you're not, 

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you know, feeling that you're 
super happy at your first job. 

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So I'd love to hear, you know, 
what kind of advice would you 

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give to someone trying to find 
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that sweet spot about where 
they're what they're good at, 

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what they care about, where they
can make a difference and 

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putting that all together. 
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So I think it starts from kind 
of asking yourself the question 

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of why, you know, why are you 
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Why do you want to do something 
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What is the motivation? 
What what is pulling you or 

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pushing you in that direction? 
And use that then to guide you 

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as you would kind of explore 
opportunities. 

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Because I think the more you 
know yourself, the more you 

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listen to yourself and what 
drives you, the more likely 

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you're going to feel fulfillment
and whatever it is you're doing 

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and, or find something that is 
most aligned with who you are 

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and what you want to be doing. 
And that sometimes takes some 

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work, it takes some 
experimentation and sometimes 

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even takes failing. 
But that's part of the process, 

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frankly. 
So you kind of have to kind of 

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sit with that sort of sense of, 
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uncomfortable at times, you may 
fail at times, but that's just, 

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we all fail. 
We all feel unhappy at times, 

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such as part of the journey of 
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So we have to kind of be 
comfortable being uncomfortable,

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as I like to say. 
I love that. 

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And during the same topic 
calling, if I may ask you 

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thinking about, you know, again,
those people who are starting up

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their careers and all of that. 
In your personal opinion, would 

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you feel that maybe you might 
need to start where you don't 

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necessarily love the work yet in
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practice that then you come to 
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to, you know, have a little bit 
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and and help on, you know, 
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Do you feel like that has some 
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Had some kind of have you seen 
that happening in other people's

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lives or has that, does that 
resonate in any way with your 

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career experience? 
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couple of different angles. 
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where, yeah, I've, I've had a 
couple of roles where I wasn't 

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happy a lot of the time, but I 
was getting these skills and 

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experience I knew I needed to 
get to be doing what I want to 

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be doing eventually. 
So I had to kind of tolerate it 

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for as long as they could or as 
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able to and needed to. 
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for younger lawyers or other 
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unfortunately, the reality 
really is that sometimes you 

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have to take a job you don't 
necessarily love because of the 

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experience and the opportunities
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And ideally, that would be at a 
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least can focus on doing your 
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sort of internal politics or 
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But the fact of the matter is 
sometimes you have to because we

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all have different personalities
and we're all not going to be, 

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you know, best friends with 
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So I think that's important 
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kind of just understand how to 
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don't necessarily want to get 
along with or, you know, frankly

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don't even want anything to do 
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situation. 
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sometimes, you know, it's build 
a foundation requires doing 

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things you don't necessarily 
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Because the other part of it is 
regardless of what job you have,

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at any stage of your career, 
there's a high likelihood of you

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having to do at least one thing 
you're not really going to want 

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to have to do. 
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and be OK with that situation, 
the better off you'll be over 

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the long term. 
Fantastic. 

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Well, I really appreciate your 
time. 

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I really appreciate your answers
here in the podcast today, and 

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thank you so much for joining 
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Thanks so much for having me, I 
really enjoy this conversation. 

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It's always great to talk with 
you and thank you all for tuning

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into this episode and we'll see 
you on the next one.

