Episodes

  • Episode 28. Pivots and Recovery With Reshma Saujani, Founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First

    Episode 28. Pivots and Recovery With Reshma Saujani, Founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First
    Jun 20 2024
    We’re ending Season 2 with a bang!In this episode, Kate and Rhia are joined by Reshma Saujani, leading activist and the founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First, formerly Marshall Plan for Moms. Reshma has spent more than a decade building movements to fight for women and girls’ economic empowerment, most recently advocating for policies to support moms impacted by the pandemic. She is also the author of the international bestseller Brave, Not Perfect, and her influential TED talk, “Teac...
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    30 mins
  • Episode 27. Farewell Josey and Career Clarity

    Episode 27. Farewell Josey and Career Clarity
    Jun 12 2024
    It’s Josey’s last episode as co-host of The Legal Burnouts, so Kate and Rhia bid her a fond farewell and learn more about why she’s leaving and her next steps.Josey opens up about her current burnout, which stems mainly from physical injuries she sustained over a year ago. Josey didn’t address the injuries at the time they happened due to a combination of existing, unaddressed burnout and her impulse to overwork. However, she recently took the brave step to request leave, to give herself...
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    59 mins
  • Episode 26. Creating Your Own Spaces With Faridat Arogundade

    Episode 26. Creating Your Own Spaces With Faridat Arogundade
    Jun 5 2024
    This week, Kate and Rhia are joined by Rhia’s law school classmate Faridat Arogundade, a former Biglaw attorney who has created her own high-quality, plus-sized fashion line, Ìfẹ́mi. Faridat honestly and insightfully discusses her experience as a plus-sized Black woman in Biglaw and society in general. In her 8 years as a Biglaw attorney, Faridat experienced discrimination based on size, race, and culture. From not getting cold-called because of her name, to being short-change...
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Episode 26. Changing Lanes With Kyle Kelly

    Episode 26. Changing Lanes With Kyle Kelly
    May 22 2024
    In Kate and Josey’s final guest interview together, they talk with the man who inspired them to start The Legal Burnouts, Kyle Kelly. Kyle, a former digital forensics professional, worked at tiny companies like Salesforce and Coinbase before deciding to break off and create his own legal technology. He is now the CEO and founder of Zubu, the world’s first native genAI legal holds solution.Kyle opens up about the challenges he’s faced in entrepreneurship: Pivoting away from an idea he’d had fo...
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    43 mins
  • Episode 25. Pregnancy, Parenting, and Entrepreneurship With Megan Senese

    Episode 25. Pregnancy, Parenting, and Entrepreneurship With Megan Senese
    May 8 2024
    This week, Rhia and Kate speak to Megan Senese, cofounder of Stage, a women-owned legal marketing and business development firm that offers- among many other services- a free program to support working parents before and after parental leave. This program, called Courderoy, was partially inspired by Megan’s previous experience hiding her pregnancy from her firm for SIX MONTHS. Though nobody told Megan she had to hide her pregnancy, there were plenty of cultural indicators that she s...
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    54 mins
  • Episode 23. Infertility with Emily Petrich

    Episode 23. Infertility with Emily Petrich
    Apr 24 2024
    Content warning: This episode contains discussions of infertility and miscarriage. In honor of National Infertility Awareness Week, Kate and Rhia are joined by fertility activist (and aspiring cyborg) Emily Petrich, who went from suffering through infertility in silence, to speaking out about her experience on social media, to becoming an activist in the infertility community. Infertility is taxing on your mental, emotional, and physical health, and comes with many stressors that ca...
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    37 mins
  • Episode 22. Crossover Episode With The Newfangled Lawyer

    Episode 22. Crossover Episode With The Newfangled Lawyer
    Apr 17 2024
    This week, in a very special episode, The Newfangled Lawyer (Patrick Patino) crosses over with The Legal Burnouts (Kate Bridal and Rhia Batchelder) to talk baked potatoes, burnout, and how to make the law a kinder profession. Patrick, Kate, and Rhia discuss unleashing themselves on social media, whether it’s possible to practice law in a way that aligns with your values, how to cure-ify (curate and diversify) your LinkedIn feed, and why it’s important to break the illusion of perfection....
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Episode 21. The Enneagram With Enneagram Ashton

    Episode 21. The Enneagram With Enneagram Ashton
    Apr 10 2024
    Josey and Kate’s dreams come true when they get to nerd out over the Enneagram with none other than Enneagram Ashton!Ashton Whitmoyer-Ober is a community psychologist, certified Enneagram educator, author, and Enneagram Type 2. She walks Kate (Type 3) and Josey (Type 5) through each Enneagram type and how burnout may manifest for them. The Enneagram can be a great tool to get to know yourself, your habits, and your motivations so you can operate in an anti-burnout way. It can also help y...
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    41 mins