Connect With Your Inner Trial Goddess

Hello! We're back! This episode talks about the three big lessons learned for Athenas after a year of . . . well. . . a lot:How brutal this industry can be. The new, developing medicine to treat brain injuries. How the Athena Shield quadrants worked in real life this past year. As my dear friend, Charlotte Benson, says, "Onward and Upward!"

Athena in the Well is back! We return with this Facebook Live event last year, during the Chauvin trial. Which Athena Shield quadrant does witness preparation fall? Creative Goddess. Yep. You read that correctly. The Creative Goddess quadrant includes preparation, discipline, and practice. Imagine the jury instructions, the rules of procedure, and the rules of evidence are the fram

Faith Kohler is a fiercely independent, multi-faceted powerhouse.Attorney, former federal agent, Fortune 500 company alum, visual artist, and documentary film maker, Faith embodies the term “renaissance woman.” With confidence, humility and grace, Faith tells her story (and those of others) – strategically, convincingly, and with the gift of hindsight about making purposeful,

How can the practice of yoga help us in the practice of law? Andrea Griego, yoga studio owner and body work specialist shares her perspective. First, the confidence and the humility gained by getting really good at something really hard cannot be overstated. Next, 80% of all doctor visits are stress-related. Your body trying to tell you something. But most of all? We are students o

Fat is not a feeling. You cannot run from your fork.Embrace the suck. Hello, friends. These are just a few words to live by from our guest, Trish Fleischer, an Arizona-based fitness trainer specializing in transforming the bodies and health of professional women. So here is the ironic thing: we are all working from home, in various states of quarantine, to keep ourselves healthy.

“Warrior” – a description that has become almost cartoon-ish. And hyper-masculine. The women warriors we see in popular entertainment often are also fetishized for their sexiness, at the cost of their intelligence and true strength. Lawyers are no different. And we all know a lawyer (or two or three or a dozen), who go to battle for the sake of the argument: for bloodlust. Th

Hello Friends,So, here is the truth.I have been extremely motivated since the shut down to use the gift of time that was bestowed on me – on us – on the world, to do work that was important and meaningful to me. Namely, the Athena Project. And then…. Sometime around Mother’s Day, I got a little sideways. And I struggled to make myself sit down and write. I just could not m

What's Your Sign?? I know. Cheesy. But then.....what if what you thought was your astrological sign all your life was wrong? And how could this have happened? Well, the long and the short of it is that it is the Earth's fault. The Earth's axis actually. See, it wobbles a little and over the last 2000 years that has changed our planets' position by a little over

Eight years ago I made a fundamental shift around how I get unstuck when faced with a seemingly insurmountable challenge or circumstance in both my professional life and in my personal life. I got out of my head and turned an intellectual exercise into a physical one and it made all the difference. Shockingly, it also ushered in transformative change. Allow me to introduce, Mike Tr

What differentiates the trial lawyer who appears to effortlessly go to battle with a clear head and a sharp wit? A woman who says what she means in the moment and not two days too late when she is alone in her car? The key to finding courage when it seems elusive - for your clients and for yourself is firmly rooted in your value-system. Clarity around your Non-Negotiable North Star