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I have listened to this podcast for several years and done one on one coaching with Dina. I have found her help and advice to be invaluable. I have taken my solo practice further and further and also made changes in my personal life that make me a happier person every day. ~ Slmclarty

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#250: Thinking vs. Worrying

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#237: Purposeful Thought Work for Ambitious Lawyers

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#235: Four Lawyers Talking Turkey

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#234: Focus Errors

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#233: 5 Thoughts Sabotaging Your Law Practice

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#232: When the Dream Becomes a Trap

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#231: What “Slowing Down” Really Means

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#230: 9 Power Moves for Your Law Practice and Life

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#229: Going After Your Goals with Gary Miles

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#228: Nervous System Dysregulation

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#227: Confidence and Making Time with Judith Gaton

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#226: How to Talk to Yourself

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#225: Money Matters with Rho Thomas

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#224: How to Take Massive Action Towards Your Goals

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#223: Masculine and Feminine Lawyering

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#222: Time Management Coachapalooza

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#221: 3 Beliefs Making Your Life Harder

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#220: Adventures in Networking

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#219: Build Up Your Baseline Belief

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#218: Putting Off the Hard Stuff

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#217: How to Take a Guilt-Free Vacation

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#216: What to do When You Think You're Moving Backwards

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#215: Overcoming Time Scarcity

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#214: Feeling Horrible

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#213: When Things Change

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#212: Building Business Simply

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#211: Belonging

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#210: Toughing it Out

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#209: Is Coaching for You?

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BONUS: Goal Anxiety

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#208: Brain Debris

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#207: How to Design Your Personal Benefits Package

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#206: The Dark Side of Gratitude

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#205: Relationship Blindspots

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#204: Taking Action Despite Fear

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#203: Unraveling Your Stories

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#202: How to See Your Beliefs (and Change Them)

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#201: Your Foundation for a Life Reset

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#200: New Mindset, New Habits

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#199: 5 Thought Errors Wasting Your Time

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#198: Loving Yourself More

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#197: 3 Red Flags When Goal Setting

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#191: Work Worry

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#190: Heroes & Villains

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#189: Choosing to Believe

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#186: High-Performance Mindset for Overcoming Obstacles

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#185: Turning Impossible Ideas into Reality

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#184: 6 Unusual Skills of Successful Lawyers

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New Year Planning: How to Close Out This Year to Make Next Year Even Better

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#183: Simplify Your Law Practice

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#182: 2 Must-Have Skills to Prevent Over-Working

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#181: How to Stop Fueling Anxiety

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#180: Expanding into Your Vision for You and Your Practice

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#179: Asking for More Money

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#178: Believing in the Value of Your Offer

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#177: Judging Other People

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#176: Belief Planning

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#175: Brain Management 2.0 – Predicting Outcomes

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#174: How to Stop Feeling Behind

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#173: Opportunity Overwhelm

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#172: Upleveling Your Growth

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#171: You're Successful. Now What?

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#170: How to Be More Self-Confident

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#169: Brain Management

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BONUS: Calendar Masterclass for Lawyers

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#168: Releasing Perfectionism

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#167: What it Means to Be a Better Lawyer

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#166: Allowing Possibility – Creating a Vision for Your Life

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#165: Practices That Keep Me Sane

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#164: Brain Clutter

Picture your brain as your home. Do you like what you see? In this episode,...

#163: Ebb and Flow States

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#162: Committed Energy

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#161: How to Override Fear

 One thing that stalls us out the most in pursuing our dreams and achieving...

#160: Debt v. Overspending

Does having debt make you cringe? I used to think having debt meant I was...

#159: No More Rules

If you're feeling stuck in your practice or your life, you've probably made a lot...

#158: Beyond the Law with Aman Costigan

Aman Costigan knows what it takes to build a business, practice mindset work and work...

#157: Mindset Shifts to Get Unstuck

Today we're digging into some of the mental drama that keeps us stuck. The drama...

#156: Focus on Demand

Feel unfocussed? You're not alone. I used to feel that way too. That's until I...

#155: The Willpower Problem (and Solution)

The willpower problem? Willpower isn’t helpful. If using willpower creates short term results, but then...

#154: Making Change Inevitable

Making change inevitable is possible. We crave change, yet we tell ourselves it's hard. It...

#153: Releasing Judgment

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#152: Visionary Capacity

If you’re overwhelmed and anxious all the time, it’s hard to build your visionary capacity....

#151: 8 Billing Mistakes Costing You Big Time

Whether you bill hourly or you set packages for your clients, today is going to...

#150: The Power of Focus

Focus can be bad. You heard that right. We can focus on the wrong things,...

#149: Overcoming Money Scarcity

We need to shake up our belief systems, and this episode is going to do...

#148: Ruminations and How to Stop Them

If you've ever had a sleepless night because your brain kept running even when you...

#147: Pursuing Happiness

Are you pursuing happiness? When lawyers ask me how they can be a happier lawyer,...

#146: Getting What You Want

Let's talk about getting what you want. Sound like fun? It's easy to feel good...

#145: The Power of “And”

Let's explore the power of “and” and a myth lawyers are told. In the legal...

#144: Bridging Cognitive Dissonance

When we're working towards achieving goals, we're really becoming a different person — the person...

#143: Using Goals Against Yourself

If you're using goals against yourself, you're sabotaging your ability to accomplish your goal. This...

#142: Time Entitlement

Time management isn't all about planning and following through. If it were that easy, we'd...

#141: What You Believe

If this is your first time listening, you may want to “What You Believe” later....

#140: Thought Models That Get Results

Today we're diving into the Thought Models that create the best results. If you're frustrated...

#139: How to Coach Yourself Better

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138: Why You're Not Planning Your Week (and How to Start)

You know planning is important, but for some reason you keep putting it off. Why...

#137: 6 Tools to Strengthen Your Focus

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#136: Deciding Between Goals

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#135: Investing in Discomfort

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134: Evaluating Your Results – Habit Jump Start Part 2 of 2

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#133: Habit Jump Start – Part 1 of 2

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#132: 5 Steps to Feeling Better

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#131: Recent Breakthroughs

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#130: Conscious Law Firm Design

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129: How to Get Unstuck

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128: Building a Container for Your Success

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127: Employee v. Entrepreneur Mindset

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126: Law of Inspiration

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125: Setbacks & Goals

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#124: Rewiring Your Lawyer Brain to Relax

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#123: The 6 Biggest Game-Changers in My Business & Life

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#122: How to Override Self-Doubt

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#121: 8 Thoughts to STOP Thinking About Your Practice

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#120: 5 Business Blind Spots

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#119: Brain Inertia

Brain inertia develops when we think thoughts that are inert – useless. To be inert...

#118: 2020 Reboot

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#117: How to Connect More Deeply with Ourselves

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