The Rich Lawyer Podcast: Recent Episodes
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This is the Rich Lawyer Podcast. We talk to rich lawyers, brainstorm ideas, and separate the facts from the fiction so you can forge your own rich path. In today's world, where we have instant access to countless lifestyles, there's no reason to settle for anything less than being rich with a purpose. So tune in for unfiltered conversations and practical strategies to help you skip the unhappy, broke part and jump straight to the rich part. Because your richest life is your best life.
Escape the trap of lawyer memes and turn your professional journey into rich lawyer magic! Join us for a refreshing blend of dream-chasing, strategic planning, and a dose of reality checks. Leave the self-deprecating humour, the faking it until you make it for everyone else, and strategise how to succeed on your terms, conditions and flavours.
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There are a million ways to be rich so you don't have to act rich. If you're doing what everyone else is doing in hopes of standing out, you'll just blend in. The best way to get rich is to decide that you will, choose a path that plays to your strengths, forge the path yourself and create your own luck. The alternative is to treat life like the Lotto and continue to hope that you'll be chosen. Being chosen is not the prize. YOU are the prize. Luck matters, but the rest is up to you.
We talk in the pod about one way to get insider knowledge of end-to-end matters in any industry through virtual work experience at the Forage. These helped me turn my internship into a paid position in a niche area you won't learn about in this lifetime with a standard law degree. They also gave me something practical and interesting to talk about in interviews beyond law society, mooting and whatever else is the standard CV bling. Have a look at: https://www.theforage.com/virtual-internships
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You can BE rich on paper and not feel like you are.
You can tick every single box that makes you LOOK rich.
You might even FEEL rich for a while once you finally get what you wanted.
But how do you keep that FEELING?
When you're dreaming, planning and strategizing for your rich life, ask yourself how you WANT to feel about it. You can only hold on to a feeling if you know what it feels like when it comes your way. Your rich life is not a destination. It's a process of becoming your richest self by means of a very long marathon that you can run at a sprinters pace or a casual walk.
How do you want to feel about it?
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Being grounded in reality means having a clear understanding of where you currently are in life and being honest about your strengths, limitations, and preferences. Bending reality to create 10x progress towards the rich life requires a certain level of self-awareness and being aware of YOUR current reality is crucial for success. Listen to find out how!
We talk about this in the episode:
Virtual practice-based work experience for law students by The Forage
Ray Dalio, Principles the book
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On the outside, the rich lawyer life might look like a stereotype. Big salary, nice car, nice house, a great professional wardrobe and lots of exciting work and excellent clients. And Instagramable holidays. And you get to indulge in the idea that there are people out there watching you living this rich lawyer life.
Are you actually living a rich life or just indulging in the idea that it looks like you are?
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Once you’ve set a high standard for yourself, you will have to work harder than people with lower ones. That is the price that must be paid to have the best life that you can have. It’s very much like exercise. It requires continued effort to ensure that you meet those standards because it is not a set-it-and-forget-it scenario. You cannot eat well and exercise well for 2 weeks and be set for the rest of your life. You establish what your standard is and you do not compromise. You will find that high standards attract high-quality experiences across the board in your life. Because you get what you are and you attract what you are. Let's get some!
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This episode is for anyone wondering if money really can buy happiness and if it really can be everything. If you have ever heard anyone say these things or if you've ever said these things yourself, have you considered the alternative?
Jim Rohn once said that if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Money is no exception.
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Is imposter syndrome a real thing? Can you hide behind it when you just can't find the courage to be in spaces where you want to be, but feel like you aren't qualified? No. You know why? Because it’s not a syndrome, it’s not an illness and feelings of insecurity are not abnormal. Do you really need to "look fit" before you join up at the gym? Do you need to be working at a law firm before you start your law degree?
Sometimes other people don't want you where you are because they believe that success is finite. That's a "them" problem. Don't make it yours.
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Fake it 'til you make it. Let’s talk about this age-old piece of advice. Not only have we heard it, but many of us have also tattooed it on our foreheads and we swear by it. On it's face it means that in order to get what you want you've got to pretend to be successful at all costs.
Key work being PRETEND. Pretending implies that on the outside you’re "trying" to portray this image that looks like success but on the inside, you KNOW you’re just playing pretend. It means that you’ve got to pretend to be someone that you’re not and probably will never be and pretend to live a life you do not. It begins to feel like a lie. Here's what to do instead!
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But what do you do if you ARE feeling left behind the crowd because it just seems like everywhere you look, everyone else seems to be living a rich life except for you? There is no such thing as feeling left behind because feelings are not facts.
Feeling left behind in life compared to others is not the same thing as being behind in your taxes or being in your rent compared to others. That feeling is the one where you believe you just don’t meet a particular societal standard of where you ought to be based on some unspoken rules.
There is an alternative. An interesting way to look at this is to ask yourself if you actually want the reality of the life that you see others living or if you just like the idea of the outcome.
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Designing your rich life is about having a A B Z plan. Be honest with where you are, figure out what your next step is going to be and be clear about what you want your outcome to be. There are no letters between B and Z because you get to decide what path you take.
You get to decide where you live, what you get to do, how much you get to earn, who your friends are, how many people you get to help and the types of people you get to call your friends. The rich lawyer stands on the shoulders of giants because they understand that the rules of the game have changed, because of the internet and its associated technologies.
If you know the rules of the game and you can win the game. When you understand that the rules of the game can be bended, you can win bigger.
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Have you ever realised that you’ve been living by these maxims and rules, that you picked up when you were younger that no longer work? Or sayings and expressions that are missing the other half of the truth? Let’s talk about this because they have no place in your rich life.
Let's start with my favourite one: Hard work guarantees success --> work smarter, not harder
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We all know they exist. We are all secretly hoping that we don't become one because we believe that we will be the one to find the special sauce beforehand. In this episode, you'll find out how to minimize the chances of becoming that unhappy junior lawyer whom we all know exists. It all starts with a plan and strategy. Unfortunately, this is not a phenomenon unique to the legal profession, it applies to any situation where the reality of things don't match our expectations for a variety of reasons. The key lies in managing those expectations! Find out how!
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In this podcast you will find that if you create your own opportunities, you won’t have to wait for them. 99% of people in the world will never understand this. Most people live their life in a linear fashion. They follow some version of this path: go to university, get an internship, graduate, get a job, get a promotion, save up for the yearly holiday, continue to work towards the next promotion and just continue this linear path throughout their entire life.
The rich lawyer knows that the path to being an unhappy lawyer is VERY linear. Find out why!
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In this episode you'll finally figure out what a rich lawyer is (if such creatures exist...) and why you need to become one.
*We all want to make our contribution towards leaving the world a better place than we found it.
*Design your rich life based on wanting the right things that are right for your life. As a result, your purpose will by default become bigger than just exchanging a certain number of hours of your professional expertise/time for money to pay for stuff and buy stuff.
*A rich lawyer is simply a lawyer that lives a rich life. In this episode find out more about the rich lawyer code -- it's why you need to become a rich lawyer.
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Hi there! Welcome to the very first Rich Lawyer Podcast! I trust that you've heard plenty of stories about lawyers NOT being rich and plenty more about them NOT living their best life. The simple answer to that is what other lawyers are NOT doing is now none of your business and you can free up some mental space by no longer thinking about that possibility. That’s a topic for somebody else’s podcast.
Each week, I’ll be diving into a rich lawyer topic that will get you on that rich lawyer path-- your richest life. Because no one wakes up in the morning wondering how they can be average and stay as broke as possible!
Remember that it’s going to be alright because you’re going to be a lawyer and you’re going to be living your richest life.
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