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Stop Forgetting Yourself! Why Advocating For Yourself is Self Care featuring Suzi Hixon
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Law school teaches people to advocate for causes they're passionate about, but women lawyers often forget themselves. The giving, or empathetic nature, of most women allows them to be given to their own deficit, but not anymore.
Suzi Hixon wants women lawyers to fight for themselves, support themselves, and define success for themselves."You must define success for yourself because otherwise, you will look for the big career, big office, and beautiful family that society tells you that you must have," explains Suzi Hixon in Episode 69 of You Are A Lawyer.
You must define success for yourself because otherwise, you will look for the big career, big office, and beautiful family that society tells you that you must have.
When you take a step back and think about how your goals and values affect your life, then you will see how your life is successful.
“You can always earn another $500, but you cannot get your time back,” explains Suzi Hixon. When Suzi Hixon created the podcast, Legally Blissed Conversations, to hear the struggles and wins of women lawyers. There were often common stories of successful women who weren't the best at advocating for themselves.
Where are your drive for success and career goals really coming from? Do you want all of those things and are the things you are chasing aligning with your values?
From childhood, Suzi thought that she would be a veterinarian or pediatrician, Suzi did not earn the grades that she thought she needed for medical school and Suzi was disheartened by the MCAT. Born in Colorado, Suzi later moved to Kentucky to attend undergraduate and law school. Suzi moved to California and returned to Kentucky where she runs her law firm and founded the Legalled Blissed community.
The Legally Blissed Community provides women lawyers with mentorship and friendship, both help women attorneys to thrive in their careers and lives.
After attending law school so that she could extend her undergrad years, Suzi was unsure of the type of law that she wanted to practice after law school.
During a study abroad semester, Suzi was introduced to European patent law and found that to be really interesting. But patent law is really steeped in mechanical engineering and didn't play well with the science background that Suzi has. Suzi later changed to trademark law and found it really exciting to work with trademarks, logos, and marketing departments because this work involved marketing departments and the "fun" nerds.
YOU MAY ALSO WATCH THE YOUTUBE VIDEO OF EPISODE 69 OF YOU ARE A LAWYER
EPISODE TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - INTRO
00:18 - Welcome Suzi Hixon to You Are A Lawyer
00:46 - Explain why you created your business, Legally Blissed
01:39 - Why did you create the Legally Blissed community and Legally Blissed Conversations podcast?
05:37 - Legally Blissed community teaches women lawyers to define their goals
06:38 - Podcast available in audio-only format
07:06 - Suzi became a lawyer instead of a pediatrician
08:46 - Discussion about undergraduate school and backgrounds
09:53 - Why it’s hard for lawyers to change
10:39 - Where do you live? Where are you from?
12:18 - How was the patent bar and working in patent prosecution?
13:24 - Studying abroad in law school
15:04 - Lawyers are nerds; engineers are geeks
16:30 - Advice for new lawyers (5 years or less practicing)
18:53 - There are multiple reasons that you are miserable practicing law: consider law firm culture, change the practice area, or find a new career/law mentor.
19:16 - Thanks for watching this interview with Suzi Hixon on the You Are A Lawyer podcast.
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ABOUT THE GUEST
Suzi Hixon is licensed to practice law in Kentucky and the Patent Bar. Learn more about Suzi Hixon:
Website: www.LegallyBlissed.com
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legally-blissed-conversations/id1615972092
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