Sometimes it takes an “well duh…” statement to snap yourself back into reality.
To give you an idea of what I’m talking about, just picture how in the movies they’ll often ask the protagonist things like, “what year is it?” or “who is the President?” to reorient them.
As viewers these answers are typically ones we view as obvious & somewhat comical in their simplicity. But at the same time, this level of basic agreement is anything but funny when it’s happening in the real world.
I bring this up because my guest today broke through that barrier only 5 minutes into our conversation when she reminded me that, “the practice of Law is actually pretty fun. It’s all of the other stuff that gets in the way!”
For the past three years, Tana Daughtrey has been a life-coach for those struggling in the legal field.
Before this, she spent more than three decades as in-house counsel for one of the largest corporations on the planet – Chevron – where she herself experienced what it’s like to burn-out in real time.
As we all come out the other side of this pandemic, it was good to be reminded of so many facts that seem to have slipped beneath the surface, like the idea that negative self-talk is a perpetual motion machine, that being stressed can become such a way of life we almost forget about it, and how even the mightiest of us need a shoulder to lean on.
I hope listeners appreciate the gut-check as much as I did.
Enjoy the show!
