Wonder Woman in Business, Olivia Vizachero

Olivia Vizachero, Esq.

Certified Life Coach

Olivia Vizachero, a former BigLaw litigator turned solo-practitioner, runs The Less Stressed Lawyer, a boutique life coaching practice for lawyers. As a Certified Life Coach, she works with lawyers were are over-worked, over-stressed, overwhelmed and over it. Through her coaching work, she teaches lawyers how to practice emotional management, improve time management, balance their workload and make themselves and their wellbeing their top priority so they can start living lives with less stress and far more fulfillment.

In addition to her one-on-one work with clients, Olivia hosts a variety of online events geared at helping as many attorneys as possible apply her coaching concepts themselves to transform their everyday lives. She currently hosts a monthly learning series, Less Stressed Sessions, where each month she focuses on one particular problem, like time management or people pleasing, and teaches attendees comprehensive strategies for solving it. Olivia also hosts a weekly Zoom meet-up for lawyers on Sunday evenings called Less Stressed Sundays, where lawyers come together to recount the previous week, specifically focusing on what worked and what didn’t, and then discuss what they’ll do differently in the coming week in order to remedy what didn’t work.

In June 2020, Olivia hosted the first THRIVE in FIVE Virtual Summit, a five-day virtual event designed to help attorneys leverage quarantimes by giving them the tools to develop personally and professionally. To do this, THRIVE in FIVE brought together over 30 experts over five days to discuss five topics: mindset, relationships, branding, legal innovation, and leadership, giving attendees an opportunity to understand what’s not working in every area of their lives and develop a comprehensive plan to fix it.

Most recently, Olivia co-authored a pandemic anthology titled #Networked with 19 other women lawyers. #Networked, which hit #1 on Amazon’s New Release charts, tells the story of how these 20 women came together in March 2020 an overcame the confines of COVID-19 social distancing to create connections, cultivate community, and build businesses in the midst of a global pandemic. 

Before launching her coaching practice Ms. Vizachero worked as a complex commercial litigation associate at Michigan’s largest AmLaw 200 firm and as a criminal defense attorney at the boutique criminal defense firm where she previously worked as a full-time clerk while she attended Wayne State University Law School as an evening student. 

Still having a passion for criminal justice, Ms. Vizachero continues to practice law on a limited basis, putting her needle-in-the-haystack research skills to good use by taking on select criminal defense matters in Detroit.

Enjoy the podcast.

Olivia Vizachero

Connect with Olivia — it will change your life!

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/oliviavizachero

Website: thelessstressedlawyer.com

Less Stressed Sessions — A Monthly Virtual Learning Series: lessstressedsessions.com/signup

Olivia Vizachero

Certified Life Coach

The Less Stressed Lawyer

thelessstressedlawyer.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Sarah Feingold

Sarah Feingold

About Sarah:

Sarah Feingold is a co-founder of The Fourth Floor, a next-level community democratizing womxn's access to board seats and investments to drive systemic change. Previously, she was the General Counsel and first lawyer at Etsy and Vroom. She is a creator and producer of Legal Madness, an NYU Law School Engelberg Center fellow, a board member, an investor, and a speaker. You can also find Sarah hammering silver, eating candy, and chasing her child.

Sarah’s passion project:

Legal Madness: Legal Madness (www.legalmadness.party). Lawyers inside tech companies have powerful, hilarious and maddening stories, but confidentiality obligations have kept them silent. Until now. In collaboration with NYU Law School, I collected secret stories from attorneys, turned their tales into monologues, and hired actors to perform them on stage.  Our first (and only) live production was a sold out, hilarious, success.  The tech and legal communities showed up!  I have spent the pandemic scaling the production and talking with TV and theater insiders.  I’d love any connections! Let’s bring the madness. 

Enjoy the podcast.

Sarah Feingold

Learn more about Sarah

Sarahfeingold.com

legalmadness.party

linkedin.com/in/sarahfeingold

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Wonder Woman in Business, Shaquana Johnson

Shaquana Johnson

Shaquana Johnson is a 34-year-old single mother, healthcare technology attorney, MIT Challenge winner, angel investor, and health advocate. She hails from Raleigh, North Carolina. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her ten-year-old son, Evan, he is the light of her life. Additionally, she enjoys advocating for health while serving on the Healthy Lifestyles Ministry at her church. She is particularly passionate about maternal health and regenerative farming. When she's not watching a movie with Evan or researching the healing powers of food she is deeply invested in reading her bible.

Shaquana Johnson

(She, Her, Hers)

Corporate Counsel | Unite Us

(919) 247-0252

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaquana-johnson-i-angel-investor-i-mit-challenge-winner-4a1858a7/

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Connect with Shaquana

Shaquana Johnson

(She, Her, Hers)

Corporate Counsel | Unite Us

(919) 247-0252

555 Fayetteville St, Floor 3

Raleigh, North Carolina 27601

LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

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Wonder Woman in Business, Deb Feder

Deb Feder

Deb Feder is a business development coach, strategist, owner and CEO of Feder Development LLC, a consulting firm focused on helping lawyers bring in consistent clients through curious, confident conversations and changing the way we view productivity for professionals. 

Deb believes in dropping excuses and simple productivity solutions. Using LinkedIn as a platform to validate and share ideas, Deb helps professionals engage in meaningful content and connections. For the last decade, Deb has committed herself to changing the way we think about work-life balance and tackle high stakes work, allowing for big careers and enjoying our free time. Deb leads the community in dropping excuses, getting productive, and bringing in business through the monthly membership program, Focus30.

Prior to founding Feder Development, Deb practiced corporate law for 15 years and holds a history degree from the University of Michigan and her JD/MBA from the University of Iowa. Deb completed her coach training and certification through New Ventures West and completed the training in The Daring Way™, which is based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. As a contributing author to the best-selling anthology #Networked, Deb shares her common-sense approach to building business relationships. Deb is a frequent speaker at conferences, podcasts, CLE programs, and corporate retreats on business development, productivity, networking, authenticity, and communication.

#Networked

If Giovanni Boccoccio Zoomed into 2020, was a lawyer instead of a writer, and spent copious amounts of time writing posts on LinkedIn rather than writing Italian Renaissance literature, The Decameron may have looked a lot different. Replace the bucolic Florentine countryside with a fast-paced social networking site, the ten carefree Italian youths with fifty ambitious, hard-charging women lawyers, and The Decameron may look a lot like #Networked, the first book of its kind to emerge from the COVID-19 global pandemic.#Networked is the much anticipated 20-chapter anthology written by 20 women lawyers who met through a networking group on LinkedIn in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Much like the framework of the Decameron, each chapter in #Networked is written by one woman describing both her individual and collective experience and role within the group. The women’s stories touch upon many of Boccaccio’s universal themes of the human condition: human will, love, virtue, and societal tension. Make no mistake, not all themes in #Networked transcend time, this is a modern anthology. The protagonists are all very much entrenched in 2020 with plenty of emphasis given to careers, work-life balance, and the best lighting for virtual calls. The multi-dimensional characters also dig deep conquering topics such as infertility, addiction, allyship, feminism, and mental health. Their stories are familiar. They are the stories of thousands of other professional women living during this era. They serve as inspiration and offer hope that the pandemic wasn’t a time of destruction at all, but rather a time of opportunity and growth. As one of the authors wrote “It was the birth of a whole new me, or rather a whole new we.”

Buy the Book

Enjoy the podcast.

Deb Feder

Connect with Deb

Business Development Coach & Consultant

Focus30: https://store.debfeder.com/Focus30 

Website: debfeder.com

Connect to #BizDeb: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bizdeb/

Phone: 816.309.5297

Are you ready to build your business for the life you want to live?

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Wonder Woman in Business, Jasmine O'Brien, Esq.

Jasmine O’Brien, Esq.

Principal

Jasmine prides herself on the strength of her client relationships.  She believes that lawyers need to be customer-centric problem solvers who partner with business to achieve their commercial objectives.  She’s not afraid to do things differently and is at her happiest when she is getting results for her clients.  She understands that every business was once somebody’s dream and brings that awareness to her work.

Jasmine practises across all areas of employment law, industrial relations, and discrimination, harassment and bullying.

Jasmine's Principal Areas of Practice:

• business restructuring, including overseeing large scale redundancies and employee issues arising from a transfer of business;

• preparing employment contracts and policies;

• disciplinary issues and performance management, including dealing with difficult employees;

• enterprise agreement negotiation and drafting;

• industrial action contingency planning;

• litigation and dispute resolution;

• workplace investigations, including responding to allegations of discrimination, harassment or bullying;

• independent contractors;

• restraint of trade and protection of confidential information; and

• workplace relations training.

Enjoy the podcast.

Jasmine O’Brien

Contact Jasmine:

Jasmine O'Brien | Principal

T   03 9611 0149
M   0401 926 108
F   03 9620 9288

Level 5, 707 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3008, Victoria, Australia

jobrien@sladen.com.au | www.sladen.com.au

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Wonder Woman in Business, Sonia Zeledon

Sonia Zeledon, Esq.

Sonia Zeledon is the Director, Associate General Counsel, Ethics, Head of Compliance and Data Privacy, for The Hershey Company.  Previously, she held various positions at Nokia Corporations and worked at several Amlaw 10 law firms.  

Ms. Zeledon serves on The Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) Executive Committee as General Counsel.  She is a frequent speaker on compliance and privacy, including the biases in technologies such as AI. She earned a B.A. in Economics and Math from Wellesley College; she also holds a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law.

Enjoy the podcast.

Sonia Zeledon

Connect with Sonia

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonia-zeledon-she-her-3b39512/

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