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Podcast episodes (40)

• Perfectionism Isn't a Flaw: Why I Stopped Being a "Recovering Perfectionist" | with Ariella Cohen Coleman (9/30/2026)
  Perfectionism isn't something lawyers need to recover from. It's something we need to get better at. 🤣 In this solo episode, I get honest about my own perfectionism: the decades I spent be
• Who Am I Without Law? Erin Gerner on Rebuilding a Lawyer's Identity (9/16/2026)
  You don't hate being a lawyer. You hate the way you're doing it. Erin Gerner spent years believing she had to choose between being a lawyer and being herself, and this conversation is about
• I Lead the Lawyer Wellbeing Movement, and I Still Won't Rest | with Ariella Cohen Coleman (9/9/2026)
  OK, that was a bit nerve-wracking, but it went way better than I expected! I already have a page of notes for myself for next time, and I'm super excited to do more of these solo episodes. Partly
• Harassed by the Judge She Clerked For: Aliza Shatzman on Fighting Back (9/2/2026)
  Law clerk harassment is one of the legal profession's best-kept secrets, and Aliza Shatzman lived it. A federal judge harassed her, fired her, and then torpedoed her dream job as a homicide prose
• Why So Many Successful Lawyers Feel Like Nothing Inside: David Sazant on Self-Worth and Identity (8/26/2026)
  You can look like you have it all together, everything tied up in a beautiful little bow, and still feel like a fraud on the inside. David Sazant, a former litigator turned therapist for lawyers, says
• How to Be a Happy Lawyer in Six Minutes a Day, with Jennifer Gillman (8/19/2026)
  You do not have to choose between being a successful lawyer and a happy one, and you do not have to wait for some future season to be both. Unraveling that false narrative is what Jennifer Gillman doe
• She Made Her World Smaller and Smaller to Survive Law. Then She Found the Happy Lawyers. | Emily Long (8/12/2026)
  On this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, host Ariella Cohen Coleman sits down with Emily Long, a former prosecutor turned solo firm founder who knew she was going to be a lawyer at nine years
• They Asked 1,100 Women in 60 Countries About Failure. What They Found Should Change How Lawyers Handle It - with Deborah Grayson Riegel (8/5/2026)
  In this episode, I sit down with executive communication coach and keynote speaker Deborah Grayson Riegel. Lawyers are trained to never make a mistake, which is a brutal setup for a human being. For h
• Patrick Patino: Panic Attacks, Pottery Class, and Practicing Law On His Own Terms (7/29/2026)
  Patrick Patino spent over a decade building a bankruptcy practice that looked, from the outside, like a success story. From the inside, it was panic attacks, ER visits, and a driver's license pho
• He Couldn't Read a Book. Now He Coaches High Performers. Jonathan Z. Cohen (7/22/2026)
  Before he was a Bronx Special Victims prosecutor, an IDF combat veteran, or in-house counsel, or a coach to high performers, Jonathan Z. Cohen was a kid who couldn't get through a single page of
• Clothes Are a Portal to Your Power — Melanie Lippman on Style, Confidence & Personal Branding for Lawyers (7/15/2026)
  On this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Cohen Coleman sits down with Melanie Lippman — a New York–based style consultant and certified neurocoach who helps high-performing women, espe
• "Being Yourself Takes 0% Energy" — Jonathan Cullen on Ditching the Lawyer Mask (7/8/2026)
  Jonathan Cullen spent 18 years as General Counsel at Pfizer Canada before walking away to build a full-time coaching and consulting practice for lawyers and law firms. In this episode, he sits down wi
• AI, Anxiety, and the Myth of the Perfect Lawyer with Colin Levy (7/1/2026)
  What happens when a perfectionist lawyer embraces imperfection? In this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella sits down with legal innovator Colin Levy for an honest conversation about men
• His Wife Has Cancer, He Has Depression, And He Just Launched a New Law Firm - with Randy Kramer (6/24/2026)
  On this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Cohen Coleman chats with Randy Kramer, an international attorney based in Quebec who pivoted from a 20-year career in personal injury litigatio
• How a Perfectionist Lawyer Learned to Stop Trying So Hard - with Kara McCarthy Perry (6/17/2026)
  What happens when the career you've spent decades building doesn't align with who you are? In this episode of the Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Cohen Coleman sits down with Kara McCarth
• How to Build a Multi-Million Dollar Practice While Maintaining Boundaries - with Heather Moulder (6/10/2026)
  What does it take to walk away from a multi-million dollar law practice - and build something even better? In this episode, Ariella Coleman sits down with Heather Moulder, a former finance attorney tu
• How to Build a Law Firm When You Have No Experience and No Confidence - with Bradley Miller (6/3/2026)
  On this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Cohen Coleman chats with Bradley Miller, a solo practitioner and M&A attorney who has built a practice focused on freedom and value over the bi
• How to Work Like You Vacation (and Why You Should) - with Gwen Griggs and Whitney Harper (5/27/2026)
  On this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Cohen Coleman chats with Gwen Griggs and Whitney Harper, founders of Advos Legal, for their second appearance on the pod! They explore the wil
• The General Counsel Who Missed His Son’s Greatest Play for an Email He Can’t Remember - with Matthew Campobasso (5/20/2026)
  On this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Cohen Coleman chats with Matthew Campobasso, a seasoned litigator and legal executive who reached the pinnacle of his career only to find it fe
• Leaving Law Saved His Life - with Shaun Bernstein (5/13/2026)
  On this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Cohen Coleman chats with Shaun Bernstein, a former attorney turned professional ghostwriter and founder of The Write Stuff Agency. They explor
• Sending 250 Connection Requests a Week to Escape Big Law - with Megan Senese (5/6/2026)
  On this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Cohen Coleman chats with Megan Senese, co-founder of Stage and a legal marketing and business development strategist. They explore the transit
• From Alcoholic Trial Lawyer Afraid to Get His Mail to Helping Lawyers Thrive - with Gary Miles (4/29/2026)
  On this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Cohen Coleman chats with Gary Miles, a veteran trial attorney turned wellness coach for lawyers. Ariella and Gary dive into Gary's journe
• Building a Law Firm Where People Don't Wake Up and Puke from Anxiety - with Samah Abukhodeir (4/22/2026)
  On this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Cohen Coleman chats with Samah Abukhodeir, the founder and managing partner of The Florida Probate & Family Law Firm. They dive into how Samah
• Breaking the Billable Hour: How Subscription Law Firms Are Changing Everything - with Mathew Kerbis (4/15/2026)
  On this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Cohen Coleman chats with Mathew Kerbis, the founder of Subscription Attorney LLC and co-founder of Practi. They explored the  shift from the bi
• Designing a Legal Career That Actually Fits Your Life - with Lacey Gutierrez (4/8/2026)
  I chatted with Lacey Gutierrez, co-founder of a modern law firm, to explore the intersection of adventurous living and effective lawyering. We discussed her journey from a fourth-generation legal lega
• Why Lawyers Are So Stressed & How Mindfulness Can Change Everything - with Courtney Schulnick (4/1/2026)
  In this episode, I chatted with Courtney Schulnick, a former defense litigator who spent 20 years in the "grind" before finding a path to wholeness through mindfulness. We talked about our bumpy journ
• How a Mom Could Choose Alcohol Over Her Kids - with Amy Guldner (3/25/2026)
  In this episode, I sit down with Amy Guldner, a former big-law litigator turned wellness coach. We dive into the silent struggle many high-achieving professionals face: using alcohol as "medicine" for
• How Gwen Griggs and Whitney Harper Engineered a Better Law Firm (3/18/2026)
  In this episode, I sit down with Gwen Griggs and Whitney Harper, the powerhouse behind Advos Legal. We dive deep into the "brokenness" of the traditional legal system and how they’ve engineered a new
• Choose Love, Not Fear: Emotional Resilience & Burnout Prevention in Law - with Elizabeth Garvish (3/11/2026)
  Immigration attorney Elizabeth Garvish joins The Wellness Esquire Podcast to discuss lawyer burnout, emotional resilience, and the concept of the stress “refractory period” — how long it takes to reco
• You Deserve Help: A Better Way to Prevent Lawyer Burnout - with Jennifer Kupferman (3/4/2026)
  In this episode of The Wellness Esquire, Ariella Cohen Coleman speaks with Jennifer Kupferman about a question many lawyers avoid: Do you believe you deserve help — not because you’re struggling, but
• Lawyers Aren’t Machines: Sustainable Performance in Law - with Will Jordan (2/25/2026)
  In this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Cohen Coleman speaks with William Jordan about anxiety, depression, and the hidden mental health challenges in the legal profession. Will shar
• Building a Sustainable Legal Career: The Longest Thing You Do Is Life - with Ryan McKeen (2/18/2026)
  In this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Cohen Coleman speaks with a former BigLaw attorney who walked away from a toxic, fear-driven firm culture to build something different. They d
• Unpacking Burnout & Emotional Intelligence in Law (Part II) - with Rich Bracken (2/11/2026)
  What if burnout wasn’t the price of success in law? In this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Coleman and Rich Bracken explore what the legal profession could look like if emotional in
• Unpacking Burnout & Emotional Intelligence in Law (Part I) - with Rich Bracken (2/4/2026)
  Vulnerability isn’t weakness in law. It’s survival. In this episode of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Coleman is joined by Rich Bracken to explore emotional intelligence, mental health, and th
• I Was Not a Good Defense Attorney - with Damon Hudson (1/28/2026)
  What if becoming a good lawyer has less to do with perfection — and more to do with being human? In this candid and deeply grounded conversation, Ariella Coleman sits down with Damon Hudson to unpack
• You Don’t Have to Do It Alone: BigLaw, Burnout & Asking for Help - with Emily Logan Stedman (1/21/2026)
  In this episode of The Wellness Esquire podcast, Ariella Coleman is joined by guest Emily Logan Stedman for an honest conversation about what it’s really like to practice law in high-pressure environm
• What Authenticity Looks Like in Practice - with Jennifer Marino Thibodaux (1/14/2026)
  In this episode of The Wellness Esquire, Ariella Coleman is joined by Jennifer Marino Thibodaux for an honest conversation about what it really means to live and work with authenticity in the legal pr
• The Possibility of Change in Law: From Billable Hours to Aligned Practice - with Cody Hand (1/7/2026)
  In this episode of The Wellness Esquire, host Ariella Coleman speaks with Cody Hand about rethinking how lawyers practice—and how they value themselves in the process. The conversation explores the gr
• It’s Not Always a Fire Drill: Boundaries, Burnout & Well-Being in Law - with Jordana Confino (12/31/2025)
  In this episode, host Ariella Coleman sits down with Jordana for an honest conversation about navigating life and work in the legal world. Jordana Confino is a lawyer, writer, and speaker who focuses
• You’re Not Married to Your Career: Permission to Evolve in Law - with Dave Strousberg (12/24/2025)
  In this conversation, Ariella Coleman sits down with attorney and entrepreneur Dave Strousberg for an honest, thoughtful discussion about fear, failure, and what it really means to build a sustainable

Blog posts (59)

• Success Starts The Night Before (2024-01-30)
  Productivity doesn't just happen. It requires intention, planning, and thoughtfulness. A productive day starts with good quality sleep and evening routines founded in neuroscience.
• Learn to Sleep (2024-01-29)
  If you want to kick a$$ in life, you need to get enough high quality sleep. Here are the tips that led me to go from an insomniac to a Sleeping Queen.
• 10 Ways to Optimize Performance (2024-01-28)
  If you're here, you're probably a high achiever. But just because you're reaching for the stars doesn't mean you've figured out how to reach the stars. Here are 10 ways to optimize your performance.
• Killing Myself for Law (2024-01-27)
  I hate what I put myself through for this profession,' I sobbed hysterically. My experience taking the MPRE with a disability reveals the discrimination lawyers with chronic conditions face.
• These Neuroplasticity Tips Helped Me Pass the CA Bar With Less than 3 Weeks of Study (2024-01-26)
  Despite becoming terrifyingly ill and losing months of study time, I used science-based neuroplasticity practices to pass the California Bar Exam with less than 70 hours of studying.
• A Wellness Journey with Angela Han (2024-01-25)
  Wellness is 'I think and feel well.' Whatever I do, whatever is going on, I'm able to feel good and feel well. It comes with practice.
• From Wishes to Plans With a Purpose (2024-01-24)
  Every year, I sit down and reflect on the past year and set goals for the next. 2020 taught us to deal with the unexpected, but that's precisely why purposeful planning matters more than ever.
• A Wellness Journey with Deirdre McLean (2024-01-23)
  I'm a Type A person who is used to performing at a high level and that came at a great cost. Our wellbeing is everything and for me, it starts with mental wellness.
• A Wellness Journey with Autumn Noble (2024-01-22)
  Wellness means recognizing that we are so much more than isolated aspects of ourselves and knowing that we must attend to all these aspects that make us who we are.
• A Wellness Journey with Katie Lipp (2024-01-21)
  It took me a while to understand the connection between wellbeing and success. What helped it click for me was realizing that it's an energy transfer. People are paying me for my energy.
• A Wellness Journey with Jeffrey Bunn (2024-01-20)
  Well-being is a continuous process touching six aspects of life. Jeffrey shares his three daily practices: 'Me time,' meditative activity, and meditation for cultivating mind and body fitness.
• A Wellness Journey with Jamie Spannhake (2024-01-19)
  Having the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual energy to do all the things I want to do in life, without feeling exhausted. Jamie shares how planning wellness practices transformed her Big Law experience.
• Establishing Boundaries Mid-Career: Confessions of a Workaholic (2024-01-18)
  A life coach's honest journey from working 5-6 hours of sleep per night to establishing meaningful work-life boundaries and discovering the power of saying no.
• Acceptance and Care Are the Only Real Options: How Meditation Retreats Prepared Me to Cope with a Pandemic (2024-01-17)
  When lockdown began, Claire found herself drawing on lessons from meditation retreats, discovering that acceptance and care were the only real choices for navigating uncertainty.
• A Wellness Journey with Ali Assareh (2024-01-15)
  Discover how wellness practices can transform both your personal life and professional career through the lens of one lawyer's transformative journey.
• A Conversation with Bob Levant (2024-01-10)
  Wellness starts on the mental side. Bob shares how mindfulness and emotional awareness transformed his trial practice and led to a $10 million verdict through flow state advocacy.
• A Wellness Journey with Farhana Hossain (2024-01-05)
  Wellness is the delicate balance between physical and mental wellbeing. Farhana shares her journey from panic attacks to finding grounding through meditation, self-care, and the importance of women supporting women in law.
• A Wellness Journey with Amanda Doucette (2024-08-04)
  Tax partner Amanda Doucette shares her personal wellness journey, from learning to slow down in a high-pressure legal career to finding balance through mindfulness, movement, and meaningful relationships.
• I Had a Couple Dozen Episodes Recorded. I Couldn't Press Publish.
  Ariella Cohen Coleman on lawyer perfectionism, why "recovering" was the wrong goal, and learning to love being bad at surfing.
• New Here? Start Here.
  What The Wellness Esquire is, who it’s for, and the episodes to start with.
• She Left the Law, Lost Herself, and Found Out Who She Really Was
  Erin Gerner on lawyer identity, leaving and returning to practice, and why you don't hate the law, you hate the way you're doing it.
• I Lead the Lawyer Wellbeing Movement. I Still Got Sick From Doing Too Much.
  I suck at resting, which is why I created The Wellness Esquire
• She Couldn't Sue the Judge Who Harassed Her. So She Changed the Whole System.
  Aliza Shatzman on law clerk harassment, holding the judiciary accountable, and why your voice is the power you didn't know you had
• The Lawyers Who Look Most Put-Together Are Often the Ones Feeling Like Frauds
  David Sazant on lawyer imposter syndrome, where self-worth actually comes from, and why the people who look most put-together are so often the ones struggling.
• The Recruiter Who Believes Happy Lawyers Do Better Work
  Jennifer Gillman on lawyer burnout, the "point one" method, and the Six Pillars of a happy rainmaker
• She Made Her World Smaller and Smaller to Survive Law. Then She Found the Happy Lawyers.
  Emily Long on naming lifelong anxiety, escaping perfectionism, and building a firm that finally fits her life
• The Psych Test You Took Once, I Play Every Day (And It Changed My Brain)
  The Stroop effect isn't just a one-and-done assessment. It's cognitive inhibition training, and it might be the tool you didn't know you needed.
• They Asked 1,100 Women in 60 Countries About Failure. What They Found Should Change How Lawyers Handle It
  Deborah Grayson Riegel on the consequence gap, the five kinds of failure, and how to bounce back in a profession that punishes mistakes.
• He Had Panic Attacks That Felt Like Heart Attacks. So He Built This Instead.
  Patrick Patino on lawyer burnout, boundaries, and building a practice that fits the life you want
• He Couldn't Read a Book. Now He Coaches High Performers.
  Jonathan Z. Cohen on the kid he was before the IDF, the Bronx DA's office, and in-house counsel — and what it took to become who he is now
• Clothes Are a Portal to Power
  Melanie Lippman on style, confidence & personal branding for lawyers
• "Being Yourself Takes 0% Energy" — Jonathan Cullen on Ditching the Lawyer Mask
  A former Pfizer General Counsel on why authenticity is a business strategy, not a risk
• It's Okay for Lawyers to Not Be Okay
  Legal tech expert Colin Levy on AI, grief, and letting go of perfect
• Navigating a Practice Pivot While Facing Life’s Hardest Trials - with Randy Kramer
  How a litigator balances a new solo firm with a wife’s cancer diagnosis and his own journey through depression
• How a Perfectionist Lawyer Learned to Stop Trying So Hard
  From corporate boardrooms to laughter yoga with Kara McCarthy Perry
• How to Build a Multi-Million Dollar Practice While Maintaining Boundaries
  Redefining success and reclaiming personal freedom in law
• How to Build a Law Firm When You Have No Experience and No Confidence
  Bradley Miller shares how he went from a reluctant solo sitting on a card table to a happy freedompreneur
• How to Work Like You Vacation (and Why You Should) - with Gwen Griggs and Whitney Harper
  Ditching the misery competition and finding a human pace in the legal industry
• The General Counsel Who Missed His Son’s Greatest Play for an Email He Can’t Remember - with Matthew Campobasso
  Why achieving the ultimate legal career milestone left one executive feeling hollow and how he found a way back
• Leaving Law Saved His Life - with Shaun Bernstein
  The legal industry treats burnout as part of the gig, but it nearly cost Shaun everything
• Sending 250 Connection Requests a Week to Escape Big Law - with Megan Senese
  A human approach to business development for lawyers who hate business development
• Breaking the Billable Hour: How Subscription Law Firms Are Changing Everything - with Mathew Kerbis
  Rethinking legal careers: subscription models, AI, and designing a practice that supports your life - not consumes it.
• Designing a Legal Career That Actually Fits Your Life - with Lacey Gutierrez
  Redefining success in law, from Big Law expectations to a career built on alignment, flexibility, and well-being.
• Why Lawyers Are So Stressed, and How Mindfulness Can Change Everything
  The hidden cost of pushing through, and the mindset shift high-achievers actually need - with former defense litigator Courtney Schulnick
• How a Mom Could Choose Alcohol Over Her Kids - with Amy Guldner
  Why so many successful lawyers misread their relationship with alcohol—and what actually helps change it.
• Your Lawyer Burnout Is Working Exactly as Designed
  How Whitney Harper and Gwen Griggs redesigned the law firm system to give lawyers their lives back and clients what they want
• The Audacity of Building the Happiest Law Firm in America
  How Elizabeth Garvish turned rejection, authenticity, and radical self-trust into a thriving law firm - and a life designed on purpose.
• You Deserve Help: Ask For It...Or Burn Out
  Jennifer Kupferman, therapist and former Big Law attorney, explains anxiety, nervous system activation, and why asking for help may be the most powerful performance strategy.
• The “Career Suicide” Myth Lawyers Need to Let Go Of
  Why Talking About Depression, Anxiety, and Medication Is Actually a Power Move in the Legal Profession: A Conversation with Will Jordan
• Toxic Law Firm Culture and the Hidden Cost of “Feedback”
  How fear, burnout, and scarcity mindset shape legal careers — and how to build something healthier. My conversation with Ryan McKeen.
• Emotional Intelligence in Law: Rethinking Law Firm Culture, Burnout, and Leadership
  In Part II of The Wellness Esquire Podcast, Ariella Coleman and Rich Bracken explore emotional intelligence in law firms, lawyer burnout, sustainable performance, and what leadership in law.
• Vulnerability Isn’t a Weakness. It’s the Path to Thriving.
  Thoughts from my convo with Rich Bracken
• Becoming a Lawyer Without Losing Yourself
  My conversation with Damon Hudson
• What High-Performing Lawyers Aren’t Taught to Name
  My takeaways from my chat with Emily Logan Stedman
• What Authenticity Looks Like in Practice
  Vulnerability, integration, and practicing law as a whole person
• When Practicing Law Becomes a Question of Self-Worth
  Cody Hand on burnout, belief, and building a practice that doesn’t require starting from “no.”
• It's Not Always a Fire Drill
  Thoughts from my interview with Jordana Confino (Episode 2)
• You’re Not Married to Your Career
  An Inspiring Conversation with Dave Strousberg
• Starting the Revolution: Transforming the Legal Industry to Value Well-Being
  There are more of us out there than you know

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