Watch the YouTube version of this episode HERE This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Brita Long. Brita is an attorney and attorney coach who teaches flat fees to other attorneys and more importantly mind set. One of the workshops Brita provides is on our relationship with money. "It ain't about the money" isn't about the knowledge of personal finance or small practice finance, but about our thoughts, beliefs and feelings about money and how those affect our behavior. Includ...
Feb 19, 2024•52 min•Ep. 84
Watch the YouTube version of this episode HERE This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Sarah Walton. Sarah Walton is a business coach and sales expert who’s been featured on The Today Show, speaks at women’s conferences all over the world and has helped hundreds of women start and grow businesses they LOVE. From growing up in a low-income household with a single mom to helping moms turn their passion into a business they love that can support their families, Sarah’s lived exp...
Jan 29, 2024•47 min•Ep. 83
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Bridget O'Toole. Bridget is a millennial environmental, land use, municipal and energy lawyer and mom to a 4-year-old son. She opened her own law firm on April 1, 2023 (April Fools Day) in one of New York's most rural counties after leaving a bougie downtown boutique law firm. She’s been practicing since 2011 and represents clients all over New York State in her practice areas. Take a listen! 01:11 Meet Bridget 04:58 Bridget’s practice ...
Sep 25, 2023•44 min•Ep. 82
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Victoria Collier. Victoria Collier, Founder and CEO of Quid Pro Quo: Victoria is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the legal industry. In addition to building and selling her own 7-figure law firm, she has been coaching lawyers since 2008 on how to add value to their law firms. Take a listen! 08:15 Victoria Collier discusses how having children has influenced her entrepreneurial journey and the motivation it pr...
Sep 04, 2023•46 min•Ep. 81
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Amy Cote. Amy started Think Out because for most organizations prevention is an afterthought. With communication, consistency and execution, employees will perform well as teams that are prepared for the expected and unexpected. Thanks to Amy’s training and experience, she has strong skills in leadership, communication, change management, operations, labor relations, policy development and best practices. Thanks to Amy’s genes, she has ...
Aug 21, 2023•54 min•Ep. 80
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Rachel Clar. Rachel is a divorced lawyer mom, and in deciding to launch a business. She had to first move through a tremendous inner journey of self-discovery and personal growth to develop the courage to take a big chance. As lawyers, we often live our lives based on the model we learned in school, the lie that conflict is a binary only resolved with someone prevailing. As women, in general, we were raised to elevate ourselves through ...
Aug 07, 2023•50 min•Ep. 79
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Flora Garcia-Sepulveda. Flora Garcia-Sepulveda, a founding partner of Woodman & Garcia-Sepulveda and a Certified Family Law Specialist , is an experienced trial lawyer who practices family law exclusively, focusing on diverse financial issues including business valuation, property division and child and spousal support. Flora is fluent in Spanish. Flora also represents clients in difficult custody disputes and move-away cases. Befor...
Jul 17, 2023•39 min•Ep. 78
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Leah Miller. Leah was a litigation paralegal for 13 years, 10 of those years she was a Florida Registered Paralegal. Leah has her MBA from Florida Gulf Coast University in Estero, Florida. Until just recently Leah was the firm administrator and CFO for a personal injury law firm in SW Florida. She has started her own business LNM Financial Services to broaden her reach and use her knowledge to help other law firms understand their finan...
Jul 03, 2023•28 min•Ep. 77
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Christine Diorio. Christine is a survivor! After losing her brother to a drug overdose when she was 23, she married her first husband less than a year later. They were both alcoholics, and yet somehow she managed to go to law school and have 2 kids while they were there. After she started work as prosecutor, Christine and her husband went through a very nasty divorce which culminated in her own (and very public!) arrest for DUI and she ...
May 08, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 76
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Carmen Rosas. Award-winning attorney Carmen, is on a mission to help women get control of their lives beyond the grave. She enlightens them with not only how to protect their legacies but also teaches what, how, and when to protect their assets and legacy. Carmen Rosas, was born and raised in the bay area. A proud mix of Mexican, French, and Italian, she grew up fascinated by her grandmother’s stories of living in Mexico, arriving in Am...
Apr 17, 2023•48 min•Ep. 75
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Kara McKeage. Kara McKeage is the founder of Pepper’s Personal Assistants, a sourcing and placement agency for highly vetted personal assistants. With the belief that support is not a luxury, support is a necessity. She is dedicated to helping professional women let go of the shame around outsourcing household tasks so they can find more time, feel organized and have peace of mind. Kara provides a framework and mindset shift in releasin...
Mar 27, 2023•36 min•Ep. 74
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Michelle Bomberger. Michelle founded Equinox in 2005 to provide business leaders a more transparent, responsive, and business focused solution for their legal needs. Over the past 17 years, she’s morphed the business model to offer a fixed fee General Counsel Services solution giving business leaders the confidence and freedom to include legal in their strategic and tactical planning -- they have a relationship with their lawyer and the...
Mar 20, 2023•46 min•Ep. 73
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Steph Tuss. Women in particular are burdened with a double edged sword – society tells us that our values are built on being a mother to our children, but it also says we should go out and have a career or business of our own. Raising children and excelling as an entrepreneur at the same time are two barely synchronizable endeavors. Mothers don't even have to fail in one of these areas to feel mom guilt. Steph Tuss – CEO of the multimil...
Feb 27, 2023•46 min•Ep. 72
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Melanie Lippman. Melanie is an Image Consultant and Personal Branding expert who helps high-powered women in male dominated fields use style to communicate confidence, build connections, and achieve next-level visibility. Navigating the duality of motherhood and building your firm, Elise chats with Melanie about ‘How style can encapsulate both your leadership and motherhood persona’”. Deep diving into: The challenges women face balancin...
Feb 20, 2023•44 min•Ep. 71
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Latrice Latin. Latrice was a single mother, and law firm owner for over 13 years. She finished law school with one child and had a crazy career ride going from working for a firm to starting her own firm, all while navigating motherhood. Latrice has secured millions in settlements for her personal injury clients over the span of her career. She works hard for her clients and gets the results that are needed on their behalf. She has rece...
Feb 06, 2023•37 min•Ep. 70
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Nishea Clark. Nishea is not a lawyer but the is Founder and Owner of NVC Consulting, LLC market research and strategic planning customized services. Since 2002, NVC Consulting has provided insights and analysis for customers in pharmaceuticals, consumer package goods, media and entertainment and financial services. Nishea experience spans from the most elite advertising agencies such as EURO RSCG, Leo Burnett and DDB to premier Fortune ...
Jan 23, 2023•43 min•Ep. 69
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie is joined by Bridgette Bennett. Bridgette is the CEO & Founding Attorney at the Bennett Law Center. Bridgette, or Attorney B as clients call her, is a U.S. immigrant. While she will tell you that her immigration story was a positive experience, the same could not be said for her husband's immigration experience. After immigration authorities attempted to deport her husband, Attorney Bennett realized she had a higher purpose in life. She left her...
Dec 12, 2022•44 min•Ep. 68
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Stacey Freeman. Stacey is a New York City-based writer and journalist and the founder of Write On Track LLC , a full-service consultancy dedicated to providing high-quality content and strategy to individuals and businesses. She has written extensively on lifestyle topics including career reinvention, health and wellness, personal finance, divorce, and parenting. Her work has been published or syndicated in The Washington Post, The Lily (publ...
Nov 21, 2022•41 min•Ep. 67
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Jeena Belil. Jeena is one of the first female owned personal injury law firms on Long Island, which started back in 2007 as a virtual office, while other firms looked at her sideways. She thinks of being a solo attorney not as a job, but as a lifestyle. She was able to create a successful practice on a shoestring with a smart business plan. She was able to stay home and make sure her daughter actually saw her mom for more than an hour or two ...
Nov 07, 2022•44 min•Ep. 66
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Pamela Grady. Grateful for the opportunity to serve the people and businesses of Madison Parish, Louisiana, and Warren County, Mississippi, Pamela co-founded Crews Grady PLLC in 2013 with the desire to empower her clients and her community. She utilizes her love of communication, technology, research, and planning to create successful outcomes for her clients and economic prosperity for her community. She has a heart for public service and ec...
Oct 31, 2022•41 min•Ep. 65
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Lara Bazelon . Lara is a law professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she directs the Criminal & Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinics and holds the Barnett Chair in Trial Advocacy. Before that, she worked as a deputy federal public defender and the director of a Los Angeles-based innocence project. Along the way, she got married, had two children, divorced, and worked to create a different kind of family. A...
Oct 17, 2022•41 min•Ep. 64
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Meg Garavaglia. Starting and growing Woven Legal has been both rewarding and challenging. Yet, it still pales compared to Meg’s most important work helping her son, Matt, who is now 23, arrive at a life of independence, pride in his accomplishments, and a network of support from his close friends and trusted professionals. She recognized from Matt's extreme hyperactivity as a toddler that he was different. Still, she wasn’t prepared for the d...
Sep 12, 2022•38 min•Ep. 63
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Devon Moody-Graham. Devon Moody-Graham is an international business strategist, consumer behavior specialist, and impact speaker with over 13 years of experience in new market expansion, marketing strategy, revenue stream creation, and business development. She sees the desired end in mind for business owners and creates the roadmap to get there. Working with companies to gross over $4M+ in revenue and funding, she creates feasible revenue st...
Sep 05, 2022•35 min•Ep. 62
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Heather Moulder. Heather is a recovering lawyer who practiced in Big Law for over 18 years, made partner, and built a thriving ($2.5MM practice). And she did the latter while staying balanced and happy - but only after burning out and wondering why she’d ever wanted to be a lawyer in the first place. This shift occurred about 4 years into her legal practice, after hitting a mental brick wall and realizing that not everyone was so unhappy. Aft...
Aug 22, 2022•49 min•Ep. 61
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Hillary Walsh. Hillary’s first interaction with a lawyer was when she was being placed in state custody (foster care), and today she is an immigration lawyer who helps noncitizens get status based on abuse from their US citizen family members. Hillary is the attorney and owner of New Frontier. More importantly, Hillary knows what it’s like to experience detainment personally. She understands the fear of being left to the hands of law enforcem...
Aug 15, 2022•40 min•Ep. 60
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Leora Maccabee. Leora is a mom of 3 who is a partner at an award-winning #midlaw firm (of approximately 85 attorneys) in Minneapolis, building her business through relationships with women executives, in-house counsel, and businesses in various industries, including the medical device space. She is a thriver (not survivor) of divorce, and has channeled her personal story and lessons she has learned into pro bono work for low-income women seek...
Aug 08, 2022•48 min•Ep. 59
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Sharon Christie. Sharon Christie is a nurse, an attorney, and a business coach for women lawyers. As an attorney, she worked as an associate in a big law firm, a partner in a small personal injury firm, and then had her own solo practice for 16 years. She sold her law firm in 2021 to start Bold Women Lawyers. She believes that lawyers are happiest when they do work that feeds their souls. That is why she created Bold Women Lawyers. Bold Women...
Aug 01, 2022•40 min•Ep. 58
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Andrea Gellen . Andrea brings humor, creativity, and a lot of sarcasm to the table. She is new to this and has been solo for about 1 year and 10 months. Her business recently expanded, and she is in the process of buying a commercial space. She also brings a fresh perspective. Her work and clients bring a lot of joy- it's a type of fulfillment she doesn’t get from her marriage or her children. She is an attorney who practices in Poughkeepsie,...
Jul 25, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 57
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie dives into thinking differently and accountability. 1:31 Jason Selk 4:12 get a hold of your thoughts 9:00 level of trust Elise’s Tip: Check out Relentless Solution Focus: Train Your Mind to Conquer Stress, Pressure, and Underperformance by Jason Selk. Watch the interview here. Subscribe to Maximum Mom on your favorite podcast player, so you never miss an episode! Sign up for the Maximum Mom newsletter!...
Jul 04, 2022•11 min•Ep. 56
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Amber Russell . Amber founded the Law Office of Amber Russell, PLLC, to help injured Texans all over the state get justice. Her passion for the law started at an early age, and she has worked with victims her entire adult life. While attending the University of Texas Law School, she worked with groups to serve victims of domestic and sexual violence as well as individuals alleging they were wrongfully convicted. She’s been practicing law for ...
May 16, 2022•31 min•Ep. 55
