This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins her integrator Kathryn Silk. Kathryn is an experienced family law attorney with a passion for the collaborative approach. After graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in 2010, she moved to Wenatchee where she practiced law, was on the board of the Domestic and Sexual Violence Center, served as the President of the local Young Lawyers Division, and volunteered for Attorney Services in family law. She has a history working at ...
May 10, 2021•55 min•Ep. 24
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Sophya Raza and Stephanie Jones. Sophya Raza is a Founding Member of Raza and Jones in St. Louis. Sohpya had wanted to be a lawyer ever since she drafted a contract at the age of 12 for her mom and sister to sign involving her sister’s desire for a perm. It was this first instance of helping two individuals resolve their dispute in a fair manner that hooked her. She has focused her practice solely on family law since graduating law school in 20...
May 03, 2021•45 min•Ep. 23
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Renée Bauer. Ms. Renée Bauer is an award-winning divorce attorney, published author, and founder of the family law firm, Bauer Law Group. Renée’s insights are sought after by local, national and international media outlets, podcasts, and conferences where she speaks on co-parenting, blended family dynamics, relationships, and the art of reinvention. As an accomplished litigator, she boldly educates and inspires women to reclaim their right to h...
Apr 26, 2021•38 min•Ep. 22
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins her associate Andrea Seymoure. Andrea's extensive family law practice focuses on all aspects of family law including dissolutions, legal separations, division of assets/liabilities, parentage, child support, post-decree enforcement and modifications, and domestic violence, primarily in King and Snohomish counties. Andrea grew up in the Pacific Northwest and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from the University of Washi...
Apr 19, 2021•45 min•Ep. 21
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Brita Long . For over 22 years Brita practiced law and saw how people’s lives, including other attorneys, were negatively affected by complexity, a lack of purpose and a miss match between what they said was important in their life vs what their behavior showed was important in their life. Brita herself struggled for many years to create a life that fit her and that she loved. A life of being honest with herself (or at least giving it a good go...
Apr 12, 2021•55 min•Ep. 20
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Claire Parsons, a Member at Adams Law, PLLC in the Cincinnati area. Claire is a skilled local government attorney and litigator, a best-selling author, a recognized advocate for lawyer-moms and women professionals, and the mom of two adorable but admittedly unruly girls. Claire relies on her mindfulness practice to balance these roles and her passion for the subject led her to write and speak on mindfulness extensively, obtain a meditation teac...
Apr 05, 2021•51 min•Ep. 19
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Amy M. Gardner, a certified Career and Career Transitions Coach and Team Development and Leadership Consultant with Apochromatik . Amy coaches lawyers and other professionals one-on-one, in small group masterminds, and delivers workshops for employers. Her work draws on her unique experience as dean of students at the University of Chicago Law School and a successful career practicing law, first as a Skadden litigation associate and later as an...
Mar 29, 2021•41 min•Ep. 18
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Natalie Norfus! An attorney turned HR/DEI CEO - The Norfus Firm. Natalie is a creative and proven problem solver with over 15 years of experience counseling employers on diversity & HR strategies, compliance, and litigation. Natalie has worked with global employers in various industries including quick services restaurants, manufacturing, financial services, and healthcare. Natalie firmly believes that there is no “one size fits all” approa...
Mar 22, 2021•55 min•Ep. 17
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Théda Page! In 2002 Théda opened The Page Law Firm, which focuses on bankruptcy and family law. Ms. Page began her career in 1986 representing debtors in consumer and business bankruptcies with a boutique law firm in Dallas and then with a sole member firm. In 1988 Ms. Page joined J. C. Penney Company, Inc. in the corporate legal department where she developed and implemented a consumer bankruptcy rights enforcement project for the company’s cr...
Mar 08, 2021•37 min•Ep. 16
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Angela Hansen and they discuss the Sandwich Generation! Angela H. Hansen is the owner of Hansen Legal & Mediation Services, P.C. in Rockville, Maryland. Angela brings 30+ years of experience in advocacy and conflict resolution to her firm and unapologetically provides clients with clear direction throughout their entire time under her care and counsel. Her experience and clientele are intentional and expansive, servicing marginalized and di...
Mar 01, 2021•50 min•Ep. 15
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Jasmin Haley! Jasmin Haley is an award-winning national speaker, podcaster, and pro educator. Almost 8 years ago, the woman you see today did not exist. Her passion and brilliance were simmered down to non-existence because she opted to play small and live her life in fear. She came to the realization it was time for a change. It was time to LIVE her life, to FACE her fears, to take CARE of herself, and to NURTURE the Queen within. She took he...
Feb 22, 2021•46 min•Ep. 14
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined her team member Amy Carei. Amy comes from humble beginnings. She was the first person in her extended family to go to college, let alone attend law school. Raised by a single mother with limited means, Amy understands the importance of family and the value of a dollar. She takes neither for granted in her law practice. Amy prides herself on being a genuine and approachable person first and a lawyer second. She takes time to understand what her...
Feb 15, 2021•52 min•Ep. 13
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Bunmi Emenanjo, an attorney with a biotechnology background. Bunmi has a career that spans 17 years moving fluidly between the legal and biotechnology world. She started her career working in pharmaceutical litigation, before moving on to regulatory policy in emerging technology, such as synthetic biology and nanotechnology. She eventually made the transition to government ethics while working at the Food and Drug Administration. While her cur...
Feb 08, 2021•51 min•Ep. 12
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Billie Tarascio! Attorney Billie Tarascio practices exclusively in divorce and family law in Arizona at the law firm she founded, Modern Law . Billie is a skilled practitioner, national speaker, podcast host of ‘Modern Divorce’, and law firm business consultant. She is also the author of Decode Your Divorce and a co author of Tiger Tactics, Powerful Strategies for Winning Attorneys....
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 11
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Melissa Shanahan! Melissa Shanahan founded Velocity Work after several years at a consulting firm focused on the growth of private practices all across the U.S. After coaching over 350 doctors, dentists, and lawyers - she chose to narrow her services to attorneys only and started Velocity Work. The host of the Velocity Work podcast and an extremely effective coach for attorneys running their own firms, Melissa brings her A-game to everything s...
Jan 25, 2021•53 min•Ep. 10
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Drew Hickey! Drew has practiced law since 2010, in private practice and in-house as an attorney for a health system in Central Illinois. She grew up in Decatur, Illinois and traveled out of state for school, attending Mary Baldwin College in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, living in DC between college and law school and working for Fried Frank law firm, and then moving to New Orleans for law school at Loyola University New Orleans before ev...
Jan 18, 2021•45 min•Ep. 9
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Karen Bonnell. Karen has over 30 years of experience working with couples and families facing transition, loss, growth and change. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Karen has been board certified and licensed as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner since 1982. Karen’s work as a Collaborative Divorce Coach spurred her determination to write “The Co-Parenting Handbook” “ with Kristin Little, Child Specialist. Parents learn the best ...
Jan 11, 2021•37 min•Ep. 8
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Tahmina Watson, a nationally acclaimed immigration attorney and founder of Watson Immigration Law in Seattle, Washington, USA. Her practice focuses on business and investment immigration matters. She is also co-founder of Airport Lawyer , and the non-profit Washington Immigrant Defense Network ( WIDEN ). Tahmina is a national spokesperson of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She also serves as the Chair of the Response Committee of...
Jan 04, 2021•31 min•Ep. 7
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Melanie Leonard! Melanie is an attorney, an entrepreneur, and one of the leading authorities on the use of legal practice management software. She graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2002 and began practicing at mid-sized firms. Disillusioned by their inefficiencies, Melanie left to start her own firm in 2006. And, over the next 12 years, she built a thriving real estate law practice. An early adopter of Clio, Melanie became one of t...
Dec 28, 2020•43 min•Ep. 6
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Erin Levine, a legal innovator, entrepreneur, speaker and Certified Family Law Specialist. She is the CEO and Founder of Oakland based boutique firm, Levine Family Law Group. In 2018 Erin launched Hello Divorce , an award winning online DIY web platform that helps self represented folks navigate the divorce process on their own or with some legal help along the way. Erin’s legal technology and access to justice work has been recognized by the ...
Dec 21, 2020•38 min•Ep. 5
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Rosanna Berardi, the Managing Partner of Berardi Immigration Law and the CEO of High Wire Woman, where she helps working women create a blueprint to live their lives in a simpler way and take back their most precious commodity: their time. Starting as a one-woman operation in Rosanna' s apartment fifteen years ago, Berardi Immigration Law is now a multi-million dollar firm that helps companies navigate the employment-based immigration system a...
Dec 14, 2020•50 min•Ep. 4
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Sondra Firestein, the founder of Pursuit Concierge to discuss outsourcing and delegation. Tune in ladies, we're not just talking about outsourcing at the office, this can be done in our ever demanding personal lives as well! Sondra helps busy households and businesses overcome the overwhelm with mindful delegation™. In 2014 she founded Pursuit Concierge, a membership-based lifestyle management company, to help people lighten their loads and co...
Dec 07, 2020•57 min•Ep. 3
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie dives into overcoming the mean girl voice we have in our head. To keep on maximizing your firm, stay connected! Facebook Group Facebook Page LinkedIn Guild Subscribe to our YouTube channel so you never miss an interview, presentation or training!...
Nov 30, 2020•42 min•Ep. 2
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined the Beyonce of modern law practice, Carolyn Elefant ! Carolyn is the owner of the Law Offices of Carolyn Elefant, a national energy law practice based in Washington D.C. where she represents clients before utility commissions and FERC, federal districts and appellate courts where she has briefed and/or argued over 50 cases, including several precedent-setting matters. Carolyn is also the creator and publisher of MyShingle.com, the longest, con...
Nov 23, 2020•48 min•Ep. 1
Maximum Lawyer is excited to introduce to you, the Maximum Mom podcast with Elise Buie! This is your go-to podcast for navigating the unique challenges that come with being a lawyer, a law firm owner and a mom. We’ll be here every week with interviews, insights and a community to help you on your journey to have a fulfilling career and being the best mom you can be. To keep on maximizing your firm, stay connected! Facebook Group Facebook Page YouTube channel LinkedIn Guild...
Nov 11, 2020•10 min
