This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Laura Hartnett . Laura started her early career interning on Capitol Hill and working for federal agencies while completing a Master’s in Public Policy, then became a management consultant advising federal agencies (IRS, the Pentagon, SSA) on how to be cheaper, better, and faster. Her friends didn't understand what she did, so they assumed she was a spy. While she loved her job, she was sick of developing PowerPoints and missed writing in ful...
May 09, 2022•54 min•Ep. 54
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Zaira Solano . Zaira earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Georgia College & State University. While earning her degree, she worked in the office of a solo practitioner in the metro Atlanta area. She gained valuable, hands-on experience in family law, criminal law, and worker’s compensation law prior to her legal education. She worked for several firms throughout the Atlanta area while earning her law degree at Atlanta’s Joh...
Apr 11, 2022•43 min•Ep. 53
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Victoria Collier . Victoria is a two-lawyer married couple (both women) who had twins. Her wife (ADA) stopped working to be the primary home caregiver while she (law firm owner) became the sole financial support. 19 years later, while still with minor children, Victoria sold her law firm and "started over". So many say they "can't" because of the children; she says "I must" because of the children. Credentials: attorney, entrepreneur, publish...
Apr 04, 2022•47 min•Ep. 52
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Jennifer Gore-Cuthbert . Jennifer is passionate about entrepreneurship, especially women entrepreneurs. She is passionate about growing and scaling up businesses to 7 and 8 figures. She believes in living life to your maximum potential, personally, professionally, and financially. She is passionate about intentional parenting and the raising of independent and purpose-driven children. Jennifer believes in being a lifelong learner. She loves f...
Mar 21, 2022•51 min•Ep. 51
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Nicole Loughlin. Nicole has an entirely virtual law firm, Loughlin Law P.A. where she practices estate planning, probate administration, and personal injury in Florida. She is a solo attorney with four support staff members, three years in business, multiple six figures in revenue, a lot of systems and automation, and a profit first from the beginning. Nicole is a mom of 3 (one just born last month), room/PTA parent involved, Disney pass hold...
Mar 14, 2022•49 min•Ep. 50
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Geannina Burgos. Geannina Burgos is a first-generation (born in Chile), second-career attorney (previously in the non-profit arts education sector, and a classically-trained dancer). She went to law school part-time in the evening (started when her daughter was 6 months old) while working during the day. She is a partner at a plaintiff's disability insurance & ERISA firm, adjunct law professor, and serves on local non-profit/government ar...
Feb 21, 2022•43 min•Ep. 49
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Angela Barker. As a black, immigrant woman who started her law career as a single parent, Angela shares her unique perspective on how you can use your strength to find success in your personal and professional life. Angela Barker’s role is to assist clients to prepare for and transition through various life stages, including pre-nuptial agreements in anticipation of marriage, advice, and counsel to clients considering a separation or divorce,...
Feb 14, 2022•34 min•Ep. 48
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie dives into different topics coming off the Maximum Lawyer Mastermind in Scottsdale, Arizona, including various resources and books. She also explains how you, as a law firm owner, can benefit from things like the Guild, where many robust conversations happen on the daily. 2:37 traction 4:34 become clear on core values 8:39 gender equity 12:08 find your unicorn space 15:13 simple numbers, big profits Watch the interview here. Subscribe to Maximum Mom ...
Feb 07, 2022•17 min•Ep. 47
This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Laura Chipman. Laura Chipman is a marketing & privacy attorney and life coach for lawyers. As a coach, she helps women lawyers live and practice intentionally. As a lawyer, she takes pride in empowering her clients with practical and creative solutions to legal challenges. Laura is also a mom to two boys and lives with her family ...
Jan 03, 2022•47 min•Ep. 46
Being a Mom and Special Ed Attorney with Frances Shefter This week on Maximum Mom, your host Elise Buie joined Frances Shefter. Frances started her professional career as a regular education teacher. She always had an interest in special education and decided to obtain her master's in special education. After 7 years in the classroom, she became the special education coordinator at an alternative middle and high school. After 2 years in that position, Frances realized that she was not making the...
Dec 20, 2021•38 min•Ep. 45
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Erin Lecocq. Erin started law school when her daughter was 7 weeks old. Her husband at the time called law school "a hobby," so she was lucky to find support in friends she met at school. She stayed home with her baby during the day and went to class at night. Three and a half years later, she graduated law school cum laude with her daughter holding her hand. During her last year in school, she took a clinic helping incarcerated parents with t...
Nov 29, 2021•34 min•Ep. 44
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Jennifer Hargrave and talk all things grief, teens and self-reflection. Jennifer is the owner of Hargrave Family Law . She helps good people end broken marriages. When facing divorce, people need to know they have options. Divorce does not have to end in disaster. The best divorces are ones where both partners are empowered to make decisions - not where fear is the operating force. Building a business is very similar. Jennifer recently lost he...
Nov 22, 2021•41 min•Ep. 43
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Laura Kelley. Laura is an immigration attorney and professional certified coach. She helps attorneys prevent and recover from burnout. She helps attorneys find joy, harmony and balance in their practices and lives. 2:39 your passion 6:22 radical ownership 10:55 our thoughts about our circumstances 16:00 truth bombs 20:33 false pleasures 26:54 failure is required 31:35 wind down time 42:30 you don’t have to do this Watch the interview here. Sub...
Nov 15, 2021•48 min•Ep. 42
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Stacey Brown Randall. Stacey Brown Randall is the multiple award-winning author of Generating Business Referrals Without Asking , host of the Roadmap to Grow Your Business podcast and national speaker. She has had the privilege of helping well-known corporations and franchises, but her focus is on small business owners, solopreneurs and sales professionals. Stacey’s programs are uniquely tailored to help you take control of your referrals, you...
Nov 08, 2021•30 min•Ep. 41
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Shivanii Ray. Shivanii is an International Speaker and Gamification Expert, who uses her worldly experiences to inspire others to live life outside the box and on their own terms. When she was 10, after her family was forced out of the US due to immigration issues, she spent 5 years travelling around the world. Growing up globally, Shivanii was able to learn on her own terms which led her to become a certified NLP Practitioner and a certified ...
Oct 25, 2021•40 min•Ep. 40
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Alycia Kinchloe. Alycia manages a law firm and other small businesses while raising three sons with my husband. My unique business ownership experience provides a different perspective on management, goal setting, and work-life "balance." Watch the interview here. Subscribe to Maximum Mom on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode!...
Oct 04, 2021•30 min•Ep. 39
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Corinne Cantwell Heggie. Corinne is a principal of Wochner Law Firm LLC in Northbrook, Illinois. Corinne safeguards individuals from taxes, legal battles, and asset loss with estate planning. Corinne will appear in probate court if beneficiaries are not named by a decedent. Corinne is the immediate past President of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois. Under Corinne’s leadership, WBAI forged unprecedented partnerships with state and nation...
Sep 27, 2021•44 min•Ep. 38
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Amany Ragab Hacking. Amany practices immigration law full time at Hacking Immigration Law, LLC. She is the Chief Operations Officer. From 2007 to 2016, she was an Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Supervisor of the Externship Clinic at Saint Louis University School of Law. She also taught Immigration Law and an Islamic Law Seminar. She teaches as an adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law. She is a mom of 4. 3:53 it’s no...
Sep 20, 2021•57 min•Ep. 37
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Sonya Sigler. Sonya is a mom of three man boys (ages 23, 21, and 19). She had a 25 year in-house career and has learned a lot in that time - about being a mother, a professional, and a better human! She wrote down the career advice into two books WELCOME to the Next Level and What's Next for My Career? She has so many ideas, that she’s not sure where to start in terms of sharing them with everyone. You can see a recent article she wrote on sel...
Sep 06, 2021•42 min•Ep. 36
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Rachael Ardanuy Rachael moved across the country in 2015 from FL to CO and switched practice areas from family law, estate planning, probate and guardianship to cannabis business law, a new and niche, risky practice area. She worked for another firm until she had her first kid in 11/16 and quickly found it couldn't make ends meet, so she left that firm, went solo, and had cultivated enough relationships that a few clients came with to her. Hav...
Aug 30, 2021•44 min•Ep. 35
Michelle was a former partner at Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, serving on the Intellectual Property Protection & Litigation Service team. Michelle brings her years of experience and skill to managing her client’s brands, protecting client’s rights of publicity, and drafting and negotiating complex technology agreements. In addition to her law practice, Michelle is the founder and president of the national nonprofit organization MothersEsquire, which has more than 5,000 members and advocates for...
Aug 23, 2021•54 min•Ep. 34
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Kristin Little, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Collaborative Divorce Child Specialist and has provided therapy for children and families for 20 plus years. She is the contributing author of "The Coparenting Handbook" with Collaborative Divorce Coach Karen Bonnell and the Author of “No More Us; Navigating a Divorce or Separation You Didn’t Want”. She is also an active member and certified trainer for the International Association of Col...
Aug 09, 2021•39 min•Ep. 33
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Iffy Ibekwe! Iffy is an estate planning attorney evangelist for intergenerational wealth transfer and legacy building with effective wills and trusts. She activates intentional women so they can take agency over their lives and build impactful legacies. As a Black businesswoman and attorney, she is not your garden-variety estate planning attorney. She wishes to provide services to those who her area of the law has historically ignored. Being a...
Jul 12, 2021•49 min•Ep. 32
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie talks about sending her 6th and final kid off to college, how as mother’s we’re so hard on ourselves, and reminds us to not forget to follow your passion. Subscribe to Maximum Mom on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode!...
Jul 05, 2021•10 min•Ep. 31
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Eve Rodsky as they discuss Fair Play, Unicorn Space and everything in between. Eve Rodsky is working to change society one partnership at a time by coming up with a new 21st century solution to an age-old problem: women shouldering the brunt of childrearing and domestic life responsibilities regardless of whether they work outside the home. In her New York Times bestselling book FAIR PLAY, she uses her Harvard Law School training and years of o...
Jun 28, 2021•50 min•Ep. 30
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Ali Smedley. One of South Jersey’s leading matrimonial lawyers, AllynMarie (Ali) Smedley, Esq., has focused her practice solely in the area of family law, including divorce, pre- and post-marital agreements, support and alimony, child support and custody, college contribution matters, spousal support, grandparent visitation, equitable distribution, paternity determinations, parenting time, domestic violence, non-traditional family law, settleme...
Jun 21, 2021•47 min•Ep. 29
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Carol Williams, the founder of Williams Immigration LLC, a boutique immigration law firm. Carol is a former Adjudications Officer at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and focused on policy issues at its headquarters in Washington, DC. As a result, she provides added insight to the agency practices when working with clients. For over 20 years Carol has worked extensively with companies of all sizes, from start-ups to...
Jun 07, 2021•54 min•Ep. 28
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Brooke Lively and Pam Meissner of Cathedral Capital . Brooke Lively is the Founder of Cathedral Capital, a team of CFO’s and Profitability Strategists who help entrepreneurs turn their businesses into profitable companies. With expertise in growth management, creative problem solving and profitability strategy, Brooke has been featured in international media including Forbes, CNBC, and US News and World Report. Pam is a unicorn of sorts. She is...
May 31, 2021•59 min•Ep. 27
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins real estate guru Jennifer Nelson. Jennifer has been at this for 18 years now! Real estating is dynamic, it is always changing and the needs of clients are always changing. Jennifer gets jazzed to continue to learn and grow as my clients' needs change and grow. She comes from a background of education and has the pleasure of incorporating that into what she does. She gets to teach brokers about this business and it sharpens her while she’s doing...
May 24, 2021•32 min•Ep. 26
This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joins Sara Frasca. With the curiosity of Galileo and the tenacity of a street fighter, Sara Frasca is an innovation and business growth expert. Honing her skills at senior leadership roles in both Corporate America and the world of startups, Sara now serves as Chief Marketing Officer for Fireproof, a global business coaching firm. She helps leading organizations cultivate human imagination, build a culture of accountability, and solve complex problem...
May 17, 2021•37 min•Ep. 25
