Stop Forgetting Yourself! Why Advocating For Yourself is Self Care featuring Suzi Hixon

LISTEN TO LEARN


Why you need to define your values while obtaining success

How to advocate for yourself

Why Suzi planned to become a pediatrician

The challenges of patent prosecution



WHAT ALSO DISCUSS


Advice if you are practicing law and miserable (hint: it’s
not YOU)

How to identify S.M.A.R.T. goals for your life

Why [most] lawyers hate math



Law school teaches people to advocate for causes they're
passionate about, but women lawyers often forget themselves. The
giving, or empathetic nature, of most women allows them to be
given to their own deficit, but not anymore. 


Suzi Hixon wants women lawyers to fight for themselves, support
themselves, and define success for themselves."You must define
success for yourself because otherwise, you will look for the big
career, big office, and beautiful family that society tells you
that you must have," explains Suzi Hixon in Episode 69 of You Are
A Lawyer.


You must define success for yourself because otherwise, you will
look for the big career, big office, and beautiful family that
society tells you that you must have. 


When you take a step back and think about how your goals and
values affect your life, then you will see how your life is
successful.


“You can always earn another $500, but you cannot get your time
back,” explains Suzi Hixon.  When Suzi Hixon created the
podcast, Legally Blissed Conversations, to hear the struggles and
wins of women lawyers. There were often common stories of
successful women who weren't the best at advocating for
themselves. 


Where are your drive for success and career goals really coming
from? Do you want all of those things and are the things you are
chasing aligning with your values?


From childhood, Suzi thought that she would be a veterinarian or
pediatrician, Suzi did not earn the grades that she thought she
needed for medical school and Suzi was disheartened by the MCAT.
Born in Colorado, Suzi later moved to Kentucky to attend
undergraduate and law school. Suzi moved to California and
returned to Kentucky where she runs her law firm and founded the
Legalled Blissed community.


The Legally Blissed Community provides women lawyers with
mentorship and friendship, both help women attorneys to thrive in
their careers and lives.


After attending law school so that she could extend her undergrad
years, Suzi was unsure of the type of law that she wanted to
practice after law school.


During a study abroad semester, Suzi was introduced to European
patent law and found that to be really interesting. But patent
law is really steeped in mechanical engineering and didn't play
well with the science background that Suzi has. Suzi later
changed to trademark law and found it really exciting to work
with trademarks, logos, and marketing departments because this
work involved marketing departments and the "fun" nerds.


YOU MAY ALSO WATCH THE YOUTUBE VIDEO OF EPISODE 69 OF YOU ARE A
LAWYER


EPISODE TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - INTRO


00:18 - Welcome Suzi Hixon to You Are A Lawyer


00:46 - Explain why you created your business, Legally Blissed


01:39 - Why did you create the Legally Blissed community and
Legally Blissed Conversations podcast?


05:37 - Legally Blissed community teaches women lawyers to define
their goals


06:38 - Podcast available in audio-only format 


07:06 - Suzi became a lawyer instead of a pediatrician


08:46 - Discussion about undergraduate school and backgrounds


09:53 - Why it’s hard for lawyers to change


10:39 - Where do you live? Where are you from?


12:18 - How was the patent bar and working in patent prosecution?


13:24 - Studying abroad in law school


15:04 - Lawyers are nerds; engineers are geeks


16:30 - Advice for new lawyers (5 years or less practicing) 


18:53 - There are multiple reasons that you are miserable
practicing law: consider law firm culture, change the practice
area, or find a new career/law mentor.


19:16 - Thanks for watching this interview with Suzi Hixon on the
You Are A Lawyer podcast. 



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ABOUT THE GUEST


Suzi Hixon is licensed to practice law in Kentucky and the Patent
Bar. Learn more about Suzi Hixon:


Website: www.LegallyBlissed.com
Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legally-blissed-conversations/id1615972092


ABOUT THE PODCAST


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