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Welcome to the Lawyer Burnout Solution podcast.
If you’re a woman attorney feeling overwhelmed or close to burnout but want to stay and thrive in your legal career, this podcast is for you.
Each week, host Heather Mills shares practical tools, strategies, and mindset shifts to help you manage stress, reclaim your energy, and feel more in control of your work and life.Â
Tune in every Thursday for actionable advice tailored to the unique challenges women in law face.
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Lawyers often fear that showing emotion will undermine their credibility. Discover why this pattern runs so deep and how to honor your emotions while staying effective in your work.
Why telling yourself you should be grateful makes you feel disconnected from yourself. Learn how to reconnect and allow positive emotions to return.
Discover how to turn self-trust into steady leadership. Learn the three-second reset that helps you lead with the clarity and calm from future you now.
What if calm isn’t something you earn later, but something you can access now? Learn how to shift from survival mode to self-trust and start feeling like yourself again.
Discover what medicine’s research reveals about lawyer wellbeing and burnout. Learn how evidence-based coaching helps lawyers rebuild clarity, confidence, and calm.
When caring starts to hurt, even the best lawyers can lose hope. Learn how to move from numbness to possibility and rebuild a sense of agency inside a broken system.
You can do everything right and still feel betrayed by the system. This episode explores moral injury and what happens when purpose fades.
If people-pleasing really worked, why are lawyers so depleted? Learn how to trade approval-seeking for self-trust and real freedom in your work.
Former litigator Heather Mills shares her lawyer burnout story and why she created The Lawyer Burnout Solution podcast, giving women lawyers tools law school never taught.
Learn why silencing your inner critic backfires and what to do instead so that you can shift into self-trust and sustainable success as a woman lawyer.
Sunday night dread isn’t proof you didn’t work hard enough. It’s your nervous system on high alert. Learn why it happens to lawyers and how to retrain it.
Do you ever feel like you’re failing at work and at home? Discover why the lawyer-parent double bind exists and what small shifts can change everything.
Law school taught you more than case law. It trained you in a hidden curriculum that fuels burnout. Here are 5 rules every woman lawyer should question.
Exhaustion is law’s badge of honor, but it doesn’t reflect your worth. Learn why overwork is rewarded, its hidden costs, and how to start letting it go.
Law is your canvas, not your whole identity. Discover how women lawyers can reclaim self-worth and expand life beyond the job.
Learn how to redefine success in your legal career so it fits who you are now, creating a fulfilling, sustainable path without leaving law.
Feel stuck even after building a successful career? Learn how stress disconnects women lawyers from what they truly want.
This episode introduces the Five stress zones women lawyers live in, and helps you pinpoint where you are, and what to do next to move away from stress.
Feeling flat or disconnected? This episode unpacks how burnout blunts joy, and how women lawyers can gently start to feel good again.
You’ve always pushed through. But what if the fear that helped you succeed is now wearing you down? This episode shows you a better way forward.
Learn why rest triggers guilt for high-achieving women in law, and how to shift the beliefs preventing you from resting.
Self-trust is the missing piece in burnout recovery for women lawyers. Here’s how to rebuild it—and why it matters more than you think.
Perfectionism isn’t protecting your career—it’s draining it. Discover small, powerful ways women lawyers are breaking the burnout cycle.
If you’re swinging between “I’ve got this” and “I’m failing,” this episode will help you spot the mindset keeping you stuck—and show you how to shift it.
Burned out despite doing everything "right"? This episode unpacks the real external causes of lawyer burnout—and what you can actually do about them.
Feeling burned out but not sure if it’s you or the job? Discover the real internal causes of lawyer burnout—and how to finally break the cycle.
Lawyer burnout or just stress? Learn the red flags—brain fog, exhaustion, snapping at your kids—and how to reclaim your energy and confidence.
Always feel like it’s on you to keep everyone happy? Learn why you take on too much, how it fuels burnout, and how to finally put some of it down
Trapped in nonstop lawyer stress? You’re not imagining it. This episode breaks down the real reasons-and how you can finally reclaim your calm.
Think hustling harder is the way out of burnout? It’s not. Find out why more effort keeps you stuck-and what actually gets you free.