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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
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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.

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.

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

Lawyer burnout or just stress? Learn the red flags—brain fog, exhaustion, snapping at your kids—and how to reclaim your energy and confidence.

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.

Burned out despite doing everything "right"? This episode unpacks the real external causes of lawyer burnout—and what you can actually do about them.

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.

Perfectionism isn’t protecting your career—it’s draining it. Discover small, powerful ways women lawyers are breaking the burnout cycle.

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.

Learn why rest triggers guilt for high-achieving women in law, and how to shift the beliefs preventing you from resting.

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.

Feeling flat or disconnected? This episode unpacks how burnout blunts joy, and how women lawyers can gently start to feel good again.

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.

Feel stuck even after building a successful career? Learn how stress disconnects women lawyers from what they truly want.

Learn how to redefine success in your legal career so it fits who you are now, creating a fulfilling, sustainable path without leaving law.

Law is your canvas, not your whole identity. Discover how women lawyers can reclaim self-worth and expand life beyond the job.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.