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Author: Nita Cumello & Rebecca Morrison
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Join co-hosts Nita Cumello and Becky Morrison as they take on well-being and performance in the legal industry. They will share the wisdom they've gathered over a combined 40+ years in the legal industry, relevant research and conversations with experts who are walking the talk.Each episode will offer powerful concepts and practical tips for both individuals and organizations who want to use well-being to supercharge performance, engagement, satisfaction and success.
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“Everything I’ve done to date in the fitness industry is a search for truth. How do we live and perform and manage all of the stressors of life in the best ways possible?” On this episode of Practice Well(Being) we kick off 2023 with Anders Varner, the host of the Top 10 Health and Fitness Podcast, Barbell Shrugged and a founder of R.A.P.I.D. Health Optimization, a high precision, custom-health solution designed to optimize health and achieve peak performance. We all aspire to perform to...
How can you run a great team? How can you really be a servant leader, an empathetic leader, a grateful leader, whatever you know you're working on, and not address mental health? It's by far the number one issue in the workplace, you know, And the pandemic just accelerated everything on anxiety and mental health. The statistics are stark. Pre-pandemic 18% of workers had an anxiety disorder sufficient to interfere with their ability to do their job. By 2022 that number jumped to 32%. More...
"When we think about mental health, the first thing is we must understand that it's something we all have all of the time. So from the moment you are born to the moment you die, you have mental health. There isn't a moment on earth that any human being has ever been alive and they've not had mental health.” October is Mental Health Awareness Month, and on this very special episode of Practice Well(Being) we shared deep conversation with Nick Taylor, co-founder of Unmind and former lead clinic...
“[A]t every single generation people are thinking way more intentionally ... about, hold on, how am I showing up? What am I doing? What am I giving? What am I getting? How do I make sure that I'm not ... overgiving under receiving ... how do I put that in balance? On this episode we take on one of the biggest buzzwords of 2022: Quiet Quitting. Join us to learn:The wide variety of behaviors that are being characterized as quiet quitting and what’s really at the root of quiet qu...
On this episode of Practice Well(Being) Bree Buchanan joins us to share her story which took her from developing a panic disorder in law school, to practicing attorney in the domestic violence space using alcohol to cope with stress, to losing her marriage and job which prompted her to go all in on recovery. This personal journey ultimately propelled her to be the Chair of ABA’s commission on Lawyer’s Assistance Program and the Founding co-chair of the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being...
“If you have a defined purpose, I think that you can also call it the true north or whatever you would. You would say if you have that, I think you can take decisions and link it back to, to this.” On this episode of Practice Well(Being) we explored critical topics around sustainability and purpose with the co-founder and CEO of impactvise AG, Adrian Peyer. impactvise is driven by the belief that law firms and in-house corporate counsels are key players in the modern value chain, with a ...
“What happened during the pandemic, some [organizations] were leaning on training resiliency in the time of chaos. That’s not the time to do it. Train resiliency when things are calm, cool, and collected…that’s how you build resiliency. Then, when things get cranked up, you focus on peoples’ strength because that’s what brings the best out of people.” On this episode of Practice Well(Being) we went on a journey with Adam Reiber, Director of Well-Being at Morgan Lewis – a multi-national l...
“Life is always going to happen…you’re going to have a time when you need a time out…I always try to remember the people who stood in the gap for me, and I will always stand in the gap for others…it has amplified my career. To me, when you have a career that feels good, you will have achieved success.” On this episode of Practice Well(Being) we shared deep conversation (and shed a few tears) with Lynne Espy-Williams, lawyer and Chief Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Officer at Cozen O’Conno...
“When we focus a little but more and hone in on mindfulness in the workplace . . . John Kabbat Zinn one of the western fathers of mindfulness he defines mindfulness as: an awareness that arises through paying attention on purpose in the present moment non-judgmentally.”On this episode of Practice Well(Being) we had a chance to sit down with Amaris Vicari lawyer and founder of The Beneficial Element, where she works with organizations and individuals to empower them to apply mindfulness ...
“It’s time for the legal industry to start actually honoring evidence and science as it relates to well-being. ... [O}ur entire profession is premised on the notion that evidence and facts dictate everything therefrom. Yet when it comes to how we live as lawyers and legal professionals, we are the single most anti-evidentiary profession in existence…"On this episode of Practice Well(Being) we had the honor of speaking with Jarrett Green, Esq., M.A. - a former Skadden Arps litigator who left t...
“Personal brand is really key to your well-being because it's all about getting to know who you are, what you like to do. What makes you happy? What you want to spend your time doing? . . . We don't want to be on autopilot, just going through the motions. We don't want to be disengaged from our work, from our colleagues from our clients, from our loved ones. . . . We want to be whole true, authentic selves and so I think really understanding what your personal brand is really requires y...
“We are not taught the ways that mental well-being or happiness really impact our overall, not just well-being, but performance and success. Oftentimes happiness feels fluffy but I would argue that . . . living happy might be one of the highest value investments we can make in ourselves, in our families, in our communities and in the world.” In this episode of Practice Well(Being) our co-cost Rebecca Morrison shares her wisdom including:How you can leverage happiness as a competitive adv...
“If you are here on this earth, you are important . . . and it means you have something meaningful to contribute. Now what you need to do is to figure out what thing is you want to contribute. So if you are in a state of well-being . . . and when you are in alignment and connection with what that is, you can truly develop your potential, you can truly be more productive in the way that you work, you can take the friction out of the hustle, you can work more creatively and you can build more p...
Nita Cumello and Rebecca Morrison are teaming up to bring you meaningful conversations including powerful concepts and practical tips about well-being in the legal industry. Nita is a Global Business Director and Director of Well-Being Global, Large Law at Thomson Reuters and Becky is a lawyer and law firm administrator turned Happiness and Leadership Coach who works with individuals and organizations to help them use well-being to fuel success and satisfaction. Practice Well(...
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