#120 How a Health Crisis Turned a Corporate Partner Into a Lawyer Coach

After 18 years in corporate finance law, Heather Moulder had built exactly what success was supposed to look like — partner at Greenberg Traurig, thriving book of business, career on track. Then a breast cancer diagnosis at 38 forced her to stop and ask a question most high-achieving lawyers never let themselves ask: Is this actually the life I want? In this episode of Lawyers Who Learn, host David Schnurman, CEO of Lawline, sits down with Heather to unpack a journey that started long before the diagnosis — the burnout four years into her career, the perfectionism, the people-pleasing, and the feeling of succeeding at something that was slowly draining her. Her return to the firm after treatment looked like a comeback. It was actually the beginning of something else. She spent years quietly reevaluating her values, training as a coach, and building a practice on the side before finally making the leap. She initially avoided working with lawyers — then found herself almost exclusively coaching them. Today, she works with attorneys on both mindset and business development, grounded in the belief that you simply cannot separate the two. Heather's story is a powerful reminder that burnout isn't weakness — it's often the clearest signal pointing toward the work you were always meant to do.