Confronting Fear, High Functioning Anxiety and Insecurity For A Better Law Firm

What happens when you are faced with fear and high anxiety? Attorneys are used to being highly powered and powerful and empowered and in control. So when something happens in their sphere of experience that feels a bit out of control, they try to just push it down or push it to the side or ignore it. So I find that this is a group because they have a lot of their esteem based on their skills and how they show up in the world. They oftentimes feel very, very insecure about even admitting to insecurity.   Let’s discuss a better way to approach these triggers…   In this episode we discuss: How to manage anxiety in front of groups. Deeper mindset skills around how we are showing up in our profession. How to manage emotions and feelings effectively. If we're not moving our bodies our mental health suffers.   Guest Bio: Ingela Onstad is a Performance Anxiety Coach for performing artists and professionals who are in the public eye. Her coaching business, Courageous Artistry, supports high-performing individuals in their quest to perform at the top of their abilities when in front of the public by working on skills to target voice, body, anxiety management, and mindset.  Ms. Onstad is a board-certified coach, a licensed psychotherapist, and a professional opera singer who has enjoyed a varied international career in opera, concert work, and contemporary music. In addition to her coaching, she maintains an active performing career.   Guest Contact Info: www.courageousartistry.com. Facebook: Courageous Artistry Instagram: @Courageous Artistry Tik-Tok: Courageous Artistry LinkedIn: Ingela Onstead   Allison Bio: Allison C. Williams, Esq., is the Founder and Owner of the Williams Law Group, LLC, with offices in Short Hills and Freehold, New Jersey. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Matrimonial Law Attorney, and is the first attorney in New Jersey to become Board-Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in the field of Family Law. Ms. Williams is an accomplished businesswoman. In 2017, the Williams Law Group won the LawFirm500 award, ranking 14th of the fastest-growing law firms in the nation, as Ms. Williams grew the firm by 581% in three years. Ms. Williams won the Silver Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017. In 2018, Ms. Williams was voted as NJBIZ’s Top 50 Women in Business and was designated one of the Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. In 2019, Ms. Williams won the Seminole 100 Award for founding one of the fastest-growing companies among graduates of Florida State University. In 2018, Ms. Williams created Law Firm Mentor, a business coaching service for lawyers. She helps solo and small law firm attorneys grow their business revenues, crush chaos in business and make more money. Through multi-day intensive business retreats, group and one-to-one coaching, and strategic planning sessions, Ms. Williams advises lawyers on all aspects of creating, sustaining, and scaling a law firm business – and specifically, she teaches them the core foundational principles of marketing, sales, personnel management, communications, and money management in law firms.   Allison Contact Info: Podcast: Intake Training Strategies https://www.lawfirmmentor.net/podcast/2022/04/01/intake-training-strategies   My favorite excerpt from the episode: TIME: 00:30:39 (37 Seconds)  We fear that if we're not seen as hardworking or that we're not in our desk as long as other people take a lunch break forbid that we will be judged, that we will no longer be successful, that we won't be welcomed into the group. It's so important for us humans, whether we like this or not. It's very important from a biological level to be embedded within community. And this hearkens back to our earliest days in evolution of survival, and we were running with smaller groups or tribes, and had we been kicked out from our group or our tribe that we were with, that could have meant death for us.