Unleashing Your Inner Badass - Trial Advocacy from the Inside Out

Register for the Society of Women Trial Lawyers Retreat: https://www.swtl.org/2025-retreat — Henderson Beach Resort, Destin, Florida, Sept 10–13, 2025 -- Small cohort; open to women lawyers (and women paralegals welcome) (19 hours of CLE Credit approved for Florida licensed attorneys) What You’ll LearnInside-Out Advocacy: Why inner authority amplifies your message—and how “being at home” in yourself reads as presence, credibility, and command.Confidence, Not Performance: Concrete ways to reduce self-conscious, outside-in thinking and shift to action-oriented, inside-out execution.Rewiring Beliefs: Where limiting beliefs come from, how to work with (and not just fight) your “shadow,” and tools to update unhelpful patterns.Rise & Align Protocol: A practical daily stack—meditation (nervous-system regulation), gratitude journaling (attentional + emotional priming), and movement (neurochemical boost)—to create reliable calm and clarity.Practice Under Pressure: How reps create automaticity, so your skills surface even when stress spikes and the prefrontal cortex gets noisy.Badass Labs:Profiling / Self-Profiling for real-time read-and-lead skills (e.g., jury room, negotiations).Boxing Basics (non-contact) to embody assertiveness and build a somatic sense of “I can” (mind–body integration for presence).Time-Stamps (selected)00:34 — One-line promise of the retreat02:58 — “Inside out” defined: comfort, presence, and authority07:53 — Limiting beliefs, origins, and the shadow self (Jung)12:21 — Rise & Align: meditation, journaling, movement—why it works15:36 — Stress, creativity, and making calm a practiced habit19:32 — Badass Labs: profiling in the wild21:15 — Boxing lab: embodied assertiveness (non-contact)24:32 — Who should attend, community, and outcomes27:50–end — From outside-in to inside-out; clear CTA to registerQuotes“Confidence is being home—the same you in court as you are in your kitchen.”“We train the parasympathetic so your best thinking shows up on command.”“A punch is a sentence—from your feet to the punctuation mark—it’s embodied self-assertion.”“Humans first, lawyers second. Influence starts with presence.” Read/Explore Books on Background of Unleashing Your Inner Badass:Presence — Amy CuddyMindset — Carol DweckThe Behavior Ops Manual — Chase Hughes Are you looking for a speaker to energize and empower your organization to develop a fighter's mindset and master their mental performance every day? Or are you interested in a talk or workshop on The Green Light Method, a neuroscience- and performance psychology-based system that helps individuals and teams live and work with Fierce Agency (TM), override fear-based hesitation, rewire limiting beliefs, and take aligned, empowered action toward peak performance and purpose-driven success?DM me today on LinkedIn or email me at [email protected]. Ready to win more at trial without burnout? Limited spaces are still available to secure your own 1:1, 8-week Accelerated Trial Fight Camp.DM me today on LinkedIn or email me at [email protected]. The Legal Athlete Website: Click to learn more about engaging Jess Sargus as a speaker for your group or event, or to explore coaching with Jess Sargus to master your mindset, execute under pressure, and thrive in your career and life for the long term through science and sports psychology.  Also, through the website, you can download a free copy of The Legal Athlete Daily Planner to help you organize and prioritize easily to grow and get better every day, practice the 6 longevity habits studies show have the greatest positive impact, and implement your Daily Glimmer habit to bring more resilience and happiness into your life. Or, download and print the 4 Steps to Elite Habits flow chart PDF for free to guide your daily and weekly elite habits.  Music: Bounce Like This, by Wolves - YouTube ID UUFGDERWUSZ9LXWLReady to Fight, by Arenas - YouTube ID XKO39W3SJHGS9EKW