What You're About with Chad Aboud
by Chad Aboud
The What You're About podcast is hosted by Chad Aboud. Former Lawyer, now Advisor, Coach and TEDx speaker.This show will inspire you to uncover your natural gifts and give you the tools to bring your gifts into your career, so that you're more successful and feel happier.Join me as I interview incredible leaders and entrepreneurs, where we learn how they uncovered their natural gifts and use them to fuel their success and happiness.For more tools and inspiration, follow Chad on YouTube (@chadaboud), LinkedIn and visit www.chadaboud.com.
Episodes
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Money Truths & the Lego Block Career of a Fractional GC (with Nolan Ritzel)
I used to take others’ career opinions as commandments. But he only took them as data points. And that let him design the career of his dreams. By April of 2023, Nolan Ritzel had done all of the things: - Success in Biglaw - AGC at Shopify - GC at DC Bank Impressive titles. Great money. Proud...
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Intentionality is the antidote to fear (with Angie Jackson & Pam Hinman)
From Anchorage to Toronto in a market crash. And from BigLaw to In-House, to BigLaw and back again. Angie Jackson, Director of Legal at Uber and Pam Hinman, AGC at the University of Calgary know what it takes to bet on themselves. They realized early on that testing themselves was part of…
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Betting on your dream (with Manav Deol)
His parents were happy he was working at a prestigious Law Firm. But his dream was always pushing him further. So he ran after it. Figuratively and literally. Down hallways. Through cold calls. And slammed phones. Manav Deol grew up playing competitive sport. And very early on he knew he’d do...
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Courage & empathy trump lies (w/ Leena Yousefi)
She’s faced lies, slander and ridicule. But she remains a warrior for the Legal industry. Having no interest in the status quo and proving that empathy and curiosity make money. Leena Yousefi has absorbed more hate than most in the legal industry could ever imagine. Yet she’s turned that negative...
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Should Lawyers own Law Firms anymore? (w/ Mitch Kowalski)
If Lawyers have a monopoly on legal services, nothing changes. Many talk about legal innovation. He lives it. Whether it's Mitch Kowalski’s books about how Lawyers can avoid extinction or his international projects with governments and massive brands around the world... he walks his talk. In this...
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Being a Lawyer should be awesome (w/ Brett Colvin)
“Keep coming up with your ideas — but keep them to yourself.” This was the nail in the coffin for Brett’s BigLaw career. As a lifelong entrepreneur, he’d heard “No” before. As a kid, selling found golf balls on the fairways. In college, selling house painting services. But this was different.…
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Your life after leaving the Firm (w/ Amy Grubb)
She was working late on Christmas Eve. Feeling the pressure of getting a deal done while her kids were asking for her. A painful moment many Lawyers experience. But for Amy Grubb, it was the final straw. She didn’t know what was next but she knew it was something different. And it was something...
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You are your niche (w/ Sarah Irwin)
Sarah had the “perfect” General Counsel role. Exciting scale-up. Enjoying her team. Receiving positive feedback. And then she walked away. Leaving it all behind to build something that only she could. Because she realized: she was the niche. Learn how Sarah went from being a SaaS GC in Dublin to...
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Finding your one precious thing: from a Guamanian jail to Legal’s Top Ghostwriter (w/ Tony Albrecht)
How does someone go from a Guamanian jail, to a successful legal practice in St. Louis, to living in the wilderness 3 hours north of Toronto writing some of Legal’s most eye-catching LinkedIn posts for a living? Tony Albrecht’s lawyer life has been anything but typical. He’s walked away from the...
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Breaking through stigma & designing a multi-pronged Career (w/ Pauline Chan)
Lawyers continually fight against industry stigma. Mental health pressures. Wanting a more creative way to practice. Spending time with family & on side businesses. Yet the traditional legal career models struggle to sufficiently serve a large segment of lawyers and companies. To launch Season 2,...
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When the brave choice is the only choice (w/ Sarah Ouis)
There are moments in our Career when risk doesn’t feel so risky anymore. Because the traditional path can’t give us something. And the path less travelled calls us. Our excitement and fear equally asking: “Am I really giving up my secure life?” If you’ve ever felt this, you’re not alone. This…
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We don’t need to build our Career alone: how collaboration beats competition (w/ Brandon Louis & Jeremiah Iroff)
It can feel nice to have complete control over our environment. To stop anyone from changing our vision. But doing everything on our own has downsides too. There are parts of our business where we aren’t strong. We miss feeling connected to others with a shared vision. We begin to see everyone as...
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Give first & get resourceful when the chips are down (w/ Jessica Nguyen)
When our Career is in a tough spot, it feels like the world’s against us. No one will give us a chance. So we retract and hold tightly to what we have. Which leads us to feel even more alone. But what if we took the opposite approach? By giving first and tapping into every resource available....
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How to know whose advice is worth taking (w/ John Lindsey)
We receive advice constantly. Following the right advice can change our lives. So how do we know whose advice is worth taking? John Lindsey intuitively knew the answer from a young age. And that allowed him to make two critical decisions: (1) not following his parents’ financial advice, and (2)...
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Sharing who you are, so your Community can find you (w/ Leila El Gharbi)
Have you ever felt self-conscious about your look at a corporate event? Trying to fit in, so you won’t stand out. Leila El Gharbi used to feel that way. In fact, she was told to dress and act that way. So, she did. Never feeling quite like herself. Struggling to create meaningful connections. But...
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Defeating shame & fear in our Career (w/ Dr. Bryan Sagray)
What if your friend was a surgeon. Teaching, training and helping those in need. You’d probably be thrilled for them, right? What if that friend was also spiraling. Ashamed of their unhappiness but terrified to change their outwardly perfect life. This was Dr. Bryan Sagray. And it took the…
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Getting out of your own way (w/ Victoria Tollossa)
As a kid arriving from the Soviet Union, Victoria Tollossa marveled at Whitney Houston. She wanted to sing like her. Be like her. Share a message. So she worked tirelessly to win in the music industry. She was even nominated for a Grammy. But after years of contorting herself to fit others’...
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Finding meaning in work after your job nearly kills you (w/ Owen McGrann)
He had it all. Fancy job. Nice salary. Prestigious employer. And then he found himself on the operating table trying to stay live. Owen McGrann’s job as a complex case litigator looked really impressive to the outside world. But it was destroying his health so significantly that it almost killed...
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Expressing our emotions is a Career superpower, not a weakness (w/ Lisa Blasser)
How do our chosen families impact our behavior? Why aren’t we all given an equal starting point? And how can we help those that need support? These questions have been foundational to Lisa Blasser’s career. Through her legal practice, her book and her new course, The Law School Operating System,...
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How self-discipline reveals our natural gifts (w/ Mando Sallavanti III)
Your parent is a doctor, so everyone calls you Doc. Because of course, you’ll be a doctor too. But that’s not what you want. You have other gifts. But what if no one else can see them yet? This was the path that Mando Sallavanti III, Financial Planner at a MassMutual agency in Pennsylvania…
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Turning failure into another level of success (w/ Roma Khan)
Imagine living in three different countries by the age of 16. And then feeling such intense pressure to be someone you’re not, that you had to run away from home to pursue who you really are? Roma Khan, CEO of Crush Contracts, and Inventor of GlobalNDA and Zoey, did just that. What she discovered...
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Overcoming family pressure and playing to your strengths (w/ Rob Hanna)
Rob Hanna is the Founder of KC Partners, one the UK’s top legal recruitment firms. He also hosts the top 1% ranked Legally Speaking podcast and is an advisor to, and investor in, multiple companies. But if it was up to one of Rob’s idols, none of this might have happened. Because Rob’s…
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Uncovering Your Natural Gifts Starts Now!
We're finally here and I can't wait to go on this journey with you. Here's a 2 min sneak peek into just a few of the incredible leaders and entrepreneurs we interviewed in Season 1. This show is your shortcut to the tools and tips they spent decades figuring out. Because you deserve to have a...
About this show
The What You're About podcast is hosted by Chad Aboud. Former Lawyer, now Advisor, Coach and TEDx speaker.This show will inspire you to uncover your natural gifts and give you the tools to bring your gifts into your career, so that you're more successful and feel happier.Join me as I interview incredible leaders and entrepreneurs, where we learn how they uncovered their natural gifts and use them to fuel their success and happiness.For more tools and inspiration, follow Chad on YouTube (@chadaboud), LinkedIn and visit www.chadaboud.com.
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