Best Aaron Rotenberg Podcasts (2024)

How can you keep smiling when tragedy strikes… twice? In this episode, Yisroel Besser talks with Yossi Hecht; media personality, author, musician, cancer survivor and husband about his incredibly inspiring life story. They discuss the ways that Yossi was able to harness and exude an incredible simchas hachayim despite losing his ability to walk and…

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Soft Yesses and Blocked Numbers | Take 2 with R’ Tzadok Katz, R’ Meir Levi, & R’ Shlomo Lewenstei 52:09

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When your work puts you inside some of the most sensitive situations in our community, how can you keep from burning out? Have shadchanus fees gone up, and should they? Do all bachurim vape? And can shadchanim drink on Purim? In this episode, Yisroel Besser talks with Rabbi Tzadok Katz, Rabbi Shlomo Lewenstein, and Rabbi Meir Levi, three preeminent…

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Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield - Healing Song 5:50

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From the album Wings of Peace & As The Deer Yearns: https://rebaryeh.bandcamp.com/album/wings-of-peace-as-the-deer-yearnsBy Aaron Rotenberg

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Rabbi Shawn Zevitt - Shma (Listen!) 4:12

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Rabbi Shawn Zevitt - Shma (Listen!) by Aaron RotenbergBy Aaron Rotenberg

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It is Perfect - Reb Zalman 0:51

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It is perfect / You are loved / All is clear, and / I am holy.By Aaron Rotenberg

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Ep. 26 | Michael Fertik on Building Like a Zillion Companies and on Law School 1:08:08

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Today I am talking to Michael Fertik. Michael Fertik is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Heroic Ventures, Reputation, SightGlass, b4.ai, and others. He is also the author of several books of fiction and non-fiction, including the New York Times bestseller The Reputation Economy and a frequent contributor…

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Ep. 25 | Mat Rotenberg of Dashboard Legal - Stop Lawyering Out of Your Inbox 54:00

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In this episode I talk to Mat Rotenberg. Mat is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dashboard Legal. If you're constantly searching through your emails to find documents, updating word checklists or Excel trackers, or just aren't sure which version of a document everyone is working on, Mat is here to save your life. Dashboard Legal is a project management to…

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Ep. 24 | Aliza Shatzman on Accountability in Clerkships 58:13

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In this episode I talk to Aliza Shatzman, President and Founder of the Legal Accountability Project, a nonprofit focused on ensuring that law clerks have positive clerkship experiences. Aliza got her JD from Washington University School of Law where she was an associate editor for the Journal of Law and Policy. After Law School. Aliza clerked in th…

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Ep. 23 | Greg d'Incelli - A Trial Lawyer Launches a Crypto Fund of Funds 42:26

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In this episode, I talk to Greg d'Incelli. Greg is a graduate of the University of Miami Law School and worked for a number of years as a trial lawyer trying plaintiffs’ personal injury cases before he parlayed an interest in crypto into his own crypto investing operation Scenius capital. As you'll hear more in the episode, Scenius runs a fund of f…

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Ep. 22 | Keith Lee on Learning to Market Yourself, Building an Audience, and Whether Law School Makes Financial Sense 49:53

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In this episode I talk to the wonderful Keith Lee. Keith is a graduate of Birmingham School of Law and is a principal at Sidebar Ventures. He is the founder of Associates Mind, a blog on being a better lawyer, and of a paid Slack community for lawyers called Lawyer Smack. Keith is also the author of the Last Week in Law newsletter. In this episode …

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Ep. 21 | Adam Hootnick - Leaving the Law Behind for Documentary Filmmaking 47:51

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In this episode I talk to Adam Hootnick about never using his law degree and pursuing a media and filmmaking career instead. Adam is a graduate of Harvard Law School, but never did anything with his law degree. Instead, he went to work as a production assistant for MSNBC one day before September 11th, 2001. That was a very interesting time to start…

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Ep. 20 | Jordana Confino on Wellness in Law and Leaving the Herd and Finding Your Own Way 54:36

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In this episode I talk to Jordana Confino about her career pivot into wellness in the legal space and about wellness in the legal space. Jordana is a graduate of Yale law school. She serves as the Assistant Dean of Professionalism and an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, where she leads initiatives designed to promote student wellness, leade…

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Ep. 19 | Brian Wood on Playing Poker Instead of Going to Big Law 48:02

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In this episode I talk to Brian Wood, or more accurately, my former co-host, Aaron Shapiro talks to Brian Wood, as my audio was garbled. I’m editing a backlog of episodes and I had a mic issue for a while which we didn’t catch so there are a few episodes like this. Moral of the story is don’t record 10 episodes without listening to them. Brian is t…

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Ep. 18 | Drew Amoroso on Enjoying Your Work and Coaching for Lawyers 50:33

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Drew Amoroso is the CEO of Due Course, a coaching platform for law firms that allows lawyers to find coaches who specialize in helping busy lawyers in a variety of areas like wellbeing, leadership, business development, time management, wise mindsets, and so on. Drew and I get into the coaching craze and why it could be valuable to have someone enc…

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Passion for Tzedakah and Ideals That Don’t Exist | Take 2 with Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky 47:27

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What is the challenge of our generation? In this episode, Yisroel Besser talks with Rav Aaron Lopiansky, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva of Greater Washington. They discuss the Rosh Yeshiva’s written legacy, and how many chiddushei Torah should be out in print today. The Rosh Yeshiva talks about how true gadlus is emes and yashrus, even sometimes instead o…

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Ep. 17 | Doug Bouton - From Big Law to Big Ice Cream 1:07:09

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Doug Bouton is the CEO of Gatsby Chocolate, a low on sugar, high on taste, chocolate brand (now that’s Doug’s claim – I haven’t tasted it yet, and when I do, I’m sure it will be amazing, but if it’s not high on taste, I’ll be sure to lie about it. Nah, Doug has a good track record). He’s also the CEO of Halo Top International, a low calorie, high q…

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Ep. 16 | Michael Bloom — Financial Crisis Grad Becomes Accidental Law School Prof and then Builds Contracts Teaching Software — And is Law School Useful? 48:53

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Michael Bloom is the CEO of Praktio, a platform that helps junior lawyers at law firms learn how to draft contracts, which is used by over 50 of the AM Law 200. Michael graduated from Yale Law into the Financial Crisis and took a voluntary deferral from Sidley Austin. Rather than twiddling his thumbs, Michael found a role teaching a clinical contra…

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Ep. 15 | Raleigh Williams on on Acquiring Small Businesses, Hightailing it out of Big Law and Moving into His Mother in Law’s Basement, Leading the Life You Want, and Other Very Engaging Stuff 56:35

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This is a killer episode. I loved this conversation and I think you're going to enjoy it a lot. I'm talking to Raleigh Williams. Raleigh is the CEO of DealMaven.io, a marketplace for buying and selling small businesses. Raleigh is, of course, a former lawyer and he lasted all of nine months at Skadden before he hightailed it out of there, straight …

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Ep. 14 | Sigalle Barness on Graduating into the Financial Crisis and evolving into Chief Storyteller at Lawline 40:13

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Sometimes you get dumped into rough waters you didn’t know to expect. Sigalle Barness graduated law school right in to the middle of the Financial Crisis and let’s just say at a time that many of her fellow grads were taking work as waitresses(!) or other decidedly non-legal, non-sexy occupations, getting a traditional firm job was not so easy. Com…

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Ep. 13 | Jonathan Vaas on Heading Up Investor Relations at Adobe 55:24

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Jonathan Vaas heads up investor relations at Adobe and loves his job! In this episode we talk about the long path to his current role, how he got there from the legal side, and important lessons he’s learned along the way. Wherever you are on your winding path, come listen and learn from the twists and turns on Jonathan’s so you can walk your’s wit…

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Ep. 12 | Robert James II - On returning to his roots at Carver State Bank 40:53

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Robert James graduated from Harvard Law School with dreams of becoming governor of Georgia. Robert now runs Carver State Bank, a community bank serving underbanked communities in Georgia and one of only 19 (out of 4,500) black-owned banks in the country. Listen to the story of Rob's winding path from the law to his current position as the president…

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Infertility and a Lifelong Undertaking | Take 2 with Rabbi Shlomo Bochner 31:38

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What do you do when Hashem says no? In this episode, Yisroel Besser talks with Rabbi Shlomo Bochner, founder of Bonei Olam, who shares the story of the foundation of the organization, once just intended to fund infertility treatments, but now a huge umbrella of services that help a range of people from single people, through marriage, infertility, …

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Imported Cupcakes and a Yeshivah’s Growth | Take 2 with Rabbi Aaron Kotler 38:08

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How can you make innovations in a yeshivah when the goal is to continue a long mesorah? Did Lakewood have a thriving Jewish nightlife before the yeshivah settled there? In this episode, Yisroel Besser talks with Rabbi Aaron Kotler about the unique position that Rabbi Kotler took in Beis Medrash Govoha, and who he looked to as his inspiration when h…

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Ep. 11 | Jerry Ting - From Law School Startup to $100 Million Series C Raise 45:55

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Jerry Ting was a 2L when he started Evisort, a legal tech company that just raised a $100 million Series C round. Evisort is an AI-software company that helps companies manage their contracts. Jerry had the initial idea for Evisort while working in a clinic in law school and paired up with an MIT student who he was advising to start the company. Th…

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Ep. 10 | Kiwi Camara - From Small Firm to Publicly-Traded Legal Tech Company 57:39

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Kiwi Camara skipped high-school and graduated college at the ripe old-age of 16. He was 19 when he graduated Harvard Law School. This youngster formed a close friendship with his oldest classmate and shortly after graduating they formed their own commercial litigation law firm. It took them six months to land their first client, but they persisted.…

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Ep. 9 | Jared Craft - Associate to Clean Tech Entrepreneur 46:09

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Jared Craft summered at Bingham McCutchen during the financial crisis. At the beginning of the summer, Bingham told the summer class that only half of them would get offers. Yeah, that happens. Jared survived the summer purge and worked there for a bit but then soured on his law firm experience after his (gentler) firm was acquired by another firm …

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Ep. 8 | Jessica Maroney Shillito on Building a Career in Diversity and Recruiting in BigLaw 43:30

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Jessica Shillito has been in Big Law since she graduated from Harvard in 2006, but not as a lawyer. She is one of a number of lawyers who've made the hop from the legal side to a non-legal function in a law firm. After one year of practicing as a labor and employment attorney, Jessica jumped to a recruiting function and built a career as a recruiti…

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Ep. 7 | From Big Law to Big Ten: How Adam Neuman became Chief of Staff of the Big Ten Conference less than two years out of law school 1:00:27

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Adam Neuman is a sports fanatic. Adam is Chief of Staff and right-hand man to Kevin Warren, Commissioner of the Big Ten Conference. He’s less than four years out of law school, and get this, he nabbed this pretty cool position less than two years out of law school. How did Adam do it? Well it’s a bit of a crazy story... And you’ll just have to list…

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Tragedy and Ani Maamin | Take 2 with Shloimi Steinmetz 38:12

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How can the unfathomable pain of losing a child be channeled into something holy? In this moving episode, Yisroel Besser talks with Shloimi Steinmetz, who lost his son Dovi as one of the 45 kedoshim in the Meron tragedy of 2021. Since that trauma shook our nation, Shloimi has channeled his energies into teaching bitachon and emunah to others, relay…

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Songs after Havdalla 3:33

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Songs after Havdalla by Aaron RotenbergBy Aaron Rotenberg

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Havdalla by Aaron RotenbergBy Aaron Rotenberg

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Blessing After Hafata 1:37

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Blessing After Hafata by Aaron RotenbergBy Aaron Rotenberg

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Haftarah for Nyella 3:25

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Judges 13:2-7וַיְהִי֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶחָ֧ד מִצׇּרְעָ֛ה מִמִּשְׁפַּ֥חַת הַדָּנִ֖י וּשְׁמ֣וֹ מָנ֑וֹחַ וְאִשְׁתּ֥וֹ עֲקָרָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א יָלָֽדָה׃וַיֵּרָ֥א מַלְאַךְ־יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶל־הָאִשָּׁ֑ה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלֶ֗יהָ הִנֵּה־נָ֤א אַתְּ־עֲקָרָה֙ וְלֹ֣א יָלַ֔דְתְּ וְהָרִ֖ית וְיָלַ֥דְתְּ בֵּֽן׃וְעַתָּה֙ הִשָּׁ֣מְרִי נָ֔א וְאַל־תִּשְׁתִּ֖י יַ֣יִן וְשֵׁכָ֑ר וְאַל־תֹּאכְלִ֖י כּ…

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Blessing before Haftara 0:54

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Blessing before Haftara by Aaron RotenbergBy Aaron Rotenberg

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Torah Reading for Nyella 1:10

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Torah Reading for Nyella by Aaron RotenbergBy Aaron Rotenberg

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Sim Shalom 2:04

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Sim Shalom by Aaron RotenbergBy Aaron Rotenberg

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Amida_Avot and Gevurot 2:09

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Amida_Avot and Gevurot by Aaron RotenbergBy Aaron Rotenberg

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Hodu, Psalm 136 (Shomrim Hafked Melody) 4:19

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Psalm 136Melody from Shomrim Hafked by Shlomo Carlebachהודוּ לה' כִּי טוב כִּי לְעולָם חַסְדּו:הודוּ לֵאלהֵי הָאֱלהִים כִּי לְעולָם חַסְדּו:הודוּ לַאֲדנֵי הָאֲדנִים כִּי לְעולָם חַסְדּו:לְעשה נִפְלָאות גְּדלות לְבַדּו כִּי לְעולָם חַסְדּו:לְעשה הַשָּׁמַיִם בִּתְבוּנָה כִּי לְעולָם חַסְדּו:לְרוקַע הָאָרֶץ עַל הַמָּיִם כִּי לְעולָם חַסְדּו:לְעשה אורִ…

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Ep. 6 | Samantha Coxe, CEO & Co-Founder of Flaus 57:44

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Samantha Coxe was spending multiple nights on the floor in her office at Skadden when she decided to make her entrepreneurial dreams a reality. After three and a half years as an M&A associate, Sam jumped ship to launch Flaus, a dental wellness company focused first on developing an eco-friendly electric flosser. In this episode we discuss: How Sam…

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Benny’s Favorite Topic and Postville Solos | Take 2 With Benny Friedman 35:09

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Does overexposure exist in today’s media-frantic world? In this episode, Yisroel Besser talks with Benny Friedman about Jewish music, and what it’s really like to make a parnassah in a field that is so unique. They discuss the impact that Avraham Fried and Doni Gross have had on Benny’s career, and what it takes to make great music. Did Avremel adv…

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Ep. 5 | Alex Knight: Corp. Associate to Chief Revenue Officer at Best Company 1:00:30

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Alex Knight always had a hunch that he would ultimately pursue something outside legal practice. So after graduating from Harvard Law School in 2018, and spending just under two years as a corporate associate at Fenwick & West out in California, Alex moved home to Utah to start working as Director of Strategic Initiatives at Best Company, where he …

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Ep. 4 | Jake Yormak: Junior Associate to Founding His Own VC firm 1:03:15

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Hear about how Jake Yormak went from being a junior associate at a premier New York law firm to founding his own venture capital firm, Story Ventures, with his brother If you have input, criticism, or guest suggestions (including yourself) for the podcast, shoot me an email at Joseph@excellentatlife.com. Check out my unbelievably amazing personal g…

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Ep. 3 | Sam CC: Law School Grad to Director at Snap 1:11:34

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If you have input, criticism, or guest suggestions (including yourself) for the podcast, shoot me an email at Joseph@excellentatlife.com. Check out my unbelievably amazing personal growth newsletter at ExcellentatLife.com. The critics are going mad over it so I'm sure you will as well. In the meantime, may you walk your own winding path well. Josep…

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Ep. 2 | Jim Brennan: Federal Clerk to BCG Partner 45:36

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If you have input, criticism, or guest suggestions (including yourself) for the podcast, shoot me an email at Joseph@excellentatlife.com. Check out my unbelievably amazing personal growth newsletter at ExcellentatLife.com. The critics are going mad over it so I'm sure you will as well. In the meantime, may you walk your own winding path well. Josep…