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The Legal Burnouts

Kate Bridal, Josey Hoff, and Rhia Batchelder

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Join former nonprofit attorney Kate Bridal, former paralegal Josey Hoff, and former BigLaw attorney Rhia Batchelder as they get real about all the stuff that leads to burnout in the legal industry and beyond. Through honest, good-humored conversations with each other and their guests, Kate, Josey, and Rhia offer solutions, laugh to keep from crying, and normalize the conversation around burnout. If you're interested in booking Rhia and/or Kate to speak at your company, firm, or conference, s ...
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Transcending Humanity Podcast

Transcending Humanity Podcast

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Transcending Humanity is a podcast by the trans/enby/gnc community and our Allies. Season 1 focused primarily on the Transgender experience, and now starting in Season 2 we will be covering humanity in general from a leftist/liberal perspective. Current events, politics, human rights and more will be discussed, from both trans and cis perspectives! We'll continue to have guests of many specialties and backgrounds! Tune in every week! Video versions of the show are also available on YouTube.
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The Feast is Life

D.B. Mars and Dream

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The Feast is Life is a podcast dedicated to NBC’s short-lived but much-beloved television series Hannibal, starring Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy. The show is not another episode analysis series. Instead, your hosts — fanfiction writers Dream and D.B. Mars — deep dive into references made in the show, investigating everything from the mythology behind Botticelli’s Primavera to the appeal of torture museums. Featuring special guests who bring something exceptional to the fandom, this podcast ...
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Do you wish you could make more money in your wedding business, but need someone who can provide simple wedding marketing strategies and just tell you what to do next? Do you know you can close the couples who come to you, but can’t always get them to book a call and talk to you? Do you want more of your perfect couples contacting you, and fewer budget brides and dead-end leads? Do you know you’re great at what you do, but worry you’re not looking professional enough to your couples and it’s ...
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What do you stan? Hosted by real Pop-Culture Professors, Caitlin Bitzegaio and Lauren Brickman, We Stan Together podcast is smart people about dumb topics. The history of pop culture is a rich, wild, and ever expanding playground. Not to mention, a full time job. Who has time to read every Insta post, think piece, and Twitter thread? Don’t worry, we did, so you don’t have to. We’ll be your CliffsNotes to pop culture. Listen in each week and you’ll be a hit at whatever happy hour, office func ...
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Send us a Text Message. In this hilarious yet heartfelt episode of Transcending Humanity, host Vanessa welcomes guest host Kate Bridal (Hannibal Lecter's Girlfriend) and special guest Chloe Anna Milligan for an in-depth exploration of the challenges and triumphs at the intersection of faith, identity, and queerness. Titled "Too Queer to be Christia…
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Have a seat at the table with our very first special guest, Kate Bridal, creator of the hilarious "Living with Lecter" sketch comedy series on TikTok and Instagram. Kate describes her background, creative process, and how she crafted a character that Hannibal wouldn't want to kill... yet. Also, sneak peak of another fic DB is writing for the patreo…
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Send us a Text Message. In Episode 47 of the Transcending Humanity Podcast, hosts Vanessa Joy and guest Sarah Wayte delve into their personal experiences with late diagnosis of neurodiversity and the challenges they face in balancing this with high-intensity careers. Both Vanessa and Sarah share how understanding and accepting their neurodivergent …
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Send us a Text Message. Join Vanessa Joy in this engaging episode of the Transcending Humanity Podcast as she dives into an insightful conversation with the brilliant copywriter Emily Aborn. This episode is packed with insights and laughs as Vanessa and Emily discuss the art of copywriting, the importance of brand blueprints, and the challenge of w…
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Send us a Text Message. "Bring your personality out and inject it into your products to make them more personal." This week, Vanessa and Jenni interview Jonna Michelle, a personal brand photography expert, and an avid proponent of anti-corporate branding! In her own words: "I’m here to shine a light on the rebellious small business owners, creative…
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We’re ending Season 2 with a bang! In this episode, Kate and Rhia are joined by Reshma Saujani, leading activist and the founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First, formerly Marshall Plan for Moms. Reshma has spent more than a decade building movements to fight for women and girls’ economic empowerment, most recently advocating for policies to suppor…
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Send us a Text Message. Vanessa and Jess discuss Pride events and the discourse surrounding them. They talk about the importance of supporting Pride events and the need for inclusivity. They also touch on the controversy of bringing children to Pride and the role of law enforcement at these events. Overall, they emphasize the importance of creating…
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Send us a Text Message. Dr. Cecile Ferrando, a urogynecologist specializing in gender affirming surgery, discusses her journey into medicine and her focus on gender affirming surgeries. She explains the difference between vaginoplasty and vulvoplasty, the various procedures she performs, and the importance of revisions in achieving the desired outc…
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It’s Josey’s last episode as co-host of The Legal Burnouts, so Kate and Rhia bid her a fond farewell and learn more about why she’s leaving and her next steps. Josey opens up about her current burnout, which stems mainly from physical injuries she sustained over a year ago. Josey didn’t address the injuries at the time they happened due to a combin…
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This week, Kate and Rhia are joined by Rhia’s law school classmate Faridat Arogundade, a former Biglaw attorney who has created her own high-quality, plus-sized fashion line, Ìfẹ́mi. Faridat honestly and insightfully discusses her experience as a plus-sized Black woman in Biglaw and society in general. In her 8 years as a Biglaw attorney, Faridat …
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Transcending Humanity, Jess takes the lead, joined by Vanessa and our guest to Misty discuss supporting queer businesses, the definition of a taco, the background story of Euphoria Threads, marketing strategies, and the Pride collection. They also explore the challenges of holding inventory, the importance…
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In Kate and Josey’s final guest interview together, they talk with the man who inspired them to start The Legal Burnouts, Kyle Kelly. Kyle, a former digital forensics professional, worked at tiny companies like Salesforce and Coinbase before deciding to break off and create his own legal technology. He is now the CEO and founder of Zubu, the world’…
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Send us a Text Message. Jess and Vanessa are joined by Jenni, co-host of the Long Term Pickles podcast! We aimed for a lighter theme this week, as last episode was a bit... heavy. Of course, as we're wont to do, we do get into heavier stuff at the end. Ope. Enjoy the show! We had fun doing this, and Vanessa has been itching to share her Natalie Kne…
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This week, Rhia and Kate speak to Megan Senese, cofounder of Stage, a women-owned legal marketing and business development firm that offers- among many other services- a free program to support working parents before and after parental leave. This program, called Courderoy, was partially inspired by Megan’s previous experience hiding her pregnancy …
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Send us a Text Message. CONTENT WARNING! This episode features a lot of conversation around suicide and self harm. Listener & viewer discretion is advised! We're back! This week, Taryn and Vanessa are your Aunties giving advice on some pretty deep stuff. Vanessa kind of... well, went off the rails a month ago, which we talk about in this episode. W…
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Content warning: This episode contains discussions of infertility and miscarriage. In honor of National Infertility Awareness Week, Kate and Rhia are joined by fertility activist (and aspiring cyborg) Emily Petrich, who went from suffering through infertility in silence, to speaking out about her experience on social media, to becoming an activist …
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This week, in a very special episode, The Newfangled Lawyer (Patrick Patino) crosses over with The Legal Burnouts (Kate Bridal and Rhia Batchelder) to talk baked potatoes, burnout, and how to make the law a kinder profession. Patrick, Kate, and Rhia discuss unleashing themselves on social media, whether it’s possible to practice law in a way that a…
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Josey and Kate’s dreams come true when they get to nerd out over the Enneagram with none other than Enneagram Ashton! Ashton Whitmoyer-Ober is a community psychologist, certified Enneagram educator, author, and Enneagram Type 2. She walks Kate (Type 3) and Josey (Type 5) through each Enneagram type and how burnout may manifest for them. The Enneagr…
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Send us a Text Message. Transcending Humanity is a year old! Taryn and Jess join Vanessa to recap the past year and chat about current events! The show is refocusing, working less on the trans experience and more on humanity in general. In the future you can expect content to be focused more on politics, current events, interviews with various expe…
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Kate and Rhia are joined by Paula Liub, an anti-burnout coach specifically for neurodivergent and highly sensitive women. Paula talks about grappling with burnout as a neurodivergent woman, her struggle to get a diagnosis, and how she came to her work promoting neurodivergent wellness. Paula uses a unique blend of science-backed and mindfulness tec…
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Kate and Rhia chat with Neil Handwerker and Kimberly Fine, founders of ex judicata, the only employment site specifically designed to help lawyers find nonlegal jobs. Lawyers are told that their law degrees will open all sorts of doors for them, but they often feel stuck and struggle to find suitable alternative careers. Kim and Neil saw this gap a…
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Send us a Text Message. Main episode content starts at 6:26 Kate Bridal of the Legal Burnouts Podcast joins Taryn and Vanessa to talk about burnout, in life, the workplace, as well as the trans community! Follow Kate on IG and TikTok at bridalpartyof5 Follow The Legal Burnouts Podcast on IG and TikTok at thelegalburnouts Opening song: "Sing for Me"…
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This episode was originally supposed to be a discussion of recent DEI team layoffs, then a lighthearted career clarity session between Rhia and Kate. But when recording happened… that wasn’t the vibe. Instead of the career clarity portion, Josey, Kate, and Rhia grappled with their feelings around the recent IFV decision in Alabama. In what is maybe…
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Send us a Text Message. Jess and Taryn join Vanessa to talk about the devastating tragedy around the assault and death of Nex Benedict, a child just trying to make his way through his high school years in Owasso, Oklahoma. His Name was Nex Benedict. Remember him. Cherish his memory. Links: Sean Cummings: https://www.tiktok.com/@sean_cummings_irish_…
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This week, Kate and Rhia are joined by Career Coach and recovering perfectionist, Jordana Confino. Jordana shares her high achiever origin story, from chasing achievement in high school, to law school at Yale, to a series of career choices that kept burning her out. She then shares how she used science-backed, positive psychology to go from debilit…
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Send us a Text Message. Vanessa and Taryn are joined by a gaggle of trans femmes to talk about trans femme stuff. Does it get raunchy? You'll just have to listen to find out! Vanessa tries to guide the conversation a bit, but honestly winds up putting her foot in her mouth a few times... Our guests: Charli Kate Gemma Jacqueline Stefanya River Rowan…
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This episode contains references to genocide, violence, and self-harm. Listener discretion is advised. On their first guest episode together, Kate and Rhia interview Vanessa Joy, champion of equality and communication, Host/Executive Producer of the Transcending Humanity podcast, and former political candidate (who also happens to be transgender). …
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We’re baaaaack! In the Season 2 premiere Kate, Josey, and new cohost Rhia Batchelder nerd out about crosswords, logic games, and puzzles. Then they dive into that Jo Koy comment at the Golden Globes, Barbie’s Oscar snubs, and how those events reflect the burnout crisis among women.* *At the time of this recording, we hadn’t seen the news about the …
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Send us a Text Message. This week, Erica and Vanessa are joined by trans siblings Christi and Jenni from the UK! The US and the UK seem to be battling to see which country can be the most horrible towards trans people. We talk about the intricacies of being trans and gender nonconforming across the pond. You can find our siblings on Instagram! Chri…
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Send us a Text Message. BECOME A PATRON! We love your support! patreon.com/TranscendingHumanity Trans Joy with Erica returns! This week she's joined by Jess, Vanessa and Zach to bring some more uplifting conversation to the mix. Support the Show. Transcending Humanity Podcast Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/TranscendingHumanity Merch Shop:…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome back! Vanessa found herself in the news suddenly, as her candidacy was DISQUALIFIED by the Stark County, Ohio Board of Elections due to an oft-overlooked law requiring candidates who have change their names within the past 5 years to include their former (in Vanessa's case, her deadname) on petitions. HOWEVER... the …
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Send us a Text Message. This week, Jess leads, joined by Erica and Rachel! We discuss the ins-and-outs of traveling as a gender nonconforming person. Tips, tricks and stories! Travel can be dangerous for folx like us; we hope this episode gives you more awareness and confidence! Links from Jess: Refugee Restrooms: http://www.refugerestrooms.org The…
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Truth time: When was the last time you raised your rates in your wedding business? Has it been years? Have you added in new services, equipment, techniques, etc. - but kept your rates the same? Wedding pro, you are worth so much more than what you're likely charging right now...but how do you know if it's the right time to raise your rates? Listen …
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My guest this week is Anne-Marie Rabago, the founder and principal of Modern Juris, which provides tools, training, and support to help lawyers build financially sustainable businesses designed to serve the latent legal market. Anne-Marie started her legal career at Pricewaterhousecoopers, then launched a solo tax law practice before transitioning …
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My guest today is Kate Bridal, a former lawyer turned legal tech marketer turned co-host of The Legal Burnouts podcast. We explore her professional journey, from drama school to working with primates (yes, seriously - she got to sign with chimps), to law and beyond. Kate shares with us how she's navigated the pressures of the legal profession, her …
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Send us a Text Message. This week, Taryn and Vanessa are joined by noted author and former New Hampshire politician Lisa Bunker! We discuss the ins and outs of being Trans/Enby in politics, as well as Lisa's passion as a published author! Lisa Bunker (they/them or vo/ven) has written stories all veir life. Before setting up shop as a full-time auth…
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Did you know there are actually two kinds of wedding leads you're always working with? These are two very different groups of couples who are looking to book you at any given time...and if you know how to help them both, it could mean doubling or even tripling your revenue. In this episode, I'm sharing the difference between Buy Now and Buy Later c…
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Send us a Text Message. If you've been thinking about receiving vocal feminization and/or tracheal shave surgeries, this episode is for you! Vanessa is joined by the wonderful Dr Abie Mendelsohn of the Los Angeles Center for Ear, Nose, Throat and Allergy. Amongst his many skills, he specializes in vocal feminization, as well as a newly developed NO…
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We know we said we were done, but we couldn’t end a season with 13 episodes. It’s too spooky. So in honor of Halloween, Kate and Josey got together in Seattle for a special bonus episode. Dressed as best friends Keeley and Rebecca from Ted Lasso, Kate and Josey were quizzed by Kate’s real-life best friend Larkin Harrington (AKA Ted) on how well the…
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Send us a Text Message. Taryn, Zach and Vanessa chat about the new MAGA Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, as well as the absolute madness surrounding gun control in the US. Conservative politicians have failed at humanity. Support the Show. Transcending Humanity Podcast Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/TranscendingHumanity Merch Shop: htt…
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Our guest today is Sejal Thakkar, a former employment law attorney, a 2X TEDx speaker, and the Founder and Chief Civility Officer at TrainXtra, a woman/minority- owned training consulting firm, where she helps leaders create positive, safe, and respectful workplaces through customized training and coaching. In this episode, we discuss: Sejal realiz…
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Send us a Text Message. This week, Rachel and Vanessa talk about the goings on in their lives, as well as why we automatically gender words that aren't actually gendered. When you think of a doctor, what gender do you picture? A teacher? A lawyer? A nurse? For some follow-up reading, Rachel suggests this article: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article…
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Send us a Text Message. Vanessa found herself solo this week, so she took the opportunity to talk about getting out and voting... WE'RE LOOKING AT YOU, MILLENIALS!!! She also talks about her current goal of running for office. Go vote. Now. Support the Show. Transcending Humanity Podcast Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/TranscendingHumanity…
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In the final episode of the first season, Kate and Josey take a deeper dive into their most recent, shared burnout experience, including how constant change is a recipe for quick and severe burnout, and how hopping to something "easier" from the legal field can make you feel unentitled to burn out. They also discuss what they’ve learned this season…
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Send us a Text Message. This week we interview the legendary Landon Reid - aka June Rogers - about his experiences in drag, creating his character and dealing with Creepy Conservative Men! We also delve into the nuances of being Gen Z and how Millennials need to get out and vote in order to secure a solid future for Gens Z and Alpha. Be sure to fol…
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