Episode

Making a Career Change When You're Afraid of Getting It Wrong with Kelcey Baker

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The Former Lawyer Podcast
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Jun 8, 2026
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Summary

Going to law school felt like the right call. For some lawyers it felt like the obvious call, backed up by experience, by personality, by everything they knew about themselves at the time. So when practicing law turns out to be a bad fit, the harder part is that the decision felt so right going in. If they were wrong about something they were that sure about, how can they trust themselves to choose anything else? That fear is what keeps so many lawyers where they are, even when staying is act...