{"podcast":{"title":"The Former Lawyer Podcast","slug":"the-former-lawyer-podcast-743786","podcast_index_feed_id":743786,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2372424.rss","website_url":"https://formerlawyer.com/podcast","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/ljq5ieptocl4c55y1ruivzffamej?.jpg","author":"Sarah Cottrell","episode_count":356,"summary":"Do you hate working as a lawyer? Are you an unhappy lawyer who wants to leave the law, but isn't sure what to do next? Do your family and friends think you're crazy for wanting to leave the law, or are you too afraid to tell them you don't want to be a lawyer? The Former Lawyer Podcast is for you! Each week, host Sarah Cottrell interviews a different former lawyer who has left the law behind. Hear inspiring stories about how these former lawyers are thriving and found their way to careers and lives they love.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T16:23:12.427104+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-former-lawyer-podcast-743786"},"episode":{"title":"What Doing Your Best Is Costing You as a Lawyer","slug":"what-doing-your-best-is-costing-you-as-a-lawyer","published_at":"2026-04-06T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-former-lawyer-podcast-743786/what-doing-your-best-is-costing-you-as-a-lawyer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-former-lawyer-podcast-743786","url":"https://formerlawyer.com/303","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2372424/episodes/18931711-what-doing-your-best-is-costing-you-as-a-lawyer.mp3","summary":"For a lot of lawyers, hearing \"just do your best\" as a kid didn't feel reassuring. It felt like a requirement to give every ounce of everything they had until there was literally nothing left. That's not incidental. The kind of person who interprets \"do your best\" that way is often exactly the kind of person who ends up becoming a lawyer. And that standard follows them. In this episode of The Former Lawyer Podcast, Sarah Cottrell talks about what that standard is actually costing lawyers who ...","meta_description":"For a lot of lawyers, hearing \"just do your best\" as a kid didn't feel reassuring. It felt like a requirement to give every ounce of everything they had u…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":438,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-former-lawyer-podcast-743786/episodes/what-doing-your-best-is-costing-you-as-a-lawyer/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-former-lawyer-podcast-743786/what-doing-your-best-is-costing-you-as-a-lawyer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}