Podcasts To Increase Well-Being, Learn Lawyering Skills, And Be A Better Human

Here's a list to get you started if you're not a podcast listener.

Woman With Green Headphones Listens Podcast Music Tablet PCI’m a podcast junkie. It’s great way to increase knowledge, get inspired while I’m commuting, working out, gardening, or doing the dishes.

Here’s the list to get you started if you’re not a podcast listener, or would like to expand your list.

The Happy Lawyer Project

Okeoma Moronu is an associate at Baker Botts and a talented host who brings in guests who share practical life and career advice. Happy Lawyer Project is a weekly interview-based podcast for millennial lawyers looking to find happiness in life and law. The guests share their inspirational stories and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. The podcast is for lawyers in the early years of their career who are interested in tips and strategies for creating a lifestyle they love. [iTunes]

Happy Lawyer, Happy Life

Hosted by Clarissa Rayward. She is a family lawyer, wife, and mom. She’s in Australia and so you also get her awesome accent as well as very practical advice. She has a pleasant way of making guests feel at ease and opening up about their life stories. [Website, iTunes]

The Gen Why Lawyer

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Nicole Abboud focuses on young lawyers who are taking a chance on themselves, who are thinking of their lives and careers from unique perspectives, and who are unapologetically themselves. She interviews young attorneys who are shaking up the legal industry and who are practicing law on their own terms. They share their stories of successes, failures, and everything in between. [Website, iTunes]

Hustle & Flow

Heather Hubbard is a former partner and practice group leader at an Am Law 200 law firm. She takes you behind the scenes and gives you unfiltered advice about how to succeed in the legal industry. Each week she addresses a topic related to “hustle” (such as marketing, business development, confidence, leadership, and negotiations) or “flow” (such as mindfulness, balance, motivation, meditation, well-being, and happiness). [Website, iTunes]

Office Talk

Annette Stepanian has candid conversations with game-changing entrepreneurs as they share insights on how they’re designing a business and life on their terms. Also, Annette answers FAQs about law and business in her Legal Quickie episodes. [WebsiteiTunes]

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The Law School Toolbox

Alison Monahan and Lee Burgess’s podcast aims to demystify the law school and early legal career experience, so you’ll be the best law student (and lawyer!) you can be. Suitable for pre-laws, law students, and young lawyers. [Website, iTunes]

Life of the Law

While technically not a podcast on lawyering, I love this podcast for their investigative journalism, storytelling, and discussions about all things law. [Website, iTunes]

The Resilient Lawyer

Last but not least, I invite you to check out my podcast, The Resilient Lawyer. I interview lawyers, entrepreneurs, and change agents who are creating a career on their own term. No surprise, I talk about maintaining your well-being, mindfulness, and living with joy. [Website, iTunes]


Jeena Cho HeadshotJeena Cho is the author of The Anxious Lawyer: An 8-Week Guide to a Joyful and Satisfying Law Practice Through Mindfulness and Meditation (affiliate link). She regularly speaks and offers training on mindfulness and meditation. You can reach her at hello@jeenacho.com or @jeena_cho on Twitter.