Beating the Sunday Scaries and Finding Joy In Life and Business After Law

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Episode 032 of The Former Lawyer Podcast, I’m sharing my conversation with Shunta Grant. Shunta left legal practice in 2015 to run her then side-hustle,</span> <a href= "https://www.becauseofzoe.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Because of Zoe Designs</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, full-time. She has since started a second business teaching women how to build businesses on the other side of busy, and is launching a third business, the Best Today™ Brand, to help all women learn how to build lives on the other side of busy.</span></p> <p><strong>In this conversation, Shunta shares about:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Going to a meeting in high school that was supposed to be for students interested in student council that turned out to be a meeting for mock trial, and discovering she loved mock trial and was great at it;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Applying to college thinking that she was going to be pre-med, and why she chose law school instead;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Having a “checklist” of all the things that she should accomplish in law school as a high achiever;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she grew to dislike her law firm job so much that when Sunday evening would roll around, she could feel the dread creeping in;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How missing a coworker’s wedding and being forced to work on a planned trip was the last straw for her;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The exact moment she turned to her husband and told him she was going to quit;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she knew that going to another law firm wouldn’t fix the problem;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why sh