In this inspiring episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, host Shahid Durrani sits down with Robert Hanna—founder of KC Partners and host of the Legal Speaking Podcast. Rob shares how he turned his grandfather’s legacy into a global force in legal talent solutions. From innovative podcasting strategies to groundbreaking ideas in legal technology, Rob reveals how he built a platform that empowers legal professionals, champions mental health, and promotes diversity in a traditionally rigid industry.
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Welcome back to Super Entrepreneurs
Podcast. I'm your host, Shahed Dani. The
show where we dive into the minds of
high-erforming entrepreneurs,
innovators, and worldclass leaders. If
you're someone who's always looking to
grow, push limits, think, and do bigger,
you're in the right place. Today, we
have Robert Hannah. Rob is the founder
and managing director of KC Partners, a
global leader in legal talent solutions.
He's also the host of the acclaimed
legal speaking podcast where he explores
the dynamic world of law with industry
leaders and innovators. Rob is also
deeply committed to advancing mental
health awareness, diversity, and
inclusion within the legal profession.
He gets his inspiration from his
grandfather's legacy as the pioneering
lawyer in the 1950s.
Rob, it's a pleasure to have you on the
show, my friend. Right back at you. I'm
a big fan of the show and really
appreciate the the warm introduction and
even how we're kicking the tires off air
and I think that's the beauty of
podcasting, right? You get to really
connect with people and yeah, I love it.
Love your energy. Love your show.
Pleasure to be here. Oh, yeah. Same
here. It was great. Right off the bat,
when you meet someone right before the
recording, you just know it's going to
be a phenomenal episode. The energy
speaks so much louder than the words can
ever. So yeah, I'm grateful to have you
on the show and see how we can add value
here. Yeah, absolutely. And I'm very
much in your hands, but I always say
everything is energy. I think if you can
put everything into it, same here. And
it's reciprocated and I think that's
really been we'll probably touch into
entrepreneurship and all of that good
stuff. I think it's the energy that
really is almost a superpower in some
respects. Yeah. And so do you find are
you aware that depending on your energy
levels throughout your career,
throughout your life? if you're a young
guy, but I'm just saying throughout your
career, did you notice as your energy
levels elevated, your success elevated,
or did you notice a connection between
how you felt, how you were energized,
and what you were doing? Yeah, I think
now as I'm late 30s, one thing I have
noticed is I need to put more in to keep
the energy levels that I had when I was
in my sort of early career of my 20s and
building and starting businesses etc
etc. But it's now as of today coming on
to this podcast my my energy levels are
the same but I'm making sure that I'm
doing the run. I'm looking after myself.
I'm putting all the work in to ensure
that I can keep those energy levels nice
and high. And the other thing I always
say you've got radio be that mentors, be
that family, people that you look up to
who can coach, teach, bring good energy
your way. That's super helped. So I
learned quite early on into my journey
of business that I want to be around a
lot more radiators than people that
necessarily drain your energy. So that's
been super important for me. Cool. Yeah,
for me I shifted that all around. what
you're saying I completely agree with
because your environment has a lot to do
with the type of energy that you hold
because it influence you but what I did
and the people that we work with what we
do is we shift that focus from outside
to internally. So when we shift the
focus internally we only concentrate on
the energy levels within. So we amplify
the feelings, the thoughts, the feelings
and we amplify how we feel in our body
in momentby-moment basis throughout the
day. We practice it like a sport. And
then what we do is then we interact with
others not having them allow them to
have an impact on my emotional state but
respecting and dealing with them just
from a gap if that makes sense. Now
things can become sometimes chaotic, but
you're just step away and you're dealing
with life from that gap and it just
makes everything more easier because now
you're a beacon for goodness because you
just feel phenomenal and then you
experience that phenomenal around you in
experiences because you start seeing the
circumstances situations they start
shifting to match that energy. Yeah. And
I think it's almost setting and
protecting your boundaries. And a
mentality very early on is have a
concrete mindset. And so the more like
to you're saying setting that distance,
setting that sort of that for me is like
what I call a concrete mindset in terms
of I'm not prepared to let these sort of
maybe a ne because every idea and what
you're saying off air as well. You're
one crazy idea away from a very
successful business, a very successful
we were just talking about. Yeah. the
one that we're not going to share that's
highly under NDA from both of us.
I usually share everything, but I out of
respect for you because you're in a
legal world and I want to be very
careful. Yeah, I've already got the word
NDA in there. What am I talking about?
But no, I think I'm a big believer in be
around big thinkers, different thinkers,
innovators, because most people will
think your ideas suck. And if you look
at any breakthrough technology, you look
at any breakthrough business, logically
they don't make sense. but they make
sense to the people that have these big
ideas and visions and carry it through.
So yeah, I'm a big advocate for if
you're get around a lot of people that
say those ideas aren't right, those
aren't ideas are right, don't do that,
never do that, never do that. Maybe some
of them might be right, but you might
want to also go in a room where certain
people have an open mind to build on an
idea. Yeah. Yeah. I'm also impressed how
you're trailblazing the podcasting world
when it comes to legal profession. Can
you share what inspired you to start
that podcast? It's a it's very dear to
me. what I did and this pivot I did
during co but I just wondering if
there's a story behind your podcast.
Yeah. And if you'll just humor me for a
moment just to put some context. You
very kindly gave an overview at the
beginning. I guess why I do all of this
have a podcast this that and the other
is it does go back to my late
grandfather as you referenced there and
I'll just share a very quick story. Many
years ago when I was a young kid I went
to his house and he would have been 10
15 years postretirement at this stage.
So he'd ran his law firm, retired,
exited, and every year I'd go and
there'd be more and more Christmas cards
delivered to his house. And I'd say to
my grandfather at the time, "Wow, I
didn't realize you had that many
friends." And he would say, "They're not
all friends." And I said, "Who's sending
you Christmas cards?" He said,
"Clients." And I was like, "But you
retired 15 years ago." And he says,
"Yes, but these are clients thanking me
for the work that I've done and the
generations beneath them's children that
have been grateful for the work that my
firm did, updating me on when they're
having children, grandchildren, all the
amazing work that the firm did for them
and help them throughout their
journeys." And that really stuck with me
and that was in an offline world and I
knew that one day I wanted to set up
some entrepreneurial I wanted to carry
on that entrepreneurial flare and indeed
carry that legacy in legal. And so 2016
I set up a legal recruiting business.
But I know very early on that being an
early entrance and new entrance into
that market, I needed to do something
which was different, which was new,
which was alternative. So we became the
first UK legal recruiting podcast. Okay.
So we launched that very early late 2018
because people were like, what's a
podcast? What is this? Like particularly
over here, we're always behind the US
anyway and Canada. So it's nice to nice
to be early to something. And I use that
as a thought leadership tool to business
develop to get out there. But also
principally because I have a mission
which we call is to inspire legal minds
and transform legal futures. I'm I'm
leaving a digital legacy, a traceable
legacy.
My daughter one day wants to go and see
what dad did when he was on Shahed's
great podcast or when he was doing this
when I was collaborating with Gary
Vaynerchuk on a LinkedIn live or
whatever it might have been that I was
doing that she can go and reference that
and it's there because that's the only
thing that I can't at the moment is it's
only in my mind from those memories but
I can't go and search anything because I
was in an offline world. So my purpose
is linked back to continue that legacy
to do well to influence and inspire
people in the legal community but in an
forward innovative different fashion. So
we were the first legal show to do web
three to look at some creator coins to
go into discord to gify the show to
bring Carol Baskin from Tiger King on at
the time when Netflix was the most Tiger
King was the most watched show in the
world and link that to the legal
audience. So we're always pushing
boundaries, doing interesting things.
But that's really the wise. I want to
carry that legacy on in
legal and just beyond your family,
beyond your kids, even generations,
great grandkids, right? They're going to
be also looking at this and also people
that are out there part of the show, you
will just evolve with them as
generations progress. Because with AI,
who really knows if this will ever end
because the AI is going to become more
and more intelligent. So even when we
pass on, who knows what will happen. I'm
not saying the end result, but I'm just
saying that there might be a potential
where we live on to add value in a more
artificial way that still gives a good
punch or good value punch to people, but
it because it's evolving, is getting is
understanding it way better, it's
becoming more intelligent, is providing
more value where it's needed at that
time because everything can shift in
time. So, we don't know where this is
going to go. And I'm very similar to you
with this show. I struggle so much in
business and I see so many people very
frustrated especially people that go
into business from 9 to5 they were
thinking that it's something glamorous
and they and I was the same way thought
it would be easy and I was working
double the time that I did at a job and
I and there's a lot of people out there
like that they don't realize it's the
internal that needs to shift to make the
outside different so that's why trying
to bring that voice out but on top of
that my kids because with kids is just
it's different relationships with kids,
parents like you can try to coach them
but say dad or blah blah you know what I
mean it's oh again you're going to say
that again it's different that when
people want help when they ask for help
is completely different but later on as
kids mature they start grabbing that
that internal value they have for their
parent and what they did and I'm hoping
you know the content is going to be out
there I'm hoping they're going to watch
it and gain some knowledge to what they
need to do wisdom what they need to do
internally from all these wonderful
people all over the world sharing their
vision, sharing their message to help
them make it create a better comfortable
life because everything on the outside
is going to be chaotic but we need to be
more stable within and that's what I'm
hoping with the show. Yeah. And I think
you're doing a tremendous job with the
guests that you're bringing on and and
the way that you're obviously creating
huge reach and that's one of the
beautiful things of podcasting. And if I
go back to my journey to the question
you said there was a huge COI which I
call everyone think focuses on ROI which
is obviously return on investment but
cost of inaction I think is so important
to consider and cost of inaction good
there would have been a real cost like
we wouldn't starting the podcast to be
as a feeder to my legal recruiting
business which now has helped in terms
of candidates come to us clients come to
us we can engage we can build community
but then it's moved into now it's a
legal media like probably of your show
you have sponsors you have we're lucky
that we started from in a room nobody
listening to us being top 1% in the
world. We're sponsored by a three
billion dollar the world's largest legal
tech company in Cleo and we've retained
that relationship since 2021 through to
now I invest in legal tech businesses
and so none of that would have happened
none of these opportunities LinkedIn top
voice helping LinkedIn with product
rollouts getting into businesses fast
growth businesses sitting at the table
none of that would have happened if I'd
have focused on the ROI I focused on
there's a real opportunity and I don't
want that COI to go missing so anyone
sat there particularly when you talk
about AI because none of us can predict.
I think it's I think it's crazy if
anyone thinks they can look into a
crystal ball because AI is what when you
get super intelligence, they're already
going to be bigger and better than the
human brain. So, no one living on this
planet can actually currently tell you
what it's going to look like. If we can
have educated guests and opinions, and
of course, that's a scary thought,
particularly someone, you know, we're
bringing children into this world. But,
you got to think about it. If you're
thinking about a business now and it's a
crazy idea in your head, I encourage you
to get in a room where you're around
people that will actually flesh out that
idea more because we're living in a
world of a value pyramid with AI. So
technology is coming in. So imagine
technology is coming through the
pyramid. So you look at a lot of things.
Let's use legal as an example. The world
that I'm in, I recruit for technology is
coming in that can do basic level
research that can do first level
drafting with generative AI now. So
unless you're as a lawyer or whatever
profession you are, doctor, accountant,
unless you're moving your value
proposition up this pyramid, then you do
run the risk of potentially AI taking
over or indeed adapting and reshaping
that role. So you've got to ensure when
you're looking at these crazy ideas that
I encourage everyone to think about that
it's going to be ahead of this kind of
pyramid that I see and the way I
describe it.
I really like the cost of inaction. And
the COI is is amazing. And what we do
when you add value to others is you're
participating in a law that the Emerson
called the law of laws. The law of cause
and effect. Y when you focus on adding
value, when you focus on doing good for
others,
automatically as a side effect, goodness
comes your way. Hey, I know a lot of
people don't believe this, but man, if
you just practice it, if you just give
it a shot, if people are genuinely go
that route and we focus on others,
ultimately we see that coming not from
that person. You don't really expect it
from that person, but it comes from
various areas. And the partnerships that
you made and the sponsor is so amazing.
I didn't really hustle to go and find
global PR agencies and firms to work
with us and all that. I didn't it just
came. I'm not trying to see it's how
many views I'm going to get, how many
downloads I'm going to get. I'm just
doing my best. What we could do is take
something from you, give it to the
people so we can impact together. We can
impact a life. Even if we impact one
life, hey, that's good, man. Good day.
It's amazing. And look, collaboration is
domination. So the more people you can
collaborate with the more impact you can
do to amplify and what you're doing and
similar to me is you're trying to be
authentic and you shouldn't we are being
authentic
and that's where people that's where you
can build trust and you can build
relationships and you can we're no
longer in this friends of mine describe
it as B2B B toC it's no longer that it's
H to H it's human to human connection
it's how can we increase that human
connection and love it I think it's
really important that people understand
that don't just be straight out for
what's the immediate win for me. Put
good things out to the world and you
will attract your tribe and you can
speak to that. I can speak to that. And
I can tell you the other thing that's
really important, luckily enough, I've
been in sales and done deals and you can
do millions of pounds of deals and all
of this great stuff. But the intrinsic
value you get from saying, "Hey, I just
listened to that piece of podcast Rob
you did and that helped me get that
piece of wisdom that got a job
application." That for me is like the
intrinsic value you get from building
community, putting things out there is
it's just good for the soul. And that's
something to me and you look at to the
legacy piece and you think that's doing
the job. I'm doing the job. Yes, of
course you need to make sure that
whatever you're doing in business, if
you're for profofit, you need to get the
numbers right. But I tell you once you
get to a stage in business, that
intrinsic value is a worth 10fold.
Yeah. Man, we can I love this because I
just another idea just came to mind
about our idea that we talked about in
the beginning when you were speaking.
I'm sorry if I probably missed some of
it because my mind went to the idea. You
never want to do that right before you
record a podcast about a phenomenal
idea. But anyway, a unicorn idea, but
hey, you know what? Yeah, it just hits
you, right? The ideas keep coming
afterwards. It's like you just tapped
into a connection of some source just
keeps downloading information. But no,
it's phenomenal. I'm grateful to met
you, man. And some of my most incredible
relationships I'm building is through
this podcast all over the world. and
genuine. It's what can I do for you kind
of attitude and is I'm so grateful to
attract people like you into my life and
I just want to share share a thank you
with you right to that we met and how we
met and how you came on this show and
everything is just little things that
have happened dots that have been
connected to make this happen right now
but I'm just grateful overall for this
opportunity especially for what you're
doing for other people because the
heartto-heart is so important that we
more of it and we're seeing more of it
especially since co is there's a lot
more focus from the macho to more to
love and the love is a foundational
energy that is
phenomenally powerful once you tap into
it once your heart is filled with it and
you just good things just keep happening
and this is another example but another
question I have for you can you share
some innovative strategies that you have
implemented that helped you grow the
firm in this competitive market. Yeah, I
think let's use the podcast as so
originally the podcast that I started
was you imagine I'm I didn't come from a
legal recruiting background. I came from
procurement, energy, supply chain. So I
had about 10 years and I was a director
in other business. But remember go back
to my why. I wanted to do something in
legal. So, I got to the stage where I
was like, I want to set up a legal
business and use my talent and skills,
which at the time was that talent
solutions recruiting. And I knew very
early on that I can't compete and ring
up a partner of a law firm or an owner
of a law firm and say, "Hey, I'm I can
help you with legal recruitment."
Because they're like, "We've been using
the guys down the road for 15 years.
They placed the last 100 people with us.
We've got great terms. They're amazing.
We know them. We trust them. We like
them. They're everything we ever wanted.
You've just started. Why should we speak
to you?" And right that's an extreme
example but that's where the reality is
right and so I was thinking what could I
do differently in the early late 20s
like I said in terms of that sort of
2017 thinking about things 2018 started
and it was like why don't I switch the
narrative rather than calling these
people and saying can you help me why
don't I ring them and by the way legal
is very behind in terms of because
regulated there's risk lawyers jumping
on podcast way back when it's not quite
as you know now it's obviously a lot
more common but back then there was
still a what's a podcast what do I need
to think
So, I would I would rather reach out to
them. I'd say, "Hey, I'd love to I'd
like to switch up the way that you go
about talent attraction. And I'd like to
do this with just 20 minutes of your
time at my office with coffee and
biscuits where I'll record 20 minutes
asking everything about you, your show,
I mean, your practice, why you're great
to work for, your career journey, the
challenges, the opportunities, and
you'll have a wonderful experience. I
just need 20 minutes of your time at my
office, which is only 2 minutes away
from around the corner. And through that
20 minutes, I will produce six months
worth of content for you that you can
pass on to your marketing team for free
in the form of blog post, short form
videos, SEO compliant blogs, articles,
shorts for YouTube, Tik Tok, Instagram,
etc., etc. That will reach out
exponentially, which is going to work
way better than your current marketing
strategy from your law firm. Also create
some bespoke job descriptions or talent
attractions descriptions that are
different and alternative that will make
your opportunity as and when you're
hiring or if you're talent pooling over
your competitors that are offering the
same money, the same opportunity as you
with the similar clients. This is going
to help you stand out. How does that
sound to you? So it's oh by the way I'm
going to put your voice in six and a
half thousand cities around the world a
podcast get exponential reach. It's very
hard to say no go away. It's like a
really powerful offer, right? Yeah. It's
a loaded, it's a triple loaded value ad
and then they don't really know at this
point. So, they come and they do this.
We do this amazing thing and then we
just do some follow-ups. And by the way,
if you're ever looking and then of
course we're top of mind, right? We're
top of mind for when they're hiring.
We've given them all of this great
stuff. It's a great entry point. So, I
think that was the most innovative
business development strategy of all
time. And then you come in with even and
then when you're like, how do you get it
better? Let's go and get the world's
best legal technology company that's on
an aggressive growth drive to then go
and business develop further. So when
we're talking to partners and more
podcasts come about. What's our USP?
We've got exponential reach now because
we're partnering with the world's best
legal tech company and we've got an
overarching bigger mission. We're
helping when it comes to diversity,
equity, inclusion, which your law firm
clearly states that you're passionate
about. We're helping when it comes to
mental health. We're also helping with
the almost multi is a multi-billion
dollar access to justice gap issue where
legal technology can reduce that for
good access to justice so people who
can't afford legal services get the
work. So again, you're coming in with
value ad when podcast become that's just
another podcast with different angles,
different things, different value proper
propositions. When that partner in law
firm isn't just another partner on a
show, they're part of a community that's
adding value to broader prospect to a
bigger reach, bigger opportunity, then
you get the world's best law firm owners
on, then you get certain people coming
on and all of these amazing things. But
yeah, it's thinking strategically. It's
putting yourselves in the shoes of the
people that you're trying to approach.
So that's probably been our most
innovative business development strategy
where we're so early out the gate and
now we welcome competitor organizations
and you see them set up and try and do
similar things that we do but we're
already thinking about what's next. So
it's you're now at level one podcasting.
We're like okay we're here. We've moved
into experimental events. We've moved
into monster trucks outside on beaches
to bring in experential bigger brands,
bigger scope, bigger audiences doing fun
different things. We've just taken the
show to Dubai. We just did some
interviews on yachts with some of the
most prestigious people in the legal
world. We're off to IA. We're going to
Koala Lumpa. We're taking the show on a
world tour. We're always like to stay at
number one and to have the best, you got
to be the best, right? You got to keep
momentum. It's like the flywheel effect.
So, if anyone's read the book Good to
Great by Jim Collins. It's a great book,
but basically it's all about harnessing
momentum. He talks about this flywheel.
Once you start a business, you need to
keep energy inputs to keep inputting
energy like we talked about before. And
the more that you can impoke the energy,
the more the momentum builds and builds
and you keep going and you're never
going to go that way. Whereas certain
companies, they make a bad hire or they
make a bad decision and suddenly they
start that momentum fades. So just have
good energy people, be good with your
quality hiring, have good people around
you. And so we're always thinking about
that, always innovating. So yeah, a few
different directions there, but
hopefully that adds some value. No, it
was great. Wonderful answer. It's
getting those kind of details in your
answers is very important for the
audience obviously to understand the
context of what you're saying
and the key word the key component there
is that you were you're thinking big.
Yeah. to make those kind of
partnerships. And unfortunately, if we
start our day and end our day with
comparing ourselves to others or if
we're negative or we just dwelling over
what has happened in the past, it's
really hard. It's very difficult to
allow the mind to come up with these
bigger ideas because you're scraping
stuff on the surface. Your energy is
down here and you want to be up here but
you're operating down here. It's very
hard to go there and you create
momentum. We need to shift the way we
see our business and ourselves first.
It's internal work to create that
momentum. When you create that momentum,
we start calming the mind. When we start
calming the mind, we come up with some
bigger, greater ideas. And we don't fear
because we believe. And we approach
people that might otherwise seem, "Oh my
god, they'll never work with me. your
confidence speaks a lot more when it
comes to those kind of relationships and
yeah and again everything that I do is
COI back to COI cost of an action so
people will be like why is the guy gone
out to Dubai and suddenly done this
whole series and spent a week there
doing this on his podcast when it's
already global off the back of that
we've only like four episodes into
releasing that we've got some of the top
three names in the legal tech space in
the region that are now not just doing
something in Dubai but want to do
something in the United Arab Emirates
and the Mina region with us again not
bothering to think different to do
things differently and a lot of people
with these ideas I don't know if you've
heard James Clear speak but I think I've
done a lot of keynotes and listen to a
lot of keynotes but I listened to one of
his keynotes actually at our podcast
sponsors events in Austin Texas and he
talks a lot about replace goals with
systems so I'll give a very simple
example let's say your goal is to run a
marathon that's a great goal but how are
you going to get there so he talks about
small habits 1% daily so if you want to
run that marathon
Start by putting your trainers by your
front door every day. That's a cue. It's
a cue because if you walk past those
trainers every day and you don't put
them on, you don't decide to run. Then
you know how are you going to reach that
goal? Then you might want to start
having a straa app for example which
gives you a pop-up
reminder. Yeah. And so you in back to
this kind of inputs, energy inputs. And
so have systems. Everything that I do is
I've got a system in place to make sure
that we're going to go towards the goal
because crazy ideas are great but then
let's get to actually understanding
right what systems processes and by the
way AI is a game changer for all this.
You can leverage AI to the hills for
this in terms of even finessing the idea
but then putting in AI agents and all of
this great stuff to to really make it
work. So yeah, I would encourage your
audience to to go and check that out a
little bit more and and replace goals
with systems and you'll see a lot more
success. Yeah. And then believe in
achieving that goal. Believe in
yourself, you know, shift that self-t
talk from impossible to possible because
it really is that the human committed
decision is super power like super
powerful for individual human being to
once we make that committed decision,
it's very hard to stop that person.
Nothing will get in their way when they
really believe. I absolutely agree. You
have to have selfacountability in
business and entrepreneurship. I
remember a guy said to me very early on,
"If it's meant to be, it's up to me."
So, it's so important that you have this
idea or you're going to push through
like you're going to have setbacks. So,
everything we're selling is all rosy and
lovely. The reality is like I'm getting
hit by setback. I was about to close
quite a good deal yesterday and it just
fell out of bed. It fell out of bed and
it was six months of work and it would
have been a great deal and made the year
and I could easily have just said, "You
know what? It's their fault. They've not
given me all the facts." Fall into that
trap, right? Yeah. And if it's meant to
be, it's up to me. So then what do I
immediately do? I then go into a
radiator. I go and read a mentor
straight away. I go and ring someone
that I trust, the voice to get good
energy inputs, get that people around me
because otherwise you can get into
dwelling. And so the reality is most of
these ideas, amazing businesses, they go
through so many hard times that Yeah.
Yeah. Just keep that self
accountability. If you've got that
self-belief, that belief to achieve,
you'll make it happen. But remember, if
it's mentally, it's up to me. So
important. Yeah. You started mental
health and diversity in the legal field.
Can you see how that's going to impact
the legal field in the future? Yeah.
This is where I talk about tech for
good. Historically within the legal
industry, it's been a charge by hour. So
if anyone's instructed a lawyer, an
attorney over the years, they're
probably paying by the hour. And where I
see is hopefully that billing model will
eventually move to a value a value based
pricing model or fixed fee model or
whatever it would mean. But when law
firms run billable hours and they're
trying to compete on billable hours,
what they're ultimately doing is getting
their lawyers to work lots of hours,
right? To increase that profitability.
So there's lots of stress. There's
demands on that. You get overworked. N
when I started the the legal recruiting,
I was amazed how many people would say,
"Yeah, I'm working on a Saturday. I'm
working on a Sunday." Not their own firm
for someone. I've had to miss my
daughter's wedding because that's an
extreme example, but I can't go to this
and this. But that's the reality. There
is a lot of stress, pressure. Obviously,
it's a very important role being a
lawyer. When most people go to a lawyer,
typically I believe that technology can
actually be a huge enabler of removing a
lot of that leg work, those the due
diligence, the hours of research, the
hours of drafting. And so hopefully that
will improve the overall work life
balance, the overall less levels of
stress, worry, anxiety, many things. And
we've had something we've had a and I'd
highly encourage people to have a look
at an organization called Law Care.
We've had the CEO of Law Care, which one
of the biggest mental health charities,
and their CEO come on to our show and
talk about the amazing work they do, and
it still amazes me. She even says after
17 years or 18 years of being there, the
amount of lawyers that ring her up are
just like at breaking point. And so, you
just think this could and I know it's
not just unique to lawyers and there's a
very every industry and by the way, we
all have a health. I know we talk about
mental health, physical health, but it's
health. And this is the important thing
that I want to stress. And we're all
different. We what might be a worry for
me might not be a worry for you and vice
versa. And I'm and so I think the work
that they're doing and the work that we
try to do to collaborate with people to
amplify that message to let people know
there is help and support and resources
out there is very important. And equally
on diversity, equity, inclusion, myself,
I'm half Iraqi, half English. I think
the legal profession is doing better,
but there's still more work to be done
in terms of the the number of people
that are actually at the top of the law
firms. I think it's not as diverse as it
could be. There's lots of data and
statistics to back that comment up as
well and I'm happy to share with your
listeners a lot more details. We want to
ensure that we're bringing conversations
and also the thought leaders and the
people that have done it to share their
experiences, but we also partner with
lots of organizations doing great work
within the DE and I spaces as well. And
I think it's yeah, it's only a positive
and more diverse thought you can have.
The more law firms, legal firms will
will flourish basically. And so I'm
passionate about it. Awesome, man. I
hear your passion. I know everyone's
going to experience that passion and I
want to say thank you so much for giving
me or giving us your time and sharing
your wisdom. We'll do what we can to
expand your voice as far as we can. and
I'm looking forward to building
something strong here and see how I can
help. But yeah, it was great talking to
you today. Yeah, and likewise and you're
obviously an amazing host and it's a
great show. And I guess I'll just leave
with probably my my favorite quote for
anyone when it comes to business. The
magic you're looking for is in the work
you're avoiding. I think if you can
really met that land, beautiful, it will
change everything. There's something in
your life right now that's in the kind
of need to do or I want to do and
there's the magic. So the magic you're
looking for is in the work you're
avoiding. If you take that head on, I
guarantee you'll move a lot more
forward. Yeah. Go towards the
discomfort. That's where the gold is
waiting. My life has shifted because I
became comfortable with being
uncomfortable. The reason why I do that
is is because it does open up a new
level of energy in a person. Thank you
so much for sharing that. No. And I'd
like to make an offer as well. If anyone
likes my hoodie, if anyone shares one
lesson that they've got from this
episode today, tags me and tags leagues
podcast, we will choose the favorite one
and we'll send them out a free
hoodie. Beautiful. Thank you so much,
Rob. Great offer.
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