Today I am talking to Michael Fertik.

Michael Fertik is a serial entrepreneur and investor.  He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Heroic Ventures, Reputation, SightGlass, b4.ai, and others. 

He is also the author of several books of fiction and non-fiction, including the New York Times bestseller The Reputation Economy and a frequent contributor to global media. He is a recipient of the TechAmerica Entrepreneur of the Year award and a WEF Technology Pioneer. He has taught at Harvard for almost a decade.

We got into a lot about all this so have fun listening!

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Joseph Gerstel

In this episode I talk to Mat Rotenberg. Mat is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dashboard Legal. 

If you're constantly searching through your emails to find documents, updating word checklists or Excel trackers, or just aren't sure which version of a document everyone is working on, Mat is here to save your life.

Dashboard Legal is a project management tool for lawyers that lets you stop working out of your inbox and start working out of a centralized dashboard where you can easily find what you need and collaborate with others in a 21st century way. Welcome to the internet era lawyers! 

Mat is a graduate of U of Minnesota Law School and worked for seven years in big law  before being brave enough to jump into entrepreneurship.

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Joseph Gerstel

In this episode I talk to Aliza Shatzman, President and Founder of the Legal Accountability Project, a nonprofit focused on ensuring that law clerks have positive clerkship experiences. 

Aliza got her JD from Washington University School of Law where she was an associate editor for the Journal of Law and Policy. After Law School. Aliza clerked in the DC Superior Court during the 2019-2020 term, an experience we discuss at length in the episode. 

Aliza writes and speaks regularly about judicial accountability and clerkships based on her personal experience with harassment and retaliation during and after her clerkship. 

She has been published in numerous forums, including the Administrative Law Review, Harvard Journal of Legislation, UCLA Journal of Gender and Law, Yale Law and Policy Review, NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, Above the Law, Law 360, Slate, and a number of other publications. 

If you have input, criticism, or guest suggestions (including yourself) for the podcast, shoot me an email at Joseph@excellentatlife.com.

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Joseph Gerstel

In this episode, I talk to Greg d'Incelli. Greg is a graduate of the University of Miami Law School and worked for a number of years as a trial lawyer trying plaintiffs’ personal injury cases before he parlayed an interest in crypto into his own crypto investing operation Scenius capital.

As you'll hear more in the episode, Scenius runs a fund of funds of sorts in the crypto space, allowing investors to invest in one vehicle that is then spread out over a number of the best digital assets funds picked by Scenius.

Enjoy!

If you have input, criticism, or guest suggestions (including yourself) for the podcast, shoot me an email at Joseph@excellentatlife.com.

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Joseph Gerstel

In this episode I talk to the wonderful Keith Lee. Keith is a graduate of Birmingham School of Law and is a principal at Sidebar Ventures. He is the founder of Associates Mind, a blog on being a better lawyer, and of a paid Slack community for lawyers called Lawyer Smack. Keith is also the author of the Last Week in Law newsletter.

In this episode we bash lots of things, talk about marketing and selling yourself, and have lots more fun.

Enjoy!

If you have input, criticism, or guest suggestions (including yourself) for the podcast, shoot me an email at Joseph@excellentatlife.com.

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Joseph Gerstel

In this episode I talk to Adam Hootnick about never using his law degree and pursuing a media and filmmaking career instead.

Adam is a graduate of Harvard Law School, but never did anything with his law degree. Instead, he went to work as a production assistant for MSNBC one day before September 11th, 2001. That was a very interesting time to start a job in New York city.

Adam is now an award-winning filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. His most recent documentary, What Carter Lost,  was named one of the year's best documentaries by Sports Illustrated. 

Adam has directed a number of documentaries and also does commercial film work such as projects with Serena Williams for Lincoln, Jeff Gordon for NASCAR, and US Olympians for United Airlines, and many more. 

Needless to say, this is a very different career path, and I hope it will inspire you to follow their own career dream.  

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Joseph Gerstel

In this episode I talk to Jordana Confino about her career pivot into wellness in the legal space and about wellness in the legal space. Jordana is a graduate of Yale law school. She serves as the Assistant Dean of Professionalism and an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, where she leads initiatives designed to promote student wellness, leadership, and professional identity formation. As part of this, Jordana teaches a course in positive lawyering, which teaches students how to harness the power of positive psychology, to reach their highest potential and build meaningful, satisfying careers in law. Jordana is also the founder of JC Coaching and Consulting, where she serves as a professional coach, speaker and advisor to law students and lawyers and helps them learn to inhabit their careers fully and have meaningful work lives. This was a thoughtful and fun conversation. I hope you enjoy it.

If you have input, criticism, or guest suggestions (including yourself) for the podcast, shoot me an email at Joseph@excellentatlife.com.

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In this episode I talk to Brian Wood, or more accurately, my former co-host, Aaron Shapiro talks to Brian Wood, as my audio was garbled. I’m editing a backlog of episodes and I had a mic issue for a while which we didn’t catch so there are a few episodes like this. Moral of the story is don’t record 10 episodes without listening to them. 

Brian is the CEO of PanoPick, a peer-to-peer sports betting app that’s goal is not to manipulate you into losing your money and get you gambling addicted while warning you about the possibility of getting addicted, but rather to allow you to have some competitive fun betting against friends and finally figuring out who’s really knows sports the best. 

After graduating law school in 2012, Brian went to work at…, uh, actually he went to play poker online in Montreal because it was illegal to play for cash online in the states.  Yep, rather than go the big law route, Brian’s been supporting himself playing poker for the past 10 years while he figured out what to do with his life

This was a really fun and different conversation. Hope you enjoy.

If you have input, criticism, or guest suggestions (including yourself) for the podcast, shoot me an email at Joseph@excellentatlife.com.

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In the meantime, may you walk your own winding path well.

Joseph Gerstel