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Powerhouse Lawyers

Erin Gerner 116 Episodes Oct 1, 2026

Powerhouse Lawyers is a podcast for ambitious attorneys who want to build a life and career they love. Hosted by Erin Gerner, a former lawyer and life coach, the show aims to empower women in law to define success on their terms. Each week features inspiring stories, real talk, and practical tips to help listeners practice law differently and overcome toxic narratives.

Episodes

She Runs a Law Firm From the Beach With No Billable Hours
She Runs a Law Firm From the Beach With No Billable Hours Oct 1, 2026 3459 Ariella Cohen Coleman was going to work in fashion. She wanted to be a Bloomingdale's buyer. Then her dad was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer when she was thirteen, and he died when she was seventeen, and by the time she got to college her entire world had reoriented around advocacy.She went to law school to fix healthcare. Not to practice law. To fix the system that had her mother
She Offered to Quit. They Said Get Another Nanny: with Jessie Brown
She Offered to Quit. They Said Get Another Nanny: with Jessie Brown Sep 24, 2026 2542 Jessie Brown wanted to be a writer. She was an English major doing an MFA in creative nonfiction when she lost both of her parents and realized she had no financial safety net. So she did the practical thing and went to law school.That pattern, choosing the safe path over the one that actually fit, followed her for the next two decades. It picked her practice area. It kept her in litigati
Lawyer. Reality Star. Public Defender. Sydney Segal Refuses to Pick Just One
Lawyer. Reality Star. Public Defender. Sydney Segal Refuses to Pick Just One Sep 17, 2026 2550 Sydney Segal is a lot of things. Brooklyn Law grad. Public defender in New York. Survivor 41 competitor. Runner-up on The Challenge: Vets and New Threats. Former Division I track athlete and California state cross-country champion. Five-language speaker. Solo backpacker through 60+ countries. And someone who has figured out how to be all of those things at once — without apologizing for a
ICU Nurse. Big Law Attorney. Now Building the Life She Actually Wants
ICU Nurse. Big Law Attorney. Now Building the Life She Actually Wants Jul 23, 2026 4777 Tatyana Norman Webler graduated nursing school in May 2020 — straight into the COVID pandemic. She spent three years as an ICU nurse watching the healthcare system fail patients in real time, asking why the left hand never talked to the right hand, and wondering if there was a way to fix it. Then she went to law school.She graduated — in labor — passed the bar with a newborn at home, and
Burnout Will Kill Your Business as Fast as Bankruptcy — with Danielle Hendon
Burnout Will Kill Your Business as Fast as Bankruptcy — with Danielle Hendon Jul 9, 2026 2135 You left the firm to build something on your own terms. But somewhere between getting clients, managing a team, and handling everything else that comes with running a business, the freedom you were chasing started to look a lot like another job.Danielle Hendon has seen it a hundred times. As founder of 4 Corners CFO, she works exclusively with female-founded law firms as a fractional CFO
From Big Law to In-House to All In on Herself
From Big Law to In-House to All In on Herself Jun 18, 2026 2789 Misty Leon has spent nearly 25 years at the intersection of law, business, and strategy — as a partner at a boutique firm, Senior Counsel at a Fortune 500 company, and now founder of Practical Counsel Advisors, where she helps small to midsize law firms modernize their operations and navigate AI responsibly.In this episode, Misty shares the winding, intentional journey that led her to fin
From Fox News to Fighting for Women: The Evolution of Tamara Holder
From Fox News to Fighting for Women: The Evolution of Tamara Holder May 28, 2026 2093 Tamara Holder has never done anything the traditional way — and it has made her one of the most powerful women's rights attorneys in the country. She's the principal of Tamara Holder Law, a Chicago-based boutique firm she founded in 2005 focusing on women's rights globally — including sex trafficking, sexual assault, workplace harassment, and institutional sexual abuse. She spearheaded th
She Got Laid Off Twice and Started Her Firm the Next Day
She Got Laid Off Twice and Started Her Firm the Next Day May 14, 2026 2951 Ruby Powers has been doing what the rest of the legal world just figured out — for over a decade. Board-certified immigration attorney, founder of Powers Law Group, law professor, author of Power Up Your Practice, and one of the earliest adopters of remote law practice and AI-driven legal tools, Ruby built her firm from scratch — including from Dubai — on her terms, on her timeline.In thi
You're Not Lazy. You're Just Giving Your Energy to Everyone Who Isn't You.
You're Not Lazy. You're Just Giving Your Energy to Everyone Who Isn't You. May 7, 2026 1374 In this episode I'm talking about the energy leak problem that is keeping high-achieving women from showing up when it actually counts — at work, at home, and for themselves. This isn't a time management conversation. It's an energy management one.We cover:Why hurry-up-and-wait is costing you more than you thinkThe real reason you feel stuck and can't get momentumHow to do a simple energy
Cortisol, Burnout, and Why Your Pants Don't Fit Anymore
Cortisol, Burnout, and Why Your Pants Don't Fit Anymore Apr 23, 2026 2658 If you've been carrying migraines, brain fog, weight you can't explain, or sleep that just won't come — this episode is going to make a lot of things click.Marcy Luna is a high performance coach, exercise physiologist, and founder of Reenergize Coaching, and she has spent 30 years studying exactly what chronic stress does to the body and what you can actually do about it. In this conversa
The Reason You're Invisible Online (And Exactly How to Fix It)
The Reason You're Invisible Online (And Exactly How to Fix It) Apr 16, 2026 2643 Melanie Borden is the founder of The Borden Group, a personal brand strategist, and the author of Theater of the Mind — and she is here to tell you that AI is already searching for you, and what it finds (or doesn't find) is either opening doors or quietly closing them.In this episode, Melanie breaks down what she calls "searchable leadership" — why your digital footprint is now your most
The Non-Linear Path to Partner Nobody Talks About
The Non-Linear Path to Partner Nobody Talks About Apr 2, 2026 2146 Danielle Kays is a partner at Fisher Phillips, a nationally recognized litigator focused on privacy, biometric, AI, and employment law — and she did it her way, on her timeline, working remotely since 2013. In this episode, she gets real about the windy road to partner, what it looked like to balance Big Law with two little kids, and why taking 20 years to make partner is something to be

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