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Wealthy Woman Lawyer Podcast, Helping you create a profitable, sustainable law firm you love

Wealthy Woman Lawyer Podcast, Helping you create a profitable, sustainable law firm you love

Davina Frederick 352 Episodes Oct 8, 2026

The Wealthy Woman Lawyer Podcast is hosted by Davina Frederick, founder and CEO of Wealthy Woman Lawyer. Each episode features conversations with successful women lawyers about growing their firms, managing time, team, and systems, and handling money issues. The show focuses on thinking like a CEO, attracting ideal clients, and building a profitable, sustainable law practice. It aims to help listeners scale their firms from six to seven figures in annual revenue while maintaining a lifestyle they enjoy.

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Episode 356 | The Loyalty Trap: Why Keeping the Wrong People Too Long Costs More Than Letting Them Go
Episode 356 | The Loyalty Trap: Why Keeping the Wrong People Too Long Costs More Than Letting Them Go Oct 8, 2026 1317 She’s been with you since the early days. Your clients love her. She knows things about your firm that nobody else knows.She’s also the person whose name makes your stomach tighten when it pops up in your inbox. You work around her moods, make exceptions you wouldn’t make for anyone else, and keep putting off a conversation you know you need to have.How do you address that when she’s help
Episode 355: Marketing Gurus Tell You That Your Firm Needs More Leads, but ‘Scaling’ Requires Something More Than Marketing
Episode 355: Marketing Gurus Tell You That Your Firm Needs More Leads, but ‘Scaling’ Requires Something More Than Marketing Oct 4, 2026 1452 If you're a woman law firm owner working to scale your firm, you're probably hearing the same message from every marketing guru out there. Get more leads. Get better leads. Fix your intake so you convert more of them. Oh, and make sure you show up in AI.I get it. Those things matter, and at some point nearly every firm needs a stronger client attraction and conversion system. But in my co
Episode 354 | 7 Obstacles Keeping Your Law Firm Stuck Making $500K (or Less) in Annual Revenue
Episode 354 | 7 Obstacles Keeping Your Law Firm Stuck Making $500K (or Less) in Annual Revenue Sep 17, 2026 1621 In the early years, growth comes from effort. You can double or even triple revenue on hard work alone, and mostly that works. Then you cross the half-million mark, and it stops working, and nobody warns you that it's going to.Somewhere between about $400,000 and $600,000, most firms stall. You've hired a support person or two, you're still doing all the legal work yourself, and you feel
Episode 353 | Do You Have What It Takes to Scale Your Law Firm to 7-Figures? The Truth is in Your Identity
Episode 353 | Do You Have What It Takes to Scale Your Law Firm to 7-Figures? The Truth is in Your Identity Sep 10, 2026 1550 There's a question almost nobody says out loud, though I hear it underneath a great many conversations. Do I have what it takes to scale my firm to seven figures?This episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® podcast is not a checklist of skills. It has nothing to do with whether you can build a marketing funnel or read a profit and loss statement. Those matter, and we cover them here and in o
Episode 352 | Your Next Great Associate Hire Isn't Applying — Here's How to Find Her Anyway
Episode 352 | Your Next Great Associate Hire Isn't Applying — Here's How to Find Her Anyway Sep 3, 2026 995 You posted the job. You watched the applications trickle in. Then you opened your inbox and felt your stomach sink at what had shown up.Your next great hire is not applying to your job posting. She isn't scrolling the job boards at all. She's busy doing excellent work somewhere else; she's respected where she is, and she isn't unhappy enough to go looking. The only way you get her is if t
Episode 351 | 12 Gold Nuggets from Our Most Popular Episodes in the Last 12 Months
Episode 351 | 12 Gold Nuggets from Our Most Popular Episodes in the Last 12 Months Aug 20, 2026 1484 We've been making the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® podcast for more than seven years now. A lot of good material gets said once around here and then rolls off into the archive, so I went back and pulled the 12 most downloaded episodes of the last 12 months and took one takeaway out of each. Then I counted them down.Here's some of what made the list.The sentence I said to a personal injury owner
Episode 350 | What Legal Recruiters Tell Us About How Small Firms Are Attracting Associates Without Big Law Salaries
Episode 350 | What Legal Recruiters Tell Us About How Small Firms Are Attracting Associates Without Big Law Salaries Aug 13, 2026 1294 Get a few women law firm owners in a room, and the conversation turns to hiring, and then somebody asks the question that sits on every small firm owner's mind. How am I supposed to compete with the bigger firms when it's time to hire an associate?Most of us decided we lost that contest before it started.In this episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® podcast, I dug into what legal recruiter
Episode 349 | Your Mission for the Remainder of 2026: Expanding Your Firm’s Capacity for Wealth and Freedom
Episode 349 | Your Mission for the Remainder of 2026: Expanding Your Firm’s Capacity for Wealth and Freedom Aug 6, 2026 1580 There is a document somewhere in your firm that lists what everyone earns. Your paralegal is on it. Your associate is on it. The bookkeeper who comes in on Thursdays is on it. And near the bottom, or more likely nowhere at all, is you. What you take home isn't a number you set. It's whatever is left over after everyone else has been made whole.You've probably told yourself the arrangement
Episode 348 | Why Focus on Your Firm’s Reputation Is Your Best Strategy in the Face of an AI Takeover
Episode 348 | Why Focus on Your Firm’s Reputation Is Your Best Strategy in the Face of an AI Takeover Jul 30, 2026 1524 It's 11 at night, and a woman is sitting at her kitchen table with her laptop open. Her mother died six weeks ago. There's a house, there's a brother with opinions, and she's been meaning to call a lawyer for about a month. Instead she types the whole mess into a chat window. The answer she gets back is decent. Organized. It doesn't ask her for a retainer or make her feel foolish. She clo
Episode 347 | The Authority Era: Why AI Is Changing Legal Marketing Forever
Episode 347 | The Authority Era: Why AI Is Changing Legal Marketing Forever Jul 16, 2026 1571 For more than twenty years, legal marketing has revolved around one question: Where do I rank?But something fundamental has shifted. Your future clients are no longer typing keywords into a search box and choosing from ten blue links. They're opening ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI — and simply asking who they should hire.And here's the uncomfortable truth at the heart of this epis
Episode 346 | The Send Test: What's Actually Working on Social Media for Law Firms in 2026
Episode 346 | The Send Test: What's Actually Working on Social Media for Law Firms in 2026 Jul 9, 2026 558 You're posting. You're showing up. You're doing what everyone says you're supposed to do on social media. And yet — the consultations aren't coming in the way you hoped. The content feels generic even to you. And somewhere in the back of your mind, you're wondering if any of this is actually working.If that sounds familiar, this episode is going to be a game-changer for you.In this specia
Episode 345 | Why Your Best Revenue Year Left You Broke: The Cash Flow Truth No One Tells You
Episode 345 | Why Your Best Revenue Year Left You Broke: The Cash Flow Truth No One Tells You Jul 2, 2026 1394 Have you ever walked out of a meeting with your accountant the one where they told you what a fantastic year you had and quietly thought, "Then why doesn't my bank account agree?"If so, you are not alone. And you are not bad at business. You are simply missing a piece of the financial picture that almost no one explains clearly to law firm owners.In this special episode of the Wealthy Wom

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