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Stephanie Jones is the Co-Founder and Owner of Jones Family Law Group. With a passion for helping people, she started out as a social worker. When she discovered how broken the system was, she applied to law school and devoted herself to the practice of family law.
She talks to Cynthia about the importance of authenticity, the factors that lead to divorce, and the many challenges she faced in becoming both an entrepreneur and a lawyer.
1 – Intro 00:24
2 – Career Goal: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 01:51
3 – How did you become a lawyer 05:14
4 – Have to be a jack of all trades as family lawyer 11:32
5 – Why is family law a fit for you? 13:21
6 – How you grew up 14:54
7 – Powerpoint for your parents 17:42
8 – What challenges did you face along the way? 20:59
9 – Importance of asking for help 25:08
10 – How do we teach the value of authenticity 29:55
11 – Starting your firm 33:03
12 – You were advised not to start your own firm 34:39
13 – Difficulty of running a business 40:10
14 – Importance of a good partner 44:37
15 – Delegating 46:58
16 – What’s modeled for women isn’t real 57:05
17 – When you’re happy, what are you doing at your core? 58:42
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“Everybody has a light inside of them, and you have a choice. You can either use lighter fluid or an extinguisher. Same thing goes with everything. Same with people’s talents. You can either light it up or you can extinguish it.”
“If you follow this methodology, if you follow the pattern, the outcome is inevitable. You cannot mess it up because it’s just calculated moves that are in writing.”
One of the things I love to do if the opportunity presents itself as coach people, because I feel like that is the most, wow, fun, enriching thing that you can do for people. Because what happens is I believe that people behave for reasons, and you got to figure out what’s the root cause. So if someone reacts in a certain way, whether it’s anger, emotion, or whatever, there’s a reason why they’re reacting that way. And so I don’t think that people really want to react that way. They want to be their best self.
“I didn’t go into business from a business school background, and so I discounted a lot of my intuition and what I thought was right and what I should be doing and took other people’s advice sort of over my own thinking and eventually I always would wind up back to sort of what felt right to me was very different from the advice that I had been given in the business community.”
“The experience of going through the legal process is supposed to be about seeking justice. More often than not, people go through it and they’re just as scared and almost re-traumatized as they were when the injustice happened.”
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