The Authentic Professional

Season 2, Episode 4 of the Authentic Professional is here! 💥

In this episode, I talk about what I did to detoxify my law practice, and how it led to a calmer, more insightful personal and professional life.

No need for a warm-up, hop right in! 3 more, 2 more, 1 more... let's go!

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-authentic-professional/id1497752860?i=1000605172628

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/568O8jw5LwITuzB1q4juTK?si=737c2faea934454d

Never Cut What Can Be Untied – Exclusive Interview With Jacinta Gallant Jacinta Gallant is a respected lawyer, mediator and educator, recognized internationally for her innovative approach to conflict resolution training. Jacinta’s resources for divorce professionals, Our Family in Two Homes, help clients prepare for effective dispute resolution. Her podcast, The Auth...

“Never cut what can be untied.”
This is a guiding principle for my work and life.

Ropes can make knots and knots are useful – think fishing, rappelling, rope ladders and bows.
Learning to tie shoelaces is one of our early achievements.
When we marry, we “tie the knot”.

On the flip side, when we are anxious, we can feel all “tied up in knots”.
The hangman’s noose is a knot.
The Gordian Knot symbolizes an intractable problem.
And most parents have struggled to get knots out of long hair.

In my work, the relationship is the rope. People in conflict face a consistent challenge: Do I “cut and run”, or do I do the work of untangling what can feel like an impossible knot?

It is helpful to remember: a good knot can strengthen connection, build trust and support a lot of heavy stuff. When knots get stuck, trust and connection are challenged and it is sorely tempting to take a knife and cut away the heavy stuff.

But, if what brought you together was important enough that you tied a knot in the first place, then your challenge is to do the work of untying, so that your rope can be put to a new and better use.

Over the next little while, I will be thinking about knots, and the complex arrangements of rope that create them. I’ve put myself out there with a new podcast - which has my stomach in knots! So I will remind myself that the “knotty” feeling in my stomach has a flip side we sometimes call “butterflies”!

The Authentic Professional Podcast - Season 2 explores these themes in 20 short minutes. You can listen here:
Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gH2vcYHA

Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gGbgXQBx

Quote: Joseph Joubert – a French writer born in 1754.