This episode is part of our very special Unstoppable Woman Spotlight Series. Today we’re talking with Allison Williams, founder of Williams Law Group, a mutli-million dollar family law firm which she has scaled by 856% in four years. Not only does she rock this business, but she started a second successful business, Law Firm Mentor, providing business coaching services to solo and small law firm attorneys. Listen and learn from her experience about what was required to scale two companies.

What To Listen For

Shedding light on what it takes to be unstoppable and scale your business
Mindset - Allison’s most important piece
From a successful lawyer to getting fired at the height of the recession
Building her reputation
Making the ask to be a title partner
Offended by rejection
The internal declaration to start a business
Being a great lawyer didn’t make her great at business
All the moving pieces of running a business - hiring, delegating, getting the message out
The quintessential stupid mistake she made - that many of us are guilty of
Unstainable practices
Wake-up Call: Falling asleep while driving 90mph
Accepting an employment offer
What happened on the way to sign the offer
Stepping into what felt right
Getting help - looking for resources, working with coaches, discovering mindset work
Understanding the why beyond the logistics
The desire to evolve her business
Allison’s leadership style and how it has evolved
Learning to lead and empower people
Focusing on strengths and delegating weaknesses
Hiring people that are better than you
Fear of not being the smartest person in the room - Get over it!
What to do when you’re blocked
Getting help from someone who can recognize your patterns and shine a light on what’s stopping you
Pulling upon the resources of others
Surrounding yourself with people who have something you don’t
Stepping into vulnerability to receive
Destabilizing thoughts
Owning your brilliance, wisdom, strength, and value
The unique challenges and advantages of being a woman in business
Spending time in masculine energy - but balancing both sides
Being a hard-driving authority figure with empathy and support
The humiliation of what she thought was a huge failure
Waking up in the middle of the night, panic attacks, crying in the bathroom
Feeling like she’d lost her value
What she learned from the experience
100 positive things about your negative experience
Perspective and the law of relativity
Committing to the end result

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About Allison:

Allison Williams is the owner of not one, but two successful companies. She is the Founder of Williams Law Group, a full-service family law firm where she is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, is Certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as Matrimonial Law Attorney, and is certified by National Board of Trial Advocacy in Family Law. An international speaker in the field of child abuse and neglect evidence and trial practice, Ms. Williams has appeared on the Katie Couric show and has published articles in the Huffington Post addressing issues of child maltreatment. She has been selected among her peers as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in New Jer...