Bonnie Bowles

Babies, Business & Being My Own Boss

It wasn’t always smooth once I started my law firm.

I was three days from my first baby’s due date…

And I was so tired of hourly billing and litigation clients (who think every single thing is an emergency and a reason to call or text me late at night or on weekends). I had had ENOUGH – so I made a shift.

From now on, I would be my own boss and I would work only with clients I wanted to work with, and I would only do law where I didn’t have to go to court, deal with opposing counsel, or charge hourly. (How does hourly billing possibly make anyone more efficient?)

The shift into “being my own boss” resulted in my founding my estate planning practice right then and there, with a baby about to arrive any day/second now – and it was anything but an easy ride.

Every small "win" (when those did happen) was marred by an even bigger hit of self-doubt, sunk costs, and a pain inside my entrepreneurial gut that taunted me with the sense...

Long hours spent in front of a lot of prospects without the cash flow to justify it.

Painful late-night talks with my husband, desperately trying to convince him that success was “just around the corner.”

Relying on him doing all the drop-off and pickup of our daughter at preschool.

Weekends in the office.

And then a sonogram showing us that we had not one more baby on the way, but two…

How doubling down produced an exponential win

And then I discovered that building my own dream practice was NOT at odds with helping my clients achieve what they wanted.

These are in fact two sides of the same coin.

So I doubled down and learned how to transform prospects from overwhelmed and underprepared (or looking only for free advice), into clients who raved about how awesome it is to work with me and who me pay on time.

I learned how to:

After all that was dialed in...

I'm able to do this, because I teach what I know.

I teach what I have personally done to build a professional practice that:

If you like what you’re reading, are willing to learn from others instead of reinventing the wheel, and know that laying the right foundation matters more than a “quick win”…

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