After almost a year away from the mic, Owen comes back with Megan Senese—co-founder of Stage, host of So Much to Say, and one of the most honest voices in the legal community. Brilliant, kind, utterly and indelibly herself.
Megan spent her career as a business development professional inside big firms, which meant being, in her words, “non-old, non-man, non-partner, non-lawyer, and so therefore you don’t know anything.” She and two colleagues planned their exit in stealth for a year, lived on one salary to test the downside, resigned the same morning, and launched with zero clients. The first thing she discovered was that all the advice she’d been giving lawyers actually works.
The conversation moves from there into the parts of the job nobody puts in a recruiting brochure: why business development is a fear problem rather than a tactics problem, why she hid both of her pregnancies and helped other women hide theirs, how Corduroy came to be, and what changes—and what doesn’t—when the person you’re overworking for is finally you.
Owen has been on the other side of the same trap, and neither of them pretends they’ve solved it.
