Episode 122 How Not to Get Screwed by Your Lawyer with Daniela Liscio

John talks to Daniela Liscio — author of the newly released book How Not to Get Screwed by Your Lawyer: A System for Business Owners to Manage Costs, Reduce Stress and Take That Control. She is also an experienced corporate attorney and business consultant who has handled mergers and acquisitions, financings, private equity investments, and corporate reorganizations.

Listen to this episode to learn more:

[00:33] - Welcome notes and Daniela's intro

[02:48] - Daniela's backstory

[05:16] - About her book How Not to Get Screwed by Your Lawyer

[07:14] - The first advice John received when he started his business

[09:00] - Impact of your relationships on your business life

[13:41] - Turning down transactional kind of relationships in business

[16:29] - Daniela's motivation for studying law

[20:50] - Daniela's experience transitioning from corporate law to business consulting

[25:09] - Ideal client for Daniela

[30:40] - About her upcoming book

[36:10] - Questions to ask when we are interviewing prospective attorneys

[41:27] - Why people blindly follow their attorneys' advice

[44:36] - How Daniela improves her significant relationships

[48:52] - Who's investing in Daniela right now

[54:45] - How to get a signed copy of her first book for free

[56:42] - Book Daniela recommends

TIPS ON FINDING YOUR PROSPECTIVE ATTORNEY:

1. Referrals are a great place to start when looking for the right lawyer, but take them with the right perspective—they're just a guiding point, not the end of your research.
2. As soon as you've identified the right people to talk to, determine if this is the lawyer that you want to hire. One of the key questions you should ask is whether s/he has experience working on cases similar to yours and if s/he has achieved the desired results.

NOTABLE QUOTES:

"Naturally, we assume there's going to be difficulties when it comes to the legal world. Nobody wants to have the need for a lawyer. No one wants a legal problem. But as a business owner, it's almost impossible to not have lawyers."

"Business has never been just about money. You can't survive as a business if all you are thinking about is making money."

"Many of our most influential businesses started as small businesses. Small business is the heart of our society."

"If your personal relationships are completely out of whack, that is going to impact your business life and your professional development."

"It is really central to everything that we do in business building those stronger relationships to enhance our professional life, but ultimately that just brings us happiness and joy."

"Develop the right skills to keep you thriving in any environment."

"People are worried about inflation, about recessions, about cancel culture, about all of these new phenomena. Have we forgotten businesses always face challenges? Businesses always have some problems."

"We should not disempower ourselves by limiting what we can accomplish vis-a-vis the professional relationships in our life."

BOOKS MENTIONED:

• Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal (BUSINESS SKILLS AND DEVELOPMENT) by Oren Klaff (https://tinyurl.com/PitchAnythingBookByOrenK)
• Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz (https://tinyurl.com/PsychoCyberneticsBook)

PODCAST MENTIONED:

• Real Coffee with Scott Adams Podcast

USEFUL RESOURCES:

https://danielaliscio.com

https://daniela.berserkermail.com/App%20Opt%20in

https://www.instagram.com/daniela_is_spicy/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064098670381

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-liscio-87a75848/

https://tinyurl.com/HNTGSBYLawyerBook

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EPISODE CREDITS

Intro music provided by Tony Palacios - https://www.instagram.com/tonytonedog/

Outro music provided by Jeff Scheetz - https://jeffscheetz.com/