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Wendy Meadows

Wendy Meadows

Maryland family law attorney and mediator, certified life coach, and bestselling author of "sparkle & GRIT," who coaches lawyers and small/solo firms on beating burnout.

Aug 31, 2026

1:06
I mean, tell me what that means to you, Sparkle and Grit.
1:11
So I believe with Sparkle and Grit, you can achieve pretty much anything, or if we look at the Sparkle and Grit mindset.
1:17
But Sparkle, I define, is that hint of inspiration lying in your path designed to wake you up.
1:23
So it's that like...
1:25
You see one of your friends doing something or you see a cool like ad in a coffee shop or you see something on Instagram and you're like, oh, that kind of piques my interest.
1:34
Like meaning it's like something that you want to do as well.
1:36
Like as a human being, it's like an activity or it's a role or it's a career change or it's just something.

9 MINS LATER

10:49
I would love to know for you, what is your technicolor life? What does that look like for you now?
12:30
Yeah
12:30
...
12:30
it might just be they need ...
12:31
I like the idea, though, of just, like, changing within the firm.
12:34
And then I would say l- most of the people I work with is they're in a smaller, like, boutique firm.
12:40
They feel unappreciated for the work they do put in.
12:44
They're never, there's not really a clear line of sight for them to be a partner.

16 MINS LATER

29:03
What's Wendy's big mistake?
2:16
So why don't you tell us what you're doing in your practice?
2:18
Sure.
2:18
So what I'm doing differently, just because I am so much more efficient with AI, and what used to take me an hour will now take me a .1, I've moved to more of a flat-fee approach for certain items.
2:29
So for example, like a complaint that, again, would take me an hour, now a .1, that's a flat fee.
2:34
A marital settlement agreement is a flat fee.
2:36
And the work that I do that is not in person or talking to somebody on the phone or in a meeting, I have flat fees for that work.
2:42
And then when I am talking to someone in other ways, I still bill the traditional model.
5:11
Do you think you'll ever progress to the situation, Wendy, where you do things on a total flat fee with no real saving grace if it takes too much time? [laughs]

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