The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

How can you become a game changer? Michael Mogill, Founder and CEO of Crisp, has used his mastery of marketing for lawyers to grow his company to an 8-figure powerhouse. In just a few years, Crisp has helped thousands of attorneys adapt to the new legal landscape, differentiate themselves from the competition, and earn millions in new revenue. In every episode, you’ll hear from law firm entrepreneurs and market leaders — people who flourish in the face of adversity, challenge the status quo, and define what it means to be a game changer. We investigate success stories and business growth and scalability strategies that can help you attract your ideal clients. Plus, discover hidden insights and actionable advice on how company culture and employee engagement, marketing and advertising, and management and hiring fit into the big picture. What do all our guests have in common? These successful attorneys and business owners prove that the key to innovation is a g

The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill is a business podcast hosted by Michael Mogill, with 496 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Michael Mogill hosts The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill, a business show with 496 episodes published.

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  Episode #497

  497. The Biggest Lessons Learned From a Former Fortune 500 CEO with Klaus Kleinfeld

  Sep 14, 202639 minS7

  Time management will only take you so far. The real edge comes from managing your energy. In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael Mogill sits down with Klaus Kleinfeld, the only executive to have served as CEO of two Fortune 500 companies on two continents. Years ago, Klaus watched a founder he knew collapse on the floor just weeks after closing a major funding round. That moment pushed him to put his leadership philosophy into his book, Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life. Klaus walks through the energy management framework that grew out of moments like that one, and why he's convinced discipline alone is never enough to sustain a career. Here's what you'll learn: Why pushing through exhaustion leads to worse decisions, not better ones How simple breathing techniques help executives stay in control during high-stakes negotiations What separates brutal, effective criticism from criticism that just shuts a team down This episode is the reminder every overscheduled leader needs: energy, not time, is the resource that actually runs out. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:02:51) Why Klaus decided to write his book (00:04:53) Inner game vs. outer game explained (00:06:33) Time management vs. energy management (00:09:25) The four sources of energy (00:15:48) How to recharge and build micro-habits (00:19:27) Reframing stress through breathing (00:22:52) CEO of two Fortune 500 companies (00:28:27) Five pillars of a high-performance team (00:32:43) Leading Alcoa through a commodity crash (00:36:05) What's next for Klaus ---- Links & Resources: Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life by Klaus Kleinfeld Jeff Bezos Elon Musk Omni Biotic Life Alcoa ---- Learn what sustainable growth can look like for your firm at crispcoach.com. ---- Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. ---- Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O’Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. ---- If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: 435. The 15-Minute Habit That Prevents Attorney Burnout with Leah Lagos 276. AMMA - The Myth of Work-Life Balance: What Law Firm Owners Need to Know 172. Marcus Lemonis - The Three Keys to Business: People, Process, and Product

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  Episode #496

  496. AMMA — Permanent Solutions to Recurring Problems

  Sep 9, 202618 minS7

  If your team keeps bringing you problems instead of solutions, the pattern started with you, not them. In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael and Jessica Mogill tackle three listener questions that all trace back to the same root problem: staying stuck in reactive mode. From training a team to solve its own problems to enforcing adherence to a process everyone claims to support, this episode unpacks why solving fires as they come keeps a firm from ever building the systems that prevent them. Here's what you'll learn: Why solving every problem for your team keeps them from solving any problem on their own How one four-word question shifts a team from asking to thinking What it actually takes to enforce adherence to a process your team already has Your team's problem-solving muscle only grows if you stop doing the lifting for them. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:05:39) Why your team hands you problems (00:06:32) The four-word question that fixes it (00:10:10) The intake leak that keeps returning (00:13:51) Firefighter ego vs. proactive leadership (00:15:44) Lay the groundwork now ---- Links & Resources: Dyson CameraJet ---- Learn what sustainable growth can look like for your firm at crispcoach.com. ---- Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. ---- Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O’Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. ---- If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: 456. AMMA - Why It’s Your Fault If Your Team Isn’t Performing 423. AMMA - How to Actually Scale Your Standards 187. Dan Martell - Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

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  Episode #495

  495. Special Forces Lessons for Building a Self-Managing Practice with Sam Goodner

  Sep 7, 202644 minS7

  The instinct that built your practice from scratch is the same instinct that's keeping it dependent on you. In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael Mogill sits down with Sam Goodner, a former officer in the Swiss Special Forces who went on to build and sell multiple technology companies, including Catapult Systems and Flash Parking. A call about his father's cancer diagnosis once pulled Sam out of his business for five weeks. He came back to find his team running things better without him, and realized he'd been the bottleneck all along. Now the author of Like Clockwork: Run Your Business with Swiss Army Precision, Sam breaks down how founders can build a practice that runs independently of them, from staging decision rights to designing a first day that sets the tone for years. Here's what you'll learn: Why the best predictor of future performance is a candidate's past, not a hypothetical answer What it takes to train your own replacement before anyone asks you to How codifying your best practices lets you step out of the day-to-day without losing quality If your firm still runs through you on every decision, this episode shows exactly where to start letting go. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:02:23) From Texas to Swiss Special Forces (00:06:17) Time-telling vs. clock-building (00:09:08) The call that exposed the bottleneck (00:13:53) A special forces first day (00:19:58) Cultural indoctrination day (00:22:27) Codifying your best practices (00:29:10) The topgrading interview method (00:31:18) Training your own replacement (00:42:12) Be different, not better ---- Links & Resources: Like Clockwork: Run Your Business with Swiss Army Precision by Sam Goodner Sam Goodner Built to Last by Jim Collins Good to Great by Jim Collins Atomic Habits by James Clear Topgrading by Bradford D. Smart Scaling Up by Verne Harnish ---- Learn what sustainable growth can look like for your firm at crispcoach.com. ---- Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. ---- Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O’Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. ---- If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: 359. The Ultimate Guide To Retaining Top Talent 287. Dan Martell - Buy Back Your Time: Mastering the Art of Delegation 282. AMMA - Beyond Business Cards: Building Real Relationships

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  Episode #494

  494. AMMA — Navigating the Lows of Leadership

  Sep 2, 202625 minS7

  What if not wanting to be a leader is exactly what makes you a good one? In this AMMA episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael and Jessica Mogill tackle three questions law firm owners keep sending in: why good employees walk out the door even after a raise, whether leadership can really be taught, and what to do when you catch yourself repeating the exact behavior you swore you'd never repeat. It's a candid conversation about what it actually takes to lead people, even when leading was never the plan. Here's what you'll learn: Why turnover in your firm rarely comes down to one cause How to lead your team when management never came naturally What it takes to stop repeating the leadership habits you swore you'd avoid The best leaders never stop asking whether they could be better. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:02:21) Why We Go To Bed At 8:30 (00:04:47) Why Discipline Feels Like Freedom (00:08:09) Diagnosing Sudden Employee Turnover (00:11:42) Exit And Stay Interviews Explained (00:15:12) Can Leadership Really Be Learned? (00:18:31) Why Leading Yourself Comes First (00:19:54) When You Become The Boss You Hated (00:22:44) The Power Of Asking What's The Argument ---- Links & Resources: Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual by Jocko Willink Shark Tank ---- Learn what sustainable growth can look like for your firm at crispcoach.com. ---- Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. ---- Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O'Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. ---- If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: 460. AMMA - Why Your Top Talent is Secretly Quitting You 419. AMMA - The Harsh Truth About Leadership Nobody Wants to Hear 279. AMMA - Building Trust Through Authentic Leadership

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  Episode #493

  493. Why Relationships Matter More Than Anything Else with Eddy Arriola

  Aug 31, 202644 minS7

  Eddy Arriola has built and sold multiple companies, and by his own account, he did it without ever being the smartest person in the room. In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael Mogill sits down with Eddy Arriola, founder of Apollo Bank and author of It's All About Relationships, to talk about the real driver behind his companies' success: the people around him. Eddy walks through the six categories of relationships every leader has to manage, why pausing before you react can save a partnership, and how trust is what actually holds a growing business together, more than authority ever will. It's a grounded, practical look at how the best leaders build the kind of teams and networks that carry them through hard times. Here's what you'll learn: Why relationships, not strategy or capital, are what actually scale a business How to build trust with your team instead of just demanding compliance Why pausing before reacting can save your most important partnerships Your business will only grow as fast as the relationships holding it together, so start building the right ones today. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:02:39) Growing up in an immigrant family (00:04:16) Starting Inktel in 1997 (00:10:38) A mentor who opened doors (00:12:49) Earning credibility in banking (00:15:46) Why he wrote the book (00:18:16) The six key relationships (00:23:43) The hardest relationship to build (00:27:21) The CARPET framework (00:30:16) The power of the pause (00:32:48) Trust over authority (00:33:49) Relationship with yourself (00:37:22) The Mr. Cooper story (00:40:38) The biggest lesson he's learned ---- Links & Resources: It's All About Relationships: Mastering the Art of Relational Leadership by Eddy Arriola Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott ---- Learn what sustainable growth can look like for your firm at crispcoach.com. ---- Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. ---- Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O’Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. ---- If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: 394. How to Grow Without Losing Culture (Or Your Sanity) with Varghese Summersett 282. AMMA - Beyond Business Cards: Building Real Relationships 47. Jessica Mogill - A Transformational Partnership: How Opposites Attract

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