by Doug Brown, JD | Sep 19, 2025 | Law Practice, Leadership, Success
Saturday at the SC Bar Senior Lawyers Symposium, something shifted in a room of 30 managing partners. It started with an uncomfortable truth about succession planning. The Selfish Trap I shared my speaker school story—how I felt guilty investing in myself until I...
by Melissa Kascak | Sep 10, 2025 | Fit Yourself In, Work-Life Balance
I don’t know why I waited so long! Finally, I have rejoined the club of laptop owners. I know that sounds a little silly, but it has already made my life easier and I only just got this thing yesterday. When the world ended in 2020 and the kids were distance learning,...
by Melissa Kascak | May 5, 2025 | Fit Yourself In, Work-Life Balance
Who doesn’t love a good mystery? My youngest son after our latest trip to NYC, that’s who…. When I was a kid, my mother and my aunt would take my cousins and me on Mystery Rides. We’d hop in my aunt’s wood paneled station wagon and go somewhere fun, but we didn’t know...
by Melissa Kascak | Mar 6, 2025 | Fit Yourself In
No one would ever think to describe me as an athlete. I was never one to get sweaty in PE or sign up for team sports. Currently, my idea of a workout is a 4-mile speed walk with my friend. I didn’t even learn to ride a bike until I was twelve years old… So when I was...
by Melissa Kascak | Feb 19, 2025 | Work-Life Balance
Laundry is an insufferable, eternal nightmare. Laundry laughs in the face of the concept of ‘inbox zero.’ Anyone fortunate enough to have clothes to wash knows the truth of this burden. So imagine me locking up for the night a few weeks ago, and I noticed an eerie...
