Sari Swears

Sari Swears Podcast: The One Shift You Must Make When Growing Your Business

What if the one thing that could change how you show up in the courtroom is something you're already doing every single day? You're breathing, sure. But are you breathing

Sari Swears Podcast: 7 Reasons You Should Stop Doing Exclusionary Voir Dire

Are you spending your entire voir dire trying to figure out which jurors to kick off your case? You might be hurting your case before trial even begins. In this episode

Sari Swears Podcast: I'm Back From Sabbatical! Why You Might Want to Take One Too

Welcome to the premiere of Season 9 of the Sari Swears podcast! In this episode, Sari returns from a 12-week sabbatical to break down why trial law is inherently a creati

Sari Swears Podcast: Can You Be TOO Kind to Yourself? (Encore Episode)

Can being too kind to yourself hold you back from achieving your goals? In this episode of Sari Swears, Sari de la Motte dismantles the toxic myth that trial lawyers must

Sari Swears Podcast: How to Get People to Read Your Mind (Encore Episode)

Struggling with employees, paralegals, or associates who aren't doing things the way you told them to? In this episode of Sari Swears, Sari de la Motte breaks down the se

Sari Swears Podcast: Overcoming Self-Sabotage to Create the Life You Want with Coach K

This is my fifth and final episode before Sari returns, and I'm leaving you with a topic that completely changed my life: manifestation. I used to think it was complete

Sari Swears Podcast: Learning to Work With Anxiety, Not Against It with Coach K

Anxiety is something almost every trial attorney deals with. The problem is, most of us just push through it. We tell ourselves it's part of the job. That the constan

Sari Swears Podcast: The Importance of a Daily Spiritual Practice with Coach K

As trial attorneys, you spend your days carrying other people's burdens. But who's taking care of you, Friend? In this week's podcast, I share the daily spiritual pra

Sari Swears Podcast: The Power of Play & Creativity in Trial Preparation with Coach K

If you're like most trial attorneys I work with, you've probably told yourself, "I just need to prepare more." Preparation matters, but what if the thing that's actuall

Sari Swears Podcast: Your Survival Instinct Is Driving the Bus with Coach K

If you've been listening to the podcast for a while, you probably know me as Coach K. While Sari is taking a well-deserved sabbatical, I'll be stepping in each week to sh

Sari Swears Podcast: The Power of Completion: Why You're Carrying More Than You Realize with Special Guest Coach K

Ever feel like you're carrying around a heaviness you can't quite explain? Maybe you're exhausted, distracted, or constantly thinking about something that happened mont

Sari Swears Podcast: Trial Debrief: Matthew Wilson on Turning Down $400K and Winning $1.8 Million

Most lawyers would have taken the $400,000… The plaintiff had healed. No surgery. Relatively modest medical bills. Plenty of risk heading into trial. But attorney Mat

Sari Swears Podcast: It's My Canciversary! This One's a BIG Fucking Deal Y'all

Today marks five years since the day I learned there was no more cancer in my body. It's a milestone that means more to me than I can put into words. In this week's p

Sari Swears Podcast: Are You Putting Jurors in the Wrong "Seat?"

One of the most common mistakes I see attorneys make in voir dire is unintentionally putting jurors in the wrong seat. When jurors answer your questions, they're automa

Sari Swears Podcast: How to Level Up: Break the Habit of Being Yourself

You want the breakthrough. You want the next level. What if the thing keeping you stuck isn't your trial skills, but the habits driving them? In this week's podcast

Sari Swears Podcast: Three Components of Any Damages Argument

Most lawyers focus on how to argue damages. Very few spend enough time truly understanding the loss. And jurors can feel that. In this week's episode, I break down

Sari Swears Podcast: It's My Birthday! 7 Lessons I've Learned to Get Me Where I Am Today

Today is my 54th birthday, which honestly feels surreal to say out loud. And it got me reflecting on how I somehow went from being a classically trained pianist… to bec

Sari Swears Podcast: The Top Four Topics You Should Avoid in Voir Dire

You're spending your voir dire on the wrong thing. And it's not subtle. You're trying to get ahead of the defense's argument—funneling defense points, repeating their

Sari Swears Podcast: The One Conversation You Must Have with Jurors to Get Big Damages at Trial

You might be asking the wrong questions. Not bad ones.  Just ones that never get past small talk. And if that's happening in your voir dire… you're missing the mome

Sari Swears Podcast: Why You Need the "Duh Factor" at Trial

I'm seeing this a lot lately, so let me say it straight: If your case feels too simple, you're probably FINALLY getting it right. You keep trying to add more: more deta