Idara Bassey

Lawyer, author and expert on lawyer wellbeing

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Idara Bassey is a lawyer and expert on lawyer wellbeing. She is an author of Reflections of a Mystical Sistah, a channeled book, and her new book on rethinking the rules of lawyering is due to be published in 2022.

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We talk about the place of spirituality in the modern corporation, how leaders need to do inner work to lead today's corporations, and how lawyering is changing to meet the growing demands of people who are awakening to their deeper spiritual needs.

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Bio

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Bio:

Idara E. Bassey is an expert on lawyer well-being.  She has been a personal advisor to corporate professionals from various industries and been retained by legal professionals nationwide on matters of executive performance, personal growth, values alignment, stress reduction and wellness since 2002. 

 

She has a J.D. and an LL.M in Public International Law from the University of Georgia School of Law where she was named a Ford Foundation Fellow. She also has a Doctoral Degree in Metaphysical Counseling from the University of Sedona.

 

She is also author of the award-winning essay collection Reflections of a Mystical Sistah along with serving as a Contributing Writer to the best-selling American Bar Association book, “Lawyers as Changemakers”.

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She has an upcoming book When “Thinking Like a Lawyer” Fails: Rewriting the Rules for Your Lawyer Life scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2022

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Show notes:

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• [2:18] Idara shares with us how her first book Reflections of a Mystical Sistah came about, after she moved from Washington DC to California, the day before 9/11 occurred.  That book is a channelled book,

• [6:24] It was in law school that Idara sharpened her connection to her intuition, when she began to observe the energy there and how it transformed people to behave in self-serving ways.

• [9:44] Idara decided that if she would survive law school, she would cultivate inner energetic strengths.

• [13:29] Self-reflection and not necessarily doing what society tells you to do are important when everything around us is being re-evaluated. 

• [15:46] After law school, Idara finished her LL.M then ended up in Washington DC working with a non-profit that was a sub-Saharan Africa relief agency. This also gave her the chance to observe how attached people were to their titles and roles.

• [19:21] After 10 years in academia, and moving to California, Idara enrolled herself in a doctoral degree in metaphysics. Her thesis focussed on the manifestation of energy in corporations. Parts of Idara's doctoral thesis were channelled.

• [23:37] We talk about the Great Resignation of 2021 when large numbers of people are expected to resign from their corporate jobs, up to 40% by some estimates.

• [28:29] Idara's new book is about the limitations of the traditional way of thinking like a lawyer and the new ways to be a lawyer in this period of mass transformation.

• [34:26] Idara sees this period of lockdowns, restriction and limitation as an opportunity for personal growth.

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Links:

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Idara's website, IEB Legal Wellness: ieblegalwellness.com

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Reflections of a Mystical Sistah

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Eckhart Tolle's website and his bestselling book, The Power of Now.

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Martha Beck's YouTube video of The Pyramid and the Pool, demonstrating her sugar cube pyramid and how the pool of enlightenment can form from it.