About the Podcast
What is You Are A Lawyer?
YOU ARE A LAWYER is a podcast that celebrates lawyers, attorneys, paralegals, legal professionals, and law students. Lawyers are special, and our skills, empathy, and curiosity are valuable outside of the courtroom and boardroom.
Every week, Kyla Denanyoh interviews a risk-taking lawyer to discuss how their legal education impacts their life. By sharing a lawyer's experience before, during, and after law school, the You Are A Lawyer podcast has become a safe space for lawyers to celebrate their ambition and express themselves without judgment.
You Are A Lawyer will motivate you to start that business, challenge you to find a nontraditional career, and push you to embrace the hobby that you’ve been hiding. Whether you are working as an artist, tech investor, yogi, or blogger, if you’ve graduated from law school, YOU ARE A LAWYER.
A few popular topics on the You Are A Lawyer podcast:
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How law school impacts your life and money,
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Leaving the law for cool jobs like a dental care advocate or content creation, and
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Using your legal career to expand your personal brand, like this marketing expert and this in-house mastermind.
About the Host
Kyla Denanyoh
Host of You Are A Lawyer
Kyla Denanyoh is a storyteller, innovator, and unapologetic talker who turned her curiosity into a podcast with a global audience.
After working in Big Law as an operations coordinator, Kyla became fascinated with lawyers in non-traditional roles. While thriving in her career, Kyla was consistently reminded that she was *just* a lawyer; never becoming an attorney because she did not pass the Louisiana bar exam.
Kyla began to wonder: What does it really mean to be a lawyer?
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In April 2020, Kyla Denanyoh launched You Are A Lawyer, a podcast that celebrates the extraordinary lives of unique lawyers. Since then, Kyla has interviewed 200+ guests, building an engaged community of lawyers, law students, and anyone curious about risk-taking lawyers.
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As a podcast host, Kyla uses the research skills she gained while attending Southern University Law Center. In law school, Kyla served as Student Bar Association Parliamentarian and Editor-In-Chief of the law school newspaper, The Public Defender.
Kyla brings the same leadership, curiosity, and enthusiasm for checklists as the host of You Are A Lawyer.
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