Michael welcomes friend and fellow entrepreneur EJ Stern to the 5th episode of Walk On Podcast Season 2. EJ founded the Fractional Law Firm CMO, a first to market company offering fractional marketing services to small and midsize law firms. They’ve grown rapidly, hiring their 7th full-time employee after just 18 months, and are serving more than 20 law firms across the US and Canada.

EJ and Michael cover a range of topics from the "sliding door" phenomena to the challenges and opportunities of opening your own business.

Walk On is a podcast about the journey of finding passion in a life of purpose and turning that into leadership through conversations with people living aligned and fulfilling existences.

Michael Mills is a communications consultant and Executive Leadership and Performance Coach, with more than 30 years of public affairs experience at agencies and corporations, nonprofits, and trade associations.

Learn more about EJ's firm at https://www.fractionallawfirmcmo.com/

And learn more about Michael at www.michaelmills.info

Hope Ferdowsian (MD, MPH) is a practicing physician, professor of medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and president and co-founder of Phoenix Zones Initiative. As part of Phoenix Zones Initiative, Hope is building an Institute for Universal Rights, Health, and Justice. And She authored the book “Phoenix Zones: Where Strength is Born and Resilience Lives.”

Hope's journey and resulting insights are at both jarring and inspirational and her enthusiasm for bringing progress out of the ashes is, infectious!

Walk On is a podcast about the journey of finding passion in a life of purpose and turning that into leadership through conversations with people living aligned and fulfilling existences.

Michael Mills is a communications consultant and Executive Leadership and Performance Coach, with more than 30 years of public affairs experience at agencies and corporations, nonprofits, and trade associations.

Learn more about Hope's work at https://www.phoenixzonesinitiative.org/

And learn more about Michael at www.michaelmills.info

Whitney Marshall, owner of Whitney Marshall Coaching, joins the podcast to discuss career transitions, finding your passion, and overcoming negative self-perception and the wiring from family and corporate roles to live a fulfilling life.

Whitney is a Certified Professional Coach on a mission to cultivate and nurture more genuine and generous leaders. She comes to this work from a remarkable career in corporate social responsibility. Whitney shares how her previous career felt expected of her, and a forced transition led to a new career more perfectly aligned with her personal values and passions.

This episode is insightful, uplifting, and authentic - adjectives that could be used to describe Whitney, herself.

Walk On is a podcast about the journey of finding passion in a life of purpose and turning that into leadership through conversations with people living aligned and fulfilling existences.

Michael Mills is a communications consultant and Executive Leadership and Performance Coach, with more than 30 years of public affairs experience at agencies and corporations, nonprofits, and trade associations.

Learn more about Whitney at https://www.whitneymarshall.com.

And learn more about Michael at www.michaelmills.info