Redefining Success After Selling My Law Firm

“Wow…you didn’t even make it a year,” my friend – and the attorney who purchased my law practice – laughed.

No, I guess I didn’t.

(My last client appointment after selling my firm was less than a year ago.)

I retired from practicing law at age 55.

By that point, I had already built two successful businesses in my adult career, including My Pink Lawyer®, the boutique estate planning law firm I grew from scratch in Florida.

The firm was thriving. Financially successful. And it provided well for our family.

But I felt a quiet whisper that it was time to step aside.

My husband and I sold everything in Pensacola and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

We spent the year exploring. 

The Balloon Fiesta. Zozobra. Local arts festivals.

Even a 55K mountain trail race in Cuba, New Mexico.

Kristen tackles Deadman’s Peak 55K trail race in November 2025

When winter arrived, we headed to Zihuatanejo, Mexico – where we now spend our winters – and for the first time in years, I had space to breathe.

And in that stillness, the whispers returned.

This isn’t your time to retire. 

You’ve learned too much about success – what it is, what it isn’t, and how women pursue it.

You’re not finished contributing yet.

I felt restless again. But this time, it felt purposeful.

I’ve always loved building businesses. Learning new skills. Applying them in my own life and teaching them to others.

And while growing My Pink Lawyer®, one of my greatest joys was mentoring and encouraging other women lawyers.

That part of me never retired.

Although I may have retired as a practicing woman lawyer, I still have lots to offer the women lawyer community about the ceilings we self-impose on our success as women professionals.

As I began studying identity transformation, belief reframing, and behavioral coaching more deeply, something became clear…

If I had understood this work while running my law practice, I would have experienced success very differently.

Without the hustle.

Without the grind.

Without the constant second-guessing or pressure to please everyone.

Because results never outpace one’s self-identity.

If you’re a woman law firm owner sensing that running your practice feels heavier, harder, or less fulfilling than it should … you’re exactly who I built this platform for.

You don’t need a new strategy to transform your law practice. 

You need an identity shift. You can read more about my identity framework here.

Because your identity – that collection of beliefs, assumptions, and self-perceptions shaping what you attempt, what you tolerate, and what you believe you deserve – determines every result you create.

Transform that … and everything else expands with it.