Amy DuVall: From Politics to Pastry, part 2

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Episode 030 of The Former Lawyer Podcast, I’m sharing the second half of my conversation with Amy DuVall. (I shared the first half of our conversation</span> <a href="http://formerlawyer.com/029"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">last week in episode 029</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">!) </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After starting out in private practice, Amy spent 20 years as a lawyer and lobbyist doing environmental work in Washington D.C. In March 2018, she left that behind to study the pastry arts and open her baking business, From Politics to Pastry.</span></p> <p><strong>In the second half of our conversation, Amy shares about:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she handled her position being changed from a lawyer to a non-lawyer position and being instructed that she couldn’t hold herself out as a lawyer anymore;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How her J.D. was her “secret weapon” during her lobbying days;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Spending 10 years working to pass the biggest environmental bill in 25 years, succeeding, and then being hit like a ton of bricks by the question: “What’s next?”;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Going to therapy and realizing that she should have gone sooner;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Resisting the idea that she had anxiety because she loved what she was doing;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Finally accepting that she had a significant problem with anxiety that was taking a toll on her body;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How loving the substance of the work but hating the game impacted her, and why you need to figure out which you prefer;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-w