Gaby Abrams: Lawyer Turned Online Stationery Shop Owner

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Episode 033 of The Former Lawyer Podcast, I’m sharing my conversation with Gaby Abrams. Gaby left legal practice five years ago and opened an online stationery shop on Etsy, Casa Confetti.</span></p> <p><strong>In this conversation, Gaby shares about:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Thinking all through college she would head to med school, and then deciding to go to law school instead;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Going to law school thinking that you can do anything with a law degree (and why she thinks that was misguided);</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her dad, who was a litigator, telling her “don’t be a lawyer, whatever you do!”, and why she didn’t listen;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Deciding very early on that she didn’t want to be a lawyer, and going into financial recruiting after law school;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What listening to her body has to do with deciding not to practice law;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Making the decision to practice immigration law for a time so that she would never think “what if” about pursuing legal practice;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she ended up starting her stationery business on Etsy in order to bridge from her firm job to whatever she would end up doing next during her unpaid maternity leave;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she realized that her stationery business could actually be her full-time career after making over $150k in her first two years in business;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she flipped the way she thought about intelligence;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 4