Podcast: Mid-Cycle Pep Talk & 2024-2025 Update from Mike Spivey
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike gives a brief update and pep talk for current law school applicants during the 2024-2025 admissions cycle.
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Motivation
21 Jan 2025
02 Jan 2024
Podcast: How to Make Your Resolution Stick, with ‘Master of Change’ Author Brad Stulberg
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike interviews best-selling author Brad Stulberg (whose books include Master of Change, The Practice of Groundedness, Peak Performance, and The Passion Paradox) on how to make real and lasting change in your life.
Read full post28 Apr 2023
Podcast: "Everything"
In this short episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike talks about the widespread notion that, even beyond whatever specific and concrete challenges we each may be facing, there is an added factor of "everything" (in today's society, in life) that can sometimes feel crushing.
Read full post11 Mar 2023
Podcast: On Dream Schools
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike talks to Spivey Consulting's COO Anna Hicks-Jaco about a question from Reddit—one that we hear many times every year. "How do I stop being so attached to my dream school?"
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Podcast: Catastrophizing in Admissions (& Why It's Going to Be Okay)
In this short episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike talks about applicants' (deeply understandable) tendency to catastrophize in law school admissions.
Read full post28 Jan 2022
We get rejected, too.
As we head into the thick of decision season, law school admissions offices are beginning to send out the inevitable rejection waves. Rejection hurts, but it is also a fundamental human experience, and we all feel its effects sometimes.
Read full post08 Jan 2022
Uncertainty in Admissions
On our most recent podcast with current applicant "Barb," who has yet to receive responses to any of her applications, we spoke a good deal about the uncertainty of the admissions process.
Read full post09 Jun 2021
Self-Care Summer for Law School, College & Graduate School
Linked below are three podcasts from internationally acclaimed psychiatrists, speakers and authors: Dr. Guy Winch, Dr. Gabor Maté, and Dr. Kristin Neff (and a blog from me for no great reason).
Read full post24 May 2021
A Message from a Recent Law School Graduate Who Beat the Odds
I was flying back to Colorado from a work trip at about 35,000 feet when I saw this post on LinkedIn, and I immediately wanted to share it with others.
Read full post12 Feb 2021
Conditional vs. Unconditional Self-Esteem & How it Significantly Influences College and Law School Choice
This is a PSA of sorts, but to me it's much more important than an announcement. It's perspective. Healthy. It is from personal experience in that I have lived both sides of this life.
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