Shar Prattles On About How Great She Is Not, but Thank Goodness Her Guests Are Fantastic!

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Good evening and welcome back to Charles rebel recess. Did you guys miss me? Did you miss my little live show? I hope you did, but I hope you went and told a friend that girl, she didn't even show up. She she put in a couple of like episodes that we already heard, and we're trying to hear something new. I know you're not thinking about that, but you know, these are the things that I think about. You know, again, the reason for this show, if this is your first time listening, Charles rebel, recess, is about what do? What does the legal community do to decompress? What? How do they take a break? What do they do during their recess and as an aspiring legal profession. Now I need some tips, because, yeah, I don't have all the answers. So this is kind of like me, kind of sifting through other people's minds, getting in on that intellectual property they have going on, that human capital, that life experience, trying to get, you know, a little bit of understanding of what are some things that I can do that I'm not already doing, or maybe it's something that I'm already doing, but how can I do it better? Yeah, if that makes sense to you guys, I hope it makes sense, because I don't want to be the only one out here, just kind of floating about trying to figure out, like, how do I make my life make sense and bring some order to the chaos, a little bit of order. Because, you know, balance, right? You got to have some chaos. And you have to have some order so that you can kind of be mellowed out and be on your, you know, narrow pathway to fight the good fight with that being said, okay, okay, okay, okay. So you remember during the Smash, our smash episode that I let you guys know that I was going to be having an attorney come in, and she's not just an attorney. Okay, to be fair, she's not just an attorney. She's a powerhouse, of course, because she is on the show, and that's how I rock, but she's also a judge. So let me tell you a little bit about her. I get to tell you her name, she will be sitting down, and she'll be taking her recess with us on the next episode next week. So I did say I was gonna stop saying, uh huh, well, it's hard, it's hard to undo a whole life worth of idiosyncrasies. So with that being said, Christine M cuzimka Esquire, one of these days I'm gonna be a whole Esquire, okay, okay, okay, okay. Anyway, she is currently the director of Nevada, the Nevada law assistance program with the State Bar, right, right? That is so exciting. Okay, so Ms kazmka is a director of the Nevada lawyers Assistance Program in lap, in L, A, P, lap, lap, okay, okay, okay. I'm just excited to be back and talking with you guys. So, yeah, okay, whip, it's with the State Bar, like I said, and she's a member of the law lawyers, concerned for lawyers. And you know, when you do have people in your industry, it's always good to build a tribe. And tribes are often, you know, sometimes grow up with tribes, and then tribes are they can they have the fluidity for you to be able to select other members, right, to embrace them. So, you know, some people call it family, you know, the family you choose, I kind of like to call it my tribe. So again, lawyers concerned for lawyers is kind of like a tribe right of attorneys, because they understand what the other one's going through. They've been there. Some of them been there, done that, some of them are just getting to it. So with that being said, they kind of support one another. She's been involved in the recovery field for more than 30 years, and she's committed to helping attorneys, judges, law students and other legal professionals and aspiring legal professionals that are not in law school just yet, she's currently working with the State Bar and outside professionals to advance attorneys and judicial. Seeing by addressing substance use disorders, mental health issues and stressors, such as the effects of secondary, vicarious trauma and both the similar civil and criminal justice systems. Yeah, I told you, when I get excited, I trip over my words, and I might talk a little bit too fast, but you know, we'll see. So she's also involved in developing programs addressing like culture and inclusive and inclusivity and well being, and she also supports, she serves and in why I left this for last Look, don't blame me, right? Don't look what? Okay, I guess she can't blame me. Charge it to my head and not my heart. She is, you know, she's currently serving as the Nevada supreme court settlement judge. What the Nevada Supreme Court? Shut up, shut up, shut the door. Oh, my God. Okay, okay, geeking out. And she's not even here yet, and she's also a private mediator and arbitrator with the advanced resolutions management out here in Vegas. So I'm super excited. I'm super excited to be to get the opportunity to listen, listen to her life's experiences, and have that inform and shape how I can move forward. And hopefully have it be of some value to you guys, because when you've been in an industry for a very long time, you don't just become an authority in that industry. You become an authority and how to kind of mitigate that industry, how to work within the industry. What can you do? That includes the recess like, what do you do during that break? How do you decompress? Who do you know? Where do you go to like, what are all of the different things that you've tried and what works for you? What's been, um, most successful for you when you're trying to make sure that you are, that you're at the top of your field, or, I shouldn't say, the top of your field, that you are being the best version of yourself possible, right? That you're bringing the best you to the table, to the benefit of your clients, whoever those clients may be, whether they are natural individuals or legal individuals or legal entities, whatever side that you're representing, representing you wanting to be. You want to you want to be a sure bet, a sure shot, you know. You want to give them the peak of what they deserve. I can't, you know, I'm trying to find this word, right, a good word to to describe it, and it just, it's just like, not, it's just not popping up. It's not popping up. But anyways, so I am looking forward to chatting it up with Christine. She is, like I said, she's a powerhouse. She is a dynamo. The first time that I saw her in action was on the panel. It was during the pre law fellowship this summer, and a lot of legal professionals were going in and out of this panel, not the panel, but the program, the fellowship, and we were being exposed to a lot of the community members, including law students and things like that. So quite a few we went out, we did some field trips. We saw some really great people working hard for Nevadans. And she stood out to me, and I thought to myself, you know, and,

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and I don't really I'm not the type of person that will, like, geek out easily, and I'm not because of my big age. I'm not like, you know, at the chomping at the bit to, like, get to know someone and to network and to do all these different things. So when, when I heard her and her responses and her life's experiences, I thought to myself, this is somebody that I want to know. This is somebody that I would love to have community with, because I feel like she has lived a life that is full of diversity, diverse experiences. And you know, as I mentioned earlier, that was inclusive. She embraced everyone, all types, all kinds, and she understood. She had this background of understanding that, you know what? Life can knock us down. Life can throw some monkey riches in our plans. However, is what we do with those things. It's the tools that we're able to kind of cobble together from our experiences that that make us great, that make us unique, that make us a. Benefit to others. And you know, there's a saying like, this person is a girl's girl, that's man's man. She's a lawyer's lawyer, okay? And I did that. I truly dig that. So anywho looking forward to chatting with her next week, and I hope you guys enjoy it. And if you do send me a message or something like, post something like I said before, we're on Instagram at Charlotte recess. We're on X, formerly known as Twitter, again Charles, rebel recess, or could be rebel recess, please don't again, charge it to my head and not my heart. I've had a pretty long day. We are also we have email, shars Rebel recess@gmail.com so you know, check us out, or go to one of our pages and post something like comment, share, whether they say subscribe. And of course, when I finish figure out that YouTube thing, I keep saying I'm gonna figure it out. But I do have a lot on my plate. I did take the LSAT. I could tell you guys whether or not I did. Well, we don't know. We'll see it's up to the testing gods, right? I am hoping that I did well, well enough, you know, because I gave my best shot, I did study as much as I could, and giving given my life's circumstances, hopefully it was good enough. With that being said, I also want to let you guys know that we, the following week, we are going to have justice cherry. Now, what can I say about justice cherry? So I was one of my good friends, Bob serzio, he told me, okay, I'm putting too much on it when I say good friends, I'm saying I am taking huge liberty by saying that, Bob, are really good friends. Okay, look, he's a diamond. He's another dynamo, right? He's a giant in the field. And he has been working out here in these lawyering streets for quite some times. And he is, like, you know, well known right out here. And I I met him through someone else, even though I said I'm not really like again, I'm not the type of person that target networks, well, not target I'm not the type of person that just randomly. Networks. Put it like that. So if I'm in a room and I hear about all these different people, I'm not going to every person in that room. I'm going to the person in the room that I feel like we could find some common ground and we can have a good conversation. Not only can they pour into me, but I can pour into them at some point, be of use. At some point, even if I'm not of use right now, we figure it out. How can I be of service once I grow up a little bit, once I train up a little bit, because you guys have been doing the most, and don't get me wrong, I did have that extensive career in commercial real estate, but commercial real estate, even though it has a lot of contracts involved, and I love contracts. Have you ever heard somebody say that, but they love contracts. That's me. I love contracts. I love finding their weaknesses, and then I love creating contracts with a lot of strength. Went off on a tangent I did, but anyways, so it was Sergio who who suggested. He was like, hey, you know justice cherry is so awesome. You had justice Douglas on your show not too long ago. You should really reach out to justice cherry, because that guy, oh, my god, he has such a breath of experience, and he is in here, and look, I don't know there's going to be a lot of pressure for him, but I can imagine that. You know, he's probably unfazed, but I'm just you look, when people are like hyping you up, sometimes you can feel kind of pressured. I know that I feel pressured when people try to hype me up, because I feel like I'm just that regular, regular person unlike any old body else. So like, you're trying to tell people, you know, oh, yeah, sure, she does this. She does that. I like, Yeah, but doesn't other. Don't know that people do that, you know? They just kind of, I'm just kind of doing things. But, um, anyway, just as Michael cherry, okay, so he received his undergrad from the University of Missouri, What? What? And so south, right from the south, from the from the south, the dirty, dirty south. Okay, so that's like, just a rap thing, a dirty south. That's not, that's not a like, you know a thing, right? It is. What I do know is that I have a lot of family from Missouri, and Missouri is not even the dirty south, like, what? Where did that come from? Maybe I just wanted to dance Midwest. He's a Midwestern boy. He's not a boy, he's a man. You know, I'm getting myself in trouble. Why? You guys let me do this. Okay, anyway. So anyway, he's from the University of Missouri, Mizzou, and his he got his law degree from Washington University Law School. Now, I do have family in St Louis, really close family. I spent a summer out there in St Louis. And have you seen that arch? You might want to go around there and check out a lot of they have a lot of history in St Louis, st their St Louis City, and then they're St Louis County, and the two are different. So anyway, with that being said, He has over 50 years of experience, God in the legal profession. Like, I'm not even like, I'm like, on the sidewalk, right? Compared to him, I haven't even walked up to the door of the legal community. I'm like, on the sidewalk looking at the door, right? So he has been in the house for God over I feel like he built the house so over 50 years, and like he was, um, he was a deputy public defender when he started. So that's kind of cool. A defender of the people, you know, I'm all about that. Don your white cap and get it on, you know, get out there and fight for those people who can't fight for themselves, you know, and make sure that their story gets told. That's what's really important in creating these the dynamic that that kind of helps the future, future generations, to be able to move in and out in their daily lives and to relate to one another in a way that can be, that can enhance right the world around us. He also did some okay so

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he I should let him say it, but I'm gonna say it because I giggled when I found it out he had the nickname of Master of disaster. What master? Because you so somebody was to such a profound legal career. You hear that, and you go, you immediately think, master of disaster. What? No. So here's the deal. He was the special master that oversaw, like the MGM in Hilton Hotels, fire litigation. So during that in the in the compounds and the scopes of that, he was called the master of disaster. So, you know, the special master over some disastrous kind of things happening. You know, with that fire litigation. So kind of clever. My late clever thinks, as you can see, because, you know, my whole little podcast is called, you know, a recess, as in courts recess. And so anyway, okay, I'm not going to tell you the rest like SRR. Look that up. Look up what SRR is. How is that significant in the legal field? Yep, oh, geek, a nerd over this way. And let me know what you find out about that. Email me or like, you know, comment on one of the pages and tell me to find out. What does SRR stand for? As in charge, rebel recess, but the initials SRR. Okay, so anyway, I'm gonna let you let him tell about himself when he is on the show in a couple weeks from now. He is, oh, okay, I but I will tell you this. He was the chief Nevada Supreme Court Justice for like two terms. So justice Douglas, yep, the first African American Chief Supreme Court justice for the state of Nevada. Justice Sherry, he did it twice, too. So wait, what is happening in the showers world right now? How is she hobnobbing with these legal celebrities, these illegal giants? I have no idea how I even got here. Like, what? Whose life is this? Okay? Somebody tell whose life is this? Because I am so excited about it. Dave. Oh, okay. Anyway, so what have I been up to? I have definitely been like I said. I took the LSAT, but I'm taking six courses, I think I mentioned it before, and they're really intensive. There's a lot of reading intensive. So one of the classes is like a public policy class. Shout out to Dr, beavers. Okay. Dr, beavers, she is teaching my metropolitan policy class, and you talk about, again, another person with a wealth of knowledge. It is like focused on, like Brookings, right? So look up Brookings. Look up Brookings, and you'll see that Brookings is a big deal. And UNLV has a Brookings component. Here, we kind of have a Brookings discipline, a college, you know, a discipline, yeah, we have a course, a program for Brookings and the other, only other Brookings. So wait, we're doing big things over here in UNLV. So I think people are sleeping on us. So in the realm of public policy, we doing the thing thing. So with that being said, the college, the class that I'm taking, it's very eye opening. And I wish I would have took it when I first came back, because I feel like I would have added on a Brookings minor. I'm due to graduate next spring, and like part of me wants to be like, can we push this back so that can add on a Brookings policy minor, because the way that Dr beavers is teaching the class. It's engaging, and she's bringing a lot of giants from the community in to kind of explain to us how policy works, how decisions get made, all the way from top to bottom, and bottom to top. Right? It's like all around and anyway, what I'm doing right now is I'm working on our policy project. It's what we have to turn in at the end of the semester. So it's really in depth. It's kind of it's taken a lot of bandwidth. It's taking a lot of studying statistics. But here's I was able to put two and two together because I'm taking another class. It's called a global accelerator, global business accelerator. Yeah, I charge it to my head and not my art. So that class is teaching me the mechanics of data analytics, like from an IT perspective. So much most of the students in that class, they are computer science majors, but because I did take a Data Analytics course last semester with the awesome Dr Neil Helen Neal, again, shout out to her over in the urban, urban study discipline, That's what my major is, anyway, she piqued my interest. So in data analytics and how it relates to the the community around us, and how we can better, it gives us an opportunity to to fine tune those things that we're interested in and how we can be a better use and help by showing us the numbers, showing us the data, what have people studied and what can be studied? So anyway, I took it one step further, and I took this global accelerator course this semester, and like I said, it's like more on the IT side, so we found out more of the robust features and the Excel software, which is like, you know, mind blown. So we use those formulas and things to kind of extrapolate data. And then, right now, we're working on Tableau. So I found out that Tableau has a lot of great data visualization. I components or like the it lets me make my numbers pretty. How about that? It makes my numbers pretty. So I'm going to use that information from that class in order to kind of build up my presentation for the public policy class, because I'm already getting, like, a lot of dot data, but I need to make it look D, because I want a good grade right now. You know, I'm rocking in a GPA. It's okay. It used to be a 4.0 but because of some issues that I had during the summer, I'm not down to a 3.947 and it is driving me with zonkers. But either way, I want to do well. I want to be again, the best version of myself possible, because my intent is to help people moving forward. So with all that being said, that's all been on my plate. And so I said, Let me have. Happen, get into the studio, take that break, because this is another way that I can decompress, to talk to you guys right about what's going on, and kind of get it out whatever's going on in the inside. I want to get it out so that I'm not constantly batting it around in my head and mulling over it, and you guys make me relax. You know, I feel good talking to you guys about these different things and bringing some giants to you so that they can talk to you about what you can do to decompress. And I hope that what I've shared with you and me talking to you, helps to decompress, or at least distract you from some of the things to kind of give you room to breathe a little bit, because sometimes that's all we need, is a quick breath. And one of the other things that I have learned is mindfulness, being here in the moment and thinking about, Okay, what's going on right now, all the way down to the minutia. So mindfulness has been working for me lately. I take these brief moments and I sit there and I go, Okay, think about this. What's going on? Can you feel yourself? Can you feel your breathing? Can you feel your body? Can you feel the little hair? Is it called cilia? I don't remember what it's called. I don't think it's look the little hairs all over your body, that stuff your little baby fur. Can you feel the individual follicles? What do How does that feel? Is it moving in the breeze, like what's going on around you, what's happening in your room and in your space? So mindfulness just kind of slows the world down for you, and in effect, it's like the cousin to me of meditation. These are my words. No awesome person that's been specializing in this field said this. This just me saying this, that it's the cousin to meditation. But from what I understand, it about meditation, meditation has like a spiritual component to it, and not everyone is into spirituality, and that's okay. You don't have to be into spirituality. You have mindfulness. So mindfulness can kind of slow your world down around you, and then you can kind of hear your breathing go in and out, and it doesn't take a long time to do it depends on the type of person that you are. If you're a type of person that's just like, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, and you have all those thoughts, like I do at 3am in the morning, all of a sudden, I'm listening in my head, um, the theme, the theme song to the first Prince of Bel Air, starts playing,

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and I'm like, But why? Why can't I go to sleep? God, why make me go to sleep? Stop. But you know, your body does what your body does, and that's kind of one of the things that my mind does and wants to continue going and thinking about things at random times. You know, I'll wake up like in the middle of the night and I'll be thinking, did you close the refrigerator door? Did you? Did you? I know that idea, like, why would it be open? But you know, it just wants to give these little false scenarios and then and put crisis behind it. My whole body just starts panicking. Anxiety happens, and it's just like I'm in crisis mode, like it's a life or death situation, whether or not I have the refrigerator door open at like, four in the morning. There's been times when I've actually, like, my body mimicked it so well that I got my tail up and went downstairs. But anywho I am going to let you guys go. I'll be back with you next week. Don't forget to all the social medias, because you know what, I want to be everywhere that you are. If we're not somewhere where you are, then send it to me. Let me know. Check us out on Amazon, on Apple podcast. We are on Spotify. We are on transistor FM. Come listen to me and share your girl, because I feel like we can all use a little break from time to time. You

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