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Thinking Two Jobs Ahead and One Challenge at a Time with Marcus Payne

“I wouldn’t take it back for all the money in the world.”

That’s how Marcus Payne chooses to reflect on his role as Chief Counsel for Queensland Health during a global pandemic.

“It was a wonderful experience in terms of the pressure and what I learnt but would I choose to go back and do it again? I’m not sure!”

Now Head of Legal at Urban Utilities, Marcus clearly likes a challenge - in September he completed a bucket-list goal, swimming across the English Channel in 14 hours and 29 minutes.

“I’m a pretty firm believer that anyone can do amazing things, it’s just about having the right approach and not trying to do too much too quickly.”

The “right approach” to something as difficult as swimming The Channel includes training in the cold and dark from three in the morning, ahead of a busy work schedule. But most importantly, it involves a team of motivators.

“You’re not allowed to wear a watch either so I very quickly found myself surrendering to the fact that I didn’t know where I was, I didn’t know how long I’d been out there, I didn’t know how long to finish - I just resigned myself to be very present in each moment.”

In this final episode of Friends in Law for 2022, Marcus explains the lessons such a huge physical challenge share with the daily challenges of life and career, the role senior lawyers must play in a post-pandemic office and the slowly tipping scales of work/life balance that can only come when you truly enjoy what you do.

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Legal careers
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Credits

Host: Alex Correa - Career Coach in Law

Brought to you by Alex Correa Executive

With thanks to our guest : Marcus Payne

Friends in Law is edited and engineered by Cold Ghost (aka Fletcher Babb) Produced by Bern Young

Friends In Law Podcast

enDecember 21, 2022

Kara Cook, The Little Engine That Would

How many times have you said or heard, everything happens for a reason?

When Kara Cook was a Judge’s associate, sitting through highly detailed cases before the Planning and Environment court, she couldn’t have foreseen that one day she’d be part of making the very decisions developers appeal.

At that time, early in her legal career, she was more concerned about matters of social justice like domestic violence and fair representation for women who’d lost their power and their voice.

Now a Brisbane City Councillor, Kara Cook’s path to politics was not via the well-worn journey of student politics or volunteers and advisors, which is one reason she wasn’t ready for the brutality.

But as you’ll hear, her legal career readied her for the fight.

“I constantly remind people around me that the political environment is not the real world and how people behave and act in that environment is not what would happen in a regular organisation.”

“You can be empathetic and still be a good leader.”

“I was never the smartest kid in the class but my husband jokes to me, that I’m like the little engine that could.”

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