219. She Quit Law to Start a Podcast From Scratch… as a Cat (Iman Ibrahim)

Cheryl Lau

Everyone commends you for being brave when you start over. But no one tells you that your reinvention might also look… ridiculous.

For our guest today, that looked like explaining to people – very seriously – that she quit her career as a lawyer… to start a podcast as a cat.

Because that’s the thing about starting something new: More often than not, it doesn’t look polished or profound. It looks like curiosity, experimentation – and sometimes, doing something absolutely absurd, but quintessentially you.

Today’s guest, Iman Ibrahim, embodies that exact spirit. After nearly two decades in law, she left her career behind to rebuild from scratch – first as a coach, and then as the creator of I Am the Advocat, a podcast where a cat becomes the unlikely voice for real stories of burnout, bullying, and survival in the legal world.

This episode is about what it really takes to start again, and what becomes possible when we finally stop performing who we’re “supposed” to be.