Lawyer Turned Podcaster Turned Business Owner

Did you know who Kyla Denanyoh is? I am a lawyer. It's really funny to say that because lawyer is a controversial term, and I'll explain a little bit more about that as we go along. I'm a 2015 graduate of Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Great school and an HBCU Law School, which is a historically black college and university law school. I am also a proud Ohioan, a wife, a mom to a toddler, a hard worker, and a foodie, all of those things. I am a lawyer because I attended law school and graduated from law school. The common definition of a lawyer is one who studies law or practices law. With that, I am a lawyer. 

I have attended law school, I have studied law, graduated from law school, did not practice law. That means I am not an attorney, but I am a lawyer. Let's get into that a little bit. I am not an attorney. I have never been an attorney. I wanted to be an attorney, but I did not pass the bar exam to become an attorney. I have done a lot of work to get to the point where I'm able to say I'm not an attorney without feeling away about it. I received a lot of practive when I started my podcast and had to continuously explain to poeple that I am a lawyer, not an attorney.

The repetition took away much of the sting of the delivery.

On the You Are A Lawyer podcast, I speak to law school graduates. That is the one requirement: each guest must be a law school graduate. We discuss their current job, their current career, and what they are doing. Basically, anything affected by law school is what we talk about on the podcast. That's because you can never unlearn the stuff that you learned in law school. There is no way that you will ever forget the information. It is just so seeped into you. It is just not going to go away. 

So I have accepted that I am a lawyer, podcaster, and nerd. YES! Is that allowed? Yes.

I thought it was so interesting that I wasn't practicing law, and that the career choices I made were either about law or connected to what I learned in law school. Then I knew a lot of people who were either practicing and decided to do something else, or weren't practicing at all. People who never wanted to practice at all.

I was like, Who is talking to these people? Who is talking to the people who are just not licensed attorneys?

There are a lot of large organizations that include the words Bar Association in them, which means that you are a bar-licensed attorney.

There are very few places for law school graduates, and you are a lawyer who is going to fill that gap. So far we have had the podcast. Right now, we are working on the YouTube channel. Tada! It is here. We are live where you can come to learn all of the cool things about being a lawyer, going to law school, the difficulties that I faced when I was in law school, and cool things that I have learned since being in law school. I will also talk about the podcast episodes, guests that I thought were interesting, new guests that are coming up, and we will do some shout-outs to old guests, all of those things. So I am so excited that you are here. Thank you for reading this. It’s fun to share a little about my life. A lot of this content was first shared in March 2022 when I first started my YouTube video, and it is amazing to think that I continue to create and grow and change and share my life with the world. 

Four years later, I am still a lawyer, podcaster, and nerd. Partially because it is fun, mostly because this is exactly who I am, and I enjoy it, and how complicated it makes my life, and creating content that speaks to all these different aspects of my life.

Feel free to leave a comment about anything you want to know about law school or me. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to share more with you about the exciting things about being a lawyer. 

Until the next blog, 

Kyla