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Have you mastered the Art of Asking?

Have you mastered the Art of Asking?

By Nina Kaufman, Esq.

I’m sitting in a café with my good friend—mental health stigma expert, keynote speaker, and professional drummer—Mike Veny. We’ve been chatting up a storm, both having to be somewhere else soon, but pushing the departure envelope because one topic so naturally tumbles into another, like the gentle cycle of clothes in the dryer. The check finally arrives. We scramble for our wallets. I dig through my tote bag. Thinking, “silly women’s handbags—whatever you need always falls to the bottom.” My hand blindly gropes at objects—Android phone, eyeglass case, Moleskine notebook—but none of them have the texture and heft of my wallet. “Could I have missed it?” I wonder. I begin to take out objects one-by-one and put them on the table so that I don’t re-grab what I’ve already dismissed as “not-wallet.” I scrape the bottom of the bag with my fingernails. No wallet. A hot flush creeps up my neck. I feel like a complete mooch. A deadbeat. Here I had cavalierly ordered a healthy salad and full glass of wine … and don’t…

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Nina Kaufman

Flying solo doesn’t have to mean going it alone.

I’m Nina Kaufman.

I know first-hand that running a knowledge-based service business has unique challenges. It’s so much easier when you have an advocate in your corner. Over the past 25 years, I’ve worked with thousands of New York business professionals who want a legal advisor to guide and support them as they navigate the business world.

With wide-ranging experience as a business attorney, strategist, and media authority, I bring the added power of a business lens to the legal issues my clients are facing.

And because I’ve been a business owner myself, I’ve lived through the soaring highs and devastating lows – like when my first law firm failed. So I understand what’s involved to serve great clients, detect business risks early and build a true legacy.

I can’t get those 12 years back. That’s why I have made it my mission to ensure that business professionals like you can become wise and discerning leaders, build a solid business, and live your best life.