Karolyn dropped additional nuggets of sales and marketing goodness in the EXTENDED Interview. Be sure to click here to access all of our great extended interviews, transcripts and more within our Insider's Club.You can try it for the entire month for only $1.00!Karolyn Vreeland Blume was born many years ago in New York City. She started her professional life as a lawyer with a successful general practice including litigation, real estate, divorce, business and estates. As a lawyer, Karolyn encountered many diverse situations involving a wide variety of issues and people. She represented Fortune 500 corporations, mom and pop businesses, and everything in between. She has vast experience navigating the treacherous waters of local, state and federal governments, as well as representing neglected and abused children. She helped spouses separate with integrity while maintaining a stable environment for their children. In her estate business she offered her clients compassion and understanding as well as excellent legal representation. She is empathetic, compassionate and gives of her expertise beyond expectation.After 25 years, she decided there had to be a better way to resolve disputes than beating each other up in a courtroom. For Karolyn, that better way was mediation. She founded Conflict Resolution Services (www.CRSMediation.com), which is a full service mediation, facilitation and arbitration firm. With over 300 hours of training – both receiving and presenting – she has helped hundreds of people and businesses resolve conflicts peacefully and amicably. She handled a wide range of cases in the areas of business matters, divorce, elder issues, family disputes, real estate, medical malpractice and class actions for individuals and businesses.Karolyn is a known and respected international speaker, consultant, coach, facilitator, mentor and teacher, whose presentations are filled with valuable information and engaging humor. She is an expert problem solver and gifted strategist.She served as an adjunct faculty member for Penn State University, Muhlenberg College, and Cedar Crest College. She moderated a live, call-in program for PBS television, and is active in many non-profit and charitable organizations. She is a Founding Member of Mediators Beyond Borders International, and is listed in Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who of American Women. She is the author of Eat the Elephant: Overcoming Overwhelm.Podcast TranscriptionBrian Basilico: Welcome, everybody and I got a question for you; I can totally relate to this: are you overwhelmed? I get overwhelmed a lot because there are so many things going on between podcast, and emails, and videos, and courses and all these other stuff and I get crazily overwhelmed, but I got an expert that's going to help us bring us back to a moment of the zen. Karolyn Blume, how are you doing today?Karolyn Blume: Good, Brian. How are you?Brian: I'm doing awesome.When I first read your bio and your book, I looked at it and I said, “Oh, she's into law and meditation. No wonder why she could bring us back to a moment of zen.” But I got that wrong, didn't I?Karolyn: Yes, it's law and mediation and there's a very little zen about the law.Brian: Amen for that. So, how did you go from a lawyer and doing mediation to writing a book about “eating elephants?”