In this episode of The Cheat Code, Alexandra Fortin shares her atypical journey from lawyer to entrepreneur, and provides keys to finding meaning, freedom and new perspectives in the profession.
In a new episode of the podcast The Cheat Code, we received Alexandra Fortin, lawyer and founder of Hive Club.
His career clearly goes beyond the classical framework of the profession: psychology studies, return to law school in Paris, 11 years of collaboration, including 7 working remotely from Spain... long before this became the norm.
But behind this atypical career, there is above all a fundamental reflection that speaks to many lawyers today: How do you regain freedom, meaning and control over your career?
Through her testimony, Alexandra shows that it is possible to rethink your exercise without necessarily giving up the dress.
Alexandra Fortin's career does not follow the established path. Before law, there was psychology first. Then Montpellier. Then Paris, with an enrollment in law school with no fixed vision of what the future would be like.
This ability to move forward without locking everything in advance, while remaining curious and open, is in fact one of the red threads of its history. For more than ten years, she worked as a collaborator, with an unusual organization for the time: seven years of teleworking from Spain.
An already very personal way of doing the job, which illustrates a strong idea of this episode: The legal profession can be experienced in a variety of ways, well beyond the traditional pattern that many still think is unique.
As is often the case in the most important courses, not everything was built in comfort.
In particular, Alexandra looks back on a particularly striking episode: A regularization of the URSSAF which is upsetting its financial balance.
This moment of tension acts like an electric shock. You have to protect what matters, preserve your beach house, find some fresh air... and above all imagine other sources of income. Where some would have seen a dead end, Alexandra saw a need to reinvent herself.
It is in this context that she is turning more frankly to entrepreneurship, in particular by launching its own training on starting a business. A new stage that was not taken in opposition to the law, but as an extension of his skills, his experience and his vision of the profession.
The message is strong: crises can become accelerators of transformation, as long as you agree to go outside the box.
One of the most interesting points of the episode is that it goes well beyond Alexandra's personal case alone.
Her testimony highlights a reality that many lawyers experience today: a form of disillusionment after a few years of practice.
Fatigue, loss of meaning, feelings of confinement, desire for freedom... More and more professionals are wondering if they want to continue like this, or even if they want to continue at all. Some are even considering leaving the profession.
For Alexandra Fortin, this questioning is real, but it does not necessarily mean that you have to leave the profession. Instead, it invites you to ask yourself another question:
what if the problem was not the law itself, but how you think you should exercise it?
That is the strength of this exchange: to show that it exists alternatives, hybrid models, ancillary activities, freer ways to consider your career. And that knowing these possibilities can be enough to restore momentum.
Throughout her career, Alexandra defends a strong conviction: intellectual curiosity is an essential driver.
It is it that makes it possible not to be trapped in a too narrow definition of the profession. It is also she who opens the door to new opportunities.
His experience illustrates this idea perfectly: entrepreneurship is not necessarily a break with the legal profession, but can become a natural extension. Develop a complementary activity, transmit, train, create a community, structure a different offer... so many ways to regain autonomy.
In this episode, we understand that the entrepreneurial spirit is no longer a “plus” for lawyers: it becomes, for many, a lever for survival, freedom and development.
