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Soul vs. Toll: Anusia Gillespie on Courage, Career Reinvention & Finding Your Light

Ben Chiriboga, Anusia Gillespie

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December 1, 2025

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Season 3 Episode 42

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In this episode of This Legal Life, Ben Chiriboga sits down with Anusia Gillespie, legal tech executive and author of Soul Toll, to explore the inner work behind career reinvention. Anusia shares how meditation, misalignment, and seven roles in ten years shaped her understanding of the “soul toll” we pay in our professional lives. She explains why trusting yourself matters more than mentors when your path is still unpaved, and how her debut novel blends leadership lessons with fantasy storytelling. A thoughtful, powerful conversation for legal professionals navigating change, ambition, and authenticity.

About Our Guest:

Anusia Gillespie is a lawyer turned novelist and RYT 200 certified yoga instructor whose debut contemporary fantasy, Soul Toll, blends corporate ambition with personal awakening. Her writing is shaped by a career at global law firms, legal tech companies, and Harvard Law School Executive Education, offering a sharp, insider perspective on high performance culture and the personal cost of chasing success.

Well known in the legal industry for her insight on leadership and transformation, Anusia now channels those themes into fiction that invites readers to question the lives they have been told to want. In Soul Toll, a high achieving attorney’s search for clarity pulls her into a hidden world, and a battle for something far more meaningful than success.

Anusia holds a JD and MBA from Boston College and a BS in Management from Tulane University. She lives north of Boston with her husband, young son, and old dog.

https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Toll-Anusia Gillespie/dp/B0FN9PSS2N/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

www.anusiagillespie.com

https://www.instagram.com/anusiagillespie

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anusiagillespie/

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