Lawyer Carla Coutinho, a specialist in cannabis law and columnist for the Sechat Portal, shared on the Deusa Cast podcast how the decision to work with cannabis transformed her personal and professional life.

Carla says she has done various things within the Law field, always with excellence and high performance. “I led a team of 15 young lawyers, but they were not prepared. And my job was to prepare them, to pass on experience. The work was to recover credit for a bank, with financial goals that went beyond the functions of advocacy,” she recalls.

The exhausting routine led the lawyer to face burnout and deep emotional exhaustion. “There was no time; I would get home and have another journey, as a woman, as a mother, as a homemaker, as a person who is alive, who not only works outside. So, I found myself very overwhelmed to the point of not recognizing myself anymore. I didn't have time to look in the mirror. I was always with my head in some work problem that needed to be solved.”

Faced with this scenario, Carla realized that she was dedicating her energy and talent only to benefit companies and third parties. It was then that she decided to put her competence and performance into something that truly had purpose. “It was at that moment that I identified: the burnout combined with the depression of that life in contradiction to what I wanted to be and what was really being done. It was the combination of all these elements that led me to decide to work with cannabis.”

The change, she says, was decisive in rediscovering balance and personal satisfaction. “I discovered: no, now, since I need to live with myself and I need to be happy, I can't be someone else, I have to live my life. I'm going to make this bet, I'm really going to dive into this (cannabis law) and live exclusively from it. It was the best decision I made in my life.”

The full interview can be watched on the latest episode of Deusa Cast, available on the Sechat Portal channel.