To this day, Tami Diehm, president and shareholder at Winthrop & Weinstine, still relies on a valuable professional lesson she learned in her early days as a restaurant server.

“We had a number of little sayings and things at Perkins that I have carried through to my practice today, one of which is really important to the whole Winthrop & Weinstine culture, and that’s, ‘Poise under pressure,’” Diehm says on the latest episode of the Off the Record podcast, brought to you by Platinum Bank. “We often say we don’t necessarily have the ability to predict what might be thrown at us in any given day, but we absolutely have the ability to control how we react to those situations.”

Listen to the episode for Diehm’s other nuggets of wisdom and details of her career journey from restaurant server to the top seat at her firm. Learn more about:

• What Diehm learned from her mother (14:29)
• Her “curvy path” to a law career (16:37)
• Stepping into a leadership role amid the uncertainties of Covid-19 (27:42)
• Why Diehm maintains her client practice alongside her management role (30:17)
• Giving herself grace when it comes to balancing work and family (32:40)
• The country Diehm would serve as an ambassador to, if she had the opportunity (36:09)

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