Alexandra Sepulveda: Curiosity is a Superpower

What do duct-taped ramen floaties have to do with in-house counsel? Everything, according to Alexandra Sepulveda, who has learned that curiosity, receipts, and the willingness to start over are the real survival skills of a legal career.

Jessica sits down with Alexandra Sepulveda of Trust & Will for a wide-ranging conversation about building a legal career across startups, enterprise, and everything in between. They cover mentorship, management lessons, outside counsel dynamics, and where AI fits into the future of legal work.

Episode Threads

• Why curiosity became her professional superpower

• Losing everything moving from Chile to the US as a kid

• Learning management the hard way, mistake by mistake

• The many flavors of a well-timed "mm-hmm"

• Why keeping receipts builds trust with the business

• Earning respect for legal without becoming the ego police

• The Princess Bride themed survey on outside counsel

• Why $1,100 an hour does not mean faster AI-assisted work

• Her pitch for a universal summer camp booking app

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• Alexandra Sepulveda 

• Trust & Will

• Jessica Nguyen

• Sandstone