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Recently, a viewer asked me a great question in one of my more popular videos. The question was, "what was your biggest challenge to becoming a corporate attorney?"

Based on the wording of the question, I understood the question as an inquiry about the biggest obstacle on the way to getting the position of a corporate lawyer. But, I think the intention of the question was to understand the obstacles to becoming a "good" corporate lawyer once I had reached the position.

In either case, my answer is the same. I experienced many obstacles in my career as a corporate lawyer, but the biggest challenge to getting the position and mastering the craft was myself. And, that's for two reasons:

1. I was reluctant to commit to diving into the profession
2. I allowed others to influence my level of confidence in my abilities to be successful in the field

Watch the video for more detail and be sure to leave your own questions in the comments! I turn the best ones into videos like the one you just watched. Thanks for joining in.

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Brett A. Cenkus has 20+ years of experience in business law, finance, and entrepreneurship. Through Cenkus Law, PC, he provides advice and services for mergers & acquisitions (M&A), securities offerings, founders’ agreements, and other general business law issues.

Through Braaten Woods, LLC, Brett helps business owners in the lower middle market ($2MM $25MM) position themselves for sale, find buyers, negotiate, and close M&A deals.

Brett also maintains mergerresources.com, a site packed with free articles, videos, checklists, deal diagrams, template contracts, and other tools to help pass M&A knowledge to others.

Brett regularly consults with entrepreneurs and invests his own capital as an angel investor.

From 20102013, Brett served as Chief Legal Counsel of a publiclytraded international oilfield services company. From 2001 to 2006, he and a partner founded and built Paragon Residential Mortgage. Bridge Investments acquired Paragon in 2006.

Brett holds a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.

Brett lives in Austin with his wife, Cathryn, and two children. He enjoys reading, squash, classic movies, great food and wine, and the New England Patriots.