Ted Lasso Season Two Playbook Offers Mental Health Strategies for Attorneys

In these fractured times, it’s rare for a television show to breakthrough as a true “watercooler hit,” but Ted Lasso has become one. Launched during 2020, it was a bright light of positivity in a dreary time. Now, as strange as it may seem, the “Ted Lasso ethos” of empathy and positivity is starting to drive changes in businesses and organizations across the country. For example, Dallas Cowboys Head Coach Mike McCarthy recently made news when he confessed that he drew lessons from the show in coaching the Cowboys to their hot start this season (Author’s note: Lets Go, Cowboys!).

Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to write and speak to attorneys across the state about the leadership lessons from season one of Ted Lasso. Now that season two has ended, it felt appropriate to address how lessons from the second season also apply to Texas lawyers.