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Chapter 1: What inspired Melodee Rhodes to pursue a career in law?
had fallen pretty low those setbacks they they kind of took me off the path but not really off the path of success and when i decided to pick myself up i i thought about what i really wanted to do i realized that i wanted to help people my desire my passion to help people is what led me to law because it gives me the opportunity to help people who in in places or spaces that they're not able to help themselves most of the time because it's just it's not about
whether or not I succeeded, right? It's about whether I created pathways for others to succeed too.
Melody Rhodes is a resilient, purpose-driven entrepreneur, attorney, and the founder of the Rhodes Law Practice and multiple mission-led ventures. Drawing from her journey of reinvention across law, business, and leadership, she empowers others to pursue growth with courage, create opportunities, and build a legacy rooted in impact and service.
I've always been the underdog. Talking to my mentor just yesterday, and he says, you know what, Melody? Everybody underestimates you. Everybody. That's what he says. When I finally realized I was standing in my purpose, I was doing the things I was supposed to be doing, there was no applaud. There was not a single sound.
It was just me feeling aligned and feeling positioned and feeling unstoppable.
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Chapter 2: How did Melodee overcome personal setbacks to achieve success?
Welcome back to another amazing episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast, the Red Life edition. Moments before she films her Woman in Power episode is an amazing serial entrepreneur slash serial lawyer from Atlanta, Georgia. Melody Rhodes.
Thank you.
How are you? I feel like I just made a WWE announcement.
Right. You're going to walk out.
Ding, ding, ding. So what is what would you say is your finishing move? What would you call it? Melody Rhodes.
It would probably be a finishing move in WWE. I would probably have to jump off the top of the ropes and land on my opponent.
Done.
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Chapter 3: What leadership principles does Melodee emphasize in her entrepreneurial journey?
Objection. Make sure they do not get back up.
Right on. So what brings you down to Miami? Welcome to Miami.
Oh, so it's really a welcome back for me. So I went to law school here, actually. Yes, I did. So I lived here for three years.
What a place to practice law or learn law.
Yeah, I didn't really get to practice, but I definitely lived here for three years. So I feel like a part of me will always be in Miami.
Right on. What years were those?
So that was in 2000. Yeah, 2008 is when I started to 2011. Yeah. Cool.
OK, great. Yeah. So what inspired you to be on the path that you are on now? Were you a completely different person or were you know, who were you before you became who you are today?
I really wanted to be a neurosurgeon. Nice. I did. Straight for the brain. I wanted to operate on people's brains. I really did. And I experienced some setbacks early in life. And those setbacks... they kind of took me off the path of neurosurgery, but not really off the path of success, right?
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Chapter 4: How does Melodee define resilience and its importance in entrepreneurship?
You want to help people? But people that dress this way don't help people. What are you talking about?
I definitely help people. And my friends will tell you that, you know, we could be on the phone and one of them could just immediately tell me they have a problem. And I'm already, as they're talking, they don't ask me to search it for them, but I'm searching it for them. Or you're on the way they are. Right. I'm already on the way.
So my desire, my passion to help people is what led me to law, right? Wow. Because it gives me the opportunity to help people who in places or spaces that they're not able to help themselves most of the time. So once I became a lawyer, that kind of gave me the platform to to kind of move into other areas that I've been wanting to move into because I had the income now. Right.
To be able to support myself where I didn't before.
The runway. Yeah.
So I had the income, you know, to be able to support myself. So I started to think of, like, how did I want to make a difference in this world? And there were things that I loved. Like, I always say that I wish I had about three or four more lives to live, maybe like a cat, like maybe nine. Because I could think of nine different things that I would do if I got to come back.
But I always loved logistics. And so I got into that. And that kind of pushed me into the next area of my life, which was, like, franchising and And I own two Smoothie Kings down in, or up, I guess you could say, in the metro Atlanta area in Georgia.
And then speaking, you know, I always say that what's the last thing I want to do when I'm on this earth, like as far as career wise, and that's share my story. So that's what brings me here. It's like life full circle. I really want to share my story because I think that it's one of... A lot of failures, a lot of setbacks, a lot of losses.
But I've arrived, you know, I've made it to this stage of my life and I'm only going to grow and get better every day. But I think that once people hear my story and realize how I mean, even my one of my best friends asked me the other day, Mel, after all you've been through, how do you get up? She said, every day, how do you get up? I was like, I don't know.
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Chapter 5: What role does purpose play in Melodee's business ventures?
So how do you compound that energy, that negative energy to turn into a positive?
Ah, let's see. I've always been the underdog, right? I was talking to my mentor just yesterday. There you go. And he says, you know what, Melody? Everybody underestimates you. Everybody. That's what he says. You know, they just do not see you coming. Because in my life, you know, I'm very nice, right? I don't seem like the shark and tiger that I am when it comes to my legal background.
You know, I'm very close with all my employees, so a lot of people don't expect that I'm going to be the most... type A, overachiever person that there is. And, you know, I come from a background where I had a mother who was tenacious, right? Wow. She was very nice. Oh, she's the sweetest person. Everybody who meets my mom says she's the sweetest person they ever met.
But she did not play about my gifts. She always said that the biggest... I guess the biggest... failure in anyone's life or the worst thing you could do is to not utilize your gift. And she told me mine was that I was smart. And so I've kept that in the back and the front of everything I do, knowing that I am smart. So maybe no one else around me knows it, but they will know it, right?
When I'm done, they're going to know it.
For folks that are watching this and listening to this that are the underdogs. When we hear underdogs, we always think about folks that are watching these movies. But being an underdog is being in rooms where you have the right voice but not the loudest. And you hear someone else say what you just said. Your lesson is to understand what just happened and go, Oh, good.
I'm not going to make a fuss about that. I just know that I'm right and that that energy that I proposed is being barfed somewhere else. I'm like, that was that was my opening meal onto onto like the main course. Yes. How does one go from appetizer to main course in success? I think at 111.
I think that you have to realize that everything that you're going through is a stepping stone to something greater, right? And so maybe you're just eating a few breadcrumbs on the table.
Kissing a lot of frogs, as David likes to say.
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Chapter 6: How does Melodee balance multiple businesses and her law practice?
When do folks start understanding, well, the yellow brick road is the path, huh? And we get to the end and gosh, the Wizard of Oz happens to be a phony because it's always been an us. Wick has been right. So when you finally kind of understand what you're manifesting because you're fighting for the disingenuine, the disenfranchised, I would say, I'm sorry.
Instead of marching through and holding this sign, you're holding this sign and weaponizing yourself with Excalibur. How does it feel holding Excalibur now and just... Noise. How does it feel knowing that you were able to go, God, Tron's hammer. Troy's hammer. And now you wield this strength.
Well, your pain, it doesn't disqualify you, right? It prepares you for what's next. And so, you know, I believe that... When I finally realized I was like standing in my purpose, right, and I was doing the things I was supposed to be doing, there was no applaud. There was not a single sound. It was just me feeling aligned and feeling positioned and feeling unstoppable, right?
And the next thing I know, people are following in my footsteps, right? People are wanting to ask me, oh, Melody, How did you do that? How did you accomplish that? Oh, can you mentor me? Can you consult with me? You know, the things that I had been through in life and the path that I had taken, people were really interested in it, right? And they wanted to know, how did I get there?
And when did I get there? Because, again, they counted me out, right? Or underestimated me. So it feels... like I'm truly just living in my purpose now that I get to truly do the things that I love because I remember moments in my life when I had to do what I had to do, what was necessary, right? And I didn't get to do the things that I love.
And now being able to kind of, you know, like wield that sword and just, you know, move things. I mean, it's just, there's, I'm just amazed all the time because I remember times I would wake up in the middle of the night crying and I'm amazed all of the time And I sometimes I don't really appreciate, right, the hard work I've put in. And I have a lot of self-doubts set in.
And I'm like, I don't deserve this. But then when I really think about it, I'm like, wow, you look at all of the, you know, the fight, the struggles, everything you've been through to get to this point. So wield that sword.
Yeah.
Yeah, you know, strike me down and I'll become more powerful than you can ever imagine. Yeah, I've heard that one before. So what are we going to learn about you and your Women in Power episode? We're literally moments away from you having an amazing session with Lauren.
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Chapter 7: What advice does Melodee give to aspiring entrepreneurs?
And I'm truly very, very grateful and humbled by that. But what you'll see is that I'm really this just little girl from Brooklyn, New York.
Right on.
Came from nothing.
Hmm.
And I had nothing given to me. And I mean nothing. I had nothing given to me but love for my mom. And that grit and determination is what brought me here. I've been through more traumatic experiences. I'm not going to say the next person, but then people who are looking at me would ever believe, right? I've accomplished a lot, even though... I was counted out multiple times.
I've had some really horrible things happen in my life, right? But I still, to this day, I will not give any light to saying that I had a bad day. I feel like any days above the ground, I'm already doing better than someone who didn't make it.
to today so I have bad moments in my day because I'm human but I try really hard not to say that I have a bad day because I'm just grateful that I'm here after everything that I've been through so I think you'll see that I am truly right living my purpose as a woman in power and I'm inspiring people along the way and I'm opening doors for others because it's just it's not about whether or not I succeeded right it's about whether I created pathways for others to succeed too where could you go
How can folks learn more about you while they await your episode?
Right. Please visit my Instagram page, right? That's ATL underscore lawyer underscore bae. I love it. My firm is the Rhodes Law Practice out of Atlanta, Georgia. So my website is RhodesLawPractice.com. So you can find me there. I also share my phone number for my Rhodes Law Practice. It's 404-854-HURT. I'm really proud of that number.
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Chapter 8: How can listeners connect with Melodee Rhodes and learn more about her work?
Love it. One on Tar Boulevard. For those people in Atlanta, it's 8101 Tar Boulevard. And the other one is in Lawrenceville, and that is 900 Duluth Highway. Nice. So you can find me there. And then I'm continuing toāyou'll see me soon. on some more cameras because I'm definitely scaling my speaking platform.
And this is your first podcast?
This is my first. Well, you know what? I did a radio podcast. She just ruined the magic.
You were supposed to say, yes, this is my first podcast.
Okay, this is my first podcast. There you go. Nice. Welcome to your first podcast. This is my first podcast, and it's been an amazing experience.
Let's wrap it up. It's going to be such a joy to just be the opening act with you. You're in such a treat to hang out with Lauren. And cameras are going to be rolling. It so happens. So this is Melody Rhodes. I am Ray Gutierrez.
My pleasure.
And we are Inside Success.
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