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From Teacher to Attorney: Tristan Hunkin on Family, Legacy & Regifting Grace

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Tristan argues that grace without accountability only creates surface-level relationships.

1. Women of Fort Mill Podcast features Tristan Hunkin and her work on family, legacy, and Regifting Grace. 2. Tristan Hunkin is the founder of Hunkin Law, an author, and a lawyer who serves families and business owners. 3. The episode asks how a second-career attorney can combine legal planning with stronger personal relationships. 4. Tristan says she was a business teacher for ninth through 12th graders about 12 years ago. 5. She says her students kept asking why she did not run her own business. 6. She attended Georgetown Law after three years of teaching. 7. Tristan says she is a military spouse and that her spouse was deployed while she was teaching. 8. She describes Hunkin Law as virtual and says she is a solo practitioner at this time. 9. She says she is bar licensed in Texas and previously lived in North Carolina and South Carolina. 10. Tristan says clients became comfortable meeting virtually instead of driving into the city. 11. She says she started writing Regifting Grace about four years ago during COVID and political unrest. 12. She says the book began as a way to hold herself accountable in relationships. 13. Tristan says a later hard season pushed her to return to the manuscript. 14. She says grace and accountability belong together. 15. She says deeper relationships require harder conversations, not just surface-level peace. 16. Tristan says the book covers different interpersonal relationships that people deal with. 17. She says she is a mom and that she apologizes to her children and spouse when she falls short. 18. Tristan says her husband stepped up more in the second half of her children’s lives. 19. This episode will appeal to women balancing family, business, and estate planning. 20. Skipping it makes sense for listeners who do not want practical parenting and legal-planning advice.

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A practical family conversation about guardianship, grace, and the support systems that help parents carry responsibility.

The episode centers on practical family planning, especially the need to name both temporary and permanent guardians in legal documents before a crisis forces the issue.

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Press play if you want family planning and grace to sit in the same conversation.

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