Episodes

What happens when a five-year-old who watched her father help people in his Dallas law office decides she wants that same response from the world, becomes the youngest prosecutor ever assigned to crimes against children in Collin County at 27, spends two decades in courtrooms trying to protect kids, helps recover nearly $3 billion for Texas counties in the opioid epidemic, goes to Singapore to fight child trafficking with Interpol, and then comes home, becomes a survivor who finally told her own...

What happens when a trauma therapist trained in EMDR, interpersonal neurobiology, and dialectical behavior therapy decides that the most important work he can do is not in a clinical setting but in a coaching practice built around a single observation — that the most capable, dependable, highest-functioning people around us are quietly carrying more strain than anyone can see, and that the maintenance tasks required to sustain a human being are the first things to go when performance becomes the...

What happens when a psychotherapist and women's life transition coach who has lived through her own relational trauma decides that the most powerful thing she can do with that pain is build a platform, write in thirteen anthologies, launch a nonprofit to help women leave toxic relationships, and spend her career helping other women recognize the difference between a partner who lost interest and a partner who was lying to their face for years? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers sp...

What happens when a lawyer who spent 15 years defending builders against construction defect claims — learning exactly how insurance companies calculate risk, what motivates adjusters to settle, and what plaintiff firms do that make cases harder to resolve — wakes up one morning after pulling an all-nighter to write ten motions, taking a deposition, and driving straight to the courthouse without sleeping, only to get grilled by an insurance rep about a plan detail that didn't matter, and decides...

What happens when a Queens DA prosecutor who spent six years putting felony offenders away in domestic violence and special victims cases discovers that everything she learned about expert witnesses, burden of proof, and preparing witnesses for hostile questioning translates perfectly into defending physicians — and then teams up with a partner who grew up inside a medical family, watched her physician father do expert work on malpractice cases, came out of Hofstra already thinking in anatomy an...

What happens when a clinical child psychologist goes to Russia as a graduate student to study children in baby homes — places where zero to four-year-olds may see 60 to 100 different caregivers in their first two years and never the same caregiver on two consecutive days — observes firsthand what sensitivity and consistency do when they're introduced into that environment, and then brings that insight back to co-create a seven-session therapy that is now turning around parent-child relationships...

What happens when a molecular biology student who wanted to be a doctor until she worked in a hospital, pivoted to law school with healthcare in mind, picked up her patent bar along the way, and then took a mentor's advice to try FDA law — and discovered that most brands selling health and wellness products online are one Instagram post away from a problem they don't even know is coming? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Natasha Taken, founder of The Advertising Lawye...

What happens when a certified athletic trainer who played three sports in high school and four years of college baseball, spent his first career taping ankles and rehabbing hamstrings on the field, walks into a clinical operations role at a multi-location healthcare practice and discovers he loves the data, the KPIs, the marketing cycles, and the standard operating procedures just as much as he ever loved the field — and then builds an entire personal and professional philosophy around three wor...

What happens when a neurobiology honors graduate and valedictorian from the University of Miami completes his chief residency at Nassau Medical Center, watches the growing shortage of ophthalmologists turn into a national healthcare crisis, and decides that surgery alone is not enough — that he also needs to help reshape how the entire country delivers eye care through AI-powered intake tools and telemedicine? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Dr. Blake Hampton, ophth...

What happens when an Eagle Scout who turned 18 in Marine Corps bootcamp, drove a 5,000-gallon jet fuel tanker through Southern Iraq all the way to Baghdad providing aviation support to attack helicopters during the invasion, comes home, goes to law school, spends 13 years fighting insurance companies in courtrooms, becomes one of only a few hundred attorneys in America authorized to sue the federal government on behalf of people hurt by vaccines, and then teaches himself Python so he can build s...

What happens when a repeat offender walks into federal prison on February 12th, 2001 — a man who used to believe he could only function, connect, and be the life of the party when he was high — comes out the other side of recovery, earns a degree in organizational leadership, co-creates the first Missouri-based credential in harm reduction that goes international, runs a 110-man residential program for homeless men in active addiction, and then opens one of the fastest growing treatment centers ...

What happens when a repeat offender walks into federal prison on February 12th, 2001 — a man who used to believe he could only function, connect, and be the life of the party when he was high — comes out the other side of recovery, earns a degree in organizational leadership, co-creates the first Missouri-based credential in harm reduction that goes international, runs a 110-man residential program for homeless men in active addiction, and then opens one of the fastest growing treatment centers ...

What happens when a licensed therapist who spent a decade in Appalachia, burned out inside a digital health startup, lost his grandfather to suicide at age seven, found himself involuntarily committed to an inpatient psychiatric unit at 27, became a dad twice over, and finally did enough of his own work to turn all of that into a private practice built specifically for millennial men who are holding everything together on the outside while quietly falling apart on the inside? In this episode of ...

What happens when a dental hygienist with 30 years of chairside experience starts walking into practices across the country and notices the same pattern everywhere she looks — hygienists who have never been given permission to tell patients what they actually see, perio percentages hovering between zero and five percent when they should be thirty to thirty-five, fee schedules sitting in the fortieth percentile when the practice could be in the eightieth, and full schedules that look productive b...

What happens when a chemical engineering student selling Desmond Howard Heisman t-shirts outside Michigan Stadium gets threatened with a lawsuit by university lawyers, holds his ground, wins the argument, and decides in that moment that he wants to be a lawyer — then spends the next 20 years building a 110-person defense firm that represents Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler in litigation across 41 states, powered by AI software his team built in-house starting in 2013? In this episode of the T...

What happens when a psychiatric social worker who spent 12 years inside the mental health system before going to law school teams up with a former Philadelphia DA prosecutor who took 60 jury trials to verdict, got nominated to the Chester County bench by two separate governors, and sat in every division of the Court of Common Pleas — and they both end up at one of the oldest law firms in Pennsylvania doing what they each love most? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Jo...

What happens when a guy who spent his twenties dipping hot metal into liquid plastic on third shift, taking one or two classes a semester for a decade while raising a kid, and sleeping in parking lots during breaks on the way to a degree he didn't finish until he was 29 — decides he's too stubborn to quit, aces the LSAT, earns an 80% scholarship to law school, walks out with almost no debt, gets hired by a big law firm, and then almost immediately leaves to open his own injury practice in Hamilt...

What happens when someone who spent 16 years inside corporate HR — watching how companies document, how they protect themselves, and how they quietly push employees out after pregnancy leave — decides she has seen enough and goes to law school to take all of that insider knowledge to the other side of the table? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Lorna Griffin, founder of L. Griffin Law in South Central Texas, about what at-will employment actually means and what it do...

What happens when a first-generation college student who got his Coast Guard captain's license the day he turned 19, watched a tornado touch down from a Plymouth Harbor tour boat, worked as a deckhand from age 13, and then decided he was better suited for a courtroom than a federal ethics desk builds a trial practice that ends up arguing before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on a case that could change how every subcontractor in the state gets paid? In this episode of the Trustcast Sho...

What happens when a Queens DA prosecutor who spent six years trying domestic violence and sexual assault cases pivots to the civil side — and discovers that everything she learned about how to break an expert witness, prepare a deponent, and anticipate an adversary's next move translates directly into defending physicians accused of malpractice — and then teams up with a partner who grew up in a medical family, came out of Hofstra already thinking in medicine and science, and built a specialty i...

What happens when a Queens prosecutor who spent years putting felony offenders away pivots to defending the people on the other side of a catastrophic accusation — and teams up with an attorney who grew up in a medical office, watched her physician father do expert work on malpractice cases, and came out of law school already knowing the anatomy and medicine cold — and together they build one of New York's most respected physician defense practices? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane My...

What happens when a kid who grew up in 90s skate, hip hop, and punk culture becomes a talent agent for celebrities and musicians, spends a decade as a litigator and in-house counsel for a celebrity agency, and then quietly builds a law firm that has become the go-to for management companies and creators trying to navigate the wildest legal terrain in modern business — the creator economy? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Frank Poe, founder of Poe Law, about the singl...

What happens when a Barbadian visual artist and secondary school art teacher watches her students quietly turn the art room into a refuge — coming in during lunch, after class, whenever life gets hard — and realizes that the therapeutic power she is witnessing has a name, a profession, and a graduate program in the UK waiting for her? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Kim Valldejuli, an art psychotherapist currently working at a psychiatric hospital in Fredericksburg,...

What happens when a 17-year-old who woke up to find his parents murdered, called 911 to save his father's life, and was coerced by police into a statement that sent him to prison for nearly 18 years — survives, gets exonerated, becomes an attorney admitted to the US Supreme Court bar, and then builds a Georgetown University program where undergraduate students have now walked 13 innocent people out of prison, accounting for over 300 combined years of wrongful imprisonment? In this episode of the...