Episodes

What happens when a cognitive neuropsychologist who supported 40,000 military families through crisis, grew up watching his chaplain father create pockets of healing in Fayetteville next to Fort Bragg, and helped scale a counseling company from $300,000 to $5 million in under four years turns his attention to the one question most HR leaders can't honestly answer — why are employees ignoring the mental health benefits we're already paying for? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers sp...

What happens when a law school graduate forms his LLC before he even knows if he passed the bar — and then on the day the results come in, skips the celebration and opens for business instead — building over 20 years what becomes a multi-state personal injury firm serving clients across Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas, with over 95% bilingual staff and a specialty in protecting the Hispanic community? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Matt Hines, founder of Hines Law, a...

What happens when a therapist who spent 10 years working with parents at the breaking point traces it all the way back to standing in her own kitchen crying before work because she couldn't get her four-year-old dressed — and realizes that the missing piece isn't love or intention, it's skills? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Devora Segall, parenting coach and therapist, about why yelling is not a character flaw but a learned pattern that can be unlearned, what the ...

What happens when a lawyer who knew he wanted to practice law at age five, graduated magna cum laude in three years, clerked for a federal judge, and then built a 180-person personal injury firm spanning seven Midwestern states decides the next chapter looks like running the whole operation from Puerto Rico using AI tools his peers are only just beginning to understand? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Michael McCready, founder of McCready Law, about the first 24 hou...

What happens when a litigator who fell in love with trial work through a mock trial team in college works his way up to running one of Michigan's oldest and most storied law firms — a 170-year-old institution at the center of the American automotive industry — and then realizes that leading a 175-attorney firm and trying cases in courtrooms across the country are not just two different jobs, they sometimes require two completely different minds? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers ...

What happens when an attorney who spent 20 years defending insurance companies in personal injury trials, serving as a research attorney inside a California courthouse, and building legal experience across major firms finally walks away from fighting — because he realized he has a counselor's heart, not a litigator's — and builds a practice around the one thing most estate plans quietly get wrong? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with David Scopp, founder of Meaningful Le...

What happens when a CPA turned serial entrepreneur realizes that injured plaintiffs are being financially destroyed while waiting for justice — not because their case is weak, but because the insurance company has every incentive to delay and the plaintiff has rent due, medical bills stacking up, and an attorney who legally cannot give them a dime? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Wayne Rubin, founder of Mint Legal Funding and Mint Legal Advisors, about the $100 mill...

What happens when a 13-year-old who gets caught stealing lumber from a job site to build a tree house ends up working off the debt swinging a hammer — and that summer job turns into a construction engineering degree, two companies, $500 million in projects, and the final home ever designed by the architect who drew Bill Gates' house and Steve Jobs' house? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Richard Hubbert, founder of Great Estates, about what transparency actually look...

What happens when the guy who generated $100 million running webinars for clients like Russell Brunson looks at his own ad workflow, realizes 70% of it is pure administrative waste, teaches himself Python and machine learning, and then builds a proprietary AI platform that cuts creative production time by 80% — and gets founders their first winning ads live in under two hours? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Joel Erway, founder of Inspired, about why creative fatigu...

What happens when a patent attorney who grew up swinging a hammer on construction sites, tried seven IP jury trials covering everything from reusable coffee cartridges to cherry cultivar genetics, argued before both the Federal Circuit and the Ninth Circuit, and now plays bass in a Seattle indie rock band decides to explain the single most deadly mistake startup founders make before they ever call a lawyer? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Tim Billick, partner at Pra...

What happens when a firm that defended the Hollywood 10 during McCarthyism and pioneered shareholder litigation in 1945 is still in the fight 80 years later — now as lead counsel on the Capital One data breach litigation, with a dismissal rate of 8% against a national average of 46%, recovering hundreds of millions for institutional investors who often don't even know they're entitled to it? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Josh Ruthizer and Adam Savett of Wolf Poppe...

What happens when a woman who grew up in a family of lawyers in Nigeria, graduated top of her class, moved to America at 20 for love, and found herself dropped in the middle of an ocean — no connections, no recognition of her law degree, three babies in diapers, and law school to do all over again — comes out the other side and becomes the fiercest advocate in the room? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Ogor Winnie Okoye, founder of Boss Legal Group in Massachusetts, ...

What happens when the first physician ever to serve as America's drug czar — the person who coordinated a $44 billion federal budget across 19 agencies, got naloxone over the counter, and helped cut overdose deaths from a projected 165,000 to 74,000 ahead of schedule — decides his next mission is using artificial intelligence to discover new drugs in weeks instead of decades, starting with a novel compound for opioid addiction itself? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with...

What happens when a Florida personal injury attorney with a last name that even judges get wrong after ten years recovers over $100 million for clients, discovers an insurance company's formula for systematically underpaying thousands of PIP claims, wins $4 million back for his medical provider clients, and then pivots to one of the newest frontiers in law — helping people recover stolen cryptocurrency from cases worth six to eight million dollars? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Mye...

What happens when you inherit a sixty-year-old personal injury firm from a man who ran 760 marathons and practiced law until he was 87, and then have to figure out in real time what it means to be a sole owner, a community partner, a mock trial coach, a foster dog dad, and a lawyer who still does his own client intakes because he thinks that's how you actually win cases? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Dan Petrosky, owner of DeFranzo Petrosky in Waterbury, Connectic...

What happens when a self-described introvert who went to law school to become a sports agent, spent years doing deportation defense and family law at a large firm that grew too fast, walks away mid-career with two partners and a grand total of one paralegal to see if they can do it better? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Tim Sutton, co-founding partner of Win Roche Sutton in Maryland, about going from 30 clients to over 150 in under a year, why starting your own fir...

What happens when a physician who survived machine gun fire at age eight in Aleppo, developed thyroid disease from Chernobyl fallout at fourteen, pioneered ketamine treatment and emergency telepsychiatry before most doctors had heard of either, and then watched the federal government indict him on four counts of health care fraud facing forty years in prison — only to have a jury deliberate for two hours and come back not guilty on every single charge? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane...

What happens when a man who grew up in a broken home, bounced between parents through a decade-long custody battle, fell into substance abuse in his teens, hit rock bottom, came to faith, earned dual clinical licenses, and spent years running behavioral health programs across Kentucky finally realizes that the executives he's now coaching are suffering from the exact same thing he was — just dressed up in a corner office and a bank account that looks like success? In this episode of the Trustcas...

What happens when a former investment banker who restructured airlines after 9/11, flipped multimillion-dollar houses before 2008, and modeled in Milan between law school and his bar exam finally finds himself desperate at 48 with two kids and a house full of frozen equity — and ends up building the largest plaintiff-side sexual harassment and discrimination firm in New York? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with William Phillips, founder of Phillips & Associates, about w...

What happens when a paralegal who spent 13 years inside personal injury law firms watching critical crash evidence disappear before cases ever reached litigation decides to stop waiting for someone else to fix it — and builds a crash reconstruction firm with her detective husband, a former NHTSA engineer, and ACTAR-certified reconstructionists who can read a car's black box like a flight recorder? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Marya Ryan, co-founder of Bolo Consul...

What happens when a Harvard-trained lawyer who topped the Texas bar exam and clerked for the Fifth Circuit works all night on a Holocaust victims' banking case, gets a sign from God that he's on the wrong side, and ends up spending the next 25 years representing the people who get destroyed by 80,000-pound trucks? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Michael Cowen, founder of Cowen Rodriguez Peacock and host of Trial Lawyer Nation, about why the minimum insurance for a t...

What happens when a woman who styled yarn for West Point Pepperell, ran a high-end kitchen and bath renovation showroom, and earned a certification in aging in place design watches her mother's dementia accelerate and her father's health decline at the same time — and realizes that being the professional doesn't protect you from being the family member who needs help? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Jill Poser, founder of Life Care Concierge of South Florida, about ...

What happens when a woman who captained two national mock trial teams at the Marine Corps of Law School walks straight into bet-the-company trials most lawyers don't see for a decade — and then becomes a partner at one of Dallas's most elite boutique trial firms in just a few years? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Mollie Mallory, partner at Tillotson Johnson & Patton, about what it actually means to prepare every case for trial rather than settlement, how her firm g...

What happens when a woman who grew up in a family of lawyers in Nigeria, graduated top of her class, moved to America at 20 for love, and found herself dropped in the middle of an ocean — no connections, no recognition of her law degree, three babies in diapers, and law school to do all over again — comes out the other side and becomes the fiercest advocate in the room? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Ogor Winnie Okoye, founder of Boss Legal Group in Massachusetts, ...