Episodes

Esther Kane spent 12 years as an occupational therapist walking through seniors' homes spotting hazards before falls happened. Then she ran a digital marketing company for 25 years helping small businesses rank on Google. At 60, instead of retiring to play pickleball, she fused these two worlds into something the aging industry desperately needed. Falls cost $50 billion annually in medical expenses. A grab bar costs $30. The gap? Families don't know where to find the right people to install it c...

The U.S. Surgeon General called loneliness as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Cheri Alvarez is doing something about it—leading an international movement built on a radical idea: that a single friend can change someone's mental health. As CEO of Compeer Buffalo and Compeer International, Cheri oversees programs in 40 communities across four countries. Compeer matches trained volunteers with people experiencing mental health challenges—creating friendships that complement clinical treatmen...

What does it take to represent families after murder, child sexual abuse, catastrophic injury, and life changing negligence? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Connecticut trial lawyer Paul Slager, partner at Slager Madry in Stamford, Connecticut. Paul shares the mindset behind taking only the most serious cases and why real justice is about more than money. They discuss the landmark Boy Scouts abuse case that led to a $12 million jury award, the civil case involving t...

Ari Sliffman made history as the first student in Marquette Law School history to graduate with dual certificates in dispute resolution and sports law. His 2011 paper arguing that NFL Super Bowl clean zones violate the First Amendment was published in the Marquette Sports Law Review—and in 2023, an Arizona Superior Court cited his argument when ruling against Phoenix's clean zone ordinance for Super Bowl LVIII. Now he's bringing that same creative thinking to mediation, achieving a 95% settlemen...

What happens when an Emmy nominated investigative reporter becomes a catastrophic injury trial lawyer? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Amy Bradley, a principal at Blankingship and Keith, about her journey from newsroom storytelling to high stakes personal injury litigation. Amy shares how her background as a TV investigative reporter shaped the way she tells client stories in court, why trucking cases are different, how insurance companies undervalue serious claims,...

What happens when a special education teacher follows her instincts all the way through school counseling, higher education leadership, custody evaluation, and finally a thriving private practice that has been serving people for 25 years? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Ellen Zimmerman, licensed clinical professional counselor and founder of Comprehensive Counseling in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, about her extraordinary career arc and what it really means to sit wit...

What happens when a Navy veteran who flew combat missions in the Persian Gulf, served at Guantanamo, and led Marines in Iraq decides his next mission is protecting growth-stage companies from legal disaster? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Aaron Pease, founding principal of Highbridge Law and partner at Renegade Capital Partners, about his extraordinary journey from enlisted sailor at 18 to outside general counsel for companies that don't yet know they need one. Aar...

In 1968, Frederick McCurdy was working his dream job for the US Forest Service in California's Klamath National Forest—fishing for trout at breakfast and counting trees for a living. Then President Johnson conscripted him to fight in Vietnam. That draft changed everything. Assigned to a German army hospital lab, two doctors—a pediatrician and a surgeon—wouldn't leave him alone. Night after night during on-call shifts, they insisted he should go to medical school. He kept saying no. Then medical ...

Brian Serna started working at LifeLink in Santa Fe while putting himself through college—a six-year journey marked by his own raging substance abuse issue, an aggravated DWI arrest, and losing a close friend to suicide. Just eight months from his last bender, he began answering calls from families desperate to help loved ones with addiction. These women were different versions of his own mother, and their stories confronted him with the pain he'd caused his family. That experience set him on a ...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers talks with Paul K. Schrieffer, founding partner of P.K. Schrieffer LLP and the trial lawyer Lloyd's of London calls when massive concert cancellations or celebrity lawsuits explode. Paul shares inside details from the Michael Jackson "This Is It" tour insurance case, negotiating multi-million dollar ransom situations, deposing Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, and why his father's Nobel Prize-winning photographic memory runs in the family. He e...

and CEO of Dr. Contact Lens — a tech platform helping eye doctors keep more of their contact lens business and compete with online retailers. Dr. Rhue shares how she built an Inc. 5000 company after losing $100,000 to failed developers, how her platform helps practices improve capture rates from 65% to over 90%, and why every professional is in sales whether they realize it or not. They also discuss practice growth, entrepreneurship, women in tech, conference strategy, and building a business th...

and CEO of Dr. Contact Lens — a tech platform helping eye doctors keep more of their contact lens business and compete with online retailers. Dr. Rhue shares how she built an Inc. 5000 company after losing $100,000 to failed developers, how her platform helps practices improve capture rates from 65% to over 90%, and why every professional is in sales whether they realize it or not. They also discuss practice growth, entrepreneurship, women in tech, conference strategy, and building a business th...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers talks with Candace Thompson, Founder & CEO of YeahYouToo - a Cleveland nonprofit connector covering 13 sectors of need. Candace shares her journey from working with forensic mental health patients declared incompetent to stand trial, through personal trauma (sexual abuse, domestic violence, addiction), to founding an organization that connects people to resources. She discusses medication experiments on patients, raising her siblings after h...

In this powerful episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers sits down with Gary Miles, who spent 46 years as a trial lawyer and managing partner before realising the same perfectionism that made him successful was quietly destroying his life. Gary ranked first in high school, college, and law school, clerked in federal court, and built Huesman, Jones and Miles, a firm he ran for three decades. But behind the success was crushing anxiety, sleepless Sunday nights, and 12 to 13 years as an acti...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers sits down with Adam Wasserman, Managing Partner of Education Justice Law Group and co founder of ExamSoft, the bar exam software used in almost every state. Adam’s story is remarkable. After being told he would never ride a bicycle, play a musical instrument, or graduate high school due to brain injury, ADHD, and dyslexia, he spent childhood labeled lazy and not capable. Today, he is a special education attorney who personally attends IEP me...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers sits down with S. Reed Morgan, a trial lawyer with 48 years of experience taking on corporations like Exxon Mobil and winning. Reed is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law, a graduate and former staff member of Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College, and the founder of Victory Alliance Partners Consulting, where he teaches trial lawyers his Persuade & Prevail Method for winning cases by understanding jury psychology. What You’ll Learn ...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers sits down with C. Dunham Biles, founding partner of Biles Wilson, a boutique litigation firm in Texas that consistently outperforms teams 10 times their size. From a 7 year immigration fight that reached the US Supreme Court, to defending Salt N Pepa in a trademark battle with DJ Spinderella, to protecting infrared camera trade secrets for defense contractors, Dunham proves you do not need 50 lawyers to win big cases. You need strategy, rele...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers sits down with Scott C. Pappas, co-founder and Firmwide Managing Partner of Omnus Law—a full-service corporate law firm that exists entirely in the metaverse. After 24 years in Big Law, Scott helped build something radically different: a firm with 45 attorneys across 17 states, zero physical office space, no billable hour requirements, and compensation that exceeds Big Law rates. In under 18 months, Omnus achieved the prestigious Chambers ra...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers sits down with Susan Stivalo, MSN, APRN, AGNP C, founder of Advanced Health and Aesthetics in White Plains, New York. After three decades across ICU, oncology, and advanced practice care, Susan built a clinic where luxury meets clinical precision, blending clinical nutrition, medical weight loss, hormone optimization, aesthetics, and IV therapy into one highly personalised experience. What You Will Learn: How Susan builds a 28 day nutrition ...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers sits down with Dr. Michelle Jones Singer, MD, a board-certified gynecologist and the only cosmetic gynecologist in Indianapolis. Dr. Singer specializes in helping women feel confident and comfortable in their own bodies through cosmetic and reconstructive gynecologic surgery. From repairing female genital mutilation to postpartum vaginal rejuvenation, she addresses the intimate health concerns most women are too embarrassed to discuss. When ...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers sits down with Niklas Pieper, a legal and regulatory expert with over 20 years of in-house counsel experience in Europe's most heavily regulated industries. After two decades navigating chemical regulations, crop protection law, and public affairs for major corporations, Niklas made the leap to become a partner at one of Germany's top environmental law firms and co-founded Scalentis Consulting—a firm that helps companies turn regulatory comp...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers sits down with Michael Darling and Samuel Q Long, founding partners of Falcon Law Group in San Antonio and Houston. These trial lawyers specialize in catastrophic injury cases, taking on massive corporations that most firms won't touch—fighting for blue-collar workers, oil field crews, and families facing life-altering injuries. What You'll Learn: How defense-side experience gives them an edge in plaintiff work Why venue selection can multip...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers sits down with Dr. Sean Saadat, MD, a board-certified plastic surgeon who knew he wanted to pursue plastic surgery at age 8. After skipping a year of high school, earning his MD at 25, and completing his residency at UCLA, Dr. Saadat opened his practice in one of the most competitive markets in the world—Beverly Hills. But his ambitions don't stop at surgery: he's building Atlas, an AI-native electronic medical record system designed to revo...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers sits down with Dr. Rohan Lall, MD, a neurosurgeon at M Health Fairview in Minneapolis and Chief Medical Officer of SynerFuse. Dr. Lall co-invented the world's first E-TLIF procedure—a groundbreaking surgery that combines spinal fusion with direct nerve stimulation to treat chronic back pain without long-term opioid use. What You'll Learn: Why traditional spine surgeries have high failure rates compared to other orthopedic procedures How the ...