Life Beyond the Briefs

Brian talks with time management and productivity guru Brian Nelson-Palmer about the formula Brian uses to govern how he spends his time.  Brian is a coach and TEDx speaker on the topic of time management skills. Brian is a podcast host, radio DJ, speaker, group fitness instructor, and avid softball player.  In this episode, we do a deep dive into how he manages to get it all done in the same 24 h...

There comes a time in all of our careers when we need a change from our current employment.  Brian shares his framework for how to evaluate whether it's time to quit. If you decide to quit your job, Brian has several tips for how to do it in a way that doesn't burn the bridge, but instead creates goodwill, possible referrals, and future business opportunities. This involves giving plenty...

Heather Moulder is an executive coach for high achieving lawyers.  A former partner at an AMLaw 100 firm, Heather knows a thing or two about great lawyer, business generation, and success.  But also burnout, anxiety, and stress. Today, Heather helps other lawyers navigate their careers through coaching and mastermind programs.   Heather and I talk: Taking ownership of your career How to find mento...

Too many influencers are trying to sell courses and products that promise you'll be able to retire from your day job with the promise of "passive income."  The problem is that what they're selling isn't passive at all!  Whether it's Fulfilled by Amazon, Garage Sale Arbitrage, or even Real Estate Investing, it is very hard to find income that is truly passive. In this...

Jay Bourgana knows a thing or two about great employees.  Jay grew his real estate business from zero to $350M before acquisition.  And he did it by focusing on client experience in a roundabout way... Jay knows that when you take care of your employees, they take care of your customers, so he focused NOT directly on the customer, but directly on the employee building a great place for people to w...

Are you a lawyer or law student looking for a job outside of BigLaw?  In this episode, we dissect the recent Paul Hastings powerpoint which has many people talking about what life must be like inside of big firms. My experience coming out of law school was that William and Mary did little to nothing to educate me on what life was going to be like inside a small law firm.  In this episode, I talk a...

Mike is an investor, speaker, podcaster, and the founder of Investing for Freedom , where he helps busy professionals and business owners find true freedom to live their best life. At 24, Mike founded his first company, ultimately scaling it to more than 100 employees before selling at a $12M valuation.   Mike and Brian discuss:  The importance of listening to experts How Mike left his 100 hour a...

No book has shaped the way that I've thought about my life and my future in the way that Cameron Herald's Vivid Vision has. In this episode, I outline the process for designing what you want your life to look like three years down the road and give you the exact steps that I took when I wrote my own Vivid Vision. At the end of this episode, I share my own Vivid Vision for my companies an...

Patrick Bolanos builds businesses.  After growing Citi Bank's commercial real estate division in Nicaragua from zero to $55M in three years, Patrick and his family moved to Houston and he became involved in the food industry.  Noticing a hole in the market, Patrick pivoted from CFO of a brick and motor restaurant to owning and operating a food truck manufacturing business. From humble roots b...

In this episode, Brian looks at some recent developments surrounding ChatGPT and the legal industry as Goldman Sachs reports that a whopping 44% of legal tasks can be replaced by generative AI. This seems to be more a question of when AI truly disrupts the legal industry and not whether.  What steps can you take to make sure that your law firm (and your own career) aren't disrupted? Better ye...

Doug Spence is a naval aviator building a multi-state real estate portfolio of cashflowing assets.  Doug got his start in investing when he bought his first property in 2016.  Since then, Doug has invested in single family and multi-family housing for several years before pivoting into RV Parks. Doug documents his journey at Honor and Equity , where he teaches other active duty military members ho...

Lots of chatter in the legal world about non-economic caps, shortened statutes of limitations, and "actual cost" limits on medical billing recovery.  Both Florida and Iowa have added major tort reform laws to the books in the past year.  As with any law, these come with significant unintended consequences. In Florida, we've seen a rush of cases to the Courthouse as lawyers scrambled...

John Griffith is a plaintiff's personal injury lawyer in Franklin, Tennessee.  Career accolades include his recognition as Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association's award as Outstanding Trial Lawyer of the year in 2018 and multiple record-setting verdicts. John has a busy trial practice - trying as many as five jury trial in eight months coming out of COVID - and is in the process of expandi...

I spent 4 days at a traumatic brain injury conference in San Diego.  My key takeaway?  You cannot do everything. Or - at least - you cannot do everything well.   Lawyers and entrepreneurs who want to accelerate their own journey should spend some mental energy figuring out what the highest and best use of their time is and focus on maximizing their output in that area while hiring and staffing the...

Erik Cabral spent two decades in corporate America as a marketer before having a life-defining moment in his 40s where he discovered real estate.  Erik networked hard, attending every local real estate meetup he could find, often volunteering to set up, take down, and emcee the event. As a natural result of his volunteering, Erik found himself interviewing - often on Facebook live - highly success...

The Glass family recently purchased a new car.  And the process almost drove Brian insane.  Brian can't walk into a business without seeing (and commenting to his wife Krista) about all of the ways that he could run it better.  And the experience of buying a car from a traditional dealer is rife with opportunity for this. It left him wondering... what processes do we have in our law firm that...

Aaron West runs The West Experience , a real estate team in Modesto, California.  He is also a goal setting and achievement expert.   Aaron hosts the 728 show within Gobundance, where he interviews entrepreneurs who have achieved a net worth of $10,000,000 and above about their journey. In this episode you will learn: The difference between spenders, savers, and stewards of money and how Aaron shi...

After a rocky two day start, we've decided to hire our brand new 24/7 phone answering service.  They made mistakes both in the production of the service - how well they answered the calls - but also in the complete mishandling of our complaints.   Brian goes into how the law firm trains, retrains, reviews, and manages new client phone calls in order to maximize the number of clients that we c...

Derek Tellier is a real estate investor and agent with the Short Term Shop .  At age 43, Derek didn't like himself very much.  In this podcast, he tells the story of his journey from overweight to fit, greedy to giving, and poor to wealthy.   Derek's secrets to success include shifting his mindset, beginning to study stoic philosophy, and understanding that there is more to life than wor...

Friday solo episode time! While I think I did a lot of things financially right growing up, there are five or six things that I would go back and change knowing what I know now. In this episode I discuss: - Universal Life Insurance - Selling our First House - Investing in the S&Me500 instead of the S&P500 - Having a "Fun" Fund If you have someone in your life who in their 20s, th...

Matt Anderson graduated law school with over $150,000 in student loan debt.  A simple error on his bar application prevented him from immediately going into practice and he found himself waiting tables and driving for Uber. For many of us, this would have been a catastrophic blow.  Not for Matt. Matt and his wife house hacked their way to financial freedom over the next several years.  He discover...

This week, our 401K advisor came to the office with charts and graphs and explained how much we'd need to save each year in order to retire and maintain our current standards of living. It's great advice for most people.  But you are not most people. In this episode, Brian dives into three things financial advisors get wrong and how he thinks differently about planning for his own future...

Hunter Garnett is an injury lawyer in Huntsville, Alabama who opened the doors of his new firm just over a year ago and has seen explosive growth.  Hunter is an avid networker (he offers at the end of the show to take a zoom call with "almost anyone") and his ability to get people to know, like, and trust him early in the relationship has paid off in the form of many, many referrals. Hun...

Brian is back from the Gobundance Winter Mastermind and Adventure in Tahoe and overwhelmed with gratitude for the group.  He shares his key takeaways from the event and gives us a preview of some awesome upcoming guests. ____________________________________ Brian Glass is a nationally recognized personal injury lawyer in Fairfax , Virginia.  He is passionate about living a life of his own design a...

For a decade, Justin Ledford was the #1 Cutco Knife salesman in his region.  One day, while selling over a thousand dollars of knives to a customer, he was introduced to the wonderful world of real estate investing and it changed his life. Justin began buying, rehabing, refinancing, and renting (BRRR) single family homes in the Houston, Texas area.  Repeating this process over and over earned him...