TrustCast Show

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 ins...

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 e...

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 ev...

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...

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 federa...

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 progra...

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 progra...

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 holdi...

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 fortie...

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...

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 Pennsylva...

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 h...

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 o...

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 th...

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 m...

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 N...

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...

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 K...

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 ou...

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 m...

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 communit...

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 therapi...

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 Trus...

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...

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?...