TrustCast Show

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...

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, Zan...

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 t...

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...

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 th...

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 Trus...

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...

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 cryptocur...

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 Tru...

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 Su...

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 tw...

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 dress...

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 th...

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?...

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...

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 Trustc...

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,...

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 Trus...

What happens when a lawyer who opened his first office in a small Arkansas town with a bounced check and a toddler quacking down his hallway with door stops in his mouth grows his firm into the largest wage and hour practice in the country, co-founds a firm with a YouTuber who has 3.9 million subscribers, builds a legal referral software platform used by five of the ten largest plaintiff firms in...

What happens when a late-diagnosed neurodivergent adult and childhood trauma survivor who spent years consulting for Dell and the Discovery Channel decides to build the world's first podcast network entirely focused on mental health — and then spends the next decade interviewing every expert on the planet, mostly to figure out what was going on with herself? In this episode of the Trustcast Show,...

What happens when a PhD philosopher who spent four years in the ether of academic concepts decides the abstract world isn't enough — and ends up defending people accused of murder in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with an in-house therapist as his business partner? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Maxwell Pines, founder of Max Pines Law, about the journey from a Brown Univer...

What happens when a basketball coach and history teacher who wanted to represent the indigent gets blocked from the public defender's office by a Supreme Court rule, takes a job at Borders on Michigan Avenue, and ends up co-chairing the Chicago office of an AmLaw 200 firm — defending insurance companies, fighting reptile theory, and predicting court outcomes on a podcast with 300-plus episodes? In...

What happens when a trial attorney who argued a case before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, made partner at a nationally recognized firm, and spent 20 years fighting to win for one side decides to become the person in the room that neither side hired? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Amy Mariani, founder of Mariani Mediation, about the unexpected path from...

What happens when a young associate trained by the Dean of Chicago Defense Attorneys — the man who represented R. Kelly and Rod Blagojevich — decides to bet on himself and launch his own federal criminal defense firm? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Vadim Glozman, founder of Glozman Law in Chicago, about the full acquittal he won for R. Kelly's former business partner...

What happens when a patent attorney who got his wake-up call staring at a 47-page office action at 3 a.m. decides to teach himself Python, machine learning, and blockchain development — and then builds a proprietary AI called Abigail to handle the 70% of his work that delivered zero value to clients? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Roger Hahn, founder of Haunan Associ...