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In this lessons episode, you'll discover powerful insights on personal development,
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and the mindset needed to take on big challenges, whether in business or life.
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The discussion delves into the importance of kindness, work-life balance,
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and the transformative power of helping others.
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Learn how to define your own value and embrace your unique strengths to thrive in a competitive world.
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I want to bring out some ideas on personal development that I can hear that you get very passionate about,
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but I still want to get a little bit more of the tangible legal insight out of your brain
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before we go into other stuff.
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So I think that the most important question would be when people take on these companies,
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what do they even hope to achieve?
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How can they take these companies on and win?
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I guess higher you, but outside of that.
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No, no. So the David versus Goliath sort of,
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Frank Frame is interesting because today, a 17-year-old kid can make a hit song on his laptop
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with three pieces of software. A 15-year-old kid can make money in cryptocurrency on a level
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that the traditional bank could never make.
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So there is an efficiency that exists today through the harnessing of technology,
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through using new techniques, through being a good person that will allow you to transcend
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and annihilate the biggest corporation because they just don't have the ability to navigate through
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things as easily with the best results as, let's say, someone who is more nimble and more...
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Agreed.
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And so harnessing that allows you to take on Toyota because Toyota's got 50 attorneys,
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right? When there's 50 attorneys on the other side, I'm going to win if I deserve to win
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because you can't compare one person who knows everything who's involved to 50 people that are
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like too many cooks in the kitchen. You're going to be literally, that's how we take advantage.
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We can spend just as much money as they spend in doing testing and working up a case.
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They can't outspend us because many times these defendants will spend money inefficiently
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on dumb stuff. I mean, I can tell you how many times we take on a big products defendant and they
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spend a million bucks doing something that ultimately isn't even admissible because I know what
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isn't admissible. I know what games they are playing with the stuff that they're doing.
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So how do you take on big corporations? You appreciate the strength you have in who you are in
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2021. The world is now moving away from the old paradigm and the old structures and the old
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narratives and is way more receptive to the new narratives of inclusiveness, of loving everybody,
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of letting people defy what their happiness is, of not believing this baloney structure that the
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only thing that's good looking is why there's space for everyone to shine. It's a different world.
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So I think in any profession, it's easier to distinguish yourself and sort of be an outlier than
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it was ever before. I guess because these themes are so right on, but why are you so passionate
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about these things? Besides the fact that it's good to be passionate about being good and being
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a better person, but I speak to, you know, I speak to a lot of people and I'm sure that they
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are good people, but they aren't as passionate about the things you're speaking about. They don't
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bring them up in discussion. What was the cause of the trigger? Look, anytime you define happiness
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by yourself, by what you get for yourself, you're never going to be happy. Happiness is when you're
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up service to others. When the circle of what makes you happy is larger and you're up service
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meeting that like love is not about getting it's giving happiness is not about getting it's
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giving when you with that clicks in your brain, then you realize the more joy you're going to get
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in your life by the more people you help, I literally have this sort of analogy of I'm a candle
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and my job is to light as many candles in this universe as I possibly can't. No strings attached,
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no expectation. I don't get anything other than make the world a better place. If I can inspire
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someone to get to the next level and be happier, you know, that's infectious. It helps the universe.
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It helps my children live in a world that when I die, they want to live in and it really makes
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an impact longer than your you know, your limited number of years on this card. I
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mean,
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that's one thing about music. I talked to about about this, you know, someone wrote a song in 1960.
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They're dead. They sat in a studio with a drummer and a guitar player and a bass player,
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Jimmy Hendricks and they just jam and that little six minute jam has brought so much joy and
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like millions and millions of time people listen to that and it gets them through hard times or
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it pups them up before they work out or pumps them up before board meeting or whatever, right? That's
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the power of music. That's the power of what it is to be human and so that's kind of
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transition to why I love music so much is because it just has so much power transcendental power
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beyond the six minutes it takes to make something. I want to I also want to like I want to unpack
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some lessons that you that you sort of live some of the values, but also let's talk about your firm
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because I was listening to I was listening to another show and you speak a lot about how you run
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your firm and how you want to reinvest in the people in your firm and how you want them to have
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balance. All these concepts come from this like the best way I can describe is like a mindset of
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abundance and that's not where I expected this podcast to go at all, but that's where you know
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that's like your core theme if I could sort of pin it on one cap. It's like giving giving.
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So walk me even through some of the lessons that you've discovered in your firm because I think
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that's a smart leadership smart management style that you sort of a corporate man. You know it's
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shocking how many people don't have manners. If you go to someone's house clean up after yourself.
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If you go to someone's house respect the people around there. If you go and meet someone new don't
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be small and go out. You don't matter. Say hello. Be polite. Hi. Thank you. Manors and you take
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those basic lessons at home and you put it everywhere you go. When the bus boy talks to you,
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you look them in the eye. When the valet looks at you, you talk to them when you're an elevator
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or someone strikes up a conversation. Say hello. Same with your staff at work treat them like family.
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Treat them like you would treat them like you would treat yourself or any other member of your
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family. The the world doesn't exist for you to exploit and gain them or it. The world exists for
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you to take care of other people. Treat people with joy. Look and then the outcome of that the outflow
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and what comes back to you is good vibes. Good karma. Positivities. Synchronicities. I have
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synchronicities in my life. They're like mind blowing in terms of I think of something. I want
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something to happen. Someone comes along and like I cut you know six months ahead in terms of
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doing something. Why? Because I'm a kind loving person. I put good vibes out there. I treat people
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with respect. I tend to I tend to actually treat people nicer. If you look at how what how I treat
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people nicer than you would expect. I should or would but I do it because that's the way I was raised.
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That's what works and that's out. Yes. It should be sustained with employees. I just believe in
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work life balance. Not overworking them. I never yell. I'm never disrespectful. I tolerate mistakes
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because that's part of being human. You know we have good employees who have been with us a long time
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and if you come to my office you'll see they work because they love to work. They want to make a
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difference. It's not a job for them. It really is a place where they want to be. The office looks
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nicer than most fancy hotels. The office provides food and drink like fancy tea, fancy water,
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whatever they want to eat. I pay for those things. If they want to take self-help course, I pay for
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it. If they want to take yoga, I pay for it. Why? The more well-rounded and happier they are as a
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human, the better their productivity at work. It's like win-win, no brain or stuff that so many people
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don't understand their misers when it comes to taking care of their employees and they don't
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understand their short-changing, their potential. I was going to say you hit the nail on the head
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like when it comes to when it comes to readvesting in your own people. I was just hearing about
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when you did an interview on work life balance and stopping people from working on the weekends or
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whatnot. If you run a cost-benefit analysis of investing in your people versus even hiring
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and staff turnover and whatnot, there's some numbers there that you really have to consider.
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You also said it correctly. I'm in alignment with everything you're saying, but many people
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just miss the mark. Many leaders, many managers, many CEOs found to just miss the mark, which is
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unfortunate. A few other points that I thought were interesting. One of the themes that I was
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prepping, if I was prepping this interview, one of the themes that brought out was not letting
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your past dictate your value and setting your own value. Speak to me about that. It's really simple.
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Your past is your past. You have no control over it, so whether you did phenomenal or you did
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poorly, it's irrelevant. Who you be is who you declare you're going to be? If I walk into a room,
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and I think I'm hot shit because I want a $20 million verdict, I'm not going to relate to
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anyone. They're going to go this guy's an idiot, a moron. I'm like, well, you think he's hot shit.
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If I walk into a room, he'll run a loser because I lost four trials. Again, that's not relatable.
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What matters is who do I declare I'm going to be in this moment, in this transaction, with this
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human being? If I declare I'm going to be loving, kind, generous, be it. Now, do we fail? Are we
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sometimes jerks? Are we sometimes ego-based? Yes. Clean it up. If you do something that you go,
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ugh, why did I do that? Clean it up with the person. Forgive yourself. You're human. Everyone's
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done it. But don't let your past, whether positive or negative, dictate who you be. Who you be is
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who you declare yourself be. That's it. Thanks for tuning in. If you found this valuable,
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