In this episode, Ruby Powers sits down with Lambert Dunn — trial lawyer, immigration attorney, and solo practitioner based in Western Oklahoma — for one of the most honest conversations in the Resilience Series yet.

Lambert's story didn't unfold in a single crisis. It accumulated. Cancer diagnosed months after getting married. A wife who fell into addiction while he was fighting for his own life. A firm quietly drained of nearly a quarter million dollars while he was in a fog. And through all of it — court dates, client calls, raising kids, keeping the lights on.

What makes Lambert different isn't that he survived. It's how steady he stayed doing it.

What we explore:

✅ The Diagnosis: What happens to your practice, your finances, and your family when cancer arrives with no warning — and no safety net.

✅ When Your Closest Person Falls Apart: How Lambert navigated his wife's addiction while managing a solo practice, young children, and his own recovery — and the decision he made with his last dollars.

✅ The Financial Hit: How a quarter million dollars disappeared from his firm while he wasn't looking — and what he did next.

✅ The Steadiness Philosophy: Why Lambert doesn't get too high or too low — and how that mindset is what kept him practicing, parenting, and moving forward through years of compounding crisis.

✅ Uncertainty as a Lawyer's Superpower: Why the same discomfort that breaks most people is actually the environment lawyers are built for — and how to use that.

If you've ever felt like too much is happening at once and you don't know how you're still standing — this episode is for you.

📌 Connect with Lambert Dunn: https://www.dunnhdz.com/

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