My guest this week has coached attorneys nationwide to achieve a more balanced lifestyle in and outside the courtroom based on her own personal experience as a trial lawyer. Her practice, Healing Over Law, helps lawyers understand how the adversarial environment can have so many effects on our mental and physical health, leading to a staggering rate of depression and addiction in the industry. We also discuss the recovery process and the drain of energy post-trial and what you can do to recover quickly.

Join me as I have a fascinating conversation with Hunter McMahon who in laymen's terms - is a digital investigator. With his years of experience and swift changes in technology - he gives interesting examples of how digital evidence can tell a persuasive story when investigated correctly. He also talks how AI is quickly changing the game and how it may change courtroom evidence in the future.

My unique guest is an army veteran and recently retired corrections sergeant with the Pinellas County (FL) Sheriff’s Office. During his 28-year career, Jacob Moon supervised every area of the 3,200-bed facility, including the direct supervision unit, booking, maximum security, and the medical/psychiatric units. Jacob talks about how he has to separate his personal and professional feelings to do his job and how becoming a writer has helped him through the stressful process.

Join me in a rare and honest interview with small community Police Sargent. Rob Disario who talks with me about his responsibility to make a bad situation better. He describes what it is like to make crucial decisions within seconds in the middle of chaos. We also discuss the stress of being the very first person to arrive on a dire scene. "It is not like a TV show." He explains the method of emotional support officers are getting immediately after a traumatic event. After all, "we are human beings." He also shares how he mentors young officers on how to humanize themselves when taking the stand as well as prosecutors being the unsung heroes of the judicial system.

Meet Gary - a man of courage and enormous strength. Join me as I talk with Gary about his history being a law enforcement office and the day he escaped death while chasing a perpatrator. Then only to have the perpatrator turn around and sue him. it doesn't stop there. - this inspirational episode shows what humans can over come when having the will to live.

In this week’s episode, I talk with Jonathan Steele about the pros and cons of being an attorney when taking the witness stand. We discuss his experience in depositions as well as in court and he gives great advice on what to expect when testifying. We then transition the conversation to cyber security which is his new focus for family law and privacy.

Join me as the tables are turned, and I am a guest on the Ripple Effect of Murder. I interviewed Jan Canty in episodes 35 and 36 of TTT, discussing what it was like to be a homicide victim survivor. Now, on Jan's podcast, we discuss how homicide survivors may be used in a homicide trial and the emotional stress they come under. We talk about the delicate balance of keeping emotions in check without appearing stoic or removed which may result in looking indifferent.

Jan raised the point that fatigue sets in so even focusing on being able to focus on individual questions becomes taxing. We also talk about how we can protect witnesses that have gone through the trauma, pre, during and post testifying.

Join me talking with Michelle Madrid, a crime scene investigator for the Los Angeles County Sherriff Department with a specialty in DNA evidence. Michelle talks about her 19+ years career and how the Department is changing the environment and stigma to support vicarious trauma. We also discuss how she is not a witness for either side and how bias does and does not play a part in her findings. She describes why testifying is the most important part of the job because as she says – “I can do everything right but if I can’t articulate my findings to a jury it doesn't matter.” She is also one of the authors of the Forensic DNA Interpretation and Human Factors: Improving Practice Through a Systems Approach report which is used as the standard for DNA interpretation.