Lessons - Mastering Personal Growth and Taking on Giants | Arash Homampour - Preeminent Trial Attorney

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