Episode 3--The One-Off Guy: What 27+ Years in the Courtroom Taught Me About What Not to Carry

Episode 3--The One-Off Guy: What 27+ Years in the Courtroom Taught Me About What Not to Carry

27+ years in the trenches of high-stakes trial law will teach you a lot of things. But the most important lesson I never learned in a courtroom — I learned flat on my back in a hospital bed the day after a motorcycle crash, asking my wife to bring my laptop so I could run payroll. That's when I realized I had a weight problem. Not the ruck kind — the kind that was slowly crushing me from the inside out. In this episode, I break down how I went from "Depo Man" — taking 400 depositions a year as a young attorney — to becoming the guy other lawyers call when the case doesn't fit in a box. I'll explain the real difference between a litigator and a trial lawyer, what it actually costs to be the one willing to take the unusual risks, and how a TBI forced me to finally confront the weight I was carrying that I had absolutely no business carrying. Here's the challenge I'm leaving you with: you already know what that one piece of weight is in your life that you need to put down. You don't need me to tell you what it is. You just need someone to ask the question. Consider it asked. Drop me a DM, shoot me an email at jdh@judiciousnomad.com [jdh@judiciousnomad.com] — sometimes just telling someone who isn't your spouse or your business partner is exactly what you need.

Episode 2--What I Learned: Five Lessons From the Heaviest Season of My Life

Recorded on Day 532 of my rucking streak, this episode of Ruck Around and Find Out breaks down five life‑saving lessons I learned under the heaviest ruck I’ve ever carried—about advocacy, movement as medicine, and why you should never make permanent decisions for temporary problems. What happens when a lawsuit, post‑concussion syndrome, and a failing medical system all land in your lap at the same time? In this episode, I unpack what I learned when everything hit at once and the load felt impossible to carry. I walk through five hard‑earned lessons: why the medical system will fail you if you don’t have an advocate, how a lawsuit and post‑concussion syndrome collided in my life (and why that timing was no accident), how Kolette literally saved my life, why movement became the best medicine when nothing else worked, and why you should never make permanent decisions for temporary problems. If you’ve ever felt crushed by circumstances you didn’t choose, this episode is for you. Throw on a ruck, hit the road, and let’s talk about what it looks like to keep moving when everything in you wants to stop. Trial. Trauma. Triumph. This podcast is about what happens when life drops “impossible” weight into your ruck—and how you keep moving anyway. Follow along with more daily rucking and reflections on Instagram @judiciousnomad, and subscribe to Ruck Around and Find Out wherever you listen so you don’t miss future episodes. Watch the full video episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@judiciousnomad #RuckAroundAndFindOut #judiciousnomad #rucking #movementismedicine #TrialTraumaTriumph

Episode 1--How It Started

December 26, 2022. A part broke on my Ducati Panigale V4 SP2. I got ripped off the bike, went airborne, and woke up with a brain bleed. This is the story of the crash, the medical failures, the $7.5M lawsuit, the year of suicidal ideation, and why I started rucking 524 days ago. This is how Ruck Around and Find Out began.