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Every decision we make has consequences — and no one sees that more clearly than a lawyer.
On The Moral of the Story, veteran attorney Chad McLain draws from his experience in the legal world to explore the experiences and choices that shape our lives.
Each episode looks beyond the surface of real situations to examine everyday moral crossroads — uncovering deeper lessons about responsibility, character, and what it means to live a better life.
Because sometimes the most important verdict isn’t delivered in a courtroom — it’s the one we deliver to ourselves.
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Host Chad MclLain interviews longtime friend and mentor Richard Shallcross, recalling meeting in 2001, Chad’s bar-results moment, and a $20 “good luck” bill Richard gave him in 2002. Richard introduces his background: Chicago suburbs, mechanical engineering at Rose-Hulman, Army ROTC, active duty as an infantry officer and helicopter pilot, an MBA from Georgia State, internal auditing for W.R. Grace, then law school at the University of Tulsa and starting practice in 1982. He shifted fr...
Host Chad McLain interviews longtime friend and mentor Ted Sherwood about the psychological weight of plaintiff personal injury work and how lawyers manage repeated exposure to loss. Sherwood recounts leaving Tulsa real estate to attend law school, clerking and later practicing with renowned plaintiff lawyer Ed Abel, whose client-centric approach and “David vs. Goliath” cases against powerful defendants shaped Sherwood’s career, before Sherwood formed his own firm and reflected on why p...
Host Chad McLain interviews Tulsa businessman Mitch Myers about resilience after the sudden loss of Mitch’s first wife, Holly. Mitch recounts April 2010, when Holly developed severe abdominal pain over Easter weekend, was initially misdiagnosed, flat-lined after Ativan at a small hospital, and was transferred to St. John in Tulsa, where surgery revealed a sigmoid volvulus and she later developed ARDS. After 17 days on life support, a tracheostomy attempt injured her carotid artery and ...
Host Chad McLain interviews financial advisor Josh Herlin, founder of Future You Financial, about why many people—even six-figure earners—live paycheck to paycheck and how financial freedom comes more from habits than income. Herlin, who previously worked at Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley and has a quantitative finance master’s, says young professionals’ biggest mistake is FOMO-driven spending and delaying investing. They emphasize paying yourself first, automating contributions, thin...
Host Chad McLain welcomes Tony Rittenberry to discuss how adult relationships often end quietly through slower replies and less effort, and how definitions of healthy relationships change with age. They emphasize mutual respect, care, reciprocity, and having a healthy relationship with oneself, noting that adults have less patience for “nonsense” and are more willing to move on. They talk about modern communication pressures (texts, unread messages, social media), shifting expectations...
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