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Hosted by John Fagerholm · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 24 episodes
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Lawsuits & Lessons is a conversational podcast that explores entrepreneurship, business, and real-world legal insights through candid discussions with founders, professionals, and operators. Hosted by attorney John Fagerholm and comedian Steve Cooper, the show blends practical advice with personal stories, covering topics like building businesses, navigating challenges, handling failure, and understanding the legal realities behind success. Each episode offers a mix of humor, experience, and actionable takeaways for anyone looking to grow in business and life.
John Fagerholm hosts Lawsuits & Lessons, a business show with 24 episodes published.
He played a movie in his mind every single day—a full-color vision of a life that didn't exist yet, sustained in the back seats of cars and the floors of strangers' homes. The survival instinct that kept him alive on the
She realized she couldn't clone herself, so she built a company instead. Exhausted, brilliant at what she did, and trapped in a single industry, she faced a choice: find someone to *do* the work, or create that role from
The conversation stops mid-breath. Someone mentions a $600 million payment to silence an innovation. The room is quiet. Then the figure continues—unspooling a story about a rock and roll dream that never landed, about fr
Someone stops mid-sentence—not because they're lost, but because they've just described the exact moment everything shifted. A camera in hand for school projects. Then wandering the city alone, watching light fall on bui
A man casually mentions he owns a haunted house. Not a side gig—a real business entering its fifth year, staffed with 40 live actors and animatronics that cost serious money. The origin story starts with Hurricane Ida fl
He landed in Los Angeles with $300, a FedEx ticket, and no idea what he was walking into. At 21, he was living four separate lives at once—wrestling, acting, chasing dreams that didn't stick. A casting director reduced h
She dropped off VHS tapes at a radio station until they finally called. Twenty-two years old, still a student, she walked in for an interview and got hired on the spot. Three days later: *I can't hire you. You're horribl
Someone sat in a hospital, freshly devastated, and made a promise to a son who was already gone. That moment—the refusal to let one death become just another statistic—set off a chain reaction that would reshape how one
Someone spent years leaving the house at dawn, returning long after dark, watching friends head to bars at five while he'd finally arrive, exhausted, at nine. The work never stopped. The sacrifice became invisible until
Someone stood in the wreckage of their own ambition and chose to keep walking. Not because the failures didn't sting, but because each one taught him something essential about what it means to actually build. The turning
In this episode of Lawsuits & Lessons, host John Fagerholm, employment defense attorney and business advocate, and co-host Steve Cooper, comedian and veteran podcaster, welcome a special guest — John’s son, Dariuse Fager
In this episode of Lawsuits & Lessons, hosts John Fagerholm, employment defense attorney and business advocate, and Steve Cooper, comedian and veteran podcaster, welcome legendary performer, entrepreneur, and speaker Dav
In this episode of Lawsuits & Lessons, hosts John Fagerholm, employment defense attorney and business advocate, and Steve Cooper, comedian and veteran podcaster, welcome entrepreneur, technologist, and private chef Dweh
In this episode of Lawsuits & Lessons, hosts John Fagerholm and Steve Cooper welcome longtime friend, attorney, and entrepreneur Jesse Rosenblatt for a wide-ranging conversation about reinvention, resilience, and buildin
In the first Lawsuits and Lessons episode of 2026, host John Fagerholm and co-host Steve Cooper sit down with entrepreneur and marketer Stefan Fagerholm for a candid conversation about entrepreneurship that doesn’t start
In this episode of Lawsuits & Lessons, host John Fagerholm, employment defense attorney and business advocate, and co-host Steve Cooper, comedian and veteran podcaster, sit down with longtime friend and entrepreneur Omar
In this episode of Lawsuits & Lessons, host John Fagerholm, employment defense attorney and business advocate, joins co-host Steve Cooper, comedian and veteran podcaster, to welcome lifelong friend and financial advisor
In this episode of Lawsuits & Lessons, host John Fagerholm, employment defense attorney and business advocate, joins co-host Steve Cooper, comedian and veteran podcaster, to sit down with lifelong entrepreneur Sean Tipto
In this episode of Lawsuits & Lessons, host John Fagerholm, employment defense attorney and business advocate, and co-host Steve Cooper, comedian and veteran podcaster, welcome longtime entrepreneur and business partner
In this episode of Lawsuits & Lessons, host John Fagerholm, employment defense attorney and business advocate, and co-host Steve Cooper, comedian and veteran podcaster, dive deep into what it really takes to survive as a
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