42: Control Your Destiny While Helping Others - Russell C. Ford
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
Don Hutcheson
5 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Ever since clerking for a small, business immigration firm during his time at Tulane Law School, Russell C. Ford loved the idea of being an entrepreneurial lawyer in a practice focused on helping people. Controlling his own destiny while helping others has consistently motivated his career, he recalls. Working at a large law firm’s immigration practice, Russell connected with four like-minded colleagues who shared a sense that there had to be a different, better way than just racking up billable hours and selling. “Working together really wasn't like work. Our similar mentality has just worked out for us.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, world. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. |
| 0:17.8 | Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. |
| 0:29.6 | Today I am delighted to bring you our featured guest, Russell Ford. |
| 0:34.6 | Hi Russell, how are you? |
| 0:35.6 | I'm good, Don. How are you? I'm good, Don. How are you? |
| 0:37.7 | I'm just doing great. |
| 0:39.0 | One quick question before I tell a little more about you. |
| 0:41.5 | Are you using your talents to do work that you love? |
| 0:44.4 | Absolutely. |
| 0:45.5 | That makes me very happy. |
| 0:47.8 | Ever since clerking for a small business immigration firm in New Orleans, while studying at Tulane Law School, Russell Ford was taken with |
| 0:56.4 | the idea of being an entrepreneurial lawyer in a practice that focuses on helping people. From the |
| 1:02.6 | individuals who need proper documentation to work in the United States to the human resources |
| 1:07.7 | professionals recruiting those individuals. This desire to control his own |
| 1:12.4 | destiny while helping others has underwritten his entire career. Well, Russell, that's an impressive |
| 1:20.5 | overview. Go a little deeper and take a couple of minutes, if you will, and just tell us what you're |
| 1:25.6 | doing right now that floats your boat. |
| 1:27.8 | Okay. |
| 1:28.5 | I mean, I think two aspects that I hit upon in, well, that you hit upon in the bio, really |
| 1:34.7 | jump out. |
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