Welcome back to the Mike Dillard podcast where we help entrepreneurs like you get the knowledge and skills that you need to bring your dreams to life.

Well, gang, today we're going to talk about one of the most difficult topics when it comes to life and to business, which is having to sue someone or getting sued.

So when I was young and frankly naive,

one of my goals in life was to literally never have to deal with either of those situations.

And guess what? Within the next year or two, I found myself having to sue two different people

for the very first time in my life. Unfortunately, both of them had mental health

problems. Their actions were unreasonable. Their motives were to intentionally cause myself and my

business harm, and they had no desire whatsoever to find an actual remedy to the situation.

They were not healthy people. They wanted conflict,

and that was their goal. So I called up some of my older and wiser mentors at the time, and they all

said the same thing. Do not pursue a lawsuit unless you absolutely must, but if you must,

go all in and win. So that's what I did. It took almost a year in one case and several years in the

next, but I eventually won both cases. So why am I bringing all of this up? Well, because my goal of

going through life without ever getting involved in a lawsuit, while also putting myself in front

of millions of people, was once again naive. It was silly. As someone who conducts

business with other people and companies, you are going to have conflicts and you are going to

run into mentally unstable people no matter how well you run your life or your business. It's

an unfortunate part of the world these days. So my goal for you is to simply

prepare you for the day in which this will probably happen and it will end up being one of the

most difficult experiences that you will ever have. At least your first go-round after you've

gone through it once, you realize that you're not going to die, that the world is not going to end,

and it becomes a little less shocking to die, that the world is not going to end, and it becomes a

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