Join us in this engaging episode of the Thorn City Syndicate Spotlight Show as we sit down with Lawrence Stanfill-EL. Discover the incredible journey of a Navy veteran turned legal advocate and explore the pivotal role basketball played in his life. We delve into his entrepreneurial venture with Stanfill Yard Maintenance, uncovering valuable lessons, and celebrating the successes. Learn from Lawrence's self-representation in legal battles, and get a sneak peek of 'The Common Wealth Show,' where he serves as the host. Gain insights into facing legal challenges and enjoy a rich narrative of personal growth and resilience. Listen now to be inspired and motivated!

Segment 1: Navy Service and Transition to Civilian Life

- Discuss the valuable lessons learned during Lawrence's time in the Navy and how they have influenced his life.

- Explore the challenges faced during the transition from military service to civilian life.

- Delve into Lawrence's passion for basketball and its role during this transition.

- Uncover the pivotal moments that ignited his interest in becoming a podcast host.

- Highlight the skills and experiences from the Navy that have been valuable in his various roles.

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Segment 2: Basketball, Entrepreneurship, and Stanfill Yard Maintenance**

- Share memorable experiences as a basketball player and coach.

- Discuss how basketball contributed to Lawrence's personal and professional growth.

- Explore the inception of Stanfill Yard Maintenance, the inspiration behind it, and the initial challenges faced.

- Dive into the key entrepreneurial lessons learned and their impact on his business approach.

- Highlight successes achieved with Stanfill Yard Maintenance.

- Examine the journey towards becoming a podcast host.

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Segment 3: Legal Advocacy and "The Common Wealth Show

-Discuss the strategies Lawrence employed to achieve favorable outcomes in self-representation in legal cases.

- Explore the inspiration behind advocating for issues like education, family, and civil rights within the legal system.

- Introduce "The Common Wealth Show," its mission, and the topics and themes listeners can expect.

- Reflect on how Lawrence's diverse experiences shaped his perspective as a legal advocate and podcast host.

- Provide advice for individuals facing legal challenges and considering self-representation in court.

Conclusion:

- Recap the key takeaways from the episode.

- Offer advice and insights for individuals facing legal challenges.

- Share Lawrence's contact information and where to find him.

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Welcome to the thorn city syndicate spotlight Show.

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This week, Lawrence Stanfill L. In this episode, we dive into Lawrence's journey starting from his dedicated service in the US Navy to his impressive legal achievements in the courtroom. We will also discuss his passion for basketball, his successful stamp deal yard maintenance company, and his upcoming podcast Commonwealth show.

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Prepare to be inspired as we engage in a profound conversation filled with valuable insights and triumphs that can potentially change your perspective on life.

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This episode promises to be an enlightening exploration of success, resilience, and the significant impact one person can make in the world. The one city podcast guy, let's go.

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Sir.

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Back at it one more time. Welcome to the thorn city syndicate spotlight show where we network and build connections through interviews and discussions. This episode is brought to you by GMP podcast group. I'm your hosts, the Warren city podcast guy. Make sure you visit

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new releases.

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Today we got a special guest in the spotlight. Got Lawrence Stanfill ale.

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Head on brother. Mo. Thanks for having me on. I'm good, man. Thanks for coming, man. I appreciate it. So today we're gonna talk about

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your time in the service as a Navy vet. Little bit from Navy vet Dude, your courtroom victories and little bit about basketball, entrepreneurship, and then the Commonwealth show.

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So they were telling Tim, where you from? And I was born in Portland, Oregon. Portland. I was born at OHSU nice, got on the midnight train down to Los Angeles though right after so my roots are really there. So you grew up in LA? Yeah. Like from a baby to? How old were you when you move back to Portland? I think I was 20 to 22. Nice. So you missing that lay at all? Not really my really small gain. It is different.

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For all my los Angelenos out there the end.

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There, I like LA but I don't know if I could live there. Great place to visit and great place to visit the otter great place to live. Yeah.

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So yeah, tell me a little bit about your time in the Navy. In any valuable lessons you learned during that time and how to influence your life ever since? Okay, yeah, um,

during that time and how to influence your life ever since? Okay, yeah, um,

I graduated from high school in 2005. And I entered the service in 2006. Most of my family tried to tell me not to join. They're like boys, and it was shot here.

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By you know, a military no place for black man. What they didn't tell me was the Navy was the last branch of service to let Black people in. Okay, see, that would have been meaningful. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? So I could have done something with that. But

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yeah, I mean, I was getting called nigger and bootcamp, man, even if it was by my peers. You know, I'm saying by the people in the service, which people that was joining. Yeah, as I said, I was recruited like I was, and,

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you know,

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you just go through stuff like that, man. Yeah. Be honest with you.

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So what it did for me in terms of lessons was like, when I make rank, I won't let that proliferate in our ranks. You know what I'm saying and the only way to stop it is to stop it.

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So they say, you know, when you're in boot camp, you know, the RTC instructors. I used to be like, not in my navy.

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But it's a hell of a thing to see. Your instructors or your chiefs. That was enlisted personnel that it may rank, not do anything when that happens. Yeah. So I forget who said it. But uh, they said, you know, all it takes is for good men to do nothing. We didn't say nothing. You know what

I'm saying we're able to proliferate this world and I kind of seen that, but I still kept grinding kept my head down and just kept trucking along with that man. And

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you know, when it was time for my academic school in the Navy, I graduated top of my class. Nice. So I got orders anywhere I wanted to and I got stationed onboard USS kitty Ogma

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die. Oh, that was cool, man. So how many years you serve? I did a total a total years. Okay. Yeah. And so what was the biggest challenge you face transitioning from coming out of the service back into what they call civilian life? I mean, when you're in the service, man, you don't have to worry about you know, paying rent. If you live on board a ship. You know what I'm saying? So

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it was just kind of the base.

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It's getting back in the non structured routine, you know what I'm saying? And just realize and certain language just don't translate when you talk to people, so it was a brief adjustment period, but I wouldn't say it was more than a few months.

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You know, just realized and like the training that I have everybody else don't have no have. Yeah, yeah. So like when you're in the Navy, like, everybody got the same training, so you can say certain stuff. And it all matters because they all are familiar with what you know what you went through, because they went through the same thing there. Gotcha. When you deal with like, in the professional world, they don't have a lot of those guys don't have no military training women No. Got no military training. Yeah. So when you say handle things at the lowest level, they don't always know what that means. They just jumped the chain of command. I'm going straight to my man, nor are they hiring boss HR. And it's like, man, that's not even how we normally do business.

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So it was a transition period of learning stuff like that. Like, okay, they don't have training large, you know, deal with them on their level now, because, yeah, you know, they're not on your level. Gotcha. So when you came back out, is that when you got into basketball? Nah, man, like, I was always into basketball from my youngest years. You know, like, I lived in Philly from

the ages of nine and 12. My aunt, she's an actress. So we moved out to Philadelphia because he had to do some, some gigs in Chicago. TV shows. But um, yeah, so I mean, I just always was in the hoop. And then, when I made it back to LA when I was 12, I just continued to who

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you know, and high school, I started playing football as a freshman.

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My coaches didn't want me to make the basketball team. So he just was like, I could teach you how to dribble, I could teach you how to shoot and I was like, I do all those. He was like, but I can't teach you how to grow

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too short.

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1000 catchphrases a day. You know, I'm Sans. Yeah, no, that's crazy. I used I loved playing basketball growing up. But once I got to high school, I kind of stopped.

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My life. Kind of kind of switched on me once I got to high school. All my all my friends I grew up with.

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Through my grade school, middle school years, I had to stop hanging out with, they got involved with gangs. And so it's like, my peers wasn't having it. They said, Yeah, you can't hang out with them no more. I was going to a school that they knew that they couldn't go to I want to Benson. Jeff, was where most of them wait, and Jeff wouldn't even opt in for me. I couldn't go there if I wanted to. Yeah, but I still stay around the game now because I referee basketball. I've been referee him for about

who I say about 20 years but the last 14 years really seriously on a high school level. I was dough. Yeah. So I love love the basketball. And I loved the ref. I got to a pretty high level where I get some good games. So it's, it's pretty tight with that. I'll call it the fans don't call you know, 909 when I don't get when the team don't get out, you know they do. That's just part of the game. You know, the worst is the people in the fans who actually know you when they call your name out.

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As janky there's a drip, but it's all good. Because once you once they figure out, you know what you're doing, they kind of leave you alone. Yeah, they can't always get the call mountain. No, they can't always get the cost basketball. You know, basketball, you just a bias fan. And so, you know, I hear them doing the same things to me. Then I get home and I'm watching the game

on TV. And I'm yelling at the screen room for my team saying the same stuff. I hear them say to me, yeah.

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But yeah, it makes me look at the game a little different, though. And watching it being that I'm official.

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But tell me about your experiences in the Navy.

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Do you still use any of that today? Yeah, in your life? Yeah, I do.

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So I was doing like, air traffic control and navigation. Look out. It required me to look at blueprints and maps. And

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I don't know. I mean, I'm not necessarily Navigating on boats anymore. When I went to Portland State, I got my degree in geography. So I could be a cartographer, which is the person that builds the maps. Okay. So I'll look at datasets, I was looking at datasets and the Navy.

Real time, non real time.

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And I do that stuff now.

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I mean, I just don't do it on the same level.

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But yeah, I mean communication, like, we'd have to monitor four or five different screens and talk to pilots while we navigate. So multitasking is a skill that I think is transferable to anywhere. And that's a lot of what I

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So do the only difference is you want to combat zone name versus being peacetime, you know, out in the real world. Oh, I want to look at this data. I'm gonna look at that data. Oh, look at the crime stats there when they arrest me, I may get indoors, you know, so it's not

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it's not nearly as stressful. But the skills are still measurable and and still useful.

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But yeah, like being in the Navy man just on active duty. I had a chance to go country to country and see different parts of the world that I ordinarily wouldn't have been able to go to the base. So Australia, where they talk about the Tasmanian snow, it was able to go down there, you know, went to three different ports in Australia. I've been to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, I've been to Blom, like nine times, South Korea, where all of our gear comes from all the new every NFL jersey, every college jersey, you know, they all being produced over there. And so

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And it was dope, man. Like, it was just good positive vibes, man. Just, you got to see what Chinese culture was really about by being there, even if it was for a short time, you know what I mean? So those were just like valuable experiences, even if they didn't hold lessons. Like one of the lessons I learned in Japan amongst that culture was just, they wore masks. Just if they had allergies, he had a respect for you. That's all it was man. Like they didn't want to sneeze on you being in tight quarters on a train or something because they not a lot of people drive in Japan. You know, people don't really take taxis. Everybody takes the train because of how good the network is. So I think American culture has a lot to learn from that.

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Yeah, I remember just watching people work themselves inside a Walmart throwing themselves I can't breathe. This like faux. They was wearing masks in Japan out of respect for you. And you can't even do that when there's a virus. Yeah, so they've been on the COVID mass over the army is really in this respect. Like, I gotta ask them out. I remember riding trains going to Tokyo from you, Cusco and I was asking people, why not wear masks, and then they would take it down and be like, I'm not sick. I just have seasonal allergy this springtime and you know, the cherry blossoms make me sneeze it was so I don't want to sneeze on you or your kid or whoever you wit. And that's what I'm trying to say is just, you know, a very different perspective. You know what I'm saying that they have versus what we have. So, so yeah, that's crazy. Well, man, I appreciate you coming through man. We're gonna take a break right now and get a message from our sponsor, GMP podcast group production team. When we come back, we'll talk a little bit more about the basketball. How you got into entrepreneurship with your Stanfield yard maintenance, co

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to begin in the making the making of this

I guess this welcome back to these words. Well, like Welcome back words.

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Sir Welcome back to the thorn city syndicate spotlight Show. I'm your host Doran city podcast guy. I got my guy Lawrence in the building.

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How are we doing brother? Man? I'm solid. Yeah, man. So that's a little I like to tell the people that little tune right there that welcome back. I like to use that from Welcome back from the from the breaks. That's a tool from an unreleased out on unreleased project from third twin artists I was managing

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to really have a spotlight show kind of started

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helping him get his music career back in order or actually not even that getting his life back in order. And I kind of use his music to do it. Because growing up he done music his whole life and he stopped doing music and got hooked on pills and alcohol and and my boy was doing bad man and so I had to do something for him. So I wanted some music

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So I decided to pay for my own album setlist and record some songs. And

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little did I know that that would be the catalyst for him, you know, turning his life around. He's now six years plus clean

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working the full time job and the community

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bought a house guys to be married. And so yeah, he really really did a full 360 man. And so

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that is what led me to meet Justin. We worked on a music video together, just wrote the script. And we went into some festivals and we won a few awards, man, and then COVID Hit Kildalton music stuff. And Justin called me one day and say Hola, and let's get into podcasting. He was roommates with Tim James. They help you Rochelle,

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his business when doing so well.

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And so they started a podcast to market his businesses and services, his coaching and his supplement business and man, Tim James is really really killing him right now. So shout out to Tim James over at the healthy roll show.

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He's the reason we end the podcast and got the spotlight show going it's all about the power of networking and forming strategic alliances and so that's why we're here brother.

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So tell me about

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the basketball you started coaching to

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where you coach and I was down there in LA I got sponsored by the Clippers all the time. We had the junior clippers at Robertson part. I don't know if you know that area, but that was right off of Pico and Robert chin not far from Hamilton High School in West LA. I was my little stomping grounds is where I grew up for the most of my life. teenage years and all that.

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Yeah, I mean, when I realized I mean I started on the football team as a free safety okay. But I prefer to play basketball, you know, and my coach Heck, he didn't want to let me place

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our why when everything flows, well, I'm gonna run track then

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play football and I just joined like a UTM West Coast show time. Okay. And

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from there once my basketball season was over, I would just coach and I was coaching Little League kids what ages ages like eight to 12 Okay. And then we started stepping our game up, you know, once I became you know, mature adult from like 17 to 18. I'll coach like the 15 year olds that are that wasn't just playing if they didn't make the team but wanted to hoof it Robertson.

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I started coaching them a nice boy Richard Pruitt shout out to him he he held it down

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with me. And then we ended up getting sponsored by the clippers. I liked what he was doing. So yes, I called him to join your clippers tie site. And so yeah, that's how it all started. Man is just giving back to my community. You know what I knew? And that's what I knew is just playing basketball. Nice. Yeah, I love basketball man is definitely my favorite sport. I love football season. She's just so short. Yeah, but I love the hoop. Like I said, I've been wrestling for a while now. So I've got to see some kids grow up from from being you know, little tiny toddlers to go on to college and playing overseas. And you know, some of them they made it to the NBA. And how they always remember me every time I see so that's pretty cool. Yeah, that's tight. Yeah. So tell me about the inception of the Stanford yard maintenance your entrepreneurial venture.

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Vancouver Washington area. Okay, over across the bridge. Yeah, I got pushed out, man, I bought my house over there. And I just wanted to beautify the neighborhood. I was watching builders build who but the builders don't do landscaping, you know, they leave like be Rubble. I'll talk and like, you know, all kinds of rocks throughout your stuff, man, I don't care. And so I wanted to beautify the neighborhood. I started

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My target market was the elderly because they're the forgotten. They might Oh

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On a great big lot, but they don't have any sort of resources in terms of people in their family to help them maintain and beautify their house. So what I would do is, I would market myself on social media, that's how I would try to grow my clients. But the target amongst old people was people that were either disabled or on cancer had cancer or something, people that physically couldn't do it. So there were instances where I was doing work for free. You know, but I was given back to the neighborhood that needs it people the most, you know, and that's how I built it on the strength of my name. Zeiss, how Stanfill was out there just grinding, making sure that folks, you know, property looks good, you know, I'm a disabled vet. So I'll be at home sometimes as a single dad, you know, so then when my daughter is at school, I have plenty of time to go knock out a few houses and, you know, edge and mow, you know, rake some leaves, rake some Pines, you know, lay some stuff down that they need,

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you know, trim some stuff, you know, so that's how it all started, man. But my target market was just helping the elderly people that couldn't do it. The young people that didn't want to do it. Yeah, I would. I will get those calls on next door to like, Hey, man, you know, can you prune this tree? I'm like, that's, that's landscaping. That's not yard maintenance. And I got with me, I that's not a yard maintenance, man. So I'll pay you 200 I don't know about that state of Washington going on some of that. Only they can do that.

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COVID-19 As you know, so that kind of put a damper on stuff. But, you know, living in the northwest, you can't operate your grass goes dormant in the wintertime anyway, yeah. So there's that in the cutting edge anyway, so it's only a seasonal business via and so it started out as a hobby man. Like I was saying I was doing you know, cutting my neighbor's grass because it was brand new high rise, new development homes. We all looked the same cookie cutters and so I wanted everybody stuff looking proper. So my property value would go up. Yeah. So why would you just cut their yard and they didn't know us cutting it? Yeah, they didn't. They didn't call me on it. You just show up?

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I looked I looked at that stuff. Every day. I'm

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damn they're not gonna do it. Damn. Alright, man. So look, if look, I'm just gonna knock it out. You're gonna get it there.

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So that's how it started man. And so I was leaving business cards and I couldn't even get a thank you from the mitigated a das dedicate to not even say thank you and I, but my naval training, being the lowest man on the totem pole as an enlisted service member told me that horror awake, you know, hard work, it builds character. So even if I don't get to thank you, I didn't do it for Thank you. Yeah, I did. And I might have had my own personal reasons for wanting the property to look a certain way. Yeah, but at the end of the day, is it gonna benefit you? Of course it is. You know, so it was 20 minutes of my time worth.

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When the greater value was everybody's driving through our neighborhood like, Damn, it's clean. Yeah. Who was doing that? Here? Yeah. So then I'm taking pictures of the whole block.

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Me. Yeah. Yard and so folks on next door, just wanted to get in on that. Like, Hey, man. My yard is about that big. I could pay you $30 Look, I'm only gonna mow an edge it Yeah, I'm only gonna move. Oh, that's good. I gotta bend. You don't even have to take it away. Just dump it in with me. So that, you know, on the lowest level, it just helped me build up, you know, and I'm

sad and sad doesn't mean yeah, I stopped doing it though. I stopped doing it because I got hit by a car. Oh, shit. I was opening. I was at a chiropractic visit from my daughter and I was opening her door. And this lady grabbed me out

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and kept going. They and so I tore both of my hips.

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Dislocated a shoulder and tore my bicep on my right arm. And, you know, it was at that point, I knew I wasn't going to continue to be doing in grunt labor like I used to in my younger years is going to do no more. Nah, man who was one of the hardest challenges I'd ever been confronted with. Because

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I don't know if you notice, but you need your hips to just move. You need your hips as we, as young people, we don't think about him. As if you know, you play football and you crack somebody. You know, you lie, man. I depleted him. But yeah, you

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do that only. So, you know me being a young guy, man. Like I didn't I didn't consider any of that at that time. And it wasn't until I couldn't do surgery on both hips at the same time. So I had to do one, and then I had to do a shoulder and then I had to do a bicep in the recovery time for all those you know

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is a substantial amount of time. So a lot of the you know, in those years of recovery, man,

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I found out who I was. Yeah. So it all started from that one accident. Do you ever catch Are you over to sewer at all? Oh, I mean, I'm not an attorney, I can't give any sort of legal advice is ongoing matter. But yeah, still during the quarter that day, you got adrenaline and military trying to have me run back to my car, you know, record who she was, and presence of mind to at least identify the witness who saw it all.

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And call 911 After recording the lady and getting her license plate and she jumped lanes of

traffic and all kinds of stuff, man, I couldn't believe it. Wow. 70 year old lady name. And I was first because the cops were white like she was and and I don't have none against white folks.

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But when you let White folks go, and you happen to be a white policeman, assuming that I'm in trouble as if I've done something wrong, that's when I have a problem with that whole situation. Yeah. So legally, it'll play itself out. I can't really go into the details. But um, gotcha. Yeah, man. It was just an unfortunate situation where somebody ran me over. Yeah. So now you said you're not you can't give legal advice, but I know you've

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been into the legal advocacy in, got a new podcast come in the Commonwealth show. We're gonna take another break. When we come back, we will get into some more about the creation of the Commonwealth show, and how you got into the whole legal field and

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kid lyricist exist don't drink one day. My history in the making from the making of this.

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I guess this welcome back to these words. Well, right welcome back. Where's the sheriff?

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Yes, sir. Welcome back to the thorn city syndicate spotlight show.

Your host storm city podcast guys still here with my guy Lawrence.

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So I know you've

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you got a couple of I don't know, you might have more than a couple. You got some courtroom victories under your belt? How'd you get into that?

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Um,

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it started just based off like the need to do it myself. I didn't have the finance at the time that go give me an attorney for whatever legal battles I was having.

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Family Law was a struggle.

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From family law, there was criminal, unfortunately.

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And then, yeah, I started when I started winning in the criminal venues. I don't know if that made a name for myself by doing that. But yeah.

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We had a particular district attorney out of Clark County that got fired. He was head of domestic violence unit. And he's the guy that does all your murder cases. His name's John Farah, and he lost his job doing that.

Farah, and he lost his job doing that.

They reduced some of the traffic tickets and misdemeanors. So then when I got struck by a vehicle, guess who you know what venue? Messy I like.

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Wow. So you know, Clark County wasn't having no parts of me at that point. Oh, Tim wasn't late they didn't even press charges on a lady or pursue it. They didn't even want to be you know, and so

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that's how that started. And then from there, you know, just different civil actions. I ended up suing the sheriff's out of Portland Oregon. I was arrested once and then I was there I was kept for like eight days and then you know, they released me but all the time I was in there they wouldn't let me pray.

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Soda as Christians, I was in there wanting to pray on Sundays. And I was perfectly fine with that. But when I came to me,

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they wouldn't give me any of that. So I started writing kites and like the Navy taught us you know, handled things at the lowest level document everything. You know, if all you can do is file a grievance, file your grievance and get a copy of it. And then now you document it said event, according to you based on what happened to you. So I use those pieces of evidence as litigation

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leverage points in all of my cases that I had against, you know, the sheriff's. But I wasn't someone for just me.

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I was selling for everybody in the world and the Ninth Circuit, everybody like you, you know that maybe Buddhists and Jewish, anything. And so I just said, I mean don't we all have a right to pray and pray safely. And so then that became, you know, a turning point I would dismiss

that case, only because

Miss volunter Stagg, who is now judge monitors Daggy.

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And the Multnomah County Circuit Court, she came to terms with me, you know, the settled hoe, I mean,

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they were confused, because there wasn't $1 amount associated with what was going on. So I had him over a barrel. And I wasn't, they couldn't say he's doing it for money. Look, he's trying to get rich off us there, you know, so they couldn't like RAS rationally identify why I would do such a thing. And so because they're not used to that they're just used to people that come in there and are greedy and only want money. But I was telling them, this is about everyone's right to pray and pray safely. Because not everybody that's arrested, like myself is guilty of something, you could be arrested and not have done no wrong. So what if that's you. So that's who I fight for on the Commonwealth show. I fight for those people. I stand for those people. And I try to empower those people.

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As best I can, when I'll give him a legal advice, but exponential advice. Whatever I've experienced, I can articulate in an intelligible tone. And, you know, my audience can infer what I'm saying, you know, and that's essentially what I'm trying to do is like, help educate the masses of these people that will be watching the show us on the bike, Hey, you come in there, and you dress well. You get familiar with the Black's Law Dictionary, you know, you have an understanding of this book right here, you know, tell me about those books you got there. So this book right here is called Beyond the gray and

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beyond the grave the right way, and the wrong way of leaving money to your children and others by Gerald Condon. And Jeffrey Condon. Both are Esquires, I think they're brothers. But this basically tells you how to prepare to transition for not being here while you're alive. There are certain steps you can take to just ensure that all your wealth or everything you accumulate from cars to homes, real property doesn't end up in probate court, there's a way around that you don't have to end up in probate, you know, rich, wealthy people understand, building the trust is one of the key elements to not do that. Because within your trust, you can have things listed out saying this property can be traded, but never sold. If you don't want it ever sold or whatnot, you can, you know, identify with certain language, what you want to have happen, even when you're not here, your will is just your last living testament. You know, and so you

could say I want, you know, my money and my checking and savings to go to my wife for my kids. Now, they're gonna fight over that if you got multiple kids, because they didn't break it up into thirds. You've seen it happen. And you can still end up in probate because some states based on state law, don't even respect the will as a probate the like you have to go through probate in front of the judge for them to adjudicate it and be like, yep, that's what he meant. That's what he said, You know, so there's those different legal avenues, I think, to procure that man and just kind of goes or what it is that you have while you here. And that's what this book talks about. These are attorneys that give great advice there. So you got to take my word and

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delve into that book. Yeah, man. And what's this other book? This is the Black's Law. Dictionary is the fourth edition man is pretty big, but it is a big one. This was one of the best ones, the fourth edition. Have you read the whole book? Not the whole?

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taken a lot of what I needed out of there. Yes. And get what you need. Yeah, yeah. So you know, because I familiarize myself with that. It gave me a certain level of jurisprudence and understanding legalese without being no attorney a hidden the Law Library, you know, looking up different cases, stare decisis, your most relevant cases, and you'll circuit will be talked about in the Supreme Court, the appellate court and you need to know its court circuit you live in because then you may find, you know, different cases that mirror yours. And if you do, those are the instances where you want to adapt some of that stuff and maybe insert that into your brief for whatever legal filing you may be doing, but essentially is like a pro se litigant that's just a person that represents themselves. And

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it is said by plenty of people in the legal community, a pro se litigant you only a fool you

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Hello, I'm Sam, if you represent yourself, you know, you live by the sword, you're gonna die by that, you know, so you have to be, you know versed in law. I wouldn't say I'm versed in law. I'm familiar with certain, you know, tactics and procedures that attorneys will use, you know, to preserve evidence or, you know, draft subpoenas or court judgments. But, you know, I'm not an attorney, man. And though I have a legal zeal or passion to, you know, finish law school, I'm not an attorney. So I don't want anybody to just take my words as a man, he told me, you know, if I just filed this motion with an affidavit and include a judgment, that's gonna give me you know, what I want to the promised land and that is not true. That's not true. That is not true. And you can have a judge laugh at you, you know, I had a judge and family law, marry southern Wyatt,

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Multnomah County, it was family law. She told me right when I walked in to sit down and shut

Multnomah County, it was family law. She told me right when I walked in to sit down and shut up,

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and I said, Am I in the right court? Thought this was family law. I wouldn't even talk to my children that way. Yeah. So ma'am, who are you here?

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You know, she tried to sign me up for child support, and then I beat that. Beat that with a stick. And

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I had the Attorney General begging me not to sue them when I was done. You know, Jonathan Tucker, the, you know, from Department of Justice out here. Multnomah County, yeah, yeah, he begged me not to sue him. He seen what I was doing a federal court with Miss Vantis. Daggy. How I had them wrapped up.

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He was like, Who is this dude? Is this guy why? Who is he? Does anybody know who this man he also knows the troubles with this guy. And so, you know, they didn't respect me initially, but they do now they do now. Well, hey, man, that's what y'all got to look forward to what the Commonwealth show like he said, he's not a lawyer. But he's been through some things and he's got some great information to share. So if you into court, and you got to represent yourself, you might want to tune into the Commonwealth show, you just might learn some. But we just got to wrap it up here, man. I'm gonna recap what we got. From today's episode, we talked about Lawrence's journey from the Navy into entrepreneurship and to becoming a PA Castle's little about his basketball. He shares some valuable information with us about his legal challenges he's he's been involved with.

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So man, I appreciate you coming through man and sharing your insights and dropping some jewels on this man. Where can people find you? Laces underscore 310 Is my Instagram if you guys are out there, I don't really post anything but certain basketball videos that are pretty old at this point. He

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you know, you can reach me on Instagram. You can follow me on Facebook Lawrence Stanfill. L. I'm probably the only one out there.

My Profile icon is Eren Yeager from Attack on Titan. So if you look me up in the lie, it is the dude I say on the site. Anything. It's me. You just got to add me, man. And yeah, you know, you'll see all my other Navy photos and what have you. But it's mainly for me to just stay in contact with friends and family. Everybody I started with overseas still. So I don't think I'm as active talking about the Commonwealth on there is reason for that. Gotcha. So any final words or advice or insight for individuals deal with legal challenges? Motivation is self propelled. It's like a ship. That was my definition of motivation. When all my chiefs interviewed me in the Navy

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is self propelled. You know, if you want to move forward, you got to have the motivation and integrity within yourself to want to move forward. Nobody's going to help you move forward outside of you.

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Yeah, I mean, you might be up against, I don't know, I was up against a heavy handed prosecution before man about five different prosecutors from Lewis and Clark. You can win man, despite the odds, man, read that book by Richard Wright always outnumbered and always, Oh, God.

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You know, I've seen various difficulties in life. You know, I'm saying from foster homes to

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racial discrimination in the Navy.

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I've been marginalized at Portland State.

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But that doesn't give you an excuse to stop. You know, you got to get out there and continue to grind despite whatever odds you're up against. And, you know, I hear from all these professional athletes all the time on their podcasts and stuff when they interview Patrick Willis, and, you know, just you know, Kawhi Leonard, and these people they experienced like one of the brothers I think it was Patrick Willis, forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think his brother

somebody got killed. When he was he was a youngster. They, and they asked him like, what was your reasoning for not doing drugs and doing that? And he said that, you know, and we see too often, especially in Los Angeles, where there's a preponderance of gang banging. You ask some of them guys. Why

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You want to become a gang member? Why don't you jump off the porch and start banging? And they'd be like, Oh, because I lost such and such. So my mom and dad wasn't there for me. So I just chose to do it. And it's like, that's a reason. But I don't know if that should be a reason to go do that. It can be your reason, but that could be the same catalyst reason that I have to not do that. And I do it. You know, you look at Charlie Sheen and Emilio esta vez is you know, worlds apart you know what I'm saying? And they had the same upbringing they had they grew up in the same house same environment, so you can't blame it on the environment or lack thereof of money because they had that but you can just see one person went off into drugs and cocaine and alcoholism and then the other one didn't. And so that's what I'm trying to articulate is like

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be the positivity you want to see in the world man. Just go for broke man.

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Yeah, man, continue to fight man. You gotta fight Man fight, man. So yeah, yeah, I'll be on the lookout for the Commonwealth show is in production with GMP podcast group, and we'll be coming to you soon. Like I like to say I encourage my listeners to explore your passions, embrace innovation and pursue entrepreneurship in your own unique way. Thanks for joining us. Explore the power of networking and find inspiration by following me at Thorn city podcast guy for the updates exclusive behind the scenes content and join the conversation today. Stay tuned for future episodes of the door city syndicate spotlight show as we continue to highlight individuals, businesses, brands and podcasters don't forget to subscribe to the door city podcast Guy YouTube channel follow at door city syndicate the management company and at GMP podcast group to production company as well.

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right Oh brother, man, I was clutch man.

Well, man

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