When you can't find a Mentor... Become One | Dave Zumpano

I started in 95 and I had a really, really successful practice and it was growing, like very successfully. And. But the problem was I didn't have the big, fat, gray hide, gray haired guy in the corner that I can go and ask questions, right? Because my parents were in the food business. They didn't run law firms, right. None of my brothers were lawyers. I had Dr. Brothers at Engineer Brothers, but I had no one to go to. And so I just kind of faked it till I made it right? And then I joined a national legal organization. And when I joined that national legal organization of attorneys all over the country, this is the late 90s, they had this cool thing called a listserv where you could type a question and hundreds of people would respond to you. I mean, this was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Well, when I started attending those events, what happened was people started saying, what are you doing? Why are you having so much success? And as a result, I started sharing that and I became known as the founder of the Medicaid practice industry.