In this episode of Lex Lumina, Sam Castor sits down with former U.S. Supreme Court clerk and constitutional attorney Monty Stewart to discuss one of the most important legal and cultural questions of our time: who ultimately decides how children are raised — parents, schools, or the government?

Drawing on decades of legal experience, Monty explains the constitutional foundations of parents’ rights and why the United States Supreme Court has long recognized that parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, and moral development of their children.

As debates across the country intensify around school policies, gender identity in education, parental notification laws, curriculum transparency, and the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, the deeper question remains the same: what limits should exist on government authority over families and children?

In this conversation, Monty discusses the growing tension between families, schools, courts, and government power, including controversies involving schools withholding information from parents, gender identity policies in schools, parental rights legislation, and the constitutional role of the Supreme Court in protecting family autonomy.

Monty also reflects on faith, peace, family, and human dignity, drawing from a lifetime of experience as a U.S. Supreme Court clerk, constitutional lawyer, mission president for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, husband, father of ten children, and lifelong advocate for principle and service.

• The truth about parents’ rights in American constitutional law

• Why the Supreme Court recognizes parental authority as a fundamental liberty

• The growing debate around schools hiding information from parents

• The legal and cultural impact following the overturning of Roe v. Wade (Dobbs decision)

• The tension between education policy, parental rights, and government authority

• How faith, family, and service create peace in turbulent cultural times

If you care about family, liberty, education policy, parental rights, and the future of constitutional law in America, this conversation offers a thoughtful and deeply experienced perspective.

About Monty Stewart

Monty Stewart is a Las Vegas attorney and constitutional litigator who has argued major cases across the United States. Early in his career he served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Warren Burger at the United States Supreme Court, one of the most prestigious positions in the legal profession.

Over the course of his career he has worked on major constitutional questions involving marriage law, family rights, religious liberty, and parental rights, while also dedicating his life to faith, family, and public service.

Monty and his wife Ann later served as mission leaders for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Atlanta, Georgia, where they mentored and led hundreds of young missionaries.

About Sam Castor

Sam Castor is an attorney, entrepreneur, and strategist who has helped structure billion-dollar technology and infrastructure deals across the globe. His work sits at the intersection of law, leadership, innovation, and human progress, helping organizations and leaders build systems that serve people rather than exploit them.

About Lex Lumina

Hosted by Sam Castor, the show highlights individuals who bring light, integrity, and courage to complex issues facing our world.

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Delaware vs Nevada: The Corporate Shift Happening Now

Are companies quietly leaving Delaware?

For decades, Delaware has been the default state to incorporate a business. Startups, IPOs, and Fortune 500 companies all followed the same playbook: “Just incorporate in Delaware.”

But that may be changing.

In this episode of Lex Lumina, Sam Castor sits down with Professor Ben Edwards (Associate Dean, UNLV Boyd School of Law) to break down:

• Why Delaware became the king of corporate law

• What’s driving companies to consider Nevada instead

• How the Elon Musk compensation case changed the conversation

• Why founder control and shareholder power are back in the spotlight

• What this means if you're starting a business today

If you’re forming an LLC, launching a startup, planning to raise capital, or thinking about going public, this conversation explains — in plain English — how corporate governance actually works and why your state of incorporation matters.

This isn’t just about legal theory.

It’s about power.

It’s about control.

It’s about how billion-dollar decisions get made.

We also explore how activist investors influence companies, why businesses like Southwest Airlines change direction, and how state laws quietly shape the American economy.

Then the conversation turns personal.

Professor Edwards shares how family, faith, loss, and mentorship shaped his life — including the death of his brother and how that experience changed the way he views responsibility, belief, and leadership.

This episode blends corporate law, entrepreneurship, and the human side of leadership in a way you won’t hear anywhere else.

If you’re building something — or thinking about it — this matters.

About Professor Ben Edwards

Ben Edwards is Associate Dean and Professor of Law at UNLV Boyd School of Law. His research focuses on corporate governance, securities law, Delaware corporate law, and the competition between states like Delaware, Nevada, and Texas for business incorporations.

About Sam Castor

Sam Castor is an attorney, entrepreneur, and host of Lex Lumina. His work explores law, leadership, entrepreneurship, faith, and the systems that shape modern business.

About Lex Lumina

Lex Lumina is a long-form conversation series exploring corporate governance, leadership, belief, entrepreneurship, and the deeper motivations that drive people in positions of influence.

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🔥 How to Get Your Child to Listen is one of the most common searches in parenting help. Most parents ask it in moments of exhaustion, not curiosity. Something feels off, conversations keep looping, and nothing seems to land.

In this episode of Lex Lumina, Sam Castor sits down with John Guedry to talk about parenting, responsibility, and what actually shapes children over time. John brings a perspective shaped by real life. He was raised by a single mother, built a career in banking and leadership, and spent years working inside education systems trying to help families who were struggling.

John starts by talking about his childhood. There wasn’t much extra. Expectations were clear. Structure mattered. Not because it was comfortable, but because it helped him grow. He explains why constantly protecting kids from difficulty can quietly weaken them, and why listening is more often a result of leadership than discipline.

🎯 Episode Summary

This conversation doesn’t stay on surface-level parenting advice. It moves into how children develop resilience and why responsibility matters more than comfort. John shares lessons from raising his daughters and now helping raise his grandsons, including moments where making things easier would have felt kinder, but making them harder was actually better.

Sam and John also talk about education and what it teaches beyond academics. They discuss financial literacy, school systems, and why children from difficult backgrounds often rise when expectations stay high. Parenting, they suggest, isn’t about controlling behavior. It’s about modeling steadiness, values, and follow-through.

The conversation also turns personal. John shares openly about walking through addiction and mental health challenges with one of his children. He talks about fear, prayer, and the point where control had to give way to trust. Faith became an anchor when solutions ran out.

One theme keeps returning. Children listen when adults are grounded. When parents lead themselves first. When the home feels steady even during hard seasons.

This episode isn’t about getting everything right. It’s about responsibility, patience, and choosing long-term growth over short-term relief. If you’re looking for parenting help that feels honest and lived-in, this conversation offers clarity without judgment.

👤 About John Guedry

John Guedry is a longtime banking executive, education advocate, and community leader. He has worked on initiatives focused on financial literacy, education reform, and improving outcomes for children and families.

💼 About Sam Castor

Sam Castor is an attorney and entrepreneur who hosts long-form conversations about parenting, education, faith, leadership, and responsibility.

💡 About Lex Lumina

Lex Lumina is a space for slow, thoughtful conversations about how people grow, lead, and heal. No scripts. No hype.

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How to Get Your Child to Listen is one of the most searched questions in parenting help, yet most advice skips what actually makes children respond.

In this episode of Lex Lumina, Sam Castor sits down with parenting expert and licensed clinical social worker Braxton Storm to explore why kids don't listen, how to help kids listen better, and what restores calm, trust, and cooperation inside the home.

Braxton’s perspective is shaped by lived experience. He grew up in the foster care system, was later adopted, and lost his biological mother at a young age. Those early ruptures taught him how deeply children are wired for connection and how behavior often reflects emotional safety more than defiance. Today, as a father of his own growing family, he helps parents see listening not as a discipline issue, but as a relationship signal.

🎯 Episode Summary: This conversation moves beyond surface-level parenting advice and into the emotional systems that drive family dynamics. Braxton explains why children often act out when parents are overwhelmed, distracted, or disconnected and why control-based parenting can quietly increase resistance. Children listen more when they feel regulated, seen, and emotionally secure.

Sam and Braxton walk through practical shifts parents can make immediately. Repairing after mistakes instead of ignoring them. Connecting before correcting. Owning personal triggers instead of placing responsibility on a child’s behavior. Parenting, they argue, is less about fixing kids and more about healing the environment around them.

The discussion also addresses parenting children with special needs and neurodivergence. Compassion matters, but leadership still belongs with the adult. Braxton emphasizes that while challenges vary, children still need the same foundation of safety, structure, and emotional presence. When parents feel supported and grounded, children respond differently.

This episode is not about perfection. It is about responsibility, humility, and showing up consistently even when parenting feels exhausting. If you are trying hard and still wondering why your child will not listen, this conversation offers clarity, relief, and a healthier path forward.

👤 About Braxton StormBraxton Storm is a licensed clinical social worker, parenting expert, and family therapist specializing in connection-based parenting, emotional regulation, and addiction recovery. His work focuses on helping parents heal their own stories so they can lead their families with confidence, calm, and consistency.

https://calmthestormtherapy.com/

💼 About Sam Castor

Sam Castor is an attorney and entrepreneur who hosts long-form conversations about parenting, healing, faith, leadership, and responsibility. Lex Lumina is where those conversations live. 💡 About Lex LuminaLex Lumina is a space for thoughtful conversations about how people heal, lead, and grow when they slow down and look beneath behavior. No scripts. No hype.

🔥 In this episode of Lex Lumina, Sam Castor sits down with Katie Bindrup, a leading voice in IEP advocacy, special needs education help, and education law for families navigating the public school system.

If you are a parent trying to understand an IEP meeting, special education rights, or how to get better support for your child through IDEA and FAPE, this conversation gives you clarity, confidence, and a real-world framework for what to do next.

Katie also brings the perspective of a special needs attorney, special needs lawyer, special needs education attorney, and special needs education lawyer, helping parents understand what they can do on their own and when it’s time to bring in legal support.

Katie is also a highly respected trust and estates attorney, but what makes this episode powerful is how personal the story begins. Her daughter’s diagnosis with apraxia forced her family into the world of special education services, evaluations, and school district bureaucracy. Even as an attorney, she found the process confusing, emotionally exhausting, and far more difficult than it should be. That experience became the catalyst to help other parents stop walking into IEP meetings blind and start advocating from a position of knowledge and strength.

🎯 Episode Summary Katie breaks down why special education often fails the families who need it most, and why knowing the rules is still one of the strongest forms of protection a parent can have. She explains how parents can take meaningful steps on their own, when it makes sense to bring in an attorney, and how clarity can replace chaos when the law is understood and applied correctly. Sam and Katie explore:

• What it feels like to advocate for your own child when the system pushes back

• Why early intervention matters and how to access it without getting buried in paperwork

• How Katie created step-by-step resources so families can navigate IEPs with confidence

• The overlooked importance of extracurriculars for students with IEPs like dances, sports, theater, belonging

• Why retaliation and intimidation tactics can silence families who are already overwhelmed

• How AI may shift education advocacy by making information easier to access and understand

• The connection between special needs planning and estate planning especially for families navigating lifelong care The conversation also expands into Katie’s work in Nevada’s trust and estates landscape including why Nevada has become a powerhouse for asset protection and long-term planning, and how thoughtful estate planning can provide stability not just for retirement, but for future generations.

At the center of it all is a theme that keeps returning: empowerment. Whether it’s a parent fighting for services, a family preparing for the future, or a child learning they still belong, peace often comes when people gain clarity and take ownership of what they can control.

👤 Katie Bindrup is an attorney focused on special education advocacy and trust and estates planning. Her work helps families understand the law, protect their children’s rights, and create long-term stability through practical, step-by-step tools and strategic planning.

💡 About Lex Lumina Lex Lumina is a space for honest conversations about how people heal, lead, and grow when they slow down and look beneath the surface. No performance. No hype. Just light.

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🔥 In this episode of Lex Lumina, Sam Castor sits down with Missy Young, a former tech executive known as the “Tech Tigress,” and now the founder of Grit & Mercy, a nonprofit built to bring healing, restoration, and real second chances into the prison system.

This conversation is raw, powerful, and deeply human. Missy shares what most people never see: behind the mugshots, the charges, and the labels are often traumatized people who were never given a real starting line.

After surviving cancer and walking through an unimaginable family tragedy, Missy’s heart was reshaped, and she felt called into the darkest places to help others rediscover dignity, identity, and hope. What follows is not a political debate. It’s a story about faith, trauma, truth, and what it actually takes for someone to heal from the inside out.

🎯 Episode Summary Missy explains why the prison system often produces more brokenness instead of transformation, and how healing begins when someone finally hears the words: you are more than the worst thing you’ve ever done.

Together, Sam and Missy explore:

• Why trauma so often becomes addiction, violence, and self-destruction

• The difference between guilt (“I did something wrong”) and shame (“I am wrong”) • What it looks like to rebuild the nervous system after chaos

• Why people need community, therapy, and purpose: not just punishment

• How faith becomes an anchor when life collapses

• The real reason Missy believes the Church can’t ignore prison ministry Missy also breaks down the vision behind Grit & Mercy; a model that combines education, weekly therapy, neurofeedback, accountability, and job placement so inmates can reenter society stronger, healthier, and truly equipped to stay free.

This episode is about hope that doesn’t pretend life is easy. It’s about hope that walks straight into suffering, and brings light anyway.

👤 About Missy Young Missy Young is a former C-suite leader in the tech world and the founder of Grit & Mercy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping incarcerated men and women heal through therapy, education, mentorship, and spiritual restoration.

💼 About Sam Castor Sam Castor is an attorney, entrepreneur, and host of Lex Lumina: a space for long-form conversations on healing, leadership, faith, and responsibility.

💡 About Lex Lumina Lex Lumina is where real conversations live, stories of transformation, hard truths, and the deeper work of becoming whole. No performance. No hype. Just light.

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In this episode of Lex Lumina, Sam Castor sits down with Dr. Ian Yamane, founder of Valhalla Wellness in Las Vegas, for a grounded conversation about how healing actually begins. Not with a prescription. Not with a quick fix. But with understanding what is quietly driving inflammation, fatigue, and chronic pain long before symptoms become unavoidable.

The conversation opens with a personal experience. After Sam’s wife undergoes an appendectomy, a question surfaces too late. What caused the inflammation in the first place? That moment becomes the doorway into a much larger discussion about modern medicine, why it excels at emergency care, and why it often stops short of helping people heal at the root.

🎯 Episode Summary Dr. Yamane walks through how gut health influences nearly every system in the body, from immune response to mental clarity. He explains how the Standard American Diet, chronic stress, poor sleep, and hidden chemicals in food slowly disrupt the microbiome. Over time, this imbalance can weaken the gut lining, allowing inflammation to spread and creating symptoms that never quite show up on standard lab work.

From there, the conversation turns practical. How to start healing now instead of waiting for a diagnosis. Reading ingredient labels differently. Questioning “natural flavors.” Paying attention to water quality, cookware, and daily exposure to toxins. Small changes, when made consistently, can remove the interference that prevents the body from doing what it was designed to do.

The discussion expands beyond food and physiology into mindset and spirit. Sam and Dr. Yamane talk about meditation, prayer, cold exposure, and intentional discomfort as tools for restoring balance. Healing, they suggest, happens fastest when the body, mind, and spirit are addressed together rather than treated as separate systems. This episode is not about perfection. It is about awareness. And about giving your body the conditions it needs to recover, repair, and move forward now.

👤 About Dr. Ian Yamane Dr. Ian Yamane is the founder of Valhalla Wellness in Las Vegas. His work focuses on uncovering root causes behind chronic inflammation, gut dysfunction, fatigue, and metabolic imbalance. His approach emphasizes practical changes across body, mind, and spirit to support long-term healing.

💼 About Sam Castor Sam Castor is an attorney and entrepreneur who hosts long-form conversations on healing, leadership, faith, and responsibility. Lex Lumina is where those conversations live.

💡 About Lex Lumina Lex Lumina is a space for honest conversations about how people heal, lead, and grow when they slow down and look beneath the surface. No scripts. No hype. Watch the episode here: https://youtu.be/hrJilwaMGhM

🔥 In this episode of Lex Lumina, host Sam Castor sits down with Laura McSwain — a grassroots activist and community leader who dared to ask the questions no one else would. As President of the Water Fairness Coalition and longtime Las Vegas resident, Laura explains how “big water” policies are quietly stripping homeowners of their rights, watering down neighborhoods, and hiking bills under the guise of conservation. She walks us through her transformation: from frustrated resident hearing excuses at water-authority board meetings, to founding a movement that demands transparency, fairness, and accountability — even registering to lobby lawmakers in 2025.

🎯 Episode Summary This is more than a “rates gone up” story. It’s a playbook in how big utilities exploit fear — drought, climate change, resource scarcity — to justify sweeping, one-size-fits-all policies that punish ordinary homeowners. Laura pulls back the curtain on how water authorities use massive ad budgets to set the narrative, while pushing charges and rules that disproportionately burden people trying to maintain their homes, trees, and quality of life. Her story is a wake-up call: when your water bill spikes, you’re not just paying for supply — you may be paying for someone else’s growth ambitions. By empowering citizens, demanding transparency, and pushing for legislation, Laura and the Water Fairness Coalition offer a different vision — one where water isn’t just about scarcity, but justice, fairness, and community resilience.

👤 About Laura McSwain Laura is the President and founder of Water Fairness Coalition, an organization advocating for fair water pricing, transparency and independent oversight of water authorities in Southern Nevada. She lives in the McNeil Estates neighborhood of Las Vegas, and has become a leading voice against punitive “excessive use” charges, mandatory turf removal, and sweeping landscaping policies that don’t account for lot size, mature trees, or community equity.

🌐 Website – https://waterfairnesscoalition.com/

📘 Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/WaterFairnessCoalition

📸 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/waterfairnesscoalition

💼 About Sam Castor Sam Castor is an attorney, entrepreneur, and strategist who believes in justice, clarity, and systems that serve people — not the other way around. In Lex Lumina, he brings critical conversations about power, policy, and human impact to light, and champions voices fighting for fairness and integrity.

💡 About Lex Lumina Lex Lumina is a long-form conversation series exploring power, justice, and human potential — from the boardroom to the backyard. Hosted by Sam Castor, the show goes beyond headlines to show how real people are pushing for change, reclaiming dignity, and demanding accountability.

🔥 This conversation with Brian Hartshorn stayed with me longer than I thought it would.

Brian spent 20 years in law enforcement starting in patrol, moving into detective work, and later working SWAT related operations and Homeland Security task force assignments. Basically dealing with every type of monster you can image. But this episode isn’t about tactics, adrenaline, or highlight reel moments. It’s about what repeated exposure to suffering does to a person over time and how some people manage not to lose their humanity along the way.

Brian talks openly about moments from his career that never really left him. Time spent around Special Victims work. The quiet weight of seeing people on their worst days. And the internal discipline required to keep doing the job without hardening into someone you don’t recognize. He also reflects on what SWAT level responsibility actually puts a person through. Not in a dramatic way, but in the slow, internal way it changes how you think, how you plan, and how you move through everyday life. This isn’t a story about heroics. It’s a conversation about endurance.

🎯 Episode Summary Over the course of this conversation, Brian and Sam talk through questions most people don’t ask unless they’ve lived close to them. What does long term exposure to violence and trauma do to your mind How do you stay human when you’re trained to expect the worst Why do some people harden while others don’t Brian shares a story about someone he arrested more than once. It isn’t a clean redemption arc. It’s messy and frustrating, and it says a lot about how fragile change can be especially when addiction and environment collide. That story alone reshapes how you think about judgment, responsibility, and compassion. This episode doesn’t offer simple answers. It’s an honest look at restraint, faith, family, and the boundaries people have to build just to survive difficult work without losing themselves.

👤 About Brian Hartshorn Brian Hartshorn served 20 years with the Henderson Police Department, beginning in patrol and later working as a field trainer, detective (property, auto theft, robbery), and on a Homeland Security task force focused on criminal hazmat and CBRN investigations. He also held leadership roles within police training and academy development. Today, Brian focuses on mentoring, service, and community leadership rooted in integrity, faith, and genuine care for people.

💼 About Sam Castor Sam Castor is a father, world-builder, attorney, entrepreneur, and strategist focused on clarity, justice, and building systems that serve people rather than harm them. Through Lex Lumina, Sam hosts long-form conversations that explore power, responsibility, faith, and the choices that shape who we become.

💡 About Lex Lumina Lex Lumina is a long-form conversation series exploring the forces that shape power, character, and human potential. Hosted by Sam Castor, the show features leaders, thinkers, and practitioners who are working to bring accountability, clarity, and light into complex systems and difficult spaces.

In this episode of Lex Lumina, Sam Castor sits down with entrepreneur and author Calvin Bagley to unpack what he calls the real “millionaire secret.” Long before Calvin built multi–million-dollar businesses, he was a hidden child in the Utah desert—kept out of school, cut off from the world, and taught that silence was safety. In this conversation, he expores how he went from no formal education and deep religious trauma to building companies, connecting with others, creating wealth, and—most importantly—finding real inner peace.

Calvin doesn’t talk about resilience as a buzzword. He walks through what it feels like to start life miles behind everyone else, to carry shame that isn’t yours, and to slowly reclaim your voice. He talks about therapy, faith, identity, and why chasing money almost cost him the happiness he’d fought so hard to find. If you’ve ever felt behind, broken, or unseen, this story will hit home.

About Calvin Bagley

Calvin Bagley is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and survivor of an intensely isolated childhood. Growing up far from town with no consistent schooling, he learned to read and write late, eventually earned a college degree, and went on to build multiple 8-figure companies in the Medicare and healthcare space. His memoir, Hiding from the School Bus, tells the story of a boy hidden from the bus—and a man determined to make sure no one else has to hide who they are. Through his writing, talks, and content, Calvin helps people heal from trauma, let go of inherited shame, and build lives rooted in purpose instead of fear.

🌐 Website – https://calvinbagley.com/

🎥 YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/calvinbagley

📸 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/calvinbagley/

About Sam Castor Sam Castor is an attorney, entrepreneur, and strategist who has helped structure billion-dollar technology and infrastructure deals across the globe. Over the past fifteen years, he’s worked where law, policy, innovation, and humanity intersect—on the ground with founders, in the boardroom with executives, and in the classroom with future leaders. His work focuses on building systems and companies that serve people, not the other way around.

About Lex Lumina

Lex Lumina is a long-form conversation series exploring leadership, law, faith, trauma recovery, entrepreneurship, and the human side of progress. Hosted by Sam Castor, the show dives deep into how people rebuild after loss, find integrity in power, and turn painful experiences into light for others.

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