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The Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Avoiding the Ten-Second Trap (or Why Our Snap Judgments Are Making Us Lonely)In a career spanning more than 100 formal depositions, host Matt Campobasso has watched the full spectrum of human behavior under pressure—the liars, the saints, the corporate warriors, and the whistleblowers. And every single time, a witness says something in the first five minutes that tempts him to deliver a final verdict on the spot. But if he snapped that folder shut and walked out of every deposition after five minutes, he wouldn't just be wrong—he'd be committing professional malpractice.In this solo episode, Matt makes the case that we've imported that same malpractice into our ever...
2026-02-1617 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For The Legal Builder (with Sal Carranza)The Case For the Legal Builder ModelIn the fall of 2008, a new technology quietly appeared that most people dismissed as a curiosity. But as a professional and legal operator,Salvador Carranza saw something different—not a toy, but a "front door" being rebuilt from the ground up.In this episode, host Matt Campobasso sits down with Sal, the founder of PossibLaw, to explore the "Legal Builder Model." This framework is the result of a decade-long friendship and ongoing dialogue about the future of the profession. We dive deep into the specific, often counter-intuitive strategies Sal has develope...
2026-02-121h 03The Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For The "Right" Fit: Why Resumes Don't Win Gold MedalsIn February of 1980, the world witnessed what we now call a "Miracle." But as an attorney and executive, Matt Campobasso has learned that miracles aren't about luck—they are about engineering.This episode explores the "Brooks Model" of leadership, inspired by a weekly 1:1 conversation between Matt and his CEO. We dive deep into the specific, often counter-intuitive strategies Herb Brooks used to turn a group of college kids into an unstoppable system that took down the greatest hockey machine ever assembled.Whether you’re building a startup, a legal team, or a global enterprise, this episo...
2026-02-0913 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case for Pearl Jam as The Best Band of All Time (with Pat Noonan)"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why... Why, why can't it be mine?"Most trials are built on cold, hard facts—contracts, forensics, and fingerprints. But in this episode of The Case For…, host Matt Campobasso argues that the most compelling evidence isn't found on a spreadsheet; it’s found in the frequency forty thousand strangers find in the dark during a three-hour set.Matt is joined by his close friend and "expert witness," Pat Noonan, to make a bold claim: Pearl Jam...
2026-02-0550 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Being a Swiss Army KnifeIn this episode of The Case For…, host Matt Campobasso—an attorney managing the legal function for a billion-dollar company and a father of three—sits down to challenge the most pervasive myth in professional development: the cult of the specialist.We are taught to be scalpels: precise, narrow, and specialized. But as Matt argues, a scalpel is only useful if you’re in an operating room. The moment you step into the "wicked" environments of modern business, shifting markets, or the chaos of parenting, that narrow edge becomes a liability.Pulling from David Epstein’s landmark b...
2026-02-0218 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Starting Over (Even When It's Terrifying) (with Brooke Marsalla)"If you don’t authorize the match, the forest will eventually choke itself out."In this episode of The Case For…, host Matt Campobasso sits down with Brooke Marsalla to examine the architecture of professional and personal reinvention. After 15 years as a high-end corporate trainer and sales leader for luxury brands like Nordstrom and Sephora, Brooke faced a "dual-engine failure"—the simultaneous arrival of a global pandemic and a shifting retail landscape that made her role obsolete.Her subsequent pivot from the skincare industry to a successful career in real estate serves as a masterclass in why the "b...
2026-01-2941 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Thinking Upstream"Fix fast if you must… but redesign slowly on purpose."In this episode, Matt Campobasso uses his background as a father of three and a full-time attorney for a $1 billion company to make a compelling case for moving "upstream". Using the famous Dan Heath fable of the two fishermen, Matt explores the critical difference between being a hero who saves the day and an architect who prevents the crisis in the first place.Whether you are managing a global legal function or a household, the lesson is the same: repeated problems are not just bad lu...
2026-01-2619 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Not Letting Outrage Do Your ThinkingOutrage is everywhere right now—and it’s powerful. It mobilizes you fast. It also makes you sloppy.In this episode, Matt Campobasso pulls from his time as a prosecutor and litigator to make a simple case: the internet is basically one endless opening statement, and we keep doing what a courtroom would never allow—entering verdicts before the evidence is in. Headlines hit like grenades, quiet updates get ignored, and we walk around feeling certain… without actually knowing the whole story.Matt breaks down why outrage is so addictive (that hit of righteousness), why it clouds...
2026-01-2223 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Not Setting Yourself on Fire To Keep Others WarmWe hear it everywhere now: “Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm.”But what does that actually mean in real relationships—and what happens when people use the phrase as a weapon to dodge accountability?In this episode, Matt Campobasso makes the case that “setting yourself on fire” usually isn’t one dramatic sacrifice—it’s a pattern: apologizing first to smooth tension, saying yes automatically, rescuing people from consequences, and quietly resenting the very people you’re trying to love well. Matt shares a small but painfully normal moment at the dinner table that exposed hi...
2026-01-1616 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Staying in the Tough Rooms (Even When You'd Rather Leave)In this solo episode of The Case For, Matt makes the case for staying in the tough room—especially when you’d rather leave. He shares an early-career courtroom story involving a relentlessly fair and demanding judge who once put Matt's eye roll on the record and warned he’d hold him in contempt if it happened again. What felt like punishment at the time became preparation in hindsight: the scrutiny, high standards, and daily pressure built the discipline and rigor that later traveled into every other room—work, relationships, and life. You’ll hear three “exhibits” on why tough rooms mak...
2026-01-0815 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Creating Instead Of ConsumingThe Case For Creating Instead Of ConsumingWe live in a world built for consumption—feeds, headlines, videos, endless input. But most growth doesn’t come from taking more in.In this episode, we make the case for creating instead of consuming. Not becoming a content machine. Not chasing attention. Just choosing to make something—an idea, a note, a sentence—rather than letting every quiet moment be filled for you.We talk about why consumption can feel productive while quietly draining us, how creating sharpens thinking and restores agency, and why even small acts of outpu...
2026-01-0525 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Starting Again on a Random TuesdayThe Case for Starting Again on a Random TuesdayWe love fresh starts—January 1, Mondays, birthdays, clean slates. But most real change doesn’t wait for ceremony.In this episode, we make the case for starting again on a random Tuesday—the unglamorous, ordinary moments where life is actually happening. Not reinvention. Not perfection. Just a quiet decision to do one small thing differently today.We talk about why big calendar moments are overrated, why January 2 is already “real life,” and how momentum is built in the middle of the mess—not at midnight with...
2026-01-0112 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For The Movies, Television Shows, and Songs That Kept Me Company in 2025In this episode of The Case For…, I do something a little different: no moral dilemma on the stand, no heavy cross-examination—just a heartfelt case for the stories and songs that quietly walked beside me in 2025.I share my five favorite movies, five favorite TV shows, and five favorite songs of the year—not the most “important” or critically acclaimed, just the ones that actually enriched my life. From Joel Edgerton’s quiet power in Train Dreams, DiCaprio and PTA in One Battle After Another, the pure filmmaking thrill of F1, the kinetic chaos of Marty Supreme, and seei...
2025-12-3128 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Not Reducing People To Their Worst MomentsIn this episode of The Case For…, I make the argument that none of us should be reduced to the worst thing we’ve ever done — including the people who’ve hurt us, and including ourselves. We talk about how easy it is to grab someone’s lowest moment, freeze it in time, and turn it into their permanent label… and how quietly destructive that is for relationships, families, and our own sense of humanity.I pull in The Good Place and its cosmic scoring system as a metaphor for the invisible scorecards we keep on people in real life. W...
2025-12-2619 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For "All I Want For Christmas Is You" As The Last Great Christmas StandardIt’s the holidays, so we’re keeping it light — and making the case for a song that has basically become a December law of nature: Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”In this fun seasonal episode of The Case For…, I break down why this track feels less like a “new” Christmas song and more like the last modern Christmas standard — the one that flips the switch from “regular life” to “holiday season” in about three seconds.A little nostalgia, a little laughter, and a reminder that it’s okay to enjoy what you enjoy — sincerel...
2025-12-2414 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Protecting Kids From Social MediaIn this episode of The Case For…, I take on a topic that honestly scares me more than almost anything as a dad: raising kids in a world soaked in social media. We start with what’s happening in places like Australia, where there’s serious movement toward banning or heavily restricting social media for kids, and use that as a springboard into a bigger question: What are we actually doing to our kids when we hand them the internet in their pocket before they’re ready?I talk candidly about my own three kids—my son (16) and my two d...
2025-12-2218 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For The Chicago Bears Being The Better Franchise Than The Green Bay PackersIn this episode of The Case For…, I do the unthinkable: I make a serious, good-faith case that the Chicago Bears are a better football organization than the Green Bay Packers — and no, I’m not ignoring the last 30 years of pain or the Lombardi trophy count.I dig into what “better” really means beyond the scoreboard: history, myth, identity, defense, toughness, and what a franchise actually represents about the sport. We talk Monsters of the Midway, Halas, Butkus, Payton, the soul of Chicago, the decades-long quarterback desert, and why suffering has weirdly built a deeper kind of bond between Bea...
2025-12-2014 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Men Saying "I'm Lonely" Out LoudIn this episode, I finally take on a topic I’ve been circling for a long time: male loneliness. I talk honestly about seasons where my life looked “together” from the outside but felt empty on the inside, and how men learn to hide behind lines like “I’m fine,” “just tired,” and “I’ll figure it out.”We unpack how loneliness actually shows up in men — as anger, numbness, overworking, scrolling, or distance — and why silence is quietly wrecking our health, our relationships, and our sense of self. Then I walk through five practical, doable ways men can start to push back...
2025-12-1819 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For EmpathyThe Case for Empathy - Empathy gets talked about a lot. Practiced? Not nearly as much. In this episode, I make The Case for Empathy—not as a soft ideal or a social media slogan, but as a daily discipline. One I work at imperfectly. One I believe matters deeply. And one I’m trying to model for my kids in real time. This isn’t a sermon. It’s a reflection from the middle of the work. We explore why empathy is hardest precisely when it’s most needed, how easy it is to harden when we’re tired or over...
2025-12-1625 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For The Imperfect HolidaysOn this episode of The Case For…, I am making a bold but necessary argument: the perfect holiday is wildly overrated.In The Case For the Imperfect Holidays, host Matt Campobasso makes the case that the stress, expectations, family dynamics, awkward moments, and inevitable chaos aren’t holiday failures — they’re the whole point.This episode is a reminder that:• Joy doesn’t require perfection• Connection doesn’t follow a script• Memories are usually made in the mess, not the highlight reelWith humor, honesty, and a little courtroom logic, Matt reframes the holidays...
2025-12-1320 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For The Definitive Christmas Movie (with John Hammerle)What’s the definitive Christmas movie? Not “one of the good ones” — the one.In this special Versus episode of The Case For…, I bring in longtime friend, film lover, and fellow lawyer John Hammerle to battle it out: Home Alone vs. A Christmas Story. I make the case for Home Alone as the ultimate holiday film; John argues for A Christmas Story as the true king of Christmas cinema.We each give opening statements, then walk through five categories — holiday atmosphere, family dynamics, comedy & quotability, emotional core, and rewatchability & cultural impact — before landing on closing arguments and a rapid...
2025-12-1152 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Letting Your Kids See You As HumanBeing a parent can feel like you’re supposed to be the rock—always calm, always right, always “fine.” In this episode of The Case For…, Matt makes The Case For Letting Your Kids See You As Human.Matt talk about his son and two daughters, what he learned from his own parents, and why going back to apologize, say “I don’t know,” or admit “I’m having a hard day” might be one of the most important gifts we can give our kids. Matt looks at the difference between healthy vulnerability and oversharing, how rep...
2025-12-0827 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Music Being Free (with Matt Anderson)On episode four of The Case For..., host Matt Campobasso engages with amateur musician Matt Anderson to explore the intersection of music, technology, and creativity. They discuss the commodification of music, the impact of AI on the art form, and the importance of fostering creativity over consumption. Anderson argues for a shift in how society values music, advocating for free access to music and a focus on community and expression rather than profit. The conversation delves into the role of education in music, the future of AI in the industry, and the need for a...
2025-12-0548 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For Telling The Truth...SoonerEpisode 3 – The Case For Telling the Truth…SoonerIn this episode, Matt Campobasso explores that uncomfortable gap between knowing the truth about what we are feeling or experiencing and actually saying it out loud. He looks at why we delay hard conversations, how we cope in the meantime (overworking, numbing, distracting ourselves), and the quiet damage that delay does to our relationships and our self-trust.This isn’t about blurting every feeling or blowing up your life in the name of “honesty.” It’s about shrinking the distance between what you already know and the words you’re wil...
2025-12-0328 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For RedemptionMatt handles this episode solo and makes the case for redemption. Matt discusses the importance of not letting a few bad chapters define your entire story. It's a personal episode and one that we hope you enjoy.
2025-11-2919 minThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)The Case For...The Case ForMatt Campobasso opens the series by making his own case. After 20 years arguing in courtrooms and advising in boardrooms, he turns that rigor toward something quieter—and harder to perform: purpose, curiosity, and clear thinking. You’ll hear how guest spots on other shows sparked this project, why advocacy belongs outside the courtroom, and how he hopes this podcast will become a weekly pause button in a world of pings and hot takes.Matt lays out the show cadence and why structure matters: it focuses attention, cuts fluff, and leaves room for real conviction. Along the way, he s...
2025-11-0909 min
Matters.com PresentsStoicism, Law, and Living a Balanced Life — Speed Round with Matthew Campobasso, Chief Legal Officer & Adjunct ProfessorMatthew Campobasso opens up about what truly matters to him at this stage in life and career. With 20+ years of experience in law, he explains how Stoic philosophy helped him shift his perspective — from chasing money and titles to focusing on balance, authenticity, and relationships.He shares what it’s like teaching future lawyers, why he believes success is more about how you show up than how much you bill, and how being a dad shapes his outlook. We also dive into his personal “aha” moments with Stoicism and wrap things up with a fun Matters speed round.
2025-09-2918 min
Do More. Be Better.Ep. 5: How to be the leader people crave with Enfusion General Counsel Matthew CampobassoMatt is the General Counsel of Enfusion, a public company that helps investment managers solve their most pressing business challenges by leveraging Enfusion's software. We have a empowering conversation about kids, being the best version of yourself while working a demanding job, and his thoughts on where the legal industry is headed. Do More. Be Better. The podcast where we explore the intersections of business, technology, and personal growth, and how they shape our lives, families, a...
2024-07-241h 05
In-House OutliersLooking Upstream with Enfusion's Matthew CampobassoOn this episode, Matthew Campobasso (General Counsel at Enfusion) joined Alex Kelly for an insightful discussion about embracing a proactive mindset as a GC.
Matthew also shared his thoughts on the power of the legal operations function, and discussed his move in-house after over a decade working as an Associate and Partner with Chicago-based law firms.
2024-07-1139 min
Films & FilthDune (2021)We double down on Dune this year and take a trip to the theatre to see how its sandworm measures up.Please do like, subscribe, and rate on all the things like Facebook, Twitter, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Wherever you happen to be hearing us, really.We spoke to Craig Campobasso about the 1984 Dune last spring. He worked on the production staff of that version and is currently working on a documentary about the many species of aliens - an ET Almanac. Check his project out here: https://gofund.me/db31535dLuk...
2021-11-021h 00
Films & FilthDune (w/ Craig Campobasso)We dive into the old school Dune with Craig Campobasso, who spent four years assisting David Lynch with this epic vision of an epic novel.Get into Craig and his books at this link:https://www.autobiographyofanet.com/Please do like, subscribe, and rate on all the things like Facebook, Twitter, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Wherever you happen to be hearing us, really. If you wanna be a do-groover, why not drop us a Patreon tip?https://www.patreon.com/podcastiopodcastiusLuke is getting back into extensively talking about monsters, and y...
2021-06-011h 33
Aural Hygiene: Psychotronic Film ReviewsStranger at the Pentagon (w/ Craig Campobasso)This one is one to rent from Vimeo or Amazon, but you can certainly preview the thing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O0O-37PZ_MGet into Craig and his books are at this link:https://www.autobiographyofanet.com/And one for the film itself:https://www.strangeratthepentagon.com/Please subscribe, review, and rate us on all the podcatchers. We are at @AuralHygienePod on Twitter and you can search the same on Facebook.Matt has a brand new album of psychedelic electro-rock. Why not have a listen? Ain...
2021-04-2556 min
Less Conversation's Podcast(120) Andrea Palazzo for m2o radio (www.m2o.it) 18 11 2012Track List:
1) The Sunchasers - Say yes
2) Black Coffee Ft. Soulstar - Rock my world(Zepherin Saint Tribe Vocal Mix)
3) Kool & Duvall - U lift me up(Echofusion Rmx)
4) Matthew Yates - Break free
5) Distant People - Forbidden love(Johnny Bravo Rmx)
6) Oscar P & C. Scott - That fly shtt
7) 3rd Party - Moments
8) Filipe Narciso - Back from the darkness(G. Pighi & Paramour Dark Rmx)
9) Groove Addix - Water(FK U)
10) Pirahnahead - West growl blvd.(P's Soulfood Mix)
Biography:
Andrea Palazzo was born December 9th 1968 in Campobasso, Italy. He began taking his first steps towards becoming deeply involved...
2012-11-1958 min