Episode 3 with Casey Meraz, Founder of Juris Digital ADD Hero

Nick: Hey, this is Nick Eubanks.

Welcome to another episode of the ADD Entrepreneur. Today, we are joined by the founder of Juris Digital, Casey Meraz.

He is based out of Greenwood Village, Colorado. And Juris Digital specializes in doing digital support services and marketing for law firms.

How are you doing, Casey?

Casey: Pretty good, Nick.

Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

Nick: No, I appreciate you coming on, man. I usually butcher this sort of the bio’s of the folks that I’ve talked to, thus far. So, if you wanna give a better introduction of you and what your firm does, what your agency does, I’d say feel free to go ahead.

Casey: Sure, okay. Well, you did a pretty good job.

We, basically, do a whole service digital marketing services for law firms. So, everything from website design to SEO, SEM, anything we can do increase our visibility online.

Nick: How long has the company been around?

Casey: So, we originally started under the brand Ethical SEO Consulting, and we’ve been around for six years now.

Nick: Oh, nice. Congratulations, man.

Casey: Thank you.

Nick: Was this sort of the start of your entrepreneurial journey? Or did you have other ventures before you’ve gotten to this one?

Casey: Oh, no, no.

Yeah, I’ve had a lot of other ventures along the way, so as a kid, I was interested in paintballs, started a paintball store locally. And then, that kind of morphed into my next venture which was computer repair, completely…

Nick: Nice.

Casey: …in a different direction and I did that for a few years, and started a wireless internet company. And then currently, I am pretty much only doing this, but I am an active partner in Airsoft store, as well, now.

Nick: Nice. I am a very avid Airsoft enthusiast, and I actually played paintball on a team when I was in high school.

Casey: Oh, nice. Yeah, me, too. So that’s a lot of fun.

Nick: Yeah, super funny, man. And the theme is definitely from, you know, all the entrepreneurs I’ve talked to that have, you know, ADHD, or some flavor of ADD –  that nobody is on their first venture or nobody’s doing just one thing.

That segues actually really nicely into sort of where I’d like to start, which is, you know,

How old were you when you started displaying science of…what they then called ADD, and now I think it’s just more formally encapsulated by ADHD?

Casey: Sure. So, I definitely had the symptoms all of my life as far as identification goes.

You know, I struggle with the school actually quite a bit in high school, middle school, and that type of thing, and it wasn’t until I found something I was kind of interested in in college that I was able to really focus.

So, it started probably around 15, I guess, but just recently diagnosed actually.

Nick: No kidding. So, who would you say was the first person that noticed sort of the symptoms or was it you?

Casey: Well, it was definitely probably me but also my teachers.

I feel like they always had feedback and just certain things didn’t come easy to me, so especially like Math, for example, is something that I had struggled with until I had to learn a very specific way to teach myself.

Nick: Interesting.

So what drove you to finally get, you know, professionally tested?

Casey: Really, that I just felt like I could do so much more if I knew I could maintain my focus a little bit more, and could just understand myself better. So, I just felt like I could get more done.

Nick: So were you looking for a more of a medical solution just to sort of help support, obviously,