Lessons in the Wild

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  • Roger Magalhaes: Immigrant Entrepreneur Shares Business Lessons on Trust, Success & the American Dream

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    Meet Roger Magalhaes, a Brazilian-born immigrant entrepreneur who went from unloading trucks at night to building a nationally respected business in America. In this episode of Lessons in the Wild, Roger shares powerful, hard-earned lessons from over two decades of entrepreneurship, reinvention, and navigating cultural differences.

    Discover why listening before speaking, building trust before chasing transactions, and sharing authentic stories can transform your business relationships and open unexpected doors. Roger also explores the challenges of starting over, finding opportunities when you feel like an outsider, and taking action before you have all the answers.

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    28 min
  • Shauna Hawkes: How to Trust Yourself, Overcome Self-Doubt & Navigate Life Changes with Confidence

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    Are you feeling stuck between the life you’ve outgrown and the next chapter you’re afraid to begin? What if the answer isn’t trying harder, but learning to trust yourself again?

    In this episode of Lessons in the Wild, Shauna Hawkes, speaker, nervous system specialist, and Next Chapter mentor, reveals how to navigate life transitions, overcome self-doubt, and build lasting self-trust. Drawing on over 20 years of experience in personal development, Shauna explores why mindset alone isn’t always enough, how your nervous system influences change, and how to recognize the difference between intuition and fear.

    Discover how to break old patterns, reconnect with yourself, and move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.

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    31 min
  • Ted Kopecko: How to Find JOY, Escape Burnout & Create a Life of Purpose, Freedom and Fulfillment

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    Are you working hard, achieving success, yet still feeling stuck, burned out, or unfulfilled? What if you're building a successful life but forgetting to enjoy it?

    In this episode of Lessons in the Wild, Ted Kopecko, #1 International Bestselling Author of Finding JOY… Journey Of You, shares how to shift from Life-Led to JOY-Led living. Drawing on over 30 years of experience in business, architecture, commercial real estate, and entrepreneurship, Ted reveals how mindset, identity, and time shape your happiness, purpose, and success.

    Discover how to break free from survival mode, overcome misalignment, redefine success, and start intentionally creating a life that reflects who you truly are. Because being busy isn't always progress, and success means little if it costs you your joy.

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    25 min
  • Peter Boolkah: How to Escape the Hamster Wheel Trap® and Build a Business That Runs Without You

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    Does your business give you freedom—or has it become a job you can never escape?

    In this episode of Lessons in the Wild, Peter Boolkah, bestselling author of YOUR BUSINESS SUCKS and creator of The Hamster Wheel Trap®, reveals why successful entrepreneurs often become trapped in their own businesses.

    With over 20 years of experience and 60,000+ coaching hours, Peter shares practical insights on overcoming founder dependency, building effective business systems, empowering leadership teams, preventing burnout, and increasing business value.

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    17 min
  • Heather Schmid: Sound Healing, Humming & Vibrational Voice to Reduce Stress and Find Your Voice

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    What if the sound that could help you feel more grounded was already inside you? You don't need to sing beautifully to discover the power of your own voice!

    In this fascinating episode, Heather Schmid, classically trained opera singer, international recording artist, filmmaker, and creator of Vibrational Voice, reveals why she's shifting from making beautiful sound to making useful sound.

    After 25 years in music, Heather explores how breath, humming, and sustained tones can become simple tools for relaxation, self-expression, and conscious living. Discover why making your own sound is different from receiving a sound bath, how your “survival voice” may shape the way you communicate, and why so many people feel embarrassed to use their natural voices.

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    30 min
  • Angel Willard: Healing Childhood Trauma, Breaking Cycles & Finding Yourself Again | Her Story

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    What does it take to rebuild your life after trauma, separation, and devastating setbacks? For Angel Willard, the fight was about more than survival—it was about finding her way back to herself.

    In this powerful episode of Fighting to Come Home: Coming Home to Myself, author Angel Willard opens up about her deeply personal journey through childhood trauma, motherhood, chronic pain, incarceration, accountability, and healing.

    Discover how she faced painful experiences, confronted past choices, and found the courage to break cycles, reclaim her voice, and begin again. Her story explores the struggles of being misunderstood, the challenges of rebuilding family relationships, and the resilience it takes to move forward when life doesn't go as planned.

    Can your past define you, or can you write a new chapter?

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    33 min
  • Finding Hope, Healing & Purpose Through Grief | Katie Rizzo

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    How does a mother find the strength to keep living after losing her child?

    On September 17, 2024, Katie Rizzo lost her firstborn son, Nicholas, to addiction. What followed was an unimaginable journey through grief, love, and an unexpected discovery: poetry became her way of staying connected to him.

    In this deeply moving conversation, Katie shares the inspiration behind The Trimesters of Grief, how loss reshaped her understanding of life, and why healing doesn't mean forgetting someone you love.

    Discover how creativity, faith, emotional resilience, and compassion can help people navigate heartbreaking experiences.

    Her story reminds us that grief doesn't have to disappear for life to move forward.

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    26 min
  • Bold Moves, Reinvention and Becoming More with Sabine Kvenberg

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    Sometimes the life that looks safest from the outside is the one you have already outgrown.

    Lyanne Richardson speaks with Sabine Kvenberg about the moments that ask us to choose between familiarity and possibility. Sabine shares how an unexpected encounter challenged her to listen to a deeper calling, leave a secure career, and pursue acting—opening the door to an entirely different chapter of creativity, risk, and reinvention.

    Her journey also included seasons she never would have chosen: financial hardship, losing her home, relocating, and having to rebuild when the future felt uncertain. Yet those experiences became part of a larger transformation, showing her that losing one version of life can sometimes create space for another.

    At the heart of Sabine’s story is a question many people eventually face: What might happen if you stopped letting fear make your decisions?

    Sometimes the greater risk is not taking the leap—it is spending years wondering what might have been.

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    Gumption: Sacred Whispers, Bold Moves and the Courage to Become on Amazon (Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCW45FXJ)

    35 min
  • Money, Recognition and Success with Michael Muccio

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    What happens when you finally reach the kind of success you once wanted—only to realize it still does not answer the deeper questions?

    Lyanne Richardson talks with Michael Muccio about the difference between achievement and fulfillment, and the moments that can completely change the direction of a life. Michael reflects on leaving the corporate world, learning from Zig Ziglar, entering ministry, and discovering how persistence, faith, and difficult seasons helped shape the person he became.

    The conversation also explores what it means to carry responsibility without losing joy, why setbacks can sometimes redirect us toward something more meaningful, and how stories can become powerful tools for encouraging and influencing others.

    For anyone questioning whether the life they are building truly reflects what matters most to them, this conversation offers a thoughtful look at purpose, faith, success, and the courage to change direction.

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    32 min
  • Rebuilding Life After Trauma | Angel Willard

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    Healing is not always about getting back to the person you were before. Sometimes it means learning how to build a new life from what remains.

    In this conversation, Lyanne Richardson speaks with author Angel Willard about trauma, chronic pain, motherhood, difficult choices, accountability, and the long process of learning to forgive yourself. Angel shares how real change began when she stopped viewing her story through only one lens and learned to acknowledge both what happened to her and the choices she made along the way.

    The conversation also explores finding your voice again, rebuilding identity after painful experiences, and accepting that growth does not erase the past—it changes what you choose to do with it.

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    31 min

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Through wrong turns. Hard seasons. Big risks. Unexpected wins. Painful mistakes. Quiet breakthroughs. And the moments that force you to become someone new.

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