Living Your Legacy

Stefania Fombo and Vitalis Diffo arrive in America from Cameroon with ambition, family expectations, and a vision of a better future, but quickly discover that opportunity alone is not enough. In this episode of Living Your Legacy, the financial services entrepreneurs reveal why building generational wealth begins with confronting financial reality and designing a future before life forces the dec...

Erem Latif has spent her career asking why some people outperform others even when the conditions around them appear nearly identical. That question takes her from neurophysiology and healthcare into conscious business leadership, where she begins examining the hidden patterns shaping how executives think, decide, and perform. In this episode of Living Your Legacy, Erem explores the connection bet...

After 17 years in IT, Zenji Tancinco has the money, the house, the car, and every box the traditional recipe for success says to check. Yet something is still missing. In this episode of Living Your Legacy, he explores the rock-bottom turning point that forces him to reconsider what success actually means and build a life centered on purpose, service, and human connection. He reveals how Energy AO...

Veronica Baiz is helping rethink what in-home care can look like when technology, local communities, and human connection work together. As COO of Herewith, she tackles a growing challenge for families balancing careers, children, and aging loved ones while navigating a fragmented care system. She explains why the company shifted its focus from seniors to the family members actually arranging care...

Former U.S. Marine Corps officer Ryan Sturm enters civilian life without a clear career path, then discovers an ownership model that lets him lead like an entrepreneur. Now president of Winsupply of Omaha, he explains how Marine Corps leadership principles translate into building teams, earning customer trust, and creating business growth. Ryan shares what he learned while growing Wichita Winsuppl...

Four grandparents survived the Holocaust, but growing up, Leslie Benitah was forbidden to ask about the numbers on their arms or the trauma they carried. At night, she heard what silence concealed. Today, the journalist and filmmaker behind The Last Ones Foundation is racing against time to preserve Holocaust survivor testimonies before they disappear. With more than 100 interviews filmed across m...

Robotic surgeon and combat veteran Kyle Sokol, MD, is bringing advanced surgical technology to places many healthcare systems overlook. After training in one of the military’s earliest robotics-focused surgical programs, he sees an opportunity to transform rural medicine by putting powerful tools where access is limited. In this episode, he explores how robotic surgery can expand what small hospit...

Fast growth can look like success until the systems underneath it start to crack. In this episode, Christopher McCormick, founder and CEO of Visionary Consulting, challenges the instinct to blame employees when culture, performance, and execution break down. Drawing on 25 years inside Fortune 100 companies and his work with startups, he explores why organizational structure, decision rights, and l...

Chris Lovell knows what it means to build a business when failure is a very real possibility. After leaving a 24-year Marine Corps career, he launches Lovell Government Services with a mission to connect federal healthcare systems with life-saving medical resources for veterans and service members. But the early years bring mounting debt, lost clients, difficult contracts, and a moment when he has...

Valerie Fitzgerald has spent decades building a career in Los Angeles luxury real estate, generating more than $3.5 billion in career sales while adapting to a market that never stands still. As the founder and president of the Valerie Fitzgerald Group, she shares how she is reinventing the way she builds authority, reaches clients, and prepares for the next wave of real estate discovery. From Bev...

Dave Barrett is a self-made insurance executive and serial entrepreneur who believes businesses grow when people have a reason to grow with them. After leaving a successful career, he starts his own insurance brokerage and quickly discovers that the industry’s traditional incentive structure is holding people back. What follows is years of trial, error, failure, and rebuilding as Dave develops a s...

At 17, Belen Olmedo-Guerra leaves Argentina for an exchange program in rural Minnesota, never imagining that one unexpected opportunity would shape the next 31 years of her life. Today, she is a criminal defense attorney handling major felonies and fighting for people at their most vulnerable. In this episode, Belen reveals why she learned to never say no to possibility, how years spent supporting...

After joining the U.S. Army straight out of high school and deploying to Iraq, Eric Gillis discovers that the hardest battle begins after coming home. Civilian life brings financial pressure, PTSD, a traumatic brain injury, job loss, and a growing sense that the person he once was is gone. In this episode of Living Your Legacy, the Army veteran and leadership strategist shares the pivotal conversa...

After years of carrying the emotional weight of community mental health, Dr. Anna Berin reaches a crossroads: keep succeeding by conventional standards or redefine what success should cost. The immigrant, clinical psychology leader, mother, and founder of Berin Psych reveals what 70-to-80-hour workweeks taught her about burnout, boundaries, and the hidden sacrifices behind achievement. She explore...

Dr. Rae Huang, OD believes eye care should prevent prescriptions, not simply correct them as they worsen. After her infant son develops a rapidly progressing prescription that threatens vision in one eye, the Boston optometrist begins a years-long mission to rethink orthokeratology. She teaches herself to custom-design hard contact lenses, tests 24 iterations, invests heavily in patents, and build...

Kristen Herzog leaves a successful ER nursing career, withdraws $30,000 from her 401k, and bets it on an idea her family thinks is crazy. Starting Perfect Dose inside a tiny salon suite, she has no investors, no paid ads, and no guarantee the risk will work. She markets through Instagram, hands out business cards, and learns why consistency matters more than avoiding failure. But as the luxury med...

Sian Welch, CEO and owner of New Start Health Enterprises, challenges the conventional healthcare model for medically complex patients after rehabilitation. Building on the pioneering vision her mother began more than 40 years ago, she reveals why so many patients lose progress after discharge and why independence training, community living, and long-term support can change what comes next. From v...

Kayla and Dennis Straube, founders of Power Fit TX, share the difficult journey behind building a health and lifestyle brand while raising a family of seven and expanding across Houston. Their story moves from addiction, incarceration, and personal struggles to discovering how movement, nutrition, and discipline can create a new direction. They explain why Power Fit TX goes beyond meal prep throug...

Trauma-informed therapist, entrepreneur, and transformational leader Nilisha Williams explores what it really takes to build a wellness business rooted in purpose, genuine care, and lasting impact. As the founder and CEO of ACCE Wellness Center, she shares why putting yourself first is not selfish, how self-care impacts leadership, and why the right people can make or break a mission-driven organi...

A real estate entrepreneur and mindset coach reveals how she builds a thriving business while raising her daughter as a single mother in the fast-moving Houston market. Harriet Mourton Vork shares how consistency, community presence, and specializing in one market help her stand out in a crowded real estate industry. She opens up about the challenges of running a 24/7 business, protecting her peac...

Kenneth Moreau, the owner of Morrow Masonry, reveals how he turned a $500 start into a thriving commercial masonry business through relentless reinvestment, relationships, and trust. After struggling with inconsistent union work and years of simply keeping his head above water, Kenneth makes the decision to build something of his own. He shares how wrestling shaped his work ethic, how one unexpect...

Zac Spowart, a clinical coach, author, and founder of Nomadic Addict, shares how nearly two decades of sobriety transformed the way he approaches life, travel, and personal growth. After turning to drinking and drugs to quiet severe anxiety as a young person, Zac gets sober at 21 and discovers that recovery is about more than simply giving something up. He explores how solo travel became part of h...

Debra Whitson, founder of Whitson Law and a New York family law mediator, reveals how mediation can transform high-conflict divorce into a more productive path forward. Drawing on more than 30 years of legal experience, she explains why communication, neutrality, and understanding New York family law can change how couples approach divorce, custody, and financial disputes. She shares how ground ru...

At 16, Riana Milne loses her best childhood friend and asks for counseling, only to be told no one in her family will ever go. Her response becomes a philosophy that shapes the next four decades: “Watch me.” In this episode of Living Your Legacy, the trauma recovery and mindset expert reveals how grief, financial devastation, divorce, and rebuilding her life transform pain into purpose. She explor...

Giuseppe Pulizzi grows up watching his immigrant father build Lorenzo & Son's Pizza through 15- to 18-hour days, then turns down the keys because he refuses to inherit that life. Years later, a family crisis brings him back to the Philadelphia pizza business, forcing him to choose between open-heart surgery and the family legacy. He returns on one condition: he will run it his way. Giuseppe re...