Speaker kit

Two opposite lives.
One unmistakable message.

Everything a committee needs to evaluate Polar Opposite Life: who they are, what they speak on, what a room walks away with, and how to reach them. Forward this link freely.

Speakers
Two, together or solo
Formats
Keynote, workshop, cohort
Travel from
United States, nationwide
Booking
info@polaroppositelife.com

Why two

A criminal defense lawyer who spent fifteen years arguing that a person is more than the worst thing they did, and later sat on the bench. A man who was an Olympian, a school principal, a basketball coach, and a founder, who reached the top of the ladder and then questioned the wall it leaned against.

They arrive at the same conclusion from opposite ends of a life. That is the format: not two speakers taking turns, but two people who disagree about the route and agree about the destination, working a room together.

The speakers

Hugo Maynard

Hugo Maynard

Speaker · Author · Co-Founder

Hugo Maynard has lived more lives than most rooms he walks into. An Olympian. A middle-school principal. A college basketball coach. An entrepreneur who built multi-million-dollar startups across pharmaceuticals, automotive, and commercial services.

He rose from poverty and collected every marker of conventional success, then discovered that life’s greatest wealth can’t be measured in material terms. That turn is the story he tells, and it lands because he isn’t theorizing. He climbed the whole ladder before he questioned the wall it leaned on.

Hugo is a father, an acclaimed traveler and storyteller, the author of The Voice Inside Journal, and co-host of the podcast Sh*t My Daddy Didn’t Teach Me. His work now is simple: helping people unlock the mind’s potential and bring their deepest aspirations to life.

Shannon “Redd” Roy

Shannon “Redd” Roy

Trial Lawyer · Former Judge · Speaker · Co-Founder

Shannon “Redd” Roy has spent fifteen years in criminal defense, standing next to people on the worst day of their lives. The courtroom taught her something no classroom could: the story a person tells about themselves is the most powerful piece of evidence in the room.

She has also sat on the bench, which means she has watched the same arguments land and fail from the other side of the courtroom. She is a mother, a founding partner of her own firm, and a global explorer who has carried that courtroom insight across continents. On stage she does what she has always done for a jury. She takes a story everyone thinks they understand and shows them what it actually says.

For more than a decade she has personally mentored young professionals and people affected by the criminal justice system. Talent written off because of one chapter: that pattern is the reason Polar Opposite Life exists.

The talks

Six. Each shapes to the room rather than arriving fixed.

The Voice InsideSignature

Keynote · 45–60 min · Workshop half-day

Every person in your audience is running on a script somebody else wrote. This is the talk that hands the pen back.

Best for

Leadership summits, opening keynotes, all-hands, student assemblies. Any room that needs to leave changed, not just entertained.

The room leaves with

  • A personal answer to the question: “What is my voice really saying?”
  • The one decision each listener must make before they leave the room
  • A practical framework for choosing your own direction

It’s Never Too Late to Recreate

Keynote · 45 min · Workshop

Reinvention is not a personality trait. It is a sequence, and Hugo and Shannon have both run it in public, from opposite starting points.

Best for

Career-transition audiences, reentry and second-chance programs, organizations navigating change.

The room leaves with

  • An identity shaped by intention, not inheritance
  • The three defining moves behind real reinvention
  • The courage to begin again, in any season of life

Success Through Obstacles

Keynote · 60 min · Workshop

A concrete method for converting a setback into a strategy, told by two people whose setbacks were public and expensive.

Best for

Sales organizations, athletic programs, graduating classes, teams recovering from a hard year.

The room leaves with

  • A repeatable framework for turning setbacks into strategy
  • How to read pain as data, not judgment
  • A shared language for naming failure without fear

Put The Man Together First

Keynote · 60 min · Cohort series

A direct, unsentimental talk about fatherhood, mentorship, and what happens to a community when its men are whole, and when they are not.

Best for

Men’s conferences, faith communities, fatherhood initiatives, juvenile justice and mentorship programs.

The room leaves with

  • The clarity that transformation begins with identity
  • The framework to creating wholeness on the inside that generates impact on the outside
  • Simple daily steps and routines that initiate profound transformation

Morning Routine Mastery

Workshop · 60–90 min

The highest-leverage hour of the day, engineered. A hands-on workshop that ends with every participant holding their own written morning protocol.

Best for

Corporate wellness programs, leadership cohorts, student-athlete programs.

The room leaves with

  • A personal morning protocol to be implemented before the day begins
  • Daily affirmations to center you and reconnect you with your purpose
  • A 30-day accountability system to help you stay consistent with your new morning routine

Becoming a Lawyer: The Path to Justice

Keynote · 60 min · Career workshop

Shannon’s candid map of the legal profession: what it takes, what it offers, and how to determine if it’s for you.

Best for

Pre-law programs, law schools, high-school career days, bar association pipeline initiatives.

The room leaves with

  • An honest picture of criminal defense practice from the inside
  • The non-obvious routes into law for first-generation students
  • What justice work asks of a person, and what it hands back

Beyond the keynote

The Becoming Method runs longer than an hour, for organizations that want the change to hold.

  • Becoming Core The 8-week install
    An eight-week, facilitator-led cohort that installs one portable life skill per week: practiced out loud with peers, demonstrated under observation, and anchored to a written 90-day plan.
    For Schools, districts, youth-serving agencies, corporate early-career cohorts
  • Becoming Leaders The leadership lab
    Participants stop attending the program and start running it: a rotating leadership lab, a council with real budget authority, and a public capstone project.
    For Organizations ready to grow leaders from within: student bodies, high-potential employee groups, community cohorts
  • Becoming Corps The embedded partnership
    A multi-year engagement covering train-the-trainer certification, curriculum licensing, measurement design, and quarterly founder involvement. The full method, running without us.
    For Districts, agencies, and companies that want the method installed across sites and years, not visited once

What people say

Hugo is best described and embodied in one word, “Lion.”

Coach Gilbert A. N. AbrahamPortland Trail Blazers

He is responsive, an excellent communicator, thoughtful when it comes to details, and a joyful presence in the room.

Adam PetersCreator of Long Learners

Hugo has never found a situation too adverse.

Ricky EstradaOwner, Estrada Company

Photography

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Booking

Every engagement is quoted to the event. The investment depends on format, travel, and whether one or both founders take the stage. Education and nonprofit rates are considered case by case.

Email
info@polaroppositelife.com
Phone
253-765-8010
Reply time
Two business days
Inquiries
polaroppositelife.com/book

A technical rider covering audio, staging and travel is available on request and is sent with every confirmed booking.