Podcast & press

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A keynote is one hour, and no planner should have to buy one on faith. This is where you listen to how they actually talk, at length and unedited.

The podcast

Shit My Daddy Didn’t Teach Me

Life lessons learned through trial and error.

Hugo grew up without a father and learned the lessons the hard way, by getting them wrong first. The show is Hugo and Shannon talking through life lessons and questions that they had to learn on their own: identity, fatherhood, what a family is for, and what it costs a child when the structure is missing.

Hugo hosts. Shannon co-hosts.

  1. 01FatherlessnessThe one they built the show around. What a missing father actually costs a child, and why the country keeps looking past it.
  2. 02IdentityTaking the mask off. Why external validation runs out, and what it takes to rebuild on something that holds.
  3. 03Co-ParentingThe hardest episode. Children are the only people in a separation who never agreed to it, and they carry most of it.
  4. 04FamilyWhere a person’s character is actually formed, and what happens to the rest of a life when that structure is never built.

Press

Seen & heard

Where they turn up on other people's shows, unedited and at length.

Guest appearance

What Happens When Achievement Isn’t Enough?

The Life of Someone Extraordinary with Tiyon L. Simpson

Hugo on competing at the Olympics, building companies, and surviving a kidnapping in Mexico with a rifle at his head. Shannon on defending people facing the most serious charges there are, and on what the bench taught her. Both of them on the question underneath all of it: what your achievements are actually worth to the people who live with you.

Hugo Maynard and Shannon Roy standing together, arm around shoulder.
Shannon walks through the legacy exercise she runs with high achievers, the one that separates the legacy someone believes they are building from the one their family would actually describe.
Runtime
95 minutes
Published
August 2026
Guest appearance

Why 80% of Criminal Cases Are Mental Health Issues

The Journey with Mark Astor

Shannon on the practice underneath the keynote. At least 80 percent of her cases involve mental health or substance abuse, and the system keeps answering the symptom instead of the cause. She walks Mark Astor through the school bus analogy she uses to explain the difference, and through what changes when the defense listens first, reads the behavioral pattern, and builds the mitigation around the whole person.

Shannon Roy, arms folded, in a pale blue suit.
Her case for specialty courts, and for treatment plans built to serve public safety and human dignity at the same time instead of trading one for the other.
Runtime
38 minutes
Published
August 2026

Also on the shelf

Hugo has 4 published titles.

A guided journal for adults, and a children's series named for his own kids. Signed copies can go on every seat as part of a booking.

The Voice Inside Journal by Hugo Maynard, book coverI Spent All Day Looking at the Sky by Hugo Maynard, book coverMarley Love, What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? by Hugo Maynard, book coverWhat’s Your Super Power? by Hugo Maynard, book cover

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