Inside Influence

What if the very thing that tried to break you became the reason you rise? In this raw and unforgettable conversation, Alisha Magnus Louis opens up about surviving trauma, healing her nervous system, reclaiming self-love, and stepping fully into feminine leadership. From Wall Street to powerful storytelling with the Los Angeles Tribune, Alisha shares the emotional, t...

Akira Chan has watched the same documentary up to a thousand times, until the people on screen start showing up in his dreams. As the film editor behind Pillars of Power: The Hidden Secret Behind Achieving Greatness, Chan spent months shaping hundreds of hours of interview footage into a theatrical-length film, drawing on nearly two decades in documentary work and a media company he runs with h...

A woman dies from a heart attack after years of chasing perfection through the world of professional bodybuilding, then returns with a message that challenges everything we think power is. In this raw and deeply personal conversation from The Rise of the Lioness: The Power of Feminine Leadership, Sherry Gideons shares the near-death experience that shattered her iden...

Chef Rosie once described her father's taquito-making as watching "a genius Mexican MacGyver" work, and that sense of wonder never left her. She is the owner and chef behind Lady R Bistro, a French, Creole, and Mexican-inspired restaurant in the Sun City district of Menifee, where she has spent close to fifteen years turning her family's culinary history into a full-blown craft. Chef Rosie has cooked professionally since 2010, comp...

What happens when science, spirituality, leadership, and healing all collide in one conversation? In this deeply powerful episode, Dr. Kim Redman opens up about the hard-earned lessons that transformed the way she leads, lives, and sees the world — from overcoming trauma to redefining feminine power through boundaries, alignment, and self-worth.

Lisa Nichols spent twelve years in school believing she was unintelligent, only learning at twenty-five that she is functionally dyslexic. She built that reckoning into Motivating the Masses and became one of the featured expert teachers in the original film The Secret. Twenty years later, Nichols joins Inside Influence for Los Angeles Tribune Leadership Week to talk about her role in Pillars of Power: The Hidden Secret Behind Achi...

What happens when someone who survived war, loss, and impossible odds chooses gratitude over bitterness? In this powerful conversation, Dr. Emily Letran opens up about escaping Vietnam after the war, losing her mother at just eight years old, and building a life fueled by courage, faith, and purpose. Her story is more than inspiring — it’s a reminder that...

Every leader is carrying something beneath the surface, and it is quietly shaping every decision they make. Jerry Sargeant, globally recognized energy healer, speaker, and founder of Star Magic Healing, joins Inside Influence to talk about what really drives leadership from the inside out. Jerry gets into the childhood wounds that follow people into the boardroom, why nervous system regulation matters more than confidence, and how ...

What started as an interview quickly turned into a raw and emotional conversation about survival, healing, and finding your worth again. Ann Landstrom opens up about surviving abuse, homelessness, heartbreak, and the moments that forced her to rebuild herself from the ground up. Her story is vulnerable, powerful, and impossible not to connect with.

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A property manager spent three years feeling drained by everyone around her, unaware that the work she was about to begin would end with her mother telling her, for the first time in fifty-three years, that she loved her.

Kim Le, known as the Master Heart Healer and a wealth mindset coach with more than three decades of experience, joins Los Angeles Tribune Leadership Week 2026 to explain how she traces money struggles, strained rel...

What does it take to spend 35 years in Hollywood digging into the raw emotion of some of the biggest names in film — Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, and Drew Barrymore among them — and come out with a code of integrity completely intact? In this conversation, Bobbie Chance, Hollywood acting coach to the stars and director of the acclaimed pilot

Every year, thousands of people fall into homelessness after a single untreated crisis, and most never find their way back out. Pastor Troy Vaughn, founder of the Restoration Family Worship Center and author of From Skid Row to CEO, joins Dawna Campbell to talk about the seven years he spent living on the streets and how that experience became the foundation for Christ-centered Ministries, the nonprofit he built to serve nearly 400...

What happens when the life everyone envies suddenly stops feeling real? In this deeply raw and unforgettable conversation, Carissa Johnsen opens up about the collapse of the success she spent years building — and the spiritual awakening that changed everything. From chasing achievement and external validation to surrendering control and rebuilding her life from soul, her story is both hea...

For nineteen years, Jennie Edwards has been teaching people how to stop hiding from the camera and start trusting it. Known as Joyful Jennie, she left a cubicle and an ad agency job in the Midwest for Southern California, where she built a career as a brand visionary storyteller helping entrepreneurs, speakers, and business owners show up as their most authentic selves on video.

In this conversation with Dawna Campbell, Edwards shar...

What happens when a woman stops shrinking herself and finally steps into her power? In this deeply moving conversation, Romanian-born entrepreneur Daniela Trufin shares how she went from cleaning homes to transforming lives — teaching women in service industries to see themselves not as “just workers,” but as leaders who bring value, dignity, and peace into families’ liv...

Seniors lose billions of dollars every year to scams designed specifically to break them, and most never report it because they feel ashamed. Sherri Combs, CEO of Silver Streak Senior Services and author of the bestselling book The Just in Case Plan, joins Dawna Campbell to talk about the verified directory she built to protect seniors and restore the trust that fraud has stripped away.

Combs shares the story behind Silver Streak, t...

She came to America carrying a dream, an accent, and a fire inside her that refused to settle for the life others expected her to live. In this deeply personal conversation, Andrea Gomez shares the reality of building a career in media as a Latina woman, the heartbreak of missing moments with her children while chasing success, and the courage it took to walk away from security to build a life ...

What does it take for a corporate technology executive who helped launch what is now Sirius XM Radio to walk away from everything she knew and build a streaming network for astrologers, life coaches, healers, and psychic mediums instead? In this conversation, Ellen Mahloy, CEO of Ethereal TV Networks, talks candidly about the winding path that took her there: an undiagnosed learning difference that turned into her greatest professi...