Their Story is Our Story E50
The Tycoons break the normal mold for this show and interview Sherianne and Robin of the non-profit organization, Their Story is Our Story. This is a great show highlighting the passion for volunteerism and the framework for purposeful living.
Sherianne and Robin give an inspiring picture of real refugee stories and the contributions they provide to our society. It’s a story that’s worth listening to to understand that refugees can be a real asset to our community. They are ready to work and innovative. They are entrepreneurs that create jobs, new products, pay taxes, and have a spending capacity that pays back into the economy.
The refugee stories have to change something in the way we welcome them so that we’ll benefit from that societal dividend. The purpose of the stories is to teach us to be better.
TSOS (Their Story Is Our Story) shares stories of the refugee journey and experience to advocate and educate, and to actuate integration. Through stories the TSOS teams aim to transform the perception and reception of refugees worldwide; one story at a time. 
The right kind of stories educate and inform. They embolden advocacy and generate meaningful change. Collaborative, interpersonal relationships are the seedbed for individual and communal progress. Ultimately, TSOS envisions a world where there is no “them,” only us.
TSOS gathers and shares stories that inform, edify, and spur a desire toward individual engagement with and advocacy for refugees in individual communities, and perhaps even across the global landscape. TSOS presents these stories to be explored and studied that readers might discover human commonalities: that all stories no matter how varied, cohere in one human story. There is no them, only us. Their story is our story.
After having lived in several US cities, Sherianne Schow currently lives in Montana. Her interest in equal opportunities for newcomers fueled her studies in Linguistic and Education. She holds a BA in English and French and an MA in French Studies and Linguistics. Her friendships with refugee populations began while teaching in Luxembourg. Having understood the profound and positive influence of these friends, she has made similar connections wherever she has lived.
Prior to her work with TSOS (Their Story Is Our Story), Sherianne helped found and served as the president of L3 – Love, Literacy, Life. She works regularly with various international medical foundations, focusing primarily on helping refugees. Her service experiences have been foundational in building her passion to promote communities of diversity and inclusion. Sherianne and her husband have six children, and she enjoys volunteering at her local school library, working with childhood literacy and serving on the local school board.
Robin Peterson lives in Arizona with her husband and children. Her passion for storytelling stems from her deep love of history. While attending Brigham Young University where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in History, she had the opportunity to intern at the National Archives in Washington, DC. Professionally, storytelling plays a large role for Robin as she provides deep rooted family connections through her work as a professional genealogist, researching for shows such as Who Do You Think You Are.
The importance of telling and preserving individual stories led her to join Their Story Is Our Story in 2019 to serve as the Director of Archives. In November 2019 she accompanied several team members on her first story gathering trip to the Northwest. Robin also spends time volunteering with various refugee organizations in the Phoenix area.
In her free time, Robin enjoys hiking, trail running, paddleboarding and weightlifting.
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About the Show
Tycoons of Small Biz spotlights the true backbone of the American economy, the true tycoons of business in America… the owners, founders and CEO’s of small businesses. Join hosts, Austin L Peterson, Landon Mance and the featured tycoons LIVE every Tuesday at 1 pm, right here on Business RadioX and your favorite podcast platform.
About Your Hosts
Austin Peterson is a Comprehensive Financial Planner and owner of Backbone Financial in Scottsdale, AZ. Austin is a registered rep and investment advisor representative with Lincoln Financial Advisors. Prior to joining Lincoln Financial Advisors, Austin worked in a variety of roles in the financial services industry.
He began his career in financial services in the year 2000 as a personal financial advisor with Independent Capital Management in Santa Ana, CA. Austin then joined Pacific Life Insurance Company as an internal wholesaler for their variable annuity and mutual fund products. 
After Pacific Life, Austin formed his own financial planning company in Southern California that he built and ran for 6 years and eventually sold when he moved his family to Salt Lake City to pursue his MBA.
After he completed his MBA, Austin joined Crump Life Insurance where he filled a couple of different sales roles and eventually a management role throughout the five years he was with Crump. Most recently before joining Lincoln Financial Advisors in February 2015, Austin spent 2 years as a life insurance field wholesaler with Symetra Life Insurance Company. Austin is a Certified Financial Planner Professional and Chartered Life Underwriter.
Austin and his wife of 21 years, Robin, have two children, AJ (19) and Ella (16) and they reside in Gilbert, Arizona. He is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton with a Bachelor of Arts in French and of Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management with a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in sales and entrepreneurship.
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Landon Mance is a Financial Planner and founder of YourFuture Planning Partners out of Las Vegas, Nevada. His firm came to life in 2020 after operating as Mance Wealth Management since 2015 when Landon broke off from a major bank and started his own “shop.”
Landon comes from a family of successful entrepreneurs and has a passion and excitement for serving the business community. This passion is what brought about the growth of YourFuture Planning Partners to help business owners and their families. At YourFuture, we believe small business owners’ personal and business goals are intertwined, so we work with our clients to design a financial plan to support all aspects of their lives.
In 2019, Landon obtained the Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) designation through the Exit Planning Institute. With this certification, YourFuture Planning Partners assists business owners through an ownership transition while focusing on a positive outcome for their employees and meeting the business owner’s goals. Landon is also a member of the Business Intelligence Institute (BII) which is a collaborative group that shares tools, resources and personnel, and offers advanced level training and technical support to specifically serve business owners.
Landon enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife, stepson, and new baby twins. He grew up in sunny San Diego and loves visiting his family, playing a round of golf with friends, and many other outdoor activities. Landon tries make a difference in the lives of children in Las Vegas as a part of the leadership team for a local non-profit. He regularly visits the children that we work with to remind himself of why it’s so important to, “be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Landon received his B.S. from California State University Long Beach in business marketing and gets the rest of his education through the school of hard knocks via his business owner clients.
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