The midnight pole
Shannon “Redd” Roy
Trial Lawyer · Speaker · Co-Founder
Fifteen years as a criminal trial lawyer taught Shannon what actually changes the direction of a life — and what never does.
Her story
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 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. That pattern — talent written off because of one chapter — is the reason Polar Opposite Life exists.
Hear her on
Shannon's stages
The Voice Inside
Every person in your audience is running on a script somebody else wrote. This is the talk that hands the pen back.
The full talk →It’s Never Too Late to Recreate
Reinvention is not a personality trait. It is a sequence — and Hugo and Shannon have both run it in public, from opposite starting points.
The full talk →Becoming a Lawyer: The Path to Justice
Shannon’s unvarnished map of the legal profession — what it costs, what it gives, and who it needs — for the students deciding whether to walk that road.
The full talk →Bring them to your stage
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Keynote engagements begin at $30,000.