Who Influenced Shauna Swerland Most When She Was a Child?

On the first episode of What Fuels You, Shauna Swerland says the biggest influence in her childhood was her grandfather, inside a family that ran its own business. She calls him the grand poobah and says she was raised to admire his qualities. She also names her mother, her father, and her brother, who is fifteen months older. The memory she has just told Teri Citterman is from third grade, when she got the school to hold playground auditions so she could cast a production of Annie. She was the casting agent. The grandfather is who she turns to when asked who actually shaped her.