A School Teacher in Wisconsin Who Took a Leap of Faith – How Aria and Her Family Moved to Florida, Launched an Award-Winning Plant-Based Food Truck, and Hit Six Figures in Year One

Aria Aulani was a school teacher. Her husband worked for the post office. They had a growing family, a life in Wisconsin, and a path that looked, from the outside, like it was working.

But Aria wasn't truly happy in her career. She had found Liana Shanti and HMI Wellness, and the work had already begun changing her health while she was still in the classroom. The more she learned, the clearer it became that there was more to her path than what she was currently living.

Fear tried to come in. Family members tried to pull her off the path. The conventional logic – the teaching salary, the stability, the plan – was loud. But Aria had life proof. She had experienced firsthand what this work was capable of. And once she had that, there was no turning back.

Aria enrolled in HMI Wellness and completed her Functional Nutrition Therapist Certification. She began coaching. She started sharing what she knew about plant-based nutrition with the people around her, building a practice rooted in the science she had learned and the healing she had lived.

She and her husband started selling juices together – a natural extension of everything she was learning and teaching. The response was real. The demand was there.

And then they made the decision that changed everything. They packed up their life in Wisconsin and moved – their family, their vision, and everything they had built – to Florida. To their dream location. To start over with something that was entirely theirs.

They launched The Rican Vegan® – an award-winning plant-based food truck built on the nutrition science Aria had spent years studying and living.

The Rican Vegan® surpassed $100,000 in sales in its first year. It has since earned multiple awards. Aria and her family are living in their dream location, building something that is entirely aligned with who she is and what she believes.

She is no longer in the classroom. She is a certified HMI Wellness® Functional Nutrition Therapist, a business owner, and a woman who moved her entire family across the country on the strength of what she learned and the life proof she had already accumulated.