The One Away Show

I met Rich through a mutual friend and mentor, Mark Green. Rich is a great student and teacher, always learning and sharing new ideas. Through travel and new experiences, Rich has stayed on the edge of learning and growing. Rich also pushes barriers. Whether it's honing new skills, or picking up his entire life and moving cross-country, every risk he's taken has its rewards with hard work. Rich sn...

Rich Manders is the founder of FreeScale Coaching Systems, a program dedicated to helping CEO's and their leadership teams scale their business and their personal freedom simultaneously through coaching and development. Before coaching, Rich co-founded and managed iAutomation from $0 in sales to become the industry-leading company with 160 employees and ~$80M in sales. He has successfully sold two...

Sigalle is such a light. I was introduced to her a few years ago by David Sherman, who runs LawLine, and met Sigalle at an event. We've stayed in touch, and she reached out to me in the fall to talk about her recent experience with the seizure. I asked her if she'd like to come onto the podcast to talk about it, and she agreed. There are a couple of things I took away from my conversation with Sig...

Sigalle Barness is the chief storyteller at Lawline, a company that provides legal professionals with growth opportunities through online learning. She is the host of Lawyers Who Lead, a weekly podcast that challenges the notion that the law lags behind by celebrating a diverse and exciting range of experienced lawyers who are driving meaningful change in the legal industry. Sigalle has undergone...

I first heard about Tiziana through a social media post about her book. I went out and read the book, and was so inspired by it that I decided to reach out to her. There are a few key takeaways I learned from and about Tiziana. The first is that independence is something you can learn. Tiziana may have had feelings of independence from a young age, but her journey required the same obstacles. The...

Tiziana Casciaro is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at The Rotman School of Management and the holder of the Marcel Desautels Chair in Integrative Thinking at the University of Toronto. Tiziana's research explores how structural and psychological forces jointly shape behavior in organizations. Her work on organizational networks, power dynamics, change implementation, and professional netwo...

I remember when I met Martin, we had such a profound conversation that covered so much ground. Martin has a really incredible story to tell. It was shocking how his decision to leave the legal field weighed on Martin until the point that he had to just cut the cord. Martin left his job without a plan, but he knew deep down that he had to do it because the signs were starting to manifest through th...

Martin Perelmuter is the ​​Co-founder & President of Speakers' Spotlight, one of the world's largest and most respected speakers agencies who have arranged more than 35,000 speaking engagements in over 35 countries worldwide, as well as the Managing Director of The Spotlight Agency, a group that connects high-calibre talent across fields with opportunities worldwide. Martin is a graduate of the Fa...

Ron Tite is a best-selling author, speaker, producer, and entrepreneur, who has always blurred the lines between art and commerce. He has been an award-winning advertising writer and creative director for some of the world's most respected brands including Air France, Evian, Fidelity, Hershey, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, Intel, Microsoft, Volvo and many others. He is founder of Church+State, an agen...

Mary was such an incredible guest. She opened up with a vulnerable story about a past relationship, and overall really engaged with me as a host. This led to a really fulfilling conversation. One thing I took away from Mary was how undealt-with trauma can snowball in a person's life, whether in the way it manifests in themselves, their interactions with others, or also across generations. It was a...

Mary Smith is a licensed professional counselor with skills and expertise in working with a diverse population in Washington, DC. Mary works with adults who are experiencing difficulties in areas of relationships, anxiety, depression, and transition. She uses many approaches including: mindfulness, mind-body connection, and a solution-focused orientation. Mary works to promote self-awareness, impr...

I've been fortunate enough to have many conversations with Dan recently, and I've been struck by his humility. I really respect the way that Dan never lets himself get in the way of his own progress. Whether or not he believes he is capable does not hold him back from trying anyways. Dan is always thinking strategically. Even if things seem to be running smoothly he will identify problems and thin...

Dan Pontefract is a leadership strategist, author, keynote speaker and trusted advisor. He is a best-selling author whose award-winning books include LEAD. CARE. WIN.: How To Become a Leader Who Matters, OPEN TO THINK, THE PURPOSE EFFECT, and FLAT ARMY. As a speaker, Dan has presented at four different TED events and also writes for Forbes & Harvard Business Review. He is an adjunct professor at t...

I felt a connection with Joey right off the bat. It was evident to me that he was someone who I could talk to for hours. I found it fascinating how Joey's decisions to jump to the next job were not based on dissatisfaction with his current position, but rather because he thought he'd enjoy the next thing even more. Joey's parents encouraging him to do research and have informed opinions from a you...

Joey Coleman is on a mission to help companies keep their customers and employees. As a keynote speaker, workshop leader, and consultant, Joey helps businesses design creative ways to engage their customers and employees - especially in the crucial First 100 Days® of the relationship lifecycle. As a professional speaker who has given thousands of speeches all over the world, Joey also works with a...

What I really enjoyed about my conversation with Dorie was that she was just so comfortable with herself. She showed up relaxed and ready to go. It felt so natural talking to her. What I noticed was how seeing a recruiter from Harvard Divinity School informed her as an executive coach and in all the roles she's succeeded in during her career. It must have been exciting to explore that route and se...

Dorie Clark is a strategy consultant, executive coach, and keynote speaker with deep experience in virtual presentations. Over the course of her career, she has worked with clients including Google, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, Yale, the IMF, and the World Bank, and twice been named one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50. Dorie has also been named the #1 Communicati...

As soon as Liane and I got talking, I noticed this instant warmth about her that made our conversation so easy. Most of all, I really appreciate her story. It's a testament to her work and the path that it's led her down. Learning from her experiences with a dysfunctional team led to a lot of growth and eventually her going off to do what she does today as a public speaker. One of the things I fou...

For the past 25 years, Liane Davey has researched and advised teams on how to achieve high performance. Known as the "teamwork doctor," she's worked with teams from the frontlines to the boardroom, across a variety of industries, and around the globe from Boston to Bangkok. In working with hundreds of teams, she has developed a unique perspective on the challenges that teams face – and how to solv...

Naseem is not only an incredibly hard worker, but he's also one of the funniest and most well-spoken people I've ever met. I really appreciate who he is and what he represents as a leader. In his journey working for different companies before going his own way, he was able to accumulate a wealth of experience and build important relationships. Naseem has had a very unconventional career path for t...

Naseem Malik is the Managing Partner of MRA Global Sourcing, a supply management firm that helps world-class companies build successful teams by finding the right leaders. Additionally, he is the Partner and Co-Founder of Vitalize Talent, a capability development firm that is putting the "human" back into the hiring process. Naseem has worked with companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 5...

Incapable of small talk, an appreciation for being different, challenging the status quo, and being able to confront a revolution - that's Laura Gassner Otting. She models incredible behavior and action around the things she believes in. I think it's so rare to see people step into themselves fully and go after their pursuits in a limitless way around things that matter, and Laura does it at every...

Laura Gassner Otting is a professional motivational keynote speaker and Washington Post best-selling author who helps innovators, idealists, and iconoclasts get "unstuck" in their thinking and achieve extraordinary results. She inspires others to push past the doubt and indecision that consign great ideas to limbo. Laura encourages others to think bigger and accept greater challenges beyond their...

Hulet has been a light in my life. I met him in 2015, and I could tell right away that he had a free spirit in the sense that he would do what he wanted and nobody could stand in his way. At the same time, he cares so deeply about the people around him; his family, his wife, and his kids. He's a man really pushing the edge, especially for a town like Athens, GA where there aren't many people like...

Hulet Smith is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rehabmart, a company that serves patients, families, and caregivers by offering a wide selection of innovative rehabilitation products, superb customer service, and value-oriented discount pricing. As Occupational Therapists, married family guys, and fathers to special needs children; Hulet and his co-founder Mike Price understand the challenges of raising...