The One Away Show

Jim is an active technology startup operator and investor. He is currently the Co-Founder and CTO of SaaSWorks, a company focused on helping Subscription and SaaS businesses scale their revenue operations. Jim is an active advisor and board member to numerous early-stage, venture, and private-equity backed software and technology companies. Jim has held CTO and CIO positions in multiple high-growt...

Bryan describes John Eades as someone who embodies what it means to be a leader. He admired both John's ability to envision a dream as well as Christina Wilder's courage to take a leap of faith with him. Bryan compares their experience to the one he shares with Carson Morell, our Head of Operations here at BW Missions, who he convinced to leave his stable job to join Bryan's vision. Bryan looks up...

John Eades is the CEO of Learn Loft, a leadership development company that turns professionals into leaders and creates healthier places to work. He is also the author of Building the Best, and host of Follow My Lead podcast. In this episode, John Eades discusses his One Away moment being when he and his partner, Christina Widler, left their corporate jobs to start a new business. He talks about h...

Bryan discusses his appreciation of Case's strategy of using a plethora of perspectives from Reddit and YouTube to learn from others. Bryan further explains how learning from perspectives is important to each individual to help guide them through their thoughts and gain confidence through understanding people and their personalities. The second aspect of Case that Bryan discusses is his ability to...

Case is the host of Apple Podcast's top 100 podcasts "New Mindset, Who Dis?", a podcast dedicated to a unique realistic approach to self-development, and the creator of weekly mindfulness email, PRSUIT, which goes out to 220,000 subscribers every Monday and Friday. In this episode of the One Away Podcast, Case Kenny discusses his two One Away moments. The first occurs within the realms of the inte...

Bryan marvels at Jeff's diverse experiences: joining a circus, being in a band, working in the corporate world, and becoming an entrepreneur. He highlights his appreciation for Jeff's new book, Forever Employable, and how Jeff helps executives and organizations create better products. The book explores how to be forever employable and have your network working for you and providing opportunities f...

Jeff helps organizations build great products and leaders build the cultures that build great products. He has written 3 books -- Lean UX, Sense & Respond and Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking. The last book helped launch Sense & Respond Press a publishing house for short, practical books for busy executives. Today Jeff works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker with organizations around the...

Bryan reflects his emotional reaction from his talk with Tara as therapeutic and authentic. He describes Tara's ability to be vulnerable and open as an asset to allow her to speed up relationships and to connect with individuals on an emotional level. Bryan recalls his biggest takeaway from the episode was when Tara shared her One Away Moment as the drunk dial. He also highlights how Tara as many...

Tara Schuster is an author, playwright, and accomplished entertainment executive serving as the vice president of talent and development at Comedy Central. She is currently the executive in charge of Lights Out with David Spade, was the executive in charge of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning Key and Peele, the Emmy award-winning Midnight, and numerous other shows including Another Period, Detroi...

Bryan dives into two quotes from Jessica's Book "Wired this Way" that deal with health: emotional, physical, and spiritual well being. The first quote that really stood out to Bryan is "A product will only have as much integrity as the operating system that brought it into existence, similarly a creation will always reflect off of its creator." Bryan unpacks this quote to describe how we should tr...

Jessica Carson is currently the Director of Innovation at the American Psychological Association, Expert in Residence at Georgetown University, and author of Wired This Way, a book about the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being of creators. With a background in neuroscience, psychology, startups, venture capital, and mindfulness, she writes, teaches, and speaks about the amazing c...

Bryan reflects on his conversation with Bobby and how it resonated with Bryan's own experience in trying to break into sports marketing in undergrad. While trying to build his way into the Hawks organization the process of moving up was too slow. The only way for Bryan to be different is to create his own niche. Which is what Bobby did and led to his success with Blueprint Equity. You can read mor...

In this episode Bobby, who grew up in Silicon Valley, where he developed an interest in tech and because his parents were tech entrepreneurs, was unsure of what he wanted in the tech space. He talks about his experience in undergrad and applying to jobs in finance, which led him to his two-year stint as an I-banker. During this episode, Bobby reflects on the decisions he's made and what has led hi...

Bryan discusses what really stood out to him during his interview with Mark: his ability to become his own independent by monopolizing his strengths. Bryan recalls how Mark became a client within the company and also became a coach to help strengthen Bryan's company. Mark helped Bryan with articulating client feedback in such a concise and intelligent way which would aid in expanding his business...

Mark Green is the speaker, author, and strategic advisor, and business and leadership growth coach to CEOs and executive teams worldwide. In this episode of the One Away Podcast, Mark takes us through his experiences from working in a big corporation to a small business to a family business to becoming his own boss. He highlights how his experience in the different businesses taught him that relat...

Bryan recalls the first time he met Jay during his trip to California. Bryan explains how an hour meeting turned into three and how the business meeting turned into a personal connection. Bryan describes that he really got to build a relationship with Jay during that meeting and it led to many future meetings where their relationship would grow. During one of their conversations, Jay made Bryan re...

Jay Abraham is the 21.7 billion dollar man and highest peak marketing, consultant. He is a proven business leader and top executive coach in the United States. In this episode, Jay discusses his three One Away Moments: his experience starting up at IcyHot, working with Entrepreneur, and his cathartic discussions with his therapist. Jay highlights the ideals that have dominated his life: lifetime v...

Bryan reflects on his conversation with Denise as she shared her story of how she found her path. He shares his story on how he met Denise while he was working on starting his first company "Wish Dish". He talks about the work he's done with Wish Dish and how he was introduced to the machine learning space Bryan attended a conference in Nashville where we met Denise. Fast forward a couple of years...

In this episode, Denise Gosnell, the current Chief Data Officer at DataStax, describes her one away moment that led her to a career in Graph Technology. During Denise's first year at East Tennessee State University, it was there that she met Dr. Haynes, who changed Denise's understanding of the world and data. During her graduate career, Denise was able to work Dr. Haynes and meet other well-known...

Bryan reflects on the work Joel "Thor" Neeb has done. As Bryan got to know him he was able to hear all the stories that led Thor to where he is today. While working with Thor Bryan was able to learn a lot working as a consultant and presenting information to a client. He also learned to not be afraid to speak up and ask for things that will help you be successful in completing a project. You can r...

Joel "Thor" Neeb, a former Fighter pilot in the United States Air Force, best-selling author, CEO of the consulting firm, Afterburner, American Ninja Warrior contestant, and Stage IV cancer survivor shares how he was transformed by Kristina, a young girl who was a fellow patient, in a Houston hospital while battling through the lowest points of his life. It was during this time that he was recordi...

Bryan discusses his friendship with Tyler and how there are parallels between Tyler and Bryan's work in their respective start-ups. Learning about Tyler's physics teacher and how this has led him to where he is now. Tyler's interest developed over time, building his own start-up and though Tyler had the option to continue his career in a corporate setting, a safer route, he instead Tyler took a ch...

In this episode, Bryan talks with Tyler Denk who is the Head of Growth at Morning Brew. During this episode Tyler recounts his time in high school, as a junior, figuring out what he wanted to do in college. Though everyone advised Tyler from taking the most difficult class in high school, Physics, he took it anyways. That's he was introduced to Mr. Dexter, who opened his eyes to the world of physi...

Bryan reflects on his first meeting with Tim and on his first impressions of Tim. During the period after their initial meeting, they were able to bond over building a community in Washington, DC. Over the next few months, Bryan and Tim's professional relationship evolved into a meaningful friendship. This level of connection led to Tim being able to open up and share the story of his upbringing a...

Tim Marcinowski, Founder and CEO of YetiCloud, is working to make the IT Service Desk nonexistent. Tim shares how his father was his soul cheerleader. He also sheds light on how he is now propelling his dreams forward within IT infrastructure. During his teenage and early adulthood years, there were many paths to go down, both positive and negative, but Tim's father helped Tim stay on the right pa...