The One Away Show

Tracey Sullivan is the author of the children's book series, Tebow Tails. The picture book series focuses on a group of canine best friends that live in the beachside community Barkington Bluffs. When they band together, there is always spontaneous fun and adventure which leads to them learning a life lesson. Inspired by her real-life dogs Tebow and Casper, Tracey builds a world rooted in themes o...

Marc Champagne is a Mental Fitness Strategist, a field he pioneered to combine two core drivers in his life: - His desire to teach, guide, and illuminate a unique method of thinking through questions - The thrill Marc feels in distilling, organizing, and simplifying complex situations After a decade of working on corporate teams in sales, analytics, and product management, Marc left to study the m...

Bob is one of the most incredible people I've met in business, and the work he is doing is very transformative. His experience being in a cult is fascinating, and we dive well into it in this episode. Bob outlines how cults prey on vulnerable people and the ways they hide their manipulative nature. We also talked about how for those who are lucky to survive hitting rock bottom, it is usually the m...

Bob Gower is a New York-based author, speaker, and consultant, who cares deeply about creating organizations that are a net positive for the world. His mission is simple: to help leaders align their teams on all levels so they can perform at their best. Bob is the author of two books: Agile Business: A Leader's Guide to Harnessing Complexity and Radical Alignment: How to Have Game-Changing Convers...

I loved my conversation with Misty. I remember my first discussion with her (about a year ago at this point) very vividly as a free-flowing conversation. In this episode, Misty and I discuss why you should be able to communicate your superpowers to other people, being kind to yourself through hardship, and why you should be willing to understand what you do and don't do well. Read the show notes h...

Misty Dykema is Co-Owner and Principal of Simantel, an award-winning industrial consumer marketing firm, where she's led teams for 18 years with a single creed: Really good marketing requires really brave leadership. Misty is a leader in business development at Simantel, overseeing and facilitating executive alignment workshops and Simantel's content and brand positioning. Misty is also a Board Me...

I met Nanxi Liu years ago and fell out of touch. It would turn out that an earlier episode of this show would result in us reconnecting! In this episode, Nanxi and I discussed the ways in which the team is sometimes more important than the idea, why one must constantly be pitching with a true belief in the service to anyone who will listen, and how leaders should always do their best to take care...

Nanxi Liu is the co-founder and co-CEO of Blaze, a software company that gives teams and leaders everything they need to create custom web applications and internal tools that supercharge your operations. Nanxi has founded and led multiple companies, including the revolutionary Nanoly Bioscience, a biotech company that has developed polymers that enable vaccines to survive without refrigeration. I...

In today's episode of the One Away Show, Greg Larkin and I discuss the enormous power of being different from those around you to create change, why anger is a dangerous emotion to carry around, and how cultural change in a company is always going to be met with individual resistance, and why it is necessary for those companies to grow. Read the show notes here: https://arcbound.com/podcasts/ Link...

Greg Larkin is on a mission to empower entrepreneurs to do their most transformative work - everywhere they work, even when it's very hard. He is the author of the international best-seller This Might Get Me Fired, an international keynote speaker, and has built some of the most disruptive innovations of our time. He is the founder of Punks & Pinstripes, a global community of entrepreneurs, intrap...

I met Noah relatively recently, and I must say that he is one of the most genuine people you will ever meet. You can see the throughline between everything he's done in his career. It's striking how having a child at a young age changed Noah's worldview and the trajectory of his life. What I found very surprising was how music taught Noah the importance of communication, and how he was able to tra...

Noah Kamrat is the Co-founder and CEO of IP Link Technologies Group and Signalmash, a CPaaS platform that seamlessly incorporates programmatic voice and messaging into any workflow or app. He started his career in telecommunications at MCI, and then took the skills he learned there into a leadership role as the director of National and Key Accounts at Frontier Communications. From these experience...

Chris is one of the greatest people I know. In this episode, we talked about: - How traumas are integral to developing change in our lives - Why being present in their kids' lives is the best thing parent can do, and how kids will always remember the time and effort - The importance of engaging with empathy when executives interact with employees

Chris Tuff is a bestselling author and highly sought-after keynote speaker. Chris began his career as a pioneer in the social media marketing space, becoming one of the first marketers to work directly with Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook advertising. Chris was also one of the first to film a "viral" video, an honor that landed him on the front page of The Wall Street Journal and as a guest on Good Mo...

I learned a lot from Frank's story. It's incredible how he was able to overcome his life-changing bike accident, and how he sees himself as oddly fortunate in hindsight. We had a fascinating discussion about vulnerability. People are able to display great courage when they share something anonymously. Frank's platform, PostSecret, has not only changed his life, but the lives of so many people arou...

Frank Warren is the founder of PostSecret, a community art project where he invited total strangers to anonymously mail in their deepest secrets on a homemade postcard. The response was overwhelming with Frank receiving over one million anonymous postcards and counting. The project has raised over $1,000,000 for suicide prevention and Frank Warren was awarded the Mental Health Advocacy Lifetime Ac...

Today's guest on the One Away Show is Melissa Agnes! Melissa is the creator of the Crisis Ready® Model, which is recognized and being taught as a leading industry best practice in the field of crisis management. Recognized globally as an expert, thought leader, and visionary in the field of crisis management, Melissa has worked with global players including NATO, the Pentagon, financial firms, tec...

Melissa Agnes is the creator of the Crisis Ready® Model, which is recognized and being taught as leading industry best practice in the field of crisis management. Recognized globally as an expert, thought leader and visionary in the field of crisis management, Melissa Agnes has worked with global players, including NATO, the Pentagon (DoD), Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, financial firm...

Andy Molinsky is a Professor at Brandeis University's International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. Andy's work helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life. His research and writing have been featured in top media outlets like...

Dr. John Gillis, Jr. is the best-selling co-author of Powerhouse: 13 Teamwork Tactics that Build Excellence and Unrivaled Success, and an acclaimed business facilitator who founded the pioneering leadership development consultancy LeadershipX. The world's leading organizations look to Dr. Gillis to provide them with the practical knowledge needed to improve their performance by focusing on key iss...

I loved my conversation with Jim about how relationships; family, social, and business, are the key to your happiness and success as a human being. You should always be in the business of helping your customers lead a better life. We also discussed how you should make space within your companies for your employees' personal lives, especially when their lives might be consumed by unusual circumstan...

Jim McCann is the Founder of 1-800-Flowers, an e-commerce company that has long been on the cutting edge of business and technology. Jim was working as a social worker in New York City during the 1970's when he took a chance and bought a struggling flower shop. His flower shop grew into a chain, and soon, grew into the largest floral operation in the world. Jim credits his success to his careful a...

I really enjoyed my conversation with Matt, and really respect his intentionality. Here are the biggest takeaways from our conversation: - How healthy living and eating can help to delay the onset of Alzheimer's and other neurocognitive disorders. - Why it is important for caregivers to stay healthy through someone's diagnosis. - Matt's plan to spend retirement advocating to get MapHabit in the ha...

Matt Golden is the Co-Founder and CEO of MapHabit, an interactive care management platform that utilizes a patented visual mapping system with smart devices to improve cognition and reinforce routine habits. Designed for family members, professional support partners, and therapists, MapHabit™ improves the quality of care while reducing caregiver stress. Matt is a 7-time entrepreneur with 20 years...

Alex Kantrowitz is a journalist and Founder of Big Technology, an independent newsletter and podcast that covers big tech stories. Big Technology reaches 40,000+ tech decision-makers with each send and focuses on how major tech corporations like Amazon and Google impact society. Before founding Big Technology, Alex wrote for Forbes, Ad Age, and Buzzfeed. He is also an on-air contributor for CNBC's...