The One Away Show

Aman Verjee is the Founder of Practical Venture Capital, a practice aimed at capturing unrealized market potential of venture funds in the 5-10 year maturity range. Aman is a business executive with decades of experience in high-growth and technology companies. He has been a key member of executive management teams that have created billions in shareholder value and thousands of jobs, and contribu...

Claire Goldwitz is the Co-Founder and CEO of Square Fare, a tailored, individualized service that delivers the food you need and crave while fitting into your busy life. Designed to help professionals hit their health and fitness goals, SquareFare eliminates the guesswork and legwork by simply allowing users to reply "lunch" or "dinner" and have their food come to them. Prior to founding Square Fa...

Benjamin Narasin is the Founder and General Partner of Tenacity Venture Capital, a Palo Alto-based firm dedicated to backing innovative Pre-Series A founders. Ben spent 8 years as a seed investor and 7 as a traditional VC, the last 5 of which were at New Enterprise Associates, before launching Tenacity with NEA's support. Tenacity focuses on the earliest stages of venture: Seed and Pre-Seed.    Be...

Sameer Ahuja leads New York-based GameChanger, a DICK'S Sporting Goods sports technology company. GameChanger's mission is to help families elevate the next generation through sports, and their beloved mobile apps are used in all 50 states by millions of youth sports coaches, fans, and athletes to score, stream, and watch youth sports. Sameer is a long-time entrepreneur with 20 years of experience...

Daniel James is the Founder and CEO of Flight Performance, formerly known as Mint Performance. Flight Performance is built to accelerate growth for disruptive brands through social-first brand-performance marketing. Before founding Flight Performance, Daniel held positions at multiple pioneering tech startups that helped transform the internet into what it is today, including MySpace and AOL. Dani...

Steve is an author, professional speaker, and business advisor, known for his edgy, no-spin-zone style. He's the son of the co-inventor of the 8-track, played on the PGA Tour, worked in the copper mines of Arizona, and even worked in Hollywood. In today's increasingly competitive business world, Steve teaches organizations how to separate themselves from the crowd. Since founding The Adventure LLC...

Calvin Goforth, PhD, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of VIC Technology Venture Development. Calvin has extensive experience in start-up company development in founder, investor, board member, and executive roles, and has raised tens of millions in capital, helped bring several high value products from concept to market, and helped bring multiple companies to exit.   He received a BS in...

James Webb began his career as a radiologic technologist in his home state of Mississippi before moving to Dallas in 1983 to take a job as Director of Radiology at a local hospital. After 13 years working on executive team for various medical imaging companies, James founded Paradigm Healthcare in 1996, the first of many companies he would go on to found and establishing himself as a key leader in...

Michael Basch is the Founder and General Partner of Atento Capital, where he leads the vision and strategy for the firm and investments. Michael's career started as a barista at a coffee shop in high school, rising through the ranks to oversee operations of 22 stores and managing a $19M coffee operation. Michael eventually partnered with close friends to grow a product manufacturing company to nea...

Sloan Mann is the President of DT Global US, a company that works in partnership with communities, governments, and the private sector to deliver innovative, data-driven solutions that transform lives beyond expectations. In 2009, Sloan co-founded Development Transformations (DT) after having spent fifteen years working in the military and international development spaces. His civilian-military ba...

Steven Freidkin is the CEO and founder of Ntiva, Inc., a full-service technology firm that provides businesses with advanced technology expertise and support, including managed IT services, strategic consulting, cloud services, cyber-security and telecom solutions. Steven started his first IT consulting company in high school and furthered its efforts during his college career at the Robert H. Smi...

Neil Littman is the Founder, CEO, and Managing Director of Bioverge, a company founded on a mission to make healthcare venture capital more accessible, transparent, and affordable to a greater number of investors. Neil believes that we should all have the opportunity to invest in life-saving technologies AND have the chance to generate outsized financial returns. Neil's career spans across the hea...

Tobin "Toby" Trevarthen is the CEO/Founder of Spatial Shift, LLC, a Strategic Narrative Design consultancy, and CEO/Co-Founder of The Narrative Playbook, a Narrative Design Lab. Toby is a modern elder and curious polymath that brings over 30 years of executive management knowledge to his pioneering narrative work. His background represents a consistent thread of revenue creation, solving for compl...

Ryan Prior is a journalist and author whose recent book "The Long Haul," a gripping and compassionate narrative on the "Long COVID" phenomenon, recently won the Silver Award in it's field at the Nautilis Awards. As a Journalist, Ryan has written and produced hundreds of stories under byline across The Century Foundation, CNN, USA Today, and the Daily Beast. At CNN, Ryan has worked on projects acro...

Frances West is the Founder of FrancesWest&Co, a global strategy advisory company focusing on operationalizing diversity inclusion through digital transformation. Frances brings to the table 30+ years of experience across a variety of fields. She has held numerous executive positions, including being IBM's first Chief Accessibility Officer, where she managed a global team to establish IT accessibi...

Dan Lappin is the President and Founder of Lappin180. As a leading keynote speaker and elite-level sales performance consultant, Dan delivers the Lappin180 method to hundreds of clients from Prague to New York. Dan's innovative message weaves psychology, human nature, and philosophy with 30 years of practical experience. He is a student of many influences – business leaders, Navy SEALs, Tibetan mo...

David Yudis is the Founder and President of Potential Selves, a unique consultancy that delivers organization improvement products for varied clientele.   David is a facilitator who masterfully moves high potential leaders into outcomes that exceed every expectation. He has a depth of experience working closely with global, senior executives to build their skills in leading others to compete durin...

Dennis Crowley is an accomplished Senior Executive and Entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience across the technology, services, and security industries. Dennis is a Founder of Apollo Security International and was responsible for overseeing the growth of Apollo from a small family business to a major player in the security industry.  After negotiating a successful sale to Allied Univers...

Hope saturates every message Allen Hunt shares. A four-time #1 Amazon best-selling author, Allen collaborated with Matthew Kelly to write the wildly popular book, No Regrets: A Fable about Living Your Fourth Quarter Intentionally. In No Regrets, Allen and Matthew share a powerful secret: the 5 Keys to Living and Dying with No Regrets.   Allen shares his life-changing discoveries and coaching on hi...

In the nine years since Sara Stibitz began her professional writing career, she has ghostwritten New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers and developed and edited dozens of self-published books. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Harvard Business Review, New York Magazine, Spoilage Literary magazine, and many more. She writes on the topics of business, travel,...

Colin Hunter is an Author, Mentor, Entrepreneur, Coach, and CEO of PotentialSquared, a business that was created to inspire leaders by disrupting the way they engage and develop their people. Colin is passionate about creating immersive, measurable, and virtual playgrounds to disrupt the way people are led and inspire new ways of thinking, systems, and habits. Through award-winning leadership, per...

Scott White is an Author, Speaker, and Executive better known by his nickname, the "Life is Too Short Guy," because he lives every day with intense zest, enthusiasm, and excitement. Scott has an infectious personality he uses to make the world happier one smile at a time. He is the Chairman and CEO of Invesque, a public real estate investment company that specializes in health care and senior livi...

Kareem Abukhadra is the Founder of Relentless (also called joinrelentless), a platform that helps ambitious job seekers find their dream job with less effort. Relentless promises to help participants land 10+ interviews per month with minimal time commitment and work by identifying the best roles to target, automating interview scheduling, interview coaching, and negotiating the highest possible o...

Lisa Nicole Bell is a multidisciplinary creator at the intersection of media and technology as a storyteller and entrepreneur. She is the creator, executive producer, and host of Behind the Brilliance, a weekly podcast featuring conversations with an eclectic mix of creatives, innovators, and entrepreneurs. Lisa directed and produced The Emerging Artist Series, a digital docu-series, with Academy-...

Erik Huberman is the founder and CEO of Hawke Media, the highly successful marketing agency that's helped grow over 3,000 brands worldwide, and is known as Your Outsourced CMO®. Erik is a well-known writer and thought leader in the marketing and e-commerce spaces. His work appears across top-tier publications like Rolling Stone, Forbes, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Inc., and more as well as on...