A Tribe Called Yes™ with Daron K. Roberts

Evan Baehr is the cofounder of Able, an online lender to small businesses. It launched June 2014 with the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Interview and on TechCrunch. His passion at Able is to serve the Fortune 5 Million – the 5.8 million small businesses that represent the backbone of the American economy. His previous startup was Outbox, a consumer internet company aiming to takeover the US Postal Service and backed by venture capitalists Peter Thiel and Mike Maples, on Fox News, CNN, TechCrunch, FastCompany, Wall Street Journal, INC, the New York Times, and on Jay Leno. He is coauthor of Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams from Harvard Business Press (2015), which has hit #1 in Amazon's business new releases. Evan has worked on the Facebook platform under Sheryl Sandberg, helping shape a vision to make life better by making it social, and for Peter Thiel building a political data company. He’s an honors graduate of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, Yale Divinity School, and Harvard Business School.He has worked for the American Enterprise Institute’s Charles Murray, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, served as a legislative aid on the House Appropriations Committee under Rep. Frank Wolf, was Chief of Staff on the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, under which he wrote the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act, and was the failed candidate for Princeton’s City Council, despite receiving more votes than George W. Bush. He has served on the board of the Manhattan Institute’s Adam Smith Society, the New Canaan Society, the Rivendell Institute, and Harvard Business School's FIELD Program, and is a mentor with First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund. He cofounded the Hoover Institute’s Rising Fellows Program, Harvard Business School’s Ideas@Work, Princetonians in the Nation’s Service, and the Yale Forum on Faith and Politics. He is the recipient of the Lily Endowment Thesis Prize, the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, and Princeton’s James Madison Fellowship. He lives in Austin, TX, with his wife, Kristina Scurry Baehr, a patent litigator, and children Cooper and Madeleine.

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Emmanuel Acho is a free agent linebacker for the National Football League. Drafted by the Cleveland Browns, he spent the last three seasons as a Philadelphia Eagle. During his career at the University of Texas, Acho won the 2010 Arthur Ashe Award and was a three-time first team Academic All-Big12 selection. He is co-host of ESPN’s “Texas Game Day” and a recent addition to FOX 7 Good Day Austin's morning team each Monday. Acho has served as a Special Correspondent for FOX Business Network on the business of sports and as a football analyst. He also serves on the Advisory Board for SXSW Sports in Austin.In this episode, Acho talks about how strategy has separated him from the rest of his peers. From the NFL gridiron to the production set of ESPN, Acho has excelled at all levels, and he just got started.Follow Acho @themanacho and check out his website: themanacho.com

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Daron K. Roberts is a Harvard Law grad turned NFL Coach turned University of Texas lecturer. In this episode, Daron introduces the world to his improbable story of shunning lucrative attorney positions in order to follow his purpose - coaching young men. Want to reach out to Daron? Contact him at @CoachDKR or [email protected]. Visit www.coachdkr.com to learn more.

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