About

On Choose the Hard Way, guests from pro sports, tech, business, the arts, the military & more share stories about how hard things build stronger humans with host Andrew Vontz.

Vontz has spent more than 25 years telling the stories of the world’s top performers, brands & businesses as a journalist, communications executive & advisor.

As a journalist, Vontz has published hundreds of stories about subjects including Daft Punk, Kanye West, Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Jack LaLanne, Katie Holmes, the Tour de France & more for dozens of outlets including Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, Salon & Outside Magazine.

At the social network for athletes, Strava, Vontz was a communications executive & helped the company reach profitability & grow to 100 million+ users.

He helped the human performance company TRX become known as a leader in the space & a category-defining brand and product.

Today, Vontz is an entrepreneur. His consultancy, Big Truck, transforms leaders into high-performance communicators & he helps companies develop high-impact narratives and communications strategies that drive core business outcomes & build & defend their reputations.

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