Neal Schore didn't just build a company, he built an entire category, then walked away to solve a completely different problem: himself.
For over a decade, Neal was the founder and CEO of Triton Digital, the technology backbone of the digital audio industry, steering it through three major strategic moves involving Oaktree Capital Management, Vector Capital, The E.W. Scripps Company, and iHeartMedia. He chaired Westwood One through its NASDAQ sale, sat on the board of GAP Broadcasting through its acquisition by Townsquare Media, and spent years as Managing Partner & CEO of MMG, advising private equity firms and operating companies across tech, media, manufacturing, gaming, hospitality, and healthcare. Along the way, Ernst & Young named him Entrepreneur of the Year for Greater Los Angeles.
But the résumé isn't the story, it's what he learned building it. After 20+ years advising executives, boards, and PE firms across the country, Neal became convinced that the biggest thing standing between high performers and their next level isn't the market, the competition, or the clock. It's themselves, specifically the worry, the fear, and the obsessing over what other people think that quietly eats entire days.
That idea became The 25th Hour Group, the executive coaching and leadership firm he now leads as CEO, and it became his new book, The 25th Hour: How to Thrive (And Gain Ridiculous Amounts of Time) by Getting Out of Your Own Way (Simon & Schuster). His thesis: we don't lose time to tasks — we lose it to our reactions.
Neal is a Michigan State grad, a Harvard Business School Executive Education alum, and a longtime member of the Young Presidents' Organization. He lives in LA with his wife and three adult sons — and on this episode, he's handing over the playbook for finding a 25th hour in every single day
