Where Coffee Gets Spilled

When two humans come together, their nervous systems regulate and co-regulate.  Hear Jennifer Anderson share what that means for our health and well-being in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

The heart knows what is needed. Watch Jennifer Anderson explain why we so often ignore it in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

She picked her college major because she was good at it, not because she knew where it would lead. Jennifer Anderson wasn't sure what she wanted to do when she started college, so she leaned into math, the subject that came easiest. It led her to a top consulting firm, where she wrote code for mainframe systems. She was good at it but found the work so boring that her interest shifted to optimizat...

Are you focused on what you're physically doing or how it's making a difference? Listen to Ryan Clark discuss what it means to find purpose in your work in this clip from his episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

How are you helping others grow and be successful? Watch Ryan Clark talk about what it means to take care of other people in this clip from his episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

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As a leader, do you find yourself jumping straight to problem solving? Hear Katie Kolon share what leaders skip before trying to fix anything in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

She lost her job in the middle of a recession. That same year, she discovered the work she's still doing fifteen years later. Katie Kolon was litigation director at a Chicago nonprofit when the grant funding her position disappeared during the recession. Around that same time, she found the Center for Conflict Resolution and took her first mediation training. She's been training, coaching, and med...

What if your "unrelated" career experiences are actually preparing you for the next opportunity? Before Nate Grossman sold a single product internationally, he had been: A nonprofit development director. A wilderness counselor for at-risk youth. A teacher in Korea. A teacher in Iraq's Kurdistan region. That last experience opened an unexpected door. Someone Nate met through a cycling group told hi...

When she decided to start her own business, it wasn't the right time. Listen to Susie Moon talk about how things changed once she got permission from her mom in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

What's one thing you have no idea if you could do, but you're not trying? Hear Susie Moon share advice on doing the hard things in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

She changed jobs so often early in her career that people looked down on her for it. Every one of those jobs turned out to matter. Susie Moon grew up the daughter of two entrepreneurs, putting up party tents and hanging awnings for her parents' manufacturing business as a kid. But she never joined the company herself. She worried that people would see her as a spoiled brat rather than someone who'...

Making a change can have its benefits. Hear John Stofflet share how his move from Seattle to Madison led to his connection to the community in this clip from his episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

Finding purpose doesn’t always mean keeping the spotlight on yourself. Listen to John Stofflet share what changed when he started measuring his career by what he could do for others, in this clip from his episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

In 1988, someone else got the job he wanted. He says it was the best thing that happened to him. John Stofflet was passed over for the main anchor position at WKOW in Madison, losing out to a candidate who later went on to Congress. He was in his late twenties and devastated, but instead of walking away from broadcasting, he started mailing audition tapes across the country. That rejection led to...

A neurosurgeon has one priority. An orthopedist has another. Somebody still has to call it. Hear Angie Ingraham share what it takes to manage competing priorities in trauma care in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

Embracing change is good, if not hard. Listen to Angie Ingraham share her takeaway in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

The person who helped shape the physician she became was assigned to her completely at random. Healthcare was always in the family for Angie Ingraham. Her mother worked as an OR nurse her entire career, and her father was a high school psychologist. She thought she'd become a pediatrician herself. Instead, her first week of medical school paired her, entirely by chance, with a trauma surgeon, and...

Don’t settle for what you think gives you comfort. Listen to Mindi Kessenich share how you might be missing out on all the gifts and opportunities you were given in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

When there's struggle, there's opportunity too. Watch Mindi Kessenich explain how she turns her hardest moments into a catapult in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

She once asked a broker where the mentors were in real estate. He told her that isn't how the industry works; nobody hands over their secrets. Her response? Watch me. Mindi Kessenich spent twelve years as a surgical tech in an orthopedic operating room, a career she loved but one with no room left to grow. A season of home staging while raising her kids turned into an unlikely opening in real esta...

When asked what she did, she said it quietly. She had just become Chief HR Officer for the State of Wisconsin. Hear how Jen Flogel went from uncertainty to conviction once she let the work show her why she belonged there in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

Curiosity isn't just a personality trait. It's a career strategy. Watch Jen Flogel share why staying curious will open doors and help you grow in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

What if not knowing exactly where you're going is actually the point? Jen Flogel never set out to be a generalist. She set out to be curious. And that curiosity walked her through finance, technology, change management, organizational design, compliance and eventually to the top HR role for the State of Wisconsin, not because she climbed a ladder, but because she kept asking how the pieces connect...

Most of us spend more energy on what we're not good at than what we are. In this clip, Ali Khaleel and Erich George dig into the 80/20 rule for strengths development and what it actually looks like in practice. Watch the full conversation in his episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.