Time4Coffee Podcast

Emily Fletcher is founder of Ziva and the creator of the Ziva Meditation Technique , which combines mindfulness, meditation and manifesting to promote high performance. A former musical theatre performer on Broadway, Emily came to the practice of meditation when she realized that she’d achieved her dream of acting on Broadway, and yet she was miserable. She was experiencing extremely high levels o...

Harvard medical school’s Dr. Steven Schlozman, the co-director of MGH’s Clay Center for Healthy Young Minds, has been obsessed with zombies since he was in elementary school. He loved sneaking into the movie theater and watching suspenseful, gory zombie films– especially without his parents’ permission. It wasn’t until his 20s that Dr. Schlozman realized his second passion: psychiatry....

Elise Gaston Chand has held a number of titles in a few different fields, since she graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College (now Randolph-Macon College).  She started out as a reporter working on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.. Elise then entered the field of human resources, where she worked for 3 decades for marquee companies like Starbucks and Yum! Brands– owner of KFC, Taco Bell...

Levi Meeuwenberg is passionate about permaculture now, but in his 20’s he was flipping off of walls, somersaulting over railings, and performing impossible stunts across the US as a professional parkour and stunt man. His extraordinary acrobatic skills helped him land gigs as a parkour dancer on one of Madonna’s World tours, as a star competitor on Japan’s Sasuke Ninja Warrior, and even as a...

Peter Loge is an Associate Professor at The George Washington University school of Media and Public Affairs where he shares his wisdom on communications, politics, and management with his many students.  An expert in public policy, Peter has served in senior positions for three members of the House of Representatives, the late Senator Kennedy, and during the Obama Administration when he was appoin...

Joe De Sena, the CEO of Spartan Race , has always been guided by his entrepreneurial drive. Before applying to Cornell University, Joe had already built a multimillion dollar pool business in his hometown New York City in which he cleaned the pools of a Mob boss. After graduating from Cornell, where he majored in Textiles (and that’s a story you gotta hear), Joe’s passion took him to Wall St...

Eve Rosenbaum is the Manager of International Scouting* for the 2017 World Series Champion Houston Astros.  It’s a dream come true for this baseball lover who played ball most of her life, including playing softball at Harvard University.  In fact, Eve was a w alk-on member of the Varsity Softball team; four-year Varsity letter winner; two-time Ivy League Champion during her time at Harvard. She w...

George Leon is the CEO and founder of Cakewalk Entertainment, a full-service promotional marketing entertainment agencies which pushes entertainment properties and brands beyond the silver screen and into consumers’ everyday lives. With more than 25 years of experience, Leon is a one-of-a-kind specialist in global promotions and franchise development in the entertainment space. As EVP of Sony Pict...

Hope Greenberg is the co-Founder of Soapbox Strategists a digital media agency that helps clients capture hearts (and dollars) in the online world.  But Hope’s journey to where she is today began in the analog world. She spent nine years as the fashion director at Lucky Magazine, prior to which she was the fashion director at Self Magazine and an editor at Mirabella and Harper’s Bazaar. Hope has a...

Chris Luecke is a Sales & Marketing Account Manager at Rockwell Automation*, and the host of Pubcast Worldwide podcast. When he graduated from Marquette University 2009 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Marketing was the farthest thing from Chris’s mind.  He spent a short time working with Anheuser-Busch helping them engineer their aluminum cans to be more efficient. But, after they...

Becky D’Anna is the Executive Director of International Marketing Partnerships at Sony Pictures Entertainment and has been obsessed with movies since she was a child. After graduating from USC with a B.S. in Marketing, she spent months temping at Sony Pictures and the Walt Disney Company, where she was able to, once again, view the film industry through many different lenses. While she hit a few b...

Jonathan Sackett is the President & CCO of Allscope* media and communications.  He attended the University of Minnesota where he majored in Marketing and Public Relations and minored in Psychology– and was one of those lucky people who knew from the start that breaking into advertising was his professional dream. He took a brief detour when he went to law school for a year, but  –a...

Fatima Doman is a best selling author, speaker, executive coach and CEO of Authentic Strengths Advantage who has motivated audiences across six continents to leverage their authentic strengths for transformation. Fatima is passionate about empowering people for sustainable high performance—at work and in life. Her experience fleeing Angola on the eve of its civil war, informs her work to help peop...

Elise Museles is an attorney turned Certified Eating Psychology & Nutrition Expert. She helps women stuck in a motivation-to-frustration cycle adopt a more joyful & positive approach to nourishment that starts with the food on the plate, but ultimately extends to all areas of their lives. Elise is the creator of Food Story and the wildly popular blog, Kale & Chocolate . Her advice and...

Ulrik Nerløe is the founder of Unified People , a Danish consulting firm he started in 2010 that provides executive mentoring and coaching to train CEOs and C-suite executives how to express their feelings and find their inner strength. At the start of his professional life, Ulrik worked in the Danish fashion industry for a couple of years before he decided that that path wasn’t quite the right fi...

Lauren Zander is the Co-Founder and Chairwoman of Handel Group, an international consulting and life coaching company that prides itself in improving its client’s personal and professional lives. She also developed the Handel Method, which is taught in over 35 educational institutions around the world including MIT, NYU, Stanford, and the New York City Public Schools. Using the knowledge gle...

Provash Budden is Regional Director for the Americas at Mercy Corps, with 20 years of experience in international development.  In this role he leads programs on land rights, access to education, economic development, violence prevention, natural resource management and support to displaced communities affected by conflict. Provash has designed and implemented programs for Mercy Corps in Colombia...

Dr. Deepmala Mahla is Country Director in Iraq for the global humanitarian and development NGO, Mercy Corps.  Prior to working in Iraq, Deepmala was Mercy Corps’ Country Director in South Sudan. During her 20 years in international development, Deepmala has worked for a constellation of top NGOs including Marie Stopes International, Oxfam, CARE and the Louis Berger Group.  And while she can’t imag...

Joe Bubman is the Technical Lead for Integrating Approaches in Complex Crises at one of the world’s largest humanitarian and development NGOs, Mercy Corps. Previously, Joe served as Acting Director of Peace and Conflict where he supported the development and implementation of conflict management programs in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.  Joe is also the co-founder and CEO of the Super...

Chris Walker is the Director of Social Innovations at Mercy Corps, where he manages the Innovation Investment Alliance, a partnership between the Skoll Foundation and USAID that finances the scale-up of social enterprises. He also advises Mercy Corps’ Social Venture Fund, which invests in and accelerates impact-oriented, for-profit businesses.  Prior to joining Mercy Corps in 2015, Chris directed...

04Prior to joining Mercy Corps in 2012, David worked in Uganda as an energy project specialist working for the Uganda Carbon Bureau.  He has also worked at Development Alternatives Inc (DAI) supporting a Climate Change knowledge platform called InfoSpring, an integrated ICT based innovation and knowledge sharing tool for development practitioners. David received his undergraduate BSc degree in Bus...

Robert Draper has been a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine , for the last decade, where he covers domestic politics. He’s also worked as a contributing writer to National Geographic since 2007.  During his reporting adventures, he has traveled to the all-male monastic community of Greece’s Mount Athos as well as to volatile corners of the world like Somalia, Afghanistan, the De...

Spencer Bokat-Lindell is an Associate Editor* at the online media outlet Axios , Greek for “worthy.” But well before he was simplifying expert opinions to make them worthy of the public’s time, he was peeling white asparagus at Colicchio & Sons restaurant in Manhattan where he interned one summer during college. Spencer has worn many hats since he began his collegiate career at Yale University...

Benjamin Wittes is the Editor-in-Chief and co-Founder of the Lawfare blog, an online publication dedicated to national security issues, published by the Lawfare Institute in cooperation with the Brookings Institution.  Lawfare was started by Ben and Robert Chesney, Texas at Austin law professor.  And what began as a fun little project in 2010, quickly turned into a massive news source for those in...

Dr. Ellen Vora is a board certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and yoga teacher, who takes a functional approach to mental health treatment. She believes in looking at her patients holistically, and addressing challenges at the source rather than with medication. Ellen specializes in depression, anxiety, insomnia, women’s mental health, adult ADHD, bipolar, autoimmunity, and digestive issues. Af...