Time4Coffee Podcast

Adam Broda is a senior manager of product in the tech industry and the founder of Broda Coaching , which helps people land tech and non-tech roles in the technology industry. An engineer by academic training, Adam started out his career working at Boeing as a tooling engineer and by the time he left had been promoted to a senior production engineering manager.  After Boeing, Adam pivoted to work a...

Justin Welsh is the founder of JW Strategic Advisory , offering SaaS consulting to new SaaS startups like Klara , and Optimize. Health . SaaS stands for software as a service which is a cloud-based service paid for through a subscription. Prior to launching his own firm, Justin helped build two companies, PatientPop and ZocDoc .  Each company has had over $50 million in yearly recurring revenue (Y...

Jimmy Hickey is the owner and co-founder of Findlay Hats , a Portland-based action hat company known for its patented stampede lace. Jimmy launched Findlay Hats out of his living room in 2013 with the help of his then-girlfriend. At the time, Jimmy was working as a photographer and was looking for a project to fill the dry winter months. The brand quickly grew and has moved out of Jimmy’s living r...

Jerry Lee is the co-founder of Wonsulting , a company that teaches people the skills they need to go after their dream job. Jerry has a range of clients, from college students trying to land internships to seasoned professionals trying to make the next big step in their career. As a college student Jerry spent hundreds of hours applying to internships without getting a single offer. Until he broke...

Emily Cunningham is the senior business program manager at Lyft ,* dedicated to building workplace culture. She is also a member of the board of directors at ColorStack , a group that works towards increasing the entrance, retention and success of Black and Latinx students going for technical careers. Previously, Emily worked as a senior business program manager at Microsoft and as a technical rec...

Jude Charles is a filmmaker, brand-strategist and entrepreneur who founded his company, Jude Charles , when he was only 17-years old. As a story-driven filmmaker, Jude works within the documentary genre to tell his clients’ stories and showcase the successful businesses they’ve created. Among his clients: celebrity makeup and fitness entrepreneur, Keyshia Ka’oir Davis; multi-million dollar copywri...

Jude Charles is a filmmaker, brand-strategist and entrepreneur who founded his company, Jude Charles , when he was only 17-years old. As a story-driven filmmaker, Jude works within the documentary genre to tell his clients’ stories and showcase the successful businesses they’ve created. Among his clients: celebrity makeup and fitness entrepreneur, Keyshia Ka’oir Davis; multi-million dollar copywri...

Jonathan Javier is the founder and CEO of Wonsulting , a company dedicated to helping those from non-target schools or non-traditional backgrounds get their dream careers. His mission: “To turn underdogs into winners.” Jonathan attended the University of California, Riverside with a major in Business Administration and a concentration in Finance. After graduating he applied unsuccessfully to the B...

Jude Charles is a filmmaker, brand-strategist and entrepreneur who founded his company, Jude Charles , when he was only 17-years old. As a story-driven filmmaker, Jude works within the documentary genre to tell his clients’ stories and showcase the successful businesses they’ve created. Among his clients: celebrity makeup and fitness entrepreneur, Keyshia Ka’oir Davis; multi-million dollar copywri...

Jessica Yellin is the founder of #NewsNotNoise , where she delivers daily news reports on Instagram without the anxiety-inducing frenzy you may find in traditional broadcast news. She launched #NewsNotNoise in 2018 after feeling like a large audience, mostly made up of women, had been turned off to watching news due to the hysteria, shouting and partisanship found in cable and legacy broadcast new...

Bruno Del Granado is an entertainment industry executive and the Head of the Miami office of Creative Artist Agency (CAA) , which is one of the best known talent and sports agencies in America. Bruno has over 25 years of experience in the film production, broadcasting and music industry, working with stars including:   Gloria Estefan , Luis Fonsi , Ricky Martin and Maluma. He started in the indust...

Courtney Spaeth is the founder and CEO of growth[period] , which helps federal agencies and private sector companies achieve smart growth through goal-oriented business development. Among their clients: Lockheed Martin, Verizon, Genesis, Stanley Black & Decker, and more. Prior to founding growth[period] in 2007, Courtney served as Corporate Vice President of Homeland Security for Raytheon Comp...

Dave Burwick is the president and CEO of The Boston Beer Company , the creator of popular alcoholic beverages such as Samuel Adams beer, Twisted Tea , and Truly Hard Seltzer . Dave launched his consumer goods career at PepsiCo , where he served in a variety of chief and executive marketing roles during the 20 years he spent there. One of these roles included being the brand manager and director fo...

Elizabeth Mitchell is the president and CEO of the Pacific Business Group on Health , a nonprofit coalition representing some of the country’s largest and most influential private employers and public purchasers. She graduated from Reed College with a degree in religion, and went on to get elected to the Maine State Legislature as a single mom in her mid-20’s.  Elizabeth also served as president a...

Dan Mian is a marketing professional at British Telecom, also known as BT, where he is responsible for the marketing strategy and execution of four specialist businesses. Dan has more than six years of experience in marketing, sales, operations and commercial roles. He graduated from Loughborough University in 2015 with a BS in geography and economics. In 2019, Dan founded Gradvance , a company to...

Rose Catherine is a creative senior-level scripted programming and development executive. She’s worked in TV networks, studios and independent production companies.  Nowadays, Rose Catherine leads the scripted development team of the original programming department, and staff, for BET and BET+ . In this role, she’s helped to create the critically acclaimed “ Twenties ,” “ First W...

Rose Catherine is a creative senior-level scripted programming and development executive. She’s worked in TV networks, studios and independent production companies. Nowadays, Rose Catherine leads the scripted development team of the original programming department, and staff, for BET and BET+. In this role, she’s helped to create the critically acclaimed “Twenties,” “First Wives...

Rose Catherine Pinkney is a creative senior-level scripted programming and development executive. She’s worked in TV networks, studios and independent production companies.  Currently, Rose Catherine leads the scripted development team of the original programming department, and staff, for BET and BET+ . In this role, she’s helped to create the critically acclaimed “ Twenties ,” &#8220...

Rose Catherine is a creative senior-level scripted programming and development executive. She’s worked in TV networks, studios and independent production companies.  Nowadays, Rose Catherine leads the scripted development team of the original programming department, and staff, for BET and BET+. In this role, she’s helped to create the critically acclaimed “Twenties,” “First Wives...

Rose Catherine is a creative senior-level scripted programming and development executive. She’s worked in TV networks, studios and independent production companies.  Nowadays, Rose Catherine leads the scripted development team of the original programming department, and staff, for BET and BET+ . In this role, she’s helped to create the critically acclaimed “ Twenties ,” “ First W...

Paul Pagnato is the CEO and Founder of PagnatoKarp , a top family office with over $4.8 billion in assets under advisement. Recently, Forbes ranked him as the number one financial advisor in Virginia (29th in the United States), and Barron ranked him at #2. Prior to founding PagnatoKarp, Paul worked at Merrill Lynch for 19 years, where he founded its Private Banking and Investment Office in Washin...

Tracy Allen is CEO of Brewed Behavior, a consulting company that offers comprehensive support to all segments of the coffee industry. Brewed Behavior works primarily with coffee roasters and coffee producing countries to improve their marketing efforts and sales programs. Tracy started his coffee career immediately after college at Proctor and Gamble where he was hired as a beverage specialist ass...

Cloe Shasha Brooks is the Speaker Development Curator for TED , a non-profit organization focused on sharing ideas through short, powerful speeches and presentations. TED stands for “technology, entertainment, design” and it is Cloe’s job to research and choose potential new speakers to share their ideas onTED’s stage, podcast and video programs. Through her work, she helps speakers write and deve...

Alden Zecha is a founding partner at We Scale Impact , a consulting firm that focuses on supporting early stage social enterprise clients. He is also Managing Director for an angel investment group, Sidecar Angels . Over the course of his career he has raised over $50 million in capital for a variety of ventures. Even though Alden majored in Chemical Engineering at Princeton University , he has wo...

Andrew Cohen is a Senior Enterprise Account Executive within the Higher Education Vertical at LinkedIn where he helps his customers achieve success by leveraging social media, content marketing and the LinkedIn platform.  An 11-year LinkedIn veteran, Andrew advises brick-and-mortar institutions, online universities, ed-tech companies, media agencies and online program management firms on driving g...