Time4Coffee Podcast

65 months; 280 weeks and 1,120 episodes ago – the Time4Coffee Podcast was born. My former CNN colleague Guy Raz who is best known today for his many top-ranked podcast including How I Built This   was my very first guest. Over the last almost 5 ½ years I’ve had the delight to interview 100’s and 100’s of other people in dozens of industries about what they do in their jobs and how they built their...

John Wolpert is a Chief Product Officer, speaker and the author of The Two But Rule: Turn Negative Thinking Into Positive Solutions . He is also the founder of several companies including Tacitpath , Flywheel and Layer2.  At his heart, John is a creative innovator, known for spearheading industry-changing projects such as the Baseline Protocol. During his career John has held three roles at IBM in...

Dr. Arthur Brooks is the president of the American Enterprise Institute*, a non-partisan public policy think tank in Washington, D.C. He’s also a NYT’s bestselling author and a social scientist whose expertise is on how to build a happy life. At 19, Arthur dropped out of college to play the French horn professionally. He toured internationally and recorded several albums.  In his late 20s, A...

Dov Baron is a leadership and corporate cultural strategist who has twice been named by Inc. magazine as one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers. He is a leadership and corporate cultural strategist who has twice been named by Inc. magazine as one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers. Dov is author of the best selling book series: “Don’t Read This” .  He is also the host and producer of the “Fu...

Steve Rimland is the CEO of AIMeCAST , a multimedia podcasting platform that enables corporations to share content and knowledge in one central location. Before starting AIMeCAST in 2019, he worked as the founder and CEO of MedicDigital , a platform for Fortune 500 companies within the pharmaceutical world to engage and connect with their colleagues. Steve’s first foray into creating social networ...

Teri Ijeoma is the Founder and CEO of  “Invest with Teri” , an online courses teaching you how to make money day trading on Wall Street. She began her professional career working in education and for nonprofits.  When she started trading stocks more than a dozen years ago, she initially saw it as an opportunity to simply supplement her income. However, she was so successful with this side hustle t...

April Rinne is a global futurist. She has helped startups, policymakers, and even international organizations identify social and economic trends and become more responsible as a result.  A self-proclaimed travel junkie who ‘belongs to the world’, April works in more than 20 countries each year and has some incredible career advice every Java Junkie should hear. Spoiler alert:  April believes (and...

Dave Asprey is the founder of Bulletproof , a company dedicated to creating wellness products that fuel the mind and body. He is also the father of biohacking and a multiple New York Times bestselling science author of The Bulletproof Diet and Headstrong , and the Webby-award winning podcaster behind Bulletproof Radio . Prior to founding Bulletproof, Dave worked in various positions such as the pr...

Vivek Wadhwa is an academic, entrepreneur, and author of five best-selling books including: From Incremental to Exponential ; Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain — as well as The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future . He has been a globally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and has held appointm...

Dr. Jordan Soper is a certified sex therapist and the owner of the Center for Sexual Health and Wellness in Nevada. Dr. Soper’s mission is to normalize conversations about sex and help individuals address a wide range of issues including sexual health and functioning, anxiety, and trauma. She is also an author and active social media content creator!  To learn more about Dr. Soper’s field of work,...

Robert Berry is That Audit Guy , a CPA, trainer and keynote speaker with over 25 years of experience working for Winn Dixie, Deloitte, several banks and in higher education. His mission is to help auditors build better relationships in the workplace by helping them communicate better. Robert is also the author of the best-selling book, Ask, Get, Perform: The Auditors Essential Guide to Asking Bett...

Eric Koester is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and the founder of Manuscripts , a social venture, with a mission to create 10,000 new authors in the next 10 years. He is the only two-time entrepreneurship professor of the year at Georgetown University and was named 2020 National Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year for his innovative approach to authorship and book launches. Eric is al...

Dominic Imwalle is a Risk & Advisory Consultant at Deloitte , the largest professional services firm in the world.  He’s also the founder of DX Consulting and mentors job-seekers on how to reach the next level of their career. Dominic’s impressive post-grad journey began in 2020 and has been underscored by his commitment to learn, grow and push himself outside his comfort zone.  As of Septembe...

Jonathan Karp is President and Publisher* of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing . In this role he has overall responsibility for Simon & Schuster’s New York–based adult trade publishing, which includes Atria Books, Gallery Books, Scribner, Simon & Schuster, Touchstone and their associated sub-imprints and lines. He is also Publisher of the Simon & Schuster trade imprint. Jonathan  w...

Professor Cal Newport is a proud Millennial and a computer science professor who has never owned a social media account. Yup. You read this right. Newport has his Ph. D. in computer science from M.I.T and has deliberately eschewed Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc. because his research shows it’s bad for your brain and your ability to do deep thinking.  In fact, Dr. Newport wro...

Francis Q. Hoang is a veteran entrepreneur and partner in FH + H law firm, who has been on the founding teams of companies that have generated over $600 million of combined sales and employed over 1,200 professionals across the fields of law, aerospace, defense, government services, and technology. France also has over 20 years of national security experience with service in every branch of the U....

Dr. Sheila Akbar is the president and coo at Signet Education where she’s worked since 2010. She loves teaching and learning and finds nothing more rewarding than working closely with students to help them overcome the challenges they face.  Sheila’s wealth of experience teaching SAT, ACT, GRE, literature and composition began with her passion for Persian poetry. After she graduated from college S...

Rohini Rajgopal is a Senior Growth Operations Manager at Well , a health tech services company.  Prior to joining Well Rohini worked at Johnson & Johnson as an Access Innovation Contractor and as a Janssen Global Market Access intern.  Rohini started her post-grad career journey at Mercer , a human resources consulting firm.  Then four years after graduating, she returned to school to study pu...

This week’s T4C episode is our 7th mashup to celebrate Time4Coffee’s 5th anniversary this month.  Here’s a final batch of amazing 20-somethings who’ve been guests on the show over the last 5 years — sharing the advice they’d give themselves if they could go back to college.  This is the advice they wish someone had given them.  These are all young professionals who’ve been...

Shara Ruffin is the founder of Journey To Licensure , a coaching company that helps social workers become licensed in record time.   She is also an independently licensed clinical social worker and a former psychotherapist who specializes in grief, personality disorders, family trauma, compassion fatigue, among many other psychological challenges. Shara is a five time Amazon bestselling author, wi...

Fails are opportunities to grow. This isn’t just the power of positive thinking. It’s actually the power of a growth mindset.  And cultivating this mindset is a key ingredient in leveling up in your career and your life.  This week’s episode is a mashup of lessons learned from job and career fails shared by some of the 20-somethings who’ve been T4C guests over the last 5 years.   They include in o...

All this month we’re celebrating Time4Coffee’s 5th anniversary.  Far too often we think that the best career advice can only come from professionals who’ve been grinding it out for decades.  But imho the best career advice for a college student is usually advice from someone who is much closer to them in age.  So with that in mind we’ve pulled together another mash-up of the best...

This week’s T4C episode is our 4th mashup to celebrate Time4Coffee’s 5th anniversary this month.  We thought you’d enjoy hearing some of the very advice a bunch of incredible 20-somethings would give themselves if they could go back to college.  This is the advice they wish someone had given them.  These are all young professionals who’ve been featured on the podcast since its launch in August 201...

This week’s T4C episode is our 3rd mashup to celebrate Time4Coffee’s 5th anniversary next month.  For the next several weeks you’ll be hearing a bunch of mashups featuring some of the incredible 20-somethings who’ve been guests on the show. This week’s episode features the best advice these young professionals would give themselves, if they were still in college, based on the wisdom they have now....

This week’s T4C episode is another special mashup to celebrate Time4Coffee’s 5th anniversary next month.  For the next several weeks you’ll be hearing mashups featuring some of the incredible 20-somethings who’ve been guests on the show. This episode features how they recovered from fails, challenges and face-plants in their career journey.  In order of their appearance — this week’s guests includ...