Time4Coffee Podcast

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...

Brian Solis is a Digital Analyst and Digital Anthropologist who left college before graduating so that he could pursue his passion. He had always been interested in technological advancements and their influence over both businesses and individuals, so he decided to combine them into one job description. Brian studies the trajectory of disruptive technologies and evaluates how they will affect hum...

Mike Steep is the Executive Director of the Digital Cities Program at Stanford University and an adjunct professor. He works in the field of disruptive technology where he analyzes innovation in the tech industry and its ability to change and improve life in urban centers. He got his B.A. in American Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Business School in the late ‘70s and the...

Mick Ebeling is an award-winning film, television, and commercial producer, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and public speaker. He is the founder and CEO of The Ebeling Group, an international production company and creative think tank representing some of the world’s leading design/director collectives. Mick is also the founder of Not Impossible Labs, an online crowd-sourcing platform instigating t...

Betsy West is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and educator and the co-Director & co-Producer of the film RGB about now deceased U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.   A producer and executive for over two decades at ABC News, Betsy received 21 Emmy Awards and two DuPont-Columbia Awards for her work on “Nightline” and “Prime Time Live” and the documentary program “Turning Poin...

Ladan Davia is the founder and CEO of Beeya, a meta-search engine and employee matching platform that has partnerships with companies including Zip Recruiter, Indeed, and Nexxt.   Her dream, or so she thought, when she graduated from Chapman University in 2014 was to become a hard news reporter. Fortunately, she realized before she graduated the quality of life (there isn’t any) of an entry-...

Sanam Rastegar is a Senior Associate at McLarty Associates*, a boutique firm specializing in international strategic consulting.  She also speaks 5 languages — 3 of them fluently and had 3 interesting summer internships which she believes helped her hone skills that she’s putting to use now in her job.  In those internships, Sanam got to try her hand at marketing, merchandising and ass...

Seth Goldman, co-founder of Honest Tea, dipped his tea bag into the world of entrepreneurship when he co-founded Honest Tea in 1998. These days Seth is a multi-millionaire and Honest Tea is owned by the Coca-Cola company.  It’s sold nationwide in 170,000 retailers and is expanding globally …in Europe as Honest Coffee in Spain, a sparkling lemonade in Switzerland and a chocolate drink i...

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 PhD 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 wrote...

Mark Hyman, MD, believes that we all deserve a life of vitality—and that we have the potential to create it for ourselves. That’s why he is dedicated to tackling the root causes of chronic disease by harnessing the power of Functional Medicine to transform healthcare. Dr. Hyman and his team work every day to empower people, organizations, and communities to heal their bodies and minds, and improve...

Vivek Wadhwa’s advice to parents who ask him what their kids should study in college to be guaranteed a job when they graduate?  Let them study what makes them happy .  What are they interested in studying, he asks parents?  This episode is chockablock with sage advice and revealing insights into one of our world’s deepest thinkers about how to become a truly fulfilled, successful and happy studen...

Sarah Robb O’Hagan learned the hard way why professionals who thrive must ‘step up’, ‘stand out’ and ‘kick ass’. And, oh yeah, why it’s essential to repeat all of the above if you want to succeed!  As CEO of Flywheel Sports*, the fast growing indoor cycling company, Sarah is on the cutting edge as a leader in the fitness industry which is currently experiencing a major transformation through digit...

Dr. Arthur Brooks is an impressive guy. He is a NYT’s bestselling author, a social scientist, and the president of the American Enterprise Institute*, a non-partisan public policy think tank in Washington, D.C where Arthur works with top scholars, policymakers, and elected officials to fight for for all Americans’ access to free enterprise and earned success. He’s also a guru on how to build...

NPR’s Guy Raz is the man behind the microphone — and the magic — of 3 top-ranked Apple Podcast shows:   How I Built This, TED Radio Hour,  and  Wow in the World . In 2016, he became the first podcast creator to have 3 shows in the Apple Podcast chart’s Top 20 shows — at the same time.  However, as he tells T4C host Andrea Koppel, before he made it to the pinnacle of his profession, Guy had to deal...

Michael Counts is an artist, entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of immersive entertainment also known as transportive entertainment.  In other words, Michael creates large-scale entertainment experiences that involve the audience as a participant.  He is the founder of entertainment production company, Counts Projects , and the career coaching company, A-Plan Coaching . Over the years, Michael...

Michael Counts is an artist, entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of immersive entertainment also known as transportive entertainment.  In other words, Michael creates large-scale entertainment experiences that involve the audience as a participant.  He is the founder of entertainment production company, Counts Projects , and the career coaching company, A-Plan Coaching . Over the years, Michael...

Michael Counts is an artist, entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of immersive entertainment also known as transportive entertainment.  In other words, Michael creates large-scale entertainment experiences that involve the audience as a participant.  He is the founder of entertainment production company, Counts Projects , and the career coaching company, A-Plan Coaching . Over the years, Michael...

Michael Counts is an artist, entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of immersive entertainment also known as transportive entertainment.  In other words, Michael creates large-scale entertainment experiences that involve the audience as a participant.  He is the founder of entertainment production company, Counts Projects , and the career coaching company, A-Plan Coaching . Over the years, Michael...

Michael Counts is an artist, entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of immersive entertainment also known as transportive entertainment.  In other words, Michael creates large-scale entertainment experiences that involve the audience as a participant.  He is the founder of entertainment production company, Counts Projects , and the career coaching company, A-Plan Coaching . Over the years, Michael...

Justin Dauer is the vice president of human-centered design and development at bswift , a software as a service company in the healthcare industry. After years of being unhappy in his work, Justin quit his job and searched for a company with truly good workplace culture. Eventually he found a job working for a Swedish company where they embraced the idea of human centered design . That’s a type of...

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; $700mm in sales, copywriting...

Michael Counts is an artist, entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of immersive entertainment also known as transportive entertainment.  In other words, Michael creates large-scale entertainment experiences that involve the audience as a participant.  He is the founder of entertainment production company, Counts Projects , and the career coaching company, A-Plan Coaching . Over the years, Michael...

Justin Welsh is the founder of JW Strategic Advisory , offering SaaS consulting to new SaaS startups like Klara , and Optimize. Health , which have each pulled in $15 million a year. SaaS stands for software as a service or a cloud-based service which is accessed from an application and paid for through a subscription. Justin brings over 10 years of experience to his clients, during which time he...

Justin Welsh is the founder of JW Strategic Advisory , offering SaaS consulting to new SaaS startups like Klara , and Optimize. Health , which have each pulled in $15 million a year. SaaS stands for software as a service or a cloud-based service which is accessed from an application and paid for through a subscription. Justin brings over 10 years of experience to his clients, during which time he...

Justin Welsh is the founder of JW Strategic Advisory , offering SaaS consulting to new SaaS startups like Klara , and Optimize. Health , which have each pulled in $15 million a year. SaaS stands for software as a service or a cloud-based service which is accessed from an application and paid for through a subscription. Justin brings over 10 years of experience to his clients, during which time he...