Time4Coffee Podcast

Tom Knox is a Partner and Strategic Advisor at the law firm, Morrison Foerster, where he counsels clients on corporate, financing, technology transactions and sourcing matters, serving as a strategic advisor to companies in the technology, media, life sciences, transportation, manufacturing and government services sectors, and to investors in such companies.  Today his career is the perfect bridge...

Fueled by a mug of ginger tea, this ‘caffeinated career conversation’ is presided over by Judge Julie Breslow, who serves as Magistrate Judge in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Judge Breslow was appointed to the court in 2002 and in her impressive 16 years on the bench has taken on exclusively family court cases. These include cases dealing with juvenile delinquency, adoptions, dom...

Francis Hoang — aka France — is a veteran entrepreneur who has used his impressive skills and experience to build companies across the industries of law, aerospace, and technology. Born into war, France fled Vietnam as a refugee to the United States in the 1970’s and eventually attended West Point, where he graduated in the top 1% of his class. As a Partner with FH+H, France represents, advises, a...

Raj Kumar is the founding President & Editor-in-Chief of Devex , the media platform for the global development community. A social entrepreneur and digital media executive, he’s been a part of nine presidential campaigns and was a co-founder of a successful financial information company. Raj saw the world-shaping potential of Devex while a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School a...

Ann Mei Chang is the Executive Director of Lean Impact at Lean Startup Co ., a company that encourages all organizations to think like startups. She is also the author of the new book LEAN IMPACT: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good , which takes a closer look at the idea of applying entrepreneurial thinking to social problem-solving.  After graduating, she went to work in Silicon Va...

Dennis Whittle has worked for the past 30 years in philanthropy and aid. He is currently the co-founder and CEO at Feedback Labs a consortium that aims to change the norms in development, aid, and philanthropic policy to be more responsive to those in need. Dennis also co-founded and was the CEO of GlobalGiving , a global crowdfunding platform for grassroots charitable projects. Forbes magazine ca...

Christina Lukeman is Head of Investor Relations at Agora , a Latin American organization founded in 2005 as a modern-day “public square” that brings together key stakeholders to accelerate social entrepreneurship.  Christina builds relationships with social entrepreneurs and investors who are looking to put their money toward a worthwhile cause. Since its founding in 2005, this organization has be...

Nathalie Molina Niño is the CEO of BRAVA Investments where she is committed to delivering returns to investors while making a catalytic impact on women in the world. She is also the author of the new book: LEAPFROG, The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs . In LEAPFROG, Nathalie provides her readers and aspiring entrepreneurs with 50 hacks to help them jump over the many obstacles facing women...

Florence William’s career as a journalist, author, podcaster, and reporter has frequently focused on the environment, health and science. On this episode of Time4Coffee, Florence discusses the health benefits of spending more time in the great outdoors, and how just one hour a week in nature can heighten your mood, improve your health, and ultimately make your life much better. She has gleaned the...

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....

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...

Dr. Bill Stixrud and Ned Johnson are the co-authors of The Self-Driven Child: the Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives .  The main thesis of this incredible book is that the best thing you can do for your child is to give them the freedom to fail. Don’t be fooled by the term “child” though, the advice in this episode is extremely relevant to 18-25 year old Java Junki...

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...

In his teens and early 20s, Levi Meeuwenberg 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 stunt man in The Avengers (he brie...

Peter Loge is an expert in the realm of politics in public policy, serving in senior positions for three members of the House of Representatives, the late Senator Kennedy, and during the Obama Administration when he was appointed a senior advisor to the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, a position which was created for him. Drawing from his decades of experience on the soccer field...

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 wa...

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. Most recen...

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 his mind.   After graduating, Chris spent a short time working with Anheuser-Busch helping them engineer their aluminum cans to be more efficient. But,...

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...

Hugh Byrne has practiced meditation for 30 years and completed a four-year meditation teacher training program with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein and other senior Insight Meditation teachers in 2000. Hugh also teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and is a certified practitioner in Somatic Experiencing, a mind-body approach to healing trauma.  Hugh has a law degree from London Unive...