Time4Coffee Podcast

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...

Life Coach Lauren Zander makes Time4Coffee to teach Java Junkies that it’s not just about what you want out of life, but how you get there as well. Lauren 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 i...

Provash Budden is Regional Director for the Americas at Mercy Corps , with 20 years of experience in international development, leading 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 and Sudan as a...

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...

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 and as a Senior Peace and Conflict Advisor where he supported the development and implementation of conflict management programs in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.  Jo...

David Nicholson is the Senior Director of the Environment, Energy & Climate Change Technical Support Team* (TSU) at Mercy Corps , a global humanitarian and development organization.  This team is responsible for honing Mercy Corps’ technical sector approaches and enhancing uptake across a global portfolio of development programs. Prior to joining Mercy Corps in 2012, David worked in Uganda as...

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 direct...

Spencer Bokat-Lindell is an Associate Editor* at the new 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 Univer...

Eric Weiner is a journalist and author of The New York Times bestseller The Geography of Bliss .   His most recent book, The Geography of Genius, has been called “smart, funny and utterly delightful” and has been translated into 20 languages. A number of high schools and universities have incorporated the book into their curricula. As a long-time foreign correspondent for National Public Radio , W...

Ben 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 .  It was started in September 2010 by Wittes, a former editorial writer for the Washington Post , Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith and University of Texas at Austin law profess...

Kelly Wallace is an Editor-at-Large and Digital Correspondent* at CNN where she spearheaded CNN’s multiplatform women’s digital content initiatives and created “Women’s Watch” e-newsletter.  She’s also worked as a White House correspondent, Mideast correspondent and National Correspondent for CNN covering some of the biggest news stories of the day. During her career as a top-notch journalist, Kel...

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, where he has traveled to numerous locations including Somalia and Afghanistan. For thirteen years, he was a correspondent for GQ Magazine. Seven years before that, he was a staff writer f...

Brian Solis left college before graduating so that he could pursue his passion. He chose to combine two of his biggest interests into a profession: technological advancements and their influences. Brian is a Digital Analyst and Digital Anthropologist.  He studies the trajectory of disruptive technologies and evaluates how they will affect humans and their businesses. He has written numerous books...

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 stude...

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. Mike received his M.B.A. in General Management and Finance from the University of Virginia Darden Business School in the 80s....

Lindy Morris Fishburne is the Managing Partner of Breakout Ventures , a venture capital fund. Lindy focuses on getting budding science and tech companies out of the lab and into the market. She is also the Executive Director of Breakout Labs which allows independent researchers and early-stage companies to advance their most radical ideas. Breakout Labs is not a typical foundation grant—they are a...

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. He is also the founder of Not Impossible Labs , an online crowd-sourcing platform instigating...

Hold onto your coffee cups …the Time4Coffee summer interns are loose in this special episode of T4C showcasing the insights, lessons learned and behind the scenes experiences of the freshman class of T4C interns: Julia Pekala (Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, Class of 2019), Alexandra Radifera (University of Oregon, Class of 2021) and Michael Ellick (Elon University, Class of 2020).   Julia, Alex...

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

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

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

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

Jose Castaneda is the Communications Manager for the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)* the trade association for the high-tech sector — from hardware to software to services — representing the most innovative technology brands in the world. In this role, Jose drafts blog posts for ITI’s policy teams and manages media relations with reporters. Prior to joining ITI, Jose had...

Entrepreneurs and digital marketing experts Michael and Marc Guberti have been driven to achieve their dreams since they were teenagers.  Now, as successful young men, they hope to spread their message: Age is NOT a limit to success. Michael is a social media strategist and the founder of SmartBizPeople a full-service digital marketing agency. While his brother Marc, who is 20-years old, has just...