Time4Coffee Podcast

Gabriel (Gabe) Sebastian is a young Program Manager* in Mexico at Population Services International (PSI)], a global health organization. He was born in Bolivia and spent much of his childhood in Mozambique.  His parents were involved in philanthropy and founded a large social enterprise in Bolivia. During College, Gabe traveled to the Netherlands to study International Business at Maastricht Univ...

Ali Breland is the Technology reporter at The Hill * newspaper where he writes and reports 3-5 news stories a day. To get to where he is now, Ali cut his teeth at The Alcalde (UT Austin Alumni Magazine) as an editorial intern. Outside of that, he hustled to interview artists and celebrities for CNN , The Christian Science Monitor , and Huff Post . Ali was involved in a myriad of other odd jobs inc...

Rob Karp founded MilesAhead the day before his 15th birthday. Since then he has been passionate about the travel industry and building his own business. Today, Rob is 20 years old and has just started his senior year at * Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration . As CEO of MilesAhead, a luxury travel concierge in partnership with the Valerie Wilson Travel ,  Rob is the youngest travel...

Corie Walsh decided she wanted to become an aid worker at 11 years old. Working hard in her freshman year at Colorado State, she got a 4.0 and transferred to the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill as a sophomore.  While at UNC Corie’s double majored in Peace, War and Defense, and Global Studies.  After she graduated in 2016 (not 2015, as I say in the recorded open) Corie sent...

Hannah Braaten has read her way through the publishing industry all the way to the top where she works as Editor at St. Martin’s Press * . Hannah discovered her love for publishing at Wellesley College due to her experience with an incredible English professor. She’d always loved bookstores and in fact, worked in them during high school and college. After graduating in 2011, and gaining expe...

Marie Appel grew up in a town of 300, in a lower, middle-class family.  She was the first in her family to go to college and scored a scholarship of $8,000 for her entire four-year education at Harvard. While at Harvard, Marie earned extra money during various breaks by cleaning the dorms. But she also participated in amazing experiences like the sailing team, which she believes helped her develop...

Sanam Rastegar speaks 5 languages — 3 of them fluently.  She also had 3 interesting summer internships at Independent Talent Group Limited in London , Maclaren and Hermès that she believes helped her hone skills that she’s putting to use now in her job as a Senior Associate at McLarty Associates *, a boutique firm specializing in international strategic consulting.  In those internship...

Ladan Davia started college thinking she wanted to be a new reporter. Fortunately, she realized the work-life balance of an entry-level reporter wasn’t for her. After landing a job at Entertainment Tonight she decided to scrap the whole TV thing altogether. She spent hours browsing multiple job search sites and still couldn’t find a good fit for her professional interests. Instead, she got r...

Before he had “Dr.” in front of his name, Art Shaffer was a college student trying to choose the best path. After some self-exploration, Dr. Shaffer followed his passion for science. After getting a BA in Biology, he signed up for grad school at Johns Hopkins U School of Medicine to pursue his Ph. D. In the years since he became the Staff Scientist in the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch, National Can...

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...

Seth Goldman , co-founder of Honest Tea *, dipped his tea bag into the world of entrepreneurship when he started Honest Tea with one of his Yale Business School professors, Barry Nalebuff. That was way back in 1998 in the kitchen of Seth’s Bethesda, Maryland home. Today, 20+ years later, Seth is a multi-millionaire. Honest Tea is owned by the Coca-Cola company and is sold nationwide in 170,0...

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 and organizations to heal their bodies and mind.   Dr. Hyman is a practicin...

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...

Sarah Robb O’Hagan learned the hard way why professionals who thrive must ‘step up’, ‘stand out’ and ‘kick ass’. As CEO of Flywheel Sports*, the fast-growing indoor cycling company, O’Hagan is on the cutting edge as a leader in the fitness industry. Prior to becoming Flywheel’s CEO, O’Hagan served as the global president of Gatorade. She’s also been the global president of Equinox, another luxury...

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...

  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.  During his twenty non-consecutive years at National Public Radio (NPR) Guy moved u...

Guy Raz is the creator and host of 3 top-ranked Apple Podcast shows: How I Built This , TED Radio Hour,* and Wow in the World .     During his twenty non-consecutive years at National Public Radio (NPR) Guy moved up the ranks from intern to “reporter trainee” to foreign correspondent to Defense correspondent covering the Pentagon and the US military to weekend host of All Things Consid...

Time4Coffee is a podcast (and website: Time4Coffee.org) where the professionals in the jobs that matter most to you, always have time to grab coffee 24/7, no matter where you live.      Time4Coffee’s mission is to help 18-25 year olds:   college students, recent graduates, grad students and those still looking for the right professional fit, navigate a rapidly changing global job marketplace. WHAT...