Cautious Coffee

Believe in freedom? Great! Austin and DeRae do as well. They sit down with their first in-show special guests, Alan Lett and Anthony Ferrell of OG 713, an LGBTQ-owned small business based in Houston, Texas.

Join the conversation as Cautious Coffee discusses allyship, civil rights, discrimination, and the logic of freedom. β€˜Merica!

Cancel culture is nothing new. In today’s social media heavy world, one wrong tweet might get you canceled. But what does attempting to cancel someone or something say about society as a whole? Austin and DeRae discuss cancel culture in the 21st century.

Can you create your own luck? What about creating your own opportunity? Where does effort into the equation? On this episode of Cautious Coffee, Austin and DeRae discuss the implications of what it means to be lucky. Listeners will find out why they feel lucky and maybe reflect on your own life in all the ways you’re lucky, too.

Since the onset of COVID-19, about 40 percent of adults in the United States have reported symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder. For young adults under the age of 24, that number spikes to more than 56 percent.

To wrap up Mental Health Awareness Month, DeRae and Austin discuss their struggles with anxiety and depression, how they cope, and most importantly – why it’s ok to not be ok.

Marriage is a beautiful thing, but has society given too much weight to the role love plays in it? In this episode Austin and DeRae chat about their experiences with relationships and marriage. DeRae has a more systematic approach to marriage, while Austin has a more traditional approach. Where do you stand?

Enough. How do you know when something is enough? That you've tolerated enough? That you've worked hard enough or long enough? That it is good enough? Is anything ever enough? Do we mindlessly chase to get to this abstract idea of enough? What happens when my enough doesn’t look the same as your enough? Am I enough? Who decides? Enough.

If there is something else you would rather be doing, why aren’t you doing it? If there is somewhere else you would rather be, why aren’t you there? If there is someone else you would rather be with, why aren’t you with them?

What does time mean to you? Is it merely measured by hours and minutes or is it something that you intrinsically value?

DeRae Crane and Austin Staton introduce Cautious Coffee with a chat about race in America. Race in America is not a topic that can be covered in one episode and will be revisited many times over the life of the podcast. It is after all the topic of discussion that brought DeRae and Austin together to create Cautious Coffee.

Cautious Coffee is a forum for candid, often uncomfortable conversations. Hosted by Austin Staton and DeRae Crane, each episode brings you unscripted and unfiltered commentary on key issues that are impacting our country and culture. Tune in as we seek empowerment, not power; as we meet people where they are; and most importantly, as we strive to be better humans.