Elie's Coffee Talks

New Season

New Season

stand up comedian

Ben is a stand-up comedian. He comes from Paris, traveled a lot and has called Zürich home for a decade now.

On the podcast he talks about: the creative process, the growth mindset, his background and experience as a comedian, live comedy vs online and so much more! We had a lot of fun!

Where to find him online:

IG, Facebook, Twitter : @bencomedian

Youtube: The online comedy show

Melanie is the founder of Master21 academy the first coding school in Switzerland! Their mission is to empower people to shape the digital world and to educate people who work with software developers to speak the same language.

She sold the company a few months ago and already has many ideas about what to do next, among other things she will start a podcast in July about Joyful learning!

She just graduated from the Thnk Program in Amsterdam and shares her experience at the beginning of the podcast. The program helped her understand who she was, how the others were and to stand up for herself.

From there on we talk about:

Julia Cameron and her amazing Morning Pages and Shadow Careers

Improv wisdom with Patricia Ryan Madson

The habit of writing with Steven Pressfield

Melanie’s writing routine

Inspiration vs routine

Self sabotage

What she wanted to do when she grows up when she was still a kid

Art as therapy

Her studies, first jobs and projects

Synchronicities

The steps to build a company

We wonder if work needs to be hard and that kind of became the thread of the conversation somehow (more podcasts coming up about the topic)

Daring to listen to what the heart wants and old limiting beliefs

Joyful learning

Choose your pain

When to be persistent and stick to something

What work is

Is the school system obsolete?

The myth of knowing what are you are gonna do when you grow up as a single thing forever

Where you can find her online the best right now:

https://www.instagram.com/melakovacs/

Sabrina comes originally from the Köln area in Germany. She moved to Bremen after her studies where she stayed for 8 years. And since last year, she lives in Freiburg-im- Breisgau.

She studied Visual Communication (Graphic and Editorial Design, Typography, Photography, Filming, etc.) and started working as a Designer, and later started to do Illustration work too. Recently she also became a Yoga teacher!

She used to work in a design agency and had the feeling she needed to express herself more, bring her ideas out of her brain, bring out her own things. That’s when she started a label and drawing on postcards in the evening. That was the beginning of her illustration career. Later on, her first clients asked her to do illustration work!

Today she is fully self-employed, doing what she loves!

More about her and her work here: https://www.sabrina-kraemer.de

Petra is a certified PGI Consultant and Coach, she comes from Slovenia and has been living in Switzerland for many years now. With her work, she helps people find out what they really want, wish, what their visions are and even if they know already, by asking the right kind of questions and tapping into the emotional, she will guide them towards what they are really meant to do on this earth! She never dissociates professional and private life because they are connected and 1 unity as we are holistic beings. A big part of her work is to help people shifting their money paradigms and create new ones so that they can feel abundant and live the life they desire. So that’s the main topic on this podcast: MONEY and the relationship people have with money as well as little tricks and simple tools you can start using right away!

More about her work here: https://empoweredlife360.com/home

Singer Composer Vocal Coach

Jasmin is a singer, vocal coach and composer from Altnau, Kanton Thurgau. Her base is BASEL.

She has been teaching for 10 years now based on CVT (Complete Vocal Technique) and her Jazz & Pop studies. Her school is called SING OUT LOUD! where she has one on one lessons and gives workshops.

But that’s only one of the 4 projects she has!

She is also a singer and has 2 bands:

Jasmin Albash (previously The RK)

Kallemi that started as an exchange project by Kaserne Basel.

And in October last year, she also started her Youtube channel: Sijada Sessions where she collaborates for 1 song with Female Artists on the ‘Sijada’ (‘carpet’ in arabic). She’s had artists such as: La Nefera, Jennifer Jans (Bleu Roi), Annie Goodchild, Legion Seven and Joana Aderi (Sissy Fox).

And one more thing: she is part of Helvetiarockt an organisation to empower female artists!

Where you can find her online:

www.jasminalbash.com

https://www.singoutloud-music.com

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5lw0E2-JJIp7q2gM1L0FlQ

Sarah lives in Edinburgh where she is mainly a tour guide. She welcomes French tourists in Edinburgh or in the Highlands. She is also a blogger, podcaster, copywriter and writer. Back in the days, she studied Journalism in Grenoble and is originally from Alsace, France.

Her Website: https://www.frenchkilt.com

Her Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/ecosse-toujours

Her IG: @french_kilt

Patrick comes originally from France and Switzerland. He has traveled the world and found a second home in Canada over 20 years ago. He considers himself citizen of the world though, with about 66 stamps on his passport!

He is a life coach, facilitator, keynote speaker and author!

His purpose is to help people go where they wanna go in life. He is fascinated by the Human nature and Nature.

On the podcast the main topic is RELATIONSHIPS. Patrick shares some of his tools like: The Trust Circle & The Love Circle

More about him here: http://www.peakpotentialinternational.com/aboutus/

Devon moved to Basel in January 2019 for work. She is the co-founder and managing director of Linum Labs, a Blockchain Start-Up. Originally from South Africa, she shares her perspectives about Switzerland and we also discuss: working remote / corporate life / presence based vs output based work systems/ the future of work / the challenges of being self-employed and being a female entrepreneur in a male dominated industry / mental-health / burn-out / failure and more!