Meet Me for Coffee

This week on Meet Me for Coffee, I meet with my friend Liz Romeka with Third Strand Photography in San Diego, CA. She is a long time friend and photographer/entrepreneur. We had started our separate photography business about the same time. I love this lady, she is super wife, mom and is always full of talent. I hope you enjoy our conversation as we catch up with life, talk about workflow in photography, getting published, the challenges of being an entrepreneur and being present with your family.

Coffee shop: Moniker General, Liberty Station in San Diego, CA

Third Strand Photography

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This week on Meet Me for Coffee, I meet up with my old roommate and friend Michelle! I met up with her in San Diego, CA back in June. At the time, she was towards the end of the adoption process for her son Eli. We talk about adoption, how life has changed and whats to come for her and her family. I hope that you enjoy our conversation and that you learn a little something new about adoption. After listening, go out and meet up a friend you haven't seen in a long time and have coffee! Enjoy and relish your friendships. 

Location: Liberty Station Public Marketplace, San Diego, CA

Coffee: West Bean Coffee Roasters

Treats: Le Parfait Paris

adoption resource: Lifeline Childrens services

On this week's episode of Meet Me for Coffee, I met up with my friend Cruz at Ritual Coffee, at the Oxbow Public Market in Napa, CA. Cruz is a Clinical Research Associate, has been one of my dearest friends for the past 10 years. She is part of my Clinical Research life. In this episode, you'll get to know how we met, how we both got into research and talk about past trials have monitored. PLEASE NOTE, we are not experts in any medical topics we talk about :) Hopefully you'll also enjoy our many travel stories:)

This week on Meet Me for Coffee, I hang out with my new friend, Dezerai Sietzer. She is the owner of Global Teas and also the owner and certified technician at Sun Kissed Napa.  I met Dezerai at a Christian Women Entrepreneurs meeting that she leads each month. I invite you to listen in on our conversation as we get to know each other. We talk about the highs and lows of running a small business, mission work, donating to causes, the Rising Tide Society, homeschooling, private schools, how to communicate in marriage, adoption, and travelling internationally.

Global teas donates $1.00 for every box that is sold to the following non-profit organizations:  Destiny Rescue, Legacies of War and Medical Missionary International Listen to how she was involved with the organizations and click on links to learn more about each one. 

Location: Molinari Caffe, Napa, CA

This week on Meet Me for Coffee, I spend time with my friend Britney Fredrickson. I had met Britney about 5 years ago at church when she was teaching in my daughters Sunday school class. When we recorded the podcast, Britney and her husband Brian were getting ready to move out to Colorado Springs, CO. We caught up with each other because it had been awhile since we had a chance to talk and hangout. We talked about life as a nanny, the move to Colorado, travelling and just life in general.  You may or may not hear us get choked up. I’m going to miss Britney, and the new family that she will have her as a nanny is going to be so blessed! Hope you enjoy our talk, our laughter and a little bit of our tears.

Coffeeshop: Molinari Caffe, Napa CA

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This week on Meet Me for Coffee, I hangout with my friend Jen Kim at http://www.molinaricaffe.com/http://www.molinaricaffe.com/ in Napa. Her daughter Bethany join us, you’ll hear in the background She and her husband Petey were one of the first families that welcomed us at our church and here in Napa 7 years ago. Petey went home to Jesus about 4 years ago in July. I had a great time catching up with Jen and to listen to how life has been for her and her kiddos. We talk about travelling, her kiddos and the meanings of their names, living with her mother in law, being single mom and just life in general.  What I love about our conversation is how she always pointed to God or brought back our conversation back to Jesus.  I hope you will find nuggets of encouragement and focus from listening to this strong woman of God.  I was definitely blessed. 

This week on Meet Me for Coffee I hangout with my friend Rachael Hairston at The Barking Dog Roasters in Sonoma. She is the owner and photographer of Rachael Hairston Photography. Our conversation was one of the most authentic and real conversations I’ve had with a fairly new friend. You’re invited to listen in on how we became friends and how we come to learn lot more about each other. Our topics range from parenting, to single parenthood, to being a business owner / photographer, being a veteran, to being homeless to community. We seriously forget that I was recording.  I walked away smiling and inspired after spending time with Rachael. 

I have to forewarn you our conversation is bit on the longer side, but I couldn’t stop recording. Then once I was editing, I couldn’t leave any of our conversation out.  I hope what you hear inspires your to reach out to a friend, spend time with him/her and truly get to know their stories. I found a kindred soul in Rachael. I hope that you will find one too for your life.

On this episode, I meet up with my friend Denise DeFina with DeFina Family Cellars. We talk about our first impressions, moving to Napa, something unique about Fresno people, their story about adoption and organ transplant, about our passions and about their upcoming Bulletproof 2016  Music Jam that they are sponsoring.

Go ahead and listen on as we chat at Molinari Caffe about life and just getting to know each other more. Then afterwards, go call a friend, meet up for a coffee and have a converstaion. 

The first episode of Meet Me for Coffee. I meet up with my friend Lorraine at Molinari Caffe, a local coffee shop in Napa.

We get to know each other a little better by asking each other five questions.  Our conversation takes us all over the place.

We talk about: How we met, fitbit challenges, favorite coffees, favorite holidays and ice cream flavor, what we wanted to be when we grow up, squirrels, jelly beans, celiac disease and being gluten free.

We hope that you enjoy our time together.  We also hope that our conversation encourages you to connect with a friend over coffee and get to know each other more!