Where Coffee Gets Spilled

When two humans come together, their nervous systems regulate and co-regulate. 

Hear Jennifer Anderson share what that means for our health and well-being in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

The heart knows what is needed.

Watch Jennifer Anderson explain why we so often ignore it in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

She picked her college major because she was good at it, not because she knew where it would lead.

Jennifer Anderson wasn't sure what she wanted to do when she started college, so she leaned into math, the subject that came easiest. It led her to a top consulting firm, where she wrote code for mainframe systems. She was good at it but found the work so boring that her interest shifted to optimization and process improvement. That work fit naturally with her industrial engineering background. She moved into a business analyst role, and it was there she realized what she actually cared about wasn't the process at all. It was the people trying to work through the change.

That instinct eventually led her through more than a thousand hours of specialized training and into a theory she now builds her whole practice around. That nervous systems regulate each other, and the leaders who learn to steady their own are the ones people want to follow. One year into running Resilience Coaching and Consulting, she's teaching leaders to do exactly that.

Pour a cup and listen to Jennifer spill her story in this week's episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

Are you focused on what you're physically doing or how it's making a difference?

Listen to Ryan Clark discuss what it means to find purpose in your work in this clip from his episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

How are you helping others grow and be successful?

Watch Ryan Clark talk about what it means to take care of other people in this clip from his episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

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As a leader, do you find yourself jumping straight to problem solving?

Hear Katie Kolon share what leaders skip before trying to fix anything in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

She lost her job in the middle of a recession. That same year, she discovered the work she's still doing fifteen years later.

Katie Kolon was litigation director at a Chicago nonprofit when the grant funding her position disappeared during the recession. Around that same time, she found the Center for Conflict Resolution and took her first mediation training. She's been training, coaching, and mediating ever since, and now runs her own practice, Mutual Ground Strategies.

Pour a cup and listen to Katie spill her story in this week's episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

What if your "unrelated" career experiences are actually preparing you for the next opportunity?

Before Nate Grossman sold a single product internationally, he had been:

• A nonprofit development director.
• A wilderness counselor for at-risk youth.
• A teacher in Korea.
• A teacher in Iraq's Kurdistan region.

That last experience opened an unexpected door. Someone Nate met through a cycling group told him about an international sales opportunity. His experience in the Middle East helped him earn the interview and the job.

Eight years later, Nate is helping businesses build stronger strategies and systems of their own.

His advice to students: try on different careers early. It shows you have adaptability and that you can handle whatever gets thrown at you.

In this week's episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled, Nate talks with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer about nonlinear careers, unexpected connections and why this may be the era of the generalist.

When she decided to start her own business, it wasn't the right time.

Listen to Susie Moon talk about how things changed once she got permission from her mom in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.