The Place: Cupprimo in Northwest Austin The Hour: 3:00pm The Cup: He beat me there so I all I can tell you is it was a large something or other, I had a medium coffee with a splash of cream and a smidge of sugar. Background: My pal Jon Campbell with The Taligens Group and I had lunch a […]
Category: Coffee With a Stranger
Every week I have coffee with a total stranger and then I write about the experience.
{not so much a cup, as a glass} Cuatro: Kurt Bradley – karaoke singer, death cheater and one authentic dude
The deets: Thai Passion 7th near Congress Austin 11:30am Iced tea for both of us (with a side of the second best Thai food I’ve ever eaten) Background: Shennandoah Diaz (see Cup #2) gave me the names of two people I needed to catch up with in town. Kurt is one of the two. This […]
Cup 3: Jaime Mitchell – native Austinite, crafty momma and genuine do-gooder
The deets: Starbucks in Northwest Austin 1:30pm Iced soy latte for Jaime and I enjoyed an iced coffee with a splash of cream and a dash of sugar Background: My cool friend Jill made this connection for me. Jaime is Jill’s cousin’s wife and if I didn’t know better, I would have thought they […]
Cup number 2: Shennandoah Diaz – marketing maven, creative thinker and fellow learn-a-holic
The deets: Cafe Medici on Congress in Austin 2:00pm Soy vanilla latte for her and an Americano for me Background: My social media guru friend, Jill gave me Shennandoah’s name and email and told me I needed to meet this gal. Turns out they connected via Twitter (how very 2012) so there you go. After such […]
My first cup: Deep Nasta – real estate guru, world traveler and self-professed tightwad
The deets: Starbucks in North Austin 3:30pm 100+ degrees outside therefore iced coffee for both of us Background: I met Deep at the Entrepreneurship class I am taking from Gary Hoover and decided he seemed like the perfect person to kick this coffee thing off. What did I learn? A lot. Here’s some of what […]
New City=Perfect Timing
The best way to get plugged in to a new city, is to get connected to the people. We moved to beautiful Austin, TX a couple of weeks ago and I vow, this move will be the driver to get this blog off the ground. Check back in one week and I PROMISE, there will […]
Who knew?
I really had not imagined that this blog would be more of a challenge than Weekly Read. I thought, coffee with one person each week-easy peasy! As it turns out-somewhat challenging! The coffee with someone is not the part causing the snag. I have tons of interesting people who I would love to invite to […]
How it all began
One day I was preparing to give a workshop on the topic of “Seven Secrets of Successful Salespeople” and I was searching for supporting information related to Secret #4: Successful Salespeople Never Stop Learning. I came across a quote from Charlie ‘Tremendous’ Jones. He said “You are the same today as you’ll be in five years except […]