Send us a text Today in Coffee N. 5, we had a fantastic conversation with Jennifer Norman on marketing in terms of the beauty industry. Jennifer has had almost 25 years of experience in the beauty industry. She speaks about the evolution of women’s beauty in Hollywood (which trickles down to women in other places). From tall thin supermodels to the body positivity movement of today, things have changed a lot in recent years. Influencers and the rise in social media have spearheaded this change, ...
Mar 29, 2022•32 min•Season 2Ep. 85
Send us a text Today, we speak with Mirela Sula, founder of Global Woman Limited. Mirela is all about women empowerment, one of the reasons she was a top pick for International Women's month. Her passion is helping other women. Mirela wants to encourage women to speak up and speak out. She knows women have a lot to say. They often just need a platform! She started in media, where she realized from interviewing many different women that we all have things in common. From there, she branched out i...
Mar 22, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 84
Send us a text In this episode of Coffee N5, Lara Schmoisman herself gives tips on how to pitch yourself so you get that deal. Her biggest tip? She believes in telling the client your story…letting them get to know you for you and building a strong sense of trust. Creating a connection is the way to close deals with staying power. When you sit there and make your sales pitch, take the time to talk to your client, to get to know them. As much as you want to close the deal and gain a new client, y...
Mar 15, 2022•5 min•Season 2Ep. 83
Send us a text In this current digital age, many people are taking the plunge to start their online businesses. But can everyone be an entrepreneur? What skills are needed to succeed? And what are some common mistakes new entrepreneurs make? Join this week for our podcast with Kim Argetsinger about entrepreneurship and what it entails. Kim Argetsinger has always been an entrepreneur and a coach at heart. From an early age, she found ways to make money all on her own and found that she had a knac...
Mar 08, 2022•33 min•Season 2Ep. 82
Send us a text Welcome to another episode of Coffee N5 Podcast! It's a pleasure to have Claire McCormack here with us. Claire McCormack is a senior editor at the digital publication Beauty Independent, covering the beauty, wellness, and personal care industries. She is a thought leader, writer, and speaker on beauty and wellness business, trends, and consumer behavior, with deep expertise in the sexual wellness consumer goods market. Claire has an MBA in Management and Marketing from Fordham Uni...
Mar 01, 2022•33 min•Season 2Ep. 81
Send us a text Welcome to another episode of Coffee N5 Podcast! Today we have with us Astrologer and Founder of My Little Magic Shop to tell us all about how to build a successful business- a truly Magical one! Shereen Campbell is an Astrologer, Reiki Master Teacher, Akashic record Practitioner, Shamanic Practitioner, Crystal Healer, Timeline Meditation Healer, and the Founder of My Little Magic Shop, which she uses to help people create the magical life they deserve through her products and ser...
Feb 22, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 80
Send us a text Welcome to another episode of Coffee N5 Podcast! Today on the show, we have with us Atoosa Rubenstein, former editor-in-chief of Seventeen and founder and editor-in-chief of CosmoGIRL!, to talk about how to create content with intention. Atoosa started her career in 1993 as a fashion assistant at Cosmopolitan , and five years later, she was promoted to senior fashion editor. This led to Hearst Magazine’s president Cathleen Black asking Rubenstein to develop a concept for a new mag...
Feb 15, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 79
Send us a text Welcome to another episode of the Coffee Number 5 Podcast! We are thrilled to have creative genius and design icon Debbie Millman with us today! Debbie Millman is an author, educator, curator, and host of the podcast Design Matters . She was named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company , and “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA. She is the co-founder of the world’s first graduate program in branding at the School of Vis...
Feb 08, 2022•19 min•Season 2Ep. 78
Send us a text Today our guest is Stefanie Boyer, a professor of marketing at Bryant University. She, along with our host, Lara Schmoisman, was recognized by Forbes Next 1000. She is here with us to discuss the vast topic of sales and creating a brand and marketing strategy. She is also here to talk about her book “The Little Black Book of Social Media Strategies to Ignite Your Business, Influencer, and Professional Brand.” Stefanie talks with us about the importance of asking great questions an...
Feb 01, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 77
Send us a text We are super excited to have celebrity branding expert Vinnie Potestivo with us today. Vinnie is an Emmy-award-winning media brand strategist born and raised in Staten Island, NY. He has over 25 years of experience working in branding for companies like Fox. He has worked with celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Mandy Moore, Jessica AND Ashlee Simpson, Hilary Duff, and Nick Cannon. Vinnie talks with us about the steps to creating your brand. He talks with us about starting with so...
Jan 25, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 76
Send us a text We are so excited to have Patricia Valera with us to discuss how to break into the beauty industry. Patricia has worked for several major beauty companies in the world, including Redken (L’Oreal USA), Kenzo Parfums, and Keratin Complex. She has taken her 20 years of experience and amazing skills with marketing strategy and used that to help indie creators launch their own products with her company Beautybrandr. Founded by Patricia, Beautybrandr’s mission is to motivate indie beaut...
Jan 18, 2022•30 min•Season 2Ep. 75
Send us a text We are so excited to have writer, podcaster, and digital producer Liz Svatek on the Coffee No. 5 Podcast today. Liz started off as the first mom blogger with her blog One Fabulous Mom. She built her platform through transparency and straightforward stories about her life as a mom with children who have ongoing physical health issues. From there, she was able to build her network of influential mom bloggers and connect with them to build huge followings. She then created the Warrio...
Jan 11, 2022•23 min•Season 2Ep. 74
Send us a text Today, we live in such a fast-paced world that many people think success can simply come from one viral, random post on the internet. This fast-paced nature of things is slowly eroding the importance of working hard from people's minds. On this episode, Lara chats with multi-talented entertainer Alex Isenberg about the importance of working hard to achieve success as they both share how hard work helped them achieve success in their various fields. Alex Isenberg is a talented acto...
Jan 04, 2022•30 min•Season 2Ep. 73
Send us a text Are you ready to give your brand an upside-down reboot with digital marketing? Mitch Joel is known as a thought leader and genius in the digital marketing space. He started out in journalism and became a publisher of a magazine. During the time when print was fading away, he was one of the early adopters of the online publication. After that, he helped to build a metasearch company that was popular before Google was even established. He then worked in marketing for a mobile phone ...
Nov 30, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 72
Send us a text Arthur Woods is a social entrepreneur and LGBTQ+ leader working at the intersection of equity, inclusion, and technology. He was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and 40 Under 40 by BEQ. He is the author of the book, Hiring for Diversity; he is a three-time TEDx speaker and has advised leading brands from Disney, Sonos, and MetLife to the Smithsonian. He is the Co-Founder of Mathison, a venture-backed technology platform equipping employers with everything they need to manage their dive...
Nov 23, 2021•21 min•Season 2Ep. 71
Send us a text As a business owner, one thing you can not run away from is the agony of having to “break up” with a client. There are many reasons why you may want to discontinue your relationship with a client but how do you know the right time to leave? What are the things you need to know before and after establishing a relationship with a client to make sure that you do not suffer major losses after the break? We discuss this and many more in today’s episode of Coffee N5! The host of the pod...
Nov 17, 2021•9 min•Season 2Ep. 70
Send us a text It’s time to talk about MONEY! Who better to talk about money and financial intelligence than the one and only Mamma Rita Money, herself. We are so excited to chat with Rita Boccuzzi about financial intelligence and how she cracked the code on the money mystery. With over 13 years of experience in financial services, Rita is armed with the wisdom and knowledge to help others. As a child she learned about saving from her parents. From age 18 to 33, she saved and received her first ...
Nov 09, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 69
Send us a text Jennifer Davis is a creative and motivational marketing executive. She currently serves as the chief marketing and communications officer for Learfield, a media and technology company in the area of collegiate athletics. She drops in to share with us some of her marketing expertise and opinions as well as a discussion of her upcoming book “Well-Made Decisions.” Jennifer has a wealth of marketing and leadership experience. She started her career writing installers for a software co...
Nov 02, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 68
Send us a text Michelle Enjoli joins us today to share her journey from starting out as a first-generation college student turned television producer to becoming a pro at digital marketing to finally becoming a leadership and career coach. She is one of those rare people that knew exactly what she wanted to do from a young age. She wanted to work in television and was able to start doing so while in college as a producer. From there, she grew and her interests changed. She was able to leverage h...
Oct 26, 2021•21 min•Season 2Ep. 67
Send us a text Today on the Coffee No. 5 Podcast, we are excited to share our conversation with Yvette Bodden, Founder and Author of Awakened-Woman, a platform designed to inspire, empower and encourage women to become their best selves. Being a Dominican American journalist born and raised in New York, her platform has been a shining light that uplifts Hispanic women of different backgrounds and cultures. In this episode, she shares her journey from managing conflicting labels and cultures to t...
Oct 19, 2021•19 min•Season 2Ep. 66
Send us a text Morris Sims is the CEO of Sims Training and Consulting. Before that, he left his career of engineering after five years and dove head-first into the world of sales. He spent 32 years with New York Life Insurance Company and retired as the VP and Chief Learning Officer in the Agency Department. Join us as Morris discusses the importance of knowing how to sell yourself and your product/company in every situation. He shares with us the value of getting to know your customer, building...
Oct 12, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 65
Send us a text Coffee N5 - Episode 64: Discovering the Common Path to Uncommon Success with John Lee Dumas John Lee Dumas takes time to chat with us about his journey to becoming the founder and creator of Entrepreneurs On Fire, an award-winning podcast detailing the lives of 3,000+ successful entrepreneurs. He tells us about his time serving in the U.S. Army as an officer then transitioning from law school to corporate finance to EVEN real estate before finding his own niche in the podcasting i...
Oct 04, 2021•16 min•Season 2Ep. 64
Send us a text Erin Claire Jones is a leadership coach, in this podcast together we will explore the concepts of Human Design and how to incorporate all of that into your day-to-day and improve your interpersonal relationships. Human design is a system collaboration of astrology, the Kabbalah system, genetics, biochemistry, the chakra system, and many others in an effort to allow people to find and define themselves and explore how they best interact with others. She unveils the manifesting gene...
Sep 28, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 63
Send us a text Justin Oberman has been known by many names; The Sherlock of Strategy, The Barnum of Branding, The Copernicus of Copywriting, and The Aristotle (he prefers Asimov) of Advertising. We sit down with Justin to discuss modern advertising, how it's changed over the years, and what it takes to be a copywriter in the industry today. Justin gives us a look at what he's learned over the years in advertising and some tips for aspiring copywriters looking to get into the world of copywriting...
Sep 21, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 62
Send us a text Amelia Sordell started her branding business, Klowt, by branding human beings and not just companies. In this podcast with Amelia, she discusses how she got her business up and running through skills and techniques for building confidence, accepting rejection, and focusing on personal branding. Amelia's human-centered marketing approach has generated real results in a surprisingly short time! In our discussion, she explains how she has made the marketing world work for her, instea...
Sep 14, 2021•20 min•Season 2Ep. 61
Send us a text When it comes to leadership, and what it takes to lead successfully, everyone has an opinion. However, Jay Weiser has developed The Five Leadership Superpowers℠ as a proven framework for learning to lead! Jay discusses how he came up with these superpowers, how they apply to leadership, and how you can use them to become a better leader. Jay has redefined the way we look at leadership so that it not only applies to the workplace, or getting a promotion, but also to our day-to-day ...
Sep 07, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 60
Send us a text Making money in the public speaking industry can seem like an insurmountable goal. So, many factors are involved with finding the right topic, expertise, and audience. Ashley Kirkwood is an accomplished public speaker who has cracked the code to making money in this competitive industry. Ashley explains her ground-breaking framework and valuable lessons in confidence. From her beginnings as a corporate attorney to starting her own firm to reaching exceptional success as a speaker ...
Aug 31, 2021•22 min•Season 2Ep. 59
Send us a text The strategy is not the only important thing when starting a business, the emotional triggers, and the hard work have the same value. Knowing yourself and how to manage your emotions is the key to knowing how to respond in critical situations. Micaela Passeri, Founder and CEO of Love Your Revolution, puts her business degree, experience, and many certifications to help entrepreneurs open their heart to more financial abundance with strategic monetization and sales structure implem...
Jul 13, 2021•19 min•Season 2Ep. 58
Send us a text There are different types of journalism: investigative, watchdog, online, broadcast, opinion, sports, entertainments, among others. Shannan Ferry, an Emmy-nominated anchor and reporter at NY1 News covers a little bit of everything, breaking news, anchoring and traffic reporting and she reveals some tips to achieve quality journalism. She has been reporting on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic and was one of the main correspondents covering massive demonstrations in New Y...
Jul 06, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 57
Send us a text It´s important to know how to present yourself to others, to create a story around your person. It's crucial to know what you're trying to achieve in every conversation, just to focus on the relevant information for each scenario, an elevator pitch is not the same as an interview. Olivia Christian, who has been working as a brand strategist for over 15 years and executive producer and host of The Game Last Night, through her workshop Own Your Story, coaches professional teams and ...
Jun 29, 2021•24 min•Season 2Ep. 56
