Coffee N° 5 with Lara Schmoisman
Lara Schmoisman
Your Brew of Business Wisdom - Coffee N5 is your ultimate guide to running, growing, and scaling a successful business in today’s competitive landscape. Hosted by award-winning marketing strategist Lara Schmoisman—a Forbes Next 1000 honoree and LA Times Inspirational Women finalist—this Podcast is your secret weapon for actionable strategies, insider tips, and real-world success stories.
Every episode dives into the tools, tricks, and tactics that help businesses thrive, featuring insights from industry leaders and innovators across beauty, wellness, lifestyle, and beyond. Lara’s unique approach combines her vast expertise in omnichannel marketing with her passion for helping brands unlock their potential.
Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, Coffee N5 gives you everything you need to create lasting success. So, pour yourself a cup, tune in, and let’s turn your business ambitions into reality—one episode at a time!
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Simple and Effective Strategies for Your Business with Eva Jannotta from Simply Put Strategies
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06/01/21 • 25 min
A good strategy can help us to achieve our goals, find a solution, and be more efficient. Some people use different strategies in their everyday lives. If you are an entrepreneur, you definitely need to start strategizing to put your name or your brand’s name out there, to be seen and heard. That’s why today we have Eva Jannotta, founder of Simply Put Strategies, a thought leadership, communication, marketing, and social media strategy consultant focused on entrepreneurs. Eva believes in making an impact in the world, and she provides assistance for those business owners that want to do the same, helping them to develop a strategy to magnify their voice.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What are we talking about when we talk about strategies? How can they make your life more efficient?
- Check your assets. Discover which assets you already have in your business and which ones you should look outside.
- Conversion and social media. It’s not a popularity contest, it’s about discovering your best strategy to meet your goals without losing track of your audience.
- Own it. Eva explains why an easy way to connect with your audience is by showing your personality, your voice. Honest conversations can set you apart and are key for your business and leadership development.
- How to deal with negative feedback?
- Being a leader is being responsible for the people that will follow you. Eva talks about being consistent and building your relationship with them.
Find more about Eva’s work in Simply Put Strategies.
LinkedIn: @evajannotta
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Balancing Teaching, Working Out, Love and Motherhood with Jennifer O’Shea
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08/31/20 • 23 min
When becoming a mother, your schedule may go out of control and sometimes it’s hard to find a balance between your own personal life and taking care of your child at the same time. Today’s guest, Jennifer O’Shea, knows exactly how that feels and that’s why she created her own blog called “Teach.Workout.Love,” a Working Mom Blog Community for all busy moms and milspouses. Jennifer wanted to create an outlet for moms to share their creativity and inspiration on balancing life, motherhood stories, and staying healthy and fit.
Highlights:
- As a military spouse, Jennifer had to move from New York to Washington: when she did so, she realized that she had to make new friends. That’s how she started blogging and connecting with other mothers in order to figure out how to bear with motherhood all together.
- When it comes to receiving advice from people online, especially if it’s about health-related concerns, Jennifer thinks it’s best to first ask your doctor, and then be open to other suggestions.
- Although it may sound crazy, Jennifer has actually made real friends online and she has even founded a business with one of them!
- Balancing your mother persona and working persona requires a lot of time management. Inevitably, some things may overlap but it’s good to manage a schedule in order to avoid that.
- Jennifer gives some useful tips on finding inspiration to write in blogs
- When having to make a review on your blog about a product that you don’t really like, it’s best to talk to the company and be honest.
To learn more about Jennifer, you can check out her blog or follow her on Instagram
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Innovation is More than Just Magical Products with Chris Barton
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09/19/22 • 31 min
As an inventor and businessman, Shazam founder Chris Barton knows how to get an idea off the ground. In this episode of Coffee N° 5, he talks about creative persistence as a methodology that uses innovation to overcome hurdles during development. His company Shazam didn’t start with a completely original idea. According to him, there were many companies already trying to solve the problem of identifying music before he hit the scene. But by reframing how to solve this everyday problem, he created something truly innovative and successful.
What you’ll learn:
- Great innovation takes place across the board, it’s not necessarily a product (It can also be business processes, models, etc.)
- The benefits of the agility that comes with smaller start-ups and the creative workers they draw
- How a healthy and constructive attitude towards fear helps entrepreneurs super-charge their outcomes
Chris Barton started his career with one of the most innovative companies that came out of the dot-com boom of the 1990s: Google. With that foundation and inspiration, he founded Shazam, one of the most successful and “magical” products that has been downloaded more than one billion times around the world. Today, Barton is an Innovation Keynote Speaker and is working on a new startup that will use artificial intelligence to prevent drowning in swimming pools.
For more information, follow Chris on LinkedIn or visit his website.
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What Makes High Achievers So Successful? With Ruth Gotian
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07/18/22 • 26 min
On this episode of Coffee N° 5, Lara sits down with Ruth Gotian, the Chief Learning Officer of Weill Cornell Medicine. Ruth is an author, educator, and Forbes 50 Over 50 semi-finalist who deeply understands and specializes in what factors make people successful. She shares with Lara her insights about the nature of success, the importance of pursuing your passion, and why there’s enough room for everyone who is willing to work to be successful.
What you’ll learn:
- Ruth explains the four elements of success — and how YOU can apply them to your own life, career, and goals
- The ONE habit Mark Cuban, Warren Buffett, and other billionaires have in common (Hint: You should start doing this right now!)
- Why other people’s success doesn’t take away from yours and how to reframe your thinking to celebrate the victories of others
Bio:
Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former founding Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentorship and leadership development. In 2021, she was selected as one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking, and recently won the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Radar Award, ranking her the #1 emerging management thinker in the world to bridge theory and practice. She is also a semi-finalist for the Forbes 50 Over 50 list. In addition to publishing in academic journals, she is a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today, where she writes about optimizing success. Her research is about the mindset and skill set of peak performers, including Nobel laureates, astronauts, and Olympic champions, which she writes about in her book, The Success Factor.
For more information on The Success Factor, don’t forget to follow Ruth on LinkedIn and visit her website.
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Be Your Own Change with Elizabeth Ribons
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04/29/21 • 21 min
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Change is part of our lives. We move from one role to another, in both our personal and professional lives. Some people might be unhappy with their lives, but afraid to move on, some others don’t know what to do next. Elizabeth Ribons is an entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of NEXT Career & Life, a podcast and community where women can find resources and support to take their next step. In today’s show, we talk about how to recycle yourself and how to discover what you want to do. It doesn’t matter if you want to find a new career path or embrace a new role in your personal life, for Elizabeth it’s all about figuring out where you are in life, and what you need.
Because what we needed when we were 20 years old, might not be the same when we are in our 40s, but the process of finding out is very similar, and it’s never too late to start.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What you need to take the next step into your life. Elizabeth knows that it is never too late to reinvent yourself because we are constantly changing and evolving.
- Know yourself and where you are in life right now. Ask yourself what fits into your life and what do you need.
- How to be a scraper? All the roles that you had in your life, all your experience, everything that you learned can be put to good use.
- Elizabeth gives several tips for anyone that wants to start a business. What should you do before making the jump? How can you find the right mentor?
Visit NEXT to find out more about the community and how they can help you.
Instagram: @nextcareerlife
Facebook: @nextcareerlife
LinkedIn: @eribonsnext
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Lara Schmoisman, CEO & Founder of The Darl and Marketing Simplificado
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Behind the Recurring: Getting and Keeping a Job in Marketing and Advertising with Mindy Worel from Inside Job Agency
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04/22/21 • 20 min
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Finding your dream job in today’s world is not easy. And it’s not easy to get people to stay in your company either. In today’s episode, we have Mindy Worel, from Inside Job Agency, a career coach and recruiter specialized in marketing and advertising. She has worked with Disney, Starz, Saatchi & Saatchi, among others. We talk about getting and keeping a job in marketing and advertising, what thing you should have in mind when you are looking for a work position and what can you do, as a company or employer, to have people wanting to work and grow with you.
Highlights:
- As a career coach, Mindy knows that people don’t fit in boxes, especially in advertising and marketing. Yes, you need to find the right people for the job, but also you need to help the people that you have to find the way to achieve their goals.
- Let’s talk about work culture. The unhappiness of workers is related to the work culture. Are they feeling valued? Do they have the tools they need, the time? For Mindy, employers must develop their work culture, and be clear about how they do things, and employees should think about if that culture, the system they have in place, matches their personal needs.
- Mindy talks about promotion and a salary increase. What are you really after? It’s important that employers and employees know about growth opportunities in the company, and how to support and train new leaders. This will establish lasting relationships and loyalty.
- How to be a team member? If you are thinking about starting a new job, or you’re already working, Mindy recommends that you figure out what you want, what is your goal, and what do you need to keep you satisfied and keep moving in the company. This has to be an open conversation and can change through the years.
- Finding a new job. The perfect resume is the honest one, you can be aspirational, but that doesn’t mean that you lie about your experience. There are many careers related to Advertising and Marketing, so Mindy shares a few tips to help you figure out the right one for you.
Want to know more about Mindy and her work? Visit Inside Job Agency or follow her on LinkedIn.
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Becoming a Creative Rebel with Van Lai-DuMone of Work Smart Advantage
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03/02/21 • 29 min
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You probably heard the phrase “think outside the box.” And our guest of today, Van Lai-DuMone has taken it to the next level. She believes that creativity can (and should) be brought into the workplace. With her company, Work Smart Advantage, she creates a plan to make the work environment a fun and creative place, as a way to promote team development, problem-solving, and leadership.
Highlights:
- Creativity is good for your company! When Van started in the corporate world, she found out that training, evaluations, everything was...dry. And there wasn’t any retention of information after that.
- For Van, there’s a difference between team building and team development. It’s not just about having fun in the workplace, it's also about learning to work together, know what each one of us can bring to the table. Creativity is a way to lower our barriers and be heard.
- How to make people feel attached to your company mission? Van knows that most of the time, employees don't feel connected to the company mission, so it’s important to change that. Start working with your staff to see what their missions and values are, find a common ground to build from where to start to build.
- Van believes that team building is even more important now, when many people are working from home. It’s important that leaders create the space for connection, for people getting to know each other.
- Being a Leader and growing inside the company. Van discusses how usually people very good at their job get a promotion that they might not want or not are prepared for: being a manager. People need support and training for this role. And is this what they want? What do they want or expect from a promotion? Let them have a say on this.
- Van shares with us three tips to start bringing creativity in the workplace.
To know more about Van Lai-DuMone, check out her LinkedIn or visit her website.
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Behind The Scenes of Starting Your Own Podcast with Podcast Coach Christine O'Donnell
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01/26/21 • 21 min
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If you think producing a podcast is super challenging and difficult, well, think twice! Today’s guest is here to let you know that anybody can podcast, as long as you have a great strategy and know how to connect with people. Christine O’ Donnell is an Emmy-Nominated TV journalist and Podcast Coach who's covered national and local news events. Christine now coaches solopreneurs on how to develop, launch and grow their own podcast to make an impact. She believes everyone has a story, and thrives on helping people share theirs in a way that truly connects them to others.
Highlights:
- Understanding why you want to podcast and having a great strategy is really key to connect with your audience
- Christine explains her own why: she wants to podcast because there are people out there with impactful messages and amazing stories that will probably change other people’s lives for the better.
- If you want to be an amazing host, you have to listen to your co-host and make her or him shine above anything else.
- When it comes to the preproduction of a podcast episode, Christine focuses on searching as much information as she can about the person she is interviewing, and she also focuses on researching what her audience is interested in and what they want to listen to.
- Chrstine delves into some of the challenges she had to face because of being a podcaster, mom, and wife at the same time!
- If you want to have a podcast but you’re still waiting to pull the trigger, Chrstine can help you with that! With her new coaching programs you’ll be able to learn all the basics of podcasting as well as some tips and tricks to rock the podcast world.
- Podcasting is only going to keep growing more and more from now on, so if you’re still doubtful about launching one, don’t get left behind!
To know more about Christine, visit her website, Instagram or listen to her podcast!
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The formulation of Beauty, Balance, and Connection with Dr. Jenelle Kim
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06/11/24 • 37 min
Join host Lara on Coffee N° 5 as she talks with Dr. Jenelle Kim, a 9th-generation acupuncturist, about her lineage in Oriental Medicine and her commitment to living meditation, health, and beauty. Discover how proper movement and Qigong can enhance your beauty, the power of balance and control, and the ethos of Eastern medicine. Learn about the link between ingredients, formulation, and branding, and explore Dr. Kim's pioneering journey into CBD and the connection between hemp and ancient Chinese medicine.
We'll talk about:
- Dr Kim’s lineage into medicine and her commitment to living meditation, health, and beauty.
- How proper movement and beauty are interconnected.
- What chigong is and how it can enhance your beauty.
- The power of balance and control.
- The ethos of Eastern medicine and its prioritization of treating root causes.
- The link between ingredients, formulation, and your product’s branding.
- Dr. Kim’s pioneering journey into CBD.
- The connection between hemp and ancient Chinese medicine.
For more information, visit Jenelle Kim's Linkedin.
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Strategic Thinking and Decision-making with Jennifer Davis
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11/02/21 • 28 min
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 company. From there, she just ascended into success. She has led product marketing for the Training and Certification business at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She has leadership experience stealing digital transformation through organic and inorganic business growth for both entrepreneurial start-ups and Fortune 500 organizations. She has also been a Forbes contributor.
Her major emphasis when it comes to business communication and marketing is pushing to have high performance workers that are in-tune with the needs and wants of the customer. From there, she shares how this allows for an instinctual advocacy for the customer that builds loyalty and increases sales. Everything comes back to the customer’s needs.
Her book “Well-Made Decisions” allows business owners to maximize their decision-making to create a better working environment and customer experience. Like inventions, decision-making is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Also, most of the work happens after the choice is made and the implementation begins.
The Paperback and ebook are currently available! The hardcover will be available soon in November.
Things you’ll earn:
- The components of decision-making
- The importance of having high-performance workers on your team
- How to tap into “luck” within your business
- What is the Luck Factor?
Follow Jennifer on LinkedIn, Twitter, and check out her Website.
Check out her book, “Well-Made Decisions.”
Check out Learfield!
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How many episodes does Coffee N° 5 with Lara Schmoisman have?
Coffee N° 5 with Lara Schmoisman currently has 191 episodes available.
What topics does Coffee N° 5 with Lara Schmoisman cover?
The podcast is about Branding, Society & Culture, Personal Growth, Marketing, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Podcasts and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Coffee N° 5 with Lara Schmoisman?
The episode title 'Brewing Beauty Brand Secrets with Colette Laxton' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Coffee N° 5 with Lara Schmoisman?
The average episode length on Coffee N° 5 with Lara Schmoisman is 27 minutes.
How often are episodes of Coffee N° 5 with Lara Schmoisman released?
Episodes of Coffee N° 5 with Lara Schmoisman are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Coffee N° 5 with Lara Schmoisman?
The first episode of Coffee N° 5 with Lara Schmoisman was released on Apr 7, 2020.
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