Podcasts - My Coffee Connections
Why are Debrief's so Important?
What if the most significant thing that happens in your organization isn't planned, isn't choreographed, and doesn't come from the leader — but from someone running on two hours of sleep who showed up anyway and said three words that changed everything? What if you've been building systems, tools, and people who work side by side for decades — and only just realized that none of that is actually a team? And what if the wins, the losses, and the things to do better from one single morning could reframe everything about how you show up for the people around you?
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This is the debrief for the March 7, 2026 Coffee Connection in Shipshewana, Indiana. This session isn't just a recap of what went well and what didn't. It's an honest, real-time unpacking of wins — great topics, no drama, better inclusion, workbooks for Oak Grove and Compass, a first-ever interview format that worked — alongside the losses — not enough people, not enough follow-up, not enough application happening fast enough after the training.
Nora showed up after being up most of the night with a sick three-year-old. Not because she had to. Because it's a routine. Because it's a team. And that one fact quietly exposed something that 40 years of leading, 22 employees, and countless coffee connections never did.
As a team member ...
"Do you feel the weight of what it costs everyone else when you don't show up?"
Audio Podcast
Elaine drove the debrief forward. Katie showed up in the middle of tax season. Harley read an entire financial freedom book in one sitting. A pickleball drill about going for the ball you think you can't reach turned into a lesson about never giving up on the breakthrough you think isn't coming. And at the very end — not planned, not prompted — three words landed that may turn out to be the most significant thing this coffee connection has ever produced. If you want to know what it means to truly be part of something bigger than yourself, and whether you're actually giving more than you're taking, this debrief was made for you.
Video Podcast