Elisabeth Cardiello: Trying to Fail

How often do you try to fail? If the answer is not often, you're too comfortable in the things you're directing your energy towards.

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough, you're not trying anything new or risky. If you're not failing, you're not truly learning.

Elisabeth Cardiello knows just how powerful failure can be.

If you've seen the Netflix documentary, "Coffee For All," you may already know Elisabeth Cardiello. This Brooklyn-native had her first business cards at six and first product on shelves at 13. After college, business school and four years on Wall Street, she dealt with loss, found her passion and started a coffee company called Caffè Unimatic. After a decade of deconstructing why conversations over coffee are more genuine and less stress inducing than the conversations we have in boardrooms, she created a framework to reinvent the way organizations communicate. BRAVE Conversations Over Coffee is rooted in the tenets of neuroscience, positive psychology and hostage negotiation and gives organizations a way to address sensitive topics such as inclusion, burnout and mental health in order to build trust and unlock greater productivity.

In addition to working with leaders at high stress companies like Facebook, Dalberg, Sumitomo Mitsui Bank and the NYPD, Elisabeth is an instructor for Simon Sinek's InspireU, two time TEDx speaker, spoken at UN Conferences, given Congressional briefings and has been featured by Forbes, NBC and Goop, among others. She also created a methodology that builds confidence in the young women and has traveled around the country speaking in Entrepreneurship Departments and Women in Business organizations. Her family is still wondering where that shy 9 year old went...

Elisabeth’s mission is to build a world where coffee is the catalyst that inspires deeper listening, safer spaces and hence, greater access to our own creativity, connection and fulfillment.

In this episode, Elisabeth thoughtfully shares with us how failure shaped her life and her career.

Listen to this episode and learn about:

- How Chris and Elisabeth are related (0:51)
- Elisabeth giving credit and thanks to her childhood babysitter, Miss D. (4:13)
- When Elisabeth's mentoring journey started (7:55)
- How the ritual of asking how you failed today started in Elisabeth's family (10:51)
- Developing confidence through curiosity (14:17)
- Being humble while also being confident (17:50)
- How no-one is self-made (20:23)
- Breaking the gender barrier in leadership (24:38)
- The importance of getting away from materialism and individualism (28:21)
- How to help those around you (32:41)
- Elisabeth's new chapter in life (39:55)
- Elisabeth's message to Miss D. (49:12)
- Insightful closing words (51:42)

Links:

- Connect with Elisabeth on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisabethcardiello/
- Brave Conversations Over Coffee - https://www.braveconversationsovercoffee.com/
- Caffeé Unimatic - https://www.caffeunimatic.com
- Legacy Out Loud - https://www.legacyoutloud.com
- Elisabeth's Ted Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPzhFB6ZzNk&feature=emb_title