City Girl Empower Hour
City Girl Empower Hour is a new and inspiring podcast aiming to serve up grounded advice and whole b
Every entrepreneur has been there. Balancing the health of your business with your personal health and the wellbeing of the many employees, customers and partners who depend on your business every day.
It’s especially difficult for entrepreneurs with mission-driven businesses who balance an obligation to the bottom line with the goal to make a meaningful difference in the world.
City Girl Empower Hour host and City Girl Coffee Founder Alyza Bohbot James discusses this delicate balance with Carley Kammerer, Founder and Executive Director of Wildflyer Coffee.
Founded in 2017, Wildflyer is a social services enterprise that addresses youth homelessness through a program centered around two Twin Cities coffee shops. City Girl Coffee empowers women of coffee through sustainable sourcing from women-owned and operated farms.
Hear how Carley and Alyza address these challenges and learn about how you can support women throughout the coffee value chain by checking out the City Girl Coffee x Wildflyer Coffee collaboration in celebration of Women’s History Month.
Visit citygirlcoffee.com or listen on Spotify spoti.fi/40nqP4A
Follow Carly and Wildflyer Coffee at on Instagram and Facebook and support Alyza on Facebook and Instagram at and Hour. Be sure to like and share this podcast with your coffee-loving friends.
17/02/2023
Have you ever climbed to the top of a mountain, paused to look around and realized you’re only half-way to the summit? Or picked a dozen dandelions in your yard, only to find twice as many have grown back in their place? Welcome to the life of an entrepreneur!
Jaime Teats, Author, Founder & CEO of professional consulting firm Keystone Group International, is our guest for episode 41 of City Girl Empower Hour with host and City Girl Coffee founder Alyza Bohbot James.
Listen at spoti.fi/40nqP4A
Join Jaime and Alyza as they get real about the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, the power of making mistakes, riding the wave, and Jaime’s recent experience climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Connect with Jaime on Facebook and Instagram at and on LinkedIn. And follow, like and share her adventures and company. You can also connect with Alyza on Facebook and Instagram at and
02/02/2023
You know the saying, “all work, no play?” Well, we’ve got you covered.
In this week’s City Girl Empower Hour, City Girl Coffee CEO and Empower Hour host Alyza James has a playful chat with Christine Goepfert, Christina Hussman Rhode and Katie Nyberg about preserving some of our greatest natural resources as places to learn, reflect and play.
Tune in for a meandering stroll through the forests of work-life balance, inclusivity and the great outdoors — and explore how spending time at play can help make us all better humans and better leaders.
Be sure to follow, like and share the podcast with your network. And support Christina, Katie, Christine and Alyza:
Christina Hausman Rhode, Executive Director of Voyageurs Conservancy: Twitter , Instagram & Facebook
Katie Nyberg, Executive Director, Mississippi Park Connection: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Christine Goepfert, Associate Director, National Parks Conservation Association: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook
Alyza James, Founder of City Girl Coffee: Facebook and Instagram
26/01/2023
What's in YOUR closet? Tune into the newest City Girl Empower Hour podcast to learn why sorting out your closet can be the best head start for 2023.
Host Alyza James, owner of City Girl Coffee, chats with Ann Rogers, founder of Mezmira , about meandering paths, the power of pause and getting your style in order.
Head over to podcasts or CityGirlCoffee.com to listen.
20/01/2023
Have you ever looked at your closet full of clothes and thought, “I have nothing to wear?” We’ve got you covered! Join Host Alyza James, founder and CEO of City Girl Coffee, as she chats with Anne Rogers about meandering paths, the power of pause and what’s in our closets. Anne, founder and CEO of Mezmira, a virtual personal stylist, spills the tea on how personal styling can give you more time and confidence to pursue your ambitions.
Connect with Anne on LinkedIn, Instagram .h.rogers and Facebook by following her company and be sure to follow Alyza and City Girl Coffee at and .
30/09/2022
Happy ! Did you listen to Episode #26 when Alyza chatted with about women in the coffee industry? Follow the link in our bio to listen now!
15/09/2022
Drink up! 🧊☕️
You ARE good enough 💕
Listen to Episode #38 wherever you listen to podcasts.
13/09/2022
Have you listened to Episode #38 featuring yet?! Listen now!
01/09/2022
🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
This week, Alyza chats with Illiana Cantu Delgado about her work as the only woman of color
to hold a Director of Public Safety title at a University or College in the United States, overseeing
security in a hospital setting during the riots in Minneapolis following the murder of George
Floyd, and much more.
.alyzajames
01/09/2022
Rise and shine and drink your morning coffee! ☀️☕️
What are your personal or professional milestones? Listen to Episode #37 to hear how plans to become a household name.
24/08/2022
to our guests from Episode #37: and ! Treat yourselves to a Coffee Julep while listening to them discuss working as partners in business, growing a company into the retail space, what it's like to be a female entrepreneur in a male-dominated field.
19/08/2022
🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
Gwen Burlingame and Kate Flannery, founders of Beckon Ice Cream, chat with Alyza about starting the first-ever clean label premium lactose-free dairy ice cream on the market. They discuss working as partners in business, growing a company into the retail space, what it's like to be a female entreprenuer in a male-dominated field, and much more!
Available wherever you listen to podcasts!
17/08/2022
🌼 Flower Power 🌼
Reclaim your passion with ! 🔥
Available wherever you listen to podcasts
alyzajames
16/08/2022
Wind down this evening by listening to Episode #36 with !
04/08/2022
🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
Dr. Rachel Allyn has been a licensed holistic psychologist for almost 20 years
specializing in mind-body medicine, relationships, and intimacy issues. This week, she talks with Alyza about the differences between hollistic and modern medicine practices, why we need
more than mindfulness, how pleasure
practices can be healing, the future of psychology involving bodywork and
plant medicine, and much more!
.alyzajames Citygirlcoffee
04/08/2022
Let the coffee and sunshine fill your soul ☀️☕️☀️
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” - Mary Oliver
02/08/2022
What is your passion? Listen to Episode #35 to hear from Laura Best of the !
21/07/2022
🎧 NEW EPISODE! 🎧
Laura Best of the Passion Collective chats with Alyza about her career in PR/Marketing in the corporate world, putting yourself and your needs first, and the Passion Collective which she started in 2014 to connect
professional women with real conversations about passion, identity, and
fulfillment at a time when many women didn’t feel they had the permission to
support each other or talk openly about their paths.
Available now wherever you listen to podcasts
.alyzajames
21/07/2022
Beat the heat with some coffee popsicles!
Learn where your beauty products come from, what is in them, and how they affect you. is here to give you the information you need! Listen to Episode 34 now!
17/07/2022
Relax on this Sunday afternoon with some iced coffee and Episode 34!
Link in bio
07/07/2022
🎧 NEW EPISODE! 🎧
Alyza's longtime friend and clean cosmetic lobbyist, Andee Robb, chats with Alyza about the importance of cleaner labels on personal care products and how to make choosing those products for yourself less daunting. Andee gives listeners advice on where and how to find safer products, including in her Brand Advoacate work with Beautycounter.
Available now wherever you listen to podcasts!
06/07/2022
You got this!
Don't be afraid to give or receive criticism. Let it be a stepping stone to greatness.
02/07/2022
Spend your Saturday morning with a good breakfast and Episode #33 featuring CEO !
Link in bio
23/06/2022
🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
This week Alyza talks with Anouck Gotlib CEO of Belgian Boys. They chat about building Belgian Boys from the ground up with her husband, creating a healthy workplace culture, and bringing European delicacies to American plates.
Now available wherever you listen to podcasts. (link in bio)
22/06/2022
Beat the heat with some iced coffee today ☀️ 🧊 🕶
Listen to Sarah Jorgenson-Hallberg talk about community and collaboration in the coffee industry in Episode #32! 🎧 ☀️ ☕️
Link in bio
.alyzajames
14/06/2022
☀️ Chill out on this hot day with an iced coffee and listen to last week's episode featuring the owner and operator of ! 🕶
.alyzajames
09/06/2022
🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
Alyza chats with long-time friend and collaborator Sarah Jorgenson-Hallberg, owner and operator of Grand Marais's staple coffee shop, Java Moose. They talk about returning home to a small town as a business owner, taking over the family business, the beauty of the North Shore, and much, much more.
.alyzajames
07/06/2022
Do it for you, not for them.
From opening to having to close due to the pandemic, has always been there for the community of South Boston.
Listen to the full podcast on Spotify! (Link in bio)
alyzajames
01/06/2022
Do what you love, like when she opened her pride and joy, . Find out what her journey and the ups and downs of the restaurant industry by listening to Episode 31, available on Spotify!
(Link in bio)
.alyzajames
26/05/2022
🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
Chef and Restauranteur extraordinaire Asia Mei chats with Alyza about growing up competitive in the Bay Area, loving food from all sources, her journey into the culinary industry as well as opening her own restaurant, Moonshine 152.
.alyzajames
25/05/2022
Take a break on this rainy Wednesday afternoon, you deserve it!
founder Angie Bastian tells us all about growing her business from farmers markets to the national sensation it has become. Listen to our latest episode today, available wherever you listen to podcasts. (Link in bio)
alyzajames
Videos (show all)
