Creators & Coffee Archive

Hildegard

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About This Course

Creators & Coffee Archive is a growing vault of recordings from our live morning meetup and speaker series for creators. Each session captures a real conversation from the table — founders, filmmakers, psychologists, and everyday builders sharing how they've turned ideas into good work that heals a beautiful but broken world. This isn't a curriculum to complete. It's a community's memory, preserved so you can return to any conversation, any time, and sit back down at the table.

What You'll Learn

There's no single throughline here — that's the point. Each session brings its own guest, its own story, and its own questions. But across the archive, you'll encounter recurring threads that define the Creators & Coffee community:

What it looks like to build something out of a stubborn, personal desire rather than a market gap
How founders and creatives navigate courage, curiosity, and creative identity
Honest conversations about mental health, grief, and the human cost of building
Stories of nonprofits, ventures, and creative work launched from conviction, not just opportunity
What "the Good" means to different builders, and how they pursue it in their own field
The posture of a creator: confident in identity, courageous in artistry, focused on meaning over metrics

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How to Engage with this course

This archive isn't meant to be binged front to back — it's meant to be dipped into, the way you'd revisit a conversation that stuck with you. To get the most out of it:

Watch the recordings. Start wherever a speaker or topic pulls you. Each session stands on its own.
Sit with the conversation. These are unscripted, in-the-room talks — give yourself space afterward to reflect rather than rushing to the next one.
Share in the forum. Creators & Coffee has always been a shared table, not a stage. Post what resonated, what challenged you, or how a session connects to your own work — and see what others heard, too.

Learning Objectives

By engaging with this archive, you will be able to:

Identify patterns across multiple founders' stories about turning personal conviction into public work
Reflect on your own creative identity in light of conversations on courage, curiosity, and calling
Draw connections between faith, mental health, grief, and entrepreneurship as they show up in real founders' journeys
Articulate your own understanding of "the Good" as it applies to your creative or entrepreneurial work
Carry the posture of the Creators & Coffee community — confident, courageous, meaning-focused — into your own life and work

Your Instructor

Jeffrey L. Tanner

Chair of Entrepreneurial Thought at Hildegard College.

He is a founder, leader, and teacher in multiple organizations.

“We’re trained from birth that learning is evidenced by regurgitation of information, but co-creation is actually our birthright. My goal as a leader and teacher is to reinstate curiosity, guiding people into co-creating solutions to challenging problems, all with a focus for the common good.”

He created The Formation Method, a coaching pedagogy for leader development, and FLDWRK, a social good incubator and work collective in Orange County. Tanner also serves as VP of Strategy for Standing Stone Ministry and as an Elder at Redemption Church.

He is the author of Best Workday Ever: A Guide to Meaningful Productivity. Read more of his work at jltanner.com.

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