Welcome! Today’s featured broad is Elisabeth Cardiello is a lifelong New Yorker, the child of Italian immigrants, and likely one of the few people to have had a business card since the age of six-years-old! She has a passion for social innovation and inspiring women, and she puts this passion into practice every day. Elisabeth is the founder and CEO of Caffe Unimatic, a vintage coffee venture with half-century-old roots in both Brooklyn and Italy. She is a featured speaker on TEDxFultonStreet, AMEX OPEN Forum, NBC NY Live, The Soho Collective, and Coffee Crazy: The Book tour. Elisabeth’s story is one of resilience, inspiration, innovation, and pure entrepreneurship. Besides coffee, she loves outdoor activities, CrossFit, soccer, and all things Italian.
Elisabeth shares the following about her life:
Her entrepreneurial spirit was inherited from her father, who created multiple businesses in New York after immigrating from Italy at age 14. Her Caffe Unimatic business is a way to honor and remember his unique “drip-percolator” coffee pot. She literally fell into the coffee business after discovering 5000 warehoused original models of his Unimatic coffee pot after his death a few years ago. She created a line of coffee to go with the unique pot and markets these products through her website. Coffee is only PART of Elisabeth’s story! She helped create Legacy Out Loud, which is an initiative to engineer girls’ career goals. Their mantra is “Mission, Mindset, and Mentorship.” Along the same lines, she helped create “Master Your Mission NYC,” which is a curriculum course for game-changing women who want to make a difference in the world. Elisabeth has been given many opportunities to speak publicly about her unusual path in life.Elisabeth shares what keeps her going through difficult times, what she plans to stop doing, start doing and continue doing in business this year. You might be surprised to hear her nightly habit that helps keep her grounded in a busy life. Listen to hear what she has planned before the end of 2015!
