Coffee Meets Cloud

This week on Coffee Meets Cloud, we’re covering the full spectrum of modern survival: overpriced energy drinks, a Jonas Brothers wardrobe malfunction, high school prank wars that have gone way too far, Southern hurricane prep, college football superstitions, and why everything suddenly costs a small fortune.

We also get into one very real AI win—when ChatGPT managed to navigate an Atlanta parking nightmare that Apple Ma...

This week, we’re fully embracing false fall—and everything that comes with it. We’re talking Atlanta traffic and suburban sprawl, DIY projects that take three times longer than YouTube promised, college football, Joro spider chaos, neighborhood Halloween contests, and why the internet seems determined to turn everything into outrage.

Then we get nostalgic. From Cool Whip containers and mason jars to homemade Chris...

What happens when the career goal you’ve been chasing turns out not to be the one you actually want?

This week on Coffee Meets Cloud, Caramie, Cassandra, and Rachel talk career pivots, personal development, and why great leaders should help people grow, even when that growth eventually takes them somewhere else. From protecting time to learn to shadowing other roles and refusi...

For this throwback episode, we’re revisiting one of our early favorites featuring Betsy Robinson, Founder & CEO of Tier 4 Group and Board President of Women in Tech Atlanta, and a conversation that challenged one of the most persistent ideas about career growth: that success means continuously climbing upward.

Betsy introduces the idea of a career lattice, where lateral mo...

What do household budgets, Dreamforce FOMO, latchkey kids, difficult conversations, and teaching a nine year old to own his mistakes have in common? More than you might think.

This week, Caramie, Cassandra, and Rachel talk about the ways context shapes how we experience everything from money and parenting to work and relationships. Caramie shares how she is using AI as a “Hous...

This week, we're asking the important questions: Why did adulthood look so much easier when our parents were doing it? How did we survive childhood with no location tracking, questionable car safety, and instructions to just come home when the streetlights came on? And which things from our childhood actually deserve a comeback?

We're talking about the surprisingly hard parts of bei...

This week, we’re questioning the things we’ve accepted as fact simply because someone told us they were true. From swallowed gum and tongue maps to the infamous five-monkeys experiment and the workplace classic, “we’ve always done it this way,” we’re talking about why bad information—and bad habits—stick around.

Plus, the usual side qu...

This week, we’re talking about the increasingly blurry line between using AI and letting AI do everything for you—from earning Trailhead badges to writing painfully obvious workplace messages and helping candidates fake their way through interviews.

We also get into dual enrollment, why high school from home is absolutely not entering our WFH households, the importance o...

This week, we're celebrating a huge milestone—3,000 podcast downloads! 🎉

From back-to-school shopping and our latest budget-saving hacks to how AI is changing everyday life, we share what's been making life a little easier (and a little more entertaining). Then we shift gears into a conversation every working professional can relate to: why so many meetings miss the mark, wha...

What really happens inside today's classrooms? And what do teachers wish every parent understood?

This week, we're joined by veteran elementary school teacher Rhonda (Miss Varnell) for one of our most honest and entertaining conversations yet. From teaching kids to read and navigating Chromebooks, to ADHD, dyslexia, curriculum changes, and the realities of parent-teacher communicati...

What do caller ID nostalgia, road rage, ADHD parenting, leadership, and massive AI data centers have in common? Apparently... us.

This week we're reminiscing about party lines, cassette tapes, and answering machines before tackling some much heavier conversations. We talk about why you should never engage with someone acting irrationally on the road, whether permanent Daylight Saving Time ...

AI hype. Layoff headlines. Career ladders. Industry statistics.

It's easy to talk about tech like it's all trends and numbers—but every headline has a human story behind it.

This week, we're joined by Sasha Semjonova, Tech Journalist at Salesforce Ben, to talk about the people behind the technology and the realities of building a career in an industry that never stops changing. Sasha shares how she went from knowing almost no...

This week, Rachel and Cassandra are holding down the fort while Caramie is away, and the conversation covers everything from work-life balance to fireworks, Salesforce community, and a little Nintendo nostalgia.

The episode starts with a discussion about the importance of real PTO - actually disconnecting, setting boundaries, and creating healthy team cultures where people can truly...

One year ago, three friends hit record and hoped for the best.

In this special anniversary episode, we're celebrating one full year of Coffee Meets Cloud with a look back at the moments, lessons, laughs, and hard pivots that got us here. From the episode that never made it out of the vault to the inside jokes that somehow became part of our brand, we're reflecting on how the show has evolved—and why friendship has always been...

This week, we’re joined by Lillie Beiting—Salesforce architect, author, speaker, and co-founder of 50x35, a storytelling initiative sparked by a startling reality: nearly half of women leave the tech industry by age 35.

We discuss the stories behind that statistic—the pressure to put on “armor” at work, the women who paved the way before us, and the responsibility today’s leaders have to reach ba...

Technology has become a permanent fixture in our classrooms—but what are students gaining, and what might they be losing?

In this episode, we dive into the growing role of technology in education and explore an increasingly important question: Which skills should children still practice deliberately because technology doesn't build them automatically?

From handwriting and spelling to critical thinking, problem-solving, and na...

This week on Coffee Meets Cloud, we’re diving into the chaos, comedy, and contradictions of modern life — from surviving summer break with overstimulated kids to navigating workplace burnout, AI adoption, Southern etiquette, and personal loss.

We unpack the idea that today’s kids may be losing the ability to simply be bored, how AI is quietly reshaping the way we think and work, and why tech professionals are livi...

This week, the Coffee Meets Cloud crew goes everywhere — from Botox injections and gray hair to remote-work ethics, family guilt, performance culture, and the pressure to constantly “have it together.”

What starts as Friday chaos (kids home from school, dog drama, tech issues) quickly turns into one of the most honest conversations yet. The hosts unpack aging without apology, the money and mental load behind &ldqu...