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My Morning Cup

My Morning Cup

Written by: Costa Media Advisors
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A Chattanooga podcast exploring what makes a happy, successful life through conversations with local entrepreneurs, business leaders, and professionals. Each episode goes beyond career achievements to uncover the challenges, life lessons, and daily habits that shape fulfilling lives.

Discover how Chattanooga's most accomplished people start their day, and what's really in their morning cup.

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Episodes
  • E163 - Janet Rehberg’s Morning Cup
    Feb 23 2026

    Janet Rehberg has led investor-owned utilities and co-ops, and now she's taking the helm at Chattanooga's pioneering municipal utility: EPB.

    In this episode, Janet shares how her dad's modern mindset helped her excel in a male-dominated field, what it was like leading through Texas's catastrophic 2021 winter storm, and why EPB is pioneering quantum computing (and what it means for Chattanooga's future).

    Janet Rehberg is the President and CEO-Elect of EPB. You can connect with her on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/janet-rehberg).

    If you like this episode, we think you’ll also like:

    • Tasia Malakasis’s Morning Cup (E92)
    • Ken Jones’s Morning Cup (E122)
    • David Wade’s Morning Cup (E137)

    Subscribe to the weekly newsletter and be the first to know who upcoming guests are: http://eepurl.com/iGJzII

    My Morning Cup is hosted by Mike Costa of Costa Media Advisors and produced by SpeakEasy Productions.

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    56 mins
  • E162 - Jeff Styles's Morning Cup
    Feb 16 2026

    Jeff Styles spent nearly 30 years as a talk radio personality in Chattanooga, known for challenging power, stirring debate, and trusting his audience to think for themselves.

    In this episode, Jeff shares how adrenaline-fueled hobbies were more valuable to his career than work experience, why a detour into advertising solidified his talk radio career, and what it was like to hold influence in a city where words carried real consequences - like getting arrested on-air for littering.

    If you like this episode, we think you’ll also like:

    • Clint Powell’s Morning Cup (E01)
    • Tim Dooner’s Morning Cup (E105)
    • Scott Chase’s Morning Cup (E120)

    Subscribe to the weekly newsletter and be the first to know who upcoming guests are: http://eepurl.com/iGJzII

    My Morning Cup is hosted by Mike Costa of Costa Media Advisors and produced by SpeakEasy Productions.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • E161 - Dr. Marilyn Helms and Dr. Deborah Arfken’s Morning Cups
    Feb 9 2026

    Dr. Marilyn Helms and Dr. Deborah Arfken are two long-time educators whose careers were shaped as much by chance as by choice.

    In this episode, Marilyn and Deborah share how they were both thrown into teaching careers, how a chance meeting on university committees in the late ’80s turned into a long-running research partnership, and why it’s “publish or perish” in the academic world.

    Dr. Deborah Arfken is the Professor Emerita of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and you can connect with her on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah-arfken-389bb133/).

    Dr. Marilyn Helms is the Dean Emerita of the Wright School or Business at Dalton State College and you can connect with her on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marilynhelms/).

    If you like this episode, we think you’ll also like:

    • Sheila and Dane Boyington’s Morning Cups (E128)
    • Shawanda Mason and Jennifer Holder’s Morning Cups (E145)
    • Hamp Johnston and Camille Daniel’s Morning Cup (E159)

    Subscribe to the weekly newsletter and be the first to know who upcoming guests are: http://eepurl.com/iGJzII

    My Morning Cup is hosted by Mike Costa of Costa Media Advisors and produced by SpeakEasy Productions.

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    56 mins
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