Podcast Episodes

Are You Open?

This is not just a question asked by an over eager customer haunting the front entrance 10 minutes before you open the shop. It is also a question a …

3 years, 4 months ago

398: The 5 Biggest Mistakes Coffee Shops Make

Coffee shops can have everything going for them on paper, but it is what is practiced in the day to day that determines whether you are successful. T…

3 years, 5 months ago

RoR #19 : A Vision of Sustainable Roasting w/ Arno Holschuh of Bellwether Roasters

Sustainability can become more of a reality if we determine to use the tools at our disposal wisely. Perhaps even more so if the tools we use to roas…

3 years, 5 months ago

Slow is Fast?

You have heard this many times from managers and trainers alike. The idea being that if you want your work to go at a quick and consistent rate then …

3 years, 5 months ago

397: Diversity and The Color of Coffee w/ Keith Hawkins, The Color of Coffee Collective

Creating opportunities for a wide group of people to experience coffee seems like a goal we have for just for consumers. As good of a goal as that is…

3 years, 5 months ago

396 : Founder Friday: Before + After Edition! w/ Jonathan Pascual of the Newly Opened Opo Coffee

Welcome to another before and after edition of Founder Friday! Occasionally we sit down with an entrepreneur who is in the proccess of opening their …

3 years, 5 months ago

Loving Where You Are

It is all too easy to throw shade at your current state. It is also because of that easy path to bating yourself up that we find it difficult to find…

3 years, 5 months ago

395: Connecting Roasters and Producers w/ Henry Wilson of Perfect Daily Grind and The Producer Roaster Forum!

Specialty coffee has its fair share of challenges across the supply chain. Solutions for those challenges are only as good as how they were created, …

3 years, 5 months ago

SPECIAL: Coffee Fest Live! L.A. + PNW 2022 Part 2 w/ Shad Baiz, Jeremy Lyman, and Melind John!

Welcome to part 2 of a live series of interviews conducted on the show floor of @coffeefestshow Los Angels and PNW in 2022!

​​Today we will be starti…

3 years, 5 months ago

SPECIAL: Coffee Fest Live! L.A. + PNW 2022 Part 1 w/ Manish Shah, Stephanie Alcala, Maria Cleaveland, and Jim Ngokwey!

Welcome to part one of a live series of interviews conducted on the show floor of @coffeefestshow Los Angels and PNW in 2022!

 In these interviews I …

3 years, 5 months ago