Training and education is an ongoing process. Not just for those we are training but also for ourselves as trainers and educators. If we adopt the same type of “always learning” mentality we want to see in other, then the way we understand and conduct training will change over time. Today we will be exploring training and education through the …
309 : A Conversation w/ Sarah Allen and Ken Olson of Barista Magazine
Few things are as essential to the global barista community as Barista Magazine. For 16 years they have been “Serving people Serving Coffee” Â and advancing the knowledge, craft, and profession of the barista with every issue. Barista Magazine gives a platform and voice to the vibrant and amazing people who make amazing coffee and today we get to talk with …
306 : A Conversation w/ 2004 U.S. Barista Champion, Bronwen Serna!
Today we get to chat with 2004 U.S. Barista Champion and legend, Bronwen Serna! Bronwen has been a practicing Coffee Professional since 2000, a Professional Barista, Roaster, and Barista Trainer, a Certified Instructor and Assessor with the Specialty Coffee Association. Her love of coffee precedes her experience, where she manages to frequent many coffeehouses all over the world and became a Barista after …
305 : Founder Friday! w/ Andrew Sinclair of MadLab Coffee, Los Angeles, CA
Boy do we have a Founder Friday for you! Today we get to talk with the founder of MadLab Coffee in L.A., Andrew Sinclair. Andrew has been in coffee for over a decade going from an enthusiast to barista, head barista, manager, then owner and operator all before he started MadLab in 2015. Mad Lab’s mission is to love people …
298 : A Trophy, or Atrophy?
Winning coffee awards and competitions is pretty cool. There are many benefits to pursuing accolades for your coffee shop through such as marketing opportunities, sharpening skills, energizing staff, and networking. The question we have to ask ourselves though is, just how critical are competitors and awards tot he success of our shops and what metric should we be using to …
292 : How to Take Charge and Drive Your Career w/ Ed Evarts
Who is driving our career? Most of the time we attribute our careers current state to outside forces or fate. Rarely will we consider that we ourselves are the primary driver of our success. The good news is that there are lot’s of things that we can both do to take control and start really steering thing in the direction …
266 : Building Physical Resilience W/ Dr. David Dahl DPT, CAFS
The health of our bodies plays a huge role in determining the quality of our life both at work in the shop and outside of work. When we are pursuing our health holistically we are making an investment that pays us back immeasurably. The question is, how do you begin to approach caring for our physical health in a …
253 : Mindsets that Sabotage Success
Actions are the products of mindsets and not all mindsets are beneficial. In fact, there are a few very common and very dangerous mindsets that will actually sabotage your success without you even knowing it. We will call it fate, the universe, circumstance but in actuality it could just be a problem in our minds. In today’s episode we will …
243 : Encore Episode! “The Sleepwalking Barista (Owner)”
I am excited to re-share this oldie with you. Mainly because it has a ton of very useful insights that I think we all need to ponder these days. Life  (aka 2020) won’t let up and the 7 things I talked about back in November 2017 could not be more relevant. In many ways, we spend a lot of our …
235 : 4 Tips for Training your Staff
How do you ensure that what you teach in training is effective for both the employee and the business? Well, there are many different elements but amongst those element are four foundational mindsets and practices that serve to hold everything together. Today we are going to be exploring how focusing on minimum viable skills, patience, real-life training, and tracking/follow-up will …
