This year has been a mental and emotional test of endurance like no other. Add to the pandemic the already existing stresses and pressures in the cafe as customer face professionals and you get a perfect storm of both feeling the need for mental health wile simultaneously feeling helpless to actualize it. Even though mental health has been top …

Connection with our audiences has never been more important. How do we go about truly delivering value and building a strong community that resonates with or message all while staying true to our core “why” ? Well, today we are going to be talking with and learning from someone who has cultivated all of those things and has created the …

  When we talk about equity we often we are just scratching the surface of what is going on deep in the structure of the coffee industry. Today’s guest, Phyllis Johnson has dedicated much of her career to bringing to light the deeper generational inequities that hold people back. Her new book, “The Triumph: Black Brazilians in Coffee” profiles two …

  How coffee is processed after the harvest is integral to whether or not it reaches its full flavor potential. Farmers depend on their crop’s quality and consistency but all too often what happens during processing produces inconsistency and a less than full realization of that coffee’s potential. Enter today’s amazing guest, Lucia Solis! Lucia, specializes in “microbial demucilagination”, or …

  These days community and connection are needed more than ever. There can be many hurdles to creating opportunities for having events whether in-person or online, but how we go about planning and execution those events does not have to be one of them! For 6 years The Barista League has been at the forefront of what it means to …

  When we think about cooperative ownership related to the coffee shop we tend be fairly unsure what to think of it.  Even though we tend to fear it as an unknown, it is actually a viable option to help secure your business and also to generate stability for your employees. In today’s episode we are going to explore this …

    What an interesting and inspirational episode this was! Frankie Volkema, at just 14 years old, is the world’s youngest Q Grader and the founder of Joven Coffee, an organization that sources, roasts, and promotes coffee from young farmers around the world! We are also joined by her father Tim Volkema, who is the CEO of Schuil coffee, Michigan’s …

  Now ore than ever coffee shops should be building stable and resilient teams to give them the best chance at success in an unstable market. Unfortunately there are many needless problems and practices that plague cafes and are catalysts for unnecessary turnover. Today we are going to cover what I believe are the top 10 reasons why we lose …