Josh Taves is the Founder of Dialed Coffee Services, a coffee equipment maintenance, repair, and equipment sales business in Western Michigan. He joined Coffee People to chat about stress testing his business and not taking coffee too seriously.
Alex Pyne is the President of the Blue Bottle Independent Union (BBIU) representing the employees of some Blue Bottle Coffee locations. In this episode of Coffee People, we chat about his draw to organizing, what a union does for its members, and his version of the best cup of coffee.
Jing Lin shares her path into entrepreneurship and coffee shop ownership with Coffee People. We discuss how her career climb in the film industry wasn't getting her to the more engaged, creative mountaintop she strived to stand on, and how the Covid-19 pandemic jumpstarted her foray into business.
Will Reif shares his path into enrepreneurship with Coffee People. We discuss how some post collegiate exploration led him home to Wausau to launch Roastar, a coffee packaging and manufacturing company.
This is a Bonus Coffee People Coffee With episode featuring Emily Lavalier. She is the Owner and Artist behind EmLavArt, and trip leader at Hammer Travel, where she and a team guide adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities on fun-filled vacation adventures.
Arda Barlas shares his path into specialty coffee with Coffee People, the impact of political action and protest on his Downtown LA roaster cafe, the historical culture of coffee in Turkey, and much more.
Every month we listen to a new (to us) album start to finish while drinking a cup of specialty coffee. This month we explore singer, songwriter, and blues guitarist Ted Lucas by Ted Lucas (1975).
If you wanted a hot, black pourover, the five (to ten) minute wait was well spent chomping on an empanada and petting a neighborhood pup. Keep it simple. Keep it Bump.
We recap our recent chat with Sam Larobardiere of Theory Coffee Roasters and Podium Coffee Club. We hare the key takeaways from his journey into the coffee industry as shared on the Coffee People podcast.
Sam Larobardiere shares his path into enrepreneurship with Coffee People. We discuss how he went from the coffee cart and roaster to operating a full-scale Theory Coffee roastery with multiple cafes and the subscription based Podium Coffee Club.
Steady State is the first place I ventured when I started to re-engage with humanity after the worst days of the onset of COVID-19.
We spent an hour being uplifted by the optimism of Etelle Higonnet. She is the founder of Coffee Watch, a non-profit industry watchdog that just celebrated their one year anniversary.