#668 Veronica Ponce: Ways To Invest in Women in Coffee

This is the 3rd episode of a 5-part series with Veronica Ponce. Veronica is the president of the Australian chapter of the International Women's Coffee Alliance. The theme of this series is aimed at exploring how we can empower women across the coffee supply chain.

In this 3rd episode of the series, Veronica and Lee explore the ways that investment can be made now (and into the future) to empower women across the coffee supply chain and remove barriers to limiting them from growth and success.

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#667 Veronica Ponce: Challenges for Women on The Consuming End of Coffee

This is the 2nd episode of a 5-part series with Veronica Ponce. Veronica is the president of the Australian chapter of the International Women's Coffee Alliance. The theme of this series is aimed at exploring how we can empower women across the coffee supply chain.

In this 2nd episode of the series, Veronica breaks down what challenges women on the consuming end of the coffee supply chain are experiencing and draws comparisons with women at the producing end.

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#666 Veronica Ponce: Challenges for Women at Coffee Origins

This is the first episode of a 5-part series with Veronica Ponce. Veronica is the president of the Australian chapter of the International Women's Coffee Alliance. The theme of this series is aimed at exploring how we can empower women across the coffee supply chain.

In this first episode of the series, Veronica helps us understand the challenges women in coffee-producing origin countries encounter as they work to increase the opportunities available to them and what barriers they encounter in the process.

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#665 Lee Safar: What Don't You Know?

This is the final episode of a five-part series with Lee Safar focusing on the opportunities ahead for coffee small business owners, entrepreneurs, and employees during the recession.

In this 5th episode of the podcast, Lee explores why now is a perfect opportunity to identify what you don't know, what you'd like to learn more about, and what asset it will bring to your business and/or career in the coffee industry.

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#664 Lee Safar: A Unique Time to Innovate in Coffee

This is the 4th episode of a five-part series with Lee Safar focusing on the opportunities ahead for coffee small business owners, entrepreneurs, and employees during the recession.

In the 4th episode of this series, Lee takes a look at why this unfolding financial crisis presents as an opportune time for innovators to solve previously unsolved problems in the coffee industry.

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#663 Lee Safar: Rejecting The Coffee Status Quo

This is the 3rd episode of a five-part series with Lee Safar focusing on the opportunities ahead for coffee small business owners, entrepreneurs, and employees during the recession.

In the 3rd episode of this series, we explore the unique opportunity this transformative time presents us with to reject the status quo and reinvent ourselves and our businesses in a way that works for us, our staff, and our customers in the coffee industry.

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#662 Lee Safar: Growing Your Coffee Business

This is the 2nd episode of a five-part series with Lee Safar focusing on the opportunities ahead for coffee small business owners, entrepreneurs, and employees during the recession.

In this 2nd episode, we explore the unique opportunities we're presented with right now to grow our coffee businesses, amidst a recession and growing geopolitical tensions. The problems customers are facing in the coffee supply chain are changing and in this episode, we'll explore how to identify consumer problems and go about monetizing the solutions so that all stakeholders come out winning.

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#661 Lee Safar: Get Your [Coffee] House In Order

This is the first episode of a five-part series with Lee Safar focusing on the opportunities ahead for coffee small business owners, entrepreneurs, and employees during the recession.

In this 1st episode of the series, Lee explores the unique opportunity to reassess the way we do business as the recession unfolds by examining how our approach to the following:

1. What is and isn't working internally for your business?

2. How will you make decisions as uncertainty escalates?

3. What decisions have you been putting off making?

4. Are you a part of a community (large or small) that is focused on supporting each other in a creative and productive way that contributes to your success?

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#660 André Eiermann: Are Barista Competitions Still Relevant?

This is the final episode of a five-part series with André Eiermann. André is the 2017 Swiss National Barista Champion, a published author, Victoria Arduino Australia general manager, and a highly experienced specialty coffee industry veteran of more than 20 years. In this series, Lee and André will explore the gap between the specialty and commercial coffee industries.

In this 5th episode of the series, André and Lee explore the relevance of the world barista championship competition today compared with previous eras.

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#659 André Eiermann: Is Specialty Coffee In Trouble?

This is the 4th episode of a five-part series with André Eiermann. André is the 2017 Swiss National Barista Champion, a published author, Victoria Arduino Australia general manager, and a highly experienced specialty coffee industry veteran of more than 20 years. In this series, Lee and André will explore the gap between the specialty and commercial coffee industries.

In this 4th episode of the series, André and Lee have a very sobering conversation about the future of the specialty coffee industry as it collides with challenging times ahead.

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#658 André Eiermann: Science and Consistency in Coffee

This is the 3rd episode of a five-part series with André Eiermann. André is the 2017 Swiss National Barista Champion, a published author, Victoria Arduino Australia general manager, and a highly experienced specialty coffee industry veteran of more than 20 years. In this series, Lee and André will explore the gap between the specialty and commercial coffee industries.

In this 3rd episode of the series, our discussion leads us to explore what the specialty coffee industry could learn from the commercial coffee industry across the coffee supply chain.

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#657 André Eiermann: Lessons for Specialty From Commercial Coffee

This is the 2nd episode of a five-part series with André Eiermann. André is the 2017 Swiss National Barista Champion, a published author, Victoria Arduino Australia general manager, and a highly experienced specialty coffee industry veteran of more than 20 years. In this series, Lee and André will explore the gap between the specialty and commercial coffee industries.

In this 2nd episode of the series, André helps us navigate what lessons the commercial coffee industry have to offer the specialty coffee industry about going to market.

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#656 André Eiermann: Specialty vs. Commercial Coffee

This is the first episode of a five-part series with André Eiermann. André is the 2017 Swiss National Barista Champion, a published author, Victoria Arduino Australia general manager, and a highly experienced specialty coffee industry veteran of more than 20 years. In this series, Lee and André will explore the gap between the specialty and commercial coffee industries.

In this first episode of the series, André explains how specialty coffee and Commercial coffee are defined and some of the fundamental differences between them.

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#655 Todd McCarthy: Opportunities Ahead in Specialty Coffee

This is the final episode of a five-part series with Todd McCarthy, co-owner of Supply Coffee and veteran of the Australian specialty Coffee industry. In this series, Todd and Lee explore how the industry has changed over the last decade and where it's headed.

In this fifth episode, Todd shares his ideas for the opportunities ahead for specialty coffee industry business owners and employees within the industry.

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#654 Todd McCarthy: Challenges Ahead for Coffee Roasters

This is the fourth episode of a five-part series with Todd McCarthy, co-owner of Supply Coffee and veteran of the Australian specialty Coffee industry. In this series, Todd and Lee explore how the industry has changed over the last decade and where it's headed.

In this fourth episode, Todd and Lee dive into the biggest challenges ahead for coffee roasters in the challenging economic times we're entering globally.

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#653 Todd McCarthy: Challenges Ahead for Cafe Owners

This is the third episode of a five-part series with Todd McCarthy, co-owner of Supply Coffee and veteran of the Australian specialty Coffee industry. In this series, Todd and Lee explore how the industry has changed over the last decade and where it's headed.

In this third episode, Todd and Lee explore the most likely challenges ahead for cafe owners as businesses head into changing economic times.

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#652 Todd McCarthy: A Business Owners Perspective

This is the second episode of a five-part series with Todd McCarthy, co-owner of Supply Coffee and veteran of the Australian specialty Coffee industry. In this series, Todd and Lee explore how the industry has changed over the last decade and where it's headed.

In this second episode, Todd tells us what changed from his perspective when he changed from being a professional in the coffee industry to being a business owner in the coffee industry.

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#651 Todd McCarthy: The Last Decade in Specialty Coffee

This is the first episode of a five-part series with Todd McCarthy, co-owner of Supply Coffee and veteran of the Australian specialty Coffee industry. In this series, Todd and Lee explore how the industry has changed over the last decade and where it's headed.

In this first episode, Todd shares what key elements of specialty coffee that have evolved over the past decade in business, green, professionally, brewing, and flavour.

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#650 Sergei Kutrovski: Problems That Need Solving

We welcome Sergei Kutrovski, cafe manager at Narrative Coffee in Washington, back to The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by MAP IT FORWARD for a 5 part series to discuss the new ways of this evolving world for Cafe Managers.

In this final episode of the series, we ask Sergei the question "What problems need to be solved in the coffee industry today" and his response, from his perspective as a cafe manager and a small business owner, is insightful.

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#649 Sergei Kutrovski: Good Cafe Managers

We welcome Sergei Kutrovski, cafe manager at Narrative Coffee in Washington, back to The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by MAP IT FORWARD for a 5 part series to discuss the new ways of this evolving world for Cafe Managers.

In this 4th episode of the series, Sergei outlines what makes a good cafe manager in today's market.

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