A coffee podcast providing coffee shop owners and leaders, with insights, inspiration, and the tools you need to grow and advance your coffee business or coffee career. We learn from experts both in and outside the coffee industry as they deliver specific, practical, and actionable advice about ownership, optimization, profitability, barista work, employee culture, management, scaling, leadership, personal development, and anything else that will help you achieve success in the coffee shop.
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Cashflow Podcasting - Grow Your Business, Boost Your Impact
Cashflow Podcasting, Launch and Grow Podcasts for Small Business Owners
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Welcome to Cashflow Podcasting! If you're looking to grow your business and boost your impact, you've come to the right place. You will hear from established business leaders who share their secrets on creating podcasts that generate revenue and build trust at scale. Join award-winning trainer and coach Pete Mockaitis as we dive into the art and science of podcasting with a purpose. Discover overlooked marketing channels, learn how to create the podcast your clients need, and find out how po ...
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The great Danny Meyer said, "Policies are nothing more than guidelines to be broken for the benefit of our guests". I come back to this idea often when trying to balance the tension between the need for structure and boundaries, and the freedom to be flexible in them and sometimes in spite of them. Today on Shift Break we will be talking about when…
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Systems are a necessary part of running a great coffee shop, but they do not make the shop great. As much as I talk about systems and structures on this show, the truth is, there are some problems with even the best systems when they are not part of a larger focus. Something that brings it all together. On this episode we are going to be talking ab…
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Sharing is caring!...but when you overshare with your managers it can easily be the opposite. You have a lot on your mind and often not a lot of people to share it with. The closest person is most often the manager or GM and they "get" to hear all about your plans, hopes, crazy ideas etc. Feels good for you, but for them it can be a huge burden tha…
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565: Making Specialty Coffee Shops Special -or- (how to avoid closing 400 stores)
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SPECIAL! Interviews from Coffee Fest LA 2025! w/ LaNisa Williams, Kat Padlan, Darell Baskin, and Seidy Selivanow
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I am excited to share with you another set of conversations from Coffee Fest! This time form Los Angeles 2025! We start with a discussion focusing on the growth of trining and education in coffee and baristas skills in underserved communities w/ LaNisa Williams of Barista Life LA LaNisa has been in the coffee industry for a total of 20 yrs but the …
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SHIFT BREAK! Why Won't My Baristas Engage Customers The Way I Want Them To?!
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Yeah sure your staff take the customer's order, give them the change, and direct them to the pick up area, but you want more! Trouble is, even though you have talked about it and told them, you don't see a change. What gives?! Today on Shift break we will be talking about the often desired, always vaguely communicated, and angst inducing topic of h…
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564: Why It's Not the Bricks, It's the Mortar! w/ Mike Cosentino of Big Peach Running Co.
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Knowing all the information and having all the coolest and best gear does not means your shop will succeed. For the purpose of todays conversation let's just say all the things we assemble under the roof of out shop are just the bricks. What's the mortar that holds t all together? People! Today we get to chat all about how to focus on people to fue…
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RoR#38 : A Better Way to Think About Roasting Dark, w Erik Johnson of Thinkwell Coffee
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Roasting excellent coffee should not be relegated to only one finish temp or level of roast. For a significant portion of our history we have favored the lighter and lower temps in specialty coffee. But recently roasters have begun to full embrace more full developed roast profiles in a pursuit of brining that specialty excellence to a wider range …
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We all want to make a difference with our work. The trouble is that the busyness of a coffee shop tends to pull our attention in a million different directions and we rarely get an opportunity to see if indeed we are making that difference. This leads to a lot of stress, burn out, and a demoralization that can easily shut down a business by first s…
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563: Founder Friday! w/ Jared Linzmeier of Ruby Coffee Roaster
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Jared Linzmeier is the co-founder of Ruby Coffee Roasters, based in Nelsonville, Wisconsin. After getting his start in specialty coffee with Intelligentsia in Los Angeles and later working in Portland and Seattle, he returned home in 2013 to start Ruby with his wife, Deanna. Named after his grandmother, Ruby has grown from a small garage roastery i…
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562: Encore Episode! The 10 Essentials of a Barista Manual!
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I love getting to re-air classics. This one on barista manuals is a great one because it provide a structure for essentials that you can build on. Here is the truth though, manuals do not magically create a difference in your shop. They are only a tools to help you build and are meant to support people in the work toward a common goal. On today's e…
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SHIFT BREAK! Is That Character or Neglect?
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The difference between dirty, dysfunctional, or neglected, and something that is maintained but has character, is the level of intentionality given to it. In many shops, we find broken and dismal conditions that really should have been maintained and fixed, but are often explained away as simply the age of the café itself as though it adds characte…
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This is a question that seems to be answered by many with desperate incentives and what amounts to just brute force to get their staff to do the things they want them to do in the way they want them to do it. In many ways, it's a favorite past time of owners to just complain about it but how many are taking the time to truly dig deeper and diagnose…
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SHIFT BREAK! What Customers Value and How to Deliver It
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We always talk about adding value to the customer experience. In the coffee shop this is usually focused on things like the look, flavor, price, and service rendered. But I believe it goes a level deeper than that. In fact, in order to truly deliver value, we have to believe in the core thing our service and product symbolizes or else we are less l…
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SHIFT BREAK! Taking the First Steps Toward Change in the Cafe
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So you have come to the conclusion that things need to change in your coffee shop. Maybe it is something related to systems, schedules, training, culture, or a host of other things you might want to take action on. But what is the first action you should take? Today on Shift Break we will be talking about the first right steps you should take when …
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560: Bio-Innovation and Securing the Future for Coffee Farmers and Their Land w/ Felipe Sardi of La Palma y El Tucan
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The world of coffee shops is fueled by the world of coffee farmers. For as long as coffee has been grown, the people who pursue the cultivation of the product we cultivate community around in the cafe have struggled and survive based on their ability to band together, invest in the land, one another, and innovate methods to secure their future. Tod…
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559: Myths Coffee Shop Owners Believe Part 2
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And the myths just keep on coming! Welcome to part 2 of the series on Myth Coffee Shop Owners Believe. The goal here is to create space and slow down long enough to critically and intentionally examine ideas before we adopt them into the fabric of our cafes. Of course in the frenzied world many of us occupy, having time to think might itself be a r…
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SHIFT BREAK! The Trend of Backwards Hospitality
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Who is it we are serving when we start or work in the coffee shop? If you listen to a lot of the way people talk today, you might think we expect customers to serve our needs more than we pursue meeting the needs of and serving our customers. Today on Shift Break we will be talking about the trend of backwards hospitality that has greatly diminishe…
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558: Digital Natives and the Future of Coffee Shops w/Kosta Kallivrousis
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Like Pepsi in 1984, coffee is the "Choice of a New Generation"... but maybe not in the same way as we of older generations are comfortable with. The ways digital natives are consuming coffee today may be unique, but as with all coffee consumers before and after, they are seeking the identity, belonging, utility, and promises associated with coffee …
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557: Founder Friday! w/ Andre Chanco of Yardstick Coffee in the Philippines!
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Once again it is Founder Friday! The world of coffee encompasses vast regions of taste and culture, all united by the communal cup of coffee. In the Philippines there has been an incredible movement of specialty. Yardstick Coffee stands as one of the original specialty coffee roasters and retailers that has built a solid and growing company that co…
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In forums, trade shows, and conversations everywhere, people are talking about their problems, and that's not a bad thing! The problem starts when the talk is not productive and starts to warp reality and damages our ability to work, serve and lead well due to the bitterness commiseration tends to produce. Today on Shift Break we will be talking ab…
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556: Myths Coffee Shop Owners Believe Part 1
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What we believe is often a mixture of what we heard , what we have experienced, and what is convenient for us in the moment. The truth is, we are desperate for certainty and as our desperation grows, our ability to be reasonable and discern goes down. Thats when ideas turn into rules based on nothing more that our desire for getting an answer. Then…
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SHIFT BREAK! Considering the Future You When Making Decisions
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Have you ever made a regrettable decision in the moment that you would have made differently if you had given yourself a bit more time and space to reason it through? I think we have all been there. Many are there right now! Every time we decide something in the present based on desperation, impatience, or fear, the future version of ourselves and …
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Becoming a great manager is as much for other people's benefit as it is for your own. In order to do this you have to see it as a practice that incorporates certain mindsets and habits that contribute to developing you into the kind of person who can guide and develop others Today on the show we will talking about three very important areas that ma…
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Message From Chris: Explaining Key Holder Coaching Groups, Consulting, Coaching, and the Goals of KTTS Services
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Hey everyone! I was sitting at my desk thinking about the various services and means KTTS has created to help coffee shop owners and leaders in the last 8 years. Seems we have grown a lot! From a podcast with 1,000+ episodes and 3 million+ downloads, to consulting and coaching 85+ cafes, training barista teams, speaking around the country multiple …
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