Food + Beverage Therapy
Interviews and talks about leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation in the world of coffee. Learn from experts, CEOs and leaders in the coffee industry on how they challenge themselves, continue to grow, innovate and reinvent the landscape that makes up the business I love, coffee. Jake Leonti is a coffee consultant / coffee business expert and entrepreneur that has worked at every step of the value chain over a twenty+ year career. Jake shares insights, tips and mantras to help you along your coffee journey. A potpourri of food and beverage salves. Listen to learn about coffee, the people who make it and the business that drives us.
Episodes
23 episodes
Bill Murray: Advocating Coffee
Bill Murray, President and CEO at the National Coffee Association, is a serious advocate for the coffee industry. The NCA does the talking where coffee cannot. They defend coffee's rights to be made and ser...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:05:48
Revolution with Sahra Nguyen of Nguyen Coffee Supply
Sahra Nguyen is the Founder and CEO of Nguyen Coffee Supply and she has been starting a revolution in the coffee industry by rallying the nation behind Vietnamese coffee and the expanding our...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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58:07
Laird Hamilton: Fully Functional
LAIRD HAMILTON is a Waterman, Big Wave Surfer and Co-Founder of
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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1:17:00
Giving Back with Jeanine Niyonzima-Aroian
Jeanine Niyonzima-Aroian is the Founder of JNP Coffee, a green importing company driven to support farmers from Burundi. Jeanin...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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1:22:27
George Howell: Evolving Specialty Coffee
George Howell has always been curious about coffee, a champion of the farmer and an advocate for exceptional taste. After selling a successful coffee chain, co-founding Cu...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:15:29
Martin Mayorga on Listening
Martin Mayorga is the Founder and CEO of Mayorga Coffee which he started in 1997. Since then the business has grown exponentially and has fanned out to include Organic chia and black beans always w...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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1:16:02
Helen Russell Advocates for the Union of Wholesale and Retail
Helen Russell is the Co-Founder and Executive Chair at
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:16:30
Jordan Karcher Talks Entrepreneurship, Dogs and Coffee
Jordan Karcher is the Founder and CEO of Grounds & Hounds, a coffee company dedicated to dogs and animal rescue shelters. 20% o...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:03:35
Bob Fish: Conscious Capitalism with Biggby Coffee
Bob Fish is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Biggby Coffee, a franchise coffee chain started in Lansing, MI in 1995. Biggby is currently up to 358 open locations...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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48:24
12 Questions with Caroline Bell + Nick Stone
12 Questions is a casual addendum interview where we ask prominent coffee figures 12 personal and personality based questions inspired by the Marcel Prousts and Bernard Pivot questionnaire via James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio. T...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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18:07
CEO Scott Snyder talks about being a Bad Ass
Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii is a national coffee franchise with its origins in Hawaii. Today, the brand has grown exponentially under the leadership of
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:04:14
Jonathan Rubinstein: The Art of Joe
Jonathan Rubinstein is the Founder and CEO of Joe Coffee in New York City. Joe was the avant garde of Specialty coffee in New Yo...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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53:58
Cup Masters 1 - Ted Strachura and Elika Liftee
Our First edition of CUP MASTERS - a live online cupping event featuring some of the best cuppers in the country cupping interesting coffees and talking about them.
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:02:34
Peter Giuliano Talks Inclusive Cupping
Peter Giuliano has working in coffee for over thirty years. You may know him best as the former co-owner of
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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59:10
Franchising From the Ground Up with CEO Brandon Knudsen
Brandon Knudsen and his wife Camrin Knudsen co-founded Ziggi's Coffee on a shoe string budget and a lot of sweat equity. It took years to build a second location and seven years to break even. Today Ziggi's Coffee has 70 locations nationwide wi...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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42:55
Luke Schneider, CEO Fire Department Coffee
Luke Schneider is a Navy vet, Firefighter and CEO of
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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47:22
The LA Coffee Scene with Kyle Glanville of GGET
Former US Barista Champion and CEO / Co-Founder of Go Get 'Em Tiger, Kyle Glanville talks about bringing Specialty coffee to Los Angeles, running GGET and what's next for the innovative LA Coffee chain. I ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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30:02
State of the Industry with Andi Trindle Mersch
Andi C. Trindle Mersch, VP of Coffee Operations and Sustainability at Philz Coffee in San Francisco, CA discusses the year 2022 in review a...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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45:20
Talking Excellence with Onyx Coffee Lab
Andrea and Jon Allen are the husband and wife duo behind world famous Specialty coffee brand, Onyx Coffee Lab. We talk barista competition, ethical sourcing and what it takes to create a globally recognized brand from the Ozarks. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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37:06
State of The Industry with Caroline Bell of Café Grumpy
Frost, inflation and multiple wars all have had an impact on our global industry, coffee. Join Caroline Bell from New York 3rd Wave leader Café Grumpy as we discuss the current state of the coffee industry, whats trending and what's on tap for ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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30:17
Sanjiv Razdan: President, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf
Sanjiv Razdan is the President of Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf North America and India. Overseeing over 1,000 locations and facilitating growth in a difficult economic and logistically challenging time. Sanj...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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40:41
