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Coffee is ME - Start Your Coffee Business - Podcast

Coffee is ME - Start Your Coffee Business

Podcast for coffee professionals and enthusiasts. Valerian interviews emerging and established coffee professionals who are ready to reveal their secrets so you can use them to improve the quality of your coffee and boost your coffee business.
Valerian works on online coffee education projects from his home in Northern California. Originally he is from Central Europe where he co-owns a third wave coffee roasting company called Green Plantation.
Join him on the path to discovering the newest trends in the coffee industry.

Management & Marketing Business House Food Arts
Update frequency
every 26 days
Average duration
58 minutes
Episodes
78
Years Active
2015 - 2024
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Buying Coffee Brands with Tim Volkema - Schuil Coffee & Sparrows Coffee

Buying Coffee Brands with Tim Volkema - Schuil Coffee & Sparrows Coffee

Tim is not new in the business world, he built and sold a few successful ventures. When he moved to Grand Rapids, MI, he decided to skip the line and buy his next venture instead of doing the startup…

01:13:45  |   Thu 08 Oct 2020
A New Coffee Startup is Born with Stephen Ezell - Sequential Coffee

A New Coffee Startup is Born with Stephen Ezell - Sequential Coffee

My guest in this episode is Stephen Ezell. Stephen is my old buddy, who together with Jonathan Shepard started Sequential Coffee.

Jonathan is the business brain and Stephen is the coffee brain of thi…

01:12:48  |   Wed 16 Sep 2020
Crossing the Line to Work with Haitian farmers - Cafe Kreyol -  Joseph Stazzone

Crossing the Line to Work with Haitian farmers - Cafe Kreyol - Joseph Stazzone

I am not sure whether it is Joey's fascinating story or the current global situation, but this episode got a bit personal. 

 

Joey first started trading in “commodities” as a drug user and later deal…

01:08:42  |   Tue 28 Jul 2020
Building family coffee business with Mitchell Popadziuk - [CxT] Coffee Company

Building family coffee business with Mitchell Popadziuk - [CxT] Coffee Company

Mitchell Popadziuk managed to fall into a perfect team. He is the business mastermind, his brother Tristan brings the coffee passion, and their mother Kelly is the soul of sales and marketing. I am j…

01:19:58  |   Tue 09 Jun 2020
The rebel heart of Flag and Wire Coffee

The rebel heart of Flag and Wire Coffee

Nick Walton is a rebel... was a rebel. He grew up on a milk farm, but his revolutionary attitude towards his parents drove his dad to say "enough! Time to grow up!" Nick's coffee story starts with sl…

01:11:05  |   Sun 17 May 2020
Is this coffee roaster the future of coffee roasting? With Arno Holschuh from Bellwether

Is this coffee roaster the future of coffee roasting? With Arno Holschuh from Bellwether

We are back with a great new podcast featuring a really cool new innovation in coffee roasting - the Bellwether Coffee Roasting Machine.

Bellwether has developed a new type of small-batch electric co…

01:13:08  |   Fri 06 Mar 2020
$500 Gesha vs $10 Brazilian Coffee and Instagram Marketing Tips with Umeko Motoyoshi

$500 Gesha vs $10 Brazilian Coffee and Instagram Marketing Tips with Umeko Motoyoshi

We are back with part 2 of our discussion with Umeko Motoyoshi, coffee entrepreneur, social media expert, educator, and author. In this episode we continue last week’s discussion with the author of T…

00:41:54  |   Thu 12 Dec 2019
Umeko Motoyoshi - The Personality of Coffee Tasting. Is it a Real Thing?

Umeko Motoyoshi - The Personality of Coffee Tasting. Is it a Real Thing?

This week we talk with Q grader, author, educator, entrepreneur Umeko Motoyoshi. This is part 1 of a two part episode with Umeko, the creator of the Umeshiso rainbow cupping spoon and author of The @…

00:48:02  |   Thu 05 Dec 2019
I want to be a professional coffee taster...

I want to be a professional coffee taster...

In this episode, we interview Rick Appleton (Boston) and Abdulrahman Qurban (Saudi Arabia), students attending the SCA Sensory class at Boot Coffee Campus. What were the hardest parts of the course a…

01:02:59  |   Tue 05 Nov 2019
Sensory battle of the two most sensible worlds: Wine vs. coffee tasting and industry.

Sensory battle of the two most sensible worlds: Wine vs. coffee tasting and industry.

In this episode, we will explore the world of wine with Eric Danch.

We focus on tasting and sensory comparison between wine and coffee, but we also touch on the importance of origin, farming and proc…

01:21:30  |   Fri 18 Oct 2019
What is the Ideal Size of a Coffee Roaster, Can You Save Past Crop Coffee, Drum Speed, Mimicking Espresso and more ...

What is the Ideal Size of a Coffee Roaster, Can You Save Past Crop Coffee, Drum Speed, Mimicking Espresso and more ...

 

In this podcast, we will revisit the question of what is the ideal size of the roaster one should buy for their coffee roasting startup. You can find my old article here:

https://coffeecourses.com/…

01:14:54  |   Fri 20 Sep 2019
Coffee Roasting Q&A with Marcus Young & Valerian Hrala

Coffee Roasting Q&A with Marcus Young & Valerian Hrala

After a healthy intro about natural wine Marcus and I will answer your questions about coffee roasting.

Wine provided for this episode was by Noel Diaz and his Purity Wine.

These were your questions …

00:51:02  |   Wed 28 Aug 2019
Women in Coffee in Rwanda with Smayah Uwajeneza

Women in Coffee in Rwanda with Smayah Uwajeneza

We are Back [in Arnold's accent]. After a long rest, we are back with a very special episode on Rwandan coffee. Smaya will tell us about women in coffee in Rwanda, about how to become East African Ae…

00:56:26  |   Fri 16 Aug 2019
#42 Starting a Coffee Brand - Sales - Where to sell your product

#42 Starting a Coffee Brand - Sales - Where to sell your product

Where to sell your coffee? What shall be your wholesale price? Is Amazon or grocery stores the answer for your sales? We decided to share our experience from our first year trying to find the best sa…

01:25:27  |   Mon 21 Aug 2017
#41 Starting a Coffee Brand - Logo and Packaging

#41 Starting a Coffee Brand - Logo and Packaging

In this episode, we are going to talk about logo and packaging design. When it comes to the logo design we used plenty of services like Fiverr, 99 Designs and we will describe you the good and the ba…

01:15:24  |   Tue 04 Apr 2017
#40 Starting a Coffee Brand - 1. The Idea was born, lets name it.

#40 Starting a Coffee Brand - 1. The Idea was born, lets name it.

This is a promised episode where we try to inspire through our experience of building a coffee brand.

After I introduce William - the coffee farmer and the CEO of Unleashed Coffee we will give you f…

00:59:10  |   Wed 15 Mar 2017
#39 Cold Brew and Butter in Your Coffee ... a Coffee Biz Idea Under $10000

#39 Cold Brew and Butter in Your Coffee ... a Coffee Biz Idea Under $10000

Denet Lewis from Barbell Coffee will reveal how can you start a coffee business under $10000 and how did they find their crowd in the crossfit niche.

In this episode we will also talk about differen…

00:56:03  |   Mon 06 Feb 2017
Is Running a Cafe in the Overpriced Paris a Good Idea?

Is Running a Cafe in the Overpriced Paris a Good Idea?

In this episode I have a very exciting guest all the way from Paris.

Jana Bukovinova opened a cafe/bistro in Paris called Thank You My Deer.

She is the business owner, barista, baker and chef. As I…

01:18:04  |   Tue 20 Dec 2016
#37 What Does a Rwandan Barista Dreams Of?

#37 What Does a Rwandan Barista Dreams Of?

I think I am not wrong when I say that most coffee professionals dream of going to the origin, tasting the coffee cherry and frolicking on the coffee farm like Kaldi’s goats in 15th century in Ethiop…

00:46:07  |   Tue 29 Nov 2016
#36 Episode #2 with Michal Molčan. Is Intelligentsia Coffee a Sellout? Is Failing Fast a Good Thing?

#36 Episode #2 with Michal Molčan. Is Intelligentsia Coffee a Sellout? Is Failing Fast a Good Thing?

Second episode with Michal Molčan from the Standart Magazine.

In this episode Michal will describes his ideal cafe, elaborates on the idea behind Peet's acquisition of Intelligentsia's coffee and de…

00:18:34  |   Tue 22 Nov 2016
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