This week on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast, we dive into the complex world of getting coffee brands into grocery stores with Allison Ball, founder of Retail Ready™.
📢 Why this matters:
Selling coffee in grocery stores sounds like a dream, but it comes with challenges. In this series, Allison (ex-grocery buyer turned brand coach) breaks down what it takes to get on shelves and succeed once you're there.
The coffee market is making history, and we’re witnessing unprecedented volatility across the supply chain. Record prices, Trump’s on-again off-again tariffs, cuts to USAID, weather issues in coffee-growing regions, and currency gymnastics are all playing an important role in market volatility this week!
This week on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast, we dive into Pakistan’s specialty coffee scene with Faisal Khan, founder of Nomad Coffee Studio, Pakistan’s market leader in specialty coffee.
Read MoreThe coffee market is making history, and we’re witnessing unprecedented volatility across the supply chain. Record prices, Trump’s on-again off-again tariffs, cuts to USAID, weather issues in coffee-growing regions, and currency gymnastics are all playing an important role in market volatility this week!
This week on the podcast, Felipe Croce and Angel Barrera take us masterfully through the situation we’re facing in coffee right now.
Read MoreThis week, we welcome Carol Salloum, co-owner of Three Tomatoes Cafe in Sydney, Australia. Carol has built a thriving neighborhood cafe, and in this series, we explore what it takes to run a successful coffee shop in 2025.
Read MoreWe are back for 2025 and we’re starting with a bang!
This week on the podcast we welcome Alejandro Cadena, CEO of Caravela Coffee back to the podcast for the first time in many years. Caravela Coffee is a globally recognized green coffee exporter out of Latin America and an importer into consuming regions around the world.
In this discussion, Alejandro and Lee discuss the definitive nature of the year ahead, 2025. This series explores what we should expect, how we got here, and why this is a year that is unlike any other in the history of the coffee industry.
Read MoreAnd just like that, another year comes to an end and we notched up another 50 series/250 new episodes on the podcast for 2024!
This week, we premier our last new series for the year with Bob and Michelle Fish from Biggby Coffee and One Bigg Island In Space, and boy oh boy are we finishing on a bang! With 400+ franchises across 12 states and another 100 signed, Biggby’s growth defies the challenges most businesses are facing.
In this five-part series, we explore “The Black Curtain of Coffee”—what it is, why it exists, who benefits from it, and what’s next for the coffee industry. When I tell you that Bob and Michelle did not come to play, I mean it. As buyers of some major volumes of coffee and proud capitalists, they have lots to say about how they have changed over the decades and what needs to change on an industry level as coffee reshapes itself.
Read MoreWhat an absolutely wild end to the year we’re having with history-making highs on the C-Market this week at 3.45 USD.
Last week on the podcast we examined how this market volatility was being experienced by coffee producers with an excellent series with Ana Donneys from Cafe Primitivo in Colombia.
This week on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast, we’re joined by Anne Djerai, CEO of Metropolis Coffee Company in Chicago. With over 20 years of experience in the coffee business, Anne shares her perspective on market volatility, the evolving role of coffee CEOs, and what lies ahead for the coffee industry.
Read MoreThe wild ride continues with market volatility again creating chaos for speculators, producers, traders, and other stakeholders alike. We’ll know at the end of this week if the dip in prices was caused by speculators or not, but it has to be said that Carley Garner predicted this selloff in this episode of the podcast a few months ago..she also predicted that it would surge again after that but by how much, none of us know. (none of this is financial advice)
This week on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast, we’re spotlighting the next generation of coffee farmers with our guest, Ana Donneys, a 5th generation coffee producer and CEO of Cafe Primitivo, based in Quindio, Colombia.
When Ana took over her family’s farm six years ago, she faced significant debt and the challenge of honoring her grandfather’s legacy. Using her business education, Ana developed a strategy focused on specialty coffee, profitability, and regenerative farming practices. With the C-Market hitting 47-year highs (at the time of the recording of this series) , Ana’s decisions are paying off, and she’s helping redefine the future of coffee farming.
Read MoreWelcome to another series on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward podcast for the week commencing Nov 25, 2024!
What a wild wild week it’s been! I sincerely hope that you’re managing these very volatile times as best you can. I suspect if you’re a part of the Map It Forward community, you were prepared for this a long time ago and have strategies in place. Many are not so lucky and most are blissfully unaware that anything is happening at all.
Read MoreCoffee Market Spikes, Global Expansion, and EUDR Delays!
On The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward this week, we’re joined by Nawar Adra, founder of Stitch Coffee in Sydney, Australia. After nearly a decade, Stitch Coffee is expanding into Asia, targeting markets in China and Japan.
Read MoreThis week on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast, we’re inspired by the resilience of Joseph Sayegh, owner of Levant Cafe in Beirut, Lebanon. Despite the challenges of war in Gaza and Beirut, Joseph has kept his cafe open, offering connection and comfort during a time of immense hardship.
Read MoreOur latest podcast series features Lennart Clerkx, co-founder of This Side Up Coffee, an independent coffee trading house based in the Netherlands that has an eye on strategically becoming one of the “Big Guys”. Lennart and I discuss whether values-driven coffee traders can stay true to their principles while navigating the challenges of a volatile market.
Read MoreIn our new five-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast, host Lee Safar talks with Andrew Hetzel about the Details of EUDR and their potential impact on stakeholders across the coffee supply chain.
Read MoreIn our new five-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast, host Lee Safar talks with Stephen Vick from African Coffee Roasters about roasting coffee at origin.
Read MoreIn our new five-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast, host Lee Safar talks with Brazilian coffee agronomist Jonas Ferraresso about the economics of coffee production in Brazil, covering different farming systems, costs, and the future of coffee crops.
Read MoreThis week on the podcast we have Miguel Zamora from the International Coffee Organization (ICO) joining us to discuss how the ICO is working with governments and other partners around the world to achieve a living income for coffee producers.
I found this discussion very enlightening. The ICO is one of those organizations that we’ve all heard of but may not know exactly what they do. In this series, Miguel did a great job helping me to understand what the ICO and more specifically, what he as the coordinator of ‘The Coffee Public Private Taskforce” is hoping to accomplish.
Read Morethis week Map It Forward has an announcement! We are proud to present “Introduction to Regenerative Coffee Farming” - A live online event for coffee producers and the wider coffee industry in English, Spanish, and Portuguese on Oct 28, 29, and 30th.
This is the first phase in a 3 phase project and this week on the podcast, you’ll hear from the trainers of our workshops on why our focus as an industry needs to be on regenerative agriculture if we’re going to have a future for the supply of coffee.
Read MoreEuropean Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is fast approaching and many people have opinions about what it will do to the coffee supply chain, coffee producers, and the price of coffee in general in Europe.
The main issue I’m hearing is that coffee producers “don’t need another expense to add to the list of things to get coffee to the consumer”.
4 months out from the regulation coming into effect, I am keen to understand how different stakeholders are positioned now that EUDR is about to become a reality for them and their partners.
Read MoreWe’re living in very volatile times politically and economically in the coffee sector and while we don’t often get political on this show, this week we couldn’t not!
Our guest for this series is David "Rabbithole" Lalonde from Rabbithole Roasters, based in Montreal, Canada.
David is best known for his Instagram meme account @davidsrabbithole, where he encourages discussions on various uncomfortable supply chain, social, political, and economic issues within and outside the coffee
Read MoreI have said many times on the podcast that we need to empower coffee producers. This week, my guest helped me understand why that might not be the right way to look at it and while we didn’t agree on everything, the discussion was fascinating and insightful!
Our guest on the podcast for this next series is Camila Khalife, an impact and communications specialist in the coffee sector and the creator of the meme account @concaradecafe which speaks about social and economic justice for coffee producers and women in origin countries.
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