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United By Coffee
U3 Coffee
38 episodes
9 months ago
Welcome to the U3 Media Podcast. Thank you for helping us unite the world through coffee! U3 COFFEE exists to create the most meaningful coffee experience for millions of mindful, motivated humans.

We go beyond the bean, around the world, and across the value chain to promote empowerment, mutual learning, and connection among:

1) the farmers and co-ops who plant, nurture, and process coffee;
2) the entrepreneurs who broker, roast, and sell coffee;
3) the consumers who appreciate both coffee and coffee culture...that's you!

U3 COFFEE is a coffee ecosystem that shares the names, numbers, and stories behind each cup, in order to provide the ultimate coffee experience and create enduring connections.

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Welcome to the U3 Media Podcast. Thank you for helping us unite the world through coffee! U3 COFFEE exists to create the most meaningful coffee experience for millions of mindful, motivated humans.

We go beyond the bean, around the world, and across the value chain to promote empowerment, mutual learning, and connection among:

1) the farmers and co-ops who plant, nurture, and process coffee;
2) the entrepreneurs who broker, roast, and sell coffee;
3) the consumers who appreciate both coffee and coffee culture...that's you!

U3 COFFEE is a coffee ecosystem that shares the names, numbers, and stories behind each cup, in order to provide the ultimate coffee experience and create enduring connections.

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United By Coffee
Coffee Industry Expert Candice Madison on Education, Equity, and Embracing What You Enjoy
A simple mistake as a new barista sparked a passion for learning everything about coffee—and helped propel her all the way to becoming a Q Instructor just a few years later. Join U3 co-founder Kristi Ross and her co-host, Greg Hess, as they sit down with Candice Madison—a coffee-industry leader, coffee consultant, roaster, barista, and coffee educator who is preparing to launch her own coffee company—Kandake Boutique Coffees.
Find out how a camisole and a jug of burned milk kick-started Candice’s incredible career in the coffee industry, one that’s been fueled by curiosity and her passion for learning. Candice shares how a live webinar she organized in 2020 helped launch the Coffee Coalition for Racial Equity, why she hopes her experiences will help more people recognize that “coffee is for everybody,” and how a recent health crisis gave her a new perspective on how many lives she’s touched.

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12 months ago
33 minutes

United By Coffee
Serial Entrepreneur and Coffee Educator Patrick O’Malley Shares His Insights on the Evolution of the Coffee Industry
What happens when an aspiring winemaker wants to leave behind the late-night hours? Join U3 co-founder Kristi Ross and her co-host, Greg Hess, in a conversation with Patrick O’Malley, an award-winning coffee educator, serial entrepreneur, and thirty-year veteran of the coffee industry. Patrick shares how a simple request to create a more palatable schedule wound up changing the trajectory of his career—from winemaker to master coffee roaster.

Patrick offers his expert insights on how the coffee industry has changed over the past thirty years, and hear his candid assessment of the industry’s progress and challenges and shares why educating coffee professionals is his favorite aspect of his career—and why he believes educated coffee roasters are the key to creating more educated coffee consumers.

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1 year ago
28 minutes

United By Coffee
From Starbucks to PROBAT: Scott Stouffer on Coffee Innovation and Sustainability
How does a chemical engineer become a leading voice in the coffee industry? Join U3 co-founder Kristi Ross and her co-host Greg Hess as they sit down with Scott Stouffer, a chemical engineer by training and a 30-year coffee veteran. His remarkable journey started with a chance role as a process engineer for a “little expanding startup company”—Starbucks—and today he’s the Chief Sales Officer at PROBAT, a global leader in coffee roasting equipment.

Scott shares what’s behind PROBAT’s commitment to building enduring machines that not only stand the test of time but also adapt to the ever-evolving coffee landscape—and why Scott says they’re “becoming as much a technology company as a roasting company” to better support coffee roasters.

Learn about PROBAT’s pioneering sustainability efforts, including a commitment to being carbon neutral by 2030. Prepare to be inspired by his dedication to mentoring future engineers in discovering unique career paths and why supporting coffee research is part of PROBAT’s mission to foster a vibrant coffee community.

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1 year ago
27 minutes

United By Coffee
Meet Lucas Venturim, A Brazilian Coffee Producer Championing a Robusta Revolution
Join U3 co-founder Kristi Ross and her co-host Greg Hess in an enlightening conversation with Lucas Venturim, a fifth-generation Brazilian coffee producer and commercial director of Café Fazenda Venturim, which specializes in fine Robusta coffees. He’s on a mission to change the narrative around Robusta by educating coffee roasters, baristas, and coffee lovers about its unique flavor profile. He shares why he firmly believes that highlighting Robusta's distinct value can lead to a more environmentally friendly, socially equitable, and economically viable coffee industry.

Lucas shares how his background in engineering has fueled his innovative approach to coffee production—and why he’s experimenting with different approaches to harvesting, processing, roasting, and brewing in order to change attitudes about Coffea canephora. Tune in to hear why he believes economic sustainability is crucial for the future of coffee and how his efforts to include Coffea canephora growers in the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) are a key part of this vision.

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1 year ago
25 minutes

United By Coffee
Dehab Mesfin: An Ethiopian Coffee Producer Empowering Women Through Sustainable Agriculture
Join U3 co-founder Kristi Ross and her co-host Greg Hess in an enlightening and inspiring conversation with Dehab Mesfin, the founder and general manager of Diamond Enterprise and Dahab Specialty Farm, a woman-owned coffee business that’s focused on sustainability and women’s empowerment.

Dehab’s specialty coffee farm—Dahab Specialty Farm—is nestled within the buffer zone of Ethiopia’s Kafa Biosphere Reserve, the largest UNESCO biosphere reserve in the country, which gives her an insightful perspective on the delicate balance between coffee cultivation and nature preservation. She shares why her farm's unique location not only drives their sustainable practices in both farming and processing and traceability initiatives but also infuses their coffee beans with an incredible, one-of-a-kind flavor.

Tune in to find out why Dehab says coffee is “a connection point for the women” of Ethiopia, and how her commitment to empowering women led her to spearhead a groundbreaking training program focused on sustainability, financial empowerment, and a unique product—coffee honey!

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1 year ago
24 minutes

United By Coffee
L53 Estates’ Francisco Lacayo: A Coffee Producer Committed to Community & Sustainability
Join U3 co-founder Kristi Ross and her co-host Greg Hess in an inspiring conversation with Francisco Lacayo, general manager of L53 Family Estates, a multifaceted family-run operation that includes two Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, co-ownership of a dry mill, and an export company.

Francisco’s father first entered the coffee industry in 1994, when Francisco was seven years old. Twenty years later, after completing his undergraduate degree at Purdue University and an MBA at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Francisco returned home to Nicaragua, where he joined his father in a new venture: purchasing a coffee farm together.

Today, Francisco is leading L53 with a focus on community development, sustainability, and providing their customers with consistently excellent green coffees.Francisco shares why L53 prioritizes traceability—all the way down to the day their cherries were picked—and why he believes that “coffee is a relationship industry.” Tune in to learn more about complex challenges that coffee producers face—from climate change to choosing cultivars and caring for their crops—and what Francisco says governs 90% of the process of growing coffee.

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1 year ago
24 minutes

United By Coffee
Jake Elster and Ben Heins of Crop to Cup Coffee Importers Share Why “Good Coffee Comes from Good People”
Join U3 co-founder Kristi Ross and her co-host Greg Hess in an inspiring conversation with Jake Elster and Ben Heins, co-owners of Crop to Cup Coffee Importers, a green-coffee importing company that’s committed to a people-first approach to coffee.

Hear all about how their paths collided in a serendipitous meeting at the University of Chicago. Ben, a trailblazer in the ready-to-drink coffee game, was on a quest to learn more about “how coffee happens.” Meanwhile, Jake’s connections to Uganda’s coffee communities inspired him to design a radical new model for coffee imports—one that put farmers front and center—at Crop to Cup Coffee Importers. Their synergy and shared passion for coffee fueled Crop to Cup’s mission: to empower smallholder farmers and revolutionize the specialty coffee industry.

Today Crop to Cup represents coffee producers from more than 110 coffee-growing communities in a dozen countries. Their team serves as invested ambassadors, connecting underrepresented coffee-producing communities with roasters who are excited about their offerings. Their mission grows from a shared core belief: “Good coffee comes from good people.”

And tune in to learn more about U3 Coffee’s newest initiative—the U3 Coffee Bank—and how it’s supporting coffee producers, coffee roasters, and coffee entrepreneurs to make a positive impact on the coffee industry!

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1 year ago
37 minutes

United By Coffee
Meet UC Davis’s Bill Ristenpart: Chemical Engineer, College Professor, and Coffee Scholar
Join U3 co-founder Kristi Ross and her co-host Greg Hess as they chat with Bill Ristenpart, professor of chemical engineering and founding director of the UC Davis Coffee Center, a groundbreaking multidisciplinary academic center focused on research to support and improve the coffee industry.

What started in 2013 as 18 engineering students in a freshman engineering seminar has now served more than 250,000 alumni around the world and attracted partnerships with some of the biggest names in the coffee industry, including Peet’s, Probat, La Marzocco, and Toddy. Bill shares how a single cup of coffee changed the course of his career, how academic research can help optimize coffee from farm to cup, and why he says “the coffee industry is special.”

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1 year ago
26 minutes

United By Coffee
Fairgrounds’ Michael Schultz on Craft Coffee, Choice, and Community
Join U3 co-founder Kristi Ross and her co-host Greg Hess in a conversation with Michael Shultz, founder of Fairgrounds Craft Coffee & Tea, a café experience founded on the principles of diversity, choice, and community.

After two decades working in the restaurant industry, and with his first child on the way, Michael started to think about the legacy he wanted to leave behind. He wanted to find ways to make systemic change, touch the lives of other people, create opportunities for others, and make people happy. So, two days before his daughter was born, Michael took the leap into entrepreneurship with his first café

In 2016, that journey, and his focus on making positive change, led him to create Fairgrounds Craft Coffee & Tea, a café experience founded on the principles of diversity, choice, and community. As part of Infuse Hospitality, which services more than 40 million square feet of custom food and beverage solutions across North America, Fairgrounds allows customers to choose from a dozen coffee roasters, a variety of brewing styles, coffee flights, and chef-created food options. Today, Fairgrounds is thriving in four cities across the country, and meeting the wide range of needs that bring people to their cafés.

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1 year ago
22 minutes

United By Coffee
How Tim Coonan Is Nurturing a People-First Coffee Company at Big Shoulders Coffee
Join U3 co-founder Kristi Ross and her co-host Greg Hess in an inspiring conversation with Tim Coonan, co-founder of Big Shoulders Coffee, a hospitality-driven company that prioritizes their customers, their team, and their producers.

When Tim and his wife Patricia, both accomplished leaders in the restaurant industry, were starting to think about their own coffee business fourteen years ago, there were very few cafés in Chicago that were as focused on customer-centered service as their restaurant counterparts. So they set out to change that with Big Shoulders.

Today, Big Shoulders Coffee is an award-winning coffee roasting company with six cafés across Chicago, a booming online retail shop, and a thriving food service wholesale. Their long list of accolades includes being named Small Chain/Franchise Champion in the 2024 Golden Bean World Series and being named the #1 Independent Coffee Shop in the US by USA Today in 2023.

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1 year ago
30 minutes

United By Coffee
How Connie Blumhardt's Roast Magazine Is Helping Roasters Thrive
Join U3 co-founder Kristi Ross and her co-host Greg Hess as they sit down with Connie Blumhardt, the founder and publisher of the award-winning Roast Magazine, one of the coffee industry’s best-loved and most well-respected publications. Discover how a job in ad sales helped her fall in love with the coffee roasting community and why their passion for coffee inspired her to create a publication focused on the art and science of roasting coffee.

Connie shares some of the secrets to Roast’s incredible success and the advice she gives coffee lovers when they ask about her favorite coffee brands—and unveils their big plans for their 2025 coffee event in Portland, OR, including the details on a surprise announcement!

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1 year ago
25 minutes

United By Coffee
Ana Velloso: A Brazilian Architect Redesigning Her Family’s Coffee Legacy
Join U3 co-founder Kristi Ross and her co-host Greg Hess as they sit down with Ana Velloso, a third-generation Brazilian coffee producer and a champion for the unique flavors and high-quality beans Brazilian coffee offers the world. Find out why Ana never envisioned a career in coffee—and what led her back to her family’s coffee business after 10 years working as an architect.

Today, Ana runs the commercial side of São Luiz Estate Coffee, a true family business and a pivotal player in Brazil’s coffee history and legacy, serves as an ambassador for the Cerrado Mineiro Designation of Origin (DO) region, where she champions the unique flavors and high-quality beans Brazilian coffee offers the world, and is the co-founder of a new consumer-facing coffee business designed “to reach all the customers in Brazil with a very good coffee.”

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1 year ago
24 minutes

United By Coffee
Laura Sommers, Empowering Coffee Lovers to Brew the Perfect Cup at Home
Join U3 Coffee co-founder Kristi Ross as she chats with Laura Sommers, a thirty-year veteran of the coffee industry and the designer behind the innovative SimplyGoodCoffee brewer.

Discover the story behind Laura’s incredibly successful first coffee business—Espresso Supply, Inc—and how she preserved when people told her she was wasting her time, because there was no way coffeeshops in the States would stand the test of time!Today Laura is challenging the conventional wisdom again, betting her innovative automatic brewer can bring more at-home coffee drinkers to the specialty coffee market—and help that market continue to boom—by adhering to the SCA’s rigorous brewing standards and allowing coffee lovers to brew barista-worthy coffee with a simple, straightforward system.

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1 year ago
39 minutes

United By Coffee
From Volunteer to Visionary: Yannis Apostolopoulos on Revolutionizing Specialty Coffee with the SCA
Join U3 Coffee co-founder Kristi Ross as she sits down with Yannis Apostolopoulos, beverage-industry veteran and CEO of the Specialty Coffee Association. As CEO of the SCA, Yannis leads a team that’s taking a global approach to supporting and promoting specialty coffee through in-depth research into all things coffee, education initiatives that serve coffee entrepreneurs across the value chain, and building a thriving community within specialty coffee, all with one goal: “make coffee better.

Kristi and Yannis dive deep into the SCA’s initiatives to develop innovative tools to improve coffee standards, provide continuing education across the specialty-coffee value chain, and support research into all aspects of specialty coffee—from consumer trends to the science of roasting. Yannis shares how the SCA’s new Coffee Value Assessment System creates a more holistic, objective system that goes beyond taste to capture a “high-resolution picture” of the value of coffee.

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1 year ago
29 minutes

United By Coffee
Jeremy Hardy, An Apple Inspired Coffee Roaster Working to End Poverty, One Cup at a Time
Join U3 Coffee co-founder Kristi Ross as she digs in with Jeremy Hardy, executive director of Vigilant Hope Inc, a nonprofit working to end poverty in Wilmington, NC that’s roasting incredible coffee to fund their important programs. Today, Vigilant Hope Roasting not only helps finance their work, it’s also a way for the organization to connect with their community and share their story.

Learn about Vigilant Hope Roasting’s commitment to “good coffee, good purpose” and why they’re embracing the opportunity to support both coffee farmers and members of their community facing poverty, empowering customers to be the heroes who facilitate that social change.

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1 year ago
31 minutes

United By Coffee
Nanelle & Andy Newbom: Why Torque Coffee’s Co-founders Are Breaking the Coffee Industry
Join U3 Coffee co-founder Kristi Ross as she uncovers the story behind Nanelle and Andy Newbom, two coffee industry veterans who consider themselves to be “coffee lifers.” They share how coffee became a shared passion (and why Andy originally considered coffee “disgusting”) and why they believe the essence of great coffee is the people who produce it.

After almost 25 years wearing almost every hat in the coffee business—from baristas to coffee roasters to coffee importers—today they own Torque Coffees, a specialty roaster changing the equilibrium in the coffee industry, ensuring greater equity across the value chain, and creating greater price transparency for coffee drinkers.

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1 year ago
42 minutes

United By Coffee
She’s the Roaster: Meet Award-Winning Woman Coffee Roaster Jen Apodaca
Join U3 Coffee co-founder Kristi Ross in a conversation with Jen Apodaca, one of the world’s most celebrated women coffee roasters. After fourteen years roasting for some of coffee’s biggest brands—including Intelligentsia, Blue Bottle, Royal Coffee—Jen is now the founder, owner, and head coffee roaster of her own company, Mother Tongue Coffee.Learn about Jen’s mission to build her brand on a foundation of trust and equity, her inspiration to create the She’s the Roaster movement to support and empower women roasters, and why she’s breaking the mold on everything from branding to sourcing sustainable coffee.

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1 year ago
47 minutes

United By Coffee
9-Time Cup of Excellence Winners, Carmen & Rafael Silva, Share a Family Coffee Legacy 6 Generations Strong
Join U3 Coffee co-founder Kristi Ross in conversation with Carmen and Rafael Silva, their family runs the award-winning Sicafe, which includes six family-owned farms in El Salvador, a mill, and exporting company, all focused on specialty coffee.

The Silva family’s coffee legacy started in 1870s; today they own some of the most renowned coffee farms in the world and are nine-time winners of the Cup of Excellence.Carmen and Rafael share how Sicafe balances tradition and innovation to create exceptional products—from carefully curated micro-lots to complex honey lots—while keeping a keen focus on environmental, social, and economic sustainability.

Find out why both Carmen and Rafael agree that, in agriculture, some of the most critical variables are out of your control and find out how Sicafe is supporting other producers in El Salvador to ensure that they can navigate those challenges.

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1 year ago
26 minutes

United By Coffee
Julia Stamberger Unveils a Plant-Based Milk Designed with Coffee Lovers in Mind
Join U3 Coffee co-founder Kristi Ross as she chats with Julia Stamberger, CEO and co-founder of The Planting Hope Company, a Chicago startup working to create plant-based food options that are sustainable, scalable, and simple to use.

After twenty successful years in the food industry, Julia Stamberger noticed an important trend: While consumers wanted better-for-you options, many of the products on the market weren’t sustainable long-term as the world’s population continues to grow and climate change has a greater impact on our agricultural systems.

She and a group of other industry experts set out to create a plant-based milk that was sustainable, scalable, and provided the same nutrients as dairy, and would froth, foam, and steam as well as cow’s milk. Seven years and $10 million later, The Planting Hope Company released their Hope and Sesame Barista Blend, the first commercialized sesame milk, created specifically with coffee lovers’ needs in mind.

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1 year ago
55 minutes

United By Coffee
Brian Franklin, A Coffee Connoisseur Who Took on Starbucks and Won
Listen in as U3 Coffee co-founder Kristi Ross chats with Brian Franklin, a coffee connoisseur and a self-described “coffee purist” who is on a mission to educate coffee drinkers on the true potential of coffee. Discover Brian’s journey as founder, owner, and roaster of DoubleShot Coffee Company, and find out why he’s proud that their menu has only gotten smaller over time. Learn why Brian went head-to-head with Starbucks and how his unyielding vision has helped him launch several thriving coffee businesses.

Check out Brian’s video on the U3 website.

Find DoubleShot Coffee Company’s Ambergris Espresso Blend in the U3 Coffee Exchange!

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1 year ago
49 minutes

United By Coffee
Welcome to the U3 Media Podcast. Thank you for helping us unite the world through coffee! U3 COFFEE exists to create the most meaningful coffee experience for millions of mindful, motivated humans.

We go beyond the bean, around the world, and across the value chain to promote empowerment, mutual learning, and connection among:

1) the farmers and co-ops who plant, nurture, and process coffee;
2) the entrepreneurs who broker, roast, and sell coffee;
3) the consumers who appreciate both coffee and coffee culture...that's you!

U3 COFFEE is a coffee ecosystem that shares the names, numbers, and stories behind each cup, in order to provide the ultimate coffee experience and create enduring connections.

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