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🔎 In Focus: Fionn Pooler, Part 2
"I'm constantly trying to figure out if there's a way to grow or make this sustainable. "
🔎 In Focus
Conversations and interviews with creatives in or adjacent to the coffee industry.
🔎 In Focus: Interview with Fionn Pooler, writer of "The Pourover"
"The reader should understand where I'm coming from, but also that these ideas that I'm presenting to them are measured and have been thought through."
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🔎 In Focus: Brit Alexandria, Part 2
"I am not a monolith. I'm not telling you this is how you have to treat disabled baristas. We are all different. So accept that there are things that I won't know because I don't know everyone on your staff."
🔎 In Focus: Interview with barista, writer, and advocate Brit Alexandria
We talk about being a barista, coffee hot takes, endometriosis, and their creative writing practice.
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🔎 In Focus: Leaderboard, Part 2
This is a continuation of the In Focus interview sent out last week. It features Suneal Pabari and Grant Gamble, co-founders of Leaderboard, the worldwide mystery coffee game. Paid subscribers receive bonus interview content when there’s too much to fit into the first part.
🔎 In Focus: Leaderboard
A detailed Q&A with the co-founders of Leaderboard, a worldwide mystery coffee game.
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🔎 In Focus: Xi Bago, Part 2
Part 2 of the In Focus interview with barista Xi Bago. We talk about service dog training, spirituality, and being the sacrificial competitor.
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🔎 In Focus: Xi Bago
Longtime coffee professional Xi Bago shares what their journey has been like in coffee as a career barista. We also chat about mental health and their dog food side hustle.
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🔎 In Focus: Lucia Bawot, Part 2
Unlocking creativity & what's next in her career.
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🔎 In Focus: Coffee creative Lucia Bawot
An in-depth interview on her filmmaking, photography, and new book
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🔎 In Focus: Interview with photographer Michael Flores
And, some other things I'm trying out for December
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🔎 In Focus: Nickey Huynh
An interview with the illustrator behind Niche Create, where we discuss cultural expectations, mental health, and creative inspiration