LIVE!  From the Orlando Convention Center, it's Morgan Eckroth.  While at the NAFEM Show, not only did she prepare over 3000 drinks in three (3!) days on a Synesso MVP Hydra, but she had time to share some insights about my favorite topic.... coffee!

• Learn that you don't have to BEGIN as a coffee expert to enjoy espresso
• What a BLT and Espresso have in common
• Crack the code to social media success

follow her at @morgandrinkscoffee on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter ... you will LEARN so much about the coffee experience.  

***the North American Food Equipment Manufacturers convention.  Wow!**

Thanks to our sponsor - Synesso Espresso Machines and our friends at Onyx Coffee Lab,  Middleby, NAFEM, Concordia, Marco Beverage Systems and Ciel Coffee

Talk About Talk founder Dr. Andrea Wojnicki is obsessed with COMMUNICATION, and specifically with coaching ambitious executives on their communication skills to help them get noticed and advance their careers.

Early in her career, Andrea earned her MBA and worked in brand management at Kraft Foods. She then earned her Doctorate in Business (Marketing) from Harvard Business School, where her research focused on guess what??? COMMUNICATION. Specifically why and how people talk.

Andrea served on the faculty at the University of Toronto Rotman school of management where she taught in the MBA program. She also consulted in strategic brand marketing and served on several boards.

Andrea created Talk About Talk to help ambitious executives boost their confidence and improve their communication skills through 1-on-1 coaching, corporate workshops, online courses, a free weekly communication skills newsletter, and a bi-weekly podcast. You can learn more about the books she recommends and the podcasting resources she uses to make it all happen - see below. Andrea would love to talk!

You'll hear the three magic words that make every conversation flow with ease, the rule of odds and much more!

Link to Andrea's Talk About Talk website, podcast and much more!

Her killer LinkedIn page

We talk about Seth Godin and his Akimbo workshops

Jen's Coffee Essentials Course sign up

Try Costa Rica SL 28 from Hacienda Sonora - a unique coffee farm that processes only Natural Coffees!

Let's talk coffee - email me Jen@Ciel.World

Artemis  Gavriilidou (Gav reeli du)  shared with us how this delightful summer elixir was created in the most pragmatic way

• The difference between frappe and freddo
• How the coffee brings us to the table connects us no matter where we are

This episode is part of my Cold Coffee Stack!

CoffeeStain Podcast

Artemis Drink Mixers

Andrea's Sculpture website www.woodsculpture.gr

Ciel Coffee by Jen Stone

Coffee Explorer

Want to up your coffee game, visit the equator and learn how to really taste coffee?  Sign up for my free, espresso-sized coffee course by emailing Jen@Ciel.World.

Episode Notes

SPECIAL EPISODE with Seth Godin (2 of 2) 

We cover:

• How making a difference that matters might be easier than you think
• Get our hands dirty riffing on coffee roasting
• Seth reveals the linchpin for selling more coffee!

Links of Interest:

Food52 reviews Sandor Katz's book on The Art of Fermentation

This aromatic coffee from 90+ Farms in Panama

Jim Ziolkowski - BuildOn

Olympia Crimina Espresso Machine

Marco Arment of Tumblr

God Shot

Monk of Mocha by Dave Eggers

The Practice:  Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin

This Is Marketing by Seth Godin

Ciel Coffee by Jen Stone

Coffee Explorer

Want to up your coffee game, visit the equator and learn how to really taste coffee?  Sign up for my free, espresso-sized coffee course by emailing Jen@Ciel.World.

About Cheyenne:  

Baked, Brewed, Beautiful is a coffee and food blog written by Cheyenne Lentz (Elwell). Cheyenne is the author of The Coffee Journal, a daily coffee brewing log. She is a contributing lifestyle writer for Business Insider, MSN, Yahoo!, and The Spruce in which she regularly writes about coffee and reviews coffee products. She also loves to develop her own personal coffee & coffee pairing recipes at home as a way to relax from a hard day's work.

Fire Dept. Coffee - https://www.firedeptcoffee.com/

Peace Coffee - https://www.peacecoffee.com/

Other Links of Note:

Flash Chilled Coffee Recipe

Toddy Coffee Maker - the classic!  PERFECT Cold Brew Recipe

Thrive Farmers & Chick-fil-A

Todd Carmichael, Founder of La Colombe

Other roasters to check out:  Ciel Coffee, Intelligentsia, Go Get 'em Tiger, Blue Bottle, Dean's Beans

Cheyenne has a very lyrical voice... listen to her sing Satisfied in You, based on Psalm 42.  She is a very talented musician.  Besides writing about coffee, you can find her playing and teaching the violin in her home music studio. Her husband is also a musician (piano, guitar, drums), and they often play communion songs at their church. 

When coffee is ground, the interior of the bean, along with its delicate flavor oils, is exposed to air. If the grounds are not quickly subjected to brewing, oxygen will begin to degrade the flavor immediately. Therefore, it is imperative to grind coffee just prior to brewing for optimal flavor and freshness. For this reason, all Ciel coffee remains as whole bean to the point of consumption.

For best results, Ciel strongly encourages the use of burr grinders, which result in a consistent grind and, unlike blade grinders, will not overheat coffee beans, preserving their essential aromas and oils. The coffee particle size of your grind is determined by your selected brewing method and relates directly to the corresponding brew time. The smaller the particle size of ground coffee, the greater the overall surface area, and the less time it needs in contact with water to extract the perfect flavor. Very fine espresso ground coffee might require 27 seconds of brewing time, while coarser particles are suitable for 5 minutes in a French Press.

It is recommended you keep your grinder clean and free of coffee oil build-up, to preserve the truest flavor of Café Privé Sélect.

Recommended settings based on the Baratza Vario-W Grinders

• Espresso Grind - 8
• Pour Over Grind - 18
• French Press Grind - 25