Valor Coffee Podcast

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 Ethan and Ross talk about our method for dealing with stressful situations and how to channel panic into action using a little routine we created called the DIAL Method. Enjoy! Buy Valor Coffee: https://valor.coffee/shop Watch on Youtube: https://youtube.com/valorcoffee16 Want to become a Wholesale Pa...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 A moment to toot our own horn: one of the most common questions we are asked is, “How do you guys get such great people to work for your company?” Today, we try to touch on the subject and give you all a glimpse of the hiring process at Valor. Enjoy! Buy Valor Coffee: https://valor.coffee/shop Watch o...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 One of our coffee besties, Kent Sheridan, phoned in to the program this week to show us a good time. Kent founded VOILA, a company that (formerly) produced the best, most convenient instant coffee in the world. We talk about his history in the coffee industry, our friendship, AND we taste some "conven...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 Ethan and Ross talk about our method for dealing with stressful situations and how to channel panic into action using a little routine we created called the DIAL Method. Enjoy! Buy Valor Coffee: https://valor.coffee/shop Watch on Youtube: https://youtube.com/valorcoffee16 Want to become a Wholesale Pa...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 This is one of those "Sometimes" pods where we go off about football and then bring it around to how different styles of leadership look within different industries (i.e. a coffee shop vs a pro football team lol). Thanks for listening. Buy Valor Coffee: https://valor.coffee/shop Watch on Youtube: http...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 Ross sits down with Riley this week to talk about another one of our Core Values, Details Matter. This value can elevate businesses to stick out from the rest by empowering us and our team to take a step back and look at the areas where we can go beyond the norm. Thanks for listening! Buy Valor Coffee...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 One of the MOST IMPORTANT things to us is giving our guests a similar experience each and every time they step foot through our doors, NO MATTER WHO is behind the bar. Today we talk about ways we do this while giving the best possible product, including practical steps such as setting a "Range of Exce...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 This week we talk about how our weeks and schedules play out as three guys who own a coffee company. Obviously this can play out differently depending on what kind of coffee business you are running (i.e. cafe vs roasting operation vs both) and how many owner's your business has. This is a question we...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 As a follow-up to last week's Culture Couch episode, this week Ross and Ethan go even deeper on why Put Empathy Into Action is our most talked about core value and how we apply this with our lives, space-design and more. Buy Valor Coffee: https://valor.coffee/shop Watch on Youtube: https://youtube.com...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 On this episode of Culture Couch, Ethan and Ross take a moment to talk about our most talked about Core Value, Put Empathy Into Action and how we live by this in our day-to-day operations. Buy Valor Coffee: https://valor.coffee/shop Watch on Youtube: https://youtube.com/valorcoffee16 Want to become a...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 We're stoked to put out this conversation we had with our friends from Portrait Coffee. Portrait is crushing it, dishing out great coffees while on a great mission. We talked with Aaron and Marcus about their brand, mission & vision, and business challenges. Thanks for watching! Buy Portrait Coffe...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 This week we take a deep dive into one of our values that we think fuels Valor to truly be more than just a coffee company – Fun & Focused. Operations coordinator Mykie Rutter sits down with Ross to talk how she has seen this lived out in the cafe. Buy Valor Coffee: https://valor.coffee/shop Watch...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 This week we answer questions asked by Instagram followers and emailers including what we'd do different if we started a cafe, how to manage work/life balance, how to increase sales volume in your cafe, how to maintain a fun culture while remaining professional, plus many, many more! Thanks for listen...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 New segment! Weekly, along with our normal long-form Coffee Sometimes episode, we'll be dropping short-form episodes focused on culture – if you watch the video on YouTube, you'll see that these episodes are recorded on a couch in our HQ, hence the title...Culture Couch! This episode lays out what we'...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 Mizuba Tea Co dishes out some of the finest matcha in the game and Valor is a verrrrry proud partner! We sat down this week with founder Lauren Purvis and discussed Mizuba's origins and lots of tea talk, including some of those nerdy details that we know lots of you listeners will love. Thanks to Laur...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 Little Wolf coffee is one of Valor's favorite roasters, so we had a ton of fun sitting down with co-founder Melissa Bartz and hearing more about the company. We had the pleasure of visiting their cafe-roastery in Ipswich, MA In 2021 and it, along with Melissa and team's excellent service and coffee, w...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 Unblended is, simply put, one of our favorite companies in the business. Lucas and his team are focused on fixing root issues within the supply chain, including introducing younger producers to the coffee industry and building brands around producers hard work. Unblended focuses energy on this, along...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 Elijah is one of a kind, a true treasure that came to Georgia and began working at Valor about two years ago. We've seen him blossom and bring so much joy to our team and our guests. Elijah is moving on to pursue his career in design, so we decided to do a sort of live exit interview to discuss how Va...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 We're back! This week the three of us sat down together for the first time in a hot minute due to the arrival of a couple babies. We answer some questions about our home coffee setups and coffees we've been digging lately. Thanks for listening, enjoy! Buy Valor Coffee: https://valor.coffee/shop Watch...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 Stuffs weird around here with a baby officially out and another coming soon, so we're apart this week but still wanted to dish out an episode for you. Riley sat down and spat out words for a whole dang hour, including answering questions asked to him by our Instagram followers, including some talk of...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 We've seen it from both angles and this one is a tough one to navigate until you NAIL IT DOWN. Ever given a GREAT idea to your boss/manager, but then felt like they ignored you or forgot about it? This is likely because there wasn't a proper system for feedback to be delivered. This week we discuss ho...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 Ross is officially on dad-leave, so this week found Ethan and Riley chopping it up about a bunch of random stuff, including which industries they would like to see offer a specialty product, an update on our E80, frustration with bourbon culture + package stores, a cart-project update. This is a very...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 Intro: 0:00 Laying Out The Episode: 35:12 Step 1 – What Do You Want?: 37:45 Step 2 – Why Do You Want It?: 58:00 Step 3 – Logistics Lineup: 1:04:05 We just ran a series on the questions we are most often asked by those starting coffee shops. Here we discuss the next step – actually putting a plan into...

Thanks for listening, following/subscribing and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 Our third and final part of our series on questions we get from folks starting coffee shops discusses all things MENU. We answer the following questions and more: How can you create an empathetic menu? What types of beverages should your menu have? How should you lay it out? How can you manage approac...

Thanks for listening and giving us a good review, it goes a long way <3 In part two of our series on our most common questions from coffee shop founders, we discuss a topic that overwhelms lots of folks: EQUIPMENT. Whether you already know all about the different brands OR you're coming in blind, this episode will likely help you from deciding which brand or size machine, to potential blindspot...