I want to be a napper. When I actually nap I wonder to myself, why don’t I do this more often?

Do you nap? Do you ditch the nap for caffeine or performance drinks? What if there was a happy marriage of both?

I’m always up for validation. So when I heard about the nappuccino, I had to learn more and share with my coffee lovers. I was thinking, how could it be that I might have the best of both worlds?

Charlie Birney is the Co-Founder of Podville Media/Podcast Village. He is a Creativity, Podcast, & Media Consultant. Also, Charlie is the Co-Author “Podcasting Made Simple” and an accomplished Illustrator on Instagram @podcastsketchbook

1. Chinese Taoism

2. Coffee Shop meetup with friends over pandemic at the Tasty Diner

3. Introverts and Extroverts

4. Businesses that use coffee to create the meetup

5. Illustration work on Instagram

6. Podcasting, Taoism, Philosophy and the good and bad of video

7. Nuance of voice vs. video

8. S'mores, gathering around the campfire, elevating the experience and campfire coffee

9. Writing 2 books, The Tao of Podcasting, illustration

10. Meditation, silence and the use of words

11. What is your why? Simon Sinek, your purpose and passion,

12. Honoring the pause, the voice and the words. Honoring the presence.

13. Engaged listening. 'I'm going to follow, but I'm not going to force' in Taoism.

Meet Cormack Jackson, he's the Chief Of Staff to Shazam Cofounder Dhiraj Mukherjee & Independent Consultant in the UK.

What did we talk about:

1. Networking or coffee date

2. The World Cup

3. Business Hack! Walking with coffee and creating chapters (mental mind stamps) with landmarks. Big Ben and the economy. Canary Wharf and the recession.

4. TikTok coffee date, viral IG post and Dating Intelligence

5. Influence and Building your Superpower

6. Losing $35 million gambling in Vegas and influence

7. White chocolate is not chocolate

8. What kind of coffee does Santa drink? Espresso and Bezos stepping down because he cannot keep up with Santa.

9. Showing up late to the coffee date

10. Chatting in queue, securing two more dates and the one you're in the line with.

11. Ambushing your future boss with an interview on a podcast.

12. London School of Economics and a Sociology degree.

13. Recording team Zooms for content for trailers for social media on Linkedin. capturing the essence of his boss' ideas and thoughts. Ambushing your boss or guest!

14. Nicaragua celebrity and #1 business podcast or number #1 in Business on Apple

15. Coffee from Nicaragua

16. Is Santa real? Tooth Fairy?

17. Hand extensions for T-Rex for Christmas. Jurassic Park episode 3 with David Attleboro.

18. Apache of Marketing on Linkedin.

Ethiopian law prohibits the sale of export-quality coffee locally. And although it’s considered the birthplace, this has not stopped illegal trade growing into an organized criminal enterprise. What you'll get in this episode:

1. 2021 red flags in the export of coffee in Ethiopia

2. Regional and commercial coffee business

3. Export quality and demand for domestic market

4. Government complicity

5. Federal and Regional laws

I wanted all my coffee lovers around me to hear this and the article is called Old Time Farm Crime, the coffee spies of the 1700s. It was written by Andrew Amelinckx in Modern Farmer. And so here we go. "Enjoy your coffee break. Coffee, Java, Joe, whatever you call it. That ubiquitous brew that jumpstarts your morning was once the center of international intrigue...."

Mike Crowson is the owner of Fit Legacy Marketing Agency and Coffee Over Cardio®. Mike has created a powerhouse e-commerce coffee company where we has now 2 major licensing deals with Dippin' Dots® and FRUITY PEBBLES®. An Alabama native, he decided to move to New York City to chase his dreams of becoming an entrepreneur when he was 22. From taking the leap in his at the time Fitness career to New York > LA > Dallas, a decade later has the stories to tell how he came from jobless to building a recognizable social media brand and how he continues helps others do the same!

1. Largest consumable product next to oil!

2. Black Rifle Coffee model and niche

3. Building a strategy before the product, finding the audience first. Waited for customer to say what they wanted.

4. Light roast has more caffeine than dark roast, find out why!

5. Millennial female and fit audience, subscriptions, flavors: Happy Camper, Red Velvet, Coconut Cream Pie, Pumpkin Spiced Latte is called Basic AF, Messy Bun

6. Nutrition advice, mindset, morning routines

7. Health and hydration, caffeine is a diuretic and dehydrates too, how much water should you consume? Hydration products, electrolytes.

8. Caffeine is an appetite suppressant, autophagy, fasting, sleeping fast

9. Fitness and body building, electrolytes and coffee

10. Nootropic (something for mental clarity and focus) creamers, Creatine.

11. Limitations of flavoring creamers and protein powder

12. Collagen in the coffee for protein and microbiome health.

13. Paleo, keto, vegan, coconut powder, dairy free

14. Business problems with flavors and sweeteners, calorie free options

15. Messy Bun and Doctor's Orders (vanilla hazelnut) are the bestsellers!

16. Next frontier of flavors. Collaborations!

17. Changing the recipe for dark roast lovers, meeting expectations for caffeine and flavor. Burned beans remove the caffeine and make it harder to digest! Higher acidity?

18. Retail cafe shops in the future? Reach out to Mike Crowson to discuss! Coffee pop-ups?

Hello coffee lovers, in between interviews on why we need to meet up over coffee. I'll share short episodes that delve into all things coffee. Think of them as a shot of espresso. Now, here's your coffee culture short. On polishing why do we meet up for coffee? We're always looking for connection, right? Connection is powerful. It's our energy source. And when we desire connection, we find a way to get together. And that's where the coffee meetup enters. Coffee is a bit of an excuse, right? You might not even drink coffee, but it's a tool. It's a vehicle to connect. I have this little story. I was walking by a coffee shop, and they had one of those chalkboards outside. And it said, Life is hard. Coffee helps. And I loved that. But the funny thing was, like 30 seconds later, I went by a yoga studio, and two women were standing outside talking. And they were just about to depart from each other. And one of them puts her hand on the shoulder of the other one says, Hey, if you want to get together and talk, we can meet up for coffee. And I don't know about you, but I've probably use that excuse a million times to either be a support beam for a friend, or use it myself for a way to like ask for help for somebody like, Hey, can we meet up for coffee? It might have been for me and not for them. And I think we also use the coffee meet up in lighter ways. Maybe to strike that first date? Or maybe you want to, you know, grow your business network. So you set up the Zoom coffee meetup, right? You send a DM to somebody on LinkedIn. So in the end, the coffee Meetup is something we all do. So as an aside, yes, coffee is delicious. To me, I don't really need an excuse to drink coffee. But metaphorically, I use it to meet you and to connect with you. It's an invitation to feel your energy. So my question to you is, do you use the coffee meetup to consult your best friends about life? To swipe right for an afternoon date that feels safer to garner that Zoom business meetings so you can grow your network? Or do you have a completely different reason that you use to connect with people using the coffee meetup? So anyway, I would love if you would share your answer with me. Let me know. What do you plan your coffee meetups for? You could put them in the reviews on Apple podcasts or DM me on Instagram. And if you'd like to support an indie podcaster there is the link in the show notes for buying me a coffee. Please subscribe and share a cup of coffee culture with your friends.

Hello coffee lovers, I'm so glad you're here today. And this is your coffee short from Holly Shannon. So I want to talk about Friends and the Central Perk coffee meetup. So 25 years after the show had aired, the reality of a Central Perk coffee shop is now just around the block actually like 2023 and opening all over the United States. So there's going to be several central per coffee shops that re interpret the feel from the show, which is going to be really cool. And they're going to be serving branded coffee that's actually available now. Yes, I'll put that in the links. But I have to share with you the names of the coffees, there are 1699 a bag and you can that's for like a bag of ground beans, or to get the K cups I think like 12. But listen to the names of these, these are so perfect. So how you doing? We know that that's Joey's pickup line, right. And it's a medium roast with like a smooth acidity. And that I think we all have to get, I think they're doing some sort of special to like, if you buy that, you get some sort of special can for your kitchen. I don't know, we'll have to look into that. Then another one's called Pivot blend, which if you remember the episode of Ross moving the couch up the stairs, and he kept yelling, pivot pivot. So that's a medium dark roast. And then the third choice is we were on a coffee break. So if you remember, Ross is ill fated and incorrect excuse when they were on a break he and Rachel when they were dating. So it'll be really interesting to see how they expand the line. I don't know why there aren't any for Rachel or Monica or Phoebe, especially with Monica being the chef right so that they must come up with something soon. As for quality and taste, I am not a judge on that. I haven't ordered it yet. But Top Chef judge Tom Collegio is part of this process. So I'm pretty sure it's going to be good. And apparently his favorite is the How're you doing, which is Joey's little seductive line that he used to use when he picked up women. Right. So one little thing I want to point out, and this is really the most important part is if you buy this for your home, Gunther will not be there to serve you. Unless maybe you're Rachel. So maybe you can try make that work. Anyway, I bring this all up, because this show was born on the idea that coffee is an excuse for connection. And we watched season after season of friends. And they were always going there to meet with each other to talk about something important, you know, dating woes that they were having job changes, just to ask each other for help and to be there when they were down. Maybe they were having issues with their family. But if you noticed, it wasn't about the coffee, it was about being able to meet up with a friend for a little help, or to offer help. Right? It was sort of like that big orange couch was like the therapy couch and the coffee was merely the vehicle to be with your friends and talk. And it's really why I brought this show to light. It's not just to talk about some of the fun stuff like how maybe we can meet at Central Perk. But it was also to provide something to sit down and talk about what we actually use coffee for the ritual of coffee sometimes is embedded in the availability of friendship, to be able to meet with people whenever you want. It's like the ritual is always available that you can call on anybody and say, Hey, I really could use a sounding board about this new job or, you know, you call your friend, you feel like crap, and you want to talk about something and they know. And so instead of saying, hey, why don't we get together so you can dump your heart out on my lap. You say, hey, let's meet for coffee, and it says it all right. So that's really what this show is all about. And I love that. Watching friends

for all those years was really a representation of have that and gave us permission to go to coffee shops and do exactly what they were doing. And I think also what's so cool is that this show has been seen by every generation Gen Z millennial Gen X Boomer, it's probably one of the few shows that everybody in the world has seen. And everybody has seen the context of meeting for coffee, to talk to a friend. And I think that's probably like, one of the coolest things about it. So anyway, I'm going to ask you a few questions. And I hope that you will either throw something in Instagram, DM me there or reply to my post there about this show. In this podcast, I want to know who was your favorite character and friends. And if you had a favorite episode, I also want to know is I also want to know if you're going to order the coffee and which one you would try first, is it going to be pivot blend? Is it going to be how you doing? Or we were on a coffee break? So that's your job now, and I'll have everything that I talked about linked in the show notes. And guess what, if you want to buy me a coffee, I now have a link in the show notes for that as well. And, you know, tip your baristas and your your Indie podcasters all I'm going to say Thanks everybody and welcome to coffee please subscribe and share this

Hello coffee lovers, it's Holly Shannon. And my coffee short today is what is fika. So I'm bringing this up, because I'm going to Stockholm soon. And I'm very excited to share about this Swedish custom, which I learned about from somebody from Spotify. Earlier in my podcasting career in my first podcast Culture Factor, I interviewed this amazing person who was from Spotify. And they talked about fika as part of their company culture. So here I am headed to, to Sweden in Stockholm specifically, and I'm looking forward to taking part in this custom, which is fika. So the Swedish custom is a break from activity during which people drink coffee. Sometimes they eat some cakes or snacks and they relax with others. So essentially, it is the coffee meetup. And I like the word fika. Also, because here's the geek in me. It's like an inverted syllable slang term derived from Kaffee, which was the 19th century word for coffee. So if you just flip it, and you make Kaffee fika. Like you flip it, I know, I'm such a geek. Anyway, the Swedes take two fika breaks, one in mid morning and one again, around 3pm. So I think I just love these people, because that's what I like to do. And another little historical note, which I will cite this in the show notes. It's from the Dolce Vita in 1999, out of London. So cafes or coffee houses have been serving coffee for over 500 years. And the first coffee house was in Constantinople, in 1475, by traders arriving from Damascus and Aleppo. So I thought that was just kind of a cool thing. And I'm really excited to go to Stockholm and spend some time in different coffee houses around the city, and sort of just mesh into the whole environment of the coffee meetup. That is the Swedish form of that. And if you happen to listen to this short and partake in the fika, or know of some really amazing coffee houses or people I should meet when I'm there, please feel free to DM me on Instagram at Holly Shannon. And this might be one of my shortest shorts, but I did want to introduce you all to what is fika. So thanks everybody.

Hello coffee lovers, I'm shooting out a strange little short about Spotify, coffee playlists, which I know probably sounds very odd. But I believe I probably was like a DJ my past life. I love music. I've been a Spotify fan for a really long time. And yes, I listen to Spotify as coffee playlists. And I do that because I get introduced to a lot of new artists, which I think is kind of a cool way. Let's face it, having coffee is a vibe. And that's why I think a lot of people are attracted to their playlists. I will be in Stockholm soon. And it is Sweden is the home of Spotify. So my fingers are crossed that maybe I can interview somebody while I'm there and find out who is the brainchild behind these Spotify, coffee playlists. And they all have like the names that immediately put you in the mood, right? Your favorite coffee house coffee shop in the coffee shop for coffee table jazz, you know, they all have these cute names. But you know, 4 million people can't be wrong. I mean, your favorite coffee house got full over 4 million likes on Spotify. So there's something there. But then the best coffee shop playlist ever only got like about 2300 likes. So people have some definitive opinions around even the type of music they deem a vibe on Spotify, which I think is kind of cool. So I guess that brings me to the one that's called Coffee Shop vibes since I keep using that word. But they only got about 145,000 likes, so maybe they need to work on who is who they're choosing in their mix. So I'm curious, please share with me if you have a favorite playlist on Spotify that is a coffee shop playlist of some sort. And I don't care what it is it can be in another language than English, which I actually prefer. It could be jazz, it could be you know, any type of genre. And it could be for anything that you enjoy. Like it might be for studying. It might be you know, just that you love, like cover songs like whatever is the one that really appeals to I'd love to hear about that. And if anybody knows who that brainchild is behind this, please have to DM me at Holly Shannon on Instagram because I would really love to interview them. And by the way, I like lost count because I actually wanted to tell you how many playlists there were. And there was like well over 200 As I was just scrolling, so I'm not really sure how many there are. I just didn't take the time to count them all. But I did get to 200 So I hope you're all having a great coffee break with me. And I hope you enjoy this little coffee short and I'll have some information in the show notes for you. Where to find one of my favorite Spotify coffee playlists. Thanks everyone.