Jennilee Morris speaks with Brent about her journey to becoming a coffee expert and successful business person.  Jenni Morris, an entrepreneur and chef.  She owns a coffee roasting company, 2 coffee shops and a catering business on Long Island.

Brent and Jenni talk about:

• Her first experience on an extended road trip in a camper.  They discuss the type RV she and her partner, Emma Ballou, used and why and how they were able to find the time to travel.  They had challenges of not finding camping spots under covid restrictions. Their most used app to find camping spots was AllStays.
• Why Tucson AZ was her WOW experience.
• How she is a workaholic but gaining a better work life balance. Why working for inner peace doesn’t mean more is better.
• The universal issue of the effects of the labor shortage because of limited housing for service workers. They discuss how it is affecting the atmosphere on Long Island and especially the North Fork area of Long Island.
• Jenni’s businesses that include the North Fork Roasting Company which roasts coffee for her two coffee shops with locations in Southhold and Westhampton Beach, NY.and online customers. An important part of Jenni’s focus is the art of coffee and what makes coffee so special.   She is also part owner in a catering company called Grace and Grit.
• She values education even though she initially dropped out of high school. After she got her GED, she tried lots of different businesses including real estate, financial services and the hospitality industry where she found her place.
• They discussed the challenges of learning to turnover parts of a business to others so you can concentrate and grow a business.

You can also find Jenni’s business’s on Facebook at North Fork Roasting Co and Grace and Grit.

Also found on Instagram at North Fork Roasting Company and Grace and Grit Catering.