In this episode, we get to know how Gretchen Williams got to start up her own business with Heartbreak Coffee Roasters and her experience working for Blue Bottle Coffee.
Resources:
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gretchen-williams-968b06a2/
Heartbreak Coffee Roasters - http://www.heartbreakcoffeeroasters.com/
Posh Incredible Transformations - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/posh-incredible-transformations/id1377517663?mt=2
Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyrz1fZpMDHSfGm7t29ieOA/featured
Website - Poshinc.com
Email - [email protected]
Episode Notes:
* Intro - 0:00
* Not Trusting Myself in Being a Good Manager - 0:38
* Sometimes You Need Something to Do Work for You - 0:50
* The Challenge On Hiring New People - 1:10
* Learning About Trust and Working With Other People - 1:44
* First Starting Heartbreak and Opportunities - 2:24
* Holding Yourself Back - 3:35
* Building Skill By Practicing - 4:38
* Feeling It Wasn’t Good Enough - 5:51
* Putting In the Work - 6:31
* Opportunities That Were Turned Down - 7:11
* A Lesson in Interdependence - 10:32
* Having a Hard Time Asking for Help - 11:32
* Do You Know When Others Need Help? - 11:58
* Atuned to Other People’s Needs - 13:38
* Sensitive to Energy - 15:10
* The 5 Love Languages - 16:37
* Relationships - 17:15
* Anxiety, California, and the Social Level - 18:45
* Making Heartbreak Unique and Separate from Others - 26:30
* Things Are a Lot Harder in California - 28:16
* The Process of Opening Up a Business - 29:09
* The Health Department - 30:15
* Succeeding Means Surviving - 31:42
* Believing That Being Relevant and Having Wealth Is Success - 33:48
* The Essence of a Unique Place - 36:52
* Creating Something Sustainable - 39:40
* People I Know Vs. Those I Don’t - 40:18
* Having a Dry Sense of Humor - 43:09
* Being a Woman in a Male Dominant Coffee Industry - 44:17
* A Coffee Shop Experience in Long Beach - 47:45
* Tiffany’s Experience in the Coffee Industry - 49:10
* Not Being Taken Serious as a Woman - 50:18
* It Must Be Really Tough Being a Man - 53:10
* Not Being On Social Media - 54:25
* Introducing Something New to a Community - 55:20
* Learning About the Coffee Industry - 1:01:52
* Being Ok With Mediocre Things - 1:03:23
* I Love Good Service - 1:05:54
* The Competition Is the Person Who Would Go the 2 Inches - 1:06:24
* Working At Blue Bottle - 1:08:00
* Wanting to Create The Same Experience - 1:17:07
* The Turnover of Employees - 1:18:21
* Having the Best Service in Vietnam - 1:21:05
* Blue Bottle Has An Infusion of a Family Mentality - 1:23:18
* Places Hiring People With Specialty Coffee Experience - 1:24:11
* Something Unique About Blue Bottle - 1:26:42
* Taking the Time to Hire the Right People and Train - 1:30:32
* Closing - 1:34:22