Yoshawn Smith is the Barista In Residence at Califia Farms and the coffee educator behind The Pour Up LA. He's also a heckuva barista. We talk uplifting community by raising expectations, bringing roller blading back to South Central, and taking a step back to let the world sort it out.
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Coffee People is one of the premier coffee and entrepreneurship podcasts, featuring interviews with professionals in the coffee industry and coffee education. Host Ryan Woldt interviews roastery founders, head roasters, coffee shop owners, scientists, artists, baristas, farmers, green coffee brokers, and more about their coffee origin stories, how they've dealt with the impacts of Covid-19, why they love coffee, and how coffee and their work makes an impact on their community.
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