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Jaye Cheray, Coffee For Singles · Coffee People Podcast

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  Portland last year. And while I'm getting a cup of
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  coffee, I hope that you are listening to this episode of the
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  Coffee People Podcast from Coffee Fest New York 2026.
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  Was on the HR side because I partner with coffee businesses
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  on the HR side, but back home I own a coffee centered community
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  organization where we gather and build community over a shared
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  love of coffee and I partner with different coffee shops and
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  local businesses there. OK.
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  Well, let me say, welcome to coffee people.
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  Thank you. And I'm Ryan.
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  Hi, Ryan, I'm Jay. Nice to meet you.
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  Thank you for stopping to say hello.
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  Where's home? Atlanta, GA.
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  OK. Yep, one of the first big cities
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  I ever visited in Atlanta, GA. Really.
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  Yeah, it was a big deal for a kid from Wisconsin to go to
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  Atlanta. Yeah.
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  Atlanta's. Fun.
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  So you were just talking about you hear coffee fuss doing a
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  session. Yes, teaching people things, but
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  this other business, yeah, what's?
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  The story So the other business is called Coffee for Singles.
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  OK. And the reason that I've started
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  it is because single individuals make up the majority of the
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  population. There's more single people than
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  there are married. OK.
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  And we are not a dating group, we are a group that simply
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  connects singles with other singles so they can make friends
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  and have more people to do life with.
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  Okay, over a shared love of. That's not fair because I'm
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  married but I need more friends. I just moved to a new town.
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  I don't know anyone. My wife is busy all the time.
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  Okay, I'm going to let it go for now, but I want to learn more.
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  Yes. And so we launched about three
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  months ago. Oh wow, so new it's a.
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  New, yeah, but it's growing very fast.
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  You are in. It yes.
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  Yeah. So we partner with local coffee
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  shops and businesses in the Atlanta area to start.
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  I do want to launch, I mean brought into the cities and
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  states in the US, but for now, we're in Atlanta.
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  And so we meet at different coffee shops and each ones are
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  thick. So we did a vision board
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  connection group in January. Next month we're going to do a
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  book swap, a coffee and book swap.
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  We're going to do a coffee and walk to get some physical
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  activity in. And I'm planning my very first
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  coffee craw. So I'm partnering with different
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  coffee shops within a particular area and we're going to have
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  timed places to be to sample different coffee from different
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  coffee shops. That's awesome.
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  Yeah, so. So you you're new, but you said
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  it's growing. What what, what has been the
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  response should go back. What made you think this was a
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  good idea in the 1st place and you wanted to do it?
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  Because I found something that was lacking.
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  OK, there there. There are other communities that
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  meet at coffee shops just in general, but there was nothing
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  that was for single people. And what I've learned even in my
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  own journey is that single people, especially as you start
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  to get a little bit older, you lack that community.
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  Either you have friends or family that are all married or
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  there's a lot of singles groups that are only focused on dating
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  and finding a partner. So you get there with all this
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  pressure of finding the one and there really wasn't any
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  communities that that allowed single people to just be sure to
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  just be and make friends and have people to do life with
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  without all the extra pressure that was added to.
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  And then there's a lot of people that love coffee.
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  A lot of people love coffee. So I was like, what if I combine
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  a shared love of coffee with this group of people that need
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  people to do life with? And that's how coffee person is.
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  I mean, I love the idea. I do wish what happens if two
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  people meet and get married at the group.
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  That's a success story that it will be a success story.
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  Are they still allowed to come as like a alumni?
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  I haven't. I know you're still new.
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  That's a. New business so.
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  That is a really good question. I would actually love that.
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  Honestly, I would love for that to happen because if that
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  happens. I know it's not a dating group
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  so I don't want to. Yeah, it's not a dating group,
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  but if that happens, then that means that they genuinely had an
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  organic connection. Yeah.
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  Versus let me come to this event and force myself to find a
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  partner because that's what this event is about.
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  It's more if someone met like that, then it's like, OK, I came
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  here just to make friends, but I ended up finding a life harder.
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  That would be great. You mentioned the the theme
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  concept. Have you felt any pressure to
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  come up with like unique ideas or is it as easy as saying, hey
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  everyone, we're meeting at Perk in Georgia, Atlanta, GA this
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  time. See you there.
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  It's I haven't really had a challenge coming up with ideas
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  yet. I do have interest forms and
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  surveys that I asked my attendees like.
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  What types of things do you like to do?
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  And by far and large, the majority of the people love
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  games and coffee. I've done that two or three
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  Times Now where we meet at a coffee shop.
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  I've put some Jenga, some Connect 4, some cards on the
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  table and we may be scheduled for two hours and they're there
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  for three. And so people really love that.
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  But now that the weather's warming up, we have a really
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  popular outdoor area called the Atlanta Beltline.
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  And so we're going to do our very first coffee and Beltline
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  walk in two weeks. So that is already generating a
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  lot of interest. And I know a lot of people like
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  outdoor things, so we're going to do some more outdoor things
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  as well. Very, very interesting.
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  If somebody wanted to learn more, somebody's going to be in
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  Atlanta or they live in Atlanta area, how do they find out about
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  an event coming up? How do they learn more about
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  what you're doing? Yeah.
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  So the best way is to follow us on social and we're just Coffee
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  for Singles on Instagram and TikTok.
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  And there's also a link on both of those platforms to my website
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  where they can view upcoming events, subscribe to our e-mail
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  so that they get our e-mail. Subscribers get first access to
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  any event, and if it's a paid event then they often get
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  discounts. Oh, so is there a limit of the
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  number of people you allow at any?
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  Event, it does depend on the location.
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  OK, so if it's a smaller coffee shop, we're usually limited to
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  maybe 15 or so. Our outdoor events I usually
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  have it like at 100 because it's outside and then our larger
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  coffee shops maybe 25 to 30. It just depends on the specific.
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  Place. It's a very cool concept.
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  It's honestly, I'm someone who's lived in a lot of different
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  cities and I recently moved and it's been very isolating.
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  You know, like I have my wife and we have the dog and that and
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  it's amazing. But as far as that outside
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  community, we don't have that yet.
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  And so I would imagine if I were single and didn't have that at
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  home connection, it'd be even harder.
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  So very cool that. In a big city, it's hard to make
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  friends. Which is this weird thing
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  because you're surrounded by people all the time.
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  And it's hard, especially as an adult with everybody having
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  their own schedules and things going on.
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  So this group, I mean, I've, I've seen connections and
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  friendships made my very first launch event.
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  I saw a couple of ladies exchange numbers and say, Hey,
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  let's go to lunch tomorrow. And it's like both friendship
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  connections name so and that's the whole point.
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  So you have more people to. Do well.
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  Congratulations on starting the business and thank you for
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  spending some time with us. Thank.
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  You this is. Fun, really a pleasure.
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  Yes, thank you. I appreciate it.
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  Hopefully that was easy easy. For me.