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Maddie & Marianna, Gaia Coffee Co. · Coffee People Podcast

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  Hey, good morning, Ryan Wolt from the Coffee People podcast
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  here. Please head to
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  We really appreciate it. Or on your favorite podcast
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  platform. We're here in Bend, OR.
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  We're going to be visiting some friends at Watershed Coffee
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  Roasters. Met these.
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  Guys at. Coffeefest Portland last year
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  and while I'm getting a cup of coffee, I hope that you are
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  listening to this episode of the Coffee People Podcast from
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  Coffeefest New York 2026. Music.
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  Welcome to the Coffee People podcast.
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  Thank you. Thank you for keeping the seats
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  warm while I was away. I appreciate you.
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  We were playing podcast you don't have anyone can make a
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  podcast. I have proven it a million
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  times. This is the Coffee People
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  podcast at Coffee Fest. Can you?
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  This is the only time I'll ask you to look at the camera, but
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  can you introduce yourselves and tell us who you are and why
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  you're here? I'm Maddie and.
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  I'm Mariana. And we're both from Gaia Coffee
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  Co in Lewis or Milton, DE Yeah. And Delaware is a state.
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  Okay, just checking, making sure not far from.
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  Here I know now that Joe Bidens not president.
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  Nobody remembered you. But we are still there.
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  He's still my president. Sorry that this isn't a
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  political show, but you know what I think that that coffee is
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  political and it affects everything.
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  It's just is the way it works. Yes.
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  So why are you here? Coffee busted.
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  Our boss Ben invited us to come and we love coffee and we wanted
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  to come. And.
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  Experience and we've had a lot of great samples and I'm way
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  over caffeinated and underfed at the moment.
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  Perfect time to be recorded for posterity.
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  Forever awesome. Well, yeah, this is never going
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  away, I promise you. But.
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  Tell me about Guy, a coffee company.
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  Well, we just opened in. Yeah.
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  Ben's. Right there.
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  Hey, girl. Yes, we just opened.
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  Ben's been doing farmers markets and roasting and stuff for
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  several years before this, but we just got our first brick and
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  mortar cafe. It's very cutesy.
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  It's in Louis. It's in Louis.
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  We're right on. Like the main drag, like with
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  all. The little.
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  Shops and things and we do specialty coffee and those are
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  our coffees from Costa. Rica, Costa Rica, Brazil and
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  some Colombia as well. Yeah, awesome.
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  Yeah. When you are out and about, not
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  at coffee Fest, not at work, you just stop into some stranger's
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  coffee shop. But it looks really good.
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  What do you order? If it looks really good, yeah, I
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  do. And oatmeal cappuccino only if
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  it's like the short kind of like the true real cappuccinos.
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  Otherwise I'm. Very old fashioned like mine
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  needs to be not short. OK non Dairy Milk.
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  So it could be Alto almond. Yeah, and just coffee 2 two
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  shots espresso. Yeah, that's a whole shot.
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  Or nothing. Oh no, there.
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  You go, both of you are customer facing, right?
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  Yes. Do you have a customer pet peeve
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  in the first months of this new business?
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  What do you wish your customers knew about coming to Gaia?
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  That is different. That is actually, yeah.
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  I do that a lot. We not we don't sell commercial
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  coffee. We just specialized coffee.
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  And that is distinctive thing on that.
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  Like people come in sometimes and they don't they don't know
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  or background and they think it's just a regular Starbucks
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  location. It is not so.
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  And we just want to establish that that it's not sweet coffee.
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  We not put a lot of sugars or a lot of milk and it's just it's
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  for you to have the experience of the espresso beans.
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  You know, you can add whatever you want, syrup or or milk, but
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  just curious because we know what we're serving and if we
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  would say, OK, two shots is going to be good for you or I
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  don't know, like it's not, I mean I'm, I'm like.
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  He'll edit. This yes, yes.
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  Like for example, like for example, a lot of people think
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  that we make our own syrups, for example, and a lot of people
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  come in thinking that either or is I want it too sweet or I want
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  it like not sweet. So what we're going to give you
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  is a between, you know what I mean?
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  So that's the whole thing that we want to do just in between
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  just meeting you right there and just like just give us a little
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  of trust so we can guide you and you going to love it.
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  You're going to love it. And I think that's an experience
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  that we give and they actually come back.
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  That's a good sign that it's working.
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  Yeah, they come back well. I really appreciate you guys
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  taking a mat to be on our show and enjoying Coffee Fest.
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  Have fun. You're welcome.
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  That's it. The.
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  All right, I got to steal one of the chairs, though.
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  That's the deal. I'm.
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  Feeling. Set up.
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  I'm so. Sorry buddy.
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  Hey everyone, thank you for checking out Coffee People
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  today. We hope to see you at our Coffee
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  Smarter Live podcast featuring some great Coffee Smarter
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  experts over the years. That's going to be Thursday
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  night, April 9th at 6:00 PM at Coffee Cycle Roasting in Ocean
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  Beach. It's kind of a thank you to the
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  Socal coffee industry who helped us get our start.
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  We appreciate you and hope to see you there.
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  And if not there, then let's share a cup of coffee at the
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  World of Coffee Expo.