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Cat & Cloud Podcast Cat & Cloud
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Chris Baca and Jared Truby are professional Baristas and are here to introduce the world to Specialty Coffee! From placing in the finals of the United States Barista Championship multiple times, winning regional competitions, to leading training and education for some of the most progressive coffee companies around - these two have learned a ton about coffee and want to share it with you. Tune in for weekly interviews, tutorials, and general mayhem from the brothers from different mothers: Truby & Baca. Learn more at catandcloud.com
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Progressing Your Career - The mindset for how to move forward
Welcome back to the Cat & Cloud Podcast! This week y’all are getting a blast from the past, we’re revisiting a previous episode where Chris and Jared were answering some questions about how to progress in the coffee industry. Whether that means in your career or your life at large, the guys shed some life on finding your vision for growth and working toward it.
Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at podcast@catandcloud.com and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/
Cat & Cloud: https://catandcloud.com/
Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: https://chrisbaca.com/
We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with integrity and intentionality. It’s our mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes.
The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen!
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Importance of communication - Clearly expressing yourself in order to do things better
Welcome back to the Cat & Cloud podcast! This week we’re back with Chris and Jared as they discuss how important common language is within an organization. Creating a lexicon that is universally understood in all aspects of your company can be a huge challenge, whether you’re talking about content creation or roast profiles. Listen to the full episode to hear their thoughts on how creating universally understood terms, and standards have helped them communicate and align with their teams.
Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at podcast@catandcloud.com and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/
Cat & Cloud: https://catandcloud.com/
Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: https://chrisbaca.com/
We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with integrity and intentionality. It’s our mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes.
The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen!
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Coffee Processing - Are exotic processing methods good or hype
Welcome back to the Cat & Cloud podcast and to White Ivy, Jared's long-lost email address! On this weeks podcast the guys are tackling a pretty huge question, what is your favorite processing method, and why. Listen to the full episode to hear some of their hot takes on why washed processing is the elite form, and why natural processes are sometimes more overwhelming than they are enjoyable.
Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at podcast@catandcloud.com and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/
Cat & Cloud: https://catandcloud.com/
Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: https://chrisbaca.com/
We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with integrity and intentionality. It’s our mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes.
The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen!
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Conversation with Kent Bakke
Welcome back to the Cat & Cloud podcast! A couple of months ago Chris and our Marketing Team Leader Michael took a trip out to Seattle to hang out with La Marzocco. While there they had the chance to connect with Kent Bakke, their former CEO turned Board Member, and figured they might as well record a podcast! This week's episode is all coffee and espresso geekery; a chat between two friends about their lives in the coffee industry, and Kent’s lifelong obsession with coffee.
Listen to this week's episode to hear a little coffee history from the namesake of the KB90, and the man who founded the Bakke Coffee Museum!
Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at podcast@catandcloud.com and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/
Cat & Cloud: https://catandcloud.com/
Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: https://chrisbaca.com/
We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with integrity and intentionality. It’s our mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes.
The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen!
Enjoy! -
Connecting the Dots - How experience and practice come together
Welcome back to the Cat & Cloud podcast! This week Chris, Jared, and Charles are covering a whole host of topics from prepping for SCA, the creativity that goes into connecting all the arms of our company, and even reminiscing on some of the weird and wild times of early Verve.
Listen to this week's episode to hear how they’ve built their Quality Check skills and the work that goes into not just chasing goals but flowing through the process.
Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at podcast@catandcloud.com and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/
Cat & Cloud: https://catandcloud.com/
Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: https://chrisbaca.com/
We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with integrity and intentionality. It’s our mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes.
The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen!
Enjoy! -
Learning by Doing - Allowing yourself the room to grow
We’re throwing it all the way back to 2021 for this weeks episode. This week we are revisiting a freshly quarantined Chris and Jared as they discuss the natural eb and flow of progress. Listen to this weeks episode for some perspective on taking that first step into the unknown and how we learn and grow even in the failures.
Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at podcast@catandcloud.com and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/
Cat & Cloud: https://catandcloud.com/
Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: https://chrisbaca.com/
We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with integrity and intentionality. It’s our mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes.
The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen!
Enjoy!
Customer Reviews
You’re back!!
So when you guys went on hiatus I was coming back to coffee, I was bummed because I love your approach and vibes you give out!
Indy Loves Coffee - <3 Cat & Cloud
Indy Loves Coffee here from Indianapolis just sending a shoutout to C & C for being authentic, transparent, informative, dialed in, and AWESOME. I’ve been listening to all the old podcasts for months in hopes to be caught up in time for the 2023 new releases!
- Bryan (ILC)
Starbucks Barista
As a barista listening to your podcast gives me hope of opening my own shop. Your openness and vulnerability gives me hope. Thank you and I hope you make more podcasts. I hope one day to visit you!