Tea, Mud and Hope Monica, Monica Griesbaum

A really interesting discussion about female leadership in small business, about working in fine tea, about actively supporting wellbeing in all of us. Erica is a wonderful person working in tea and owner of Eteaket. Its wonderful and humble to know that people like Erica exist and that we have her as part of our tea world. I have huge respect for her work, promoting fine and quality teas and supporting wellbeing in everyone with her Thrive in Three workshops. This conversation gives us all a little glimpse into the personal world of Erica Moore. Thank you so much for sharing and giving us your time Erica. Was wonderful to do this together. :)

A wonderful opportunity to chat with Agha, the creator of Prague Tea Fest which has been organised for the first time this year, this week in Prague 25th to 26th February 2023. We hear all about it, Agha's plans and excitement and hopes for this new and exciting tea event. We hear about tea people arriving from all over Europe, we chat a bit about tea travel and the European tea growing movement. Thank you Agha, was lovely to spend this time together and hear about your exciting new tea event. See you in a few days :)

Another very special episode, I have the great pleasure to chat with my tea friend Sooz about her work as Award winning tea educator. I love that Sooz is so passionate about positive change, mental health and creating learning opportunities for people from marginalised groups in our societies. We hear about her work on scholarships for BIPOC practitioners and her views about tea education having the potential to being much more than scholastic learning. Absolutely fascinating, thank you so much Sooz for joining me for this episode. I loved listening to you and found it very stimulating. It made me think of my own tea work too. (PS of course we also chatted wild tea in Vietnam and nibbling on tea leaves :)

Oh what a pleasure it is to chat with Tim about his tea life and tea culture across the world. We have the pleasure to hear about the new book he is writing, his tea work at Postcardteas, the European Tea Growing movement, climate change and tea growing, tea processing, tisanes, tea ceramics and much more. I have so much respect for Tim and his team and their wonderful work on provenance in tea and supporting fair pay for people working in tea. Thank you so much Tim for being a wonderful guest :) See you soon over some fine tea.

Oh what another tea treat. In this episode I have the pleasure to talk with Prof George van Driem about his wonderful book The Tale of Tea. We chat about camellia sinensis the plant and where it originated, about excavations of 1000 year old tea leaves, pesticides, climate change, earl grey tea and much much more. His book has 900 pages of dense and layered tea knowledge and is a pleasure to read. I love how it feels like many tiny jigsaw pieces coming together :) Thank you George for sharing your work with us.