24: Mokhtar Alkhanshali | Indulge In A More Responsible Coffee
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Come on a journey to discover the roots of coffee in the war-torn region of Yemen with Mokhtar Alkhanshali, CEO and Founder of Port of Mokha. You’ll learn how and why Mokhtar was compelled to create a socially responsible coffee company that paid growers three times the rate of open market coffees, so farmers in this oldest region of coffee growing in the world could thrive while producing internationally acknowledged, award-winning coffees of the highest quality. The resounding message you’ll hear is one of conscious consumerism, voting with your dollars, paying value for the food you put on your table, and understanding its roots.
About Our Guest: Mokhtar Akhanshali, CEO and Founder of Port of Mokha
Historian, community organizer, and coffee innovator, Mokhtar Alkhanshali envisions a world where industry empowers rather than exploits, uplifts rather than represses.
Seeking to reverse Yemen’s nearly lost art of coffee cultivation, he founded Port of Mokha. Combining his knowledge of specialty coffee production, progressive infrastructure strategy and community organizing, Mokhtar has helped to reverse the declining quality of Yemeni coffee and re-establish it as the one of industries most treasured origins. Best-selling author Dave Eggers’ forthcoming title “The Monk of Mokha” traces Mokhtar’s journey as a social entrepreneur and his harrowing escape from war torn Yemen with his first coffee samples.
Mokhtar can be found amongst his coffee farmers in remote villages or speaking around the world on topics of social entrepreneurship, community development and, of course, coffee.
Guest Sites: Website: https://portofmokha.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alkhanshali/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/portofmokha/
Monk of Mokha Book by Dave Eggars: https://daveeggers.net/monkofmokha
Time Stamps:
00:00 Introduction
03:40 From Activist/Lawyer to Coffee Company Founder
08:10 Bringing Coffee to The West From War-torn Yemen
17:05 Creating A Coffee Company with Social Impact At Its Core
22:00 Blind Taste Test: Coffee Tasting Notes & Similarities to Wines
30:05 Why Coffee from Yemen Is Unique -- #1 -- It’s The World’s Oldest Coffee
37:24 Creating Socially Responsible Coffee for A Broader Audience
42:30 Choosing Your Coffee: Buy Local -- or -- Know Where Your Food Comes From
44:10 Closing Thoughts from Mokhtar Alkhanshali
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:09.7 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:15.2 | You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today. |
| 0:20.1 | Here's your host, Karina Belizzi. |
| 0:24.4 | Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends. I'm your host, Karina Belizzi, an activist and cause |
| 0:29.3 | marketer who's passionate about social, impact, and sustainability. Today, we're going to talk |
| 0:34.5 | about a nectar of the gods, without which I may never have graduated |
| 0:38.4 | from college. Coffee. You may be wondering how is coffee related to social impact, and it's |
| 0:45.0 | quite simple, really. Coffee is cultivated in developing countries around the world, and laborers |
| 0:51.6 | are often given dismal wages with a limited potential to support |
| 0:55.4 | themselves and their families. So today we're going to meet a different sort of coffee |
| 0:59.9 | aficionado, one who aspires to change that trend so the communities from which we get the sweet |
| 1:06.2 | and sometimes bitter fruit of the gods can thrive. Before we meet our guest, I'd like to invite |
| 1:12.5 | all of you to visit caremore be better.com. You can sign up for our newsletter to be the first |
| 1:17.6 | to gain access to new episodes. You'll also find an action page for things you can do to make a |
| 1:22.9 | difference, even coffee. The thing you know is coffee is simple. It's a bean at the heart of a fruit, |
| 1:29.1 | dried and roasted to perfection for a cup of morning or afternoon bliss. Coffee is a treat |
| 1:34.6 | I enjoy each day, and I'll confess, my coffee bill as an undergrad topped $300 a month. |
| 1:41.1 | And that was over 20 years ago, So imagine what that would be today. |
| 1:44.9 | To talk about all things coffee, I'm joined by Mokhtar Alcanshali, CEO and founder of Port of Moka. |
| 1:52.9 | Mojtar is a historian, community organizer and coffee innovator who envisions a world where industry |
| 1:59.7 | empowers rather than exploits, uplifts rather than represses. |
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