What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Cat and Cloud podcast. This week, we sit down with Stephen Monty,

owner of ArtPresso design. You might know ArtPresso as the producer of that Barista Basic line of

tools from LaMar Zocco. And that's how I knew them, too, until I met Stephen and talking with Stephen and discovering

his motivation, inspiration, history, and how someone who could feasibly work in design

anywhere, like anywhere, and has worked for some crazy, incredible huge companies,

some of which he can't even talk about because of the things that he's been working on

ended up in the coffee industry.

I think this story is incredible for someone who has a nagging passion that's just been kind of bugging them and bugging

them and bugging them and finally decides to take action on that. The other thing that goes along

with this is he's been helping me pull something out of my head that I was incredibly

passionate about. We've been working on a project together. We developed a tamper, and it's amazing, and a huge chunk of this episode is dedicated to

explaining what that is, the process for creating it, and why it's so different than anything

else that exists today. If you want to be inspired, if you're ready to just get totally juiced, dive in.

But if you're trying to tuck that idea away, maybe don't go in because you're going to get

pumped. After you listen to this, you're going to have to do something. You're going to have to

take action on something. If you want to see what we've been working on, you can go on over to

artpresso design.com or cat and cloud.com and check it out. I'll leave it at that and let's get in to it with Stephen Monty. Let me tell you a story. Yeah. Jared met you before I did. Yeah. And he was like, dude, there's this guy, Stephen.

Yeah.

And he's making tamper's and he's got this stuff.

And I'm like, I'm like, yeah, whatever.

Right.

Whatever.

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