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Cat & Cloud Podcast

Fire Academy to Coffee Director | Life Lessons from Big Jay of Hawthorn Coffee

Cat & Cloud Podcast

Cat & Cloud

Education

4.8727 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Meet Big Jay from one of our very first wholesale partners, Hawthorn Coffee! We will dive into Big Jay's story and why his time in fire academy helped create the baller coffee director he is today. Also, get to know a bit about the collaborative and uplifting San Diego coffee community! The only coffee subscription you need: catandcloud.com/products/subscription Related Episodes: Hawthorn Coffee episode: https://apple.co/2TTr3Sm Resources: Hawthorn Coffee | website: http://hawthorncoffee.com IG: instagram.com/hawthorncoffee SproCast | Cat & Cloud Crew episode: https://apple.co/2CDNd0p Iron Smith Coffee: https://ironsmithcoffee.com/ Menotti's: http://menottis.com | IG: instagram.com/menottis

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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0:11.1

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0:16.6

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0:21.3

full immersion filter, and the filter is ultrasonic sealed, which means it's sealed together

0:26.2

with no glue or no staples, so there's no weird stuff floating around in your coffee.

0:30.7

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0:35.5

and they believe that business should be done without compromise. You can get your hands on steeped coffee packs at steepedcoffee.com. That's

0:42.7

S-T-E-P-E-D coffee.com asking your local retail stores to start carrying steeped or having your

0:50.1

favorite roastery reach out and kind of get in touch. you're in santa cruz come on by any of the

0:54.2

cat and cloud locations we have it there for you basically they're just doing their best to change the

0:58.9

coffee industry make your life more convenient with their pre-portion pre-ground innovation so tell all your

1:03.6

friends hey everybody welcome to the cat and cloud coffee podcast wholesale edition today hey my's Alex, by the way. I don't know if we've met

1:12.9

before. Today, we've got in the house, Big J. Freeman. What's up? What's up? That's me with a D.

1:19.8

With a D from Hawthorne Coffee. Representing. We're down to one of the components of our wholesale

1:25.4

program is we love to travel and meet our partners

1:29.8

and hang out with them in their shops and just go have a good time with them. And that's what we're

1:35.2

doing here right now. We're in San Diego visiting Hawthorne Coffee, OG OGist of Cat and Cloud wholesale

1:42.3

partners. I've always kind of wondered that how if we're like the first and longest standing.

1:47.3

I think you're pretty much the, I mean, we had companion bake shop locally, but like other than that,

1:52.1

you guys are like, yeah, the first ones to like really like do it.

1:55.7

Hell yeah.

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