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The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by MAP IT FORWARD

by MAP IT FORWARD · English · Business

The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by MAP IT FORWARD provides content to the Global Specialty Coffee Industry every weekday. Episodes are released Monday to Friday at 1 am PT. Each week, a 5-part series is released with a single guest exploring a theme that the guest is an expert in. Series are relevant

New episodes: Daily
Typical length: 27 min
Latest: 15 Oct 2026
Language: English

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026 · 33 minNew

What Is Unacceptable Behaviour Towards Women in Coffee? (Isabela Raposeiras) | EP1704 Part 4 of 5 | Map It Forward

Part 4 of 5: In Part 4 of "Being 'Not a Man' in Coffee," Lee Safar and Coffee Lab founder Isabela Raposeiras examine behaviours towards women that should no longer be tolerated in the coffee industry. From dismissing professional expertise and public humiliation to aggressive communication and disregarding personal boundaries, they discuss how these behaviours affect women and why colleagues must intervene. Content warning: References to sexual assault, workplace violence, harassment, and psychological abuse.

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E1703 · 14 Oct 2026 · 24 minNew
The Boys' Club in Coffee: Why Men Stay Silent (Isabela Raposeiras) | EP1703 Part 3 of 5 | Map It Forward
Part 3 of 5: In Part 3 of "Being 'Not a Man' in Coffee," Lee Safar and Coffee Lab founder Isabela Raposeiras examine the boys' club culture in the coffee industry and how silence, influence, and professional loyalties can leave women vulnerable. Through personal accounts of threats, online harassment, reputational attacks, and workplace intimidation, they question the responsibility of colleagues and industry leaders who witness unacceptable behaviour but fail to intervene. Content warning: Discussions of sexual assault, rape threats, death threats, and harassment.
E1702 · 13 Oct 2026 · 33 minNew
Why Women Feel Unsafe Working in Coffee (Isabela Raposeiras) | EP1702 Part 2 of 5 | Map It Forward
Part 2 of 5: In Part 2 of "Being 'Not a Man' in Coffee," Lee Safar and Coffee Lab founder Isabela Raposeiras explore the different ways women experience unsafe workplaces in the coffee industry. Through personal accounts of physical violence, psychological intimidation, gender discrimination, and workplace harassment, they examine why women often feel unable to speak up and how employers and bystanders contribute to cultures of silence. Content warning: Discussions of sexual assault, physical violence, discrimination, and workplace abuse.
E1701 · 12 Oct 2026 · 29 min
What Is It Really Like to Be a Woman in Coffee? (Isabela Raposeiras) | EP1701 Part 1 of 5 | Map It Forward
Part 1 of 5: In Part 1 of "Being 'Not a Man' in Coffee," Lee Safar and Coffee Lab founder Isabela Raposeiras share personal experiences and accounts of sexual assault, harassment, misogyny, and abuse of power in the coffee industry. They examine why women often feel unable to speak out, how professional and financial vulnerability enables misconduct, and why the industry's culture of silence needs to change. Content warning: Discussions of sexual assault, harassment, and physical violence.
E1700 · 9 Oct 2026 · 26 min
How Data Can Make Your Coffee Business More Resilient (Oscar Montoya) | EP1700 Part 5 of 5 | Map It Forward
Part 5 of 5: In the final episode of this series, Oscar Montoya and Lee Safar explore digital twins, traceability, risk modeling, data literacy, and the changing role of technology in coffee businesses. They discuss how better information can help businesses understand uncertainty, simulate different scenarios, and make more informed decisions about risk and sustainability.
E1699 · 8 Oct 2026 · 23 min
Why AI Still Needs Systems Thinking (Oscar Montoya) | EP1699 Part 4 of 5 | Map It Forward
Part 4 of 5: AI has dramatically changed what small teams can build, but faster technology does not eliminate the need for good systems. In part 4, Oscar Montoya and Lee Safar use the development of CoffeeListings.com to explore AI, vibe coding, critical thinking, software architecture, and why sustainable solutions require people, processes, data and technology to work together.
E1698 · 7 Oct 2026 · 27 min
How Data Reveals the Real Problem in Your Coffee Business (Oscar Montoya) | EP1698 Part 3 of 5 | Map It Forward
Part 3 of 5: Data can help reveal what is really happening inside a coffee business, but only if it is interpreted with context and an awareness of bias. In part 3, Oscar Montoya joins Lee Safar to explore conflicting data, correlation versus causation, the limits of simple metrics, and why complex problems often need to be broken down before they can be solved.
E1697 · 6 Oct 2026 · 22 min
Are You Solving the Right Problem In Coffee? (Oscar Montoya) | EP1697 Part 2 of 5 | Map It Forward
Part 2 of 5: Businesses often start collecting data before they have clearly defined the problem. In part 2 of this series, Oscar Montoya joins Lee Safar to explore how better questions, data integrity, and awareness of bias can help coffee businesses identify the real problem behind the symptoms and make better decisions.
E1696 · 5 Oct 2026 · 24 min
Your Coffee Business Has Data. But Is It Useful? (Oscar Montoya) | EP1696 Part 1 of 5 | Map It Forward
Part 1 of 5: Data is everywhere in coffee, but collecting it doesn't automatically make it useful. Data scientist, software developer, and coffee producer Oscar Montoya joins Lee Safar to explore how raw data becomes actionable information and why people, processes, and real business problems should come before technology.
E1695 · 2 Oct 2026 · 33 min
EP1695 Part 5 of 5 | Why More People Should Drink Black Coffee (George Howell) | Map It Forward
Part 5 of 5: In our annual series with George Howell, we explore why George believes more people should drink black coffee and how cafés can make that experience more accessible. We also discuss single-farm coffee, consumer education, restaurants, brewing, and George’s hopes for farmers and quality coffee over the decades ahead.
E1694 · 1 Oct 2026 · 25 min
EP1694 Part 4 of 5 | What’s Wrong With Coffee Scoring? (George Howell) | Map It Forward
Part 4 of 5: In our annual series with George Howell, we explore scoring, commenting, transparency, and how the coffee industry communicates quality. George explains why scoring remains an important internal tool, why consumers do not necessarily need numerical scores, and why exceptional coffees should be judged according to their own potential rather than against the reputation of a particular origin or variety.
E1693 · 30 Sep 2026 · 23 min
EP1693 Part 3 of 5 | The Real Cost of Building a Quality Coffee Business (George Howell) | Map It Forward
Part 3 of 5: In our annual series with George Howell, we explore the tension between coffee quality and economics in today’s market. George discusses rising green coffee prices, producer relationships, shrinking margins, the economics of artisan coffee, and why maintaining quality while building a sustainable business requires patience, discipline, and measured growth.
E1692 · 29 Sep 2026 · 23 min
EP1692 Part 2 of 5 | How to Educate Coffee Consumers About Quality (George Howell) | Map It Forward
Part 2 of 5: In our annual series with George Howell, we explore how George defines quality from the farm through to the cup. George explains how immersive tasting experiences can help consumers understand ripeness, processing, freshness, origin, and preservation, giving them a sensory benchmark for recognising quality coffee.
E1691 · 28 Sep 2026 · 24 min
EP1691 Part 1 of 5 | Why Coffee Should Still Taste Like Coffee (George Howell) | Map It Forward
Part 1 of 5: In our annual series with George Howell, we explore what defines George Howell Coffee as George marks 50 years in the coffee industry. George explains why single-farm coffee, quality, consumer education, and service remain central to his philosophy, and why specialty coffee needs a clearer way of communicating flavour to people who simply want a great cup of coffee.
E1690 · 25 Sep 2026 · 34 min
EP1690 Part 5 of 5 | Why Coffee Must Start Valuing Farm Resilience (Pedro Manga) | Map It Forward
Part 5 of 5: Pedro Manga and Lee Safar close the series by examining climate risk, farm resilience and the long-term security of coffee supply. They discuss why resilience investments are unevenly distributed across producing regions, why short-term projects are not enough, and why the industry may need to start valuing the systems that protect future production.
E1689 · 24 Sep 2026 · 28 min
EP1689 Part 4 of 5 | Why Sustainability Impact Starts With Compliance (Pedro Manga) | Map It Forward
Part 4 of 5: Pedro Manga and Lee Safar examine the relationship between compliance, transparency and sustainability impact across the coffee supply chain. They discuss why traceability can reduce commercial risk, why compliance has been unfairly diminished in sustainability conversations, and why long-term systems and measurement are necessary before businesses can credibly claim impact.
E1688 · 23 Sep 2026 · 36 min
EP1688 Part 3 of 5 | Who Carries the Cost of Coffee Sustainability? (Pedro Manga) | Map It Forward
Part 3 of 5: Pedro Manga and Lee Safar examine the imbalance between sustainability standards created in consuming markets and the realities of implementing them at origin. They discuss Fairtrade, organic certification, EUDR, traceability and why producers and cooperatives can carry substantially different costs, commitments and risks from buyers further along the supply chain.
E1687 · 22 Sep 2026 · 23 min
EP1687 Part 2 of 5 | Why Coffee Data Needs to Flow Both Ways (Pedro Manga) | Map It Forward
Part 2 of 5: Pedro Manga and Lee Safar examine how data moves through the coffee supply chain and why so little information flows back to producers and cooperatives. They discuss how better access to downstream information could improve quality decisions, commercial relationships, risk management and the ability of origin stakeholders to understand where value is created after coffee leaves the farm.
E1686 · 21 Sep 2026 · 24 min
EP1686 Part 1 of 5 | What Coffee Gets Wrong About Traceability (Pedro Manga) | Map It Forward
Part 1 of 5: Pedro Manga returns to The Daily Coffee Pro to examine what traceability and transparency should actually mean in the coffee supply chain. He and Lee discuss why publishing data is not the same as creating transparency, how buyers can influence traceability through sourcing decisions, and why sustainable relationships have to extend beyond price.
E1685 · 18 Sep 2026 · 27 min
EP1685 Part 5 of 5 | What Will the Tea Industry Look Like in 20 Years? (Jem McDowall) Map It Forward
Part 5 of 5: Jem McDowall looks ahead at the future of tea and argues that today’s trends are likely to accelerate rather than disappear. Lee and Jem discuss the growing divide between commodity and specialty tea, changing consumer behavior, farm succession, liquidity, origin storytelling, and why simply producing more will not solve the industry’s structural problems.
E1684 · 17 Sep 2026 · 24 min
EP1684 Part 4 of 5 | El Niño and the Growing Risk to Global Tea Supply (Jem McDowall) Map It Forward
Part 4 of 5: Jem McDowall explains why El Niño represents much more than a weather threat to tea farmers. Lee and Jem explore how climate disruption, fertilizer constraints, logistics problems, smallholder decisions, and the disappearance of excess production are making the global tea supply chain increasingly vulnerable.
E1683 · 16 Sep 2026 · 25 min
EP1683 Part 3 of 5 | Why Tea Farmers Are Under Increasing Pressure (Jem McDowall) Map It Forward
Part 3 of 5: Jem McDowall explains why tea farmers are becoming increasingly vulnerable after years of low prices, rising input costs, oversupply, and underinvestment. Lee and Jem compare those pressures with coffee, discuss climate and currency risk, and examine why a weakened producer base could become one of the tea industry’s biggest long-term problems.
E1682 · 15 Sep 2026 · 34 min
EP1682 Part 2 of 5 | How Tea Is Priced and Traded (Jem McDowall) Map It Forward
Part 2 of 5: Jem McDowall explains how tea is priced and traded through physical auction systems around the world, why tea has no futures market, and how buyers take ownership of the tea they purchase. The conversation also compares payment and financing structures in tea and coffee, raising important questions about where financial risk should sit in an agricultural supply chain.
E1681 · 14 Sep 2026 · 24 min
EP1681 Part 1 of 5 | How Tea Is Processed and Graded (Jem McDowall) Map It Forward
Part 1 of 5: Jem McDowall of Universal Commodities explains how tea moves from fresh leaf through withering, oxidation, rolling or CTC processing, and drying. He also breaks down how tea is graded by leaf size, why those systems vary around the world, and how tea grading differs from the more standardized systems used in coffee.
E1680 · 11 Sep 2026 · 34 min
EP1680 Part 5 of 5 | What Will Coffee Look Like in 20 Years? (Norbert Niederhauser) Map It Forward
Part 5 of 5: What will coffee look like in 20 years? Lee Safar and Cropster co-founder Norbert Niederhauser explore climate pressure, resilient varieties, higher and more stable coffee prices, experimental processing, AI, automation, the future of cafés, and why the industry still has the ability to shape what comes next.
E1679 · 10 Sep 2026 · 30 min
EP1679 Part 4 of 5 | What a Sustainable Coffee Supply Chain Actually Looks Like (Norbert Niederhauser)
Part 4 of 5: What does a sustainable coffee supply chain look like in practice? Lee Safar and Cropster co-founder Norbert Niederhauser explore how technology, measurement, data interpretation, and AI can help coffee businesses identify risk, reduce waste, and make more proactive decisions.
E1678 · 9 Sep 2026 · 29 min
EP1678 Part 3 of 5 | Environmental vs Economic Sustainability in Coffee (Norbert Niederhauser) Map It Forward
Part 3 of 5: Can coffee be environmentally sustainable if the economics do not work? Lee Safar and Cropster co-founder Norbert Niederhauser explore the connection between farming systems, pricing, risk, logistics, the C-market, and why sustainability ultimately depends on both environmental health and economic viability.
E1678 · 8 Sep 2026 · 29 min
EP1677 Part 2 of 5 | Where Coffee Supply Chains Lack Sustainability (Norbert Niederhauser) Map It Forward
Part 2 of 5: Where is sustainability most lacking in coffee? Lee Safar and Cropster co-founder Norbert Niederhauser examine the weak points across farming, trading, roasting, pricing, and the environment, and discuss how businesses can identify risks before those weaknesses become a crisis.
E1676 · 7 Sep 2026 · 30 min
EP1676 Part 1 of 5 | What Sustainability in Coffee Actually Means (Norbert Niederhauser) Map It Forward
Part 1 of 5: Sustainability in coffee is about far more than carbon emissions or environmental claims. Cropster co-founder Norbert Niederhauser joins Lee Safar to explore what a truly sustainable coffee supply chain requires, who carries responsibility, and why economic viability, transparency, and long-term thinking all matter.
E1675 · 4 Sep 2026 · 27 min
EP1675 Part 5 of 5 | What Colombia’s Coffee Industry Needs Now (Ana Donneys + Angel Barrera) Map It Forward
Part 5 of 5: Colombia’s coffee sector faces years of recovery after the earthquake. Ana Donneys and Angel Barrera discuss reconstruction, mental-health strain, unequal access to resources, and why continuing to buy Colombian coffee and maintain long-term relationships may be one of the most meaningful ways the global industry can help.

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Publisher: MAP IT FORWARD
Language: English
Category: Business
New episodes: Daily
Typical length: 27 min
Latest episode: 15 Oct 2026
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