
Disclaimer from Venable LLP: “The information in this podcast is not intended to provide legal advice or opinion. Such advice may be given only when it is related to specific fact situations that Venable has accepted an engagement as counsel to address.”Maria Sinatra of Venable LLP is an attorney. We met at CoffeeFest NYC 2026, where she was speaking about copyright, trademarks, and intellectual property as it relates to coffee businesses, and beyond. In this follow up chat for Coffee People, Maria offered insights on why being aware of and addressing your need for legal protections early can be an asset to your business and your brand.Find Maria Sinatra and Venable LLP online: Maria Sinatra on LinkedIn.www.venable.comFor context subscribe to the Coffee People podcast newsletter at: https://www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/BUY: The reliable coffee brewer that sits on our counter from Simply Good Coffee. (Affiliate Link).https://partners.simplygoodcoffee.com/roastMERCH: https://www.coffeepeoplearesexy.com/Coffee People is presented by Roastar, Inc., the premier coffee packaging company utilizing digital printing. Roastar enables small-to-gigantic coffee businesses tell a big story. Learn more at www.roastar.com and get 10% off with the code: COFFEEPEOPLE10Thanks for watching the Coffee People Podcast. Like all small businesses and entrepreneurs, we're still learning, modifying, and continuing to improve—at least trying to! Coffee People is one of the premier** coffee and entrepreneurship podcasts, featuring interviews with professionals in the coffee (and adjacent) industry, coffee education, and sometimes, just fun chats with strangers over a cup of coffee. Host Ryan Woldt interviews roastery founders, head roasters, coffee shop owners, scientists, artists, baristas, farmers, green coffee brokers, and more.This show is also supported by Marea Coffee, Joe at Vournas Coffee, Sivetz Roasting Machines, Relative Coffee Company, Coffee Cycle Roasting, Acento Coffee Roasters, Prismatic Coffee, and Hacea Coffee Source.Register to become an organ donor at: https://registerme.org/.*Clicking these links to purchase will also support Roast! West Coast through their affiliate marketing programs.**I mean...if not premier, one of the longer running ones, at least.
Jul 8
40 min

Andrew and Christine Houghtaling are the duo behind Kissing Rock Coffee. The roasting company located in Gold Beach, OR near the iconic Kissing Rock rising up next to the ocean joined our podcast in the Roastar packaging booth at World of Coffee San Diego earlier this spring to chat, just a bit, about their journey into coffee and to competition success.Find Kissing Rock Coffee online: https://kissingrockcoffee.com/For context subscribe to the Coffee People podcast newsletter at: https://www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/BUY: The reliable coffee brewer that sits on our counter from Simply Good Coffee. (Affiliate Link).https://partners.simplygoodcoffee.com/roastMERCH: https://www.coffeepeoplearesexy.com/Coffee People is presented by Roastar, Inc., the premier coffee packaging company utilizing digital printing. Roastar enables small-to-gigantic coffee businesses tell a big story. Learn more at www.roastar.com and get 10% off with the code: COFFEEPEOPLE10Thanks for watching the Coffee People Podcast. Like all small businesses and entrepreneurs, we're still learning, modifying, and continuing to improve—at least trying to! Coffee People is one of the premier** coffee and entrepreneurship podcasts, featuring interviews with professionals in the coffee (and adjacent) industry, coffee education, and sometimes, just fun chats with strangers over a cup of coffee. Host Ryan Woldt interviews roastery founders, head roasters, coffee shop owners, scientists, artists, baristas, farmers, green coffee brokers, and more.This show is also supported by Marea Coffee, Joe at Vournas Coffee, Sivetz Roasting Machines, Relative Coffee Company, Coffee Cycle Roasting, Acento Coffee Roasters, Prismatic Coffee, and Hacea Coffee Source.Register to become an organ donor at: https://registerme.org/.*Clicking these links to purchase will also support Roast! West Coast through their affiliate marketing programs.**I mean...if not premier, one of the longer running ones, at least.
Jul 1
16 min

Kevin Hartley is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cambio Roasters. The company is trying to divert some of the demand for disposable coffee pods into recyclable aluminum pods with compostable internal filters and grounds. Previously, Kevin worked with a smaller company called Green Mountain.* You may recognize the name as the innovators behind the original coffee pod, which through concept development, acquisition, and the widespread adoption by consumers of the Keurig coffee maker has become an industry behemoth.Find Cambio Roaster pods online: https://cambioroasters.com/ and this fall in Publix grocery stores nationwide. You can also order their newest offering a half-caff on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cambio-Roasters-Half-Caff-Medium-Dark-Coffee/dp/B0GWNG3RS5*Thru several transactions Green Mountain is now Keurig Dr Pepper, Inc.For context subscribe to the Coffee People podcast newsletter at: https://www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/BUY: The reliable coffee brewer that sits on our counter from Simply Good Coffee. (Affiliate Link).https://partners.simplygoodcoffee.com/roastMERCH: https://www.coffeepeoplearesexy.com/Coffee People is presented by Roastar, Inc., the premier coffee packaging company utilizing digital printing. Roastar enables small-to-gigantic coffee businesses tell a big story. Learn more at www.roastar.com and get 10% off with the code: COFFEEPEOPLE10Thanks for watching the Coffee People Podcast. Like all small businesses and entrepreneurs, we're still learning, modifying, and continuing to improve—at least trying to! Coffee People is one of the premier** coffee and entrepreneurship podcasts, featuring interviews with professionals in the coffee (and adjacent) industry, coffee education, and sometimes, just fun chats with strangers over a cup of coffee. Host Ryan Woldt interviews roastery founders, head roasters, coffee shop owners, scientists, artists, baristas, farmers, green coffee brokers, and more.This show is also supported by Marea Coffee, Joe at Vournas Coffee, Sivetz Roasting Machines, Relative Coffee Company, Coffee Cycle Roasting, Acento Coffee Roasters, Prismatic Coffee, and Hacea Coffee Source.Register to become an organ donor at: https://registerme.org/.*Clicking these links to purchase will also support Roast! West Coast through their affiliate marketing programs.**I mean...if not premier, one of the longer running ones, at least.
Jun 24
46 min

Coffee People Podcast host Ryan Woldt sits with recurring guest Nick Schmitt of Roastar (coffee packaging) for an extended segment they call Nick & Ryan Drink Coffee.Thanks for being here. Season 18 begins dropping soon. For context subscribe to the Coffee People podcast newsletter at: https://www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/.BUY: The reliable coffee brewer that sits on our counter from Simply Good Coffee. (Affiliate Link).https://partners.simplygoodcoffee.com/roastCoffee People is presented by Roastar, Inc., the premier coffee packaging company utilizing digital printing. Roastar enables small-to-gigantic coffee businesses tell a big story. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gIsHff and get 10% off with the code: COFFEEPEOPLE10Follow @roastar on Instagram.Thanks for watching the Coffee People Podcast. Like all small businesses and entrepreneurs, we're still learning, modifying, and continuing to improve—at least trying to! Head to www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com for links from the show, context to our conversation, and much more. Shop all of our coffee collaborations, including Yeah, No...Yeah Coffee! (https://www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/collab-coffee/) Coffee People is one of the premier coffee and entrepreneurship podcasts, featuring interviews with professionals in the coffee industry and coffee education. Host Ryan Woldt interviews roastery founders, head roasters, coffee shop owners, scientists, artists, baristas, farmers, green coffee brokers, and more.This show is also supported by Marea Coffee , Cape Horn Green Coffee Importers, Sivetz Roasting Machines, Relative Coffee Company, Coffee Cycle Roasting, MAMU Coffee, Acento Coffee Roasters, Prismatic Coffee, and Hacea Coffee Source.Register to become an organ donor at: https://registerme.org/.*Clicking these links to purchase will also support Roast! West Coast through their affiliate marketing programs.
Jun 8
24 min

Thanks for being here. Season 18 begins dropping soon. For context subscribe to the Coffee People podcast newsletter at: https://www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/.BUY: The reliable coffee brewer that sits on our counter from Simply Good Coffee. (Affiliate Link).https://partners.simplygoodcoffee.com/roastCoffee People is presented by Roastar, Inc., the premier coffee packaging company utilizing digital printing. Roastar enables small-to-gigantic coffee businesses tell a big story. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gIsHff and get 10% off with the code: COFFEEPEOPLE10Follow @roastar on Instagram.Thanks for watching the Coffee People Podcast. Like all small businesses and entrepreneurs, we're still learning, modifying, and continuing to improve—at least trying to! Head to www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com for links from the show, context to our conversation, and much more. Shop all of our coffee collaborations, including Yeah, No...Yeah Coffee! (https://www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/collab-coffee/) Coffee People is one of the premier coffee and entrepreneurship podcasts, featuring interviews with professionals in the coffee industry and coffee education. Host Ryan Woldt interviews roastery founders, head roasters, coffee shop owners, scientists, artists, baristas, farmers, green coffee brokers, and more.This show is also supported by Marea Coffee , Cape Horn Green Coffee Importers, Sivetz Roasting Machines, Relative Coffee Company, Coffee Cycle Roasting, MAMU Coffee, Acento Coffee Roasters, Prismatic Coffee, and Hacea Coffee Source.Register to become an organ donor at: https://registerme.org/.*Clicking these links to purchase will also support Roast! West Coast through their affiliate marketing programs.
Jun 5
2 min

Kory Nauseef (Head Roaster) and Craig Brooks (Co-Founder) of Coffee Depot and Coffee Mania in upstate New York joined the Coffee People podcast at CoffeeFest to chat about the evolution of their business.Find online at: https://www.cnywholesale.com/ and https://www.cnycoffee.com/The full episode dropped June 3, 2026. Recorded at CoffeeFest NYC in March 2026.Subscribe to the Coffee People podcast newsletter at: https://www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/.Coffee People is presented by Roastar, Inc., the premier coffee packaging company utilizing digital printing. Roastar enables small-to-gigantic coffee businesses tell a big story. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gIsHff and get 10% off with the code: COFFEEPEOPLE10BUY: The reliable coffee brewer that sits on our counter from Simply Good Coffee. (Affiliate Link).https://partners.simplygoodcoffee.com/roastThanks for watching the Coffee People Podcast. Like all small businesses and entrepreneurs, we're still learning, modifying, and continuing to improve—at least trying to! Head to www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com for links from the show, context to our conversation, and much more. Shop all of our coffee collaborations, including Yeah, No...Yeah Coffee! Coffee People is one of the premier coffee and entrepreneurship podcasts, featuring interviews with professionals in the coffee industry and coffee education. Host Ryan Woldt interviews roastery founders, head roasters, coffee shop owners, scientists, artists, baristas, farmers, green coffee brokers, and more.This show is also supported by Marea Coffee , Cape Horn Green Coffee Importers, Sivetz Roasting Machines, Relative Coffee Company, Coffee Cycle Roasting, MAMU Coffee, Acento Coffee Roasters, Prismatic Coffee, and Hacea Coffee Source.Register to become an organ donor at: https://registerme.org/.*Clicking these links to purchase will also support Roast! West Coast through their affiliate marketing programs.
Jun 5
10 min

Sundar Chellapa is the founder of Yeri Coffee in Harlem, NY. His search for the unique flavor profiles found in the coffee of his upbringing in India finally inspired him to leave the tech industry to start a coffee company that focuses on India specialty coffees.Find online at: https://yericoffee.com/The full episode dropped May 27, 2026. Recorded at CoffeeFest NYC in March 2026.Subscribe to the Coffee People podcast newsletter at: https://www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/.Coffee People is presented by Roastar, Inc., the premier coffee packaging company utilizing digital printing. Roastar enables small-to-gigantic coffee businesses tell a big story. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gIsHff and get 10% off with the code: COFFEEPEOPLE10BUY: The reliable coffee brewer that sits on our counter from Simply Good Coffee. (Affiliate Link).https://partners.simplygoodcoffee.com/roastThanks for watching the Coffee People Podcast. Like all small businesses and entrepreneurs, we're still learning, modifying, and continuing to improve—at least trying to! Head to www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com for links from the show, context to our conversation, and much more. Shop all of our coffee collaborations, including Yeah, No...Yeah Coffee! Coffee People is one of the premier coffee and entrepreneurship podcasts, featuring interviews with professionals in the coffee industry and coffee education. Host Ryan Woldt interviews roastery founders, head roasters, coffee shop owners, scientists, artists, baristas, farmers, green coffee brokers, and more.This show is also supported by Marea Coffee , Cape Horn Green Coffee Importers, Sivetz Roasting Machines, Relative Coffee Company, Coffee Cycle Roasting, MAMU Coffee, Acento Coffee Roasters, Prismatic Coffee, and Hacea Coffee Source.Register to become an organ donor at: https://registerme.org/.*Clicking these links to purchase will also support Roast! West Coast through their affiliate marketing programs.
May 27
11 min

Anu Menon is the Co-Founder of Driftaway Coffee Roasters. Along with their partner, they've been running the business in Brooklyn, NY since 2014. A lot has changed in Specialty coffee since then, including Driftaway being named Roast Magazine's 2026 Roaster of the Year.Find online at: https://driftaway.coffee/The full episode dropped May 21, 2026. Recorded at CoffeeFest NYC in March 2026.Subscribe to the Coffee People podcast newsletter at: https://www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/.Coffee People is presented by Roastar, Inc., the premier coffee packaging company utilizing digital printing. Roastar enables small-to-gigantic coffee businesses tell a big story. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gIsHff and get 10% off with the code: COFFEEPEOPLE10BUY: The reliable coffee brewer that sits on our counter from Simply Good Coffee. (Affiliate Link).https://partners.simplygoodcoffee.com/roastThanks for watching the Coffee People Podcast. Like all small businesses and entrepreneurs, we're still learning, modifying, and continuing to improve—at least trying to! Head to www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com for links from the show, context to our conversation, and much more. Shop all of our coffee collaborations, including Yeah, No...Yeah Coffee! Coffee People is one of the premier coffee and entrepreneurship podcasts, featuring interviews with professionals in the coffee industry and coffee education. Host Ryan Woldt interviews roastery founders, head roasters, coffee shop owners, scientists, artists, baristas, farmers, green coffee brokers, and more.This show is also supported by Marea Coffee , Cape Horn Green Coffee Importers, Sivetz Roasting Machines, Relative Coffee Company, Coffee Cycle Roasting, MAMU Coffee, Acento Coffee Roasters, Prismatic Coffee, and Hacea Coffee Source.Register to become an organ donor at: https://registerme.org/.*Clicking these links to purchase will also support Roast! West Coast through their affiliate marketing programs.
May 20
12 min

Yoshawn Smith of The Pour Up LA (coffee and barista education) and Califia Farms (alternative milk options) rejoins the podcast at CoffeeFest NYC to talk about how baristas and coffee shops should approach alt milks, the vibe in New York, and why we need to be aware of the wattage demands of our coffee equipment.Find online at: https://www.instagram.com/thepourupla/https://www.califiafarms.com/The full episode dropped May 8, 2026. Recorded at CoffeeFest NYC in March 2026.Watch and subscribe to @coffeepeoplepodcasts for more context, subscribe to the Coffee People podcast newsletter at: https://www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/.Coffee People is presented by Roastar, Inc., the premier coffee packaging company utilizing digital printing. Roastar enables small-to-gigantic coffee businesses tell a big story. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gIsHff and get 10% off with the code: COFFEEPEOPLE10BUY: The reliable coffee brewer that sits on our counter from Simply Good Coffee. (Affiliate Link).https://partners.simplygoodcoffee.com/roastThanks for watching the Coffee People Podcast. Like all small businesses and entrepreneurs, we're still learning, modifying, and continuing to improve—at least trying to! Head to www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com for links from the show, context to our conversation, and much more. Shop all of our coffee collaborations, including Yeah, No...Yeah Coffee! Coffee People is one of the premier coffee and entrepreneurship podcasts, featuring interviews with professionals in the coffee industry and coffee education. Host Ryan Woldt interviews roastery founders, head roasters, coffee shop owners, scientists, artists, baristas, farmers, green coffee brokers, and more.This show is also supported by Marea Coffee , Cape Horn Green Coffee Importers, Sivetz Roasting Machines, Relative Coffee Company, Coffee Cycle Roasting, MAMU Coffee, Acento Coffee Roasters, Prismatic Coffee, and Hacea Coffee Source.Register to become an organ donor at: https://registerme.org/.*Clicking these links to purchase will also support Roast! West Coast through their affiliate marketing programs.
May 8
12 min

Dr. Gregory Marcus is the Associate Chief of Cardiology for Research at UCSF Health and an Associate Editor of JAMA. JAMA is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published online daily and in print weekly. He joined Coffee People when I reached out to him after reading his co-authored paper Acute Effects of Coffee Consumption on Health among Ambulatory Adults (2023).In it, I read this line, "CONCLUSIONS: In this randomized trial, the consumption of caffeinated coffee did not result in significantly more daily premature atrial contractions than the avoidance of caffeine." It felt very relevant to my life (and that of our audience) considering I drink copious amounts of coffee.In this podcast we chat about how his passion for coffee turned into a long term research effort into how beverages like coffee and alcohol engage and impact the human body. Find online:https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2204737https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/11/431036/coffee-safe-for-a-fibhttps://ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu/people/gregory-marcusThe full episode dropped May 7, 2026. Watch and subscribe to @coffeepeoplepodcasts for more context, subscribe to the Coffee People podcast newsletter at: https://www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/.BUY: The reliable coffee brewer that sits on our counter from Simply Good Coffee. (Affiliate Link).https://partners.simplygoodcoffee.com/roastCoffee People is presented by Roastar, Inc., the premier coffee packaging company utilizing digital printing. Roastar enables small-to-gigantic coffee businesses tell a big story. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gIsHff and get 10% off with the code: COFFEEPEOPLE10Follow @roastar on Instagram. Thanks for watching the Coffee People Podcast. Like all small businesses and entrepreneurs, we're still learning, modifying, and continuing to improve—at least trying to! Head to www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com for links from the show, context to our conversation, and much more. Shop all of our coffee collaborations, including Yeah, No...Yeah Coffee! Coffee People is one of the premier coffee and entrepreneurship podcasts, featuring interviews with professionals in the coffee industry and coffee education. Host Ryan Woldt interviews roastery founders, head roasters, coffee shop owners, scientists, artists, baristas, farmers, green coffee brokers, and more.This show is also supported by Marea Coffee , Cape Horn Green Coffee Importers, Sivetz Roasting Machines, Relative Coffee Company, Coffee Cycle Roasting, MAMU Coffee, Acento Coffee Roasters, Prismatic Coffee, and Hacea Coffee Source.Register to become an organ donor at: https://registerme.org/.*Clicking these links to purchase will also support Roast! West Coast through their affiliate marketing programs.
May 7
57 min
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