338 episodes

Chris Baca and Jared Truby are professional Baristas and are here to introduce the world to Specialty Coffee! From placing in the finals of the United States Barista Championship multiple times, winning regional competitions, to leading training and education for some of the most progressive coffee companies around - these two have learned a ton about coffee and want to share it with you. Tune in for weekly interviews, tutorials, and general mayhem from the brothers from different mothers: Truby & Baca. Learn more at catandcloud.com

Cat & Cloud Podcast Cat & Cloud

    • Education
    • 4.9 • 702 Ratings

Chris Baca and Jared Truby are professional Baristas and are here to introduce the world to Specialty Coffee! From placing in the finals of the United States Barista Championship multiple times, winning regional competitions, to leading training and education for some of the most progressive coffee companies around - these two have learned a ton about coffee and want to share it with you. Tune in for weekly interviews, tutorials, and general mayhem from the brothers from different mothers: Truby & Baca. Learn more at catandcloud.com

    Learning by Doing - Allowing yourself the room to grow

    Learning by Doing - Allowing yourself the room to grow

    We’re throwing it all the way back to 2021 for this weeks episode. This week we are revisiting a freshly quarantined Chris and Jared as they discuss the natural eb and flow of progress. Listen to this weeks episode for some perspective on taking that first step into the unknown and how we learn and grow even in the failures.

    Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at podcast@catandcloud.com and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week!

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/
    Cat & Cloud: https://catandcloud.com/
    Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: https://chrisbaca.com/

    We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with integrity and intentionality. It’s our mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes.

    The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen!

    Enjoy!

    • 32 min
    Hopes and Dreams

    Hopes and Dreams

    The Cat & Cloud podcast is connecting to the source. In this week's episode, Jared goes full Neo, talking about his experience test roasting for SCA, and shares his insight on intuitive forecasting. We also hear about the dream for a Cat & Cloud Beach Bodega, Chris’s East Coast-inspired limited menu surf shop. And finally, Chris gets to ask Chuck the big question; how do you live your dream?

    Listen to the full episode to hear Chuck drop some serious wisdom on finding your dream life in what’s happening already, and meeting (and being) people who impact the trajectory of your life.

    Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at podcast@catandcloud.com and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week!

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/
    Cat & Cloud: https://catandcloud.com/
    Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: https://chrisbaca.com/

    We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with integrity and intentionality. It’s our mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes.

    The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen!

    Enjoy!

    • 41 min
    Doing The Right Thing - Being true to yourself for your guests and producers

    Doing The Right Thing - Being true to yourself for your guests and producers

    Welcome to the very first Cat & Cloud After-Hours Podcast 😎

    Chris, Charles, and Jared are staying late tonight to chat about all the different facets of our business and industry. From the coffee buying experience online and in store, to the complicated world of Green Buying… even speculating on what might be our own brand stereotypes.

    Listen to this week's episode to hear from all three owners and their takes on how remaining true to yourself and your mission benefits both your business and the community you serve. Quality is important, but so is your story.

    Uline, sponsor us?

    Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at podcast@catandcloud.com and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week!

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/
    Cat & Cloud: https://catandcloud.com/
    Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: https://chrisbaca.com/

    We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with integrity and intentionality. It’s our mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes.

    The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen!

    Enjoy!

    • 1 hr 7 min
    Gaining Perspective - How getting away can help you see things differently

    Gaining Perspective - How getting away can help you see things differently

    Welcome back to the Cat & Cloud Podcast! This week Chris and Jared have each returned from some pretty spectacular visits with our coffee partners, and are hoping on to sharing both their experiences and the insights they’re bringing home with them. Listen to the full episode to hear the guys share their unique experiences in Costa Mesa with the Steelehead team, and Seattle at the La Marzocco espresso museum.

    Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at podcast@catandcloud.com and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week!

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/
    Cat & Cloud: https://catandcloud.com/
    Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: https://chrisbaca.com/

    We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with integrity and intentionality. It’s our mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes.

    The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilized our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen!

    Enjoy!

    • 45 min
    Fostering Leadership - Giving your team what they need to grow

    Fostering Leadership - Giving your team what they need to grow

    This week on the podcast is a Rerun from 2021 where Chris Jared and Charles Talk about ways to grow leaders in your company, how hands off or hands on to be, and what they had been discovering as owners of a small business.

    If you have heard this before or if you are listening for the first time it is a great conversation with a lot of insight. Enjoy!

    Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at podcast@catandcloud.com and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week!

    Instagram: www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/
    Cat & Cloud: catandcloud.com/
    Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: chrisbaca.com/

    We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with integrity and intentionality. It’s our mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes.

    The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen!

    Enjoy!

    • 42 min
    Investing In Your Growth - How community and mentorship help you achieve goals.

    Investing In Your Growth - How community and mentorship help you achieve goals.

    Mr. Miyagi, Yoda, Jaime Escalante - all great mentors that helped those around them improve and become better. On this weeks episode of the podcast Chris asks Chuck about this same idea, as Charles is apart of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO).

    EO is a community of people in similar entrepreneurial roles, who gather together helping one another with perspectives and real experience. For Charles it has been a great resource for him to grow, and receive various perspectives.

    This idea of community, of fostering and investing in one’s own personal growth is something that can become invaluable over time.

    To learn more about EO check out their website: hub.eonetwork.org

    Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at podcast@catandcloud.com and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week!

    Instagram: www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/
Cat & Cloud: catandcloud.com/
Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: chrisbaca.com/

    We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with integrity and intentionality. It’s our mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes.

    The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen!

    Enjoy!

    • 42 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
702 Ratings

702 Ratings

Xan 117 ,

You’re back!!

So when you guys went on hiatus I was coming back to coffee, I was bummed because I love your approach and vibes you give out!

civic_coast ,

Indy Loves Coffee - <3 Cat & Cloud

Indy Loves Coffee here from Indianapolis just sending a shoutout to C & C for being authentic, transparent, informative, dialed in, and AWESOME. I’ve been listening to all the old podcasts for months in hopes to be caught up in time for the 2023 new releases!

- Bryan (ILC)

Purrista ,

Starbucks Barista

As a barista listening to your podcast gives me hope of opening my own shop. Your openness and vulnerability gives me hope. Thank you and I hope you make more podcasts. I hope one day to visit you!

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