{"podcast":{"title":"Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders","slug":"keys-to-the-shop-equipping-coffee-shop-leaders-1053408","podcast_index_feed_id":1053408,"rss_url":"https://keystotheshop.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.keystotheshop.com/consulting","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/4/4/a/d44ab89a3b9d70a7d959afa2a1bf1c87/Minimalist_X_Letter_Logo_1-20260504-4c0ozofp71.jpg","author":"www.keystotheshop.com","episode_count":1137,"summary":"A coffee podcast providing coffee shop owners and leaders, with insights, inspiration, and the tools you need to grow and advance your coffee business or coffee career. We learn from experts both in and outside the coffee industry as they deliver specific, practical, and actionable advice about ownership, optimization, profitability, barista work, employee culture, management, scaling, leadership, personal development, and anything else that will help you achieve success in the coffee shop.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T20:22:00.457899+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keys-to-the-shop-equipping-coffee-shop-leaders-1053408"},"episode":{"title":"602: Renata Henderson | Cxffeeblack | Putting The Heart Back Into Coffee","slug":"602-renata-henderson-cxffeeblack-putting-the-heart-back-into-coffee","published_at":"2026-05-05T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keys-to-the-shop-equipping-coffee-shop-leaders-1053408/602-renata-henderson-cxffeeblack-putting-the-heart-back-into-coffee","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keys-to-the-shop-equipping-coffee-shop-leaders-1053408","url":"https://keystotheshop.libsyn.com/602-renata-henderson-cxffee-black-putting-the-heart-back-into-coffee","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/keystotheshop/KTTS_602_Putting_The_Heart_Back_in_Coffee_EDITED.mp3?dest-id=412105","summary":"The success of coffee globally is based on what coffee represents...community. A beverage that facilitates rootedness, growth, and fruiting of relationships through shared conversation over a cup in our shops or your home. But today, we are an industry. And our concerns tend to be exclusively around just the business of specialty coffee. Where is the heart? Today I am honored and excited to present an interview with someone who is actively and tenaciously pursuing the heart of coffee in her community by honoring coffees root and growing the fruit of what it can bring to people. We are talking with Head Roaster, Co-founder, and Chief of Staff for Cxffee Black, Renata Henderson! Renata Henderson is Memphis, Tennessee's first Black female roaster and the co-founder and Chief of Staff of Cxffeeblack, the community-oriented, education-based coffee company she built alongside her husband Bartholomew Jones. Founded in 2019 on a mission to return coffee to its African roots and build an equitable Black future, Cxffeeblack made history by creating the first entirely all-Black coffee supply chain from Ethiopia to Memphis — with direct-trade relationships extending to producers like Stephen and Margaret Kuria of Liwani Estate in Nakuru, Kenya. She serves as Head Roaster, Creative Director, and HR lead, Renata brings her deep background in curriculum, instruction, and education into every dimension of Cxffeeblack, from its Specialist-in-Training internship program to the Barista Exchange Program. Her connection to coffee is deeply ancestral — rooted in Ethiopian women's 2,000-year roasting tradition and a family legacy that includes her grandfather marching alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, canteen of coffee in hand. Under Re…","meta_description":"The success of coffee globally is based on what coffee represents...community. A beverage that facilitates rootedness, growth, and fruiting of relationshi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3681,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keys-to-the-shop-equipping-coffee-shop-leaders-1053408/episodes/602-renata-henderson-cxffeeblack-putting-the-heart-back-into-coffee/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keys-to-the-shop-equipping-coffee-shop-leaders-1053408/602-renata-henderson-cxffeeblack-putting-the-heart-back-into-coffee.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}