The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by MAP IT FORWARD

Lee Safar

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Booking Overview

A weekday specialty-coffee business show that pairs a seasoned host with a single expert guest across a focused 5-part theme. It’s a direct, sometimes challenging conversation aimed at leaders who want to rethink how coffee quality, power, and business practices are defined and implemented.

Metrics

Episodes: 300

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 3.7k subscribers

Instagram: 12.0k followers

30s Ad: 34 - 41, 60s Ad: 39 - 46

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Host

Lee Safar - Specialty coffee veteran, entrepreneur, and business advisor; host of The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by MAP IT FORWARD. He leads short, unedited, conversational episodes that focus on leadership, wor...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:

Recognized specialty coffee industry experts with direct business/leadership/systems experience (e.g., founders/operators, advisors, educators, researchers) and credibility to speak on industry structures, standards, culture, and supply chain realities—often with global/producers-facing perspective.

Required Achievements:

Founder/operator role in a coffee-related organization, Published thought leadership or training/education in specialty coffee, Notable experience working across roles in hospitality/caf culture or coffee business leadership, Visible involvement in industry frameworks/standards discourse (e.g., producer inclusion, quality definitions)

Recent Guest Discussions

Isabela Raposeiras - Leadership In Hospitality/coffee Businesses; Generational Change; Emotional Labor And Psychologically Safe Workplaces; Dignity/respect In Managing Teams; Why Specialty Coffee May Be Failing As A Value Proposition; Power Structures And Inclusion Of Producers In Standards (e.g., Sca/cva)

Isabela Raposeiras - Why Older Leadership Models Are Failing; Changing Expectations Around Work, Identity, Balance, And Leadership; Avoiding Fear/pressure/hierarchy For Retention; Workplace Culture Importance

Isabela Raposeiras - Priorities For Leading People; Psychologically Safe Workplaces; Emotional Intelligence; Leadership Behavior And Staff Retention; Coffee Lab’s Approach To Dignity And Respect

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by MAP IT FORWARD

EP1602 Part 2 of 5 | How Smart Coffee Businesses Decide What to Grow (Nawar Adra) | Map It Forward

May 26, 2026

Advertising SponsorThis episode is brought to you by Map It Forward Podcast Advertising. Interested in advertising on this podcast. Email support@mapitforward.org to learn more.Episode DescriptionThis is episode 2 of a 5-part series with Stitch Coffee founder, Nawar Adra, and Map It Forward Founder, Lee Safar. In this series of The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward, we’re discussing what it takes to expand a coffee business in this economy, and in this episode we focus on one of the ...

EP 1601 Part 1 of 5 | Growing a Coffee Brand When the Economy Tightens (Nawar Adra) | Map It Forward

May 25, 2026

Advertising SponsorThis episode is brought to you by Arcadia Green Coffee, Colombian coffee exporters taking fresh green coffee from Colombia to the world, farm to roastery, direct.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arcadiagreencoffee/WhatsApp: https://wa.me/353877871523Episode DescriptionThis is episode 1 of a 5-part series with Stitch Coffee founder, Nawar Adra, and Map It Forward Founder, Lee Safar. In this series of The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward, we’re discussing what i...

EP 1600 Part 5 of 5 | Why “Specialty Coffee” Is Failing as a Value Proposition (Isabela Raposeiras)

May 22, 2026

Advertising SponsorNeed help with your business? Email us: support@mapitforward.org to learn more.Episode DescriptionThis is episode 5 of a 5-part series with Isabela Raposeiras, founder of Coffee Lab Brazil. In this series of The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward, we’ve been discussing leadership, hospitality, workplace culture, and the future of coffee businesses.In this final episode, host Lee Safar and Isabela ask a difficult but important question: Why is “specialty coffee” fail...

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