How does a tea expert become an expert? Today's guest is Jeffrey Mcintosh, my friend and go-to source for pu'er tea information. He's a pu'er tea especialist, financial advisor, and host of a YouTube channel about pu'er sourcing and evaluation. He speaks fluent Mandarin, and has also spent most of the last decade building and consulting for business ventures in tea. It's quite the resume, but before there was tea expert Jeff, there was... just Jeff, at the beginning of a long and bumpy road to tea confidence. In this episode, Jeff generously shares his personal story of getting into the pu'er ..read more

When I first approached my friend Ting to record this episode, I asked her to teach us about mindfulness. As amazing as she is as a tea host, I could have sworn she had some kind of powerful mindfulness practice to share. But as we find out during the recording, Ting, who is the founder of the non-profit tea community Tea Arts and Culture, has arrived at her beautiful tea practice in more everyday ways -- and after a lot of challenges and lessons. We hear about how she stumbled into tea in New York after having little interest in it growing up in China, how she found out what people truly want ..read more

If you want to share about tea, how do you get the hard sh*t done to actually make it happen? Faced with the prospect of a whole new podcast, that's what I wanted to learn from my friend Martin Bohacik. He's the guy behind one of the most beautiful works in the tea world, Eighty Degrees Magazine, and he single-handedly curates, arranges, and publishes each issue from his home in Portugal (he's now on Issue 10). We talk about the inspiration behind Eighty Degrees and the everyday techniques Martin uses to make sure his vision can be shared with the world -- even as a down-to-earth introvert who ..read more

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