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The Brand Building PodcastFrom Poverty in Guatemala to Coffee Empire: Geovanni’s Incredible American Dream [Leiva's Coffee]In this episode, I sit down with Giovanni, founder of Leiva’s Coffee, who went from growing up in poverty on a Guatemalan coffee farm to building a vertically integrated coffee brand here in the U.S.
His story is wild—he came to America with just $20, no English, and a mission to break the cycle of poverty. Now, he’s creating jobs, funding education back home, and showing how a coffee business can change lives.
We talk about:
- How he launched his brand out of a garage
- The dark s...2025-05-1633 min
Block Talk with Jamie Taylor#53 | Geovanni LeivaBlock Talk is back and better than ever! Join us in hearing Geovanni Leiva's incredible story and the origins of Leiva's Coffee! Grab your coffee and get jacked up!2021-08-0342 min
Block Talk with Jamie Taylor#53 | Geovanni LeivaBlock Talk is back and better than ever! Join us in hearing Geovanni Leiva's incredible story and the origins of Leiva's Coffee! Grab your coffee and get jacked up!2021-08-0342 min
Quarantine Phone CallsGeovanni Leiva: Coffee Farmer: Little Rock, ArkansasConnect with Geo at www.leivascoffee.com // Hosted by Michael Chaffin
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/quarantine-phone-calls/message2020-04-1828 min
Sustaining CraftEpisode 11: Geovanni Leiva: Roasting Romance Back into CoffeeGeovanni Leiva missed his family and his village, and then, after a visit five years ago, while flying back to Arkansas, he came up with an idea. “It was probably the worst three hours of my life because I would feel so defeated,” Leiva said. “And I would feel so helpless. … Why me? Why, out of all these people, I get to do this? Over one of those trips, I’m reading a magazine, and I have my little napkin for my Sprite, and I see a Chinese proverb in a magazine that says, if you give a man a fish, you...2018-10-0200 min