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Small Business Big StoriesGeovanni LeivaIn this conversation, Geovanni Leiva shares the inspiring story of Leiva's Coffee, a company dedicated to empowering coffee farmers and eradicating poverty through sustainable practices. Geovanni recounts his journey from a coffee farm in Guatemala to becoming a successful entrepreneur in the United States, emphasizing the importance of education, hard work, and community impact. He discusses the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and the innovative solutions that emerged, including the launch of a mobile coffee trailer. The conversation highlights the significance of fair trade and transparency in the coffee industry, as well as Geovanni's vision for the future...
2026-02-2446 min
Graphic Novel ApostleEp. 40: Book Club - Crazy Latte Thing Called Love, with Geo LeivaOn this special Book Club episode of the Graphic Novel Apostle podcast, we raise an oversized mug in salute to coffee. Geovanni Leiva, founder of Leiva's Coffee, joins host Mark Ohrenberger to share the inspiring story of Leiva's Coffee - growing from a 7-year-old boy who wanted to get as far away from a life of coffee farming in the rural Guatemala of his youth to the passionate head of a U.S.-based coffee company that dedicates a share of its profits to provide education and offer life-changing opportunity to the coffee farming families of his home village...
2025-09-0158 min
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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2020-04-1828 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, yo...
2018-10-0253 min