From Homestead To Coffee Cup

A farm name with family roots, a Labrador on the label, and a decision made on a Saturday afternoon—that’s how Seminova Acres came to life. We sit down with founder Robert Seaman to trace the leap from idea to action and the craft choices that make his coffee smooth, fresh, and genuinely useful for early mornings and long days. If you’ve ever wondered why grocery coffee tastes bitter or why some cups leave you jittery, this conversation breaks it down in plain language and practical tips.

Buy Robert's coffee here http://www.semanovaacres.com

Robert shares how fresh-roasted Arabica changes the game: fewer harsh notes, more balance, and a finish that doesn’t punch you in the throat. We compare Arabica and Robusta, talk about how shelf time dulls flavor, and explain why a medium profile like the Tradesman Blend wins for most palates at home and in restaurants. The story gets personal too—family heritage woven into the name “Seminova,” a grandfather who lived on coffee and grit, and the Labrador as a working symbol of reliability and welcome.

Beyond the cup, we dig into building trust for a new brand, navigating licensing and regulations, and the real economics of making better coffee at home versus daily café runs. Robert’s mission stretches past sales: a new partnership with NAWIC (National Association of Women in Construction) channels proceeds into training and support for women entering the trades. It’s a throughline of service, from fraternity values to a five-year vision centered on community impact, youth sports, and practical help where it’s needed most.

If you’re ready to rethink your morning routine, start with the Tradesman Blend and taste what fresh, small-batch coffee can do for your day. Then stick around for the bigger story of how a simple cup can fuel good work. Subscribe, share this episode with a friend who loves coffee, and leave a quick review to help more people find the show. #SemanovaAcres #RobertSeman #CoffeeLovers #SpecialtyCoffee #CoffeeBusiness #ArtisanCoffee #SmallBatchCoffee #CoffeeInterview 

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Transcript

Host Intro And Guest Setup

SPEAKER_02 0:03

Hey there everybody be pop here leading you out of the call center rabbit hole one grain of truth at a time. And today I'm gonna take things in a different direction and talk about something other than call centers. Imagine that. Oh no, what is he doing? Has he lost his mind? Now today on today's show, we're gonna sit down with a friend of mine and a fraternity buddy of mine from college. We both attended Ohio University, and we're both members of the Alpha Tow chapter of Thetakai Fraternity on the campus of Ohio University. And we're gonna talk with entrepreneur and coffee craftsman Robert Seaman. He's the founder of Semenova Coffee. And Seamanova Coffee, he's given me some bling here. I I do drink coffee out of this, and I've had it on the show before. And this is his logo. He is very passionate about Labrador Retrievers, as I am. I love Labrador Retrievers. I had a Labrador Springer Spaniel mix growing up, and she was as sweet as the greatest dog. And I've got a bag of his coffee here. This is Simonova Acres Tradesman Blend. And I'm telling you, this coffee is awesome. It's smooth, it tastes great. A lot of the stuff you buy off the shelves in the store has kind of this sour, acidic taste to it. This stuff, Seamanova Acres coffee is awesome. And I'm not just saying it because this guy's a friend of mine. I drink this coffee every single day. I really do. And Robert Seaman is the founder of Seamanova Acres, and I can tell you this what started off as an idea rooted in passion, quality, and a love for great coffee has grown into a brand that reflects dedication, hard work, and commitment to doing things the right way. To start things off, I'm going to show you a video I produced and directed to help promote his coffee. Just a little quick commercial here. This will give you an idea of the wholesomeness and a down-to-earth approach Robert's taking with his coffee.

SPEAKER_00 2:08

Labradors are known for two things: being hardworking and approachable. They show up every day, they don't put on a show, they just do the work and they do it well. That's the same mindset behind Seminova Acres Coffee, fresh roasted in small batches. No shortcuts, no snobbery. Coffee built for your early mornings and long days for everyone who appreciates something honest and dependable. From our homestead to yours, semmonovaacres.com.

unknown 2:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:43

So we're going to talk with Robert about how Simo Nova Acres got started, what inspired him to enter the coffee world, and what makes his blends unique, and what it really takes to turn a simple idea into a thriving business. So if you want some great coffee, and if you love great coffee, get Cenova Acres. So grab a cup of your favorite brew, sit back, and let's welcome Robert to the show. Well, thanks for coming out today, but I really appreciate it. I I love your coffee. Oh, I really do. And I I told people on the show about this, and I say, I just love his coffee and I drink it all the time. So we're just going to talk, you know, about your coffee, how you got to start this business. And what was the moment that you first thought I'm going to start selling coffee?

SPEAKER_01 3:29

My wife and I were just talking about this because I've I've had a dream of doing coffee. I've I've been in love with coffee all my life. But literally in July this past year, I made the decision. I was thinking on a Saturday afternoon, I was like, you know what? I'm going to start selling coffee today. I opened up the website. I started getting to I I just started right then. Really? You know, I just, I mean, I'd done a little research, you know, and played around with the idea, whatever, but I just did it. And probably two weeks, probably August time frame, all of a sudden, you know, we got some shipments of coffee to the house that says Seminova Acres Coffee Company. And my wife's like, Who's this? She's like, I understand that. When did this happen? And I'm like, Oh yeah, I did that. I did a thing.

SPEAKER_02 4:14

What website did you go to? You went to uh to to uh order the coffee?

The Meaning Behind Seminova Acres

SPEAKER_01 4:18

You went to uh I went I went through some roasters, some like uh drop ship scenarios. So looked at those that provided white label services and those that would allow you to basically subscribe to their service or work on that, and then then you could work with them on you know custom roasts and blends and things of that nature, and then start selling it under your own name. Where did you come up with the name Semenova Acres? Semenova Acres.

SPEAKER_02 4:43

Oh, I said Semenova, sorry, Semenova.

SPEAKER_01 4:46

Yeah, it's all good. Semenova Acres is it's kind of a blend, my my last name being Siemen, and uh you know that's uh my dad's name. And he uh it's a Polish Slovak Ukrainian region when everybody came over on the boat in the early 1900s, late 1800s, early 1900s. And some of the family back in the homeland, I from what I understand, are still Semanova. So there's still some out there, and then so I kind of like the term the family, the our family, you know, where we're at, they've always used semen, you know, the shortened virgin, Americanized. And the you know, the the word nova meaning new, new birth, you know, things of that nature. So when I bought my farm where we're where I'm currently at, it was a new place, the new homestead. So it's Semenova, you know.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

So you're Croatian. Uh by uh your background's Croatian.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Aaron Powell Ukrainian, Czechoslovakian.

SPEAKER_02 5:43

Oh wow, that's I have never. Polish also. So so Siemen is a Czech Czech name. It's short for Semanova, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:50

Oh, it is. Yeah, yeah. One there's fair family variations and things like that. I don't know how I missed that. I I met a gentleman in the trade that I that I've worked in for the past 28 years doing GPS, and he was from Poland. And he's like, Siemen, and he's saying, Are you here, here, here, here, here, here? I was like, Yeah. He goes, I know you I I I I think I know some of your family. I mean, he just Semmonova, you know. And I mean, we carried on a conversation for the five days of the course in Denver, Colorado. Met him out of nowhere, you know. It was it was kind of interesting.

SPEAKER_02 6:23

That's awesome. I had no idea. And I think you've told me the story, and I must have gone off and cloudline and wasn't listening, or it's pretty that's pretty significant. Yeah. That's awesome. Because I I was like, where did he come up with this name? And it's and when I showed it to Jilly that did the modeling for the commercial, she's like, This means new something, doesn't it? And I'm like, Yeah, it does. I never even thought of that. And she was really on top of it right away. Now you have told me some great stories about I think it's your grandfather, right? You've been a lifelong coffee lover because of your grandfather, right?

SPEAKER_01 6:54

Absolutely. You know, my grandfather was a truck driver, and so he, you know, he lived on coffee and cigarettes and uh and anger. Kind of the construction of motif. But uh I used to climb up in his lap, you know, at two years of age and you know, drink his coffee. And everybody said it was more cream and sugar than it was coffee, but it didn't matter, it got me my start, you know. Yeah, you know, it's those fond memories of family and just enjoying that time, yeah, drinking coffee. You know, that's that's kind of my background, you know, my in my motive or my incentive to get me started.

Labradors, Farm Life, And Identity

SPEAKER_02 7:27

That's the that's awesome because that gives you a nice inspiration too while you're doing you've got your grandfather in your mind, your family. You put your family name into it, and what more could you want? Right. I mean, you've you've connected all the dots and and the sentimentality behind it is beautiful. Yeah, it's very personal. Yeah, that's really awesome. I I I like it even more now. Because I know in your logo, you've got Labrador Retrievers. Now, I I look at that, I just love dogs and I love labs. We were just talking about that. So why did you put Labrador retrievers in your website?

SPEAKER_01 7:59

I am a Labrador snob.

SPEAKER_03 8:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

Yeah. I just have always liked the breed ever since I was a kid. They're just playful, they're energetic, extremely loyal, dependable. You know, they're I mean, they're, you know, some of the world's most selected service dogs. You know, they were bred, you know, to help, you know, with a fisherman, you know, in the icy cold waters, you know, they could jump in and help save the fishermen if they fell overboard and help them with their heavy loads. And oh really, you know, so they're I mean, they're just a working class dog. Oh, I didn't know that. I really didn't. And it's so I just always always like the Labrador Retriever.

SPEAKER_02 8:36

Oh, that's awesome. Because I know they're very loyal and but they're friendly, but they're just wonderful dogs. And it's a perfect logo for your coffee. I think it it it I don't know, it gives it a nice down-to-earth feel. Seeing that Labrador there. And you've got a nice farm too. You've got some farmland.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Yeah, my wife and I have 10 acres in Clark County, and so we have a couple horses. We've got uh an appendix and excuse me, uh a quarter pony and a mini pony. We had a paint for a little while, but the the young lady that we had bought her from, she had a daughter of her own, and Splash was her favorite horse. So she asked if she could buy her back, and we're like, you know what, sure, you know, you can do that because Splash was just an awesome horse, you know, to do that. So Splash would eat hot pockets. She was she was just amazing. Loved to love to swim, love to run barrels, and she would eat hot pockets. Hot pockets. So how funny. So it was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_02 9:33

So what what makes your coffee different from what people grab at the grocery store?

SPEAKER_01 9:39

Well, the most of the stuff that's grabbed at the grocery store is what they call commercial type coffee. So they're they're looking for a basically a profit line. They're finding as much of one kind or one type of coffee that they can do and they can roast it in bulk. It tends to be over-roasted because they get so many different breeds of coffee, you know, different origins. And so they over-roast it so that it blends all those flavors together so they get a more consistent flavor. But the stuff on the shelves, you know, because grocery stores buy it in bulk and they stockpile it and put it in their warehouses. And so by the time we get it at the grocery store, it's anywhere from three months, and some grocery stores will keep it in their warehouse for two years, you know, so it's it's old. It's older. Whereas the stuff that I'm working with is fresh, fresh roasted, recently roasted. So by the time we get it, you know, if somebody orders it and we the companies I work with, they roast it within that week or, you know, within two weeks, and they'll ship it out. So it's very freshly roasted. You know, it's gonna uh I want to say guaranteed, but you know, it is a natural product. So but you know, three months down the road, it's still got a really good flavor, you know. Whereas, you know, the stuff that you get and you pop open the plastic container and it's been breathing air, you know, even though it's in a plastic container, there's air still getting in there and it just changes the flavor. Sure, you know. So I mean you've you've tasted.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

Oh, sure, sure. And and I've noticed we have some of the store-bought stuff at home. And when you first introduced me to your coffee, I tried some of that. I'm not going to name the brand, but it had what I consider to be a very acidic taste to it. It's very sour compared to yours. And you know, if you want to check out Robert's company, it's seminovaacres.com. And but his coffee is very smooth. I drink this. This is Tradesman. I drink this and I drink Tradesman Blood, I think the same one, right? Yep, yep, that's the same one. And it's very smooth, it's not overly powering. And the and what I notice is that I don't get the jitters drinking your coffee. Like when I drink the commercial stuff, I get really jittery. And your coffee is, I don't know how they do it, but it's very smooth.

Arabica Vs Robusta Explained

SPEAKER_01 11:54

It's one one of the differences is that this coff, my coffee is, or the one that you're speaking of, is 100% Arabica or Arabica. Okay. So some blends and some coffees that you get off the shelves will have the robusta or robusta beans mixed in it. Robusta has a higher caffeine content, but it also has that bitterness and that at you know, some of that acidic taste that you'll get. Oh, okay. So that's that's why where a lot of the smoothness in ours comes from, because there's no none of that robusta in there.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

I didn't know that. I'm learning so much. I know I don't know a thing about coffee. I drink mostly cafe mocha's at a local coffee shop. But so if someone is trying Semino Acres for the first time, is there a roast you say that they should try to start off?

SPEAKER_01 12:42

You know, a lot of people have their favorites already, you know, the things that they've been drinking for a long time. Our tradesmen blend is the middle range, it's a medium, it's it's got a little medium, a little dark, blended in there. It's kind of a middle of the road, so it's not extreme, heavy taste, it's not overly light. It's a good starter. It's a great, you know, we have a couple of restaurants in a couple of locations that are actually brewing our coffee and serving it. And their customers are, you know, a couple of them were they noticed right away. It's like, hey, you changed your coffee. You know, and just because it's smooth, you know, it doesn't give you an upset stomach, you know. Yeah, yeah, you know, at least it hasn't given anybody an upset stomach yet.

Starter Roast And Customer Feedback

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Oh no, I and I and I I know I might be biased, but I really say this and I drink your coffee every day, and I I can't take I can't drink the stuff that comes off the shelf anymore. I just can't do it. I just it just it's definitely a huge difference. And I I just I don't know, I just love it. When you when you make this coffee, do you have a I mean you're not making it yourself, but is there a like a goal you have in mind? Are you trying to put forth a certain flavor or a certain thing?

SPEAKER_01 13:53

It's what we're looking for is a flavor profile. You know, I definitely like the bold, distinguishable taste. You want it to taste like coffee, what you expect coffee to taste like, but I also want it to be smooth. I I I call it truck stop coffee. You know, it's been on it's been in the pot for too long and it's been you know, it's cooking down, so it's you know, it's it's kind of kind of like cooking down a roux or doing something you know on the stove where you you've evaporated most of the moisture out and you take a swoop. It's like syrup almost, yeah. Right, you know, and you get that bitter, yeah, you know, you know, old grandpappy's yeah tonic, you know, that that twisted twinge, you know. Yeah. That's that's what I want to avoid. I I like I like good smooth coffee. I I want I want to be able to enjoy the cup, you know.

What Smooth Coffee Should Taste Like

SPEAKER_02 14:36

So and the thing that I like about this is your sincerity behind it again, because you you have you you're really knowledgeable about it and you're very passionate about it. And I think that that would help sell this product, honestly, because I think your your your push and your drive is is amazing. I mean this man drives all over the state. He comes all the way up. You live down near Springfield, right? Dayton, which is three hours, he comes all the way up here to my house in Cleveland, because I'm too lazy to go down there to his farm, which I gotta come down. I've got to come. I'd love to have you. I would love to come down and see your dogs if nothing else. But but your your process, and no, you don't really have a process behind it, but is there something about coffee that people don't know or they're it's you know they're misunderstood, they misunderstand something about coffee.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

Uh the misunderstanding, I think, you know, the first thing is it's not all coffee's bitter. You know, that's you know, some people just have that in there. I have a personal belief or a personal saying that if you've got really good coffee, you don't have to put anything in it. You know, a lot of people add a lot of cream and sugar, the flavored creamers. And when you get a good cup of coffee, it's smooth, it doesn't, you know, it doesn't bite you, you know, it it's it's easy to sip on and drink and enjoy without anything in it.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

Absolutely. Yeah, and that's a great way of defining your coffee. It is just like that. And now here on your website, and is there any place that you would like to direct people to at seminoverechers.com?

Teas And New NAWIC Partnership

SPEAKER_01 16:07

Well, the you know, the first place, you know, if you want to see our full selection, we have some teas uh that we offer, you know, and you can find that in the full catalog. Okay. That's found you know under the full catalog link there. So you've got teas well. Yep, there are some teas, loose leaf teas. So there's you know, like an apple cider roibos, there's a jasmine. I believe I shared the apple cider roibos with you. Yeah, yeah. You know, there's there's a hibiscus, there is an Earl Gray, you know, there's there's several of those there, but probably the most spectacular change we've had recently is we just entered into a collaborative partnership with a group called NAWIC, the National Association of Women in Construction. Okay. So they have a mission, you know, to help equip, train, and encourage and develop women in construction trades. Excellent. You know, so it being said, I've been a tradesman for 28 years now, and uh, so it's near and dear to my heart. My wife is a heavy equipment operator.

SPEAKER_02 17:08

Is she really? Yes, she is. Did she help you with remodeling of your house? She has. This guy's remodeled his whole house. I think it's the whole thing, isn't it? Pretty much.

SPEAKER_01 17:16

About 90 percent.

SPEAKER_02 17:17

Yeah, you should start your own TV show.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

We've we've we've heard that once or twice, but that it'd be worse than RT R2D2 and the uh the sensors. Oh, yeah, a lot of swearing in it, a lot of beeping and stuff. There's a lot of beeping. So but with Nawick, you know, we're you know, we're we've offered to present some of our coffees uh under their name or with their name associated with it. And then anybody that buys one of those bags of coffee, if it's a 12-ounce bag or a one-pound bag, whether it's ground or whole bean, whatever, that will donate a portion of the sales of that back to Nawick to help them in their mission.

SPEAKER_02 17:55

Oh, that's excellent. That's excellent, and that's a great cause. It sounds that's a great, great thing to be behind or have behind you. Now, is this something could I walk into the local coffee shop I go to and say, Hey, can you try this out and see if you want to do business with this guy? Because there's a there's a place down the street I go to. We don't go there all the time, but is that something I could do to help promote this, or is it that simple? Do you have to have some type of you have to be yourself?

Getting Into Cafes And Pricing Math

SPEAKER_01 18:18

It's a little it's a little more difficult than uh just walk in and say, Hey, you should try this, you know. Okay. I don't I mean, unless you're on you know real good terms, you know, and personal friends or something like that with the owners.

SPEAKER_02 18:28

No, really. He's a he's a paramedic. They're both paramedics, but the owners are former military and paramedics.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

Well, I mean, you could uh you know, give them my business card and say if they're interested in talking about it.

SPEAKER_02 18:40

Yeah, yeah, I'll do that.

SPEAKER_01 18:41

You know, because we're you know we're not only offering it to people at home so that they could have it, you know, because of the yeah, it's it's a little more expensive than the stuff you get at the grocery store, sure than most of the stuff there. But you know, when you do the economics, it's you know somebody that stops at one of the popular chains and gets a cup of coffee, you know, five, six, seven, eight bucks per cup. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, by the time you have three cups of their coffee, you know, three days, or unless you're a frequent flyer and you hit it two or three times a day, you know, you've already paid for that, you know.

Biggest Early Hurdle: Trust

SPEAKER_02 19:12

And so yeah, that's that's true. There's a new pla brand new coffee shop that opened nearby, and they a cafe mocha that's about this big is like seven bucks. Wow. And the girl, and when they open, I ran up there and oh, it's seven bucks, and there was they don't offer whipped cream on it. I'm like, no whipped cream for seven bucks, and I just sprinkles? No, nothing. So what was the biggest obstacle when you started?

SPEAKER_01 19:37

So far, the biggest obstacle is the trust in the buy-in from the public because there are a lot of fly by night and pop-up type of businesses, and we see things all over the internet and you know, Facebook and you know, these other places, you know, click this link, go here, do this, do that, you know, and it's just establishing improving legitimacy, you know, showing that we are a real company and we're really, you know, involved and we'd like to talk to and meet our customers and develop that relationship with you and you know and be service related, you know, make sure that you're enjoying your coffee, you know. And you know, that's probably been the thing, it's just that the public buy-in and the acknowledgement that it it is an existing company, you know, because we are pretty new.

Goals, Retirement, And Giving Back

SPEAKER_02 20:20

So do you have a goal to break out of the rat race and and hope this takes off and so it can support the two of you and your family, or is this just gonna be a side hustle? Or you are you hoping it to I mean, of course, you're probably hoping it takes off.

SPEAKER_01 20:34

Yeah, I would I would love for it to develop out as my career is getting close to the point in time where I could retire from my current position. You know, of course we have a retirement and we have some things available to us, but for this to be, you know, that additional money to live, but I I want to enter more into the uh philanthropic side of my life. Oh. You know, I I would love for this to help me help others. Oh you know, you know, whether it's you know, helping the homeless and the hungry or helping kids in basketball and foot, you know, football and sports, soccer, volleyball, you know, helping kids, you know, playing sports, because you know, playing sports throughout my entire childhood, I think helped develop me as an individual. And you know, the you know, helping the women in construction, you know, helping people build careers, because what I've been doing for the past 20 plus years, you know, is helping people get a career and develop a career and train and educate and do things. And that's that's just a part of me. So I, you know, I want to be able to continue that after I retire, but you know, maybe on a different front.

SPEAKER_02 21:39

So you're hoping to take some of the profits from this and put it towards a philanthropic cause? Absolutely. Oh, that's tremendous. Absolutely. So, where did you how did you get into the philanthropic side of things? Is this from from Theta Kai?

Roots Of Philanthropy And Service

SPEAKER_01 21:52

Theta Chai was definitely a big influence. A lot of it was also my upbringing, you know, my mom and dad. You know, I I remember we we took our first. Vacation ever. We we drove to Florida, you know, back in the day when we still did that kind of stuff. And there was there was a homeless guy sleeping on the bench down by the beach. And, you know, mom and dad, you know, they they were talking about it, trying to inform us as kids, you know, trying to educate us on, you know, the realities of it. It's not because of something he did or who he was or any, you know. Sure. He was a human being, you know, and we went promptly over to the McDonald's. Not that it was necessarily the greatest meal in the world, but you know, dad went in, you know, and he he bought the guy, you know, a couple of bags of food, you know, and he went out and he shared that with him, you know. And then, you know, of course, as kids and growing up, you know, we always volunteered for the church festival, you know, we we we helped out and we did a lot of things like that. So it's it's been a part of my life.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

That's beautiful. I had no idea that that was part of your life. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

But you know, Theta Kai was was a big proponent of that too, in the philanthropy there.

SPEAKER_02 22:51

So and as I said in the introduction, Robert and I are members of Theta Kai fraternity. We're we're graduated by Alpha Town chapter at a high university, and we didn't meet there, but we met in Logan's down in Tip City.

SPEAKER_01 23:05

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:06

I think I think that's what it was.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

Yep. But you know, living the Theraposa career, you know. Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

What would you say is your most rewarding moment so far since you started doing this?

SPEAKER_01 23:21

I I had a a lady that was in was enjoying some of the coffee. And she she just said, you know, I usually only can drink one cup of coffee a week because it is I love coffee, but it just it just bothers me. You know, it's like, and your coffee was so smooth. I mean, I've I I'm drinking a cup of coffee every day. I really like it. You know, it was and you know, and she said she got to enjoy that coffee with her husband. Oh so it's that mutual connection. Yeah, and that's that's one of the great things about coffee.

Dream Coffee Conversations

SPEAKER_02 23:51

Oh yeah, yeah. And I keep keep saying that, I just I don't get the jitters. Yeah. When I drink the off-the-shelf stuff, I'm just like I get kind of angry. Not angry, but I get like real restless and like my make says, You're drinking too much coffee, stop. If if you could have coffee with anyone living or dead, who would it be? Man. Other than your grandfather, I guess. Yep, that the grand grandpa was right at the top of the list.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

Um I think Billy Graham. Really? Yeah. I think I I I always wanted to meet him while he was still with us. Oh wow. He's he's he was just the charismatic, very approachable, very inviting personality. You know, I think he would have been a very interesting person to sit down and just just talk about things. Him, Kirk Cameron, you know, same things. But yeah, you know, I think very, very electric personalities, very agreeable, you know, just somebody that you could just have an honest conversation with.

SPEAKER_02 24:53

Excellent. That's excellent. That's really wonderful. And what about his son? His son is still alive, isn't he? Yes, ministry, right?

SPEAKER_01 24:59

Yeah, Will Graham's still running. He does Samaridan's Purse, you know, you know, the big philanthropic organization. They do give a lot of aid, you know, all the natural disasters and do and things like that. They're pretty involved.

Five-Year Vision And Regulations

SPEAKER_02 25:10

Maybe you could work out a deal with your coffee and his ministry or something like that. And that'd be write to him and say, hey, yeah, I've got some coffee here. What do you what do you sub look down the road? What do you want this to be in five years?

SPEAKER_01 25:25

In in five years, I would uh I would definitely like to have enough rolling that if I wanted to step away from my career and fully retire, that I could do so and enable me to, like I said, to you know pursue those other avenues.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

What what's been the biggest obstacle so far when when trying to do this?

SPEAKER_01 25:48

You know, navigating some of the rules, regulations with the you know, the Ohio Department of Agriculture and the you know that I worked in restaurants and everything, so health code and everything. That's not you know, it's just licensing and you know, doing just making sure that you're not in your i's, crossing your t's, not making anybody mad. You know, but that that's probably the most difficult part so far, you know, other than like I said, uh getting that that buy-in and the recognition that you know we're real.

Closing Praise And Call To Support

SPEAKER_02 26:15

Well, it's been great having you here. I I really love your coffee. I really do. And I I'm so glad you're giving me these samples. And I'm gonna try to push it on the show. I always forget to bring the commercial in. That's why I need a producer or something. But I I just love your coffee.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

Oh, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_02 26:32

I'm glad you do. I hope this helps. I hope every little bit of promotion or exposure I can give you will help you at least sell one or two bags here and there.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

One or two bags would be one or two more people I get to meet people. Awesome.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

Well, thanks so much for being here and really good luck with your coffee. And keep in touch, let me know what uh else I can do to help you out with your branding.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

You're more than helpful here, so I appreciate you.

SPEAKER_02 26:55

Okay, awesome. Robert, thank you so much for being on the show and sharing not just your coffee, but your story. Your story is powerful. I've only known Robert for about five years, and we met long after we both graduated from college, and I gotta tell you, this is a driven man. This is a man with a vision and a focus, and he's very honest and severe and very straightforward. And I love talking to people who take something simple, something simple like a cup of coffee, and they turned it into something intentional, something personal, something crafted with care in a world of mass production and drive-through everything. There's something powerful about slowing down and actually tasting what you're drinking and knowing who's behind it. If you've been listening or watching and you're curious, and I know some of you are, you can check out Robert's Coffee at seminovaacres.com. And while you're at it, go support some of your local businesses. Let's fight this corporatocracy that's out there taking over everything. Support craftsmanship. Maybe tomorrow morning instead of rushing through your day, you sit with a cup of Seminova Acres coffee, something that actually means something. Robert, thanks again for being here. And to everyone watching and listening, this has been PT Pop on a Mind of Revolution. Asta La Vista, baby.