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Hi Friends! Every year we put together a holiday gift guide to make your shopping a little easier.  Despite 2020 turning the world upside down, we were determined to find some great clutter-free options for you and the family!  Joining me today is SBO Partner, Melynda Weiland. Melynda is the founder of Order to Everything in Austin, TX. Together we scoured the internet to find a variety of gifts that won’t add to the clutter or break the bank!   We broke our gift guide down into 8 categories:  Candles Bath and Body Games Food & Beverage Workout Experiences  Personalized Gifts and my personal favorite, Gifts that Give Back Although many of these items are physical in nature, they made the list because they are something to use, wear or play-without taking up much space. In years past, experiences like concerts, sporting events and theater tickets topped the list, however given our current climate, we opted to bring the fun experiences inside our homes. Every company on our list was hand selected by either Melynda or me. We were not compensated in any way, either with product or monetary to endorse any of these (although we personally use many of them!) I encourage you to listen to the entire episode to see why each of these made the list.(Links to each company are at the bottom of the show notes.)  Quick side note, I did my best to support small online businesses, local retailers, and artisans this year rather than big box stores. As you shop this list, please consider making your purchases from your local toy stores, boutiques, and family owned businesses who are struggling to stay afloat during our economic shut downs. xo - Laurie Connect with Melynda WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM JOIN THE ORGANIZING LAB Links Mentioned in this Episode By Category Gifts that Give Back: Heifer International: (helping third world farmers build businesses and a sustainable living) Charity Water : (bringing clean drinking water to third world countries) Compassion International: (sponsor a child in need across the world) Candles: Homesick: (state scented candles; home, self-care) Light & Bark Candle Co (formerly the Dog Candle Company) Bath & Body: Dermstore (him, her, self-care) Briogio hair : (woman owned, multi-racial self-care) Carols Daughter:  (Love the butter body balm)  Milk + Honey: (milk bath, body oils, aromatherapy, all organic and great packaging!) Games: Bananagrams (my family’s personal favorite!) Relative Insanity (created by Jeff Foxworthy and played on Jimmy Fallon), Scratch art box of rainbow mini notes (melissa & doug) Food/Bev: Wine tasting set: Wine.com (him, her) Nakedwines.com: (good on budget, also has a fun quiz!) Truffle Hunter Gift Set: (great for the foodie!) Fire Dept Coffee: (supporting firefighters) Grounds & Hounds Coffee: (every cup helps a pup!) Mistobox.com: (Personalized coffee subscription box) Bluebottlecoffee.com (Coffee subscription box with fun packaging!) Goldbelly.com – (bring some comforts of home to wherever you are!) Williamsonoma.com (luxury charcuterie boards and more!) Workout: Lululemon Yoga Mat: (for all of your home workouts! I have one and love it!) Experiences/Subscriptions: Audible: (for the reader who likes to listen to books) Patreon: (support your favorite podcasters) Craftsy: (for the crafter in your life) Spafinder.com: spa services in your local area Peloton App Subscription:  (Choose from hundreds of classes-you don’t need the bike to get the workout app!) Personalized Gifts: Shutterfly.com: (custom photo books, calendars and keepsakes) Mixbook.com: (photo books, calendars, fun designs, fully customizable) Legacybox.com (photo and media transfer service-one of Melynda’s Favorites!) Create my Cookbook: Homemade Family Recipe book Zazzle: Homemade Custom Family Recipe book (I made one here!) Other Promo Codes Exclusive For The TOL Community! STREAMLINE YOUR INBOX WITH INBOXDONE | 10% OFF YOUR COLOR GURU WITH CODE “ORGANIZEDLIFE” Please support us! SUBSCRIBE to TOL to have new episodes downloaded each week! Struggling with Clutter?  Click HERE to take our FREE clutter quiz! Stop feeling like a Hot Mess! Now is the time to reclaim time, find freedom, and feel empowered from the “stuff” that is holding you back. Available on amazon, barnes & noble or wherever books are sold. Connect with Me WEBSITE | FB | IG | PINTEREST

MistoBox has teamed up with Ballotpedia, a nonpartisan online encyclopedia of American politics and elections to create the Ballotpedia Coffee Club. The MistoBox and Ballotpedia partnership delivers freshly roasted specialty coffee from the country's best roasters to subscribers' doors, along with important political information to your inbox. This episode interviews with Rhiannon Cook, Head of Growth at MistoBox as well as Kayla Harris, Senior Communications Associate at Ballotpedia Coffee Club. It's an election year and it's more important than ever to be informed, but MistoBox understands that there is an overwhelming amount of information, opinions, and data to absorb and it's delivered from countless sources. Just as no two coffee drinkers are alike, political views vary, so it is important to present our subscribers with unbiased information that people feel empowered by. Ballotpedia provides objective information about local, state, and federal politics and policies. Its content includes trustworthy information, covering government officials and the offices they hold, political issues and public policy, elections, and candidates.

Today we are continuing our talk with John Kelsey on the things necessary to develope multiple generations of intentional disciple makers.  You can see his entire post below. Today, we will be focusing on the last 3 points. And, by the way, you need to rely a lot more on the Holy Spirit than you do right now. JOHN’S POST I really thought that I had a robust understanding of intentional disciplemaking. You can't spend 26 years around Max and Sandra Barnett as a student and staff member without growing exponentially! I could not be more thankful for being a part of their legacy! At the same time, I am just beginning to realize the vast depth of developing generations of intentional disciplemakers. Two environments over the last few years are shaping my thinking: 1. Developing generations of disciplemakers in the local church, particularly one focused on serving the poor and disenfranchised. 2. Developing generations of disciplemakers in a diverse professional demographic that includes the technical trades, military, law, engineers, and graduate students. These two environments have led me to several conclusions: 1. Developing generations of disciplemakers to be fruitful over the long haul is much more difficult, and takes longer, than I understood it to be. There are no shortcuts to developing lifetime laborers for the Kingdom. You need to know what you're doing and not give up. You also need to rely a lot more on the Holy Spirit than you do right now. 2. Developing generations of disciplemakers to be fruitful over the long haul requires a greater degree of varied community input than I understood it to be. Tribalism and the inability to connect disciples to a larger movement are enemies to developing lifetime laborers for the Kingdom. You need to help people contextualize the Great Commission in a much broader community. You also need to rely a lot more on the Holy Spirit than you do right now. There's a lot more that I'm chewing on, but I don't have enough coffee to keep writing. ***UPDATED*** 4.23.18 Well, I've made another pot of Ethiopian Jimma. Time to keep going! 3. Developing generations of disciplemakers to be fruitful over the long haul requires a regular re-examination of ministry tools. We are in ministry information overload in this country right now. For those of us in full-time ministry, there is a combination of boredom with doing the same thing over and over and pressure to create something new to offer the Kingdom. The vast majority of lifetime laborers do not make their living from the Gospel. They need simple, consistent ministry tools that they have had time to master in multiple contexts. Those of us leading disciplemaking ministries must offer ongoing 'technical support' for these ministry tools instead of focusing on the latest book or illustration. You also need to rely a lot more on the Holy Spirit than your favorite ministry tools. 4. Developing generations of disciplemakers to be fruitful over the long haul requires a much greater commitment on my part than I understood it to be. The temptation is to focus on creating communities with powerful disciplemaking momentum. However, as much as we need these communities to reinforce biblical principles, we cannot effectively develop lifetime laborers for the Kingdom apart from one-on-one training. Those of us leading disciplemaking ministries must model the process and outcomes we want to see in the individual. You also need to rely a lot more on the Holy Spirit than your ability to do one-on-one. No kidding, I drank all of my coffee. I'll write more later. ***UPDATED*** 5.3.18 My next shipment from MistoBox has arrived. Thanks Jen for the Christmas present! This El Salvador Talmanica is fantastic! 5. Developing generations of disciplemakers to be fruitful over the long haul requires a much stronger commitment to prayer than I ever imagined. I always believed in prayer,

A while back, I was on Facebook and saw a really well thought out post from John Kelsey on the struggles and challenges of developing multiple generations of intentional disciple makers. It was so good, I invited John on the podcast to flesh out his points a little more.  You can see his entire post below.  JOHN’S POST I really thought that I had a robust understanding of intentional disciplemaking. You can't spend 26 years around Max and Sandra Barnett as a student and staff member without growing exponentially! I could not be more thankful for being a part of their legacy! At the same time, I am just beginning to realize the vast depth of developing generations of intentional disciplemakers. Two environments over the last few years are shaping my thinking: 1. Developing generations of disciplemakers in the local church, particularly one focused on serving the poor and disenfranchised. 2. Developing generations of disciplemakers in a diverse professional demographic that includes the technical trades, military, law, engineers, and graduate students. These two environments have led me to several conclusions: 1. Developing generations of disciplemakers to be fruitful over the long haul is much more difficult, and takes longer, than I understood it to be. There are no shortcuts to developing lifetime laborers for the Kingdom. You need to know what you're doing and not give up. You also need to rely a lot more on the Holy Spirit than you do right now. 2. Developing generations of disciplemakers to be fruitful over the long haul requires a greater degree of varied community input than I understood it to be. Tribalism and the inability to connect disciples to a larger movement are enemies to developing lifetime laborers for the Kingdom. You need to help people contextualize the Great Commission in a much broader community. You also need to rely a lot more on the Holy Spirit than you do right now. There's a lot more that I'm chewing on, but I don't have enough coffee to keep writing. ***UPDATED*** 4.23.18 Well, I've made another pot of Ethiopian Jimma. Time to keep going! 3. Developing generations of disciplemakers to be fruitful over the long haul requires a regular re-examination of ministry tools. We are in ministry information overload in this country right now. For those of us in full-time ministry, there is a combination of boredom with doing the same thing over and over and pressure to create something new to offer the Kingdom. The vast majority of lifetime laborers do not make their living from the Gospel. They need simple, consistent ministry tools that they have had time to master in multiple contexts. Those of us leading disciplemaking ministries must offer ongoing 'technical support' for these ministry tools instead of focusing on the latest book or illustration. You also need to rely a lot more on the Holy Spirit than your favorite ministry tools. 4. Developing generations of disciplemakers to be fruitful over the long haul requires a much greater commitment on my part than I understood it to be. The temptation is to focus on creating communities with powerful disciplemaking momentum. However, as much as we need these communities to reinforce biblical principles, we cannot effectively develop lifetime laborers for the Kingdom apart from one-on-one training. Those of us leading disciplemaking ministries must model the process and outcomes we want to see in the individual. You also need to rely a lot more on the Holy Spirit than your ability to do one-on-one. No kidding, I drank all of my coffee. I'll write more later. ***UPDATED*** 5.3.18 My next shipment from MistoBox has arrived. Thanks Jen for the Christmas present! This El Salvador Talmanica is fantastic! 5. Developing generations of disciplemakers to be fruitful over the long haul requires a much stronger commitment to prayer than I ever imagined. I always believed in prayer,

Samantha Meis started MistoBox, a coffee subscription business, while still in college. They launched in 2012 with a Kickstarter project, appeared on Shark Tank, made a deal with Mark Cuban and have gone on to generate over $2.7M in sales last year. In this episode you will learn: How they came up with the idea for MistoBox and how they got things off the ground  [01:40] How they launched a Kickstarter project for their business [03:10] How they got their first 100 customers [04:10] How they advertised and promoted their Kickstarter program [05:09] What their experience was like with Shark Tank and how it’s worked with signing up Mark Cuban [05:52] How they were able to leverage the traffic brought by Shark Tank [09:49] What were their next steps after Shark Tank [10:27] How they got customer feedback and implemented changes to their product [13:31] What were the things they did really well and the things they had to overcome to raise their revenue [16:22] How they continued to drive new sign-ups [19:01] What they did to reach out to press outlets and get featured [21:31] How they were able to build their email list [22:33] How they provide value and put offers in front of people [24:18] How they figured out what the best pricing was for their product [26:18] Key Takeaways: When it comes to product-based businesses, a Kickstarter pre-order model could work well for you. The longer a customer stays around and is a part of your customer base, the faster your base is going to grow. When it comes to making your product so good that people want to talk about it, it all comes down to expectations. Action Steps: Look at the behavior of customers instead of what they say they want. Always tap into the customer experience by talking to and surveying your customers. Make your product so good that people want to talk about it and tell their friends. Set realistic expectations for your customers and then overperform. Find your story, the one that tells how your company is unique, and then reach out to high-impact and aligned press outlets. Hire the right people - people that are self-motivated, that can stay on track without needing a significant amount of oversight, and that can function socially without being around people 24/7. Samantha says: “Do whatever you can to make a compelling case for your business.” “As a subscription business, retention is a function of growth.” More from Samantha Meis: Samantha’s Website Samantha’s Twitter Samantha’s Instagram MistoBox Resources mentioned: DojoMojo Harvard Business Review Slack Asana Sponsor link 14-day Free Trial to LeadQuizzes Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to this podcast! And don’t forget to leave me a rating and a review on iTunes!

Samantha Meis joins the podcast this week to talk about MistoBox, entrepreneurship, and the perfect cup of coffee. Samantha is the co-founder of MistoBox and talks on the podcast about how she and Connor Riley created the company from the ground up. What started as a school project has turned into a thriving business.  MistoBox has been featured on the show Shark Tank and was successfully got an investment from Mark Cuban. However, it is the hard work from Meis and her staff that has turned MistoBox into a premier coffee club bringing fresh roasted coffee to people around the United States from ethical, sustainable, small roasters.    Show Sponsored by:  MistoBox Coffee Club - http://mbox.coffee/Y9FA Use Code: DIYS to save $10 on your subscription   Full Shownotes:  http://www.dirtinyourskirt.com Join the Facebook Group:  http://www.dirtinyourskirt.com/tribe Support the Show: http://www.dirtinyourskirt.com/support 

We are celebrating the finalists in the 2016 Sprudgie Awards. Notable Roaster Each year our readers nominate outstanding coffee roasters around the world for the Notable Roaster Sprudgie Award. Unlike many of the other categories, Notable Roaster nominees need not be brands or products that debuted in 2016; rather, we look to this award as a way for our readers to honor coffee roasting companies, big and small, that turned in an especially notable year of work. This year’s nominees are: Counter Culture Coffee (Durham, North Carolina)   Koppi (Helsingborg, Sweden) Colonna Coffee (Bath, United Kingdom) Market Lane Coffee (Melbourne, Australia) Populace Coffee (Detroit, Michigan) Starbucks Reserve (Seattle, Washington)  Best New Cafe Cafes are the beating heart of coffee culture, and each year we are delighted to see the cafe form grow and morph in new and exciting ways. Our readers have selected a stunning array of new cafes from around the world for this year’s Sprudgie Awards, each of which opened during the past calendar year. And the nominees are: La Marzocco Cafe at KEXP (Seattle, Washington)   La Fontaine de Belleville (Paris, France) Tartine Manufactory (San Francisco, California) Black Fox Coffee (New York City) Cat & Cloud Coffee (Santa Cruz, California) All Day MIA (Miami, Florida)  Best New Product New products drive innovation in the coffee world, for both consumers and professionals alike. Some of these products live behind the coffee bar, making your experience more delicious one cup at a time. Others are bold, public-facing products that speak directly to consumers. The nominees for Best New Product in 2016 are: La Bodega Coffee (Minneapolis, Minnesota)   Sudden Coffee (San Francisco, California) Ona Coffee Distributor (Canberra, Australia) Third Wave Water (Cedarville, Ohio) Baratza Sette Grinder (Bellevue, Washington) Handground Precision Coffee Grinder (Dallas, Texas) Best Coffee Video / Film Coffee is a multimedia platform, inspiring expression across a variety of mediums. Each year we honor an excellent coffee video or film as part of our Sprudgie Awards tradition. This year’s nominees include a feature-length film; short promotional videos; a much-discussed speech delivered at a live speaking event; a body of work across an entire YouTube channel; and a coffee-forward dramedy on Netflix. And the nominees are: The Coffee Man — Directed by Jeff Hann, produced by Roland Fraval.   Stumptown Coffee x Portland Trail Blazers — Directed by Tim Wenzel @RealChrisBaca on Youtube — Directed and produced by Chris Baca Dapper & Wise: “Too Full” — Directed by Grahm Doughty “Coffee I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down” — Talor Browne & Tamper Tantrum “Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life” — From executive producers Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino Best Coffee Writing Coffee’s relationship to the written word is ever-changing. From professional blogs with an industry focus to irreverent Twitter accounts and landmark expressions of personal experience, this year’s crop of Best Coffee Writing nominations takes all kinds. And the nominees are: Matt Perger for Barista Hustle   Scott Rao for ScottRao.com/blog Andy Newbom & Andrew Russo for Coffee Spanish For Coffee Buyers @ColdBrew420 on Twitter James Hoffmann for JimSeven.com Michelle Johnson for The Chocolate Barista: “The Black Cup of Excellence” Notable Coffee Producer Without coffee producers, there would be no coffee. Artisan growers are pushing boundaries every day by creating delicious coffees that express terroir and intent in equal measure. This year’s list of nominees includes some familiar names, plus several first-time noms, including our first-ever nominee from Burundi. Elkin Guzman for Finca El Mirador (Colombia) Aida Batlle for Aida Batlle Selection (El Salvador) Benjamin Paz for Beneficio San Vicente (Honduras) Gilberto Baraona for Finca Los Pirineos (El Salvador) Angele Ciza and Consolata Ndayishimye for Kahawa Link Company (Burundi) Jamison Savage and Leslie H. Freitag for Finca Deborah (Panama)  Best Coffee Magazine We are currently in a golden age for print coffee magazines, with gorgeous new glossies rubbing shoulders with established favorites. We predict a tough, close vote for this year’s Sprudgie Award for Best Coffee Magazine. Standart Magazine (Nitra, Slovakia) Drift (New York, NY) Barista Magazine (Portland, OR) Fresh Cup (Portland, OR) Caffeine Magazine (London, UK) Brygg (Oslo, Norway)  Nicest Package Design and packaging have never been more important to the coffee experience. Each week we feature coffee branding from around the world as part of our Nice Package feature series on Sprudge. This year we’re honoring packaging with the coveted Sprudgie Award for Nicest Package. Parlor Coffee (Brooklyn, NYC) Five Elephant (Berlin) La Cabra (Aarhus, Denmark) Playground Coffee (Hamburg) (via Dribble) Methodical Coffee (Greenville, SC) (via Packaging of the World) Square Mile Coffee (London) Best Coffee Subscription Each year the field for coffee subscription services becomes more and more crowded, making this particular field of Sprudgie Award noms increasingly essential. Only one of the nominated services can win, but each of the finalists you selected are doing exemplary work for happy subscribers worldwide. Kaffebox (Oslo, Norway)   Mistobox (Phoenix, Arizona) The Coffeevine (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Barista Hustle Superlatives (Melbourne, Australia) Collected Coffee (New York, NY) Bean Portal (Gothenburg, Sweden)  Best Coffee Podcast It’s never been a better time to be a coffee podcast lover, with long-running series and newcomers alike vying for ear time on your drive home. That’s why we added this new category to the 2016 Sprudgie Awards. For the first time, here are your nominees for Best Coffee Podcast: Cat & Cloud Coffee Podcast — Jared Truby and Chris Baca   Tamper Tantrum — Stephen Leighton and Colin Harmon, produced by Jenn Rugolo I Brew My Own Coffee — Brian Beyke and Bryan Schiele Opposites Extract — Joe Marrocco and Meister, produced by Andy Reiland Unpacking Coffee — Raymond and Kandace Brigleb Coffee Awesome —Bjørg Brend Laird Finest Coffee Event Another new category for the 2016 Sprudgies, this is an opportunity for our readers to honor unique coffee events around the world. From long-running international affairs to plucky brand new indie fairs, our first-ever field of nominees in this category run the gamut of event experiences. The first set of nominees for Finest Coffee Event are:  The 2016 SCAA Event — Produced by the Specialty Coffee Association of America The 2016 London Coffee Festival — Produced by Allegra Events The 2016 Mid-Atlantic Northeast Coffee Conference (MANE) — produced by Rik Kleinfeldt and New Harvest Coffee Roasters The 2016 Berlin Coffee Festival —Produced by Cory Andreen and The Berlin Coffee Festival The 2016 Tokyo Coffee Festival — Produced by Yuji Otsuki and the Tokyo Coffee Festival Barista Connect London — Produced by Sonja Zweidick and Barista Connect Outstanding Achievement in The Field of Excellence The most important Sprudgie Award is the hardest to define—this award is given to groups or individuals our readers seek to honor for their contribution to the wider coffee culture. Past awards have gone to remarkable coffee producers, game-changing green buyers, globe-spanning event organizers, and even an entire nation’s coffee growers. This year we’re overjoyed at the nominees you’ve selected for our Outstanding Achievement in The Field of Excellence. Your nominees are: Michelle Johnson for The Chocolate Barista   Jenn Chen for collected 2016 works Helen Russell & Brooke McDonald for Equator Coffees Laila Wilbur and Tracy Ging for The Coffeewoman Sonja Zweidick for Barista Connect Erna Knutsen for lifetime contributions to specialty coffee http://sprudge.com/vote  

In the second episode of the interview Seth Mills -- director of coffe at MistoBox will talk more about the MistoBox business model, and will also reveal how do they select coffees for their portfolio and what kind of coffee rosters they like to cooperate with. Finally Seth will answer questions you asked Coffee is Me Facebook group.

Seth Mills the coffee expert at MistoBox will talk about a very interesting business model - coffee subscription. Mistobox is one of the first coffee subscription services in USA and except the very interesting business model I was intrigued that they were launched using Kickstarter and they also were pitching in Shark Tank. As you will hear in the interview Mistobox did exceptionally well on this show. They got funded by Mark Cuban and they refused the offer by Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful. We are going to talk also about the company culture at Mistobox which I fall in love with. Did you know they do not have a central office? Actually they are scattered all over the USA and sometimes all over the world. How does this work? Well, you will have to listen to this episode of course! Ok, Enjoy!

This week we chat with the Director of Coffee for Mistobox.com Seth Mills. We talk about how he sources coffee and finds roasters for their popular coffee subscription service. We also talk about how Mistobox Coffee started as a college project that went on to launch a successful Kickstarter campaign to then airing on the popular TV show Shark Tank and receiving funding from non other than Mark Cuban.

On The Menu: Mario and Bill talk coffee.  Mario interviews Conner Riley of Misto Box coffee (www.MistoBox.com) about his unique coffee subscription service.  In the final portion of the show Mario and Mike Sackley talk coffee trivia with the callers. Listen to Just Cook It every Saturday at 9:00 AM EST on WMBS Radio 590 AM and at JustCookIt.net!  Watch the show at JustCookIt.tv!

On The Menu - Mario and Bill talk with WTAE Channel 4 News Anchor Michelle Wright about honey bees and her new honey The Wright Stuff.  Mario and Bill also talk about MistoBox ( http://www.mistobox.com ) a mail order coffee company and what is the most popular coffee. Listen to Just Cook It every Saturday at 9:00 AM EST on WMBS Radio 590 AM and at JustCookIt.net!  Watch the show atJustCookIt.tv!