A Dare to Dream


Dream|a|Latte is our adventure of starting a coffee shop. You’ve seen our journey throughout the ups and downs, tracking the excitement and progress. But as we’ve said before, it’s definitely not for everyone. It can easily and often be romanticized through the “reaching your dreams” feels, making scrumptious coffees, all on lovely filters and often through the scope of social media. But there is also the...

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Happy Birthday Pop!! In honor of his birthday, we’re continuing this years theme with a mini-interview to get to know him a little more and see his perspective in starting SONDER Coffee. Pop- on starting a coffee shop We learned that Ernest is a man of few words, but Pop is actually even more so! This guy is totally mellow, zen, chill, but really hard working and ambitious. He owns/runs/works at two thai restaurants with his...

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Happy birthday Ernest! We’re so thankful you guys have been following along in our process of starting a coffee shop. You’ve gotten to see A LOT of things through my eyes this past year, but you haven’t really gotten to know Ernest (or Pop!). So in today’s celebration of his birthday, we decided to do a little interview so you can get to know him a little better. Ernest– on starting a coffee shop A few...

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Starting a coffee shop, or most businesses, is not for the fainthearted. In fact, it was just yesterday where a stressful whirlwind was occurring of things that needed to get done all. at. once. Even Ernest remarked, “I can see how this is not for everyone.” And he’s the level-headed entrepreneur out of us. And maybe it’s just that starting a coffee shop can be so easily romanticized. After all, you’re...

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The Power of the Process The purpose of time in starting a coffee shop  There are some business ventures and entrepreneurs that are able to jump into given opportunities, where for whatever reason time doesn’t have to be a lengthly variable. Even we had the chance to own a coffee shop where if we said yes, it would’ve been ours in a week! But one thing I’m learning is that in our story, time is a necessity and over...

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The weird overlap between lists and life. A point-in-process reflection (aka. word vomit on this coffee shop journey): One year ago, we had no idea what we were getting into. Among other things, we wanted to bring speciality coffee into a suburb community and thus set out to start our own coffee shop. I started Dream|a|Latte for a few reasons, and one was to document this process. There are countless coffee shops out there,...

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