Sometimes your lowest moment becomes the foundation for your greatest calling.

After losing her mother, Jessica Taylor rebuilt her life through faith, purpose, and entrepreneurship, leading her to launch a coffee company that landed in Target within months.

This is a powerful conversation on grief, reinvention, and building something bigger than yourself.

Chapters

0:32 Jessica Taylor, founder of Ezra Coffee

2:05 Losing her mother

8:20 Leaving corporate America & starting a coffee company

9:46 Getting into Target just 2 months after launch

11:60 The origin of the name "Ezra"

13:20 The nonprofit & scholarship program

17:02 Hardest part of running a mission-driven company

18:57 Staying broad vs. being too culturally niche

21:28 Hardest part of entrepreneurship (being on camera)

22:29 Impact of tariffs on the business

28:32 Bootstrapping — no outside capital raised

30:59 What's next — brick & mortar, K-Cups, second chance employment

33:03 Lightning round — content, books, morning routines

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