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Don’t Underestimate the Power of Your Own story
What made you is also what makes you
I know it’s been said many times before but stories are so powerful. Business gets easier, more interesting and more purpose-driven when we take an interest in each other’s stories.
So let’s talk to each other more about who we are, how we got to where we are now and what we’re about… as well as the business we are trying to do.
Yesterday morning I had two hours to kill between 8am and 10am while my car was being serviced.
I walked into Grangetown (an inner city district of Cardiff, Wales, UK) and stumbled across Little Man Coffee — their storage and delivery hub (plus coffee shop, naturally) located in beautiful old stable blocks down a back street off a main road.
Apparently I was the first sit-in customer since the pandemic started. The owner said as long as I didn’t mind the (recently added) storeroom vibe I could sit upstairs and use the wifi, as many local freelancers used to do pre-March 2020.
He could have just sold me a takeaway coffee and sent me on my way but he was welcoming and took the time to tell me his story.
How they’d pivoted to supplying oat milk and sustainable toilet roll (which you can see piled up in the picture) to other local…
