The Tea Curious Podcast

Session 05: On Roasting, and Listening to the Leaves | with Noah BA from Floating Leaves Tea

What does a tea want to say? Is there something there, beyond just flavor notes, that's embedded by the teamaker, the roaster, and the place where the leaves are from? Today's guest is Noah from Floating Leaves Tea, a shop based in both Seattle, WA and Taiwan that specializes in Taiwanese teas. More than just a tea dealer, they also share a way of approaching tea that's a little more intuitive -- asking us to listen more to the leaves, and to ourselves, to find whatever joy and lessons may be in...

Session 04: The Early Days of a Pu'er Tea Specialist | with Jeffrey McIntosh of McIntosh Tea

How does a tea expert become an expert? Today's guest is Jeffrey Mcintosh, my friend and go-to source for pu'er tea information. He's a pu'er tea especialist, financial advisor, and host of a YouTube channel about pu'er sourcing and evaluation. He speaks fluent Mandarin, and has also spent most of the last decade building and consulting for business ventures in tea. It's quite the resume, but before there was tea expert Jeff, there was... just Jeff, at the beginning of a long and bumpy road to t...

Session 03: Becoming a Tea Host in a Busy, Imperfect World | with Wenting Zhang from Tea Arts & Culture

When I first approached my friend Ting to record this episode, I asked her to teach us about mindfulness. As amazing as she is as a tea host, I could have sworn she had some kind of powerful mindfulness practice to share. But as we find out during the recording, Ting, who is the founder of the non-profit tea community Tea Arts and Culture, has arrived at her beautiful tea practice in more everyday ways -- and after a lot of challenges and lessons. We hear about how she stumbled into tea in New Y...

Session 02: Finding Happiness with Tea in Argentina | with Kim Wong from Sáan Blends

Who knew tea grew in Argentina? Not us, until we met Kim Wong from, a passionate advocate for Argentine tea and the owner of Tienda de Te, a small tea shop in Villa General Belgrano in central Argentina. I think so many of us want to run a tea shop someday, and so we wanted to know how Kim, a Londoner with Hong Kong roots, found herself running a proudly Argentine tea business so far away from home. She shares the real-real here. Among them: how she maintains her business on the side while runni...

Session 01: How to Make a Creative Tea Project Happen | with Martin Bohacik from Eighty Degrees Magazine

If you want to share about tea, how do you get the hard sh*t done to actually make it happen? Faced with the prospect of a whole new podcast, that's what I wanted to learn from my friend Martin Bohacik. He's the guy behind one of the most beautiful works in the tea world, Eighty Degrees Magazine, and he single-handedly curates, arranges, and publishes each issue from his home in Portugal (he's now on Issue 10). We talk about the inspiration behind Eighty Degrees and the everyday techniques Marti...

Session 00: So, What's In This Tea Podcast Anyway?