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What mistakes did you make start- Every day
ing out in your coffee career?
is different,
I wasn’t asking questions, I tried to
understand everything by myself. I was so every day
also too shy to go to public cuppings to
try coffees and talk about them. But I different things
fixed that.
inspire me:

sometimes it is
How did you start competing?
It was not my decision, my first coach a quote on the
made me do it. And now it is even hard
to say how many competitions I have radio, sometimes
participated in. Speaking of competi-
tions, I don’t know if competitive is a a song, and
good word to describe me. Competing
for me is a way to push myself to learn, sometimes
to research, that is why I do it.
people I meet.
How did you feel right after hear-
ing that you are the new barista
champion? What would you recommend to oth-
er female (and not only) baristas
To be honest, I still can’t believe it. It that want to compete?
is a huge responsibility to be the first
female Barista Champion and I don’t First of all: try without expectations,
know if I will be able to handle it, but learn from it.
will do my best. Second: try again.
Third: read the rules.
There is a huge discussion about
gender bias in coffee industry. Do If you were not in coffee industry,
you think it is fair? what would you do?

I believe that there are some things that I guess, I would work in some big cor-
need to get better, especially now. To be poration.
honest, I have never felt anything like
this on WBC stage or backstage while I How do you want to use all the at-
was competing, maybe I was too focused tention and fame you receive now?
on preparation. But I am aware that when Any plans for the future?
it comes to working there are some dif-
ferences between men and women.
First, I need to absorb this information
and think of it for a while to get used
Wh a t c h a ll eng e s di d yo u f ac e
to and then planning the future. But I
during championships? think the most important thing to do is
to go back to education of our custom-
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