I met Geetu Vailoor, owner of Union Coffee in Seattle, just a few weeks before the coronavirus would change all of our lives. 

We talked a lot about employment - things employers do to support others, things they do to hurt their staff, and we were incredibly in alignment with a lot of ideas. Like, if this person were to be my boss, I feel like they’d...get it. I left that conversation feeling very aligned with Geetu’s values.

As you’ll hear in this episode, Geetu took over Union Coffee just days before shelter-in-place orders were put in effect in cities across the nation. So what do you do? And how do you pivot when you’ve barely had your doors open? Pivot from what, exactly?

Photo by Angie Garza