Cacao Blog / story

If you let go, your hands are free. Or something like that. In this video I show how the (spirit of) cocoa helps me to let go, to trust and to relax. It is part of a multi-part series that I created in nature with Beate (@groetsch.beate). I'm finally getting around to sharing this series with you bit by bit. This is also an exciting process of letting go for me. My last milestone in this area was, as you may have read here , my first vacation since starting the company two years ago. This showed me what it...

Vacation? Pah, I want to experience something! I want to see the world and try the craziest things and at the end jump down somewhere and then climb back up again backwards! That's roughly how my self would have expressed itself three years ago on the subject of vacation. My current self sees things a little differently. A little more relaxed. A little more thoughtful. A little more calm. And maybe even a little more conscious. I have been pursuing my cocoa mission non-stop for over two years. When I'm not drinking cocoa, I talk about it or dream about...

The last few days have been marked by fundamental rethinking for me. As Mischa of cocoa, it seems somehow obvious what I do, namely cocoa. On closer inspection, however, it becomes clear that not all cocoa is the same. In the last few weeks I have entered a spiral of sales, profits and, above all, expectations. Expectations of myself, my business, my customers and also expectations of cocoa. It came so slowly. With the new factory and the new, great cocoa, sales must also increase. Like last month, or the month before. Just a little bit! Then I'll be happy...

I would like to use this Friday blog post to express my favorite manifestation and feel-good practice: gratitude. Since my yoga course in India in 2018, gratitude has become extremely important in my life. And since then, I have taken every opportunity to express it and let people, places and beings know that I appreciate their existence. So today, here is a list of the things I am grateful for RIGHT NOW: Thank you, thank you, thank you for wonderful weather that reminds me how beautiful the world is. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the great support in...

Bright blue skies and sunshine over Eibelstadt near Würzburg. -7°C make the human, animal and plant world freeze and pause. For me and my cocoa fairy Anka, it is clear that this is not the weather for packing cocoa. We send out the urgent Valentine's Day orders and head outside. Breathe, be free, chat with strolling pensioners and just let things be. A Hawaiian mantra rings in my ears. It is not uncommon for me to stand in the cocoa factory for 7 days in a row, doing and completing things. After the seventh day at the latest, I have...