Pete Leonard is a serial entrepreneur whose latest business venture pairs high-quality coffee with a mission to hire post-prison people. I Have a Bean is a coffee roasting company in Wheaton, IL that roasts high-quality coffee beans. Inspired by a personal situation, Pete decided his employees were going to be post-prison people and has set them up for success.
In our chat with Pete, he explained more about the inspiration behind I Have a Bean, the business planning that went into this, and his lessons learned along the way running multiple small businesses.