Sara Gutierrez grew up on her family’s coffee farm in the lush, misty mountains of Buena Vista, Colombia. She’s the fifth generation to walk those rows, pick those cherries, and live by the rhythms of the land. But times were changing. Coffee prices were falling, and the traditional way of doing things wasn’t working like it used to. Her father — a proud, stubborn man rooted in the old ways — believed the solution was to double down. Cut costs. Stay the course. Play it safe.

But Sara saw something else. She believed the farm could produce world-class specialty coffee. Coffee that would be cupped, celebrated, and sipped around the world. Coffee that would demand better prices — and tell a better story.

But chasing that vision meant changing everything. And it meant standing up to the person she respected most - her father.