Jaymie Lao

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Breezy.

These services (especially today’s!), are nice reminders of how essential trust is in hospitality. With trust, there can be silliness. With silliness there can be joy. Small, meaningful bits of joy.

📷: jonizzle + peitience 2025-05-25 10:22:19 Breezy. These servi.. 397 +82% 12 -51%
“Seeking a hard reset, I’m hopeful after taking this break I can carve a new path for myself that will allow me to thrive on my own terms, as well as serve a community beyond the one that I’ve already been cultivating […]” -Jaymie Lao, 2022

I wrote this three years ago on an old IG post. It’s good to hold one’s self accountable, to review old goals and see how far I’ve come, and what still could be.

Not out of humility but genuine bewilderment, I was surprised to learn last Thursday that I was a recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award in the 16th Annual Sprudgie Awards. (For my non-coffee friends, this is a distinction in our industry!) I don’t do what I do to receive kudos nor require an award to understand the impact of the work I try to do, but I would be lying if I said it wasn’t validating in some ways. 

Thank you again to those of you who felt compelled to nominate me. Simply knowing I crossed your mind in a positive way gives me joy and if I knew who you were I would not be surprised if you cross my mind similarly and frequently! Thank you to my spouse mpcallahan_ whose support fuels me even in the heaviest of times, without whom I would not be able to pursue my goals freely. 

Thank you sprudge and baristaseries for taking the time year after year to recognize all the finalists and winners of Sprudgies. The reverberations of ‘seeing’ people are powerful and can truly propel people forward when we least expect it. A reminder to all to take the time to appreciate those around you, no matter the magnitude of impact. 

And lastly, an affirmation that emerged from this news for me: the resources you need to grow may not always come from an established business, no matter how much they may seemingly throw at you. At the same time, you cannot be the best version of yourself alone. If we can lean on and learn from one another, we might just be fine.

📸: almondnoon 2025-04-22 00:16:33 .. 362 +66% 37 +50%
Congratulations to flaless and the bebrightcoffee team this weekend! Frank La is my and YOUR 2024 US Barista Champ. 🏆 Bringing it back to LA, baby!🌴 

I’m immensely grateful to have worked together with you and the team as your coach. The dedication of all involved was a sight to behold. michellelosangeles gnoh_mas taewank1m justinnoch punaniprincess69 and many other amazing folks make up Frank’s support system. I miss great teams. 

Shoutout to all the LA friends&fam and past champs who shared their time and energy with us as he practiced the past few months veronicapearl_ ericjgrimm michellethaghost civilcoffee lydia.albarico yoitsmarilei fourclicksoffzero minicooplion moimcoffeela whatsherrydid_ sellybean_13 pamvizzle noahmccutie obykinobi halfcoat tonx ahoy_maity helloitsdavid bdserna isaiahsheese 1shot4theroad charlesbabinski kyle_rampage re_phill juliewolfson greenwaybarista taaliavess bigbadunakim thenoontime mpcallahan_ jamesklapp and a few others whose handles I don’t have at 5am. He’s going to Worlds! 🇰🇷 2024-03-18 18:02:51 Congr.. 432 +98% 20 -19%
This time last week we were gearing up for the F&F service for Wilson’s, 3sixteen’s 4-week cafe popup in their NYC store. What a week it has been!

Thank you to all the old friends I got to see when I was in NYC. I’ve missed you so. 

Thank you to everyone involved in bringing Wilson’s to reality w/ special shouts to my coffee pros elisha_griffn keatonviolet manniemendez elliottfoos 💞

And thank you to andrew3sixteen and johan3sixteen for involving me in this project and trusting the process. Happy 20 years, you two. To 20 more! 💕🎉 2023-09-23 01:56:48 This tim.. 285 +31% 15 -39%
This morning we said goodbye to our gentle boy, Wrathbone.

If you spent any time with Wrath or pet him or even so much as thought a nice thing about him over the course of his 10 years with us, we send our gratitude to you. Thank you for showing our Wrathbabe love.

In the summer of 2020, we brought him to the vet because we were concerned with his persistent lack of appetite. That visit turned into multiple emergency room visits, and he was ultimately diagnosed with Dilated Cardiomyopathy (common in large breeds) due to an enlarged heart. This resulted in right sided congestive heart failure and fluid collecting in his abdomen. Thankfully they were able to drain that fluid, but the vet gave us a 4 month life expectancy for him and a handful of medications that he would have to take for the rest of his life. Multiple times we were asked during the draining procedure if we wanted to proceed to save his life, and we’d ask back if he was in pain or if he would be in pain if he continued to live. The choices we’ve made from that point on were to make sure he was comfortable and had the best possible last days.

It’s 2023 and his last days turned into 3+ years of bonus time, time we never thought we’d get with him during that horrifying summer. These years have overlapped with so many life changes, but through it all he embodied the best dog I could have asked for. Thank you for sharing your life with us. We love you and miss you so fucking much. You deserve peace and rest from this world.

Friends- if you have any photos of him or stories (not necessarily Stories!) you can share with me and Mike, we would really appreciate if you could send em to us during this time as we collect all our memories and find ways to preserve his memory respectfully. 2023-07-31 04:52:51 This morning we s.. 338 +55% 125 +406%
Today is the one year anniversary of the beginning of my rest. 

February 1, 2022 was my first day unemployed in what felt like forever. To be honest, it was a pretty confusing day. Only a few hours in, there was discomfort and tenderness in slowing down. I anticipated these feelings, but that didn't make it a less challenging experience. Thankfully, with grace+unlearning+loved ones to help along the way, the tenderness subsides. 

During that first week, a wise person told me to give myself more time than I think I needed to res(e)t, and that’s exactly what I've done and continue to do. This past year has been a multitude of blessings, ones I wish I could recount in great detail for you all, but IG isn't a great space for that. What I'll share is my gratitude to everyone who intentionally set time aside to be with me, to engage with me, to collaborate with me, to trust in me, and to be honest with me. I've had a lot of special moments in 2022 and onward because of you that I'll never forget. Thank you all.

How incredibly fortunate to have this space to reflect and sometimes gallivant, and that is due to only one: the rock that is my spouse mpcallahan_ . He is the one who sees me fully and grounds me on a foundation we've set together, removing any fear or doubt in my mind that I might not be (doing) enough. The time we've spent together this past year has felt immeasurable, and yet not nearly enough. I've cherished this time. It has been one of the most loving and supportive periods in my life. 

Anyhoo, I truly look forward to the year ahead, friends. As mysterious as it might be (to you AND me!), I know it'll be filled with epic hangs, collaborations, and joy. A lot of fuckin’ joy.

What a privilege it is to take this much time off. I wish this for all of us. I wish this to be the bare minimum in this life, amongst other things. Take care everyone. Holler to hang, or if you need anything 💜

📷: caraelisetaylorr 💓💓💓
#cinestill400d #35mm 2023-02-02 05:56:46 Today .. 368 +69% 45 +82%
rituals ☕️🪐
#35mm #pointandshoot #thisiscoffeeflavor 2022-11-07 12:50:32 rituals ☕️🪐 #35mm .. 130 -40% 5 -80%
wrathboy #pointandshoot #35mm #yashicat4super 2022-10-28 12:30:09 wrathboy #pointandshoot #.. 83 -62% 4 -84%
Happiest of birthdays to the person I get to share the best days with. mpcallahan_ 💕 #pointandshoot #35mm #yashicat4super #IGcroppingSUCKS 2022-07-30 06:38:50 Happiest of birthdays .. 223 +2% 15 -39%
Ashley Rodriguez (bossbaristapodcast) was kind enough to have me as a guest on Boss Barista Podcast! While I thought we would broadly chat about hospitality and experiences in a cafe, we unexpectedly talked about MY own experiences throughout the years and the role I played at gget before I parted ways. I am a sentimental fool, so this type of convo is supremely my shit.

I don’t have anything to promote really except perhaps the folks on the last slide. alexismarenas and helloitsdavid are two amazing humans who I miss working with, who are continuing the work I enjoyed doing with others, and who I wish to see succeed (amongst many others!).

Thank you again Ashley for including me 🥰 

Link in bio for those interested in listening/reading!

Slide 1: 📷 by cburt 💕
Slide 4: 📷 #pointandshoot #35mm #yashicat4super 2022-04-13 10:31:12 Ashley Rodr.. 291 +34% 16 -35%
[insert Jungle Cruise joke here]

#pointandshoot #35mm #yashicat4super 2022-04-11 23:35:46 [insert Jungle Cruise jok.. 93 -57% 8 -68%
Fact: 3 is in my top 3 numbers of all time. (17 & 23 are the others.)

Always appreciate being included, 3sixteen! Read at your leisure on their website 💕🏝 2022-03-30 07:56:10 Fact: 3 is in my to.. 291 +34% 33 +33%
Yesterday was my last day ggetla the best place I’ve ever worked. Today begins my month-long hiatus from all things work. 

I've accomplished a great deal during my near 9 years of working for GGET. From leaving my stable position at Intelli in 2013 to work at G&B+GGET way before the famed NYT article was published, to managing our first few stores and then eventually becoming GGET’s Director of Cafe Experience. I've helped open ten stores, I've faced the highest highs executing the style of service the company has become known for, and the lowest lows that any startup has probably encountered. I’ve witnessed so many wonderful, hardworking humans blossom, and while that has all to do with them and only some sliver a part of it to do with me, I see positively impacting folks as a duty and a win, always. I am truly proud of the work I've done.

I hardly ever have opportunity to talk about my own experiences with anyone outside my GGET community, so perhaps for some of you this is news. This has been the last almost decade of my life, which I have blissfully spent much of providing support and advocating for the excellent people I work with. I won’t go without advocating for myself in this moment, so you're getting this GGET history lite.

Were it not for the guidance and mentorship of the G (glanvillain) and the B (charlesbabinski), I would not be able to fully unlock who I am. I chuckle at all the coffee bros who wish they could have worked with them and all I have to say to y’all is: welp. Kyle Glanville and Charles Babinski are and continue to be the two best people I know to work for, and they inspired me well before I even worked in the same company, before anyone was willing to give inexperienced me a chance. 

The last three years of being alive during a pandemic have been brutal for many, and I have not been invulnerable to it. I count myself lucky to have continued working, and GGET has been a refuge to me and many others. Seeking a hard reset, I'm hopeful after taking this break I can carve a new path for myself that will allow me to thrive on my own terms, as well as serve a community beyond the one that I've already been cultivating at GGET. 

[1/2] 2022-02-02 02:17:14 Yesterday was m.. 458 +110% 157 +535%
We saw my family for the first time since the pandemic started. My heart is full. All vaxxed and I couldn’t be more relieved. 💗

📷 by my achi, and one of my favorite moms 2021-05-10 08:37:42 We saw my family .. 173 -21% 16 -35%
#tbt oxen, 2018.  #lunarnewyear #yearoftheox 🐂🐂 2021-02-12 10:27:12 #tbt oxen, 2018. #.. 218 +0% 11 -56%
happy birthday dear friend slinkyzim 💕 celebrating you today in my thoughts, looking forward to the day we can celebrate sans restriction 2021-02-09 01:12:54 happy birthday dear fr.. 142 -35% 9 -64%
#tbt june 2020 #pointandshoot #35mm #yashicat4super 2020-12-04 13:01:32 #tbt june 2020 #pointands.. 89 -59% 2 -92%
I’ll miss this family with every fiber of my being. I’m looking forward to the next time I can see them again, in person, hug them and not worry about being too close. I love you all so freaking much.

I’ll miss Charles intensely. He never needed to do much to make me feel comfortable in my own skin except exist. I don’t know what the past 10 years would have been like if we had never met and I’d honestly rather not think about it. The best parts of who I am at work and who I get to be for those around me were amplified by him, and for that I cannot thank him enough. He will never take credit for any of it, which is both infuriating and endearing, but I leave the credit public and for you all to see. I envy Massachusetts being his next destination... you all should be so lucky.

Thank you for being a mentor to me and thank you for your unwavering friendship. I feel lost without you sometimes, but that’s probably a good thing to realize and face. I cherish our time together and will be sure to never take for granted the moments I can share with you, Natalie, and Odessa in the future. Safe travels, loved ones.

First 📸 by the talented odessa_lena 
Second 📸 by my one mpcallahan_
#autoboy3 2020-08-31 18:51:23 I’ll mi.. 221 +1% 19 -23%
All of my favorite memories of Go Get Em Tiger in the Arts District involved cooking, together, and just being around kind, beautiful humans. I’ve always been certain of how important the people who work in a cafe are to the cafe, and so while I’m sad about no longer being in that Arts District space, the store really was never defined by that and never will be. My attachment is to the humans and not the place, and sheesh are they great. Grateful for all the memories, the good and the bad. Motivated to continue to work with everyone, and find a place for everyone to be together, again. 
Thanks to everyone, staff and customers, who made that place special. 2020-04-23 06:30:33 All of my favorite me.. 225 +3% 35 +42%
helloitsdavid and I in our respective natural resting states #thisiscoffeeflavor 📷: cburt 2020-02-24 07:56:24 helloitsdavid and I in.. 169 -22% 14 -43%
a barista story #tbt #pointandshoot #35mm #yashicat4super 2020-01-10 05:19:12 a barista story #tbt #poi.. 99 -55% 1 -96%
Feeling ever sentimental as ggetla’s holiday drink service on Thanksgiving approaches. I don’t care for Thanksgiving much, at least what it means historically, but I’m always pumped to see a lot of people I care about in one place. If you’re seeing this and are free this Thursday morning, I know it’s gonna rain, but I would love to see you there (it’s at Los Feliz! 💕) #pointandshoot #35mm #yashicat4super 2019-11-27 11:14:21 Feeling ev.. 155 -29% 16 -35%
Winter in Los Angeles approaches #pointandshoot #35mm #yashicat4super 2019-11-27 08:21:54 Winter in Los Angeles app.. 121 -44% 3 -88%
🌭⚾️ #pointandshoot #35mm #yashicat4super 2019-11-24 03:18:54 🌭⚾️ #pointandshoot.. 40 -82% 0 -100%
#tbt stay standing #pointandshoot #35mm #yashicat4super 2019-11-22 09:45:27 #tbt stay standing #point.. 41 -81% 0 -100%

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