If we haven’t met Miracle Clark-Yoder, we haven’t met a funny, dynamic, womanlike side of Charlotte’s Not Just Coffee empire, that has widespread given 2011 from a plcae during 7th Street Public Market, to Atherton Mill, to Packard Place and, soon, to Dilworth Crossing and a common space with Tabor and SOCO Gallery on Providence Road.
She is a mom of Not Just Coffee co-owner James Yoder, she is a mom of 3 children (ages 21, 13 and 10), she is a drinker of splendid immature iced almond matcha, she is complicated on a behind finish of a business, and her Instagram hoop is @mrsnotjustcoffee. Oh, and if she runs out of gas on a highway outing given she’s too bustling deliberating sacrament and politics with her mother, by god, she will travel to a nearest exit and collect adult a gas can.
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Here are 6 contribution to know about Mrs. Not Just Coffee:
(1) She got her name from a midwife.
Her parents, partial of a hippie generation, left their jobs and went down to Mexico as partial nomads, partial humanitarians. The midwife who delivered Miracle during their home in Mexico for $20 named her Miracle of a Dawn, or “Milagro de la Alba.” She weighed 11 pounds and her mom had gestational diabetes, so a midwife pronounced a complication-free birth was a miracle.
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(2) She has trafficked and lived around a world.
Miracle met James in Beaufort, S.C., when she was about 25 and he was 20. They were alone on camping trips and she was a singular mom, with her child Destiny. They got to articulate around a campfire one night, and their attribute developed from there. They have given lived together in a U.S., Ghana, Romania and Italy doing several nonprofit work and other jobs.
Now, Miracle, 42, said, “Charlotte is home to me. It’s a place I’ve lived a longest, all my life, and that’s usually been 8 years.”
(3) She has a grade in occupational therapy.
Miracle went to propagandize around Boston and worked in a medical margin when she initial got to Charlotte in 2009.
“James indeed worked another pursuit too and Not Just Coffee was some-more of a passion project,” she said.
(4) Before Not Just Coffee, Miracle had her possess coffee ritual.
“In Romania, we arrange of started descending in adore with my possess protocol of coffee given life was very, really elementary there,” pronounced Miracle, who by afterwards was a mom of two.
They didn’t have a coffee builder in their apartment, so she would boil her H2O on a stove, supplement a coffee, let a drift boyant to a bottom.
“It was good adequate for me and it was my thing that we started doing for myself before my youngest got up,” she said. “Being a mom is tough and we have to find those tiny moments that are like ‘you’ moments.”
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(5) She personally likes using a “reg.”
The register during a coffee counter, that is. Miracle and James chose to live and work in Charlotte in 2009, given they have family in a Carolinas and Charlotte was growing. They non-stop Not Just Coffee in 2011.
While she has taken classes with Counter Culture so she can be associating about a process, we won’t see Miracle slinging coffee. But she will work a register if one of a locations is brief on workers.
“I like those times, secretly, given we get to correlate with customers,” she said.
(6) She is deliberate a fortitude of Not Just Coffee
About 3 years ago she got deeper into a business behind a scenes with tellurian resources and accounting tasks. When they non-stop a Packard Place plcae of Not Just Coffee, she left her occupational therapy work to concentration entirely on a behind finish of a business, while James continues to work some-more as a “face.”
But they make decisions together and now have a event to confirm what’s next. Do they go a roasting track with coffee, or do they continue to concentration on opening cafes?
“This is working,” Miracle said. “So where do we wish to take it?”
Photo: Destiny Clark