She also launched the first coffee-focused podcast in Brazil and the first coffee-focused bilingual podcast in the world: COFFEA. Based in Brazil, she loves telling stories about the largest coffee-producing country in the world and giving a voice to the anonymous people behind the scenes in the industry. In 2017, Kelly Stein was one of Sprudge’s coffee journalism award finalists, and in less than six months on air, COFFEA was awarded the third-place prize in the radio category of Journalism Award Cafés Brasil.