Karma Young stays busy working a corporate job, managing AirBnB properties, teaching pole dancing lessons in the aerial community, and running the baby she has parked in front of Shuffle in Tampa Heights. BrewKini’s Coffee Co, is a bright and bubbly coffee trailer specializing in Spaddy’s bean coffee drinks, tropical refreshers with naturally-derived lotus energy, and warm hospitality that she hopes will change guests’ days.
After achieving success in her corporate career (which she still deftly balances), purchasing her own home, and building financial stability, Young wanted more.
“I had kind of already done the other things in life. I bought myself a house, I bought myself a car, I’m single,” Young told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “I needed to channel my time, energy, and attention into something that directly benefits me.”
After meditating on what she wanted to do, she chose coffee, a seemingly natural medium for her personality. She also wanted to make a difference in people’s day with her warm hospitality and knack for good conversation.
“I have a very bright, bubbly energy,” Young told CL. “People love to receive that energy from me and I can see the impact and the difference that it makes on them in their day.”
So, Young found a turnkey coffee trailer on Facebook Marketplace in Sarasota (formerly “Cool Beans”) being sold by a mother moving to Hawaii. She was still sitting on the idea then, a bit wary of the challenge ahead.
Then one day, while chatting about her business idea for the coffee trailer with a friend who is a successful business owner himself, he asked her: “So, why haven’t you done it yet?” She thought about it, and within a week of that conversation, created her LLC and quickly moved on the purchase of the coffee trailer.
After searching for a spot to host the mobile coffee shop, Young met Danielle O’Connor and Jennifer Evanchyk, the owners of Shuffle who were eager to have her on property.
“They wanted to support another woman-owned business in the community,” Young said. “So we made an arrangement that benefits us both: BrewKini’s is helping people discover Shuffle, while Shuffle’s community is getting to discover BrewKini’s.”
Young’s journey is not without conflict, though. One of her side hustles, being a pole dance instructor, recently affected her business as Meta’s AI bots flagged her personal pole dancing tutorial page and erroneously disabled both her long-held personal and business accounts, erasing a digital record dating back to her childhood and the day-one origin of BrewKini’s Coffee Co..
“Meta’s AI bot scanners flagged my content, even though I was wearing a workout outfit that you’d see at Crunch. They took my posts out of context and completely removed my accounts, including BrewKini’s,” Young said.
Now, she’s working with a lawyer, sending a demand letter to Meta to put a human on the case as this loss is monetarily affecting her businesses and personal brand. In the meantime, Young is asking anyone who has visited and enjoyed BrewKini’s to leave a Google or Yelp review, or follow BrewKini’s on TikTok at @brewkinisco.
And, she’d love it if the community came out for the trailers one year anniversary party, showcasing 20 local, women-owned businesses taking over the Shuffle grounds mid-November. There will be free morning workouts (yoga, pilates, Booty Babes—signup is on Eventbrite), unique vendors (Better Off Read blind book wraps, permanent jewelry, fine-line henna), a live DJ, games, plus food and a full bar served up by Shuffle.
“It’ll just be a really fun day of celebrating the women that make an impact in the community,” Young said.
There’s no cover for the BrewKini first anniversary party on Sunday, Nov. 15, happening 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Tampa Shuffle.
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This article appears in Nov. 12 – 18, 2026.
