Elevate Your Grind

Paula Savchenko is an associate attorney at the Law Offices of Moffa, Sutton, & Donnini, P.A, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Ms. Savchenko joined the firm in 2013 and practices primarily in the areas of Taxation and Administrative Law matters, as she counsels and represents businesses and individuals in their dealings with government agencies. More specifically, most of her work involves tax a...

Darnell Williams has not been active in the cannabis community for as long as some others, but his story has given him a very unique view. In 2015 Darnell was diagnosed with CHF (Congestive Heart failure) and within a matter of weeks, he was unable to even walk to the restroom without stopping to take a break. Over the course of 2 years, he survived the implantation of an internal/external LVAD he...

Jonathan Robbins represents public and private companies and individuals in complex regulatory and litigation matters in the financial services and regulated substances sectors. His experience encompasses investigations and administrative and enforcement proceedings brought by federal, state, and self-regulatory bodies, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Florida Attorney...

Jeremy Green is the General Counsel both at Green Point Research and the Hemp Industries Association of Florida. Jeremy graduated from both Florida State University and Florida State University College of Law with Honors and received FSU's Business Law Certificate. Jeremy has extensive experience negotiating and structuring complex business transactions, providing strategic legal advice to Senior...

Tyler leverages his extensive experience in building brands, managing key relationships, and strategic partnerships. Tyler has been at the forefront of Hypur’s expansion efforts for over five years and touches financial institutions, government officials, regulatory bodies, and the state-legal cannabis industry. As a result, he possesses an intricate knowledge of the banking and regulatory climate...

Throughout his career as a professional athlete, Ricky Williams was often criticized for his belief in the healing power of cannabis. In recent years, as plant-based medicine has become more of an integral part of our culture, Ricky is now viewed as a leading visionary in the movement toward a cannabis-based approach to wellness. Ricky is also becoming more well-known for his work as a holistic he...

Dustin Robinson is the Founding Partner of Mr. Cannabis Law– a full-service law firm exclusively focused on the hemp and marijuana industries. Dustin is licensed in Florida as an Attorney, a Certified Public Accountant, and a Real Estate Agent. He focuses his practice on providing legal, accounting, financial, and business consultation to various businesses operating in the hemp and marijuana indu...

“The New Normal” is a term that’s overused in our industry, and we won’t say by who. Unfortunately, we are currently experiencing a new normal for our country. On that note, we’ve gone 100% remote with our podcast to help contribute to flattening the curve. To keep with an industry full of puns. We interview Karen Goldstein of the OG NORML, Karen is the Executive Director of NORML of Florida (the...

Back when David and Eric Rahn got involved in the Cannabis space, there weren't too many service providers in the industry. This father and son duo so a massive need for commercial business insurance in the Cannabis space and executed on it with their company S2S Insurance. Considering the nature of their business it makes these two extremely knowledgeable about Cannabis companies in every state....

In any new venture, you're bound to make mistakes along the way. Unfortunately this mistake happened in the middle of an awesome podcast episode with Matt Nordgren. Matt is the founder and CEO of the Arcadian Fund and an early investor in the Cannabis space. Matt and I caught up right after his panel at the NCIA Business Expo Cannavest event in Boston. Unfortunately being new to the podcasting wor...

In this episode, we sit down with founder and CEO of Cannafornia, Paul King. Paul talks about his entrepreneurial path that led him to the Cannabis space, and how Cannafornia is planning to take the Florida market by storm

As a bonus from our second episode at the One Plant Global Headquarters, I had to pleasure of sitting down with Andrew Felix, - Events and Community Outreach Director for One Plant. Andrew tells us how cannabis helped save his life and is a better alternative to opiates and about how he uses his story to help educate Florida on cannabis.

It is great when get to sit down with one of the great minds who has been a part of Cannabis LAB since inception. Recognized in 2018 by the National Law Journal as one of the country’s “Cannabis Law Trailblazers,” Ari Gerstin is a member of Akerman’s Cannabis Practice, which provides counsel to clients on the legal and business issues impacting companies with interests in the legal cannabis sector...

Live from the Benzinga Capital Conference, we have Codie Sanchez - Partner at Entourage Effect Capital This episode is very special to me because I get to interview someone I truly look up to in the Cannabis industry, and someone I believe I can call a real friend - Codie Sanchez. If you don't know Codie, you don't know Cannabis. Codie is a managing partner at Entourage Effect Capital (formerly Cr...

In our first episode, we sit down with Founder and CEO of CannabisLAB Robert Friedman to learn why he created CannabisLAB and what it's like to be a member. After we sit down with Founder and CEO of Cannabis News Florida, Charles Felix, to get his view on the Medical side of the Cannabis industry.

In our second episode, I sit down with Brady Cobb, CEO of One Plant and Sol Global. Cannabis runs deep in the Cobb Family tree, being the son of "Dollar Bill" Cobb. We get into Brady's family history and ultimately how it inspired him to build his Cannabis empire.