Everything is Personal

Reynolds Kairus is the CEO of XR Consulting Group, a Healthcare & Human Capital Development firm (MBE, HUBZone, DBE) based out of New York City. Providing professional services to government agencies, private corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and nonprofits worldwide. With 20 years of healthcare and mentoring experience, Reynolds is a health expert. Reynolds started off on the unconvent...

Jahan Marcu, Ph. D is one of the top researchers and industry experts in the field, contributing to many innovative discoveries, applications, and standards for medical cannabis and its laboratory analysis, cultivation, manufacturing, and dispensing. Dr. Marcu has also created training for the industry and internationally accepted methods for cannabis analysis, and has founded institutions and org...

Leigh Steinberg is America's first sports super agent. During his 41-year career, Steinberg has represented over 300 professional athletes in football, baseball, basketball, boxing, and Olympic sports. He has represented the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft a record eight times, including Patrick Mahomes. Steinberg is often credited as the real-life inspiration for the sports agent in Cameron C...

Dr. Jimmy Fardin Rocha is an Orthopedic surgeon and traumatologist specializing in knee surgery and sports medicine in Brazil. He has experience in emergency care, surgeries and treatment of chronic pain, arthritis, tendinitis, fractures, ligament injuries, fibromyalgia, low back pain and neck pain. We really get deep into the treatment of athletes and how cannabis and genetics can be a huge solut...

Josh Feldstein Verve Jazz Ensemble leader Josh Feldstein has been a jazz drummer for more than 30 years. A native New Yorker who grew up on the NYC jazz scene, Josh formed the VJE in 2006 as a local performing group in the Danbury, CT area. The straight-ahead jazz unit – which paid homage to the legendary music of the famed Verve record label – soon took off with a large local following. After man...

The co-founders of the Quantic Hub and Quantic Herbs Sadao Oshiri and Andre Steiner join me to discuss their personal and business experiences, childhoods and what it takes to create a highly regulated business with a global reach that combines genetic testing technology and the ancient wisdom of medical cannabis to create personalized health and wellness journeys. EndoDNA: Where Genetic Science M...

Kevin Roth is a man whose world was changed by a medical diagnosis. Told that he had stage 3 melanoma and only a couple of years left to live, he had a choice: get busy living or accept dying. He decided to live! Somehow, despite an amazing music career, Kevin had always found it difficult to simply be happy. He’d had a wake-up call, and he decided to do something about it. He envisioned a new, fu...

As a second-generation cultivator, Yarrow inherited his passion for the plant. After having some personal challenges surrounding cultivation, Yarrow overcame those challenges and channel them into supporting others. From Real Estate, where he is a land use and zoning expert, to agricultural and business consulting, Yarrow has the unique ability to go from the field into the board room. Check out t...

Dan wants to live to 130. It’s his dad’s age of death added to his mom’s age of death and is more than achievable with our current knowledge of the human body. On his last day, he will be scuba diving with his great grandchildren. Dan will not be living in diapers, he will not be living in a nursing home, and he will probably still be riding his motorcycle. From executives to professional fighters...

We get really, really personal on this one. Michael Johnson is the CEO of Metrc, the most trusted and experienced provider of cannabis regulatory tech in the United States. The company's solution combines advanced software, radio-frequency identification (RFID), a dedicated customer-support team, and a secure database to track cannabis from growth, harvest, and processing to testing, transport, an...

Jason Vegotsky founded Petalfast in August 2020. He was previously President at KushCo, after the company he co-founded, Summit Innovations, a leading distributor of hydrocarbons to the legal cannabis industry, was acquired by KushCo ($3.2M cash, up to 2,560,000 in shares) in April 2018. Plus, he's an ex-basketball player who moved to California and had to learn the business on the fly, the hard w...

Robert joined Fluent as an advisor to the board in January 2020, shortly before the CEO at the time stepped down Robert helped guide the company for a few months, urging the board to find a new CEO, but after multiple candidates didn’t fit the board offered him the position as he was essentially running the company already At that time the board wanted to sell the company, but Robert was making ad...

Matt Hawkins Founder & Managing Principal of Entourage Effect Capital (EEC) Matt Hawkins is the founder and managing principal of Entourage Effect Capital (EEC), formerly known as Cresco Capital Partners, a venture capital firm focused specifically on investing in the legalized cannabis industry. Since 2014, the firm has made close to 70 investments out of three funds, co-investment vehicles and s...

Don, CEO of PurePower is a father of three, author, wellness advocate and ultra endurance athlete. A former trial lawyer of nearly 20 years, Don’s legal career included service as an Assistant District Attorney, litigator at a prominent Colorado law firm, and in-house corporate lawyer at a Fortune 500. As a corporate lawyer, Don became a nationally recognized expert in the areas of electronic data...

Brandon Mills, the EVP of 4Front Ventures and Co-founder of Island Flower Cannabis. As EVP of 4Front, Brandon oversees the company’s expansion in key markets like California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan and Washington. He has implemented a low-cost CPG production and distribution strategy and is charged with building wholesale relationships at each of the company’s state-of-the-art facilitie...

Matt Mayberry is the CEO and co-founder of Trym, farm management software that helps cultivators run more efficient and profitable businesses. Prior to founding Trym, he was Director of Product Management at SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR), a leading U.S. solar manufacturer. Throughout his career, Matt has repeatedly conceptualized, designed, and launched market-disrupting products that have set world rec...

After 23 years of active-duty military service, including 10 years as a nurse in the US Air Force and three combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, our CEO is committed to helping eliminate the stigma associated with PTSD. She shares what she learned about her own health with the We Decode DNA Kit and how her new mission is to help veterans understand what they personally need to begin their h...

On this episode we geek out with a true Epigentic expert, Hanna Went. Hannah Went is epigenetics enthusiast and the Director of Operations at TruDiagnostic. She has helped implement large-scale methylation testing for clinical practices and is a co-author of several upcoming studies about interventions to address biological aging. We go into DNA Methylation, Exosomes, Peptides, Stem Cell, nutrient...

Former Bravo’s Top Chef: Just Desserts finalist who has gone from Top Chef to Pot Chef, after joining forces with national cannabis company Jushi Holdings to launch some next-level delicious THC infused chocolate bars and fruit chews for both experienced and experimenting consumers alike. Matthew Petersen, Director of Manufacturing for Jushi Holdings As the former second runner up and Fan Favorite...

Inesa Ponomariovaite began working at age 10 years old. When her mother was forced to take work in another city, Inesa was left to care for her siblings alone – at an age when most children are still learning how to take care of themselves. As a young adult, Inesa made a visit to the United States and decided to stay, settling in the Chicago area. After 4 years Inesa’s health had completely deteri...

I love the idea of self-healing. Tapping into your own power and interrupting patterns that might be on autopilot. Dr. Dave Rabin MD, PhD is a board-certified psychiatrist, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and inventor who has studied resilience and the impact of chronic stress on our lives for over 15 years. Dr. Rabin and his team collaborate with clients at the Apollo Clinic, empowering clients to...

Listen to Chris's story and see if he convinces me to get hair restoration ;-) A CEO had his best hair day in 7th grade and then proceeded to lose it - in more ways than one. With the support of his wife and escorted by his brother and barber, the author flies to Istanbul, Turkey to undergo hair transplant surgery, moving 5,000 follicles from the side of his head to his previously barren top - at...

Meital Manzuri, is a real OG since 2005. We discuss what is legal, the industry consolidation, raising funds through M&A and many funny stories. She's one of the top cannabis attorneys nationwide, has dedicated her entire career to cannabis law. Meital was one of the first cannabis attorneys in Los Angeles and has earned a prominent reputation for her dedication to excellence. As the managing part...

Larry Smith is the founder and editor of the personal storytelling community SMITH Magazine and the creator of the Six-Word Memoir project. He is a journalist and storytelling evangelist touted by O: The Oprah Magazine as "on a quest to spark the creativity in everyone." He is the founder of The Six-Word Memoir Project and book series, editor of the book, The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing...

CEO and co-founder Milan Patel of PathogenDx is responsible for managing our overall strategy and operations. This includes ensuring that the leadership team and organization is executing the company’s strategic vision, delegating and directing agendas, driving profitability, managing the company's organizational structure, and communicating with the board. He has over 25 years of experience as an...