Everything is Personal

Jack Grover is the founder and CEO of Grove Bags, a cannabis packaging company specifically tailored to create the perfect climate for cannabis preservation. He shares his early vision for Grove Bags to support cultivators in curing top-quality cannabis while preserving terpenes and maintaining the efficacy of the medicine. Jack’s personal and professional journey with cannabis showcases the plant...

Jeannie Fontana, MD PhD shares her journey to becoming a leader in the fight against neurodegenerative diseases, particularly ALS, which affected her mother. Our conversation also delves into the mental health crisis affecting today's youth, the impact of technology and societal pressures, and the potential of psychedelic medicines as a transformative tool for mental health treatment. Dr. Fontana’...

Who's ready to age healthily and gracefully? Rafael Gonzalez, Ph. D. is the chief development and scientific officer at TheBioBox & RESTEM. He’s spent more than 20 years in the field of regenerative medicine. And on this episode of Everything Is Personal, we explore his present focus of maintaining a healthy immune system, and ways to slow down the biological clock both inside and out. Dr. Gonzale...

Lauren Fontein, co-founder of The Artist Tree, shares her personal and professional journey that led to a career in cannabis. From her family dynamics and the challenges she faced growing up to her transition from practicing law to entering the cannabis space. We explore the intersection of art, music, and cannabis in creating a holistic consumer experience. Lauren discusses the unique, interactiv...

Dr. Eddie O’Connor is a clinical and sports psychologist specializing in elevated performance. We discuss the importance of understanding the relationship between thoughts and pain. And the need to connect to the outcome and find meaning in pain to perform at one's best. We also explore the role of stress and anxiety in athletic and high performance, debunking the idea that athletes and high achie...

Dr. David Bonanno is a psychologist with a unique approach to treating trauma and PTSD. Dr. Bonanno shares his origin story and delves into his innovative therapy method. Bonanno's insights into trauma and his approach to therapy offer a fresh perspective on mental health and the healing process. His personal story is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the transformative power o...

Grammy Award winner Greg Richling is a Los Angeles-based film & television producer. He is co-founder of production company Pfonetic which is developing and producing several projects: Immediate Family (Follow-up to director Denny Tedesco's award-winning music documentary. This is an amazing film. The Wrecking Crew), Steal Away: A Yachtumentary, Collective Soul: Here to Eternity, Restless: The Bob...

LtGen Martin Steele (retired) and Brett Waters, Co-Founders of Reason for Hope, an advocacy group, are advancing legislation and policy proposals on issues related to psychedelic medicine and assisted therapies on behalf of combat veterans and families that have suffered due to substance abuse disorders. As opioid settlement funds begin to become available [pbs.org], there is a noticeable movement...

Meet Dr. Ryan Peebles, DPT I was ashamed, embarrassed, and angry. I had done everything to take care of my back, and yet I was broken. Back problems cast a shadow over my life for a decade. That time was painful, but it was also a journey of growth, where I developed an ever-evolving, deepening understanding of the body, which I will share with you. It all started when lower back pain side-lined m...

As a success coach, Kate empowers high-achieving individuals to actualize their full potential. With a results-driven method rooted in neuroscience, positive psychology, and whole-person coaching techniques, she helps her clients succeed in and out of the boardroom and on and off the field. Her unique mind-body-spirit approach delivers results. Through one-on-one, personalized coaching, you'll exp...

An amazing conversation with Jahan Khamsehzadeh, Ph. D., who is a child of immigrants; mother from Mexico and father from Iran. His childhood was painful. He felt alienated at school. By high school he was clinically depressed and suicidal. Existence seemed bleak. A month after graduating high school someone he had just met that day gave me a handful of mushrooms while he was on my way to see my f...

Gabe is the EVP of Retail Operations, and Nicole is the Senior Product Manager at 4Front. The couple met when Nicole was a budtender and sold Gabe his first legal eighth of cannabis. Just a few months later, a first date turned into years together, and their apartment became a shared office. Gabriel Mendoza, EVP of Operations, 4Front Ventures / Mission Dispensaries Gabe Mendoza, Executive Vice Pre...

Alleh Lindquist, Chief Executive Officer, FloraWorks Holdings Inc. Alleh Lindquist is the Chief Executive Officer of FloraWorks Holdings Inc., a leading cannabinoid therapeutics company. In his role as CEO, he is responsible for managing and directing the company toward its primary goals and objectives, strategy and market expansions. Lindquist brings years of expertise in entrepreneurial startups...

Patrick O'Boyle, CEO Dama Financial, discusses the current and most pressing issues that cannabis businesses navigate in this pre-SAFE era, the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed SAFE Banking Act, next steps after the passage of SAFE and more. If you’re unfamiliar, Dama provides financial services to cannabis businesses, helping to secure bank accounts and low-interest loans, provide safe an...

Never in her wildest dreams did Katie expect to create a community like Lavinia. Katie’s original plan in life was kind of the opposite — specifically, she believed her calling in life was to be a nun and prepared for a life of study, reflection, and celibacy… Until, like one does, Katie met a “Francois” during study abroad… and then priorities changed. In stepping away from nunhood and into a lif...

Asher began classical violin training at the tender age of 2 and had already performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic by age 13. Asher’s expertise in trans-genre improvisation has led him to a career as a soloist in demand, performing at venues such as Madison Square Garden, Hammerstein Hall, Lincoln Center, the Jacob Javitz Center and across four continents. Asher has also been featured on PBS, an...

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...