Being successful in the cannabis industry is a huge feat for companies aiming for it. With the various restrictions on the changing rules and regulations about cannabis, it adds difficulty for business owners to thrive and scale their businesses. This is the dilemma that Steve Makely is ready to solve.
Steve Makely is the vice president of capital markets at Lineage Merchant Partners, specializing in finance and cannabis. They help clients obtain their needs with their experience in the cannabis industry. Ultimately, Steve Makely and Lineage Merchant Partners goal is to bridge the gap between capital and the cannabis industry,
Through his vast experience in the finance industry as an institutional wealth manager, he is helping to create the path for small cannabis companies to reach their success by providing services such as strategic advisory.
Tune in to this episode to hear more about Steve Makely’s strategy for small companies to secure funds and have long-term success, evaluating a person’s talent and the similarities of successful companies.
Topics discussed in this episode:
Steve Makely’s journey to the cannabis market industry
How can Steve assist small companies in securing funding and long-term success?[5:50]
Evaluating a person’s talent for cultivating plants and running a business[11:57]
Social equity in having a license[19:23]
How does Steve’s company deal with changing cannabis regulations?
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If you’ve been researching all-natural alternatives to conventional medicine, you might have come across kratom and cannabidiol (CBD). While CBD and kratom are plant extracts, they work differently. Robert Varanasi, a supplement manufacturer, combines these and other high-quality ingredients to create supplements that improve people’s health and well-being.
Robert Johnson is the CEO of Custom Capsule Consultants. This California-based supplement manufacturer offers comprehensive production services, end-to-end product development, custom formulas, and white-label and private-label goods. He is the founder of the CBD Is a Better line of vegan soft gels and co-founded TetraLabs, where he helped create the first-ever CBD softgel supplement.
Since joining the cannabinoid/supplement industry in 2006, Robert has amassed extensive expertise in various related fields, including hemp cultivation, supplement manufacturing, market research, and customer preferences.
Listen to this episode to learn about Robert’s wealth of cannabis industry contacts and his predictions for the sector’s future.
Topics discussed in this episode:
Robert’s background on cannabis
Legitimizing plant medicine with TetraLabs
Why building trust is making products
Safer and natural alternatives
Cannabis’s negative connotation and the paucity of relevant studies
If questioned about cannabis, what would Robert’s response be?
Kratom as a stimula and a pain reliever, and its stigma
Custom Capsule Consultants, the company Robert owns, and the services they provide to their clients.
Ways on how to promote your company
Custom Capsule Consultants’ line of functional mushrooms
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Being an athlete means always wanting to be in the zone and play your game with the best that you can. Most players are even willing to try anything to play through the pain. But always using opiates and painkillers is not good. This is the problem that Arthur Young wants to solve by using quality CBD products.
Arthur Young is the Co-Founder of Kadii CBD, a wellness brand that produces high-quality CBD products for golf players to ensure their minds and bodies are in tip-top shape to be in their game. This also applies to other athletes to enhance their performance.
Being in a high-end golf club, Arthur sees the problems in the prescribed painkillers and opiates for the athletes. This sparks his heart’s passion for creating cannabis products for pain relief. He believes that CBD could be used to be an instrumental part of these professional athletes’ regiment, whatever sports it will be.
Tune in to this episode to hear more about Arthur Young’s journey to help athletes utilize CBD to enhance their performance, where the stigma about cannabis comes from, and the challenges Kadii encounters.
Topics discussed in this episode:
Arthur Young on the journey to Kadii
Stigma coming from the leagues, not players
Kadii is for all sports athletes
Why is cannabis not viewed as a performance enhancer for athletes?
Confusing laws and regulations about cannabis
Educating people before profiting
The problems in selling cannabis products in golf shops
Correlation between the alcohol and cannabis business
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Did you know CBD is an essential component of the plant? What about the distinction between Delta 8 and Delta 9? These are some of the things Chris wants people to understand because he cares about people, not just profits like other businesses do.
Chris Fontes is the founder and CEO of Trojan Horse Cannabis, a company that creates high-quality products from Delta 9 THC, which everyone can enjoy. He desires to educate people about hemp and deliver an unforgettable experience for customers.
He is passionate about helping the cannabis industry return to what it used to be. He also wants people to be educated, exposed, and have the opportunity to see the difference and know that there are other options for them to choose from.
Tune in to this episode to hear more about Chris Fontes’s passion for educating people, his motivation behind low-dose consumption, what separates Trojan Horse from other brands, and his strategies to market his products.
Topics discussed in this episode:
Chris Fontes’s journey into the cannabis industry
The market changes in the industry
The main thing that separated Chris from the rest
Why did Chris choose Delta 9 as the primary?
Trojan Horse versus other brands
What is the motivation behind low-dose consumption?
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James Coscina is the CEO of New Hope CBD. Based in Kerrville, Connecticut, New Hope CBD is one of the first processors and manufacturers of hemp in Connecticut. Before moving to the East Coast, they were a minor partner with a recreational marijuana facility in Maine. Due to new regulations with cannabis on the East Coast, they went on board and never looked back ever since. Today, James talks to our host about how the recreational legalization of cannabis shook the East Coast industry, the pricing mechanisms of cannabis products, and what the future of the cannabis market looks like in Connecticut.
Darell Bester is the Chairman of the Illinois Black Chamber Of Commerce Cannabis Committee. He is also the Founder and CEO of Buddy Luv, a cannabis/CBD lifestyle company. In this episode, Darell talks about the history of Buddy Luv, operating within various ancillary business models, and helping people affected by the war on drugs in the city of Chicago.
