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- Conflict Resolution: Saving Profits By Paying Your Attorney Less With Bill Stierle
Encountering problems in business is inevitable. While some can be resolved quickly, there will be cases where you have to get attorneys involved; and yes, you will have to pay for them. For those who are new to the cannabis industry, this means additional expenses and less profit. How then can you avail an attorney to help you resolve these conflicts? Tony Frischknecht has the guest for you in this episode. He invites Bill Stierle—founder of Corporate Culture Development, a master of conflict resolution, and host of Purchasing Truth—to share how you can pay less to attorneys and keep your profit instead. In particular, Bill gets into how we can effectively get off that wheel of conflict, where attorneys are involved, shortening the time spent with them and avoiding losing the money out of the back end. Don’t miss out on this great conversation where you not only learn how you can save your profit, you also learn how to save time and heartache—all these three by minimizing conflict.
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45 min - How To Produce A Product The Right Way In China With Gary And David Ross
As the world becomes more globalized, producing a product for your business comes with more options than ever. Cutting costs, an efficient way to do this is producing products overseas, and one of the countries that immediately comes to mind is China. However, manufacturing your products outside of the country comes with its own sets of challenges. In this episode, Tony Frischknecht brings over father and son, Gary Ross and David Ross of Essential Extraction Corporations, to tell us their knowledge and experience on how to produce a product the right way in China. They break down the processes that need to be thoroughly checked and then tell us about the extraction machine that they are developing right now. Having been in their own career journeys that took them from one industry (and even country) to another before setting up their cannabis business, Gary and David share the importance of relationships and communications through it all. Follow along in this great conversation to learn more about product production and the cannabis extraction business!
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41 min - Automating Your Hemp Process With Reid Vander Veen
With hemp being completely legal already, some farmers are taking a large acreage of their lands and flipping to hemp. Today, Tony Frischknecht talks with Reid Vander Veen, the Director of Marketing at Hemp Processing Solutions based in Harrisburg, South Dakota. Reid talks about automating hemp, building the industrial side of the hemp processing, the measures they are taking, and how it affects other crops and even cattle. He introduced the BudRubber and BioMaster machines, both breaking down the plant and separating the fibrous material from the flower material, but following different processes. He also talks about the current situation of the hemp industry, as well as his predictions for the hemp building materials.
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32 min - How To Keep Your Small Business Safe With Kurt Badertscher
Because a small business, as its name implies, does work on a much smaller scale, as a business owner, you have to be much more careful. It’s a scary time, and your small business could and will suffer if you don’t have the proper protective measures in place to protect you, your employees, and your customers. Kurt Badertscher is the Co-Owner of Otoké Horticulture. He joins Tony Frischknecht to talk about preventive and protective measures a small business should implement. If anything, as a business owner, you have to make sure that safety is your number one priority. Make sure you’re a part of the effort to stop the spread of disease.
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29 min - Ending The Prohibition In Mexico With Juan Garcia
In recent years, Mexico’s leaders have driven a movement to legalize cannabis. In 2017, President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a bill legalizing cannabis for medical use. In 2018, Miguel Torruco, Mexico’s Tourism Minister, called for recreational use on a state-by-state basis. In the same year, former President Vicente Fox held a cannabis conference with high-level government, scientific, and business leaders in Guanajuato. On today’s show, the former president’s right-hand man, Juan Garcia of Red Eagle Global Resources, joins Tony Frischknecht to talk about finally ending the cannabis prohibition in Mexico. He shares his insight on why Mexico has no other choice but to legalize the recreational consumption of cannabis at the federal level, and why Mexico’s cannabis industry could soon be fertile ground.
30 min - Cannabis: Cultivating Women Leaders With Jamie Pearson, CEO Of Bhang Corporation
In many industries, women leaders still seem to be somewhat of a rarity because women are still trying to navigate the spaces that have been set up before them. With the rise of women leaders in various industries, especially the cannabis industry, empowerment is at an all-time high, and cultivating women leaders has never been easier than it is today. The President and CEO of Bhang, Inc., Jamie Pearson is a second-generation cannabis executive. She joins Tony Frischknecht in a frank discussion about how women leaders are finding their way in the cannabis industry. With Jamie’s impressive achievements, her story is one that you should definitely not miss out on.
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38 min - Three Powerful Ways to Control Fear?
As its name implies, over-the-counter medication is astoundingly easy to get, despite the threats that some of their ingredients pose to the regular person. Of course, different medications affect different people in different ways, but we tend to underestimate the harm that continued use of some common over-the-counter medication ingredients can bring. Tony Frischknecht explores the problems that can be caused by over-the-counter medication. It’s important to get a better understanding of the risk you’re taking by relying on some of that easy-to-obtain medication. Let Tony guide you through some facts and figures that will have you seeing over-the-counter medication from a new perspective.
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22 min - Opportunity Knocks For The CBD Industry With Axie Blundon
The production of white label CBD is changing the cannabis industry as we know and understand it. The boom in white label CBD has created a renaissance of sorts for the industry, encouraging more variety in the products being put out there. Tony Frischknecht chats with Axie Blundon, the CEO and Founder of Brandstracts, and the Co-Founder of Straight Hemp. With the growing number of redundant CBD products saturating the market, Axie believes that white label CBD can promote the production of more kinds of cannabis, to cater to more people with differing concerns. Cannabis is truly a wonder plant, and Tony and Axie’s discussion only serves to highlight the many different things cannabis can do when given the opportunity.
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37 min - Creating a Cannabis Application that works with Social Equity Expert Chris Nani
The concept of social equity as a subset of human rights is often ignored by the system that we currently function in. Especially under the watchful eyes of a government-mandated drug war, social equity is placed by the backburner and this often blows back on less privileged communities. Tony Frischknecht is joined by Chris Nani, an attorney, journalist, social equity advocate, and the Founder of Endo Insider. Chris talks about social equity in relation to the ongoing drug war and how social equity, down the line, can protect the communities being targeted by the drug war. It’s a touchy topic, but together, Chris and Tony discuss the solutions we should be taking going forward.
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42 min - The Body And CBD: FDA updates Congress
The FDA has addressed a report to the US House Committee of Appropriations and the US Senate Committee of Appropriations concerning CBD. On today’s show, Tony Frischknecht looks into this report and reflects back on some similar meetings that took place in 2008-2009 about medical cannabis, relating it to the current issue at hand. He highlights the concerns he has about the report, mainly the associated health risks of CBD that were pointed out. He also points out that included in the report is FDA’s willingness to open their doors for discussions. Tread carefully when dealing with the federal government. Learn more about this report for further information.
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About Plant Problems
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If you’re thinking of investing, working, or starting a business in the cannabis industry, then you need to listen to Plant Problems, a podcast that takes a different approach to cannabis than what…
you’re seeing and hearing from the mainstream media. Hosted by Tony Frischknecht, the podcast provides high level information to help you understand the business more and make your decision on the direction you want to take. Tony has been successful in the cannabis industry for over fifteen years, and he’s going to take you along on a ride that will help widen your horizon and your industry knowledge about this amazing plant. The cannabis industry is still very new. Therefore, there are a lot unknowns. These unknowns are rather scary, but we will take you on a journey to help uncover the unknown. In Plant Problems, he’s going to be breaking down and tearing apart the myths of the cannabis industry along with shedding some light on the opportunities in the industry. Born and raised in Colorado, Tony always enjoyed the challenge of starting and building a business. At the young age of 25, he became an entrepreneur with two small construction companies. In 2005, he got introduced to the medical marijuana industry in Fort Collins, Colorado, and started a small MJ caregiving business called Highway to Healing. By the time he was 35, he had two dispensaries with an annual revenue of $6.5 million in sales, including two indoor grow facilities in Denver, Colorado – all four locations having 19 city and state licenses.In late 2012, Tony joined a group of industry leaders to build Organa Brands and started a successful cannabis brand called O.penVAPE. The maker of vaping products and edibles posted a top-line sales of $100 million in 2016 and prides itself of selling a product every nine seconds. It buys ten tons of marijuana a year and creates over 1 million grams of concentrated cannabis oil a year. Organa Brands is the only cannabis company with products on the market in ten states, including at 1,200 dispensaries. Subsequently, Tony has moved on to other ancillary businesses involving small scale extraction and commercial grow technologies. He is also the author of the newly released book, From Black Market to The Man, which outlines the 10 steps to becoming a multi-millionaire in the legal cannabis industry. With the fast evolution of the industry and the acceptance by those who used to be skeptics, the opportunities are vast. The Plant Problems podcast will make that much easier to navigate for you as Tony will be featuring and interviewing some people he knows personally and some who are working in the industry that are large influencers at this point in time to help facilitate and address a lot of your concerns and your needs. Be prepared to take in as much information as you can along with understanding as we all learn together from the experts and come out with an amount of insight that will be very valuable. Come along with Tony Frischknecht for the ride here on the Plant Problems podcast as he shows you more of the industry than anybody out there. Be in the know about how to invest, work, or start a business in the cannabis industry. We look forward to having future conversations with you as we go along this journey.