An Indiana native raised in a loving but strict home, Yeti Farms founder Shawn Honaker has come a long way in life. He learned the value of hard work at a very young age. Typical of the agricultural farming community he grew up in, Shawn had his first job at 9 years old.

Living in Colorado since he was 20, Shawn experienced the Colorado lifestyle and jumped in full-heartedly, operating a small hobby ranch in Rifle while running his businesses. Shawn then watched the legalization of marijuana, both medical and recreational, and realized he was the perfect person to work in the industry.

In this episode, Shawn talks about the organic practices of growing cannabis and the future of cultivation. Have fun!

Mike Andrus is a graduate of the Temple University Fox School of Business and has been an entrepreneurial leader with over 34 years of executive management experience specializing in business development and relationship selling. He directed the operation of multiple technology companies worldwide, with an emphasis in life sciences, healthcare, regulatory compliance, sustainability, alternative energy, information technology, and security. Mike was the past Chairman for the regulatory committee for BIO2005 and was voted Top “101 CEO’s by the Philadelphia Inquirer”. 

In addition, he has been responsible for global business development and the “go to market strategy” for multiple companies. He was brought on to increase market share and assist CBD Export to become the foremost platform supplier of cannabis oil, crystals and derivatives in the global cannabis market.

Don't miss today's episode and learn from Mike's extensive history, marketing and technologies he applied to shrug off the inevitable challenges in this CBD industry.

Dr. Jim Alvino is co-founder of Cannabis Health & Wellness Center and CBD Health & Wellness Center; and founder of Medical Cannabis Royalty Income Fund (MCRIF), whose underlying premise is that revenue royalties are superior to debt or equity in financing privately-owned companies.

He’s an international business coach, speaker & speaker trainer, who has worked with dozens of start-ups and entrepreneurs all over the world to help them build their business model, branding, marketing and distribution.

In this segment, be nourished with Dr. Alvino's amazing ideas on how to create a movement behind the products he carries and the coaching expertise in the CBD industry.

Motivated by the personal struggles within their families, these two incredible women, Amber Laign and Marci Freede, founded Plant Juice Oils.

Amber is a licensed massage therapist. She discovered essential oils while looking for a holistic approach to help her partner, Robin Roberts who underwent a life-saving bone marrow transplant.

While Marci, a mother of twins, was looking for a natural alternative for one of her twins who had a lot of health issues pretty much since birth.

In this episode, Amber and Marci share how the combined power of essential oils and CBD helped their families get the result that they've been looking for and how this changed their quality of life. They also talk about their combined efforts in bringing these amazing products to the market to help many others. Stay tuned!

David Pellicane is the owner of Nashville Hemp and is a political activist who supports common-sense drug laws and several environmental issues.

He also worked for large corporations in a high-stress job environment. Like many kids whose parents are smokers, he also picked up the cigarette habit. But after years of smoking traditional cigarettes, he felt the urge to quit when his wife had a pregnancy. During those times, he learned about electronic cigarettes which helped him to be able to quit smoking immediately.

E-cigarettes changed David’s life, and he did not need a doctor to confirm how much better and healthier he felt. He knew they could help others too. So with a few thousand dollars, David formed a small company, built a simple website, bought 25 electronic cigarette starter kits and opened Nashville Vapor on Charlotte Pike in 2011. 

In this episode, find out how he got hooked in the CBD industry, his passion for sharing knowledge with people on the plant and maintains professionalism in this space.

Chelsea Devos is the founder of the first CBD store in Texas, The Cherry Apothecary.

Having first-hand experienced the great benefits of CBD, she made it her mission to help everybody get access to quality products and information.

Unlike others, Chelsea sees anyone helping Texas have access to cannabis as a friend. From a business perspective, she doesn't have competition - only comrades.

In this episode, Chelsea shares how she started her business from having no capital to being the first CBD store in Texas and how she strives to educate the masses.

Mike Luce is a long time market research professional. He spent nearly 20 years developing market insights for some of the world's leading consumer brands including Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, and General Mills, and retailers, such as Wal-Mart and Kroger.

In 2018, he co-founded High Yield Insights. Bringing decades of expertise to this fast-growing industry, High Yield Insights provides its clients with customized, actionable intelligence sourced from their expansive data sets and unique fact-based point of view.

In this episode, Mike shares how he ended up in the hemp and cannabis industry, his biggest takeaways from attending MJBizCon, and how the company is helping brands make an educated decision in creating products.

Lots of golden nuggets that you'd surely wouldn't want to miss. Stay tuned!

Martell Gollidah-Andrews is an African American with a wide reach in the industrial hemp industry. He owns the Hashtag Hemp Co. Canna-Boutique in Bishop Arts District and is the first and only CBD company to be on the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce. 

Prior to the half market, he was the VP of sales in a solar company in Arizona, before resigning to start a digital marketing agency in the summer of 2018, he has parlayed that company into almost $100,000 in six months after marketing for an affiliate of one of the largest DVD franchises and affiliate franchises in the US and trying CBD himself, he repurposed and repositioned his life and hemp utilizing and applying the practice to become an expert in the industry. 

We can't wait to share Martell's peaks and valleys, how he jumped to the CBD industry with self-taught strategies and how he overcome the biggest challenges in this space.

Boris Shscharansky is the Chief Operating Officer of Papa & Barkley, a company committed to producing safe and reliable relief products for the ones we love. He is also a board member of the Cannabis Distribution Association and a founding board member of the California Hemp Council.

In this special episode of The Hemp Revolution Podcast, Boris tells us about the inspiration behind Papa & Barkley, how they're bridging the education gap in the cannabis space, and the people behind this amazing company.

Stay tuned!

Darren Filpi, the co-founder of Gud Body and the Gud Body Journal, has always had this entrepreneurial spirit but he didn't know what he wanted to do at first.

Like many others, he started a career in the corporate world doing software sales but later decided that it just wasn't for him so he began his entrepreneurial journey to rediscover his passion and meaning.

In his quest, he discovered the hemp and cannabis space. Inspired by the incredible stories of people who had greatly changed their quality of life and his passion for fitness and natural health, he started his own company.

In this episode, Darren shares some of the biggest challenges that he faced in the early stages of his business and what he learned from them, how he decides what products to make and some great advice for entrepreneurs looking for information and inspiration to succeed in this space.