The San Francisco Experience

Cannabis sales passed $17.5 billion in the United States during 2020 which was a 46% increase over 2019. Sales in California reached $4.4 billion in 2020. With 18 states having legalized recreational marijuana and 5 more states weighing ballot measures in 2022, the trend to nationwide legalization is growing. Women are playing an increasing role in the industry and in this episode, Chase Roberts discusses several of them.

Barry Waitte took his entrepreneurial skills and drive from the center of the tech industry in Silicon Valley and headed 85 miles North across the Golden Gate Bridge to create an award winning winery. And along the way he took up endurance horse back riding, learning to ride a horse at the age of 39 ! Listen to today's podcast to learn how to transfer your entrepreneurial drive to your dream career.

Sir Chris Deverell is a retired British General. He served from 2016 to 2019 as one of the UK Chiefs of Staff in the Joint Forces Command, now called Strategic Command. His 40 years of experience in the British Army included assignments in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Germany.

China believes in internet sovereignty, whereby each country should control its' own internet. And it is looking to influence Internet governance and free speech policies through international organizations and the UN. Most recently, Russia has implemented controls on its' citizens access to internet information following China's example. Are the free wheeling days of the world wide web numbered ?

Sebastopol's 15th annual Documentary Film Festival premiers March 24 through the 27 with 73 films featured. Over 600 films were submitted for consideration from around the world. The Motion Picture Academy has approved the festival as a qualifying festival for the Documentary Short Subject Category for the Academy Awards. Of the 8000 film festivals that cover the whole gamut of films, only 158 have qualified for this coveted status.  

American Universities in the 1960s were caught up tumultuous times. On the one hand, resources flowed liberally to expand the number of campuses and faculty to educate the Baby Boomers. But at the same time, academia was transformed as Civil Rights and Vietnam War protests brought   a growing and unprecedented politicization to campuses across the country. Dr. Schrecker recounts her professional experience during the 1960s and the echoes of that era are still felt to this day.

The Russian Army was led to believe that their invasion of Ukraine would last a matter of days, resulting in their sweeping the capital Kyiv and installing a puppet President. But 13 days in, the Russians have met with fierce Ukrainian resistance. Retired US Marine Colonel Brendan Kearney explains the quagmire the Russians have created and history does not augur well for the invaders or Putin for that matter. 

Speaking to us from his office in Lviv, in Western Ukraine, Oleg gives us a sense of the nation's drive to maintain infrastructure and energy supplies to this Texas size, nation of 44 million, in the middle of Winter. Gas production is only down 1.1% in the midst of the war with Russia. How has life changed as we enter week two of the invasion ?

Ian Brooks is a business coach and founder of Rhodes Smith LLC. He works to help clients transform their lives and their companies. In his book, he outlines the tools you need  to transform your life when faced with change in order to live your best life. Award winning and one of the best Self Help books of 2021.