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Now, she's not in the north, she's not in the south,
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sitting right here next to folks.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Nicole West.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Longtime cannabis executive and operating director at Happy Fruit. You're saying,
what's Happy Fruit, Joe, Well, it's an edible company with
the specialty of gummy and fused with solvent lists Live
Rosin and pure camp to be extract oil. Founded in
twenty twenty two in good old Denver, Colorado and Newport Beach.
Happy Fruit. We've just seen them out there and good
(02:07):
old or are we all flowers? I like that guy
over there, he's a good owner. Produces the most delicious
cannabis infused gummies available. They appride themselves on offering creative,
potential and potent unique formulas. Happy Fruit raises the bar
for quality and taste and consistency. Be sure to check
out their website happyfruit dot com or follow them on
(02:29):
Instagram at happy fruit to check out all their super
bomb flavors. They're so good, Blue, I got some of
my podcast that without further ado, please put their hands
together and make some noise for the lovely Nicole West.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Thank you so much for having me, gentlemen. I'm so excited.
I've been watching your show forever. So it's really I've
been watching since I don't know before you guys were cool.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I really like you guys all. Hey, Larry, so tell
us about yourself. Nicole, how did you get involved with
this company? Because we know your company. We're big fans
of it, but I mean really good gummies. Like I said,
I have in my pocket there from nighttime we seen
you guys in Vegas are not Vegas and all flowers
and venture thank you, and it's a great company.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
How did you get involved with this company? You know?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
I was very blessed to have had my whole life
implode right at the perfect time where I had an
absolute need for a job, and my boss, who is
a former mentor of mine who I was mildly terrified
of to work for, went to hire me Mark Scruggs,
And I met Mark originally who was the founder at
(03:46):
Happy Fruit when we both worked at Weed Maps. He
was our director of sales, and let's just say they
did not become the bohemoth of a company that they
did by being the chillest boss in the world. So
I was a little scared and a little intimidated, to
be fine honest, to go take this opportunity and work
with somebody who I look up to as much as
I look up to Mark. But I took the will
(04:07):
by the horns and we've been really running with it
where you just hit our one year anniversary, which we're
really excited about in California. You did mention twenty twenty two.
We didn't actually launch in California until twenty twenty three.
We hit our official twelve months about a week ago,
which we're really excited about that.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, thank you. Gratulation.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
The one year mark is a big, big step for
the industry. Getting through that first year is a big deal.
But obviously getting for through your first three years is
really the make or break. So you know, I think,
do you look said at before like we're.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Not through yet?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
You know, you get that first big win and you
realize like, oh, we made it, and you're like, no, no,
it's so much more to do.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
But we're growing.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You know.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
We got into our three hundred store last week as well,
which is really impressive.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Gratulation. Three hundred stores, one hundred.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Stores in California in one year, in one year.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's amazing for this one year.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
One year, that's a lot of work work, a lot
of work.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I mean, we have a sales director who also came
from weed Maps. Our core team all met in twenty eleven,
two thousand and nine to twenty and eleven at weed Maps.
We all worked together, our founder is Mark Scruggs. He
was the sales manager and the VP of sales.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
At one point.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Scott Horling is our sales director and our director of
California was the weed Maps sales director. And our finance
team actually comes from Justin Hartfield, who is the original
founder of weed Maps. So we've been really working as
hard as we can to kind of replicate something that
can be expandable, you know, looking at the way weed
Maps kind of did some things and making sure their
(05:43):
branding was on point, that they were really in your
face getting that consumer, getting to the consumer a lot
of people and like, don't get me wrong, the bud
tender is important the consumer. Like if you can get
the customer to come into your store and say I
want this, that works so much better than any bud
and er, you know, being like oh I love this product,
Like that does work good. But if you get enough
(06:03):
people that just love your stuff where they want to
come in and they a score it, that's a win.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And how are you guys going about doing that?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
You know, our brand team is really crushing it. We
have a woman in charge of our brand team. Her
name's Mackenzie, and we really have some of the best
brand ambassadors out there.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
We're not playing, we're showing up.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
We're there every every day, every week, every time that
we can. You know, we're really doing a lot of
presence in the store making sure that we get to
that customer. It's really hard at this point. You know,
Covid didn't do us any favors getting in front physically
in front of people, but it's starting to open back
up again where we can say, hey, try this, taste this,
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experience this. But you know, our brand team really has
made a huge difference to get that connectivity, and our
productstill a little different. I mean, it's an edible, so
don't get me wrong, it's an edible. It's just like
the oldest way that people have been knowing how to
get high. But we're working with some specific canabinoids. We're
also trying to set ourselves apart by working with really
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high end rosin manufacturers.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
So educating the.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Consumer as well as educating the staff is paramount for
us because we're trying to be different. But it's really
hard to be different if no one understands how you're
actually different, right, and you can't expect a bud tender
just to grab a jar and read everything and deduce
what makes you different. That's not fair, that's not good branding.
That's good not good marketing, you know. So we're getting
in front of the bud tender. We're getting in front
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of the customer and saying, hey, this is what minor
cannabinoids are.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Hey, this is how terpenes.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
And you know, when we first got started, I think
we were a little bit nervous to over educate because
you kind of lose people sometimes.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
But the industry here.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
In California really is maturing and people are becoming much
more interested in the science and getting, you know, the
actual understanding for the focused effect. So our top tier
line really has all these minor cannabinoids. So we're trying
to get focused effects. We're trying to get the experience
where when your customer comes and says, I want to
go to sleep, you can feel confident and know for
(08:02):
a fact you're going to get them a product that
will make them go to sleep. And we have to
explain to them why and explaining to them the different
cannabinoids and why CBN is different, and why THHCV is
being called skinny weed, and why CBC is being talked
to about having you know, a very important part of
gastro intestinal health. So we have to have these conversations
(08:23):
and sometimes we feel like little baby scientists. But I
mean at a certain point, we're all little science experiments
right now, you know.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Every time that's real.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I mean every time everybody trying it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Because even me, when I started using this for my
pains and this and that, nobody you know, we are
sitting here going, God, we wish we could be told
that two hundred and fifty pounds, take this mount and your.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Pain is going to be gone. Yeah, take this.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Amount for three hundred pounds, man, and you can go
to sleep at nine point thirty at night. Nobody knows this,
but you have the purple one. That hey, if we
take the purple one, maybe it's try half, try a whole,
try one and a half, try two. Whatever it is.
You have to figure it out. But the medicine's in
front of us for us too. That's the beautiful part
(09:06):
of it. And like what you're saying is that's what
we have to do.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
And for those who are interested in this type of
brand right here, But that's that's what I love about
these type of gummies. Because you can eat it's so round,
it's like the size of a good nickel, right, a
good knick lifesa Yeah, yeah, a big life saver.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You're right, gummy lifesaver. Right.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You can cut a half of it apart, eat that
and go from there. And I totally agree that that's
what people need to do. More so with these edibles,
I find it stayed in my body of them exactly,
but it helps me with my pains, right, and it
just keeps me throughout my body. Like if I keep
eating an edible throughout the day, I noticed my body's looser, yes,
(09:47):
and it's just like, wow, I'm not getting stone.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I'm not trying to eat ten of them.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, I mean I ate a half when I first started,
I had a quarter, then a half. Then now I
eat one and a cool one for four hours maybe
or if I feel plain again, then I'll take another one.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah. But my point is I fully believe in your type.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Of edibles as well, because I've used these specifically when
I started and I was like, oh my god, because
we had them in and I was like, I'm gonna
try with these. So I literally cut those and they
taste good. That's the other part that I like about
it and I tried it, going I'm.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Going to use it.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I want to do something that I like, that tastes good,
and it's perfect size to cut up.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
What brands or what different SKUs are we're looking at
right here.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
I brought all of our rosin with minor line. So
these are the ones that we call our focused effect line.
So we're going to try to explain it and effect
or what you're looking for. So this is our newest product.
This is our TCV product.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It's weight loss.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
So some people are calling it skinny weed. Now you
had to somebody on earlier who made a very valid
point about research needing to be done by American doctors.
But what we're doing is we're just looking at all
the research worldwide and we're trying to stay on that
cutting edge to say, hey, there are doctors saying this
is valuable, let's try it. Let's give it a shot,
because we have to get anecdotal information first.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Way it is it is.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
But in America, it seems like the best thing that
we can do is just get people to try it
so that you can tell someone about it. Made me
feel like this, you know, it really made me feel
that way. But our teach CB gummy is a response
to something we really have been trying to listen to
our customer. You know, we found our CBN gummy that's
about thirty to forty percent of the edible market. People
who consume edibles want to go to sleep for the
(11:26):
most part, majority of your consumer. Then we found out
that another large percentage of the consumer, about thirty to
forty percent as well, is looking for pain relief for edibles.
The edible consumer eighty percent of them are doing this medicinally,
not just to get high. Right, And even a lot
of people that think that they're just getting high probably
or using it medicinally, they just don't realize it.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
And I firmly believe that.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
But eighty percent of the market, right, everyone had one
not everyone. A lot of people had one complaint. And
the only complaint that we've been getting I eat them
and then I have to eat everything in my refrigerator. Okay,
that is a bit of a concern, right, We're having
this conversation that, Okay.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
How do we stop that from happening?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
How do we get the consumer that doesn't want to
get the munchies and can't go stop at Chick fil
a right now to go get something that can still
get their relief through the day and have something more
focused for.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Your daytime and topic THHCV.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
And so we went ahead and we launched that you know,
and that was really just in a response to listening
to our customer. We've had to really do our best
to keep our ear to the ground to hear what
do they want. Because our company was really started by
my boss, Mark Scruggs, who really loved hash and only
kind of liked gummies. He really loves gummies now, but
he really loved Hash. So his whole focus was making
(12:41):
a rosin gummy. He was like, this just needs that
good material I don't like. He doesn't like edibles because
he doesn't he questions what's in them? You know, that's
his I don't know what they put in there. So
he wanted to know there was a product that had
something quality in that product.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
So what did he do.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
He partnered with some of the best rasin manufacturers in
the game and made sure that the product was good
enough that they'd.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Be willing to put their brand on it.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
So now we have pistol whip rosin tech, soil grown
Mountain Men, Melts, Bear Labs, all of these really great
rosin companies saying this is good stuff.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
And I'm telling you it's good stuff cause I'm.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Going to let them put my logo on the front
and on the back it's going to say what the
strain is. So when we're having the conversation of indica
sativa on an edible, a lot of that is, you know, marketing. However,
if you're doing a strain, you can say without feeling
like you're lying to the consumer that this is an
Indica edible or this is a sativa edible. So we're
making sure when we make our sativa gummy with our
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THHCV that when we source the rosin from Pistol Whip
or from Rosin Tech or wherever we're getting it from,
that we source the sativa strain and that way we're
not lying to our customer. We're participating in the marketing.
That's very important. That consumer wants a sativa edible. They've
worked it out in their head.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
That that's what they're want.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Try to explain to them that that's not.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Try to explain to them that that's not what they want,
and you're going to lose the customer, find them what
they want, and explain to them that there's a deeper layer.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
You've got a customer for life.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, well said, I love what you guys are doing it,
and I agree with this product that you're one of
the products that I've tried. And I take it in
that eighty percent of people, and I really believe in it.
And I was wondering, that's probably why I like it
so much, because it's made with the RAS and meaning
I can fill the medicine kicking in on me last
a little longer too. Yeah, And and for me, like
I said, I don't, I've yet to take enough edible
(14:25):
to feel like, oh whoa, I can't drive, But don't.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Get a question I want you Yeah, because I haven't
what you're using it.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I found it. My point is I found it. I'm
at one.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I found my rhythm after we did Keli Vibes. I
had to do too because I was hurt that night.
After walking around for our whole concert three day weekend,
I'm like, oh, popping two and I passed out. And
my point is I love it as medicine. I think
what you guys are doing is medicine. And I hope
people here that are in our audience that are listening today.
If you're looking to create medicine for somebody, this really
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does work. Her owner, she's working for our company that
really believes in something like this, and this is something
that we have a studio audience that believes in it
so much. You guys have flown out here to California
to be a part of the Master Mentors program and
this is what we do for the community and it
helps people like me. So if you're looking to make
something for somebody who deals with pains or you deal
(15:19):
with pain, thank you for your company. They jib and
thank you for you guys out there for doing. Is
there anything else you want to mention before we let
you guys get out of here.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
You know, I was talking to some of your students
earlier today and there was something that really resonated with
me that I want to.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Make sure that your students take with them.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
And that's in a way, we're our own little herbalists, right.
So when someone goes to the herbalist and they're like, hey,
I've got this pain, and I've got this they go
to the wall and they're like, okay, so I need
this this root, and I need this spice, and I
need this compound, and you bring it all together, and
all these natural substances, and you bring them together, and
you say you need.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
To take this tea. That is a little of everything. Right.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
The cannabinoids and the terpene ratios are that for our industry. Right, You,
as a purveyor of this medicine, if you want to
provide a service to your consumer where you're getting them
what they're looking for, you need to become your own
little encyclopedia of turpeness and cannabinoids. You need to be
researching this every day. You need to know it like
the back of your hand. So when one of your
(16:17):
customers your grandma, your friend's grandma, and I always say
grandma because everyone with gamma gams.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Are so special.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Guys, we have to be.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Looking out for our community, and the senior community needs
our ability to bring this to them.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
You know how many customers we have.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
They're like, I'm here shopping for my parents, I'm here
shopping for my grandparents. It is our job as purveyors
of this medicine to bring as much of this knowledge
to the media, to the forefront as humanly possible. By
bringing this information to them, We're going to destigmatize this plan.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah. Well, I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
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on this beautiful third segment of this wonderful show. Thank
you so much to everybody hey out here for master
mentors live. But we have another Brian. Brian Conway, the
CEO of Powered by Plants. Now Powered by Plants is
a beverage company providing consumers an alternative to alcohol with
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the help of cannabis. Their goal is to provide people
like you and I with a healthier alternative to alcoholic
beverages all around this beautiful world of ours with hemp
and few spirits that will liberate your ability to choose
to have fun without the worry blue of that guilt.
Because I know you you're very much not drinking the
(18:34):
calories the way you used to, and this way is
the way nature intended you to drink it. You might
have heard about their oscar party at Beverly Hills at
the beautiful Warner Brothers studio that was hosted by, of course,
Mario Lopez.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Who is related to me. Lopez that is kidding.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
But if you didn't hear about that party and didn't
know that Mario and I look alike, you can check
out the website of shop Power by Plants dot com
that's s h O P P O W E R
E D B y P l A n t s
dot com. Or follow them on the gram at get
Powered by Plants. Because here to tell us all about
(19:13):
it is, of course, the CEO, Brian Conway, our dear
friend give it up by Power by Plants, Brian, who
not only has beautiful hair, but as I heard Blues
say this past week on the stage, I do concur
Brian as a gentleman that every time I see him,
he has always giving me some protein and always giving
me something good. And you're like, hey, when I look
(19:35):
at you, I always think of you have wings because
you're like a saint coming to me. I feel like that, honestly,
Like every time I see you an event like oh
here comes my angel, He's about to bless you with
something good.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
He's always given healthy products out man, it's always healthy.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I let you know, everybody hands your products. Yeah, it's
just he's really so much.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
And then and then so when he was given it
to me, I never wanted to take anything.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I was like no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And then finally took me probably months of knowing him
and realizing that every the theme is giving was for
my health and health.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
You know, I'm like.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Everything you said there on the stage. I was listening
with me too, me too, Like it took me a
while to win.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I gotta grabbing. What does this do? Give me.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
An edible protein thing? That's an edible lot.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Oh, there's no canvas in it. It's all missed on it.
It's great.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Yeah, So what do you got going on here, Brian?
Because you're you're a great guy. You've been around doing
a bunch of things in the industries as far as
ancillary your protein guy, this your health, this your that,
and you bring your world to the cannabis world.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
We've seen you all around. But you have something that's
very special right here.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
So we are here to ruin your relationship. We are
here to ruin your relationship with alcohol. That's what we say.
So we're going to get right into it. We have
a non alcoholic uh hemp infused it. Basically, it's like
a CBD. So yeah, so we're gonna do a margarita.
So let's just let's get the let's taste it right now.
So this is a non alcoholic hibiscus margarita.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I don't want to try it non alcoholic. I'm not gonna.
I don't. I don't want to get though, I don't
want to.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
But my point is I don't even want to taste
the alcohol because it tastes like alcohol.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I don't drink alcohol. I want to taste alcohol. I'm
not a fan of alcohol for me. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Wow, no more busus margarita right there?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Wow, unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Yes, so basically at the end of the day, that.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It tastes just like a margarita.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Yes, it's like, oh laric now there, now, there you go.
No alcohol you I promise you know alcohol and no
alcoholics like alcohol.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
He's like, I don't think it tastes like alcohol, it's
that it's got the kid. Well, dude, here's what.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I haven't had alcohol and over twenty five years, right yeah,
and when I've had had a sip of like I've
taken a grabbed a couple whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Whatever, kidding, I've been drinking all weekend.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I can always taste the alcohol. I've never drinking anything,
you know, I could taste it. My buds haven't like
drinking anything. So my point to me is, granted, this
is coming from a guy who hasn't had alcohol willingly
or tried, and I willingly put this in my mouth.
I did not feel like this taste like alcohol to me.
But then again, but I have a drink alcohol.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Let me tell you someone who has, so please speak
on it. If you have, you know, I'll tell you
what it tastes like a margarita.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Yeah, that's what we want it.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
It's it's got the margarita kick. You know.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I don't feel like the tequila those in there, so.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
It's not it has it has like a tequila kick,
not really the all of the terpens, but it does
have something.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
How do you do this?
Speaker 8 (22:23):
So this, this specifically is our hibiscus elixir, So we
that we that we made a margarita. At the end
of the day, we create elixirs and bottles and you know,
tequila concepts, vodka concepts. At the end of the day,
however you would consume your alcohol is really what we're
trying to create, Uh, opportunities where you would not have
a hangover, you wouldn't have the calories, you wouldn't drunk,
(22:44):
dial your X, You're not going to be done things. Yeah,
we grow up exactly exactly, isn't that called growing up exactly,
not for all of us that life, I know. But yeah,
so at the end of the day, it's it's trying
to give you outcomes so you can determine if you
want to have a part vibe, if you want to
have more just like a just take it easy vibe,
or maybe you just want to shut down and take
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the edge off. So we are we created different types
of concepts that will again either give you that tila
concept or margarito or straight up even just doing shots
to determine your outcome is the best way to say it.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yeah, and it's it's it's good for you.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
It's good for you.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
You have to have tripping off going.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
We need to have that here for everybody to be
drinking that pork taking the shots.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Well, you know, yeah, it's funny you say this. So
actually we just launched out here in California, so we
are working on this on this whole market here and
of course with you guys as well. So looking forward
to providing everything for you guys.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Now, is it not in fuse and CBD? What are
we talking about as far as that goes? Is there
any tac and in points zero zero two?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah? Or three.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
So the hibiscus itself is at AO point three and
it has about one gram of THC in it and
the hibiscus and the rest is the rest of part.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
The more the minor plages no milligram, it still could
be sold at.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
The grocery store.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Absolutely correct, this is and we actually so you flew
with this here, yea, I flew with this here, no problems.
And what's great about it is we actually just got
into some nightclubs. We've got in some bars, speakeasies, liquor store.
So yeah, we've been really had to head that is.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So listen, this is revolutionary because you know, there needs
to be an alternative.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I agree with you, right there needs to be an alternative.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
And it's funny.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
This right here mode looks cool. This is the hit.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Thank you man, thank you. Yeah, one of our One.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Of our is good too. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Thank you. One of our nightclubs actually after hours because
you can't sell alcohol, but they can sell our stuff.
So we're on the menu and they're heading into Gordy.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Let me ask you what to stone.
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Speaker 8 (25:03):
Yeah, that's that is our vodka vodka lime water. So
just think of it like a vodka soda, zero calories,
zero sugars and non alcoholic, not of course not alcoholic,
non alcoholic.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Nice. It's like funny water. Yeah, it's got a little kick.
It's got a little kick to it.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
It's got a little bit that live resin. That's what
you're tasting.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Lit Yeah, funny like yah, it's got livid lime res water.
It's not bad, not bad at all actually.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
And these are just literally things that you can that
you can make on your own a going to a
grocer store getting some either you know, some type of
flavored water or topa Chico, or you want to maybe
squeeze some lime in it, you want to make cranberry whatever,
however you would make drinks.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
This is really what what is for now?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Is there any what kind of products? What's actually in it?
Rather than you know or CDD.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
Yeah, so believe it or not. Water is the main
care is you're drinking a lot of water?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Is really what you're doing?
Speaker 8 (25:56):
Surprisingly really? Yeah, I mean, we've we've been able to
come up with great uh formulations to give the desired effect.
And my whole thing, as you know, it's all about
clean ingredients and just being healthy. So I tracked, you know,
this is my whoop. So I tracked my sleep, knowing
my rim sleep, my deep sleep, respiratory rate, everything else.
So I want this to be able to enhance the
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way that you feel, and especially with mental health and
things of that nature. I want to be able to
to to de stress, not let men. I'm stressed out,
So I'm gonna have a drink and then I'm gonna
take the edge off, but realistically that I'm gonna keep
on going down the sippery path of another drink, another drink,
get shitty sleeps. If I would say that, you know,
get horrible sleep, and then you're gonna end up eating bad.
You're just fit, and you're gonna get crappy sleep because
you're dehydrated, you have an elevated heart rate, and then
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you're gonna wake up feeling more more dehydrated, more stress
because you didn't go a good sleep, and then just
continue that cycle. So your health just goes downhill, downhill, downhill.
So for us well, where our our mission is to
be able to give you that healthy alternative where you
can still have a drink in your hand, you can
feel good. I can have a margarita, but I can
just go on kind of like a flow.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:57):
It's like I always say, like take you know, just
like you're going on a ride. It's take it right.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
In a way, it's a mocktail.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
It is a mocktail, gets along, it's ale, and it's
great for all occasions because it's a little bit of CBDs.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You're not gonna get high off it, right, You're not
gonna feel loopy.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
It's just a good amount of medicine.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
It's like, in my opinion, randomly hearing what you're saying,
it's you should have this at the house, and everybody
should be having a.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Drink every day.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
You know, I'm saying, like I want to have this
every day.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Does it make me feel like I'm having a cocktail
at night? That's it, you know, And you're having CBD.
You're getting what your body needs, what your body wants.
Your body's naturally CBD efficient.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Now, getting everything you want in a way of like
you said, Blue at night you come home. Why wouldn't
you deserve yourself one of these. Of course you're gonna
take the quote unquote normal feeling. If you're used to
having a drink, I get it, But try something like
this because why because your body's gonna be getting something
different than it's craving. It's still craving sugar from the
alcohol that you're having every night. If that's what you do,
(27:56):
let's call it what it is. The sugar breaks down.
So maybe have a cookie with this. Tried drinking this
a litttle cookie. Yeah, I'm just saying yeah.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
I mean it was great. I mean even last night
we did a deal with preview models at the LA
Fashion Academy and we were backstage with all the model
where they're getting dressed for like five hours, getting ready
to do to the big show last night that another
Mario Lopez event, and everybody came up, what is this?
Oh is there alcohol?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Is there?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Acqua?
Speaker 8 (28:18):
They didn't want alcohol? I was surprised this. I mean
last night I had the highest amount of people that
did not even want to touch alcohol, but they wanted to.
They wanted to be stress.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Well, that's not only think that's the thing nowadays, right,
like everybody wants low everything, low dose dreams.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Look and this is beyond low dose because there's nothing, ye,
there's whatever.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Client now, the majority of our client tell is female.
They care more about their health. They don't want calories.
Their skin and when their skinna look good, they want
to feel refreshed and this, and they still want to
be They still want adult, They still want to be
a mom or be you know whatever. They need to
do work whatever that is.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yep, where can we find the set?
Speaker 8 (28:53):
Yeah, so definitely online, it's going to be the easiest way.
They shot powered by plants or they can just go
to our Instagram and then.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Plan on white label in it.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
That's a I've had a lot of I've had a
lot of inquiry on that. So that's something we're considering.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Or making a THC one as well.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
So yeah, matter of fact, we have a THC rolling
out in two weeks. That's our Dragon Barry. That's we're
super excited about that. So that's going to be a
THC D nine concept that's going to be only be
more that upper. So you want to go and party,
have fun and everything else, what what you can really
do is then combine that with with our hibiscus and
then it'll give you the effect you want. So is
it more of a hybrid? Is it more of that
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downer you can again could create your mood?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Is really what I do to with the mocktails too?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Like you're saying, even at a nightclub, right, yeah, I'm
thinking you're to be able to go after hours at
these clubs, are going, here's your thc can't we can
they sell t drinks like that?
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Depending upon, depending upon. Obviously the dough is a cannabis
and basis at marijuana base.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Zero zero three percent.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
So but but you have to take your own little
teaster to drop it on the drunk.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
So under I'm saying, at a club on zero zero
three percent, you can sell any CBD even zo you
had all this, but then anything over that you cannot.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
It's got to be sold. That's right. You can't even
use it there, I don't think so like, well you
could use it, you can yourself.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah, like for us this like this one
particular nightclub, it's actually right next to hotel, the W
Hotel in downtown Austin, and uh they but they've signed
a permit, they've filled out some paperwork and we're going
to go. I mean it's because it's also not marijuana
derive picular one.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, fantastic. Was there anything else? We uh know?
Speaker 8 (30:29):
I think I just appreciate the time. I mean, you know,
you guys have been rid o dies for such a
long time. I've been a big fan. I'm just happy
that you guys just took the time to get to
know me, and I'm glad to help out and just
thank you for being here. Looking forward to partnership. These
guys are I mean, they're they're the ship. You guys
are legit. I mean, they are all about spreading the community,
are creating the community, spreading the word of cannabis and
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just giving out and just helping and everything else. And
you guys are just consistent every single day. So love it.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Well there, I assure you, Brian, Thank you Brian a
very every day and we'll set a mirror on you.
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Speaker 6 (02:47):
Thank you so much for having me, gentlemen. I'm so excited.
I've been watching your show forever. So it's really I've
been watching since I don't know before you guys were cool.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
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Speaker 4 (02:58):
I really like you guys all. Hey, Larry, so tell
us about yourself. Nicole, how did you get involved with
this company? Because we know your company. We're big fans
of it, but I mean really good gummies. Like I said,
I have in my pocket there from nighttime we seen
you guys in Vegas are not Vegas and all flowers
and venture thank you, and it's a great company.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
How did you get involved with this company? You know?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
I was very blessed to have had my whole life
implode right at the perfect time where I had an
absolute need for a job, and my boss, who is
a former mentor of mine who I was mildly terrified
of to work for, went to hire me Mark Scruggs,
And I met Mark originally who was the founder at
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Happy Fruit when we both worked at Weed Maps. He
was our director of sales, and let's just say they
did not become the bohemoth of a company that they
did by being the chillest boss in the world. So
I was a little scared and a little intimidated, to
be fine honest, to go take this opportunity and work
with somebody who I look up to as much as
I look up to Mark. But I took the will
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by the horns and we've been really running with it
where you just hit our one year anniversary, which we're
really excited about in California. You did mention twenty twenty two.
We didn't actually launch in California until twenty twenty three.
We hit our official twelve months about a week ago,
which we're really excited about that.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, thank you. Gratulation.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
The one year mark is a big, big step for
the industry. Getting through that first year is a big deal.
But obviously getting for through your first three years is
really the make or break. So you know, I think,
do you look said at before like we're.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Not through yet?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
You know, you get that first big win and you
realize like, oh, we made it, and you're like, no, no,
it's so much more to do.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
But we're growing.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You know.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
We got into our three hundred store last week as well,
which is really impressive.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Gratulation. Three hundred stores, one hundred.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Stores in California in one year, in one year.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's amazing for this one year.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
One year, that's a lot of work work, a lot
of work.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I mean, we have a sales director who also came
from weed Maps. Our core team all met in twenty eleven,
two thousand and nine to twenty and eleven at weed Maps.
We all worked together, our founder is Mark Scruggs. He
was the sales manager and the VP of sales.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
At one point.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Scott Horling is our sales director and our director of
California was the weed Maps sales director. And our finance
team actually comes from Justin Hartfield, who is the original
founder of weed Maps. So we've been really working as
hard as we can to kind of replicate something that
can be expandable, you know, looking at the way weed
Maps kind of did some things and making sure their
(05:43):
branding was on point, that they were really in your
face getting that consumer, getting to the consumer a lot
of people and like, don't get me wrong, the bud
tender is important the consumer. Like if you can get
the customer to come into your store and say I
want this, that works so much better than any bud
and er, you know, being like oh I love this product,
Like that does work good. But if you get enough
(06:03):
people that just love your stuff where they want to
come in and they a score it, that's a win.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And how are you guys going about doing that?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
You know, our brand team is really crushing it. We
have a woman in charge of our brand team. Her
name's Mackenzie, and we really have some of the best
brand ambassadors out there.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
We're not playing, we're showing up.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
We're there every every day, every week, every time that
we can. You know, we're really doing a lot of
presence in the store making sure that we get to
that customer. It's really hard at this point. You know,
Covid didn't do us any favors getting in front physically
in front of people, but it's starting to open back
up again where we can say, hey, try this, taste this,
(06:42):
experience this. But you know, our brand team really has
made a huge difference to get that connectivity, and our
productstill a little different. I mean, it's an edible, so
don't get me wrong, it's an edible. It's just like
the oldest way that people have been knowing how to
get high. But we're working with some specific canabinoids. We're
also trying to set ourselves apart by working with really
(07:03):
high end rosin manufacturers.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
So educating the.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Consumer as well as educating the staff is paramount for
us because we're trying to be different. But it's really
hard to be different if no one understands how you're
actually different, right, and you can't expect a bud tender
just to grab a jar and read everything and deduce
what makes you different. That's not fair, that's not good branding.
That's good not good marketing, you know. So we're getting
in front of the bud tender. We're getting in front
(07:27):
of the customer and saying, hey, this is what minor
cannabinoids are.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Hey, this is how terpenes.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
And you know, when we first got started, I think
we were a little bit nervous to over educate because
you kind of lose people sometimes.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
But the industry here.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
In California really is maturing and people are becoming much
more interested in the science and getting, you know, the
actual understanding for the focused effect. So our top tier
line really has all these minor cannabinoids. So we're trying
to get focused effects. We're trying to get the experience
where when your customer comes and says, I want to
go to sleep, you can feel confident and know for
(08:02):
a fact you're going to get them a product that
will make them go to sleep. And we have to
explain to them why and explaining to them the different
cannabinoids and why CBN is different, and why THHCV is
being called skinny weed, and why CBC is being talked
to about having you know, a very important part of
gastro intestinal health. So we have to have these conversations
(08:23):
and sometimes we feel like little baby scientists. But I
mean at a certain point, we're all little science experiments
right now, you know.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Every time that's real.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I mean every time everybody trying it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Because even me, when I started using this for my
pains and this and that, nobody you know, we are
sitting here going, God, we wish we could be told
that two hundred and fifty pounds, take this mount and your.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Pain is going to be gone. Yeah, take this.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Amount for three hundred pounds, man, and you can go
to sleep at nine point thirty at night. Nobody knows this,
but you have the purple one. That hey, if we
take the purple one, maybe it's try half, try a whole,
try one and a half, try two. Whatever it is.
You have to figure it out. But the medicine's in
front of us for us too. That's the beautiful part
(09:06):
of it. And like what you're saying is that's what
we have to do.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
And for those who are interested in this type of
brand right here, But that's that's what I love about
these type of gummies. Because you can eat it's so round,
it's like the size of a good nickel, right, a
good knick lifesa Yeah, yeah, a big life saver.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You're right, gummy lifesaver. Right.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You can cut a half of it apart, eat that
and go from there. And I totally agree that that's
what people need to do. More so with these edibles,
I find it stayed in my body of them exactly,
but it helps me with my pains, right, and it
just keeps me throughout my body. Like if I keep
eating an edible throughout the day, I noticed my body's looser, yes,
(09:47):
and it's just like, wow, I'm not getting stone.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I'm not trying to eat ten of them.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, I mean I ate a half when I first started,
I had a quarter, then a half. Then now I
eat one and a cool one for four hours maybe
or if I feel plain again, then I'll take another one.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah. But my point is I fully believe in your type.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Of edibles as well, because I've used these specifically when
I started and I was like, oh my god, because
we had them in and I was like, I'm gonna
try with these. So I literally cut those and they
taste good. That's the other part that I like about
it and I tried it, going I'm.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Going to use it.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I want to do something that I like, that tastes good,
and it's perfect size to cut up.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
What brands or what different SKUs are we're looking at
right here.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
I brought all of our rosin with minor line. So
these are the ones that we call our focused effect line.
So we're going to try to explain it and effect
or what you're looking for. So this is our newest product.
This is our TCV product.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It's weight loss.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
So some people are calling it skinny weed. Now you
had to somebody on earlier who made a very valid
point about research needing to be done by American doctors.
But what we're doing is we're just looking at all
the research worldwide and we're trying to stay on that
cutting edge to say, hey, there are doctors saying this
is valuable, let's try it. Let's give it a shot,
because we have to get anecdotal information first.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Way it is it is.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
But in America, it seems like the best thing that
we can do is just get people to try it
so that you can tell someone about it. Made me
feel like this, you know, it really made me feel
that way. But our teach CB gummy is a response
to something we really have been trying to listen to
our customer. You know, we found our CBN gummy that's
about thirty to forty percent of the edible market. People
who consume edibles want to go to sleep for the
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most part, majority of your consumer. Then we found out
that another large percentage of the consumer, about thirty to
forty percent as well, is looking for pain relief for edibles.
The edible consumer eighty percent of them are doing this medicinally,
not just to get high. Right, And even a lot
of people that think that they're just getting high probably
or using it medicinally, they just don't realize it.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
And I firmly believe that.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
But eighty percent of the market, right, everyone had one
not everyone. A lot of people had one complaint. And
the only complaint that we've been getting I eat them
and then I have to eat everything in my refrigerator. Okay,
that is a bit of a concern, right, We're having
this conversation that, Okay.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
How do we stop that from happening?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
How do we get the consumer that doesn't want to
get the munchies and can't go stop at Chick fil
a right now to go get something that can still
get their relief through the day and have something more
focused for.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Your daytime and topic THHCV.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
And so we went ahead and we launched that you know,
and that was really just in a response to listening
to our customer. We've had to really do our best
to keep our ear to the ground to hear what
do they want. Because our company was really started by
my boss, Mark Scruggs, who really loved hash and only
kind of liked gummies. He really loves gummies now, but
he really loved Hash. So his whole focus was making
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a rosin gummy. He was like, this just needs that
good material I don't like. He doesn't like edibles because
he doesn't he questions what's in them? You know, that's
his I don't know what they put in there. So
he wanted to know there was a product that had
something quality in that product.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
So what did he do.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
He partnered with some of the best rasin manufacturers in
the game and made sure that the product was good
enough that they'd.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Be willing to put their brand on it.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
So now we have pistol whip rosin tech, soil grown
Mountain Men, Melts, Bear Labs, all of these really great
rosin companies saying this is good stuff.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
And I'm telling you it's good stuff cause I'm.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Going to let them put my logo on the front
and on the back it's going to say what the
strain is. So when we're having the conversation of indica
sativa on an edible, a lot of that is, you know, marketing. However,
if you're doing a strain, you can say without feeling
like you're lying to the consumer that this is an
Indica edible or this is a sativa edible. So we're
making sure when we make our sativa gummy with our
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THHCV that when we source the rosin from Pistol Whip
or from Rosin Tech or wherever we're getting it from,
that we source the sativa strain and that way we're
not lying to our customer. We're participating in the marketing.
That's very important. That consumer wants a sativa edible. They've
worked it out in their head.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
That that's what they're want.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Try to explain to them that that's not.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Try to explain to them that that's not what they want,
and you're going to lose the customer, find them what
they want, and explain to them that there's a deeper layer.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
You've got a customer for life.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, well said, I love what you guys are doing it,
and I agree with this product that you're one of
the products that I've tried. And I take it in
that eighty percent of people, and I really believe in it.
And I was wondering, that's probably why I like it
so much, because it's made with the RAS and meaning
I can fill the medicine kicking in on me last
a little longer too. Yeah, And and for me, like
I said, I don't, I've yet to take enough edible
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to feel like, oh whoa, I can't drive, But don't.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Get a question I want you Yeah, because I haven't
what you're using it.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I found it. My point is I found it. I'm
at one.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I found my rhythm after we did Keli Vibes. I
had to do too because I was hurt that night.
After walking around for our whole concert three day weekend,
I'm like, oh, popping two and I passed out. And
my point is I love it as medicine. I think
what you guys are doing is medicine. And I hope
people here that are in our audience that are listening today.
If you're looking to create medicine for somebody, this really
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does work. Her owner, she's working for our company that
really believes in something like this, and this is something
that we have a studio audience that believes in it
so much. You guys have flown out here to California
to be a part of the Master Mentors program and
this is what we do for the community and it
helps people like me. So if you're looking to make
something for somebody who deals with pains or you deal
(15:19):
with pain, thank you for your company. They jib and
thank you for you guys out there for doing. Is
there anything else you want to mention before we let
you guys get out of here.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
You know, I was talking to some of your students
earlier today and there was something that really resonated with
me that I want to.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Make sure that your students take with them.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
And that's in a way, we're our own little herbalists, right.
So when someone goes to the herbalist and they're like, hey,
I've got this pain, and I've got this they go
to the wall and they're like, okay, so I need
this this root, and I need this spice, and I
need this compound, and you bring it all together, and
all these natural substances, and you bring them together, and
you say you need.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
To take this tea. That is a little of everything. Right.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
The cannabinoids and the terpene ratios are that for our industry. Right, You,
as a purveyor of this medicine, if you want to
provide a service to your consumer where you're getting them
what they're looking for, you need to become your own
little encyclopedia of turpeness and cannabinoids. You need to be
researching this every day. You need to know it like
the back of your hand. So when one of your
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customers your grandma, your friend's grandma, and I always say
grandma because everyone with gamma gams.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Are so special.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Guys, we have to be.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Looking out for our community, and the senior community needs
our ability to bring this to them.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
You know how many customers we have.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
They're like, I'm here shopping for my parents, I'm here
shopping for my grandparents. It is our job as purveyors
of this medicine to bring as much of this knowledge
to the media, to the forefront as humanly possible. By
bringing this information to them, We're going to destigmatize this plan.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah. Well, I love you guys.
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on this beautiful third segment of this wonderful show. Thank
you so much to everybody hey out here for master
mentors live. But we have another Brian. Brian Conway, the
CEO of Powered by Plants. Now Powered by Plants is
a beverage company providing consumers an alternative to alcohol with
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the help of cannabis. Their goal is to provide people
like you and I with a healthier alternative to alcoholic
beverages all around this beautiful world of ours with hemp
and few spirits that will liberate your ability to choose
to have fun without the worry blue of that guilt.
Because I know you you're very much not drinking the
(18:34):
calories the way you used to, and this way is
the way nature intended you to drink it. You might
have heard about their oscar party at Beverly Hills at
the beautiful Warner Brothers studio that was hosted by, of course,
Mario Lopez.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Who is related to me. Lopez that is kidding.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
But if you didn't hear about that party and didn't
know that Mario and I look alike, you can check
out the website of shop Power by Plants dot com
that's s h O P P O W E R
E D B y P l A n t s
dot com. Or follow them on the gram at get
Powered by Plants. Because here to tell us all about
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it is, of course, the CEO, Brian Conway, our dear
friend give it up by Power by Plants, Brian, who
not only has beautiful hair, but as I heard Blues
say this past week on the stage, I do concur
Brian as a gentleman that every time I see him,
he has always giving me some protein and always giving
me something good. And you're like, hey, when I look
(19:35):
at you, I always think of you have wings because
you're like a saint coming to me. I feel like that, honestly,
Like every time I see you an event like oh
here comes my angel, He's about to bless you with
something good.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
He's always given healthy products out man, it's always healthy.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I let you know, everybody hands your products. Yeah, it's
just he's really so much.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
And then and then so when he was given it
to me, I never wanted to take anything.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I was like no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And then finally took me probably months of knowing him
and realizing that every the theme is giving was for
my health and health.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
You know, I'm like.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Everything you said there on the stage. I was listening
with me too, me too, Like it took me a
while to win.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I gotta grabbing. What does this do? Give me.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
An edible protein thing? That's an edible lot.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Oh, there's no canvas in it. It's all missed on it.
It's great.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Yeah, So what do you got going on here, Brian?
Because you're you're a great guy. You've been around doing
a bunch of things in the industries as far as
ancillary your protein guy, this your health, this your that,
and you bring your world to the cannabis world.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
We've seen you all around. But you have something that's
very special right here.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
So we are here to ruin your relationship. We are
here to ruin your relationship with alcohol. That's what we say.
So we're going to get right into it. We have
a non alcoholic uh hemp infused it. Basically, it's like
a CBD. So yeah, so we're gonna do a margarita.
So let's just let's get the let's taste it right now.
So this is a non alcoholic hibiscus margarita.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I don't want to try it non alcoholic. I'm not gonna.
I don't. I don't want to get though, I don't
want to.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
But my point is I don't even want to taste
the alcohol because it tastes like alcohol.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I don't drink alcohol. I want to taste alcohol. I'm
not a fan of alcohol for me. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Wow, no more busus margarita right there?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Wow, unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Yes, so basically at the end of the day, that.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It tastes just like a margarita.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Yes, it's like, oh laric now there, now, there you go.
No alcohol you I promise you know alcohol and no
alcoholics like alcohol.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
He's like, I don't think it tastes like alcohol, it's
that it's got the kid. Well, dude, here's what.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I haven't had alcohol and over twenty five years, right yeah,
and when I've had had a sip of like I've
taken a grabbed a couple whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Whatever, kidding, I've been drinking all weekend.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I can always taste the alcohol. I've never drinking anything,
you know, I could taste it. My buds haven't like
drinking anything. So my point to me is, granted, this
is coming from a guy who hasn't had alcohol willingly
or tried, and I willingly put this in my mouth.
I did not feel like this taste like alcohol to me.
But then again, but I have a drink alcohol.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Let me tell you someone who has, so please speak
on it. If you have, you know, I'll tell you
what it tastes like a margarita.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Yeah, that's what we want it.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
It's it's got the margarita kick. You know.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I don't feel like the tequila those in there, so.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
It's not it has it has like a tequila kick,
not really the all of the terpens, but it does
have something.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
How do you do this?
Speaker 8 (22:23):
So this, this specifically is our hibiscus elixir, So we
that we that we made a margarita. At the end
of the day, we create elixirs and bottles and you know,
tequila concepts, vodka concepts. At the end of the day,
however you would consume your alcohol is really what we're
trying to create, Uh, opportunities where you would not have
a hangover, you wouldn't have the calories, you wouldn't drunk,
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dial your X, You're not going to be done things. Yeah,
we grow up exactly exactly, isn't that called growing up exactly,
not for all of us that life, I know. But yeah,
so at the end of the day, it's it's trying
to give you outcomes so you can determine if you
want to have a part vibe, if you want to
have more just like a just take it easy vibe,
or maybe you just want to shut down and take
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the edge off. So we are we created different types
of concepts that will again either give you that tila
concept or margarito or straight up even just doing shots
to determine your outcome is the best way to say it.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yeah, and it's it's it's good for you.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
It's good for you.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
You have to have tripping off going.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
We need to have that here for everybody to be
drinking that pork taking the shots.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Well, you know, yeah, it's funny you say this. So
actually we just launched out here in California, so we
are working on this on this whole market here and
of course with you guys as well. So looking forward
to providing everything for you guys.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Now, is it not in fuse and CBD? What are
we talking about as far as that goes? Is there
any tac and in points zero zero two?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah? Or three.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
So the hibiscus itself is at AO point three and
it has about one gram of THC in it and
the hibiscus and the rest is the rest of part.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
The more the minor plages no milligram, it still could
be sold at.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
The grocery store.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Absolutely correct, this is and we actually so you flew
with this here, yea, I flew with this here, no problems.
And what's great about it is we actually just got
into some nightclubs. We've got in some bars, speakeasies, liquor store.
So yeah, we've been really had to head that is.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So listen, this is revolutionary because you know, there needs
to be an alternative.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I agree with you, right there needs to be an alternative.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
And it's funny.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
This right here mode looks cool. This is the hit.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Thank you man, thank you. Yeah, one of our One.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Of our is good too. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Thank you. One of our nightclubs actually after hours because
you can't sell alcohol, but they can sell our stuff.
So we're on the menu and they're heading into Gordy.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Let me ask you what to stone.
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Speaker 8 (25:03):
Yeah, that's that is our vodka vodka lime water. So
just think of it like a vodka soda, zero calories,
zero sugars and non alcoholic, not of course not alcoholic,
non alcoholic.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Nice. It's like funny water. Yeah, it's got a little kick.
It's got a little kick to it.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
It's got a little bit that live resin. That's what
you're tasting.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Lit Yeah, funny like yah, it's got livid lime res water.
It's not bad, not bad at all actually.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
And these are just literally things that you can that
you can make on your own a going to a
grocer store getting some either you know, some type of
flavored water or topa Chico, or you want to maybe
squeeze some lime in it, you want to make cranberry whatever,
however you would make drinks.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
This is really what what is for now?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Is there any what kind of products? What's actually in it?
Rather than you know or CDD.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
Yeah, so believe it or not. Water is the main
care is you're drinking a lot of water?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Is really what you're doing?
Speaker 8 (25:56):
Surprisingly really? Yeah, I mean, we've we've been able to
come up with great uh formulations to give the desired effect.
And my whole thing, as you know, it's all about
clean ingredients and just being healthy. So I tracked, you know,
this is my whoop. So I tracked my sleep, knowing
my rim sleep, my deep sleep, respiratory rate, everything else.
So I want this to be able to enhance the
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way that you feel, and especially with mental health and
things of that nature. I want to be able to
to to de stress, not let men. I'm stressed out,
So I'm gonna have a drink and then I'm gonna
take the edge off, but realistically that I'm gonna keep
on going down the sippery path of another drink, another drink,
get shitty sleeps. If I would say that, you know,
get horrible sleep, and then you're gonna end up eating bad.
You're just fit, and you're gonna get crappy sleep because
you're dehydrated, you have an elevated heart rate, and then
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you're gonna wake up feeling more more dehydrated, more stress
because you didn't go a good sleep, and then just
continue that cycle. So your health just goes downhill, downhill, downhill.
So for us well, where our our mission is to
be able to give you that healthy alternative where you
can still have a drink in your hand, you can
feel good. I can have a margarita, but I can
just go on kind of like a flow.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:57):
It's like I always say, like take you know, just
like you're going on a ride. It's take it right.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
In a way, it's a mocktail.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
It is a mocktail, gets along, it's ale, and it's
great for all occasions because it's a little bit of CBDs.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You're not gonna get high off it, right, You're not
gonna feel loopy.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
It's just a good amount of medicine.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
It's like, in my opinion, randomly hearing what you're saying,
it's you should have this at the house, and everybody
should be having a.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Drink every day.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
You know, I'm saying, like I want to have this
every day.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Does it make me feel like I'm having a cocktail
at night? That's it, you know, And you're having CBD.
You're getting what your body needs, what your body wants.
Your body's naturally CBD efficient.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Now, getting everything you want in a way of like
you said, Blue at night you come home. Why wouldn't
you deserve yourself one of these. Of course you're gonna
take the quote unquote normal feeling. If you're used to
having a drink, I get it, But try something like
this because why because your body's gonna be getting something
different than it's craving. It's still craving sugar from the
alcohol that you're having every night. If that's what you do,
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let's call it what it is. The sugar breaks down.
So maybe have a cookie with this. Tried drinking this
a litttle cookie. Yeah, I'm just saying yeah.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
I mean it was great. I mean even last night
we did a deal with preview models at the LA
Fashion Academy and we were backstage with all the model
where they're getting dressed for like five hours, getting ready
to do to the big show last night that another
Mario Lopez event, and everybody came up, what is this?
Oh is there alcohol?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Is there?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Acqua?
Speaker 8 (28:18):
They didn't want alcohol? I was surprised this. I mean
last night I had the highest amount of people that
did not even want to touch alcohol, but they wanted to.
They wanted to be stress.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Well, that's not only think that's the thing nowadays, right,
like everybody wants low everything, low dose dreams.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Look and this is beyond low dose because there's nothing, ye,
there's whatever.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Client now, the majority of our client tell is female.
They care more about their health. They don't want calories.
Their skin and when their skinna look good, they want
to feel refreshed and this, and they still want to
be They still want adult, They still want to be
a mom or be you know whatever. They need to
do work whatever that is.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yep, where can we find the set?
Speaker 8 (28:53):
Yeah, so definitely online, it's going to be the easiest way.
They shot powered by plants or they can just go
to our Instagram and then.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Plan on white label in it.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
That's a I've had a lot of I've had a
lot of inquiry on that. So that's something we're considering.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Or making a THC one as well.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
So yeah, matter of fact, we have a THC rolling
out in two weeks. That's our Dragon Barry. That's we're
super excited about that. So that's going to be a
THC D nine concept that's going to be only be
more that upper. So you want to go and party,
have fun and everything else, what what you can really
do is then combine that with with our hibiscus and
then it'll give you the effect you want. So is
it more of a hybrid? Is it more of that
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downer you can again could create your mood?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Is really what I do to with the mocktails too?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Like you're saying, even at a nightclub, right, yeah, I'm
thinking you're to be able to go after hours at
these clubs, are going, here's your thc can't we can
they sell t drinks like that?
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Depending upon, depending upon. Obviously the dough is a cannabis
and basis at marijuana base.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Zero zero three percent.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
So but but you have to take your own little
teaster to drop it on the drunk.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
So under I'm saying, at a club on zero zero
three percent, you can sell any CBD even zo you
had all this, but then anything over that you cannot.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
It's got to be sold. That's right. You can't even
use it there, I don't think so like, well you
could use it, you can yourself.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah, like for us this like this one
particular nightclub, it's actually right next to hotel, the W
Hotel in downtown Austin, and uh they but they've signed
a permit, they've filled out some paperwork and we're going
to go. I mean it's because it's also not marijuana
derive picular one.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, fantastic. Was there anything else? We uh know?
Speaker 8 (30:29):
I think I just appreciate the time. I mean, you know,
you guys have been rid o dies for such a
long time. I've been a big fan. I'm just happy
that you guys just took the time to get to
know me, and I'm glad to help out and just
thank you for being here. Looking forward to partnership. These
guys are I mean, they're they're the ship. You guys
are legit. I mean, they are all about spreading the community,
are creating the community, spreading the word of cannabis and
(30:52):
just giving out and just helping and everything else. And
you guys are just consistent every single day. So love it.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Well there, I assure you, Brian, Thank you Brian a
very every day and we'll set a mirror on you.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah. Well there it is, guys, this Cannabis Talking one.
A woman will be right back after this.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Br No, no, we're wrapping up, folks.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
A thank you for listening to Cannabis Talk one on
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