February 28, 2023 • 41 mins
Meet Lorena Beltran, a true multi-hyphenate. Lorena is an international speaker, consultant, and activist on all things cannabis. She is the founder of both CannabiSalud Mexico and Endonatura Labs, companies focused on research, product manufacturing, and advocacy work connected to the legal medical cannabis framework in Mexico.
An integral part of the movement that successfully legalized medicinal marijuana in Mexico, Lorena has since launched a non-profit association called Alianza Latinoamericana de la Cannabis; a network of more than 50 companies that provide education to the public sector around cannabis. She’s also the chairwoman of an international cannabis consulting firm called Gateway Proven Strategies, and a member of the Advisory Board at Regennabis, a platform that delivers ESG services to companies around the world.
Last, but certainly not least, she balances all of this alongside being a single mother, and a career and tour manager to one of the largest social media influencers and Youtubers in Mexico, which just so happens to be her 14-year old son Alan (known by his handle Yankee). This episode features a special guest appearance from Alan, a member of the Vecibanda.
In this episode, we learn from both Lorena, and her son Alan, how the power of manifestation, persistence, and intentionality can come together in the most unlikely of ways to bring dreams to reality.
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Hey listeners. This is Neil Ludovic and Amir
done, Dolly. Welcome to leave looking at.
Where we have uplifting conversations about the state of
the world, with our heroes, withthe intention to demystify
orient and leave you, our listeners inspired for this
episode, we sat down with low, Dana Beltran, a true
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multi-hyphenate. Thunder Loreena is an
international speaker, a consultant and activists on all
things cannabis. She's the founder of both
cannabis Salud, Mexico and in down to the labs companies
focused on Research product, manufacturing and advocacy work
connected to the legal medical cannabis framework in Mexico, an
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integral part of the movement that successfully legalized
medicinal marijuana. In Mexico Lorena, has since
launched a non-profit association called Alianza
latinoamericano de la cannabis, A network of more than 50
companies that provide educationto the public sector around
cannabis. She's also the chairwoman of an
international cannabis consulting, firm called Gateway,
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proven strategies and a member of The Advisory board at Regina,
besides a platform that deliversESG services to companies around
the world. Last but certainly not least,
she balances all of this alongside being a single mother
and a career and tour manager toone of the largest social media
influencers, and YouTubers in Mexico.
Which just so happens to be her 14 year old son out known by his
(01:35):
handle Yankee it today's episodewe learn from both Loreena
Anderson. Alan how the power of
manifestation persistence and intentionality can come together
in the most unlikely of ways to bring dreams to reality.
And now, without further Ado, let's start this episode.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
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Let you leave afterwards lookingup.
I'm so honored to be Present to y'all.
A good friend of mine that I've known since high school, Lord,
and a belt from that is going tobe talking to us, about a breath
of things from Cannabis, to being a mother to being a Healer
to managing her son's career as he explodes in the public eye
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and all things in between a hereto leave you looking up towards
the stars and Beyond Lottie comoestas.
Welcome, good. As yes, I'm here and you'll
thank you so much. Much for the invitation.
I'm so happy to share with you guys.
We have some questions lined up for you.
But like how you doing today? How's it going what today's dear
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that is what's those? That's correct day of the death.
It's a very important Day in Mexico.
Everybody is at the cemetery visiting their loved ones or
just visiting different places in Mexico.
So there's a lot going on naughty for our guests and for
us to, I mean we've known each other for more than a decade.
(03:00):
Now how would you describe yourself?
Okay, that could be a tricky. Question socially.
Mmm, how I see myself single momthat has always had Big Dreams
and always trying to find the right place to be in terms of
feelings and intuition where youfeel good, right?
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And that's why my journey throughout the years have taken
me to so many places and live. So many Frances, I went to
school for filmmaking and for me, filmmaking and studying
communication, brought a lot of dreams to my head.
I wanted to be famous. I want to do write scripts, I
wanted to act, I wanted to direct produce.
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I got the chance to produce my own place.
I did The Vagina Monologues and other place down in Mexico.
So I was surrounded in that world, the entertainment world
and then Alan came. Into the picture of my son and I
became a single mom very early. So I had to change a few things
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in my life with the new baby andI think it's hard to say, who am
I? I've been an actress.
I've been a news anchor. I am a mom.
I also been an advocate for different human rights.
I currently am an advocate for the legalization of cannabis.
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I'm an advocate for people in Prison for cannabis and now that
my son you know, it's a famous YouTuber, I'm also a manager.
So it's going back and forth between accomplishing, my dreams
of being famous and an actress and I was seeing my son doing
that being famous and big influencer in Mexico and
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YouTuber. Now with many opportunities on
TV on the big screen even he's done voice-overs for Pixar
movies and stuff. So, it's just so incredible to
see my Dreams being accomplishedNow, by my son and be side to
side with him being his manager momager.
That's how I call it momager momager.
(05:12):
My God. I love it.
Yes. So I think I have a lot of roles
and I love all of them. Right?
A woman wearing many sombreros. There you go.
Yeah. That's a good idea what's coming
for you. I think I'm hearing all of those
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different things and it's honoring those and you seem to
wear them really well and I wantto know what you were like as a
kid, was it this? What was your childhood like to
get to this cool calm and collected place because you were
going back and forth also between the u.s. and Mexico and
correct. I'm just curious how all these
things connect it comes from howI was raised and they Variances
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that I lived and I come from parents that got divorced and I
was only 45 years old when they got divorced.
So my dad living in Chihuahua Mexico.
My dad moved to Colorado right when they got divorced.
So I stayed with my mom and my brother in Mexico, but of
course, I visited my dad every vacation, Christmas spring break
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summer. So yeah, it was always going
back and forth. My whole life, I grew up in Into
homes that were full of love andentertainment.
Of course, on my mom's side she was the strict one because she
was there every day, making surewe were eating, okay?
We were taking her veggies and we were getting good grades and
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also grounding us all the time, my dad was always supporting my
dreams. Always saying, hey I see as a
kid that you love to act. This is your passion like go.
For it. And then, on the other hand, my
mom's like, well I don't know about that.
You might struggle with those careers, not make enough money,
(07:08):
blah, blah, blah. But at the end of the day, the
main thing is that I never locked.
Love, love was always around in my family, and I think that's
key for every human being to be happy, your adult years.
And so, in her home as a child loredana would write and direct
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Leis and recruit her cousins to act, sing and dance for her
family. That's how she first learned to
pursue something. She was passionate about to just
make it. In fact, I met Lauren in theater
class back in high school and distinctly remember seeing
someone that was truly in her element.
And so, as you heard from all the hats that she wears her
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dreams have changed but it's clear that her drive, hasn't she
took that fire and directed it towards.
Advocacy for cannabis legalization.
What? Got you exactly into the world
of cannabis, what was it, okay? So after my journey in
filmmaking and production and then I started doing music
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festivals. And then after that, I moved
back to Chihuahua. I started my own production
company we were doing, mainly music, festivals, and brought a
mere to Chihuahua to play with DJ and mere.
It was, I was not making Real money, it wasn't a real
business. I was just partying with
everybody else at the festival. So this was during the years
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where former president back, then declared the War on Drugs
in Mexico. So my son was around two years
old and they declare the war on drugs.
And I'm here doing music festivals and working at clubs,
and all of a sudden mass shootings, especially at He's
(09:00):
and clubs and people, we're getting kidnapped and horrible,
things started to happen. A lot of violins specially on
border cities and I was on the border Chihuahua.
So we had to close our company and it became a ghost town like
you weren't safe anywhere here. I am single one with the baby
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and so I moved to Colorado and when I moved there it was going
to be 13 and Colorado decides tolegalize the recreational
market. So boom.
Here, I am running away from my country because of the violence
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around the war on drugs. And now in a state where they
are legalizing drugs marijuana, in this case and I was just so
confused. I was like, people are making a
legal business out of this opening stores.
And I started learning about themedical benefits of marijuana.
(10:03):
And I was like, oh my God, it has therapeutic benefits.
And I look back to Mexico and people are killing each other in
terrible. So there's something wrong here.
Hmm, you know, first, the UnitedStates, criminalize.
This is the first ones to prohibit it.
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Marijuana back in the day in the30s 40s and other legalizing
can. Abbess and we're still fighting
for it. So my first feeling was, I need
to learn exactly what's going on.
And then, second, I start falling in love with the plant.
The more I learn about it, the more, I a to Kid myself on all
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the benefits, everything you could do the tax, they were
making from it and the possibility of helping people in
prison to get out. I was just fascinated by it and
I thought that I could be that person that could help Mexico
legalize that as well. So I found this company
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Charlotte's Web. It was always on top of the list
of Google Charlotte's Web is doing this and the documentary
on the little girl Charlotte on CNN with dr.
Sanjay Gupta. So I was like, this is it this
is the company so yeah I took mesix months to get the job but I
got it. So Charlotte's Web was my first
job in the industry and I call it my cannabis.
(11:30):
T as well. So I graduated from Charlotte's
Web and it was Game Time, something I heard another MVPs
talk a little bit about the process of what it took you to
get that first job. I was pretty inspired by it.
Yeah so when I got to Colorado, everything was so confusing
(11:50):
terms of the legalization and also moving to a different
country with my son starting a new life.
I was a little bit lost. Honestly, I didn't know what.
I I knew I was not going back into the entertainment business
but then I didn't know what to do.
So what I did was I found a yogatraining to be an instructor
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yoga. So I was like, this is perfect,
it's a three-month course, and Iprobably can find many answers
there, but the course, was threethousand dollars and I had a
hundred dollars in my bank account when I wrote Colorado's.
So I was like, how am I going todo?
Do this. And they had an announcement to
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say. We have one scholarship, you
have to submit your information and write a letter, why you need
it. So I did that and of course, I
got it. Because I manifested it.
Oh my God. Oh my God, I'm a device that I
needed it. I was like, this is mine, this
is my scholarship. So I got it.
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I put my heart into that later. I was like please like I need
this desperately. So I got the scholarship.
Did the yoga teacher training for three months?
It was life-changing. I learned to meditate.
I learn about the benefits of being vegan vegetarian.
So I change a lot of things during those three months, and I
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found many answers. So I started teaching yoga, but
I was not making enough money byteaching two or three, four
classes, a week. So that's when I started looking
into cannabis, Listening to Loreena.
It was clear that this was the real start of her life.
Everything leading up to this moment, manifesting her
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scholarship meditation, buildingan entertainment company, her
child, it was all the fuel that she needed to form an
Unstoppable, persistence that would get her working for
Charlotte's Web. I was going after that, like,
Charlotte's Web is going to be at this Expo or giving this
conference or whatever. I was always there.
I was like, Hey guys the Mexicangirl again.
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I'm bilingual, I can help. I don't know anything about
cannabis, but I learned fast, you have a job and they're like
right now it was still a family business.
It's not like a huge corporationlike today, huge.
But back in the day was still a family company.
They were trying to grope Charlotte's Web saw demand from
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families around the world. That wanted CBD for their kids
with epilepsy as they continue to grow and establish a
reputation as a leader in. The world of cannabis load Anna
was always there ready to take any opportunity.
I had to wait until they had an opening and they had me start
the first sales team ever. They had to open a sales team to
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go out there and sell products at retail stores and stuff and
I'm like, hey I barely speak English.
Like I don't know what CBT meansand you're gonna put me out
there to start at the first sales team.
But I was like, this is my opportunity, I don't care.
I'll tell whatever you want me to, I'm going for it, and that's
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how I started. So, while she was busy,
manifesting a career in the Cannabis industry, stopping at
nothing to get their, it's important to remember that.
She was also juggling being a single mom having had Alan when
she was 20 and still in college.And at the time, she was living
with her parents and Allen's daduntil he left.
When Alan was only 7 months old.And Lorraine has shared a bit
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about how all that happened. What happened to her partner?
And some of the unexpected challenges that came with being
a single mom. During that time Allen's dad
he's like this is too much for me.
I'm going to continue to do my thing and he just left.
So it was very tough. I had postpartum depression for
like a year and a half. There was a point so I could
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finish college that my mom took my son to Chihuahua for like a
year. That was super hard for me too.
Apart from my baby, but I was close enough to go twice a month
to go. See him with the support of her
family. Things seem to be, getting
better for Lorena. She moved to Colorado got her
dream job at Charlotte's Web andwas finally able to get her own
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apartment with her son. However, a few years later, when
Alan was six years old Lieutenant faced an unexpected
challenge, he was saw 67 years old when he started asking for
his dad. Where is he?
Like, I'm I haven't seen him in a very long time.
Where is he? I want to know why?
He's not here. If he doesn't love me or what
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happened, start asking all thesequestions.
So I got super nervous and sad at the same time and I started
remember a lot of things and I was like, well, he's right, has
a right to know where his dad is.
I don't even know, I didn't knowback then.
So I started doing my research, I call my lawyer and I was like
can you help me find him? I don't have.
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Phone. I didn't have contact with his
family, he calls me 30 minutes later.
He's like, well he's in prison. That was like, oh my God.
I didn't know how I was going totell my son to be a few months
before I told him what was goingon because he was so young.
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So before I told him, I was giving them different scenarios
and maybe he's in a hospital mom, and he is probably super
Were sick and he doesn't have a phone number and he doesn't know
how to contact us in. He's probably there in a
hospital and I will cry. Every time I we will have this
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conversations and then next time, we'll maybe he's dead Mom.
That's why you don't know anything about him.
He probably died. So we need to find his grave if
that's the case. And it was so heartbreaking.
When I mentioned, well, what He's in prison and he just
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looked at me and he was shocked.He's like, no way.
That's not going to be the case because my dad is not a bad
person, he cannot be in prison. So can you imagine all these
scenarios? He was like super mature about
it. Like could be this or that when
we mentioned prison he started crying when I finally told him
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explain you there's a lot of Injustice.
Has there's a lot of people in prison for things that they
didn't do. Your dad is not about person.
He was just very young when he left confused and they told him
about his that childhood and he was said, he didn't know his
dad, he was only raised by his grandparents.
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His parents were not there, his mom or his dad and how he, as a
human being. How could all of those things
affected him in a way that are not reflecting?
In the press and bite him being in prison and the decisions that
he made and I told me he's not, he's not a bad person.
He's actually a good person. He's a very funny guy.
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You're is your dad, just you gotta love him.
I am now that we found him. What he wanted to do.
You want me to take you to see him?
She's like no Mom. Like let's write a letter and
let's see if he responds and we did and since then he called
Alan every weekend. So They they've had a
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relationship over the phone so yeah, we have been through a lot
and I just try to make sure thatmy son, it's okay, emotionally
around the situation. I took him to therapy because I
saw also things manifesting in him like ticks like different
ticks that he will do coffee forno reason or moving his head and
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you ask kids, they don't know how to express verbally so they
showed in different ways and it was Physically how anxious he
was or stress, all these things moving to a different country
and your language, learn about his dad in prison.
And so yeah, it was also a challenging time.
I'm not going to say it was a bad time because it also helped
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them be. The person he is today which I'm
super proud of. He is super mature emotionally
mentally like you talk to me, you feel like you're talking to
a 60 year-old. He always had all this attention
and love, you know? And I definitely believe 100%
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that a kid has love all, you know, his childhood.
He's going to be fine, no matterwhat else happens around?
Well, that's because your videosI make another YouTube.
He is the Supreme are we okay? He's been, we must, you know,
that was Alan's kickoff video from two years ago.
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Go where he introduces himself and his channel to the world
today, that video has over 2 million views.
You can see that just, like young lonina.
Allen has also pursued his passion in front of the camera.
And one thing is very clear thathe like his mom is definitely in
his element as a performer. The last president, has you look
(21:25):
back on this and just taking a note about this transition from
Bay home to cannabis that you guys seem very much in your
natural authentic selves. Like that is where you guys
shine. There's opportunities to express
yourselves to talk about yourselves and I'd love to hear
more about how this transition happened to him having this
(21:46):
YouTube channel. It's funny because when he turns
7 years old, that's when I Lot of things started to happen.
It was the boom of YouTube, likekids start to watching YouTube
more than Nickelodeon or CartoonNetwork.
And he's like I want to open my YouTube channel because I would
really like to be on a camera and I'm like well you got it
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from your mom so yes, yeah, he had like little dolls like
superheroes and stuff and he will also do scripts and have
his little toys pretend to do. Like a little scene, and he will
record with his iPad and he had his YouTube channel, but then he
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realized after a few months, youknow, nobody's following mom
getting any attention. I have no subscribers, and he
was so disappointed. He's like, this is not easy, but
I want this so bad and I'm like,well, just continue to work and
just keep dreaming, keep manifesting and he's like, I
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think what I need is, To meet a famous YouTuber, he's going to
help me and I'm gonna become one, and I was like, okay, let's
see what happens. He said that when he was seven
and then whatever it was just a dream of him.
And then after Charlotte's Web, I moved to another company to
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learn about the recreational industry.
And then we had a case of a little girl from Mexico from
Monterey, who Has epilepsy and her family, learn about
Charlotte's Web, and they decided to go to Colorado, to
look for the product. And this family came to the
office when I was there, and they're like, oh well, this is
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the arena, the only Mexican The Works in the company.
So I was introduced to this family and they're like, we need
to take this product to Mexico legally and we're like how we're
going to do that. Mexico is illegal.
We're going to fight it in court, so I was there next to
them supporting through the whole process of Of Court.
They finally won in court and got the permit to take the
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product in Mexico. So that was big news.
Now little Grace in Mexico was also all over the news and all
the reporters wanted to learn about the story in Colorado.
So they started showing up in Colorado.
Was that all over the news talking about Charlotte's Web
and see what I do. When I get an invitation to
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speak at the Congress in Mexico,along with Grace's parents.
Ends. And here we are agreeing this
group of Advocates to legalize medical cannabis in.
Mexico. I became an external advisory in
the Congress to have legislatorseducate them around medical
cannabis, and with my backgroundin Charlotte's Web, I was a
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trusted source. And when finally legalization
happened, there was like, I needto move back to Mexico.
That's why I learned all these things now.
I mean, the Congress I'm around.Legislators and politicians and
I have a voice so I need to use it.
So we move to Mexico City. I was not the only one being
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successful in accomplishing goals and manifesting, then my
son. All of a sudden comes to the
apartment. And he's like, guess what?
What I met a famous YouTuber. Oh my God is same building.
You could show me and back then three years ago, this YouTuber
(25:28):
had 45 million subscribers and Iwas like oh, that's cool.
Yeah, he's famous. He's like I'm just gonna stalk
him. I'm just gonna follow him
everywhere until I do a video with him right now.
My good luck with that. So it was a group of kids.
What's my son and another five little boys that were running
(25:50):
around the building. Following this guy from you do,
Hawaii. And the next thing, you know,
he's like Mom, Mom Mom. I'm on his channel.
What do you mean? And I'm going to this guy's
Channel. His name is feather.
Why? And I see a video called, I hate
my neighbors. Oh my God.
(26:10):
That was my watch. This video and you have this six
little kids running behind him and finally on, we finally beat
you a kiss. All right, come to my apartment
and I'll show you what I do and the kids like jumping everywhere
and destroying his apartment andlike super excited, taking
(26:33):
videos and pictures and it was like a reality show and I was
just like laughing. I just couldn't believe it.
I was like well there you go. No, you made it.
And he's like this is just the beginning of the.
I didn't hear anything after that video until like a month
after he comes running in the apartment mom.
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Mom, you need to come because I need you to support me because
I'm having a hard time recordingmy song.
What's up next song? We're doing a music video with
feather. What are you talking about?
And I go downstairs and friends,like all the kids didn't tell
you were recording a song and we're gonna do a music video for
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my Channel. All right?
Next to me, there's a music video that right now has over 60
million views. The Music video and from there I
was like, okay, this is real. Yeah, there's something going.
Something or not here. Oh my God.
Yeah, so he put a nickname to each of the kids and he named
(27:36):
them. The best Yvonne that, we means
the neighbor band they were banned.
God, I love is you and that, andsince then, pandemic came, they
went viral and each kid open their own Channel.
All of them have almost 2 million subscribers Subscribers
and feathered Mastermind. He's a Creator.
(27:57):
He went from four million followers three years ago to
almost 17 today. Thanks to the content with the
kids. Yeah, it's been a journey.
Yeah. Since then Alan who goes by L
Yankee has accumulated over 1.75million subscribers on his
YouTube channel. Gained hundreds of thousands of
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followers on every other social Channel and has become a true
internet celebrity most recentlyvoicing a character Dr. On the
animated film boss baby to alongside the likes of Alec
Baldwin Eva Longoria, Jimmy Kimmel and Lisa Kudrow just to
name a few. We were lucky enough to have
Alan around at the time of our interview solo, Dana called him
(28:38):
in to join us and share a bit about his life and thoughts
about his mother and manifestation, so Alan Yankee.
Hi, we go with Yankee today. Yes, are you doing?
I've been vegan yanking Alan. Where did the two identities?
Splits you were Allen and you still are Alan, but Yankee is a
recent. Yeah.
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Newer name talk about that. So when I go select events or
like when I'm filming, or I go outside and someone asks to take
a picture with me. Well, that's when Yankee comes
out because that's the celebritypart in Allen is when I am with
like family or friends or just doing typical normal stuff.
(29:18):
That's cool. Yeah.
And what was that other YouTube?A feather?
Yeah, yeah. There.
Any? He said they give on the, he
said Yankee, where did the word term Yankee come from.
So he's from Uruguay and over there people who speak English
are normally called Yankees. So he said, okay, well, this guy
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speaks English. So we're gonna name him Yankee
and it just stayed naturally. Yeah, Alan, we've been talking
to your mom for a bit and hearing about her journey and
just going back and forth between Mexico and Colorado and
then we met in Las Cruces and and just kind of hearing this
Spirit of going after your visions and then sensing
something and then bringing it to life.
(30:00):
And then this beautiful moment that you had when you wanted to
start a YouTube channel and thenyou did.
Yeah. Talking about your toys.
Yes, it was very Quinn's worthy but you gotta start somewhere.
Yeah. I mean when I was little I
always told my mom. I want to be in the Nickelodeon
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awards. Aha.
And and now we won the last one they did.
It was not too long ago so yeah the kids chose the words from a
Nickelodeon and they they just one my God.
Yeah it's pretty fun. Having those experiences
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something that probably happens once in a lifetime right in even
through like a 14 year old boy which has like nothing to do
with YouTube and stuff. Cough.
And then just like that, I'm no here and like so how do you make
sense of that? I mean what does that mean to
you? I guess it can mean that no
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matter how old you are or not even just like being old just
like any anything that's holdingyou back, instead of using it as
Wait, use it as a step to keep going on.
Talia, since he was little. I was mentioning because this
power of manifestation, he manifest things very fast.
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We all humans have that power whenever we topped into it and
learn how to do it and believe that we can do, it starts
happening, but as kids, we have it naturally, we start losing
that sense. That knowing of manifestation
and the power. Have to accomplish things.
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Allen is one of those people person that just continues to
do. So in a very, very fast way.
Sure, what do you, how do you feel about that?
I mean, it sounds very hippie. But yeah.
Yeah. My mom baby.
Yeah, I mean it sounds creepy but isn't it true how you
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manifest things? It's true.
It's true. What were things like before
your TV show and being on all over social was the same across
the board. It was more normal because that
definitely changes your whole life.
Now, I can go out without even being asked to take a photo and
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before it was just School in friends and family.
And now it's Friends School family and work because Yeah, I
can be fun and everything. I really enjoyed doing it with
my friends and myself, because it's something that I really
enjoy from Steven, since when I was little, I always saw these
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YouTubers make videos and I would say, okay, that's cool.
I want to do that too. But it's also like a really big
responsibility because you have to be on it a lot and then
because then if you don't then you're just going to lose focus
and people are going to stop being interested in you and it
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just goes down. How are you choosing?
What happens, what is going on the show?
And as that happened on videos, I normally just come up with
ideas or my mom gives me ideas. She doesn't have the best song.
Sometimes I do or sometimes withmy editor he helps me out too
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and we just brainstorm and then we think of a good idea and then
you just film it as we go. I'm curious about like as you
were just kind of like experimenting through things.
Have you noticed that mindset apply in other areas of your
life? Yeah, like right since I have a
lot going on in my head I have school, I have work.
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I have family, friends. I'm trying new things to keep me
a bit more occupied from those things.
Like not have more just have like a set of times where I'm
just doing something I enjoy andI don't think about anything
else. For example, football, I never
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really liked football when I waslittle, and then most of my
friends here in Mexico. They love football.
So it's kind of difficult for you.
Not to do what they like when everyone's graying on what to
do. So I had to adapt a little to
playing them. I started enjoying it more and
(34:47):
more and now I got at least moredecent.
Now I've learned piano and guitar.
Our and drums and stuff. And I won't travel more, but to
not places. I don't want to go where my mom
forces me. I want to travel to places where
I like, right? Well, yeah.
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Next time you want to catch a Yankees game?
I'm here in New York. Okay, I've always wanted to go
to New York, Let's do it. You okay.
See you Amir ganor. Some kisaki Casita, thank you
too. Thanks so much for joining us
out. Thank you for having me.
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I really enjoyed is. Yeah, we'll check in with you in
a couple of years. We'll get you back on the
podcast. All right.
He's a cool kid. He's awesome.
Yeah you are right about wisdom Beyond his years, right?
And he talks like an adult so this is so freaking cold.
None of this is surprising to let enough all the things, the
way you carry yourself, the things that you nurture for
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yourself the way that you do, your best to fortify your
relationship with the world and stay centered.
And now you create that space for your beautiful son here and
seeing the fruits of that labor and what's happening.
So so wonderful like got to recognize that Lodi.
Congratulations, thank you so much.
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It's been quite a journey. I've learned the importance of
living now because we don't knowthat And it's going to be
tonight or tomorrow. So let's just do the right thing
and, and leave here now. And that's what I try to teach
them as well. Just enjoying the moment and
YouTube is temporary to. I was like, just leave your
moment. You want that a word carry their
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word with all the excitement that you were waiting for you
finally have it but you never stopped getting surprise for all
these things in life well Lori as As we wrap up here, bring us
home with, with what your visionis.
What do you seeing now? When you give your mind's eye
permission, what do you see in the future for you in the
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future? For me, in terms of my mission
which was evolving around. The cannabis plant, I've learned
that my mission is not just the plant, it was a spark to
continue the work that Evo Goes around, soil, around General,
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agriculture, food. The way we leave in terms of
what we eat, what we produce? Where are we going with all of
this? All the problems out there,
climate change and all these things that I have on my soul
every day is because one thing is taking me to another working
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with the plant, allow me to be closer to the It's World in
general that's and connecting with other groups around
regenerative agriculture, a member of the board of advisors
of a consulting firm called re Genovese, that helps cannabis
companies aligned with the sustainable development goals of
(38:04):
2030. And I just feel that my spirit,
my soul wants to be in a farm now, I understand that cannabis
was just one step to get closer.ER, to something bigger and
bigger in a sense that we need to come together in this bigger
Mission. That's full circle right there.
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You continue to inspire me my friend, with the way you live
your life and the way your your heart is oriented.
So keep going, thank you, and Neil, and I want to hold this
space for you to give thanks with gratitude.
Would you like to share now as we close this conversation,
who's been that stepping stone for you?
I think what I Want to close with that.
(38:47):
You know, grateful for my grandma to teach me that we're
here to be in service of others of our mother earth.
Like that's the translation of human being serviced.
And I think once we get that andremember that everything just
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Happens. So what would you like us and
our listeners to do after havinglistened to everything you
showed today? Go out there and service
somebody. It doesn't matter who whoever is
next to you or an unknown personout there, but do something for
someone today. All right?
Miss this. Great load.
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Annabeth run. My childhood friend, my co-pilot
in this world. Thank you so much for being here
with us with my other fellow copilot in this world.
Neil. Thank you.
Thank you. Both of you.
Hope to meet you in person Suniland I'm here, please come.
Visit both of you because her istoo tough.
Yes, yes yes, thank you guys. You can follow Loreena on
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Where we have uplifting conversations about the state of
the world, with our heroes, withthe intention to demystify
orient and leave you, our listeners inspired for this
episode, we sat down with low, Dana Beltran, a true
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multi-hyphenate. Thunder Loreena is an
international speaker, a consultant and activists on all
things cannabis. She's the founder of both
cannabis Salud, Mexico and in down to the labs companies
focused on Research product, manufacturing and advocacy work
connected to the legal medical cannabis framework in Mexico, an
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integral part of the movement that successfully legalized
medicinal marijuana. In Mexico Lorena, has since
launched a non-profit association called Alianza
latinoamericano de la cannabis, A network of more than 50
companies that provide educationto the public sector around
cannabis. She's also the chairwoman of an
international cannabis consulting, firm called Gateway,
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proven strategies and a member of The Advisory board at Regina,
besides a platform that deliversESG services to companies around
the world. Last but certainly not least,
she balances all of this alongside being a single mother
and a career and tour manager toone of the largest social media
influencers, and YouTubers in Mexico.
Which just so happens to be her 14 year old son out known by his
(01:35):
handle Yankee it today's episodewe learn from both Loreena
Anderson. Alan how the power of
manifestation persistence and intentionality can come together
in the most unlikely of ways to bring dreams to reality.
And now, without further Ado, let's start this episode.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
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Let you leave afterwards lookingup.
I'm so honored to be Present to y'all.
A good friend of mine that I've known since high school, Lord,
and a belt from that is going tobe talking to us, about a breath
of things from Cannabis, to being a mother to being a Healer
to managing her son's career as he explodes in the public eye
(02:17):
and all things in between a hereto leave you looking up towards
the stars and Beyond Lottie comoestas.
Welcome, good. As yes, I'm here and you'll
thank you so much. Much for the invitation.
I'm so happy to share with you guys.
We have some questions lined up for you.
But like how you doing today? How's it going what today's dear
(02:39):
that is what's those? That's correct day of the death.
It's a very important Day in Mexico.
Everybody is at the cemetery visiting their loved ones or
just visiting different places in Mexico.
So there's a lot going on naughty for our guests and for
us to, I mean we've known each other for more than a decade.
(03:00):
Now how would you describe yourself?
Okay, that could be a tricky. Question socially.
Mmm, how I see myself single momthat has always had Big Dreams
and always trying to find the right place to be in terms of
feelings and intuition where youfeel good, right?
(03:22):
And that's why my journey throughout the years have taken
me to so many places and live. So many Frances, I went to
school for filmmaking and for me, filmmaking and studying
communication, brought a lot of dreams to my head.
I wanted to be famous. I want to do write scripts, I
wanted to act, I wanted to direct produce.
(03:45):
I got the chance to produce my own place.
I did The Vagina Monologues and other place down in Mexico.
So I was surrounded in that world, the entertainment world
and then Alan came. Into the picture of my son and I
became a single mom very early. So I had to change a few things
(04:07):
in my life with the new baby andI think it's hard to say, who am
I? I've been an actress.
I've been a news anchor. I am a mom.
I also been an advocate for different human rights.
I currently am an advocate for the legalization of cannabis.
(04:27):
I'm an advocate for people in Prison for cannabis and now that
my son you know, it's a famous YouTuber, I'm also a manager.
So it's going back and forth between accomplishing, my dreams
of being famous and an actress and I was seeing my son doing
that being famous and big influencer in Mexico and
(04:48):
YouTuber. Now with many opportunities on
TV on the big screen even he's done voice-overs for Pixar
movies and stuff. So, it's just so incredible to
see my Dreams being accomplishedNow, by my son and be side to
side with him being his manager momager.
That's how I call it momager momager.
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My God. I love it.
Yes. So I think I have a lot of roles
and I love all of them. Right?
A woman wearing many sombreros. There you go.
Yeah. That's a good idea what's coming
for you. I think I'm hearing all of those
(05:35):
different things and it's honoring those and you seem to
wear them really well and I wantto know what you were like as a
kid, was it this? What was your childhood like to
get to this cool calm and collected place because you were
going back and forth also between the u.s. and Mexico and
correct. I'm just curious how all these
things connect it comes from howI was raised and they Variances
(06:00):
that I lived and I come from parents that got divorced and I
was only 45 years old when they got divorced.
So my dad living in Chihuahua Mexico.
My dad moved to Colorado right when they got divorced.
So I stayed with my mom and my brother in Mexico, but of
course, I visited my dad every vacation, Christmas spring break
(06:24):
summer. So yeah, it was always going
back and forth. My whole life, I grew up in Into
homes that were full of love andentertainment.
Of course, on my mom's side she was the strict one because she
was there every day, making surewe were eating, okay?
We were taking her veggies and we were getting good grades and
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also grounding us all the time, my dad was always supporting my
dreams. Always saying, hey I see as a
kid that you love to act. This is your passion like go.
For it. And then, on the other hand, my
mom's like, well I don't know about that.
You might struggle with those careers, not make enough money,
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blah, blah, blah. But at the end of the day, the
main thing is that I never locked.
Love, love was always around in my family, and I think that's
key for every human being to be happy, your adult years.
And so, in her home as a child loredana would write and direct
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Leis and recruit her cousins to act, sing and dance for her
family. That's how she first learned to
pursue something. She was passionate about to just
make it. In fact, I met Lauren in theater
class back in high school and distinctly remember seeing
someone that was truly in her element.
And so, as you heard from all the hats that she wears her
(07:52):
dreams have changed but it's clear that her drive, hasn't she
took that fire and directed it towards.
Advocacy for cannabis legalization.
What? Got you exactly into the world
of cannabis, what was it, okay? So after my journey in
filmmaking and production and then I started doing music
(08:13):
festivals. And then after that, I moved
back to Chihuahua. I started my own production
company we were doing, mainly music, festivals, and brought a
mere to Chihuahua to play with DJ and mere.
It was, I was not making Real money, it wasn't a real
business. I was just partying with
everybody else at the festival. So this was during the years
(08:38):
where former president back, then declared the War on Drugs
in Mexico. So my son was around two years
old and they declare the war on drugs.
And I'm here doing music festivals and working at clubs,
and all of a sudden mass shootings, especially at He's
(09:00):
and clubs and people, we're getting kidnapped and horrible,
things started to happen. A lot of violins specially on
border cities and I was on the border Chihuahua.
So we had to close our company and it became a ghost town like
you weren't safe anywhere here. I am single one with the baby
(09:22):
and so I moved to Colorado and when I moved there it was going
to be 13 and Colorado decides tolegalize the recreational
market. So boom.
Here, I am running away from my country because of the violence
(09:42):
around the war on drugs. And now in a state where they
are legalizing drugs marijuana, in this case and I was just so
confused. I was like, people are making a
legal business out of this opening stores.
And I started learning about themedical benefits of marijuana.
(10:03):
And I was like, oh my God, it has therapeutic benefits.
And I look back to Mexico and people are killing each other in
terrible. So there's something wrong here.
Hmm, you know, first, the UnitedStates, criminalize.
This is the first ones to prohibit it.
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Marijuana back in the day in the30s 40s and other legalizing
can. Abbess and we're still fighting
for it. So my first feeling was, I need
to learn exactly what's going on.
And then, second, I start falling in love with the plant.
The more I learn about it, the more, I a to Kid myself on all
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the benefits, everything you could do the tax, they were
making from it and the possibility of helping people in
prison to get out. I was just fascinated by it and
I thought that I could be that person that could help Mexico
legalize that as well. So I found this company
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Charlotte's Web. It was always on top of the list
of Google Charlotte's Web is doing this and the documentary
on the little girl Charlotte on CNN with dr.
Sanjay Gupta. So I was like, this is it this
is the company so yeah I took mesix months to get the job but I
got it. So Charlotte's Web was my first
job in the industry and I call it my cannabis.
(11:30):
T as well. So I graduated from Charlotte's
Web and it was Game Time, something I heard another MVPs
talk a little bit about the process of what it took you to
get that first job. I was pretty inspired by it.
Yeah so when I got to Colorado, everything was so confusing
(11:50):
terms of the legalization and also moving to a different
country with my son starting a new life.
I was a little bit lost. Honestly, I didn't know what.
I I knew I was not going back into the entertainment business
but then I didn't know what to do.
So what I did was I found a yogatraining to be an instructor
(12:11):
yoga. So I was like, this is perfect,
it's a three-month course, and Iprobably can find many answers
there, but the course, was threethousand dollars and I had a
hundred dollars in my bank account when I wrote Colorado's.
So I was like, how am I going todo?
Do this. And they had an announcement to
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say. We have one scholarship, you
have to submit your information and write a letter, why you need
it. So I did that and of course, I
got it. Because I manifested it.
Oh my God. Oh my God, I'm a device that I
needed it. I was like, this is mine, this
is my scholarship. So I got it.
(12:53):
I put my heart into that later. I was like please like I need
this desperately. So I got the scholarship.
Did the yoga teacher training for three months?
It was life-changing. I learned to meditate.
I learn about the benefits of being vegan vegetarian.
So I change a lot of things during those three months, and I
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found many answers. So I started teaching yoga, but
I was not making enough money byteaching two or three, four
classes, a week. So that's when I started looking
into cannabis, Listening to Loreena.
It was clear that this was the real start of her life.
Everything leading up to this moment, manifesting her
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scholarship meditation, buildingan entertainment company, her
child, it was all the fuel that she needed to form an
Unstoppable, persistence that would get her working for
Charlotte's Web. I was going after that, like,
Charlotte's Web is going to be at this Expo or giving this
conference or whatever. I was always there.
I was like, Hey guys the Mexicangirl again.
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I'm bilingual, I can help. I don't know anything about
cannabis, but I learned fast, you have a job and they're like
right now it was still a family business.
It's not like a huge corporationlike today, huge.
But back in the day was still a family company.
They were trying to grope Charlotte's Web saw demand from
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families around the world. That wanted CBD for their kids
with epilepsy as they continue to grow and establish a
reputation as a leader in. The world of cannabis load Anna
was always there ready to take any opportunity.
I had to wait until they had an opening and they had me start
the first sales team ever. They had to open a sales team to
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go out there and sell products at retail stores and stuff and
I'm like, hey I barely speak English.
Like I don't know what CBT meansand you're gonna put me out
there to start at the first sales team.
But I was like, this is my opportunity, I don't care.
I'll tell whatever you want me to, I'm going for it, and that's
(15:08):
how I started. So, while she was busy,
manifesting a career in the Cannabis industry, stopping at
nothing to get their, it's important to remember that.
She was also juggling being a single mom having had Alan when
she was 20 and still in college.And at the time, she was living
with her parents and Allen's daduntil he left.
When Alan was only 7 months old.And Lorraine has shared a bit
(15:31):
about how all that happened. What happened to her partner?
And some of the unexpected challenges that came with being
a single mom. During that time Allen's dad
he's like this is too much for me.
I'm going to continue to do my thing and he just left.
So it was very tough. I had postpartum depression for
like a year and a half. There was a point so I could
(15:53):
finish college that my mom took my son to Chihuahua for like a
year. That was super hard for me too.
Apart from my baby, but I was close enough to go twice a month
to go. See him with the support of her
family. Things seem to be, getting
better for Lorena. She moved to Colorado got her
dream job at Charlotte's Web andwas finally able to get her own
(16:15):
apartment with her son. However, a few years later, when
Alan was six years old Lieutenant faced an unexpected
challenge, he was saw 67 years old when he started asking for
his dad. Where is he?
Like, I'm I haven't seen him in a very long time.
Where is he? I want to know why?
He's not here. If he doesn't love me or what
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happened, start asking all thesequestions.
So I got super nervous and sad at the same time and I started
remember a lot of things and I was like, well, he's right, has
a right to know where his dad is.
I don't even know, I didn't knowback then.
So I started doing my research, I call my lawyer and I was like
can you help me find him? I don't have.
(17:00):
Phone. I didn't have contact with his
family, he calls me 30 minutes later.
He's like, well he's in prison. That was like, oh my God.
I didn't know how I was going totell my son to be a few months
before I told him what was goingon because he was so young.
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So before I told him, I was giving them different scenarios
and maybe he's in a hospital mom, and he is probably super
Were sick and he doesn't have a phone number and he doesn't know
how to contact us in. He's probably there in a
hospital and I will cry. Every time I we will have this
(17:42):
conversations and then next time, we'll maybe he's dead Mom.
That's why you don't know anything about him.
He probably died. So we need to find his grave if
that's the case. And it was so heartbreaking.
When I mentioned, well, what He's in prison and he just
(18:03):
looked at me and he was shocked.He's like, no way.
That's not going to be the case because my dad is not a bad
person, he cannot be in prison. So can you imagine all these
scenarios? He was like super mature about
it. Like could be this or that when
we mentioned prison he started crying when I finally told him
(18:27):
explain you there's a lot of Injustice.
Has there's a lot of people in prison for things that they
didn't do. Your dad is not about person.
He was just very young when he left confused and they told him
about his that childhood and he was said, he didn't know his
dad, he was only raised by his grandparents.
(18:48):
His parents were not there, his mom or his dad and how he, as a
human being. How could all of those things
affected him in a way that are not reflecting?
In the press and bite him being in prison and the decisions that
he made and I told me he's not, he's not a bad person.
He's actually a good person. He's a very funny guy.
(19:09):
You're is your dad, just you gotta love him.
I am now that we found him. What he wanted to do.
You want me to take you to see him?
She's like no Mom. Like let's write a letter and
let's see if he responds and we did and since then he called
Alan every weekend. So They they've had a
(19:31):
relationship over the phone so yeah, we have been through a lot
and I just try to make sure thatmy son, it's okay, emotionally
around the situation. I took him to therapy because I
saw also things manifesting in him like ticks like different
ticks that he will do coffee forno reason or moving his head and
(19:53):
you ask kids, they don't know how to express verbally so they
showed in different ways and it was Physically how anxious he
was or stress, all these things moving to a different country
and your language, learn about his dad in prison.
And so yeah, it was also a challenging time.
I'm not going to say it was a bad time because it also helped
(20:17):
them be. The person he is today which I'm
super proud of. He is super mature emotionally
mentally like you talk to me, you feel like you're talking to
a 60 year-old. He always had all this attention
and love, you know? And I definitely believe 100%
(20:39):
that a kid has love all, you know, his childhood.
He's going to be fine, no matterwhat else happens around?
Well, that's because your videosI make another YouTube.
He is the Supreme are we okay? He's been, we must, you know,
that was Alan's kickoff video from two years ago.
(21:00):
Go where he introduces himself and his channel to the world
today, that video has over 2 million views.
You can see that just, like young lonina.
Allen has also pursued his passion in front of the camera.
And one thing is very clear thathe like his mom is definitely in
his element as a performer. The last president, has you look
(21:25):
back on this and just taking a note about this transition from
Bay home to cannabis that you guys seem very much in your
natural authentic selves. Like that is where you guys
shine. There's opportunities to express
yourselves to talk about yourselves and I'd love to hear
more about how this transition happened to him having this
(21:46):
YouTube channel. It's funny because when he turns
7 years old, that's when I Lot of things started to happen.
It was the boom of YouTube, likekids start to watching YouTube
more than Nickelodeon or CartoonNetwork.
And he's like I want to open my YouTube channel because I would
really like to be on a camera and I'm like well you got it
(22:09):
from your mom so yes, yeah, he had like little dolls like
superheroes and stuff and he will also do scripts and have
his little toys pretend to do. Like a little scene, and he will
record with his iPad and he had his YouTube channel, but then he
(22:31):
realized after a few months, youknow, nobody's following mom
getting any attention. I have no subscribers, and he
was so disappointed. He's like, this is not easy, but
I want this so bad and I'm like,well, just continue to work and
just keep dreaming, keep manifesting and he's like, I
(22:51):
think what I need is, To meet a famous YouTuber, he's going to
help me and I'm gonna become one, and I was like, okay, let's
see what happens. He said that when he was seven
and then whatever it was just a dream of him.
And then after Charlotte's Web, I moved to another company to
(23:14):
learn about the recreational industry.
And then we had a case of a little girl from Mexico from
Monterey, who Has epilepsy and her family, learn about
Charlotte's Web, and they decided to go to Colorado, to
look for the product. And this family came to the
office when I was there, and they're like, oh well, this is
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the arena, the only Mexican The Works in the company.
So I was introduced to this family and they're like, we need
to take this product to Mexico legally and we're like how we're
going to do that. Mexico is illegal.
We're going to fight it in court, so I was there next to
them supporting through the whole process of Of Court.
They finally won in court and got the permit to take the
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product in Mexico. So that was big news.
Now little Grace in Mexico was also all over the news and all
the reporters wanted to learn about the story in Colorado.
So they started showing up in Colorado.
Was that all over the news talking about Charlotte's Web
and see what I do. When I get an invitation to
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speak at the Congress in Mexico,along with Grace's parents.
Ends. And here we are agreeing this
group of Advocates to legalize medical cannabis in.
Mexico. I became an external advisory in
the Congress to have legislatorseducate them around medical
cannabis, and with my backgroundin Charlotte's Web, I was a
(24:40):
trusted source. And when finally legalization
happened, there was like, I needto move back to Mexico.
That's why I learned all these things now.
I mean, the Congress I'm around.Legislators and politicians and
I have a voice so I need to use it.
So we move to Mexico City. I was not the only one being
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successful in accomplishing goals and manifesting, then my
son. All of a sudden comes to the
apartment. And he's like, guess what?
What I met a famous YouTuber. Oh my God is same building.
You could show me and back then three years ago, this YouTuber
(25:28):
had 45 million subscribers and Iwas like oh, that's cool.
Yeah, he's famous. He's like I'm just gonna stalk
him. I'm just gonna follow him
everywhere until I do a video with him right now.
My good luck with that. So it was a group of kids.
What's my son and another five little boys that were running
(25:50):
around the building. Following this guy from you do,
Hawaii. And the next thing, you know,
he's like Mom, Mom Mom. I'm on his channel.
What do you mean? And I'm going to this guy's
Channel. His name is feather.
Why? And I see a video called, I hate
my neighbors. Oh my God.
(26:10):
That was my watch. This video and you have this six
little kids running behind him and finally on, we finally beat
you a kiss. All right, come to my apartment
and I'll show you what I do and the kids like jumping everywhere
and destroying his apartment andlike super excited, taking
(26:33):
videos and pictures and it was like a reality show and I was
just like laughing. I just couldn't believe it.
I was like well there you go. No, you made it.
And he's like this is just the beginning of the.
I didn't hear anything after that video until like a month
after he comes running in the apartment mom.
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Mom, you need to come because I need you to support me because
I'm having a hard time recordingmy song.
What's up next song? We're doing a music video with
feather. What are you talking about?
And I go downstairs and friends,like all the kids didn't tell
you were recording a song and we're gonna do a music video for
(27:14):
my Channel. All right?
Next to me, there's a music video that right now has over 60
million views. The Music video and from there I
was like, okay, this is real. Yeah, there's something going.
Something or not here. Oh my God.
Yeah, so he put a nickname to each of the kids and he named
(27:36):
them. The best Yvonne that, we means
the neighbor band they were banned.
God, I love is you and that, andsince then, pandemic came, they
went viral and each kid open their own Channel.
All of them have almost 2 million subscribers Subscribers
and feathered Mastermind. He's a Creator.
(27:57):
He went from four million followers three years ago to
almost 17 today. Thanks to the content with the
kids. Yeah, it's been a journey.
Yeah. Since then Alan who goes by L
Yankee has accumulated over 1.75million subscribers on his
YouTube channel. Gained hundreds of thousands of
(28:17):
followers on every other social Channel and has become a true
internet celebrity most recentlyvoicing a character Dr. On the
animated film boss baby to alongside the likes of Alec
Baldwin Eva Longoria, Jimmy Kimmel and Lisa Kudrow just to
name a few. We were lucky enough to have
Alan around at the time of our interview solo, Dana called him
(28:38):
in to join us and share a bit about his life and thoughts
about his mother and manifestation, so Alan Yankee.
Hi, we go with Yankee today. Yes, are you doing?
I've been vegan yanking Alan. Where did the two identities?
Splits you were Allen and you still are Alan, but Yankee is a
recent. Yeah.
(28:58):
Newer name talk about that. So when I go select events or
like when I'm filming, or I go outside and someone asks to take
a picture with me. Well, that's when Yankee comes
out because that's the celebritypart in Allen is when I am with
like family or friends or just doing typical normal stuff.
(29:18):
That's cool. Yeah.
And what was that other YouTube?A feather?
Yeah, yeah. There.
Any? He said they give on the, he
said Yankee, where did the word term Yankee come from.
So he's from Uruguay and over there people who speak English
are normally called Yankees. So he said, okay, well, this guy
(29:38):
speaks English. So we're gonna name him Yankee
and it just stayed naturally. Yeah, Alan, we've been talking
to your mom for a bit and hearing about her journey and
just going back and forth between Mexico and Colorado and
then we met in Las Cruces and and just kind of hearing this
Spirit of going after your visions and then sensing
something and then bringing it to life.
(30:00):
And then this beautiful moment that you had when you wanted to
start a YouTube channel and thenyou did.
Yeah. Talking about your toys.
Yes, it was very Quinn's worthy but you gotta start somewhere.
Yeah. I mean when I was little I
always told my mom. I want to be in the Nickelodeon
(30:22):
awards. Aha.
And and now we won the last one they did.
It was not too long ago so yeah the kids chose the words from a
Nickelodeon and they they just one my God.
Yeah it's pretty fun. Having those experiences
(30:42):
something that probably happens once in a lifetime right in even
through like a 14 year old boy which has like nothing to do
with YouTube and stuff. Cough.
And then just like that, I'm no here and like so how do you make
sense of that? I mean what does that mean to
you? I guess it can mean that no
(31:03):
matter how old you are or not even just like being old just
like any anything that's holdingyou back, instead of using it as
Wait, use it as a step to keep going on.
Talia, since he was little. I was mentioning because this
power of manifestation, he manifest things very fast.
(31:27):
We all humans have that power whenever we topped into it and
learn how to do it and believe that we can do, it starts
happening, but as kids, we have it naturally, we start losing
that sense. That knowing of manifestation
and the power. Have to accomplish things.
(31:47):
Allen is one of those people person that just continues to
do. So in a very, very fast way.
Sure, what do you, how do you feel about that?
I mean, it sounds very hippie. But yeah.
Yeah. My mom baby.
Yeah, I mean it sounds creepy but isn't it true how you
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manifest things? It's true.
It's true. What were things like before
your TV show and being on all over social was the same across
the board. It was more normal because that
definitely changes your whole life.
Now, I can go out without even being asked to take a photo and
(32:35):
before it was just School in friends and family.
And now it's Friends School family and work because Yeah, I
can be fun and everything. I really enjoyed doing it with
my friends and myself, because it's something that I really
enjoy from Steven, since when I was little, I always saw these
(32:58):
YouTubers make videos and I would say, okay, that's cool.
I want to do that too. But it's also like a really big
responsibility because you have to be on it a lot and then
because then if you don't then you're just going to lose focus
and people are going to stop being interested in you and it
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just goes down. How are you choosing?
What happens, what is going on the show?
And as that happened on videos, I normally just come up with
ideas or my mom gives me ideas. She doesn't have the best song.
Sometimes I do or sometimes withmy editor he helps me out too
(33:42):
and we just brainstorm and then we think of a good idea and then
you just film it as we go. I'm curious about like as you
were just kind of like experimenting through things.
Have you noticed that mindset apply in other areas of your
life? Yeah, like right since I have a
lot going on in my head I have school, I have work.
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I have family, friends. I'm trying new things to keep me
a bit more occupied from those things.
Like not have more just have like a set of times where I'm
just doing something I enjoy andI don't think about anything
else. For example, football, I never
(34:26):
really liked football when I waslittle, and then most of my
friends here in Mexico. They love football.
So it's kind of difficult for you.
Not to do what they like when everyone's graying on what to
do. So I had to adapt a little to
playing them. I started enjoying it more and
(34:47):
more and now I got at least moredecent.
Now I've learned piano and guitar.
Our and drums and stuff. And I won't travel more, but to
not places. I don't want to go where my mom
forces me. I want to travel to places where
I like, right? Well, yeah.
(35:09):
Next time you want to catch a Yankees game?
I'm here in New York. Okay, I've always wanted to go
to New York, Let's do it. You okay.
See you Amir ganor. Some kisaki Casita, thank you
too. Thanks so much for joining us
out. Thank you for having me.
(35:30):
I really enjoyed is. Yeah, we'll check in with you in
a couple of years. We'll get you back on the
podcast. All right.
He's a cool kid. He's awesome.
Yeah you are right about wisdom Beyond his years, right?
And he talks like an adult so this is so freaking cold.
None of this is surprising to let enough all the things, the
way you carry yourself, the things that you nurture for
(35:51):
yourself the way that you do, your best to fortify your
relationship with the world and stay centered.
And now you create that space for your beautiful son here and
seeing the fruits of that labor and what's happening.
So so wonderful like got to recognize that Lodi.
Congratulations, thank you so much.
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It's been quite a journey. I've learned the importance of
living now because we don't knowthat And it's going to be
tonight or tomorrow. So let's just do the right thing
and, and leave here now. And that's what I try to teach
them as well. Just enjoying the moment and
YouTube is temporary to. I was like, just leave your
moment. You want that a word carry their
(36:34):
word with all the excitement that you were waiting for you
finally have it but you never stopped getting surprise for all
these things in life well Lori as As we wrap up here, bring us
home with, with what your visionis.
What do you seeing now? When you give your mind's eye
permission, what do you see in the future for you in the
(36:56):
future? For me, in terms of my mission
which was evolving around. The cannabis plant, I've learned
that my mission is not just the plant, it was a spark to
continue the work that Evo Goes around, soil, around General,
(37:19):
agriculture, food. The way we leave in terms of
what we eat, what we produce? Where are we going with all of
this? All the problems out there,
climate change and all these things that I have on my soul
every day is because one thing is taking me to another working
(37:41):
with the plant, allow me to be closer to the It's World in
general that's and connecting with other groups around
regenerative agriculture, a member of the board of advisors
of a consulting firm called re Genovese, that helps cannabis
companies aligned with the sustainable development goals of
(38:04):
2030. And I just feel that my spirit,
my soul wants to be in a farm now, I understand that cannabis
was just one step to get closer.ER, to something bigger and
bigger in a sense that we need to come together in this bigger
Mission. That's full circle right there.
(38:25):
You continue to inspire me my friend, with the way you live
your life and the way your your heart is oriented.
So keep going, thank you, and Neil, and I want to hold this
space for you to give thanks with gratitude.
Would you like to share now as we close this conversation,
who's been that stepping stone for you?
I think what I Want to close with that.
(38:47):
You know, grateful for my grandma to teach me that we're
here to be in service of others of our mother earth.
Like that's the translation of human being serviced.
And I think once we get that andremember that everything just
(39:07):
Happens. So what would you like us and
our listeners to do after havinglistened to everything you
showed today? Go out there and service
somebody. It doesn't matter who whoever is
next to you or an unknown personout there, but do something for
someone today. All right?
Miss this. Great load.
(39:28):
Annabeth run. My childhood friend, my co-pilot
in this world. Thank you so much for being here
with us with my other fellow copilot in this world.
Neil. Thank you.
Thank you. Both of you.
Hope to meet you in person Suniland I'm here, please come.
Visit both of you because her istoo tough.
Yes, yes yes, thank you guys. You can follow Loreena on
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