Episode 30: Jeff Chilton - Mushroom Cultivation, Mycelium vs. Fruiting Body

12/29/21 • 67 min

In this episode I interview Jeff Chilton. Jeff Chilton, raised in Pacific Northwest, studied ethno-mycology at the University of Washington in the late sixties and started working on a commercial mushroom farm in Olympia, Washington in 1973. During the next 10 years he became the production manager, responsible for the cultivation of over 2 million pounds of agaricus mushrooms per year and was also involved in the research and development of shiitake, oyster and enoki mushrooms which resulted in the earliest US fresh shiitake sales in 1978. In the late seventies he was a founder of Mycomedia, which held 4 mushroom conferences in the Pacific Northwest. These educational conferences brought together educators and experts in mushroom identification, ethnomycology, and mushroom cultivation. During this period Jeff co-authored the highly acclaimed book, The Mushroom Cultivator, which was published in 1983. In the 1980’s he operated a mushroom spawn business and in 1989 he started Nammex, a business that introduced medicinal mushrooms to the US nutritional supplement industry. He traveled extensively in China during the 1990’s, attending conferences and visiting research facilities and mushroom farms. In 1997 he organized the first organic mushroom production seminar in China. Jeff’s company, Nammex was the first to offer a complete line of Certified Organic mushroom extracts to the US nutritional supplement industry. Nammex extracts are used by many supplement companies and are noted for their high quality based on scientific analysis of the active compounds.
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Episode 29: Dr. Evan Johnson - The Future of Healthcare, Utopian Societies, Quantum Physics

In this episode I interview Dr. Evan Johnson. Dr. Evan Johnson is an author, public speaker, Founder & CEO, warrior of human consciousness, and child of light. He has dedicated his life to optimal health and what is possible for the human mind, body & spirit. He has lived a life of trauma and freedom that provides an interesting mix for his mission on earth!
From being a two-sport college athlete, a nomad, and standing on stages in front of thousands of people, Dr. Evan provides a very unique experience of life & optimal health. At one point in time, Dr. Evan was homeless, broke, alone & working through a lot of ancestral trauma in the southernmost part of Hawaii. At that moment, he decided to make a change and do everything he possibly could to create heaven on earth while showing the world how to embody the Utopian Concepts of Life.
Now, he is a futurist, social activist, and visionary who is here to help the world rewrite what is possible from the inside out. From interdimensional healing, exotic stories of traveling the planet, and a vision for the future, Dr. Evan will help you find new ways of thinking, greater levels of feeling, and higher states of being. Dr. Evan's work is an inspiration, on the forefront of healthcare, epigenetics, the humanitarian movement, and self-development. He provides an abstract & scientific view of the inner world of life and how it relates to the outer world of life.
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Episode 31: Andrew DeAngelo: Cannabis Activism and Consulting, Cali Sober Lifestyle

In this episode I interview Andrew DeAngelo. Andrew is a visionary leader with a proven track record of enacting systemic social change and developing best practices in cannabis — he is the very definition of a trailblazer and someone who has proudly walked the road less traveled.

During his almost 13-year tenure at Harborside, where he currently serves as an advisor, Andrew has pioneered legal cannabis business processes and provided groundbreaking political engagement and thought leadership to the cannabis community. Andrew also lends his vast cannabis business and political expertise as a consultant for hire to the global community at large, including several strategic partnerships with the world's leading cannabis-centric service firms.

Andrew led the design and development of gold-standard cannabis retail by innovating many “firsts” for the industry. These include: introducing CBD medicines to heal severely epileptic children as documented in Discovery Channel’s Weed Wars, implementing the first lab-testing program in the history of cannabis dispensing, creating child-resistant packaging for edibles, standardizing inventory tracking, initiating senior outreach, and successfully preventing the federal government from seizing Harborside in forfeiture actions against the company in 2012.

Andrew is co-founder and Chairperson of the Board for the non-profit Last Prisoner Project (LPP). LPP’s mission is to free and re-integrate all cannabis prisoners on earth into mainstream society. Since its inception in 2019, LPP has successfully re-integrated the formerly incarcerated and 2020 will be the year LPP frees its first constituent.

Andrew is also a founding Board of Directors member of the California Cannabis Industry Association (CCIA), the premier cannabis industry trade association in California, where he served from 2013 to 2020 building the organization from zero to 500 member companies. CCIA continues to represent the industry in California as it works on reforming Prop 64 to improve the legal and regulatory framework for cannabis trade throughout the state.

Graduating with honors from Chapman University with a BFA degree in Communications & Theatre, Andrew began his political career as an activist while studying for his MFA in acting at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. Over two decades as an activist, Andrew worked on a variety of voter initiatives which legalized medical and adult-use cannabis in San Francisco, Washington D.C, and the State of California.

Andrew and his brother Steve recently formed DeAngelo Brothers Productions (DAB), which intends to produce, support, and distribute cannabis content over a variety of mediums and platforms. DAB’s mission is “to create new mythologies for cannabis in pop culture, smashing the stigma of the lazy stoner and replacing it with fresh and positive representations of cannabis in society.”

As a speaker, Andrew has appeared at the MJBusiness Daily Conference in Las Vegas, ICBC, NCIA conferences in Chicago/Boston/San Jose, Emerald Conference, and the U.S Cannabis Conference in Miami. Andrew is scheduled to present at 2020 conferences across the globe. Courses on cannabis business training led by Andrew are available online through Green Flower Media.

For more information, please visit: https://www.andrewdeangelo.com

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Forbes — Cali Sober Is Priceless, And The Next Billion Dollar Industry
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdeangelo/2021/04/07/cali-sober-is-priceless-and-the-next-billion-dollar-industry/?sh=73381b2b53a0