Todays guest is Ryan Bernath. He's the Chief Operating Officer at EnCann Solutions Inc. Encann provides customized cannabis oil extraction services for cannabis and hemp producers across Canada. I'm very interested in cannabis as a tool and as an industry . Especially what people get wrong about it, and how it can integrate with a high-performance mindset. Ryan being so up to date on EVERYTHING cannabis was the perfect guest to explore this line of thought with.

Many believe that cannabis users are "lazy" or that "you can't smoke weed and be successful" which i believe is just untrue. I've met several extremely successful people who openly use cannabis daily. Ryan provides updates on the forefront of change in the industry, explains what research is looking promising, and how Encann is positioning themselves to be a huge player in making cannabis derived products more readily available. Enjoy!

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Timing:

1:42 Start of Interview
4:28 What Encann Solutions Does
7:35 Why Ryan Started Encann
13:31 Stigma Of Weed
17:31 Weed and High-Performance
27:21 Canada's Regulations
31:32 Psycho-activity Explained
37:04 Big Brands Getting Behind CBD
42:54 Temptations to Pivot
46:04 Ryan's Personal Mindset Toolbox
52:05 Exciting News about Encann Solutions
56:55 Advice for Buying Your Weed
1:03:18 Golden Nugget of Wisdom

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Golden Nugget of Wisdom:

Obviously Ryan and I talked about and bonded over cannabis throughout our discussion, however there was a small tidbit that could have easily been glanced over by many. That as soon as I heard, I KNEW was important.

When asked about practices Ryan uses to keep growing the company despite there being so many government regulations affecting their vision to scale, he mentioned that a piece of advice he always gives and lives by is to "Not let the potential of failure tomorrow freeze you today."

This really resonated with me as I've 100% struggled with this in the past building my own business. Often times you're getting your self into situations where you just don't know if it'll work out, you're testing and you're trying new things, and this naturally causes some sort of fear. We've all heard of fight, flight or freeze, and it makes sense that that's exactly what will happen when we're stepping into the unknown not only in a dark scary forest, but in business.

I've often dealt with this stress or this fear by taking a day "for myself" and relaxing, basically needing to self-soothe. which falls under the flight or freeze categories. But maybe now with the awareness of this quote, I can consciously tip the scale towards the FIGHT side of things and get SOMETHING done rather than unconsciously freezing and doing NOTHING.


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