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Chapter 1: What invisible chains did Kristen Abelon overcome to pursue her passion?
I think that we all too often have invisible change that we don't realize that and it could be you know dad mom because their views and beliefs are a certain way and that could really be holding you back bosses could have held you back sure so it's really just saying like hey it doesn't matter where you come from like you can be what you want to be no matter what like change your mindset quit thinking about what other people think about you just do you you
You know, and it was like, go to college. Now you get married and then you have kids. It's the traditional way of doing things. And I absolutely did the opposite. I started school and I was like, this is not for me. I'm already a manager for this place, this retail place. And I'm making more money than my brothers were as nurses when they first started.
I was like, I think I could, I could do this. I could run my own thing. And I decided that.
Where did you find the funding for your first big bright idea?
We grew organically, built one room at a time and just...
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Chapter 2: How did Kristen transition from retail to the cannabis industry?
Welcome to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast, the Red Life edition. For Inside Success, I am Ray Gutierrez. Now that we've gotten past all the boring brands, it's quite an honor to introduce to you Kristen Avalon. She is an author, a chemist, a coach, and most importantly, a woman of power. Kristen, how are you?
Good, thanks.
Dude, we just wrapped up your episode. We just finished filming. How do you feel?
I feel great now. It was actually not as bad as I thought it was going to be. The nerves went away fairly quickly. You made it very easy for me. Cool. So I would definitely say I feel good about it.
Chapter 3: What insights does Kristen share about the evolution of the cannabis business?
I feel like I can make a big impact.
Right on. Well, welcome to the show. Welcome to Miami. Do you visit Miami frequently?
Well, I'm actually from Jacksonville, Florida. And surprisingly, the real Florida, right? Like, well, we call that South Georgia because, you know, it's really South Georgia because we have a good mix of, you know, hillbillies and rednecks. But no, I never came to South Beach. I never did. Apparently it's a thing. Yeah, I was like, but it was also because my dad's like, no, he can't go there.
That's a meat market. Like that was like one of those things. He's not wrong.
Chapter 4: What therapeutic benefits of cannabis does Kristen discuss?
So I wanted so bad to go for spring break. And he was like, he was not having it. And, you know, you can't disobey that.
Well, for good reason. Being born and raised in Miami, I'm a late bloomer. Let's put it that way. It was too chaotic to bloom here. So I moved to the West Coast. where things are way more chill. We'll talk about getting chill in a moment, but we'll talk about your party side. Every arch enemy or every hero has an origin story. What is your origin story?
Well, I would say that... I started partying like when I was super young. I mean, like I was already, I think I had my first beer at 13.
Chapter 5: How does Kristen's mindset influence her entrepreneurial journey?
Right on. I mean, I tried it. Horrible. Absolutely horrible. Would never do it again. My generation, we drink boons. That was like the go-to cheap way to get drunk. In Jacksonville? Yes, in Jacksonville. Yeah, even better.
Yeah.
especially so that moonshine my partying started at such a young age um and then it continued obviously into the 20s because you're allowed to actually do that those kind of things sure um i really didn't slow down until maybe like when i actually started my own business but even at the beginning of that like you still go hard because you got to entertain people and like my life everybody's like this is kind of cool you get to
Grow cannabis, you get to smoke it, you get to enjoy those properties. What a pivot.
We went from like, we have no idea that you're into this business, but you brought it up.
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Chapter 6: What challenges does Kristen face in educating others about cannabis?
Right, right, right. I'm trying to tell a story, damn it. All good, all good. So how is the cannabis business now that we're just going to jump in? How are things?
Well, you know, I started that back in 2013. When nobody was kind of doing it. When nobody was really doing it. So Arizona was the first one to come online. And originally with Arizona, they're like, you have to fill out your application and all that good stuff.
The spot that was chosen was way on the outskirts because, you know, I came from that underground world and wanted to have the closest environment to Northern California as possible. And Prescott Valley was it like that's just below the snow, above the heat. So that was how I originally started, got into that industry. And I will tell you, it was the most rewarding experience.
At first, I was like, people just want to get high.
Chapter 7: How does Kristen's personal story reflect her coaching philosophy?
It's cool. Coming from the California world, underground world, that was just a cool thing to do. You get some OGs, and that's what people wanted. But I really loved the people that it did actually help medicinally, really started to truly believe in what we did. So I would say, man, the cannabis industry is extremely fun, especially when we first started.
A lot of people though came in for that get rich quick, you know, that green rush. And the thing is, is I truly do believe like you have to evolve 100%. And the cannabis industry was on that path. But I think it kind of has fallen short now because everybody kind of forgot where we came from. They forgot the culture, the coolness of like, hey, I'm growing a new build or building a new grow.
And so come on over. We're going to have a couple beers, you know, let's have a great time. And it's not like that anymore. And it's like, yeah, and it's I get it. We have to evolve.
Chapter 8: What lessons does Kristen share about being a stepmom and navigating family dynamics?
We have to go in that corporate world. But you really just you can't forget where you came from.
Yeah, I totally agree. You can't forget where you came from. You can't forget where you started, really. I remember my transition over where I was like, I'm clearly very manic, very panicked. I'm an only child. There's a thousand things always running in my head. And when I started to medicate is when I finally... heard the silence, if you catch my meaning.
And it was just kind of like, even now, like I'm still very, it's clearly a one man operation studio, one of which I thrive on and again, only child, but there's gotta be some sort of like, you know, checkpoints in my brain where it's like, all right, from nine to 10 to 10, like there's a system and thus that system helps because of medication.
So thank you for that and for being an amplification of how it's helping folks like me kind of ascend. Talk about the challenges of educating and telling folks that are putting up the guardrails that it's time to kind of like loosen them up a bit.
You know, and I get it. The thing is, is that it has you don't go to the doctor's office and your doctor doesn't say, hey, smoke these pills and then you're going to be a OK, you know. So I really get that. And I think with my dad, he actually didn't know that I was in the cannabis industry for about a year.
Well, so the only reason why I ended up telling him was because it was on the ballot for Florida. And my brothers were like, you need to tell dad you need to tell him because he's about to vote no. And I was like, crap, like this is going to be a hard conversation to have. So I told him, he's like, wow, holy crap, that's going to be like the new oil industry. I was like, are you happy now?
Like, this is awesome.
Like, so awesome. But what he brought to my attention is he's like, so like, how does this work? And I said, well, he goes, do you just smoke it? And I said, well, yes, at the time, because we were still evolving and making products. He goes, okay, well, here's a prescription pad. Tell me how you would prescribe this to somebody. Wow.
And I was like, well, crap, like there's different percentages and then everybody's different. Like it doesn't matter. And so when I started to think about that, I was like, we need to regulate. If people are truly using it for medicinal purposes, we need to regulate how they're using it, how much they're using it. So that way they could still be functional.
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