Hemp's role in living a progressive plant-based lifestyle. Hemp influences every aspect of Amos Lozano's plant-based lifestyle, from the foods he eats to clothes he wears, he truly practices what he preaches. He joins Dan Humiston to talk about using his podcast Eat Plants Move Often, to share the critical information about the plant that continues to be censored by mainstream media. Potcasters - https://podconx.com/podcasts/potcasters Dan Humiston - https://podconx.com/guests/dan-humiston Amos Lozano - https://podconx.com/guests/amos-lozano Eat Plants Move Often - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/eat-plants-move-often-podcast/id1501731758
Hemp's role in living a progressive plant-based lifestyle.
Hemp influences every aspect of Amos Lozano's plant-based lifestyle, from the foods he eats to clothes he wears, he truly practices what he preaches. He joins Dan Humiston to talk about using his podcast Eat Plants Move Often, to share the critical information about the plant that continues to be censored by mainstream media.
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dan_humiston-2021-8-18__13-5-43:[00:00:00] All right, everyone. Thanks for joining us. Welcome back. We have another great show in store for you today. Famous Amos Lazano is here to talk about his podcast. Eat plants, move often. Amos. Welcome to the show.
Amos Lozano: Hey, what's going on, Dan. Happy to be here. Thanks for that.
dan_humiston-2021-8-18__13-5-43: I'm glad you could join us today. I'll admit when I first looked at your show, I to start the scope of your topics were too broad, but as I dug into it, I realized that every topic kind of ties back to this idea of living a progressive plant-based lifestyle.
But I really think the essence of your show and I think the reason why so many people listen to it is that.
You're authentic. You just don't talk the talk. You actually live a progressive plant-based lifestyle. And that's where I thought I wanted to get started. Explain to everybody what a plant-based lifestyle is.
Amos Lozano: Yeah, for sure. So you definitely hit it can seem broad, but what ties it all back together is the plants and then ultimately sustainability [00:01:00] as well. It's a sustainable lifestyle. And that's what kind of I guess lured me to the plant-based lifestyle. At first, it was about my health, but then it started to become more about.
The environmental impact of not living a plant-based lifestyle and how utilizing various plants and most notably the hemp plant can help us live a more sustainable life and then help us operate more sustainable businesses. And so for me, it started with nutrition and juicing and then I went vegetarian in 2014 and I started a juice company back in 2014 with $29 out of my parents' kitchen.
And then I became vegan the end of that year. I had always had a passion for cannabis when I learned about industrial hemp and its history. And just learned about a sustainable uses. So try to incorporate as much of the plant fibers into my life.
Obviously I've got plants behind me. I'm wearing a hemp. T-shirt like you, man. It's what I live, it's just who I am. . I'm wearing hip underwear. I've got a garden right outside [00:02:00] here.
Everything I do is surrounded around that concept of a plant based life and sustainability. Hence the name of my personal brand and my podcasts. Eat plants. Move on.
dan_humiston-2021-8-18__13-5-43: Like I said, you walk the walk, you talk the talk, I've listened to all your episodes, but I've seen the topics ranging from cannabis and hemp, sustainability to circular economy to entrepreneurship. I think the one episode. Jumped out at me is the building a legacy brand. Can you tell us that story?
Amos Lozano: Yeah, most definitely. So, I live here in Texas I call it the last cannabis frontier. Texas is a huge market and will be a huge market when it comes to the cannabis industry. And so I call it the last frontier because I'm working.
Still in the nineties when it comes to our laws for the most part, except for our recent developments in the hemp side. So I grew up here in Texas, born and raised in San Antonio, where is the cannabis lifestyle and industry was very illegal and heavily stigmatized. [00:03:00] And so. Once I discovered the truth about the plant that cannabis was not made illegal because marijuana is a dangerous drug, but because industrial hemp is such a useful crop that it threatened the big corporate Titans, they really run our country and world.
there was a fire that was lit within me and a passion. It was lit within me. And that's what kind of comes out in everything that I do and feels me. And I just felt like. I'm not going to not pursue a lifestyle and a business in this plant. And so I delved into selling cannabis on the black market back in 2011, over 10 years ago, which I eventually got arrested for.
But my first experience with growing cannabis it's unique now maybe since you have a lot of legal, licensed growers, and that's how they first started. But it's not so unique and people who have been doing it in the underground, the black market for awhile. But it's interesting story because people don't often hear these stories, but I decided I [00:04:00] wanted to grow cannabis and I needed a place cause I was still living with my parents.
And so I put the idea out to my close group of friends and I was always smoking with, my smoking buddies. And one of my friends was like, Hey, well, my mom lives out in Bandera, Texas. Maybe we can do something out there,
it turned out. She didn't necessarily have a place, but she had a friend who had some property and we went and visited him. And, he had a, maybe a three-bedroom house and I'm thinking, okay, this could work out. One of these rooms in here and he walks us into his bedroom, he walks us into the, into his bathroom.
He walks us into his closet and he pulls down his like attic string , and , the stairs come down and he's like, you guys can grow up there and I mean, not the best place to grow, but I guess it's somewhere. Right. And it's my first time growing. So I'm like, let's just give this thing a go.
So that was how my first grow was I launched it inside a friend of a friend's attic and tested my hand at some hydroponics, which is even more.[00:05:00] Difficult, especially for beginners, but I love the setups and I love the like I mentioned, , in the episode, the scientific approach, nothing growing in soil isn't scientific, it can be, but the air stones, they create the bumbles in the Bo buckets, getting the different meters to make sure that your PPM and your pH is there.
Right. And all those things. Just like a science experiment and I've always loved biology and science, so, yeah, that's kinda how it started.
dan_humiston-2021-8-18__13-5-43: that's a great story. Obviously it gives our listeners a vision into what your shows are like, but also you made a good point about taxes being like the last frontier , and. Information is censored. And that's the thing I like about podcasting is that everyday people have an opportunity to listen to uncensored information about topics that need to be discussed.
And to that point, you brought along a clip from an episode you did on the apparel industry. Can you set that up?
Amos Lozano: So that specific episode I recorded because [00:06:00] sell custom made hemp apparel, as well as my own branded hemp apparel. . And what I discovered is that people don't understand the price point, of the garments that we sell, which is a higher price.
And so I wanted to explain that there are differences in the types of hemp apparel out on the market right now, just like there is differences in the quality of CBD products out in the market, and that they're not all created equal and it's the same for hemp apparel. So I was finding some frustration in explaining this over and over and over to people.
So I'm like, let me just make an episode that I can just send to people.
dan_humiston-2021-8-18__13-5-43: Yeah, well, let me play a clip and it we'll talk about it. Hang on.[00:07:00] that's just crazy. That's I mean, it happened a long time ago. I get it, but it's just crazy that that could have even happened. And you know, the other thing that you talked about in that episode that . I don't think I hear enough about is this idea of disposable clothing. they make it so inexpensive that , you wear today, throw it out, get the next one.
It's not good for the environment, the people that work , in that industry, nothing. And I think it's great that you brought that up , in this area.
Amos Lozano: Yeah, fast fashion. It's a big problem.
dan_humiston-2021-8-18__13-5-43: Yeah. it is. It is. let's jump ahead. We don't have a lot of time, but , I always like to leave with a sharing, a little advice to our guests. And one thing that you do, which I, I mean, I give you a lot of credit because I can't do this is that you do a lot of your episodes are solo.
Like you, you have some gas, but most of the time, it's just you discussing a topic by yourself. [00:08:00] Can you share some of your. Techniques or tips that help you create compelling solo episodes?
Amos Lozano: Yeah. So most of those are just what I call like off the dome. Right. It's just off my mind, I I'll write down maybe two or three main points that I want to hit. But other than that, it's just off my mind. And the key to that is a couple of things. Number one is I read every single day.
And so I educate myself and so I've got this base of knowledge that I can constantly pull from. So that's helped. And then the second thing that you mentioned it earlier is just my passion and authenticity is like, I genuinely love learning about the hemp plant and then sharing this information.
And so, because of that, it makes it easy to just once I get going, I almost can't stop. Sometimes I'll be talking to somebody for 40 minutes straight and I'm like, Hey man, you got me going. He started asking me questions and it just starts, fueling that. And then maybe the last thing that I'll throw in there is I also listen [00:09:00] to a lot of podcasts and there's a few of them that I listened to you that are also primarily solo and it helps to listen to other people who can do the same thing and hearing the way that they go about it.
And the last tip that I'll give is your mind can race very quickly, and so sometimes it's hard. To keep up with your thoughts. So what I recommend, and this also helps with speaking at live events, because I also speak at live events. Talk slower. So as the thoughts are coming, you can just slow down the pace of your thoughts so that it makes it easier to decide what you're about to say.
Just like I did that.
dan_humiston-2021-8-18__13-5-43: Yeah, , that's a great technique. Every one of those is good advice, but that is a great technique because especially , when you're speaking in front of a big audience, the demons start creeping in and you're like, oh my gosh, I lost my place. If you just dial it back a little bit.
It definitely helps. Well, you can check out a new episode of , eat plants, move off. And every week [00:10:00] on all major podcast sites, including pod connects, where you can also apply to be a guest Amos. This is fun catching up. Thanks for being on the show today.
Amos Lozano: Yeah, thanks again for having me for highlighting this.