Meet Tom and Amy, a pair who’ve discovered a novel option to strengthen their bond by means of a shared ardour for hashish. Be part of us as they share their journey of rising hashish, creating high-quality edibles, and the way this three way partnership has positively impacted their relationship – a testomony to the facility of shared values and empathy.
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- Launch Date: Monday, September 25, 2023
- Episode Quantity: Season 1, Episode 52
- Particular Visitor: Tom & Amy, founders of Good Buddy Edibles
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This week, we welcome Tom and Amy, an inspiring couple who’ve discovered a novel option to bond by means of their shared ardour for hashish.
Their journey has led them to provide some advantageous baked items and strengthened their relationship in methods they by no means anticipated.
On this episode, they share their private experiences about how working collectively on their small-scale hashish enterprise has positively impacted their marriage.
Tom and Amy additionally talk about the societal stigmas they’ve encountered, their dedication to educating individuals about the advantages of hashish, and why they imagine it’s essential to maintain pushing the boundaries of what’s thought of ‘acceptable.’
Whether or not you’re a hashish fanatic, a home-based entrepreneur, or somebody inquisitive about strengthening your relationships, this episode is full of relatable tales, sensible recommendation, and loads of meals for thought.
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Tom: I believe as you become old, you begin to notice how rather more of those relationships actually imply.
Amy: I might say that if there’s actually one thing you wish to do, go for it. You by no means know when your quantity’s up, and issues can change on a dime. In case you are enthusiastic about one thing and also you wish to do it, go for it, be fearless, and don’t underestimate your self.
Announcer: Welcome to the Properly With Hashish Podcast, a present devoted to telling the life-changing tales of those that stay nicely with hashish all whereas educating you tips on how to do the identical. Meet your host, Emily Kyle, a registered dietitian nutritionist turned licensed holistic hashish practitioner. Emily modified her life for the higher with the assistance of the hashish plant, and now she’s dedicated to serving to others do the identical.
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Emily: Howdy, and welcome again to a different episode of the Properly With Hashish Podcast. I’m tremendous excited as a result of that is our first double interview. I’ve two company right here with me right this moment. Now we have Tom and Amy from Good Buddy Edibles. I’m tremendous excited to speak to them about hashish, the way it matches into their present way of life, and the way they’re introducing it into enterprise. So welcome, Tom and Amy. Thanks a lot for approaching the present. Thanks a lot for becoming a member of me right this moment.
Tom: Thanks, Emily, for having us.
Emily: You wrote me the sweetest e-mail and adopted my journey after I misplaced my Instagram account and wished to start out this podcast. I wished to say thanks a lot for being so form and so supportive. I actually appreciated that.
Tom: Oh, you’re so welcome. There was a lot that went on there that I witnessed on that platform. And I simply wished you to know the way we felt about it.
Emily: I actually recognize that. I haven’t talked about that publicly for lots of people, so I’m simply going to provide a bit of background in the event you guys don’t thoughts. So, I had an Instagram account that grew to 70,000 followers. I had a video of me and my seven-year-old son harvesting a hashish plant that received 3.5 million views. We have been tremendous enthusiastic about it, however the world simply isn’t prepared for hashish but. So many individuals reported my account that it ended up getting shut down.
Emily: However the different aspect Tom noticed that not lots of people noticed is that individuals have been very imply of their feedback and their DMs and issues they stated concerning it. And now that I look again on it, I’m so glad that my Instagram account was taken away from me. It was a mentally abusive place, and I’m so glad the choice was made to go away. I’m right here now having higher, extra clever conversations. I do imagine that every little thing occurs for a purpose. Thanks for supporting me by means of that darkish time.
Tom: Oh, I can think about it was, particularly because you had over 70,000 followers, I believe, on the time.
Emily: Yeah, there have been quite a bit. I constructed it, however trying again, I believe I received wrapped up within the numbers and self-importance of it.
Tom: Yeah. However the best way that you simply have been attacked was very unfair. And I felt prefer it got here from a spot of ignorance and that anybody who actually knew something about hashish would know that in the event you touched a plant in the event you simply merely touched it, nothing would occur to you. Whether or not you have been an grownup, a baby, or an animal, nothing can occur to you from simply brushing up in opposition to the hashish plant.
Emily: Completely. And that’s why I’m glad that I’m right here now and we will have this dialog. Hopefully, we’ll attain extra individuals this fashion and share the reality about hashish. That’s what I wish to do with you each right this moment: discuss how hashish advantages you in your on a regular basis life. If you wish to give me a bit of background on you each and what introduced you to hashish.
Tom: Let me begin by saying that right this moment is our twenty fifth marriage ceremony anniversary.
Emily: Congratulations! Comfortable anniversary!
Tom: Yeah, and it’s actually loopy, nevertheless it really equates to now we’ve been collectively for half of our lives in numbers.
Emily: That’s so particular. Thanks for sharing your day right here with me right this moment.
Tom: Completely. Completely. So once we first met again within the nineties, we lived out on the West Coast of San Francisco. Residing on the West Coast, hashish was completely completely different, however we moved again East a few decade in the past when every little thing was nonetheless very a lot unlawful in New York state.
Tom: We nonetheless smoked hashish, however we simply had to purchase it from a neighbor of a good friend of the neighbor or one thing like that. And thru the course of our time right here, one of many individuals in our lives was our now-deceased good friend, Steve Shulman. He was an older fellow, and he had a terminal sickness. I might provide hashish for Steve additionally, and he would attempt to contribute financially, however he didn’t have some huge cash. And so his physician instructed him that he did qualify for a medical card, however Steve didn’t comply with by means of with it as a result of the closest dispensary to the place we stay is 60 miles away and he didn’t have a automobile, plus he couldn’t actually afford it. So he continued to obtain it from us, and across the time every little thing was turning into legalized, I began to develop it, and sadly, he didn’t stay lengthy sufficient to strive the primary harvest.
Emily: Oh, I’m so sorry in your loss.
Tom: Thanks very a lot. He was 100% behind it. He couldn’t wait to strive it and every little thing else. However, we actually wished a daily, high quality provide, not simply to share with him, however for our personal functions, to know that what we have been consuming wasn’t tainted or that it was of the best high quality or purity that we might get. That was the initiative behind us rising these first few vegetation.
Tom: We each do eat hashish, and I used to be the one that truly began rising it. We ended up having a lot of it that we thought we should always do one thing with all of it. Earlier than we did something that we confirmed anyone else, we made a few batches of brownies that Steve had tried throughout his life. However nothing actually occurred for some time.
Tom: We began enjoying round, making some cookies and brownies for our buddies right here in upstate New York, and ultimately, it caught on by means of phrase of mouth. We wished to make one thing that was actually scrumptious and wasn’t too sturdy. We have been issues it’s possible you’ll think about low-dosage. We’ve actually streamlined our merchandise, and we now have an in depth ingredient label, so anyone can know if they’ve meals allergy symptoms. They will know precisely what’s in one among our cookies.
Emily: That’s superb. Inform me a bit of bit about your clientele. Are they a sure sort of particular person, a sure demographic? Who’s coming to you in want of your companies?
Tom: It’s really a bit of bit older of a demographic than possibly your listeners would possibly assume.
Emily: I believe you’d be stunned; most of my listeners are of the older demographic as nicely. And that’s what I believed you would possibly say.
Tom: Yeah, it’s typically individuals within the, what I name the 30 to 50 one thing vary as a result of once we hit 50, we don’t actually wish to say what quantity comes after that. They’re individuals from our neighborhood, from academics and well being inspectors to individuals who work down the road on the retailer and luxuriate in our merchandise.
Emily: That’s superb. Once you’re working with individuals, do they let you know what they’re coming to you with illnesses, ache, nervousness? What precisely are they trying to relieve?
Tom: Most of our older sort of persons are inquisitive about having one thing they will belief and gauge fairly nicely. So in the event that they wish to eat half of a brownie and really feel a bit of little bit of rest and ache aid, that’s advantageous. And in the event that they’re having a tough day, they may eat the entire brownie and get extra of an impact. So some is ache, and a few is nervousness. They like that they will break it in half, eat half now, and save half for later, relying on their emotions.
Emily: Completely. And it’s so good to have that freedom and adaptability to decide on how a lot, relying on what you want. And so, I’ve to imagine a variety of training should go into working with new and aged purchasers. How does that search for you?
Tom: We positively all the time question them about their expertise with edibles. In the event that they haven’t had any edibles in any respect, we all the time suggest that they begin with a really small piece, like 1 / 4 of a brownie or a fifth of a brownie, reasonably than the entire thing. We attempt to encourage them to start out with a small quantity for the primary or second time after which construct up from there by small quantities as wanted.
Emily: That’s so good. So let’s discuss the way you guys work collectively to make all these magical issues for individuals.
Tom: I’ll begin as a result of I make the butter. I really watched your movies and used a few of your edible calculator instruments. After I discovered the precise THC proportion of the hashish I used to be utilizing, that made it very easy for me to make use of your calculator accurately for the dosages. I depend on that to make the butter, and Amy makes the baked items.
Amy: Yep, I’m the baker.
Emily: And Amy, I believe that is the primary time our listeners have heard from you. So whats up.
Amy: Hello! Tom does the butter for me. He likes to get very mathematical, however that is my space. I inform him to provide me the butter and transfer out of the kitchen.
Emily: How enjoyable! You get full inventive freedom after that.
Amy: Sure. We have been doing cookies, brownies, and a rice crispy deal with sometimes, and we acquired suggestions that a few of them have been a bit of tougher to chew. We ended up doing one thing we name a softie, a delicate cookie, which appears to have been a very huge hit.
Emily: That’s such a considerate product, too, as a result of I assume I by no means actually thought of what number of aged individuals have difficulties chewing or swallowing. It’s so good that you’re tailoring your merchandise based mostly on individuals’s wants.
Amy: It’s actually essential to us to listen to from the those that eat our items as a result of that’s actually how, particularly for me, I can be taught and develop and discover out what it’s they like, and so they don’t like and preserve going from there and making an attempt various things.
Emily: Oh my gosh, that’s superb. Now, Tom touched on this a bit of bit. You employ hashish as nicely. What do you each personally use hashish for in your existence?
Tom: I take advantage of it actually to assist fight nervousness. I’ve been by means of quite a bit with nervousness and the kind of thought patterns the place I fear incessantly, which might snowball. It’s good to acknowledge that I’ve achieved every little thing I used to be presupposed to do for my common job right this moment – and even 75% of my job – after which be capable of take among the strain off of myself and take a few puffs. I nonetheless smoke joints with rolling papers and all that.
Tom: My day job is to make maps, so if I solely get 75% achieved or 90% completed, all people goes to outlive. Simply to place it in perspective, in case anybody is questioning why I don’t end 100% day by day. I’m making a map, not making an attempt to do mind surgical procedure.
Emily: Making a map sounds fairly laborious to me. That sounds superior.
Amy: I take advantage of hashish primarily to unwind on the finish of the day. I really feel prefer it’s a inventive outlet for me. It will get my inventive thoughts working and developing with new and completely different concepts, and only a option to chill out on the finish of a busy day.
Emily: Oh, isn’t it the most effective to have the ability to chill out? All adults ought to be capable of really feel that means on the finish of the day while not having to depend on alcohol. Having one thing completely different that, on the finish of the day, you possibly can chill out, be your self, and be comfy in your personal pores and skin is such a present.
Tom: Yeah, it’s. It’s okay to go forward and permit your self to have that little break. We occur to be very lucky that we stay in a state the place it’s been legalized. I’m positive that there will likely be individuals listening to this podcast who stay in locations the place it’s nonetheless unlawful. Dangle on. Maintain speaking to your legislators; sometime, your state may very well be legalized like ours.
Emily: It’s going to occur. It has to occur. The individuals need it. I’ve interviewed a number of individuals from Texas and the Bible Belt down south, and it’s unbelievable the foundations that they’ve. I’m grateful that New York has been so progressive. It’s not good, however we now have come such a good distance, and I’m grateful for the alternatives that we now have with hashish up right here.
Tom: Oh, we positively are, too. We’re very grateful that, to a sure diploma, it’s like out of the shadows, which it must be. It’s not one thing that ought to have been within the shadows all these years.
Emily: No. And that’s why I actually wish to do that podcast. Excited about your demographic and the oldsters that eat edibles, they don’t have their buddies to speak to or are unwilling to speak to different individuals about it. The extra all of us come collectively and talk about it out loud publicly and discuss the advantages, the extra (hopefully) different individuals will soar on board and notice the attractive present that it’s.
Tom: Completely. Completely. We lived in California and Oregon, and we received to stay there earlier than it was legalized in each locations after which we went again later and noticed that it actually didn’t change something. It was simply attention-grabbing on the time; individuals simply went to a retailer for his or her hashish. Ultimately, it’ll grow to be normalized in New York State, the place we stay, nevertheless it’ll simply take a short while, most likely a couple of years.
Emily: It does appear that point heals all wounds. It feels that means for hashish as nicely. I’m positive, clearly, you’ve seen that in each California and Oregon.
Tom: Oh, completely. Completely. It’s so normalized on the market now. It’s utterly completely different. Persons are simply in line at a retailer.
Emily: You’re the first couple I’ve interviewed, so I wish to ask you a query.. How does hashish work together with your relationship? I all the time inform those that hashish is a profit to a variety of relationships, particularly at 25-year marriage. How do you are feeling hashish is useful to your relationship in any means?
Tom: I’ll offer you an instance. I don’t know precisely for a way lengthy, however Amy has had this little glass jar for years. It’s a bit of greater than my thumb and has a bit of picket cork. For the complete time she’s had it, she has introduced me this little glass jar and requested me to place one thing in it when it’s empty. I am going and discover the nicest-looking factor I can discover to place in that jar. It’s all the time so cute to me. She’s had that jar since we lived in Portland, Oregon. That’s a method.
Amy: Tom actually loves his vegetation and so they give him one thing to do. There are occasions after I have to remind him that there are individuals in his household, too! He’s together with his vegetation fairly a bit, enjoying them music and speaking to them. He desires to purchase the most effective issues for them. It may very well be thought of a borderline obsession, however he loves them a lot. I’m so comfortable to see him with them as a result of it makes me comfortable to see him so comfortable.
Emily: Oh my gosh, that’s so candy. I’m asking for my very own egocentric causes now. Are you able to give us a bit of marriage recommendation after 25 years of marriage?
Tom: Don’t sweat the small stuff. There’s going to be a variety of it.
Amy: Yeah, I believe that may be a great one. And possibly when issues get actually heated, stroll away, take a breath, and are available again. It saves a variety of agony.
Emily: I really feel like hashish helps with each of these. I really feel like hashish can provide us the step again that we want.
Amy: Sure, positively.
Emily: Congratulations to you two; 25 years is superb. I’ve one other business-related query for you earlier than we get into our closing questions for the interview. So, for enterprise, I’ve so many listeners and readers who dream of beginning a hashish enterprise, an edible enterprise, doing precisely what you’re doing proper now, and so they wish to assist individuals the best way you’re doing it. However you guys are literally doing it. So, do you have got any recommendation for somebody who is likely to be listening or desirous to make edibles for different individuals? What’s your recommendation to them about getting began?
Tom: My recommendation to them about getting began can be to attempt to be as clear as attainable about all the components that they’re utilizing and the place these issues come from.
Amy: And I believe it’s simply to have enjoyable. I like to bake. I particularly love having the ability to bake with hashish as a result of it incorporates Tom’s love of vegetation and my love of baking. I really like developing with new, enjoyable methods to make issues, having the ability to share issues with different individuals, and seeing them get excited. I believe you must go for it and belief that in case you are doing what you like and making a very good product, I believe individuals will naturally be drawn to it.
Emily: Completely. That’s the most effective recommendation: get on the market and do it and see what occurs with the most effective of intentions. You’ll be able to construct one thing stunning identical to you guys are doing.
Tom: Oh, thanks a lot.
Emily: I discover it’s such humanitarian work to supply drugs to aged people who can’t get it some place else or to supply that aid. I discover it to be among the most rewarding and particular presents that we can provide different individuals to share our love and data of the plant. You two are doing that, and it sounds such as you’re making so many individuals really feel higher. It simply warms my coronary heart. I’m so comfortable to see what you guys are doing.
Tom: Oh, thanks once more, Emily.
Emily: I wish to be respectful of your time, however I wish to ask you each 4 questions, and I’d such as you each to reply every query. Are you prepared for them?
Tom: Sure. We went out the opposite evening and simply sat at a bit of place and talked about our solutions. So, hopefully, we’re prepared.
Emily: No marvel you’ve been married for 25 years. That’s lovable. All proper. The primary query’s up. What are you most happy with?
Tom: I used to be going to go first on that one, however I used to be going to say that I’m actually most happy with the those that our daughters have gotten and these great people that they’re turning out to be.
Amy: I’m going to say that I’m actually most happy with Tom and I believe I’m altering my reply on him proper now. So he has overcome many obstacles in his life, and he retains on going. I’m actually happy with the keenness he has for what he’s doing proper now and the best way that he simply loves what he does. It makes him a greater particular person, and I believe it makes us all a greater household.
Emily: Wow. That’s so candy, Amy. Oh my gosh. All proper. Subsequent query for you each. What would life appear to be with out hashish?
Tom: If I’m going to reply this utterly actually, it received’t be essentially the most cheery reply. At sure factors in my life, I felt like alcohol was taking up, and some years in the past, I needed to shut that door. I didn’t need alcohol in my life anymore, and I believe that hashish helped me a lot with that. With out hashish, I’d most likely be consuming a beer proper now, and I don’t wish to do this.
Emily: That’s superior.
Amy: I’m not likely a fan of prescription remedy. I really feel like there are numerous occasions after I’m going by means of one thing, and regardless that I imagine that typically you must really feel what you’re feeling, typically that feeling is simply too huge. I really feel like hashish has given me the instruments to get by means of laborious occasions with out having to get a prescription. I’m grateful for that. I’m additionally grateful that there actually aren’t a variety of if any, unhealthy unwanted side effects from hashish.
Emily: Sure, completely. Subsequent query. Should you might return 10, 20, and even 30 years in the past and provides your self a bit of recommendation, what would it not be?
Tom: If I have been going to provide myself a bit of recommendation, it will be to maintain all people as near me as attainable. Each single particular person, whether or not I notice how essential they’re to me or not. I believe as you become old, you begin to notice how rather more these relationships actually imply.
Amy: I might say, too, that if there’s actually one thing you wish to do, go for it. You by no means know when your quantity’s up, and issues can change on a dime. Should you’re enthusiastic about one thing and also you wish to do it, go for it. Be fearless, and don’t underestimate your self. There have been so many occasions all through this course of when Tom and I checked out one another and stated,
“Wow. We simply did that!”
Emily: That’s such good recommendation. Amy. I really feel such as you’re my type of lady. I really like listening to every little thing that you simply’re saying. Final query for you each. Should you may very well be remembered for only one factor within the hashish area, what would it not be?
Tom: If I may very well be remembered for only one factor in that area, it will be that everybody all the time knew that no matter I had grown was completely purely natural.
Amy: I believe for me, it will simply be that I might wish to be recognized for bringing a smile to individuals’s faces by means of my desserts. I like to make foolish little issues. We’ve achieved completely different themes and enjoyable issues. I believed it will be enjoyable to share a cookie with any person, so we made a two-pack. You could possibly purchase the 2 cookies, have one, and share the opposite with another person. It’s enjoyable to give you cute, enjoyable methods to have the ability to get pleasure from and share hashish and make it not so scary or taboo.
Emily: Oh, my gosh. You each are doing that superbly, and I can’t thanks sufficient for coming right here and sharing every little thing that you simply did with us right this moment, particularly in your anniversary. Now, if persons are inquisitive about studying extra about you each, the place can they discover you and extra details about Good Buddy Edibles?
Amy: Proper now, we’re on Instagram. That’s actually the one platform we now have. We’re slowly evolving, however you possibly can examine us on the market. We’re utilizing Instagram as our menu, and I can showcase all my little desserts and issues I do.
Emily: Thanks a lot for becoming a member of us right this moment. I loved this dialog very a lot, and I recognize you coming and doing this with me in your anniversary.
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