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Hosted by Jason Reposa · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 87 episodes
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High Functioning Podcast is hosted by Jason Reposa, founder and CEO of Good Feels, a Massachusetts-based cannabis-infused beverage company. Join Jason as he dives into candid conversations with industry experts, innovators, and thought leaders from the cannabis world. Each episode explores the stories behind the people shaping the future of cannabis, from business practices to wellness trends. Whether you’re curious about the cannabis industry, looking to learn from the best, or simply want to stay informed, this podcast offers high-level insights with a dose of positivity.
Jason Reposa hosts High Functioning Podcast, a business show with 87 episodes published.
Alex Mazin could not raise the $20 million he needed to build a vertical cannabis operation, and he now says that failure protected him from years of headaches. He raised early, pivoted to a single store in Worcester, an
Everyone in cannabis is trading the same doom narrative: markets are cooked, exits are dead, small operators are done. Seth Yakatan, who has sold 22 companies and raised over a billion dollars across 30 years, sits down
A cannabis-native operator stopped at a North Georgia gas station, saw 1000mg THC gummies on the shelf, and knew the unregulated hemp market had a real problem. Thomas Winstanley spent six years scaling Theory Wellness f
Alex Mendez is an attorney from Quincy spending his own money to win a Massachusetts State Senate seat that pays less than his current job. In this episode he explains why, and the answer starts with a $20,000 hospital b
Oregon's wholesale flower market fell to $50 a pound, less than it costs to grow. Whole farms sold entire crops for $25 to $50. People who left six-figure jobs at Intel to grow cannabis lost their life savings. Samantha
Everyone hears "synthetic" and thinks fake. James Winokur, CEO of CitraChem, explains why 99.9% of FDA-approved drugs are synthetic, and why a plant-inspired molecule has a 45% shot at approval while a fully novel one si
The founder of Massachusetts' first cannabis testing lab says 50 to 60 percent of the product on retail shelves would fail the state's own mold guidelines. He knows because he tested it, off the shelf, in a free program
A Harvard-trained primary care doctor got addicted to Vicodin in his thirties, lost his medical license, and got sober. Twenty years later, he is board-certified in addiction medicine, prescribes cannabis at Mass General
Michael Marinaro and Tara Hopper raised $600,000 in one weekend and then paid $20,000 a month for five years to hold a building before Bada Bloom! could open. Now they are fighting for the rest of the capital while the M
Rae Russell runs customer success for PAX in Massachusetts. She treats field marketing as a sales job, not glorified event staff. In this episode, she and Jason Reposa break down what separates a brand ambassador who mov
Most dispensaries run on broken data and never find the leak. Socrates Rosenfeld, co-founder and CEO of Jane Technologies, built a decade of infrastructure to fix that. In this episode he breaks down the protocol Jane bu
Michael Mulkern built and sold a CBD company, lost his investment in a bad acquisition, got laid off with a newborn at home, and launched MAVZ Naturals the same week. He now runs 34 dispensary accounts across Massachuset
A cannabis label company asked Adam O'Day to design their packaging. He said yes — until he saw the rest of their branding was AI-generated. He walked.That decision is the center of gravity for this episode. Adam O'Day (
Dispensary menus train customers to buy the highest THC percentage. That is not a product strategy. That is a race to the bottom. Dr. Riley Kirk is a PhD pharmaceutical scientist, co-founder of the Network of Applied Pha
Kristin Rogers co-founded Levia and built the Massachusetts cannabis beverage category from scratch. She sold to a multi-state operator, watched the innovation stall, and spent three years getting the brand back. The cha
Emily Tuttle, Director of Business Development at Cannabis Creative Group, joins Jason Reposa to break down the "3-Funnel System" driving revenue for top dispensaries. In this tactical episode, we cover: - SEO Strategy:
Hennessy Shaw has spent 12 years in retail cannabis. She started as an executive assistant at Rhode Island's first medical dispensary and now runs sales and marketing at Bud's Goods & Provisions. In this episode she expl
A hidden clause in a federal funding bill could shut down hemp drinks by November, and most operators still do not fully understand how serious the threat is. In this episode of High Functioning, Christopher Lackner, fou
Brandon Pollack is the co-founder and CEO of Theory Wellness a cannabis company he built from a single medical dispensary in Bridgewater, MA in 2015 to 15 locations across five states, with 350 employees and zero outside
What does it really take to survive as an independent cannabis farm in Massachusetts? In this episode of High Functioning, host Jason Reposa sits down with Lisa Mauriello and Boey Bertold, the husband-and-wife team behin
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High Functioning Podcast is hosted by Jason Reposa. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 87 episodes.
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