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Backpacking is considered by many Australians as a rite-of-passage into the world. Like all travellers, backpackers are not proof against dangers. Indeed, dangers to backpackers are particularly acute on account of their low budget and 'off the overwhelmed observe' method.
The morning was walking by way of the Chatuchak Park We could see many well being aware individuals strolling or jogging along the inexperienced tracks and the burden lifting equipments for the public. There's a large lake runs alongside this skinny and long park with three bridges crossing the lake, the Train Museum and a Youth Traffic Backyard. It is a nice useful resource and beautifully laid out. I additionally like how you displayed your itinerary with a Map Capsule.
On Wednesday afternoon Mike and I bought off the prepare at Llangynllo station, a tiny station, secreted in someone's back backyard. Very odd. Cooking and Water Purification – Meal planning and the flexibility to prepare meals is a should for the solo hiker. You do not must be a gourmand, but you have to observe your cooking expertise – even whether it is just boiling water. Talking of water, be sure to know all the methods of treating water and making it secure to drink. I hope this listing will help any freshmen wanting to start out out light on the path or provided some veterans with a few tricks they did not know. Get pleasure from and happy mountain climbing!
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Anyway, that is the tip of Amsterdam, and virtually the top of my journey. I ought to just promote my airline ticket and keep over here. Next we are on to Rotterdam for a night after which back to London for 2 nights until we catch our flight on the nineteenth. That is probably the last blog entry from Europe. I hope you enjoyed it to this point. The top place to party, though, is alongside the Boshphorus – throughout summer months, discos with lovely views line the riverbanks until the early hours. It should come as no shock to anyone that our choice of the very best climbing backpack is made by Osprey.


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Attention Mr. Fawad Yousafzai,
I have read in Daily Nation today the 30th June, 2016 your report which has been captioned as "PPP assails Wapda chairman over KBD columns".
You have reported that Nafeesa Shah, MNA in the meeting of National Assembly's Standing Committee on Planning/Development and Reforms stated, "it is regrettable that Wapda chairman is writing articles in favor of construction of controversial KBD". And after stating that 3 provincial assemblies had adopted resolutions against the construction, she pointed out (not only to the chairman Wapda but to all the public servants) that "you are a public servant and a sitting chairman and therefore cannot write on the controversial issue".
I am surprised that a well educated Parliamentarian from Sindh considers that public servants cannot write articles.
It should be remembered that public servants are not government servants. They serve the public and the State of Pakistan and not any particular government. In the capacity as public servants, they are bound to bring the truth to the attention of the nation for their benefit.
Public servant is paid from the taxes given by the people of Pakistan and not by the politicians or the assemblies.
As for three provincial assemblies against the construction, a resolution does not represent the will of the assembly and is no more than a recommendation. Moreover it is passed by the majority of the members present. As construction of a dam primarily fall within the jurisdiction of federation, it is imminently important to see if the federal legislature also have passed any resolution in line with the three provincial legislatures; although even that would be fourth recommendation.
It is government in power which took the stand as MNA from Sindh has taken and she is in opposition in the National Assembly. Opposition resist such tendencies from the government and has never supported it which will at this moment is in opposition in the National Assembly.
Quaid-i-Azam while addressing the civil servants particularly reminded them that "you are not to serve any political party or any government but only the people who are your masters".
Unfortunately such fascism had played havoc with the 'steel frame of India' and today public servant is being named as corrupt sultans of Pakistan. Time has come to change this mindset. I have read all the articles of chairman Wapda and found them extremely informative. I am thankful to him and appreciate particularly 'Nation' and urdu media for disseminating such vital information by publishing these articles. I wish the other English medium newspapers had also included these articles in their esteemed newspapers.
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We went to La Biennale di Venezia to soak up some inspiration and get in touch with contemporary art's predominant vibes. We came back inspired and full of ideas to work on.
Our highlights were The Key in the Hand by Chiharu Shiota in the Japanese Pavilion, all of Bruce Norman's work, and the general atmosphere of Venice in this time of the year. Art (and love) really is what we stay alive for.


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Online shopping has just made our lives easy remarkably and thus saves a lot of time and energy. Especially for the couch-potatoes who loves to sit at home but want to get the shopping done. Such people have opted for online shopping, but for secure online shopping, you need to do some extra measures to avoid any cyber theft financial loss. In the last few years, the rate of e-commerce has boosted up surprisingly. In the year-end when all the shopping freaks wait for the holidays that bring the most awaited shopping season, somebody else also waits desperately for it, and that is the scammers and hackers (learn 7 ways to avoid being hacked).
What are the Threats of Online Shopping?
Yes, the ratio of scamming, hacking, and identity theft goes up during the holidays of Black Friday, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and New year eve. This is the most favorable time for the hackers and scammers, where some scammers are active and look for the loopholes in the security precaution that people make to be safe from such scamming. This happens because, during this season, shoppers from across the world rush to their favorite online shopping websites and get their shopping for holidays done only by clicking from their home. So when the online shopper's traffic rises, the risk of scamming and hacking also multiplies. This affects so many people who do not make the necessary measures to be safe over the internet especially when they shop online and thus become the victim of such crimes like scamming, hacking, and identity theft.
This makes such people think to say goodbye to such a useful facility because of the fear of being victimized again by such criminals. But, this is not how things work. Leaving a valuable tool that facilitates millions of people around the world just because of your experience of being hacked and facing financial loss will not be wise. Instead of facing such criminal and making all the necessary precautions to be safe from them is a way out. Here we go with five ways that will guide you how you can be secure when you intend to shop online and will provide you with a smooth and secure online shopping experience with fewer chances of being hacked or scammed.
Threats of Online Shopping
There can be no other terrible feeling as a sense of being hacked and losing your personal and financial information. This sometimes even cause the victim to have a heart attack or nervous breakdown due to the sudden shock of losing their money. The internet world has become as insecure as the real world, where thieves and hackers are working around the clock to find the victim (get the most secure VPN to avoid any possible cyber threat). Especially the threats of online shopping are increasing day and night.
What people fear the most is giving away their financial information like their credit card number, account number, or such credentials. If such information becomes vulnerable to hackers, then this is the thing to worry about the most. It is because this can cause you to lose all your money in your bank account and the hacker can even use all your money for promoting criminal activities, and you will be blamed for his malice activities.
How to Avoid Cyber Attacks While Shopping Online?
Well, how you can possibly avoid cyber-attacks while shopping online is by being extra vigilant when giving away your personal and financial details to any website that you visit for shopping purposes. You should always trust your guts. If something on any website does not seem reasonable to you, just listen to your guts and run away from that website (learn more about internet privacy and security in our ultimate privacy guide). Never click on the appealing links and ads of winning a lottery or earning money online because such ads are nothing but scams most of the time. All you need to do is to be extra careful when you shop online especially when you visit any online shopping website for the first time.
Ways to Stay Secure When Shopping Online
Here I'm to tell you the ways by which you can be secure when shopping online. Let us go through these five ways of being secure before you buy online and this way you can minimize the risk of being the victim of hacking and scamming, after all, nobody wants to suffer from such misery.
1. Trust only Secure Websites for shopping
This is the most important thing that should be kept in your mind to get a secure online shopping experience. You should always trust the websites that are famous and reliable. Never give your personal and financial information like your account login details and your credit card detail for it may harm you and ultimately cause you to lose all your money. (Learn 10 cyber security tips you need to know). Moreover, you should make sure that the website you are about to give your financial details to, must have SSL encryption. SSL encryption is for the security of the confidential details provided by the customers. It makes the websites to prove their identity and encrypt your financial details.
Checking whether a website has SSL encryption or not is not rocket science. All you have to see is the address of that website. If it contains https, then it means it has SSL encryption that will encrypt your financial information. Do not give your credit card details to the websites with an address starting from HTTP.
2. Be Cautious while giving away your Personal Information
You should always be extra careful while giving away your personal data while shopping. It is a fact that every online shopping website asks for your personal information but what you should do is to avoid giving extra information about you. It is because the more information you input on the web, the more likely it is to be misused by the scammers. Furthermore, you should never connect your social media accounts like Facebook twitter or google accounts with any of the online shopping websites for it can be accessed by the hackers and they can make use of it (learn 5 Facebook settings you need to know).
3. Use PayPal For Payment
This way should also be kept in your mind when choosing the payment method. Many online retailer websites give the option to pay with PayPal. Paypal not only provides you with a secure payment method but it offers you a money-back guarantee if you get scammed using the Paypal payment method. In case, you do not have a Paypal account you are recommended to use the credit card rather than a debit card.
4. Avoid Open Public Wi-Fi for Shopping
We all look for public Wifi when sitting at the coffee shop or waiting at the Airport. But you should be aware of the fact that if you use Wifi hotspot to buy online, this means you are giving your personal and financial details on a plate to the hackers and scammers. It happens because most of the public Wifis do not have encryption, learn about VPN encryption terms. Thus, anyone sharing the same Wifi hotspot can get to know your personal and financial details with the help of malware. In short, you are advised not to use public Wifis of malls, coffee shops or airports especially when you want to shop online.
5. Use a VPN for Secure Online Shopping
Furthermore, using a VPN is a good way to secure online shopping. A VPN or Virtual Private Network is designed to give you a secure internet connection. (know in detail about VPN and how it works in our VPN guide). It works on the method of an end to end encryption. This means all your data packets pass through an encrypted tunnel. Hence, keeping your data secure from the rest of the world. This tool is best for you if you have privacy concerns. And to get a secure online shopping done with almost no fear of being scammed or cheated. Furthermore, using a VPN can help you get a discount too. Yes, you read it right. If you are the kind of person who looks for a discount everywhere. Then you should try this trick of using a VPN.
Additionally, this does not always work. You can give it a try. The VPN gives you the option of changing your location. Virtually, by switching your IP address with the IP address of your desired location. This way you can get a discount. For instance, if you see any sale that is only for US citizens and you are based out of the US then what you can do is to simply switch your IP address to an American IP and try to avail that sale which is only valid for Americans (get the best VPN for USA). So, using a VPN can provide you with the best of online security, as well as it may give you the chance of availing discounts.
Conclusion – 5 Ways to Stay Secure When Online Shopping
Secure online shopping will require you to be extra cautious. And vigilant enough to sniff the risk of being victimized by the hackers and scammers. Especially, during the year-end shopping seasons. Some shoppers rush online websites at the eleventh hour. This allows mistakes to slip through. To have a secure online shopping experience. All you have to do is to follow all the above-written ways. To make yourself secure while online shopping. However, nothing can guarantee a 100% shield from hacking and scamming. It is because the field of hacking is getting advanced day by day. Hence, making it difficult for ordinary people. To cope with it but all we can do is to make the necessary measure to do secure online shopping.


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Cross-cultural Medicine:
A Decade Later
by Anne Sutherland
Although most Americans hardly know that Gypsies live in their cities,
the medical profession is usually aware of them. This is because Gypsies
are generally not healthy and because they are assertive in seeking medical
care. Gypsies have an unusual ability to maneuever within a complex medical
system and to get attention from medical personnel. The Gypsy "style" of
seeking help is often frustrating and confusing to health care professionals.
Gypsies often request specific "famous name" physicians and demand specific
treatment they have heard of even when the treatment or specific physician
is inappropriate. Gypsies frequently request specific colored pills that
they share with their relatives. They prefer older, "big" (well-known)
physicians over younger ones. They often do not comply with preventive
and long-term treatment. When a relative is sick, they come to the hospital
in alarmingly large numbers, sometimes camp on hospital grounds, disregard
visiting rules, and generally create chaos in the corriders of the hospital.
Hospital personnel are often at a loss in knowing how to deal with Gypsies.
Gypsies can be cooperative, interesting patients, however. They respect
authority in their own families, they are eager to learn about the best
treatment for themselves and their relatives, and they have a large support
network of relatives. All of these factors can be called on by medical
professionals to assist them in providing treatment to Gypsies while reducing
the disruption that results from a sick Gypsy's desire to have relatives
In this article I provide information about Gypsy culture that will
be useful for understanding how to interact with them in medical situations.
This article contains guidelines, but not every Gypsy follows every single
custom or rule. Families and individual members have varied practices.
Some Gypsies are more old-fashioned than others; some are more fastidious;
some, generally older ones, are more informed; and some are sicker and
have more experience with physicians. Nonetheless, these general guidelines
should ease some of the frustration between Gypsy patients and health professionals.
Gypsy Culture
Gypsies live in urban areas, usually on main street, in the poorer parts
of towns. They are not always recognizable as such, especially the men
who wear American clothes; however, women, in particular older women, often
wear long colorful skirts and low-cut sleeveless blouses. Gypsies often
prefer to pass as another ethnic group and may claim to be American Indian,
Mexican, or Romanian. They are accustomed to discrimination and stereotyping
by those who often see them either romantically as free spirits or as contemptible
thieves. Neither stereotype is accurate. If a medical professional indicates
that it would help to know if a patient is Gypsy, the family may freely
admit to it.
Gypsies live in households with somewhat fluid membership because they
generally belong to large extended families. Dating back to the days when
they all shared one camp, members of extended families will eat and sleep
at each other's homes as if they were their own. The men work in groups
of relatives and friends. Their usual work involves soliciting body and
fender repair jobs, buying and selling cars, or helping women with their
fortune-telling businesses. The women (mothers, daughters, and daughter-in-law)
often share a storefront office or room at the front of a house, where
they tell fortunes. Gypsies prefer to keep to themselves and to avoid contact
with non-Gypsies. As a cultural group, they have survived hundreds of years
living by their wits.
Illness Is Social
For Gypsies, illness is not just the concern of the individual, it is
a problem of broader social importance. A serious illness always elicits
deep concern from a wide circle of relatives willing to drop everything
and rush to the bedside of the stricken. The gathering of Gypsies in the
vicinity of a seriously ill person is partly socially mandated by custom
but also is a genuine expression of concern for both the afflicted and
his or her immediate relatives. Families coming together when someone is
ill is one of the strongest values in Gypsy culture.
A knowledge of certain basic beliefs and behaviors
of Gypsies in relation to sickness and health and the sociocultural context
of health care is essential to effectively interact with Gypsies. The social
context of Gypsy medical and religious knowledge begins with Gypsy attitudes
in general toward health and illness, auspiciousness and inauspiciousness,
and cleanliness and uncleanliness.[2] These attitudes
are reflected in certain key concepts, presented in complementary position
in Table 1.
Fortune and Health
Good fortune and good health are closely associated for Gypsies, as
expressed in their most common blessing, "May God give you luck and health."
Those who enjoy good health also have been blessed with good fortune; those
who are ill have lost their good luck. To some extent everyone can influence
their own fortunes. By their actions they either promote their own health
or cause their own illness. Illness can be caused by actions that are considered
contaminating or polluting. Returning to a state of purity and conforming
to correct social behavior are necessary to cure these conditions. For
example, a young person who exhibits rebellious behavior and may be in
danger of pollution through illicit sexual relations can be "cured" by
Perhaps the most frustrating belief physicians encounter is that the
larger a person is, the luckier, healthier, and happier that person will
be. A fat person is perceived as healthy and fortunate, and a thin person
is pitied as either ill or too poor to eat, both of which indicate a lack
of good luck. Wealth is also partly attributed to luck because although
each family develops similar economic skills, some are more fortunate than
others. Some families enjoy good health, grow to a large size, and prosper,
whereas others are plagued with illness, family troubles, and economic
failure. In such a situation persons must take action to change their fate.
Personal cleanliness, proper social attitudes, and behavior--generosity
and virtue--should bring good luck. In a more general sense, traveling
as opposed to living in one place is considered auspicious.
Marime, meaning polluted, defiled, or unclean, is used
to indicate uncleanliness or impurity of a physical as well as a ritual
or moral nature. To be "clean," the top half of the body from the waist
up ideally must be kept separate from the bottom half of the body, which
is considered polluted and is an area associated with feelings of shame.[3]
The source of pollution of the lower body is the genitoanal area and its
emissions and secretions. Secretions from the upper half of the body are
not polluting or shameful. For example, spittle is viewed as a clean and
curative substance that may be used to clean cuts or scratches. This viewpoint
conflicts with medical practice, which sees spittle as a possible source
of contagion. Separate soap and towels are allocated for use on either
the upper or the lower part of the body, and they must not be allowed to
mix. Bathing in a hospital can be easily accommodated to Gypsy beliefs
by providing them with separate soaps and towels for the upper and lower
parts of the body.
A failure to keep the two sections of the body separate in everyday
living can result in serious illness. A large number of practical guidelines
are necessary to keep the upper half of the body separate and pure. At
the least, it is important to wash the hands after touching the lower body
and before touching the upper body. Body separation is a general cultural
ideal that comes into play more in public situations than in private ones,
and it has implications for a physician wishing to examine the lower body.
Most Gypsy women will not agree to a gynecologic examination or a Papanicolaou
smear unless the necessity of the procedure is clearly explained as essential
to a woman's well-being.
Marime can also mean rejection because to become physically or morally
impure could mean being rejected by the entire group. Rejection is a serious
punishment for a Gypsy because it means social isolation.
Marime and Non-Gypsies
The use of marime as a defining term for a whole series of social boundaries
gives it much importance for the Rom. The most important boundary is that
between Gypsy and non-Gypsy. Because they do not observe body separation,
non-Gypsies are a source of impurity and disease. Public places where non-Gypsies
predominate such as public toilets, hospitals buses, schools, offices,
jails, and non-Gypsy homes are also potential sources of disease. All these
places are less "clean" than the home of a Gypsy or open outdoor spaces
such as parks and woods. When they must be in non-Gypsy places, Gypsies
generally avoid touching as many impure surfaces as possible, but, of course,
prolonged occupation of a non-Gypsy place such as a hospital means certain
impurity. In this case the person tries to lessen the pollution risk by
using disposable paper cups, plates, and towels--that is, things not used
by non-Gypsies.
Age-Related Cleanliness
Concern for a person's health begins at birth and is most active during
the days or weeks of confinement (from 9 days to 6 weeks) of the mother.
In the past, infant mortality for Gypsies has been high. This may be somewhat
improved nowadays because more women give birth in hospitals; however,
the crucial period of prenatal care is still entirely neglected because
few women will accept a vaginal examination. One of the reasons Gypsies
have turned to hospital birth is the advantage to them of avoiding the
impure birth substances.
Gypsies recognize that a baby is vulnerable in the first weeks of life
and take precautions to protect the child. A new baby is immediately swaddled
tightly and handled only by his or her mother. The woman avoids certain
foods, such as green vegetables and tomatoes, so that the nursing baby
will not get colic. The child's navel is carefully cleaned and protected
with ashes, and amulets are sewn into the baby's clothing for protection.
In the first weeks at night, no member of the family is allowed to go in
and out, and all windows and doors are kept shut lest a spirit of death,
called "the night," enters to harm the baby. Crying and fear are prevented
in a child by placing a small piece of johai ("ghost vomit," a curative
substance) on their tongue. Visitors are carefully watched lest they give
the baby the evil eye. If the baby fusses or becomes ill, the giver of
the evil eye must make a cross with spittle on the forehead of the baby.
If despite these precautions a baby dies, this is bad luck for the parents.
They must avoid the baby's body, which is buried in a secret place by the
grandparents. Another way to avoid the bad luck of the death of a baby
is to leave the funeral and burial to the hospital authorities.
After the period of pollution of birth has passed (more or less 6 weeks),
children are considered basically pure in body and action. They can enjoy
freedom from most social restraints and are not expected to understand
or demonstrate "shame" in their actions. Physical contacts defiling to
adults are not necessarily defiling to children, who need not take many
of the precautions that adults do to ensure cleanliness in their daily
lives. Children, for example, may eat food handled and prepared by non-Gypsies
that postpuberty juveniles would reject.
At puberty, boys and girls are introduced to the idea of personal shame.
Now both their bodies and their actions will be judged in terms of control
of their own polluting secretions (menstrual blood, semen) and of "shameful"
and polluting actions (sexual contact). The control of sexual relations
and body cleanliness is modified by marriage and childbirth, but basically
such controls last throughout married life until old age.
Women have a particular need to keep clean. Menstruation, for example,
is surrounded by a number of rules to control the ill effects of this potentially
polluting bodily function. When a girl first menstruates she is introduced
to shame and must observe the washing, dressing, cooking, eating, and behavioral
rules of adult women, partly for her own protection and partly for the
protection of men. Her clothes must be washed separately from those of
men and children, and she cannot cook food for others during menstruation.
She must show respect to men by not passing in front of them, stepping
over their clothes, or allowing her skirts to touch them.
At old age, after menopause and when sexual relations are assumed to
have ceased, many of these regulations are relaxed. The aged are venerated
and respected persons, both because they are politically powerful (political
authority is vested in the aged) and because they now enjoy a "clean" status.
When in contact with a group of Gypsies, it is always wise to seek out
older authority figures and to communicate problems in their presence because
they have authority and exert influence over younger Gypsies. Also, without
the approval of older relatives, many young Gypsies will not agree to medical
procedures considered risky.
Food and Health
Gypsies try to eat only food that is known to be pure and clean. Consequently,
there are many regulations regarding the preparation and handling of food.
There are no foods that are always prohibited, although some adult Gypsies
fast on Fridays. Some foods--pepper, salt, vinegar, garlic, and onions--are
considered lucky. To eat them encourages good health.
Eating together is imbued with great social significance. To share food
with someone demonstrates respect, friendship, and acknowledgment of their
cleanliness. Refusing to share food is a serious affront, implying a person
is not pure and clean. The most serious punishment Gypsies as a group can
impose on anyone is to refuse to eat with the person. To be prohibited
commensality is social death. All rituals at which the Gypsies express
important unifying social values involve the sharing of food at a feast.
All food must be carefully prepared to avoid any marime contacts. Cooking
and eating utensils are always washed in a special separate basin reserved
only for that purpose. In many households, a separate soap is reserved
for food-related items, and even the hands are washed only with that soap
before handling food. Women in birth confinement and menstruating women
do not handle food. Food prepared by non-Gypsies is marime and is avoided.
This avoidance is not always possible, such as when in a hospital, but
it can be aided by eating wrapped take-away foods, drinking from cartons
or bottles, and using disposable eating implements. Gypsies may simply
eat with their hands rather than use utensils that may not have been properly
Causes of Illness
Gypsies make a distinction between illnesses that originate from the
non-Gypsies (gaje) and illnesses that are exclusively part of their
own world. The former can be cured by non-Gypsy doctors, but the latter
can only be tackled by the drabarni, their own medical practitioners. A
knowledge of Gypsy medicine is the prerogative almost exclusively of the
oldest women. They are both respected and feared because of this knowledge.
Gypsies do not have a scientific understanding of how the body functions.
To them American physicians simply have a special knowledge of (gaje)
illnesses and cures, a store of lore on medicines, and diagnostic and curing
techniques. Not all physicians have the same knowledge or ability. To a
Gypsy, a "big" doctor is one who cures, and a bad doctor is one whose medicine
does not work.
Hospitals are feared and avoided whenever possible. Most Gypsies will
go to a hospital only if they are in serious danger of dying or if they
view the situation as a crisis. Furthermore, a hospital is a hostile place
for the Gypsies, full of non-Gypsies, unclean, and completely removed from
Gypsy society. Too few visitors are allowed, so for the Gypsies, who want
to be with their kin when ill, a hospital is close to a state of exile
from their own society. For these reasons, many Gypsies suffer great pain
rather than go to a hospital. If they have to be admitted, the one thing
they know for certain is that they do not want to be alone, to be without
their relatives. [Tabular data omitted.]
Gypsy and non-Gypsy diseases overlap, but their causes are different.
Most Gypsies prefer to try several different cures for any single illness
to combat the different causes. A person who has convulsions, for example,
may be rushed to a hospital where a physician can attend but will also
be given asafetida by relatives. Physicians, therefore, are not
in competition with Gypsy drabarni.
Health Status of Gypsies
Many Gypsies claim that they are sicker now than they used to be. They
believe it is because they travel less and live in houses instead of separate
from non-Gypsies in camps. They think that the closer contact with non-Gypsies
is having a deleterious effect on their health. Recent work on the medical
condition of Gypsies would indicate that their medical problems are in
fact serious.[4] In a study of 58 Gypsies in the Boston
area, Thomas found that 41 of 56 (73%) had hypertension, 24 of 52 (46%)
diabetes mellitus, 32 of 40 (80%) hypertriglyceridemia, 26 of 39 (67%)
hypercholesterolemia, 20 of 51 (39%) occlusive vascular disease, and 8
of 40 (20%) chronic renal insufficiency. A combination of diet, which is
extremely high in fat, and genetics could be leading to the high cholesterol
levels and hypertension. In this group, 50 (86%) smoked cigarettes and
49 (84%) were obese. The life expectancy of a Gypsy in the United States
is between 48 and 55 years.[5]
To combat non-Gypsy diseases, the Gypsies logically turn to non-Gypsy
physicians and hospitals. Although they are eager to try any cure that
they think might work, they are suspicious of physicians and tend to "shop
around." A physician who acquires the reputation of being effective will
find Gypsy patients flocking to the office. Physicians whose Gypsy patients
die under their care will probably never see another in their practice.
Surgery is feared, especially when general anesthesia is required, as
Gypsies believe a person under anesthesia undergoes a "little death." Thus,
Gypsies will gather around the bedside to muster support and help the patient
come out of the anesthesia.
Despite their fear of hospitals, Gypsies are in general
extremely knowledgeable of hospital procedure. They know what services
are available and who are the best physicians for specific problems. They
learn of famous clinics and learn the complicated hospital regulations,
how to get around them, and how to get what they want. One study concluded
that Gypsies receive better medical care than other urban minorities because
they have figured out effective ways to use medical services.[6]
In the same way that they are willing to try physicians and hospitals to
cure them, they will also try cures and medicines advertised by Mexican
curanderos, faith healers, and patented miracle cures. These are all gaje
remedies. Nothing that might work is to be scorned.
Gypsy diseases have no connection with non-Gypsies or with germs and
therefore cannot be cured by non-Gypsy physicians. For these diseases the
Gypsies must turn to their own knowledge and their own medical practitioners,
the drabarni (literally, "women who have knowledge of medicines").
The knowledge of spirits and medicines that old women have is a great source
of power for them.
Serious Gypsy diseases are caused either by a spirit
called Mamioro or the Devil. Mamioro, a specific spirit who has
become a disease carrier, causes illness simply by visiting the homes of
Gypsies. Fortunately, she only visits dirty houses, so by keeping a clean
house, the Gypsy can keep her away. Johai, her vomit, is found most
frequently in garbage dumps, and it is the most powerful and valuable cure
the Gypsies have.(*)
Several important diseases are caused by the Devil. Tosca is
a disease that the Gypsies translate as "nerves." People who are nervous,
fidgety, and worry excessively have tosca. A lot of Gypsies get
especially the less aggressive and more sensitive ones who find it hard
to keep up with the demanding, noisy, fast pace of Gypsy social life. Khantino
drab will cure tosca. Khantino drab is also said to be
found near the place where a person has been seized with a convulsion or
epileptic seizure. It is believed that convulsions occur when a person
is possessed by the Devil and that usually the Devil defecates during the
convulsion. Locating the Khantino drab and giving it to the convulsed
person will make the devil marime and drive him away.
Gypsies can never be sure that they have done everything possible to
keep pure, to promote auspiciousness, and in general to live up to the
ideals of correct behavior; therefore, it is not surprising when someone
becomes ill or suffers misfortune. For the Gypsies, illness and death are
not only a personal crisis, they introduce a social crisis as well. Reporters,
physicians, hospital staff, social workers, and police are all aware of
a great happening when a Gypsy becomes seriously ill and dies. When they
ask what is going on, they may be told, "a Gypsy king (queen, prince) has
died." This reply is a way of satisfying reporters and providing a reasonable
explanation to hospital staff and police of why the Gypsies are flocking
into town in large numbers, camping on hospital grounds, and in general
breaking rules and creating havoc. Although there are no kings and queens,
only leaders of the large Gypsy extended family, death is a major crisis
in a Gypsy family that must be dealt with in ritual.
When a young person dies unexpectedly, the relatives are so grief-stricken
that their behavior can become extremely wild. In one case, after the accidental
death of a young man, the relatives were so distraught that they threatened
physicians for "letting him die." The relatives scratched their faces,
drawing blood, beat themselves on the chest and head, wailed and screamed.
This behavior was an expression of extreme grief. Even in the case of a
death that has been anticipated, however, it is culturally acceptable for
relatives to moan and shout out to the deceased, scratch their faces, or
pull out their own hair.
Death at an old age is generally perceived as part
of the natural and acceptable course of events, and the attitudes and feelings
toward the death of an old person are very different from those toward
early death. The main preoccupation of the relatives of an old person,
as well as the dying person, is to see that all preparations for the person's
eventual demise have been arranged. For the Lowara Gypsies, Yoors said,
"the Gypsies yearned for what they called 'a great death' for which they
could prepare and which they could share with their households, relatives
and friends. They feared most that kind of death which came when one was
John Davis, also known as Rattlesnake Pete, had a "great" death. His
funeral was the greatest spectacle since Big George Adams hired an entire
movie studio to provide props for his funeral in Los Angeles. John Davis
had a brass band playing Dixieland in the funeral cortege, a horse-drawn
hearse complete with black enameled scrollwork and silver lanterns and
drawn by two grey Appaloosas. His grave was a red-carpeted crypt with a
chandelier inside in a grave site surrounded by full-sized statues of the
Apostles. In front of the casket was a flower arbor with the words "Welcome
to Heaven, John Davis," in gold letters. He also had flowers in the shape
of his favorite fishing chair with a pole and line dangling into a flower-edged
pool, the American flag, a clock with the time of his death, a car, an
airplane, and a ship (because he liked to travel), a barrel of beer and
beer mugs (he liked a drink), and a little white house (he was a property
owner). The newspaper the next day ran a picture of the funeral cortege
with the caption, "Death of a Gypsy King" (Janet Tompkins, Contra Costa
County Social Service, written communication, July 1976).
To help physicians and hospital personnel interact effectively with
Gypsies, I have some specific suggestions.
1. Sutherland A: Gypsies, the Hidden Americans.
Chicago, Ill, Waveland Press 1986 Back
2. Sutherland A: Health and Illness among the Rom
of California. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 1992, in press Back
3. Sutherland A: The body as a social symbol among
the Rom. In Blacking J (Ed): The Anthropology of the Body. New York,
NY, Acadenic Press, 1977, pp 375-390 Back
4. Thomas J: Gypsies and American Medical Care.
Ann Intern Med 1985; 102:842-845 Back
5. Thomas J: Disease, lifestyle and consanguinity
in 58 American Gypsies. Lancet 1987; 2:377-379 Back
6. Salloway J: Medical care utilization among urban
Gypsies. Urban Anthropology 1973; 2(1):113-126 Back
7. Yoors J: The Gypsies. London, Allen &
Unwin, 1967 Back


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"One Life" is a testimony of pushing the boundaries and persevering despite the curve balls life throws at you. Chris stepped up as a fighter and a leader in his community and there's no end in sight to his journey.
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I feel like if we'd fix one and not the other, we're chasing our tail. We're not going to end this war, this system. So, we felt that it was kind of twofold that we needed to attack with the nonprofit. – Chris Martin
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01:15 – How he got started into the CBD-Hemp space, the struggles he went through and the disease he is born with
05:35 – Recovering from setbacks
11:53 – How does his non- profit organization help in rehabilitating and giving opportunities to people from prison
13:56 – On getting a donation from Sonia Gomez and raising funds for the organization
21:55 – Why the need to put up a business with a cause and not just for profit
23:22 – Giving praises to his wife
28:28 – How's the growth of his business for the nine years it has existed and what is the key driver for it
34:11 – How is he able to maintain a work-life balance considering the hectic schedule spent at the boardroom
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Sonia Gomez: What's up guys? This is Sonia Gomez tuning in from Denver, Colorado. This is another rock star episode of the hemp revolution and I am super excited for today's guest. Our guest today is a Virginia, Kansas native, former semi-pro baseball player and Crohn's disease sufferer who has now the founder of Hempful Farms, a multi-location hemp company, which I'm super excited to share with you guys. We are seeing more and more hemp collectives popping up all over the United States and I'm so excited to introduce you to Chris Martin, who is our special guest before the day to get down and dirty and into the weeds on the hemp collectives popping up all over town. What's up Chris? How are you?
Chris Martin: Great. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it so much. I love coming on and sharing my story.
Sonia Gomez: Yeah, man, this is the cool opportunity. And you were just telling me that you're starting a podcast of your own, which we'll talk about here in a minute, but for our guests who haven't met you before, why don't you go ahead and just take a second and tell us a little bit about who you are, your background, and what you got going on in the industry today.
The Struggles At The Onset
Chris Martin: Well, my name is Chris Martin. Many might know me as Billy' Zonca. I was also known as Billy Zonca for the last 10 years here in Arizona. I got into the cannabis community quite a long time ago. I was a Crohn's patient since I was born. So cannabis has always been helpful to me. But I was diagnosed in those seven. We went legal here in 2010 medically and I decided to start a company because our law here was crazy. Our medical law stated you could have 12 plants and grow it, but you could only have two and a half ounces of finished product. So once my wife and I harvested our 24 plants between the two of us and that 25 pounds, we didn't want to become drug dealers. We didn't want to become, you know, we definitely didn't want to throw it away. So I being a chef and my wife being a nurse, we created an edible line and within about seven months we were all over the state and that pissed a lot of people off. So we got rated. We were made the example of here in our state in 2012, my wife and I were faced in 27 felonies. I was looking at life, 127 years to be exact because I had a prior felony charge for a joint when I was a teen. So they use that as an aggravating factor and wanted to give me a a lot of time over those charges. So we fought our case three and a half years. In the interim of fighting my case, one of my farmers called me up and said, Hey Chris, I've got pimple oil and you could reproduce all of the products that you made with Zonca with your edible line and do it with him. And it would be completely legal. You could still help out all those same people that you're helping. And at first, you know, you're taken back on, you've been rated, you're looking at life. The last thing you need are more friends, offer you sweet deals on the side. As I researched oil and CBD, especially as a patient myself, it actually worked. It started doing things for me that vitamins couldn't do and supplements work. So I created a six-line brand, I'm copying. What we did was Zonca and we did a lotion, a salve, a tincture and we launched it. We put it online just saying from the creators of Zonka and the people fighting for their life in court. And the story you really got traction because no one could understand why we were looking at so much time for something that was said have helped heal so many people.
With that being said, we pushed the brand really hard. I set it up strategically because I felt like if I didn't come home from prison, my wife and kids need a way to feed themselves. So, I literally set up corporations. I structured all my companies separately. Once I was sentenced to prison, I was only sentenced for two years. And the reason that the drop in time is because we had discovered that evidence had been planted. We had discovered that the police had lied to the grand jury to get an indictment that they had post-dated their warrant to put the GPS on our vehicle. Just lots of crazy stuff that's not allowed in court. So we hired a private investigator, we hired an attorney. And, once we disclosed all the information that we had found, they came back with a two year plea. The two year plea I didn't want to take it.
I wanted to ball up the paper and throw it on the floor. My lawyer told me better. He took me in the hallway and said, look man, when they're offering you a two-year plea, that's them waving the white flag. But because you're here and you're a prior felon and you have tattoos and you're your big scary looking guy, the jury is not going to listen to all your field good stories. You have prior felons, you will go to prison. So, and it won't be for two years, you know. So he felt that it was to my best interest to just really build my empire and write my books and do everything that I wanted to do while I was in prison and actually have the time to sit still and do it. And although it was against my better judgment, I agreed to the time. And, I literally went into prison and spent the next two years building my empire, guiding my wife, pended down a real thin path and she took it from there. She built this brand. She went onto a show called, the marijuana show.
Sonia Gomez: They're dope.
One Success Led To Another
Chris Martin: Yeah. Her and my son went on the marijuana show and the whole theme of the show is actually changed, for us. It was, it used to be about, you know, cannabis entrepreneurial ship and getting into the industry. And when she met my wife and my son and my story, when they met us, they felt like it was time to shed more light on the prisoners and the court system and our people out of jail and not throwing them in there for plants. So they really focused the whole season on what we had been through. And my nine-year old son went and pitched our pitch deck to investors and got my product launched in the four States that we'd never been in while I'm sitting in prison.
Sonia Gomez: My God, this is..
Chris Martin: It's what dreams are made of. I can't be more proud. I was released in 2017 and we have hit the ground running. We've opened up four retail stores. We've opened up two yoga studio wellness centers with massage. We've opened up a cafe. We plan, we've got two of my books launch, which one is One Life, one is a cookbook. Um, we've launched the documentary that comes out in September called haters make me famous and it's about exactly that. No one knew who I was until they tried to make an example, put us on the front page, winning their case in the media. We just didn't let it happen. So here we are. This is where we sit now.
Sonia Gomez: Fucking A right, my friend. That's the best story. And you tell it really well, like some people have great stories, but have no idea how to tell it. You know how to tell your story. It's fantastic. I'm like right here rooting for you because my rights were also violated as a California patient and I had to go up against both the medical and the legal system for my rights to safe access. I relapsed into my condition once I was arrested. I was, you know, such incredible turmoil and such a tumultuous process that quite literally could have turned me into any kind of statistic. I mean, I could have been a victim of the opioid epidemic. I could have been a victim of just being a Hispanic female who was unable to work because of the restrictions of the court system. I mean, it was just insane what they put us through. And for me, I was a first-time offender, so it was even more alarming to see how they throw the book at you and try and make an example out of you when you're one of the good guys. I mean, quite literally we were doing incredible things and anyways…
Chris Martin: That's why we started a non-profit because a lot of people end up in the situation like I'm in where you get in trouble and you get so afraid of fighting after you're done that you run, you get away. You don't want anything to do with the industry per se. You only use the medicine because of necessity and everything else you want away from you. And I didn't want that to happen. I didn't want my time to be in vain. I didn't want the four years that my children suffered to to be forgotten. My 14-year old who is the CEO of my backup was since he was nine years old as PTSD so bad. He hasn't been to public school seven years, seven years! He hasn't been allowed back in and it's not the schools that won't allow them back. It's me because when I look at my son and I dropped him off in seventh grade and I tried to implement it back into school, but as as I turned to leave, he ran out crying because what happens if that gets rated? What happens if that gets arrested? Thats his two first questions are if you don't come back to pick me up from school, where do I go? Why does a 14-year old have to worry about that seven years later? Those are the things about these kinds of stories that we bring out that the book and the documentary talk about because even after the raids and the story in the court room, the police forget about this stuff, yet, we talked about their PTSD and the things that they live with. But look at the things that we deal with as families and children of families that are part of this drug war because of a raid, you know, no one talks about seven, 10, 12 years later what these guys are still going through.
Sonia Gomez: Absolutely. And it's, it's amazing to see how many families have been affected. I was actually just talking with di does she to Dawson who's heavily involved with the minorities for medical marijuana and looking at how many families in, I would say underprivileged demographics, what are affected by the war on drugs, you know, and how many families. We're literally having to watch our Hispanic and African American men go to jail on behalf of this plant medicine and what they're doing in their communities. Now I'm not painting a rosy picture. I know that there's other shit going down that affects it. But I also know that there are, is very real targeting and you're absolutely right. We're not talking enough about the adverse effects that it has on the families and on our kids. Forget the victim of the arrest.
Let's look, you know, pay attention to the ripple effect and how that translates over into our kids. Like it is a generational transmission that fear, that concern, that worry. And it never leaves. I can totally, I mean I'm so proud right now that I have you on my show in that we're talking about, you know, how you are protecting your child from the effects of your choices. I mean, quite frankly, it was your choice to get into the cannabis industry. It was and you had all of the right reasons in the world to want to do it. And at the same time, when we make those decisions as canapreneurs, we know what the risks are. We know that we're putting our kids in a position that they don't have, they don't get to choose. They don't get to choose what mommy and daddy do to bring home the bacon. Right. And so they're just, they in themselves are a victim of our good and bad. Absolutely. You know, and however that translates. So I commend you for the way that you are supporting him in his own recovery and how you're empowering him to be a part of the change that you want to see in your family and your community and in the world. This is like such a fantastic thing to be in support of. Like, first of all, let me just say, does your non-profit organization support people who are rehabilitating from the prison system and give them opportunities for work and things like that?
A Community Service-Driven Non-Profit Organization.
So I feel like if we'd fix one and not the other, we're chasing our tail. We're not going to end this war with the system. So,we felt that it was kind of two-fold that we needed to attack with the non-profit. Click To Tweet
Chris Martin: Yeah. Our non-profit is two-fold actually. So me being a child of the state growing up as a kid, I've seen both sides of the pendulum. I've seen how our childcare system really promotes these kids into the prison system, mainly from a monetary standpoint. So, I've seen both sides. I was a Casa worker that worked with them until I was 18. And then as soon as you turn 18, bam, you're off the system. You're out of the state's custody and you're expected to be an adult, reintegrate into the life that you don't understand. So our non-profit, does two things, it not only does it help the drug offender and helps the cannabis offender, the drug offender, the people that have those tags from prison that make it very more, so much more expensive to come home when you come home from prison with a drug offense, you have to go to programming, counseling, you have to go to a halfway house, you have to go, you know, you have all these different labels on you that you have to jump through. Now think if you've been in prison for a long time, you probably lost all those contacts within the first year or two of your family, your support system. So it's even harder. And now our prison systems, 1099 you have to make $600 or more working for them. So, you not only do you have that tag, but you come home with the bill. So the non-profit, it's really geared to help those inmates that need that help coming home, that have lost everything in this drug war that that can't implement back in because now they have to go to a halfway house, they have to pay their drug fines and their fees and their probation fees, but don't have a job or can't write a check. So we take care of those guys. And then also the kids coming out of the programming and the childcare system, once they turn 18 they're cut off and there's no help for them. We want to prevent them from going into this system. We want to show them why they don't want to be a cog in that wheel with the long-term, we track this. So I feel like if we'd fixed one and not the other, we're chasing our tail. We're not going to end this war with the system. So we felt that it was kind of two-fold that we needed to attack with the non-profit.
His Non-profit Organization Receiving Support From Sonia Gomez Herself
And everyone's just looking for that hand up. Not a hand out. They are going to have to work hard to be successful, but I am willing to give them all I got to help. So we'd like to do those certifications. Click To Tweet
Sonia Gomez: So let me ask you this. Let me share a little bit about what we got going on and what I'm thinking and you tell me if it's a good fit. I'm just going off the cuff here. So, I started an education company called the Leaf Academy and we produced two different certification programs. One is called the CBD ambassadors program where we teach people everything they need to know about how to effectively sell hemp, share hemp within their family, whether they're using it to preserve the life, a healthy lifestyle or they're trying to make a living with it. CBD ambassadors program allows them to work with the hemp products in an educated way and inform and educate their community as well. The second certification that I developed is called the natural health coach certification, where I have partnered with some of the world's leading experts on cannabis and hemp health. And we help them start a business of their very own from scratch that they can operate from the comfort of their computer. Now, um, I was really inspired to work with people who were rehabilitating from being incarcerated, or even as a preventative when I saw, of all people, Kim Kardashian working to get people released from prison who had, you know, outlandish, anyone can do it that broad. So, anyways, I got a lot of respect and admiration for her. So, as an entrepreneur, so I was really inspired. I was like, you know what, this is so perfect. Like these inmates or you know, folks who are trying to stay out of prison can do something really positive. Working in a field with a product that they love, that allows them the time and location freedom that they want.
You know, who wants to go to a job everyday. They, everybody wants to, you know, have the American dream and feel like they have ownership of the job that they're working. And, so, I reached out to her to give, to donate a number of certifications.The value of the certification is $6,000 and I would like to donate certifications. The natural health coach certification to 10 of your inmates. Start there. We'll start there. But I just, I think that it would be such an amazing contribution and I really, really want to be a part of that transformation that you're working towards and especially the youth who are coming out of the system and are looking for a place to be found and recognized and just that shot that you need. You know, like everyone's just looking for a chance and when they don't get that chance, they go out and they take it. And unfortunately there's not a lot of opportunity for folks like that. I was raised in a very humble environment. My father was an immigrant. We had to run out of the house. You know, when I was a 12 year old girl running away from a domestic violence situation and I started my first day of seventh grade living in a stranger's living room like behind her couch and watching my mom, you know, crying on the phone trying to figure out what she was going to do next. And everyone's just looking for that hand up. Not a hand out. They are going to have to work hard to be successful, but I am willing to give them all I got to help. So we'd like to do those certifications.
Chris Martin: That is so amazing of you. We work really hard to get help for these people. And honestly, if people aren't involved, they don't get involved. If, if they haven't been touched by prison or court system, nobody really wants to go around that or talk about it. So people like us that have been through this, well it's our job. This is our duty. We have to do this. But that doesn't make it any easier to raise funds. But it doesn't make it any easier to really get the job done. So, we just want to tell you thank you. I started two programs and and it was just like you, it was inspiration that did it for me. When I went to prison. I'm not an artistic person at all. My wife sent me coloring books, adult coloring books, and just said, here, get your head right. Stay focused on what you're doing. So I did these coloring books. Well, I noticed the other men that were super excited about these coloring books, which is really funny if you think about it, a bunch of grown, tattooed men running. They're all excited about coloring books. It's amazing in its own right. So I started to hand out these books. They would turn their artwork to me, and I would send it home to my wife. When my wife starts posting it on Facebook, showing everyone like look at with these guys doing their with their time off, she starts to auction that work off. Now it's turned into a huge program where we do, it's called Coloring Books For Contracts on my Facebook page where I sell hobby craft and inmate artwork non-profit. We put all the money back on their books and their drug offenders. We don't take artwork from everyone. You know, we're not selling violent offenders or whatever. Yeah, no, nothing like that. It's all drug offender, low lying fruit. People that keep going back because they can't get out of their own way. So we take that and we sell it for them and it's turned from that and now it's turned into a cooking show. We started a cooking show called Convicted Creations. I wrote a cookbook of nothing but prison food tamales and ice cream made in the dryer. And it's just things that I created while I was there because I'm a chef and things that these guys have done forever because they live there now. Now, I start, if you go to YouTube, look up Convicted Creations, we have 14 episodes and I bring the inmates home. When they come home, we put them on the set. We have them filled with their favorites meal. We have them talk about a story. It's really just counseling to show that, you know, hey, you're not a victim anymore. You're not, you made a mistake. Move forward. There's good life out here. So, with your help and with that donation, I can announce that on all those platforms and really helps so many people out. We are so thankful. If there's anything we can ever do for you, just just holler. You know that we'll be here .
Sonia Gomez: Man, we're gonna, we're going to be doing some cool stuff together for sure. Like, I want to come out, I have a whole video team. I'm going to come out there. I really want to shine some light on what you guys are doing. This is going to be a really amazing project. I'd love to come on to your guys' shows too, and talk about, you know, the Leaf Academy and the, I mean it literally comes with everything products that comes with, um, business training. It comes with a website of their very own, access to the doctors. Like, they're really gonna build a lot of confidence working with this and they're gonna be able to run a successful business when they follow the system. You know, and with, with that little boost of confidence that you give them validating the stuff that they do know and that they did learn, it just opens up a gateway for them to understand like you are of value. You have something of value, you're a powerful person and you could make a lot of positive change in the world and here's your opportunities. So, I'm so happy to do that. It's a significant donation and we're just so proud. We're so proud to be able to do it and so happy to align ourselves with other entrepreneurs who are focused on the change and not the and not the case that comes with the industry. For me, I always say this, like, the income is a direct relationship with the impact that you're bringing into the marketplace. If you're so focused on like chasing the money, the money is going to get the better of you. You're going to always be asking, you're always going to have your hand out for a fundraiser. You're always going to have your handout, you know, trying to get the capital you need to operate your business. There's, you're not going to have the same kind of commitment or conviction from your community that you're serving because you're in it for the money. Philosophy brands for me, like I tell people all the time, people don't buy products. They buy people. Dude, where's your story? Like what's your message? What's the mission? Let's get committed here. So…
Chris Martin: Our company survived nine years and, honestly, three years in prison. I've watched companies come and go and I started my own company, what, nine years ago, we were snake oil salesman. Nobody wanted to listen. And now, all those same people are doing the exact same thing. They're, which for us, we're just happy people are talking about it and using these products. I don't care where they come from as long as you, know they're tested and that they've got CVS and you're safe with that. That's great. I just know we've done for nine years from seed to sale and we've driven that model into the people's faces. I know, to me, watching all these other companies pop up, it's a sign of flattery. Are you almost like, hey, we nailed something here.
Sonia Gomez: Yes. I love it. You're, you guys are my new spear animals. Okay. Talk to me a little bit about the boardroom. You're a family owned business. You've got your 14 year old in the board room and I mean I work with my husband. That is like the best and the worst thing ever. Give me the temperature of your guys's boardroom. When you guys go into the boardroom and you're planning and you're looking at, you know, the different facets of your business and what needs to be done here. How involved is your son, how involved is your wife? Are you really the head of all of this or is it truly a collaborative effort?
Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
Chris Martin: You know, it's truly collaborative. I'm the face because I'm the one that ugly enough to survive prison. Honestly, that's the truth. You know, people think that, you know, in my case that I was the warrior and I don't want to take all that credit, you know, prison sucks. I'm not going to lie. But coming from a childhood like I came from, it was easy. I'm two fifty six one covert and that dues really don't have a problem. And on the other aspect, I'm not in there as a bully. I'm in there to help heal it just like I do out here. So these programs that I started out here, they actually started in there. There were programs. I started with people in there. So now that I've gotten home, the one lesson that my wife and I have both learned through all this, after 20 years of marriage and five kids and two grandkids, because you know what, I need to shut my mouth sometimes. That's what it taught me. I need to go to prison. I need to sit back and let my wife do what she's good at. And what my wife learned was that she's way more important to this whole situation than she gave herself credit for it. She an art, you know, she's in the medical field. She's been in the aspiring RDN for 10 years. She has helped formulate a lot of our products on the topical side. But she doesn't want credit for that. She doesn't want to be in the camera or on the books or magazines. She doesn't care about all that. She likes to, when people come back saying, man, that really worked. Oh my goodness. Show me that again. That's what she's here for. And this lesson taught her like, look, when I went to prison, she had to step up.
And so many ways, not just on the business aspect, but the family. She carried this family, she carried my, you know, kids going to school every day and homework and the sprained ankles to the sick babies, the you name it, she, she did all of that with maybe a one 15 minute phone call for me. And a lot of the times, so most 15 minute calls came, they were used to discuss business plans or were on conference call with dispensaries or I mean literally, I've never been in a conference call with the business from prison. I have to tell you what a humbling experience that is. But my wife ran it, my wife owned it, my wife set every bit of it up. All I did was make sure the numbers made sense and that it makes sense for our company. I got threatened for running illegal entity in the enterprise and in prison because I was trying to show my wife how to read a P and L and I make sense of it.
So it just shows you the battles. So when it comes to the boardroom, it's really all of us. It's everyone. My son created the dog line. I had 35 products under Weedless and under Hempful and he came to me and said, Dad, our eight year old Rottweiler limps really bad. What can we do for that? I'm like, Oh, give him the oil. He's like, but not every dog wants the oil. Next thing I know, being in the kitchen, making a biscuit and we started making dozens and dozens of biscuits by hand. And it's really, that's one thing we pride ourselves on in this company is we're still family. No matter how much we grow, my uncle and my cousin run my Chicos store, my best friend and his wife run my young town store. My kids work here, production. My wife's best friend and her son are my two managers. Like even throughout my grow and yeah, I come home from prison, I got to grow back. I got my brand back, I got 16 staff over there. So for us it's all about all of them. I can't do any of this without any of them. I'm just, I'm merely the presence. I'm the guy that lights the fire. I walked in the room and people automatically walk up and shake hands and give hugs. That's that presence I bring. That's, I pride myself on that. I've worked hard for that and I think it's earned us a little bit of respect here. I'm not just from the story standpoint, but from a business standpoint because we keep our word, we still shake hands, which is very unheard of anymore. But we keep our word because of that hand shake.
Sonia Gomez: Yeah. Yeah. My husband's family built an entire empire with handshake deals. Then I think it's a lost art. The art of trust. It's a lost art. So, with the mention of business, I want to dive in a little bit because we have a lot of our listeners who are considering getting into the hemp space. They're trying to figure out their entry point. They're doing their risk to reward ratios right now. Some of them are dabbling in, you know, buying penny stocks online and on the stock exchange. Some of them are existing entrepreneurs or patients who just love this product and want to be in support of the movement overall. But I want to speak to those entrepreneurs who are curious or hungry and are considering making the moves in. What kind of potential are they looking at if they follow this, this model of community contributions and really building a company that has these fundamentals build into the foundation. What are your revenues looking like now that you're nine years in and you're doing all of this seed to sale, fully integrated company or fully vertical company. What are your revenues looking like right now? What do they have to look forward to?
Steady Growth For Years And Just Getting Better.
I think sticking to our model was the key and still is and always will be. Even though we still walk the tight rope on that corporate side. Click To Tweet
Chris Martin: You know, honestly, my first year in prison, my wife did 1.5 while I was gone that year and before that we did maybe 40 grand. So, just to show you the growth alone right there. I think sticking to our model was the key and still is and always will be. Even though we still walk the tight rope on that corporate side, you know we just got approved on Range Me where it's a B2B situation like Big Box. So, everyone from Altro to Safeway, Albertsons, those guys, that's where they can come look at you. So you still have that, you know, you still have the decision to make when these companies call, are you going to be able to produce that much? Are you going to be able to jump in line with these guys? We keep that model seed to shelf handshake deal and we just choose to do it our way. You know if those big box, which we just had a call about, you know, a multiple store deal and we just tell them look we're here to grow with you and if you're honest with what you are and who you are and when you come to the table, I think that's where longevity comes in. You have to really stick to your game plan though. But also that would that be instead being open to change? I think not, but not being willing to change in this market will vary your company. We've had to change quite a bit growing in those nine years without losing that integrity, without losing that staple of why we built this company. Like, yeah, we're going to grow, we're in 300 stores nationally right now, but we still do small batch. We still do small batch testing to make sure we control the milligram and know exactly what's in everything so we don't lose that touch.
So I think if people stick to their guns in their model, you're always gonna have those people that come to this game with short term games that are going to want to get in and get out. I don't see how we avoid that unless we do away with some of the pennyy stocks you speak about. I'm not a penny stock guy. I'm not a side guy.
Sonia Gomez: I noticed that guy there.
Chris Martin: I'm a tangible person. You know what I mean? I want you to come see what we do, believe in what we are and go from there. Stock to me is like going to Vegas and at least up there you get to go see some nudity and big difference. Big difference. You know, I think right now it's a huge time to be in this game. You know? And if you find your niche and what I mean by that isn't just cute little brand or a label on a logo or a logo on the label. That what I mean by niche finding your in, you know, like I had a company, I do a lot of consulting that a company could ask me the other day, you know, I've got land and I want to farm and I want to get involved. What do I do? And then they think it's really that easy. They're going to walk out, they're going to throw some seeds in the ground and they're going to walk away and go ahead. Yet, I've got money now and I tell them to look at your demo, look at where you're at, look at what you're doing. You know, every demo is going to be different. We're, we're talking about Arizona state that just allowed growing in June. It also, these guys are already looking at out extra strategies and in games and I'm trying to explain to them like, look, if you pay attention to now, like we don't have a processor here. We've got people getting in and starting to get involved, but all these people that want to go out and grow him, where are you going to process your hands? You know? Yeah, I've seen him go bad. I'm watching him mold because they don't have anywhere to take it. So if you pay attention to you around you and what's happening around you, I think that's what's gonna help you. I think that's really what's going to keep this thing moving and how you're going to be successful. Don't sell yourself short. You know, I've told more big companies know I had a huge company come here from California that one department wanted to probably take my edible line to the next level. But that also met me given up a lot more than I was willing to give up because I thought, why I'm here. I don't have this four year in extra strategy and end game, you know, a Crohn's isn't going to be over for me next year.
I'm not going to just all of a sudden it'd be better. And I know a millions of people that feel that same way. So I owned a business and started a business out of necessity out of one to always have access and always have safe access. I feel like a lot of people have that same thought processes that either they want to know they have that access or that they can do it better or that they can put out a better product. I think that's great. Just know your demo, know the people around you. And honestly, my one piece of advice, Google search, Google searches go so far. You know how many people I've had to send cease and desist on using the word info. I mean, I didn't fight six years in prison and spend thousands of dollars on getting trademarks. And lawyers and insurance, all these protections to what some person not know what a Google searches and then start their whole company and get their dreams destroyed. Because I had to send them a letter saying, hey look man, you can call it whatever you want to. But, I only say that because it's a respect issue. You know what I mean? On top of a smart decision in business, it's just a respect thing. You know what I mean?
Sonia Gomez: So, when you come from the neighborhoods, we come from, no, you all better step. You don't want me at your front door talking about ..
Chris Martin: Zonka is a lot like Wonka. But we made the changes necessary. We went out, we got the proper licensing for it and the trademark and you know, we made sure we followed our P's and Q's and we're even about to go through a whole new rebrand. So that way as nothing to do with the child candy bar. And you know, we don't want to make that correlation with people and confused people. We want them to understand the differences. It's just having that common sense sometimes isn't always Tom. Yeah. Read the book or asking somebody a question just goes a long way.
Sonia Gomez: I love it. How do you fit time in with the wife for and I'm asking for a friend myself and I'm asking for brand, you know, one of the biggest challenges for us as canapreneurs and Mama and Papapreneur. It's like, there is very little time that is not dedicated to the board room and to planning and to business conversation. How do you guys balance the love life with your love for business?
Maintaining A Work-Life Balance.
We have that availability between the two of us, but we also make sure that we, you know, for us families, number one, we've been on the other side where we got to see our families through video screens and chain link fences. So every single day is… Click To Tweet
Chris Martin: Well, you know, for one, we haven't worked a day since we started this company that old adage of, if you're doing what you love, it's never work is true. I've ran restaurants my whole life, so to do what I do now, it was heaven compared to the restaurants. I love being a chef, but it's hard work. You don't sleep, you don't sit down, you're not home on holidays or weekends. And that's 25 years of my life. So now that I actually get to sit in the office with my wife or go through production and talk about what we've got coming out on the new rollout, it's a dream. For me it's honestly a dream. Now, we have good, bad days, don't get me wrong, but we've been together 20 years. So it's really easy for us to look at each other and go, you know, I'm going to go home today and work from home and it works that way. We have that availability between the two of us, but we also make sure that we, you know, for us families, number one, we've been on the other side where we got to see our families through video screens and chain link fences. So every single day is just a blessing. And I hate to sound really cliche, but I literally wake up and I go kiss my kids. I wake up and I, I kiss them on the forehead. I tell him, good morning, I tell him I love you. Because I love her because I want to. So, we make it happen. You know, my wife is very stickler with that calendar when she says, hey, you know, Chris, I've got four days planned and we're going to the grand Canyon on this. It's happening and that's how our family works. If it's not on the calendar, I'm not showing up. I'm going to probably at best be late. So, she knows if it's on the calendar, I look over, Oh hey, we got a vacation for four days. I got to leave. I think that's very important for everyone to make happen. Make that time. This life goes by so fast. We're not here very long. I mean, I remember being in high school now, I'm almost 50 that happened so fast. I have to make that time. Yeah, it can happen. You can talk about it all day long, but until you make it happen, you're not helping your family heal or grow together. Nothing's more important. I don't care. At the end of the day, what bills do we, you know, what money is going out on the bank account. It's nothing to go walk this, the shoreline of the Lake and throw a Pullman with your kid or you know it, you have to make it happen. And until I sat in prison for that many years looking out the window going, man, I missed all these things, I probably wouldn't have thought of it that way. If I can share that opinion and change a vision, then that's what we're here to do.
Sonia Gomez: Well, I'm just being in this, just being in this interview, like I'm so super motivated and inspired, like the mentality shift. I am one of those people who absolutely love what I do and it can be overwhelming. I quite literally get a message every three seconds with a million followers, 350,000 subscribers. You know, like there's times, there is not a moment in the day where I don't get and I'm so compelled to help. Like, I personally reach out and I'm over here messaging and you know, so my kids are like, Hey mom, you know what about me? And I really have to be more conscious about spending the dedicated time. And so I'll start, started to like turn my phone off on the weekends and you know, from this time to this time on Friday and Monday, I'm not available. And really taking more time to be with them because it's those little things that make all of the big efforts every day worth every minute, you know, and to those people who are aspiring entrepreneurs listening in on this.
And this is a perfect time. I, you know, I always try and give you guys little tips and tricks that you can use to get started in this space or start to evaluate your entry point. And last in our last episode we talked with deshita about, you know, knowing your, knowing your avatar and the problem that you want to solve. Um, understanding what products and delivery systems are going to be most effective and really having a business model that allows you to live the life that you love instead of the other way around. But I want to add some things onto that because it's important for you to know in your consideration of starting your business that if you are not passionate and purposeful about what you're doing, the profits are not going to turn out or pan out the way that you want them to have, to have passion and a real purpose.
I'll say it again. People are not buying products. They're buying people who, your story, your message, your mission, and connecting those things directly to the avatar or demographic that you want to serve. Solving those problems first and falling in love with the people that you are serving is going to take you so much further down the line than somebody who is heavily capitalized and just in this for the money. That is how you build legacy. That is how you build longevity for your company. Um, and for you as an entrepreneur, how to avoid the burnout. Be passionate and purposeful about what you're doing. Um, any last words, Chris, this is just been such an incredible interview for me to do today. I'm like energized. I love what you guys are doing and I can't wait to talk more offline about the other things that we are definitely going to be collaborating on.
Chris Martin: No, I just appreciate you. I think you hit the nail on the head when you said legacy. Legacy is what it's about for us. That's why we started this. I don't remember anything about my parents now that they're gone and I don't like that it hurts and I want even through the troubles, I want my family to remember what we did, why we did it, because there's a purpose behind it. This wasn't about like you said them the duckets. This isn't about the money. My documentary costs me more money than I had. I really did it for a message. It's a purpose. My message and purpose to people is just don't quit. Don't give up. You can never give up no matter what the circumstances you're talking to. A guy that did 42 group owns as a kid and moved on to seven different prison yards in six years. I easily could've fell victim to anyone of those circumstances and been a statistic, a number of bed space and I chose not to. The world's a bigger and better place and I want to be a part of it.
Sonia Gomez: Spoken like a true King, big up to your wife and your family. Man. This is a beautiful company that you guys have built, excited to do further collaborations and you to tell your story. Guys, for those of you who are tuning in, check us out on the emeraldcircle.com for more transformational stories from the inside of the hemp revolution. I'm your host, Sonia Gomez, and we'll see you on our next episode.
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