Gary Roberts: Overcoming Tragedy & Empowering Others Through Plant Medicine, Health & Fitness

Enter the Lionheart

Lawrence Dunning

Society & Culture, Business, Entrepreneurship, Philosophy

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Gary Roberts is the Founder of Pure Body Zen, a plant based CBD medicine designed to help change the industry. He's also a CBD Advocate for First Responders, host of the "Good Dudes Grow Podcast" and has been a Firefighter for 18 years. His journey into the truth about cannabis products started after his own enlightening experience after the tragic loss of his daughter and father from opioid overdose.

Gary’s life mission is now Promises Recovery Center to change the way people addicted to opioids get treated. And Gary also clears up myths and misconceptions around CBD:

Why CBD still gets a bad rep in our current society.
Why CBD-based products have exactly zero to do with getting high.
How low-quality CBD companies compromise their product strength & purity.
What CBD does to your body when you find the right dosage.

Transcript

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0:00.0	A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts.
0:06.6	Get ready to enter the Lion Heart with your host, Lauren Stunning.
0:10.8	Hello and welcome back to End of the Lion Heart.
0:19.4	I'm very excited about today's guest, Gary Roberts, who has been a firefighter for the
0:24.0	last 18 years and has spent the last 30 years in the fitness industry.
0:28.4	But more than that, Gary is on a mission to change lives through fitness, nutrition and plant-based medicine.
0:35.0	After losing his daughter and his father to an opioid dependency and watching six fellow firefighters
0:40.9	choose suicide because of ineffective treatment for PTSD, mental health conditions and addiction,
0:47.2	Gary and his wife made a promise.
0:49.6	In his own words, we are on a mission to change the narrative from loss to better living
0:56.2	through plant-based medicine.
0:58.5	The people we loved and lost would have benefited from cannabis and psychedelic therapy,
1:03.4	but could not gain access.
1:05.4	And I believe that if they could have, they'll be with us today.
1:09.5	I hope you enjoy a conversation.
1:12.3	I'm here with Gary Roberts and Gary.
1:14.1	You have such a great story, tragic, but powerful.
1:17.7	I know in your bio, you talk about losing your daughter and also your father to opioids.
1:22.0	And you've also lost brothers in the fire service, your fireman, to mental health,
1:26.6	and now it's your mission to change lives through fitness, nutrition and plant-based medicine.
1:31.1	So you're such a kinder spirit.
1:32.6	And then as soon as we started this recording, I see you and I have the exact,
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