Hey, what's up everybody welcome to trust and believe I'm your host Shanty and today as you can see we are in a brand new space which I'm so excited about.

We have our first in person guests in our what I like to call our Cassita studio an incredible human that I met while working out at the gym and didn't know that we were going to have this conversation when I first met him but I'm so excited today we're going to enhance your ability to trust and believe in the power of cannabis.

I know I know there's a lot of people out there that's like hold on stop the phone but I always say when something makes you uncomfortable you have to listen a little bit more.

We're going to talk about Howard can enhance your mental health through Charles's story and his personal struggles.

I know you're going to be really inspired so get ready to trust and believe.

Come on.

This is Shanty and it's time to trust and believe.

Charles what's up.

Sean what's up boss I want to start by saying are you high right now?

Yes I am good I just want to you know get it out the way because I think that my kind of personal story I told last year in my podcast that I was going through a lot of anxiety and I was just like you know what let me go to a place here in Arizona because it's legal here was like let me get some gummies and and believe it or not it really helped me get out of my head.

I'm not a what I like to say a pro or professional in cannabis but I do know that it helped me a little bit just like relax and kind of like give it of a lot of my anxiety but I want to talk to our guest today about your story and how cannabis has helped you out.

I know you've been in the fitness industry for three decades which is really amazing and I know you don't like being called a celebrity trainer.

However he's a celebrity trainer we won't name drop yet because this is about your story so can you just tell us really how you came into the power of cannabis.

Yeah no thank you so much and again that introduction was far better than I deserve but as far as cannabis and how I got into the space very similar to you anxiety and depression have always kind of run rampant in my life they've always kind of you know been at the flagship so early on I was kind of encouraged by doctors to

to medicate you know and I've always been you know like I want to be full disclosure I'm 43 years old cannabis for me is purely medicinal right and when I started off on this journey I never knew that it would have this effect right so anyways back pedaling back I was prescribed they were benzodiazepines which are anti anxiety medications because at the time I was a new car director in the auto industry.

I was doing a mirror of things I was modeling I was training I was a new dad so I had a lot of responsibilities and my disease was just so high you know my anxiety so I was prescribed Xanax and for me it was awesome you know because all the noise which you know for somebody like me with the anxiety there's always a lot of noise and a distraction it just helped it it alleviated like day one you know but with the kind of person I am I'm very a type I love that feeling I love to not have that feeling.

I love to not have that so like I'm always excessive right so with that you know I was very excessive and it dulled it out and I didn't realize that it become an addiction you know it no longer became something that I was using to kind of pallate and alleviate it became my addiction kind of losing sense of a lot of things that I knew to be me I wasn't big on my appearance which I'm very very big on my appearance a lot of other things I was losing sight of and

I was like, I want to kind of get back, you know,

and what actually happened, you know,

because I, again, I'm kind of gonna go all over the map.

I'd started coaching kids, right?

And all my kids looked at me as like this,

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