Design This: Beyond the Dieline

Jacob “The Fox” Schlichter

Our guest is a designer and small business owner from southern MN. For the last couple of years, he has led apparel design for the Tommy Chong brand. Today we welcome Jacob “The Fox” Schlichter to Design This.  He is in charge of designing, creating, and selling the Tommy Chong branded apparel. Jacob told our producer that Tommy's business manager had sought him out and was impressed by his design work and the quality of the apparel he was making for his personal brand Slicks. [https://getslicks.com/]

Heroine Brands With CEO Claudia Summers

Our guest focuses on key partnerships to build communities that convert and enhance next and new-generation innovation and growth for brands in challenging markets. Today we welcome Claudia Summers. On the Heroine Brands [https://www.heroinebrands.com/] website, it states you are the master of connecting people. You will pull from all her contacts to match just the right people & partnerships together. I want to ask you about one of those partnerships in the Crypto Cruise with Jet Luxe, F1, and Empress Jets. Claudia also manages branding projects for C-90 [https://www.c-90.com/], a brand lab for the next and new. She works with next-generation companies and traditional brands with new ideas. She also fully integrates creative work with global clients in the luxury, fashion, beauty, leisure, and premium retail & DtoC vertices. Heroine Brands serves as a Seed to Sale consultancy. You are a public supporter of psychedelics and you recently attended the Wonderland Conference in Miami.

SmartLedger With Gregory Ward

At SmartLedger, they envision a world transformed through the use of blockchain technology. Their mission is to contribute and accelerate the coming of this newly born era of full accountability, and optimized efficiency by assisting in the wide implementation of blockchain solutions across all sectors. With access to more than 250 patented and other blockchain innovations, SmartLedger helps its customers realize their full potential by implementing customized strategies using ground-breaking blockchain technologies.  Their experience in navigating and managing traditional technology distribution channels, paired with their insightful command of blockchain applications, and our communication focus on the latest innovations, allows them to introduce their vendor partners' blockchain technology to the right customers.

Soldout NFTs With Arvin Khamseh

Arvin Khamseh has always been at the forefront of new tech trends with an impressive history in biohacking, and internet marketing. Combining this with his experience in running investor relationship marketing for public companies, Arvin knows what it takes to attract investors online. Successfully selling out an Italian artist collection in 2021 was a proof of concept to apply his knowledge in investor relationship marketing to NFT marketing. Since then, Arvin Khamseh has consulted with 400+ NFT brands and has agency partnerships with Reddit, Twitter, Quora, and Meta. One of the largest sellouts did +$5m in 20 hours and the other made an astonishing +$10m in 20 hours. Most recently, Arvin helped an NFT brand hit #1 on Icy. tools and is the #1 trending on Opensea. Arvin is excited to help lead the conversation around NFTs and is a highly sought-after guest featured in media around the world (including recent features in USA Today and Entrepreneur). Moreover, some of his appearances include The Nifty Show, New To Crypto, and Jordan Belfort’s The Wolf’s Den.

Bud's Goods & Provisions With Jessica Fimbel Willis

Our guest is the Creative Director of Bud’s Goods & Provisions, a New England cannabis brand based in Worcester (were-stir), Massachusetts. She is responsible for bringing the creative vision of Bud’s Goods to life through all visual touchpoints, including the opening of three adult-use cannabis dispensaries in Massachusetts and the successful launch of two cannabis products – Lil’ Bud’s & Lil’ Jay’s. Before Bud’s Goods, she worked in the Food & Beverage industry as a Design Manager for two international restaurant chains in New York City – Pret A Manger and Le Pain Quotidien and then eventually made it to Bud’s Goods. Then she would launch her own design consulting company. Bud's Goods is the creator of Lil’ Bud's, also known as "The People's Eighth." It’s filled with 3.5g of high-quality "popcorn" flower and she has Lil' Jay's, a pocket-sized metal tin containing ten 0.35g full flower pre-rolls.