Hippie Butter

Hippie Butter’s growing like crazy. We’re still bootstrapping our rapidly emerging company and our brand recognition is growing organically everyday. While upstart, fly-by-night companies are trying to jump on the hemp bandwagon by offering cheap prices and questionable hemp sources, we’ve been quietly sticking to our mission and building our Hempire. We invest our time and talents establishing relationships with our many friends on social media, word-of-mouth recommendations and our FREE Hemp Seed Sample Program so our customers can try before they buy. www.freehempseedsamples.com.

As we continue to follow our Hemp Seed Dreams, we often think of the famous mythologist, philosopher and writer, Joseph Campbell, and his groovy book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Campbell's philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss." To attain bliss, one must go through the archetypal Hero's Journey. To us, Hemp = Bliss and we’re the Hippie Heroes of our Hippie Butter journey. .

As in any thrilling hero adventure, we’re negotiating our way past the boulders, trolls, misdirections, failures, falls and discoveries of new and unknown trails of success by means of trial and error.  

“As you travel through life, birds will poop on you.  Do not bother to brush it off. Continue your journey.” --Joseph Campbell. 

After a disappointing, last-minute failure from a “too good to be true” investor at the beginning of the year, we were forced to rethink our success strategies. Every good, juicy Hero story includes failure. In our heroic journey, we experienced what we believed to be failure: crooked investors, a ”freak” accidental fall that resulted in an injury we tried to ignore, increasing physical pain and, ultimately, a torn rotator cuff that led to subsequent surgery and physical rehabilitation. To be truthful, we started to feel like poor Prometheus, who was busted by Zeus for giving the world the gift of fire (gift of hemp). His punishment was to have an eagle eat his liver every day until Hercules released him. Talk about harshing our mellow! We wanted our own personal Hercules, and that’s where Hemp Seeds came to our aid!

Hemp Seeds to the rescue!

Brad the “Ripper of the Rotator Cuff” gained a lot of weight while he recovered from his surgery -  he was unable to move and lived in a recliner for 4 months. Melete, aka Mellow Mel, made Hemp Seed Butter smoothies and plied Brad with handfuls of Hulled Hemp seeds every day. (Hemp seeds are loaded with easily-digestible proteins, a 3:1 ratio of Omega- 6 to Omega-3 essential fatty acids, plus vitamins and minerals). Now Brad is losing weight and regaining the use of his right arm. Hemp seeds stopped his sugar cravings due to inactivity, lubricated his joints, decreased his inflammation, and gave him proteins to help build the muscle mass that he lost due to atrophy. In two months, he’ll be fully recovered from his rotator cuff surgery. Better still, his cholesterol and triglycerides levels are down. Yippee! Hemp seeds really are superfoods!

And the gifts that we thought to be failures on our Hippie Hero's Journey emerged. Brad and Melete spent recovery time building Hippie Butter’s new multiple-platform, interactive website, fine-tuning our marketing strategy, developing new products, and cutting the fat from the business plan. Turns out the “failure” with the investors at the beginning of the year was actually a blessing and a bullet we dodged. We learned that WE are the Hippie Heroes in our own story. Hemp is our Bliss and no one can drag us down.

We’re still seeking investors who share our “Hemp is Bliss” philosophy of life. (Cue the music, “We are Hemp Seed Hippies, Hear us Roar.”

Peace, love and Hippie Butter!

P.S. Turns out, Mellow Mel fed hemp seeds to Prometheus’ eagle. It stopped eating liver, flew away and now lives in Boulder where it happily manages the local Drive-thru Beer Barn.