Tokyo Smoke shops are high design cultural showrooms selling cannabis, marijuana, men's clothing in Canada and Best Coffee Shop in USA, Canada. For More Information please Visit Site : http://www.tokyosmoke.com

2. One year ago, I was 30 years old, leading a $100-million-plus business as
head of an Asia-Pacific-wide sales team for Google, and making more
money than I ever imagined. I had lived in New York, San Francisco,
Bangkok and Singapore, and travelled to over 50 countries. All this
because six years before, I landed my dream job at Google in corporate
strategy.
I found myself on a secondment in Ghana developing national Internet
infrastructure. On my way to a voodoo ceremony with a Ghanaian tour
guide, I reflected on my career path, admitting to him that I’d lost focus
and felt unfulfilled. What he told me changed the course of my life: “You
either work on something you love, or work because it supports the
people you love.”
For More Information please Visit Site : http://www.tokyosmoke.com

3. That’s when I quit Google.
For years, I had structured my life around achieving work-related
success: Work hard, get promoted, make more money. Lather,
rinse, repeat. I craved the validation of corporate success. I
wanted badly to be recognized for my intelligence, for my
parents to be proud of me, and to feel important. For the first
time in my life, the excitement of another promotion or more
money was non-existent. I felt empty, in need of change, despite
having the dream job I always wanted.
In typical form for someone who spent his formative years at
Google, I created a data-driven process to uncover what I loved.
My Web-based project was called TimeOn (a word play on “time
off”) and it involved documenting everything about my daily
routines, interactions and experiences. Scoring metrics like
Happiness (1-10) and Meaning (1-10) on a spreadsheet, I sought
to understand my life better to set out on my future path.

4. Armed with TimeOn, I travelled to Japan, where I worked as a back-country ski
tour guide, all the while fastidiously cataloguing my experiences. Meditating for
months in the beautiful landscape of Japan, I had a revelation that would guide
me toward building my current business, Tokyo Smoke, with my father. My data
from TimeOn reflected that I was happiest when I talked to people I loved and
about things that I loved.
The three passions in particular are coffee, clothing and cannabis. I love a good
coffee, and one major perk of Google is that every office is kitted out with the
fanciest of fancy espresso machines.
Fashion and design have shaped my life. My grandfather founded a women’s
clothing company called Mister Leonard. My father, Lorne Gertner, an architect
by trade and lifelong entrepreneur, co-founded Cannasat Therapeutics, the first
publicly traded cannabis company in Canada, more than a decade ago. My
mother, a designer, has been a huge creative influence in my life and pointed me
in the direction of branding and retail.
For More Information Please Visit Site : http://www.tokyosmoke.com

5. I flew back to Toronto to work closely with my father to
develop a brand that would redefine the cannabis
marketplace. We opened up Tokyo Smoke’s first
showroom, which features a coffee bar, branded clothing
and cannabis paraphernalia, such as lighters and rolling
papers.
Tokyo Smoke wasn’t to be a Bob Marley-inspired head
shop, or one of the many illegal dispensaries, but instead a
home to the creative class. Our men’s clothes are classic
and stylish. We also have developed a set of proprietary
cannabis strains, which provide consumers four distinct
and consistent experiences. Tokyo Smoke cannabis will be
on shelves in legal recreational dispensaries in the United
States later this year. We will closely monitor legislative
developments in Canada and plan to release our brand of
cannabis in-line with the Liberal government's upcoming
repeal of marijuana prohibition.

6. I believe cannabis is the next Internet – an immense and
untrammelled new market opportunity – and Tokyo
Smoke is gearing up to take advantage of it. At least 10
per cent of North Americans consume cannabis on a
regular basis and consumer product brands have yet to
enter this enticing, mainstream, rapidly legalizing space.
In the coming months, we plan to open coffee shops in
Seattle and Los Angeles, while the first line of Tokyo
Smoke-branded cannabis ships to independent retailers in
California, Oregon, and Washington State, with clothing
not far behind.
Looking back at my time in Ghana with the guide, I find
myself smiling. Today, I’m not distracted with the career
ladder but instead stimulated by the power of beginning a
meaningful journey doing something I genuinely love.

7. Email ID : coffee@tokyosmoke.com
Phone No : +1 647-348-6596
Web Site : http://www.tokyosmoke.com
Address : 850 Adelaide St W, Toronto, ON TX M6J
2S1, Canada