We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful David Tripp. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with David below.

David, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. How did you learn to do what you do? Knowing what you know now, what could you have done to speed up your learning process? What skills do you think were most essential? What obstacles stood in the way of learning more?

I learned most of the things I know from my adaptive learning, throughout my childhood I didn’t have direction or much guidance. This lead me to be my own teacher, trial & error. Most of the jobs have been a waste of time. In the sense that I was young and no one wanted to value my opinion on what could work more proficiently. My skill set ranges from Culinary arts, sanitation, management, security/safety, photography & videography, shoe design, construction, and predictive profiling.

Knowing what I know now I wouldn’t have wasted my time getting mad or irritated, I probably would not have even let myself work for those people. I learned more from the 6 years I spent gambling & traveling the US trying to become a photographer/entrepreneur then going through fire academy to be a fireman, or even culinary school trying to be a chef.

It doesn’t matter how good you are there are always going to be thought who doubt you skills/talents. It’s about how you react that matters most. Believe in yourself always you have to sleep with yourself at night.

The only thing standing in my way currently is financial freedom to put up revenue for traveling, marketing, supplies. I would also say time currently I work a lot which leaves 0 time for creativity.

David, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Hello everyone my name is David Tripp I essentially bought my way into my craft, which sounds bad because people try to buy there way into things that they have no skills in. I have a professional camera & semi industrial embroidery machine also I design shoes that are handmade to order. My life has been sink or swim. I’m at the point now where I have a vast photography portfolio I just need clients for either embroidery or photography.
Some of the best photos I have taken were in California and I was under the influence of Marijuana. I’ve always had a dream of being a high achieving pot head due to the stigma & the way I was treated for using. Yet we live in a world where half the population uses real drugs and has no skills to better someone else’s businesses or even creat their own.

I can proudly say I’ve bought all of my equipment without loans or handouts. I’ve never done anyone wrong getting to where I’m at, I have a strong moral compass even though my life values may not match up or be compatible for some of those around me. That’s just simply not my problem, everyone wants to say just be yourself but then wants to tell people what they are doing in their life and I am a product of that treatment which has lead me to be able to work around people in the sense of I’ll take the credit where due because for the most part I have had very little assistance other than people granting me opportunities to be in places at certain times.

On November 7 2017 I was watching an OBEY documentary, based on how the creation of one of the largest streetwear brands came to fruition. This lead me to come up with the name 317Medical. Some may ask why that name, well living in downtown Indianapolis where weed is illegal I wanted to be one of the first official names. I think long term more than short term. This meaning if you want this name you have to license it from me. So the plan when I came up with the name was not a get rich quick scheme it was more of a this is going to put a target on your back but a legacy. Since most of the people I know or knew, knew that I was always smoking the best marijuana money could buy because I was traveling scouring, and strain hunting. May I also add if I do license the name it give me full reign on who I can license to so if the person doesn’t meet my standards of what top shelf marijuana is than I don’t have to license to them.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

Knowing that this came from you, whether it’s digital art, physical art, or clothing design.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

Once I had started a sponsorship for a car show in Los Angeles, and 4 months before it I was incarcerated for marijuana. This may sound like a minor setback but I lost about 16 thousand dollars give or take a few dollars. I made it out and I was still able to produce the remaking money for the sponsorship & travel cost. I had to sell my booth that I had to a brand in LA that I had previously spoke to and became friends with, due to the lack of funds I wasn’t able to produce and products of my own to sell. The only thing that will keep me from living out my dreams is money.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://Www.317medical.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xx317medicalxx?igsh=eWM3aG1wa25sMTVk&utm_source=qr

Image Credits

Sara Cane out of Denver Colorado