So what if a kid gets kicked out of kindergarten and fourth grade and tenth grade? He can still succeed—and even earn a master’s degree and make the big bucks in financial services! It’s about what you learn from setbacks that counts. Micky Pegg’s gone from Capitol Hill to tobacco sales to mutual funds, then back to cigars again. In 2018, this professional chameleon and certified tobacco sommelier launched the boutique cigar brand, All Saints Cigars. Listen to this cigar talk with Boveda’s Rob Gagner as he and All Saints founder share the boxworthy Habano Dedicación at 2021 PCA in Las Vegas.

This cigar podcast’s highlights include:  

• (1:50) Discovering that your great-great-grandfather ran a legendary tobacco shop 
• (3:07) Delivering cigars to senators while they conferenced with POTUS
• (4:30) Selling cigars, then managing Georgetown Tobacco
• (7:55 ) Blending All Saints Cigars
• (8:31) Accidental cigar run that became All Saints’s Solamente
• (11.09) Trademarking St. Francis for a cigar release
• (12:49) Bringing to light steps in cigar making that nobody else talks about
• (15:19) Studying international leadership with Volvo and Ikea
• (21:13) Blending tobacco for the entire life of the cigar
• (21:37) Transitioning flavors within a cigar
• (33:01) Growing vegetables on tobacco farms to  gauge the terroir of the soil
• (39:53) Honoring mentors, naming All Saints cigars
• (42:59) Training fine dining servers how to present cigars to increase a table’s check
• (48:50) Leaving CAO
• (52:59) So what? Now what?

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For more information about All Saints Cigars, visit:

https://www.allsaintscigars.com/cigars/

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