The Conversation, Cannabis & Christianity podcast

Join Dr. Lissa Skitolsky and Aaron Weil for a conversation focused on a Jewish heritage tour in Israel cultivated specifically for medical professionals in the cannabis industry. Scheduled for June 2025 (date change after recording). Includes: Unprecedented access to world renown industry innovators, site visits to licensed producers, hand-picked guides and culinary experiences. Dr. Lissa Skitolsk...

Tressa Silvey is a CPA and senior-level finance executive with 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, where she honed her expertise in navigating dynamic and highly regulated environments. In late 2023, she leveraged this experience to launch her own accounting and CFO practice, specializing in serving the cannabis & CBD/hemp industry. As a DOPE CFO Certified Advisor, Tress...

Dr. Xanqunnes Singh is a medical doctor passionate about the nexus between psychedelics, the mind, and AI. He's on a mission inspired by the hero’s psychedelic journey and has a message to share. When he's not sharing his message, he enjoys picking up heavy objects and putting them down. https://youtube.com/@cosmicbuddhamd?si=AeAFRkhrw2G7XnVF  

Ruth Fisher, Ph. D., is a systems design researcher, modeler, and analyst. She studies markets to determine how environments shape outcomes. Dr. Fisher has 30 years of experience in the technology and healthcare industries and has worked on behalf of technology companies, early-stage researchers, physicians, and technology start-ups. Dr. Fisher came to cannabis in 2016 to help her brother figure o...

Lena is a Medicine Woman, Transpersonal Psychotherapist & Transformational Speaker, offering the ancient practices of meditation, energy medicine and psycho-spiritual healing to the modern world. Lena is a global teacher and speaker with areas of expertise including conscious leadership, meditation, energy medicine, longevity, holistic health, human optimization, plant medicine, shamanism, sac...

José Pereira is an international speaker, leadership coach, resilience expert, and advocate with over 35 years in the oil and gas industry. His life took a dramatic turn when he was taken hostage in a foreign country, enduring nearly five years of captivity. During this dark period, his faith in God became his anchor, shaping his resilience and purpose. José shares his journey in his book, From He...

Jack is a Boston-based investigative reporter covering the psychedelic and cannabis legalization movements in New England and nationwide. His reporting has been published by the  Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism  (BINJ), by  Talking Joints Memo , DoubleBlind Magazine, Filter Magazine, Psychedelic Alpha, and more.

Legacy 420 is Canada's first indigenous medical marijuana production and dispensary company and has been in business for over a decade. Tim Barnhart is Legacy 420's founder and current owner, and he is putting Legacy 420 up for sale. Tim tells the story of how Legacy 420 came to be and offers his contact information for serious buyers in our conversation.

This podcast asks guests personal questions that many people are not willing to answer for public consumption. Thank you VERY much to Season Four guests! April Lemon Trent Hancock Mary Jane Oatman Sherry Bennett Tim Barnhart Ken Watkins Hunt Priest Faye Smith Sergiy Kovalenkov Lonnie Kessler James O'Hara Dr. Randall S. Hansen Cole Butler Alan Wiederhold Gooey Rabinski Rod Kight Monica Olano Dr. Ch...

"There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death." - Proverbs 14:12

Belief. "Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." John 20:29

Hunt is an ordained minister who founded the non-profit, Ligare in Savannah, Georgia. Ligare is a collaborative community of clergy, religious educators, scholars, spiritual guides, philanthropists and psychedelic researchers. In 2000, Johns Hopkins University re-opened its studies of healing properties and spiritual experiences with psychedelics, specifically psilocybin. In the 2010's, Hunt was s...

Dr. Randall Hansen is an advocate, educator, mentor, ethicist, and thought-leader helping the world heal from past trauma. Having been on a successful wellness journey that turned into a healing journey, all Dr. Hansen wants is to help other people find TRUE healing – not simply symptom management – because true healing opens us up to finally understanding who we are and what we are meant to do an...

What to do? Where to go? Who to see? How do we get there? Is it really where we want to go? The Lord replied, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." Exodus 33:14

Alan Wiederhold has been designing healthcare plans for businesses for 30 years, but his passion has become mental wellness. A 12-year Navy veteran and certified psychedelic facilitator, he helps others overcome trauma (including his own). Author, speaker, and host of "The Cost of Doing Nothing" podcast, Alan tackles imposter syndrome and inspires action. He enjoys Ultra running, flying planes, li...

Alan Wiederhold has been designing healthcare plans for businesses for 30 years, but his passion has become mental wellness. A 12-year Navy veteran and certified psychedelic facilitator, he helps others overcome trauma (including his own). Author, speaker, and host of "The Cost of Doing Nothing" podcast, Alan tackles imposter syndrome and inspires action. He enjoys Ultra running, flying planes, li...

Natasha Kerry Smith is a poet, fiction writer, creative writing coach, nutritionist and kettlebell trainer in training. Originally from Ireland, she’s based in the south of Spain where she currently lives in her van with the goal of finishing a novel inspired by van-life. In 2024, she started performing her debut collection of poetry,  Infinite Jade , inspired by a lost culture of cannabis. The co...

Part 2. James O’Hara is a Canadian of Scottish origin. He has had a varied and interesting journey through both his personal and professional lives. James is a strong advocate for cannabis and uses the plant as a treatment for Focal Awareness Seizures. In 2019 James had a seizure-induced stroke and cannabis has been a big part of his continued treatment of his seizures and recovery from stroke.  H...

Part I. James O’Hara is a Canadian of Scottish origin. He has had a varied and interesting journey through both his personal and professional lives. James is a strong advocate for cannabis and uses the plant as a treatment for Focal Awareness Seizures. In 2019 James had a seizure-induced stroke and cannabis has been a big part of his continued treatment of his seizures and recovery from stroke. He...

Sergiy Kovalenkov is one of the most renowned hemp builders in the world and has been part of the hemp building industry for more than 13 years. He is the Founder & CEO of Hempire UA in Kyiv, Ukraine, a company that is focusing on developing and supplying commercial markets with hemp-based 100% natural insulation and construction materials. Under Sergiy’s leadership Hempire has earned recognit...

Rod Kight is a cannabis business law attorney. He created the “Source Rule”, which is widely credited as a primary legal foundation for the contemporary hemp market in cannabinoids and other cannabis materials. Based in North Carolina and Mexico, Rod represents legal cannabis businesses throughout the world, is editor and chief writer of the, Kight On Cannabis law blog (www.kightoncannabis.com), a...

Michelle is the owner and operator of Freedom To Know Wellness (FTKW), a disability social enterprise advocating for disabilities due to complex chronic pain conditions and other disability-related topics including medical cannabis use.  Previously a professional dancer trained in Toronto and New York City with experience in freelance journalism, arts administration and marketing, and now managing...

Does Jesus assign or allow pain and suffering to teach humans life lessons? Cannabis patient and advocate Lonnie Kessler is the survivor of 14 surgeries, including an 18-hour surgery to remove a tumor the size of a softball from his brain. After several attempts to gain access to the Missouri CBD program, Lonnie decided to make his voice heard.  In 2015 he was afforded the opportunity to work with...

Tracey Tee has been actively involved in the momosphere for over 13 years, first co-creating and staring in the nationally touring cult-hit comedy show for moms: The Pump and Dump Show while simultaneously co-producing Band of Mothers Podcast and serving as co-founder and CEO of The Pump and Dump Show’s umbrella brand: Band of Mothers Media. During the pandemic, and during her own journey with psi...

Peace is the desire when threats present themselves, suddenly or predicted. The thing about a hurricane is one knows of its arrival well in advance. Of course, this is episode is about more than a hurricane. It is about you, the person next you, me and the person next to me, too.