The Canna Mom Show

This is an international podcast as Joyce speaks with both Tori Moline , a 26 year old Canadian mom with  Hyperemesis Gravidarum, and Lissa Skitolsky and Yael Marcus who discuss Jewish cannabis advocacy and why the cannabis community needs to care about what’s going on in Israel for both its national medical program model and the science originating in Israel.  Tori Moline discovered she has a gen...

Kate Thomas is the CMO of The Drinkable Co. , creators of cannabis infused cold brew, fresh tea, and handcrafted sodas that are available in Massachusetts and Maine. Kate began her creative marketing career in New York and then spent a decade working as associate creative director at Swardlick Marketing in Portland, Maine. In 2006, she became creative director at White Rock Distilleries, where she...

Joyce speaks with two inspiring women working in cannabis who are using their powers to create a narrative around healing, hope and love. Kelley Usborne Bruce is “The Cannamommy” and is one of the very first canna mom advocates Joyce met way back in 2018.  Kelley is a legend and a fighter and a true canna trailblazer who is using her voice to reshape the landscape of childbirth, cannabis and equit...

Jordan Mackenzie Whittaker and Sarah Kouhaila are the co-founders of The Weedaker Group , a business development team that supports clients in every stage of cannabis licensing, permitting, strategizing logistics and operations.  Jordan and Sarah are childhood friends who share a passion for the plant and are utilizing that passion to add value to the emerging Massachusetts Canna industry. They sh...

Sonja Rosario-Belliard is a New York cannabis advocate. She is the founder of both Rochester Women in Cannabis Association and Women+Weed Conference . Sonja shares with Joyce her story of healing from an opiate addiction, the work she is doing with supporting canna moms in her community, and why she is now committed to healing her community and advocating for plant medicine. Joyce also explains ho...

Katie Sullivan is the co-founder of Modern Compassionate Care , an integrative wellness clinic in Illinois. She is a board-certified Family Nurse and serves as Modern Compassionate Care’s integrative primary care provider with specializations in medical cannabis and psychedelic treatment modalities. Nurse Katie is a committed patient advocate and an active member of the American Cannabis Nurses As...

Joyce speaks with two women from INSA Cannabis – a vertically integrated cannabis brand founded in Massachusetts. Lisa Black is the Education & Training Coordinator at  INSA Cannabis , in Massachusetts, and is responsible for educating all INSA staff and consumers. She has been using her extensive knowledge about the history of cannabis and product usage to influence the narrative and engage her c...

Dr. Jamila Owens-Todd joins Joyce from Missouri where she is a practicing Naturopathic Doctor who provides high-quality patient education on plant medicine, cannabis safety, dosing and use. In addition to all that she does to heal her community through her practice and in product development, she also serves on the Advisory Board for the Missouri Cannabis Trade Association (MOCANN) and is a board...

LaWann Stribling joins Joyce from her home in Maryland, and shares her work as an infused baker, community advocate and canna mom with a story that includes healing and hope, from her life as a teenager living without a home, to being a young mom, to being a powerful voice advocating for her community. Joyce also speaks with a special segment guest, Amy Fintonis, from Bountiful Farms – an award-wi...

Nicole Buffong is an inspiring woman-leader in cannabis whose story includes a devastating family loss and a health crisis that brought her deeper into the world of healing with cannabis and other plant medicines. Nicole is now building coalitions through the political process and has found work and purpose. She is the Event Manager for Minorities for Medical Marijuana (M4MM), a featured author in...

Joyce speaks with two guests whose stories are featured in Volume Two in the Courage in Cannabis series, The Triumphant Stories . Both of today’s guests are caregivers  - but they are dads! Yes, The Canna Mom Show is launching Season Five with two inspiring canna dad stories. Gerald Moore Jr. is the father of three, a former all-American football player and an inspiring advocate for athletes and c...

We had intended to make the Season 4 Finale of The Canna Mom Show a very special interview, unfortunately things don’t always work out as planned. Guests postponed, a pet passed and then Joyce’s washing machine broke. This show, instead of Joyce interviewing anyone, she reads the first chapter of the “canna romance” she wrote and is calling, She’s Taking. A Break . For a few years Joyce has been t...

Joyce speaks with four authors in the second volume of Courage in Cannabis - another anthology of powerful stories of cannabis transforming and healing. The Canna Mom Show is happy to be supporting this project because in these two volumes there are over 60 stories of the most interesting and influential voices building this new industry. All the cannabis authors in these anthologies are making th...

Hayley Dineen is the co-founder of Sackville & Co., a contemporary lifestyle brand designed by women who like to smoke weed! With extensive experience in product design and development outside cannabis, she is now focusing her intentions and gifts on cannabis. Along with her partner, Lana Van Brunt, Hayley has experienced all the ups and downs of financing a new canna venture and is now a wise wom...

Yanina Kaminski and Melanie Simons are two women in corporate America who are shifting their expertise and passions into the cannabis wellness industry. They are best friends and the co-founders of  Love You Three   - a wellness lifestyle brand. As moms themselves, who bonded over back alley gummies, their mission now is to bring their customers self-care moments and feelings of wellbeing in a who...

Megan Mbengue is the CEO and Founder of Trusted Canna Nurse , which she founded when she realized there were very few medical professionals who were well versed in cannabis and CBD – an issue we discuss so often on The Canna Mom Show . Megan has been a nurse for over ten years, specializing in oncology, labor delivery and most recently hospice & palliative care. She has received national certifica...

Joyce speaks with two power women who are making their mark in the cannabis world and are sharing their stories in the second edition of Courage in Cannabis . Amie Carter is a mom on a mission. In 2018 Amie petitioned to list Autism as a qualifying condition for medical cannabis in Michigan after utilizing cannabis to help her son, and she has become a dedicated activist for cannabis for families...

Angela Brown is a candy cannabis maker based in Wareham, Massachusetts . She is the co-founder and CEO of Coast Cannabis Co. , the  first licensed cannabis manufacturing company in Massachusetts which is focused on providing premium products with quality, integrity and consumer focus. Angela’s entrepreneurial spirit has driven her life, and with her husband she set out to create the cannabis produ...

This is a very special podcast that we recorded LIVE at The Goods Dispensary in Davis Square in Somerville, Massachusetts. The Goods in Davis Square is a one of its kind recreational dispensary – Joyce’s local dispensary – and Joyce is speaking with the co-founders, a budtender and each other about  what it’s like to work at their dispensary, how it feels to be a customer and why this place is so...

Kema Ogden is a successful entrepreneur and industry leader in the cannabis, health care and nonprofit sectors, and she’s Nevada’s first African American woman cannabis dispensary owner  - Top Notch Health Center in Las Vegas. Kema is a board member with Doctors for Cannabis Regulation , the first national organization of doctors to endorse legalization of adult-use cannabis, and currently serves...

Wendy Kornberg is a second-generation regenerative farmer residing in Southern Humboldt County in Northern California. Her family-run farm, Humboldt's Full Sun Farms , produces high-grade, medical cannabis for herself, her family, and California patients. Together they respectfully tend to their stunning, off-grid location through organic and natural farming methods. Wendy and her family are passi...

Elizabeth Becker is a tenacious and passionate Canadian cannabis advocate. Elizabeth is an internationally recognized and award-winning writer/director and is now a disruptor at the intersection of cannabis, hospitality and technology.  In 2018, when Canada became the first G7 country to federally legalize cannabis at the recreational level, Elizabeth saw an opportunity to support a stigma-free ca...

Alice Moon is a social media strategist, LinkedIn specialist and presently she’s a publicist at Trailblaze PR , a firm marketing for a new generation of cannabis brands. Alice’s work as an early entrepreneur in the cannabis industry has led to her to  being a guest on a multitude of news outlets and was named one of the 100 Most Important Women in Cannabis for 2019 by Green Market Report, and just...

Aja Atwood is the co-founder and CEO of Trella Technologies , a revolutionary agri-tech startup that focuses on creating innovative technologies to protect plant medicine and our food supply. With over 15 years of experience as a natural catastrophe risk engineer, she draws on her expertise in climate disaster risk engineering to develop technologies that will revolutionize the urban farming indus...

Hunter Buffington is an industrial hemp policy and supply chain expert who initiated her career in sustainable development before focusing on the emerging hemp industry. Hunter’s experience in the application of open systems to create sustainable development and climate action plans gives her a unique understanding of food systems, agriculture and emerging industries. Now Hunter utilizes her exper...