The Canna Mom Show

Francine Sommer is the CEO of Respect Wellness ,  a CBD wellness product line focused on healing a woman’s mind, body and spirit – specifically engaged with women over 45 and supporting women in menopause. Francine’s journey into cannabis brought her from New York to New Mexico where she was a long-time venture capitalist and the president of Gabelli Value Inc., a merchant banking fund that invest...

Tess Eidem is the owner of Rogue Micro LLC in Colorado, where she is combining her deep understanding of microbiology with cannabis. She is - as we say here in Boston -Wicked Smaaart. Tess shares with Joyce her journey into cannabis, and how she is now using her unique “micro nerd” skillset to improve the safety of our cannabis and lift up women venturing into cannabis business. Tess also explains...

Payton Shubrick is a dispensary owner and operator in Springfield, Massachusetts, and she shares with Joyce how her journey into cannabis was not an obvious career path. After graduating from college, she wanted to return to her hometown to support the community that supported her and Payton found herself working with her local city government where she was introduced to the emerging cannabis indu...

Yesenia Garcia is the Chief Marketing Officer at Southern Crop   - the first licensed medical cultivator Mississippi. Yesenia joins their team with over fifteen-years of marketing experience including cannabis marketing experience in her home state of Florida. She speaks with Joyce about her experience transitioning from working with  Native American organizations to cannabis, what’s going on in M...

Caroline Pineau and Kim Napoli are two of the most empowered - and empowering  - women working in Massachusetts cannabis. Caroline Pineau is the CEO and Owner of Stem dispensary in Haverhill, Massachusetts, a woman-owned adult-use dispensary serving the Haverhill community in a myriad of ways. Caroline is also the mastermind behind the Green Goddess Golf Invitational , a joyful annual event that b...

Joyce learned about Kim Myles in The New York Times and knew she had to meet her. Kim Myles is an Emmy Award-winning designer, entrepreneur and cannabis enthusiast. She and her business partner Kelley Moore are the founders of Myles Moore , a cannabis-focused design firm working on projects across the country and now in New York. Kim also serves on the board of The Cannabis Media Council and is th...

Lauren Mundell speaks with Joyce today from Colorado where she is using her public relations and marketing skills to develop the Hi-Curious content marketplace. Lauren found her own healing through micro-dosing cannabis, and was inspired to spread her understanding of the health benefits after a lifetime of believing cannabis was dangerous. She is now laser focused on connecting small and medium c...

Caitlyn Krebs joins Joyce from San Francisco where she is at the center of a new world combining tech and science and cannabis. Caitlyn is a biologist by training and a serial entrepreneur through practice, she has over 20-years of experience building companies at the intersection of science and technology. Caitlyn is now the CEO and co-founder of Nalu Bio -  the leading innovator in the discovery...

Laura Beohner, co-founder of The Healing Rose , was introduced to Joyce in 2017 and she’s been using Laura’s products ever since. You could say she’s a super fan. With her husband, Laura and Zach founded The Healing Rose in 2016 - a MDAR licensed processor handcrafting body care and oils using certified organic ingredients. The Healing Rose creates handcrafted products in small batches with love a...

Harrison Bard is the co-founder of Custom Cones, USA . He is an accomplished entrepreneur, having started multiple companies in the eCommerce space including an avant-garde trophy company he founded as a college student. Harrison has worked with many Fortune 500 companies and upon graduating from the Kenan Flagler Business School at The University of North Carolina, held a position at Amazon but t...

So today we do not have a guest because this show is about TCMS and Joyce - two topics you must care about because you’re here, so thank you.  Joyce uses today’s podcast to showcase why finding a place for her bossy girl voice in cannabis is so more important and how she’s found a purpose helping those doing the work  influence the direction and impact of cannabis  - hemp and marijuana. She shares...

Sonnet White is known as the Midnight Candy Queen because she is the creator of an aspiring cannabis business that goes by the name of Midnight Candy. She is a true entrepreneur in this booming industry as the manager, marketer and creator of Midnight Candy in addition to being a busy mom in upstate New York. Her social media followers on Instagram and YouTube can attest to her passion for what sh...

Kaitlyn Fitzgerald joins The Canna Mom Show from Arizona where she is doing good in the emerging cannabis industry with her small business marketing skills. She shares with Joyce her canna story that includes an interesting twist on a mother-daughter cannabis journey. Kaitlyn is a cannabis marketing specialist, and in addition to starting her own firm, Baked Brand Studios, she is also the director...

On today’s show Joyce shares the most inspiring mother – son canna story! A true OG canna mom Wendy Turner shares her family’s journey to Colorado that ended with a new life mission but began with a parent’s worst nightmare. Wendy helped her son Coltyn find healing through cannabis and both have gone on to become the people they needed when they were seeking help healing with cannabis almost a dec...

Sarah Kiah Morton joins Joyce from Virginia where she lives with her family and founded her business Lock-Green – a smell proof and lockable cannabis storage system. Sarah shares her journey from corporate America to cannabis entrepreneur, and how along the way has also found time to advocate on behalf of social equity, volunteer with Virginia NORML and raise three kids. The Canna Mom Show want to...

Melissa Greenberg is a New York corporate attorney focusing her professional practice on cannabis wellness businesses, products and organizations – a very important segment of the growing cannabis world. In addition to being a fierce and proud attorney she is also a yoga teacher who proudly discusses how her cannabis use has supported her spiritual life and allowed her to become a better attorney....

Today Joyce has a true inter-generational canna conversation with Theresa Palmquist and Bridgette Lamkin who are both 21-year-old University of Arizona students who Joyce knows well because one is The Canna Mom Show social media manager and the other is her daughter. Joyce speaks with these two University of Arizona seniors about cannabis consumption in college, growing up with cannabis in Massach...

Joyce has been a fan of Jane West for many years and is very excited to share Jane’s story with you. Jane West has evolved from a canna-friendly event planner to a canna brand, and has faced many of the challenges of the cannabis industry including job loss, public scrutiny and a raid that upended her professional and personal life. In 2013 Jane was hosting cannabis-friendly parties designed to no...

AC Moon Cameron shares her movie worthy canna-mom story on today’s episode.  Her journey spans from the wild days of prohibition in northern California to now being a sought-after international cannabis consultant. Joyce met AC in Reno last year where she was promoting her Crop Top Greenhouses , a unique, one person, environmentally friendly quality green house that is perfect combination of her p...

Amy Deneson is an advocate, speaker and writer in New York City, an evolving and influential cannabis market. Amy is the co-founder of the Cannabis Media Council , a trade organization committed to leveraging the power of mainstream advertising to uplift positive stories about cannabis and to normalize consumption. She is also the co-founder of Pheno , a groundbreaking advertising agency. Amy has...

Lisa Finelli Fallon is the co-founder of Boston Cannabis Week, New England's first week of events dedicated to the professional cannabis community. Now in its fourth year the BCW continues to focus on education, health and wellness, art, music, networking, sports, fashion and cuisine. The mission of Boston Cannabis Week is to normalize the idea of cannabis in our communities, and their focus is to...

Sam Kanter is the owner and operator of Dinner at Mary’s, a ready-to-cook meal kit business servicing Greater Boston, offering upscale three-course meal kits delivered with instructions for cooking fresh, locally-sourced ingredients. Sam has worked in the food industry since 2007, garnering extensive experience in on-premise events and catering in the Boston restaurant scene. She started DAM to br...

Rebecca Slotkin and Madlene Olander are building their cannabis business, the GrassPass App, right here in Massachusetts. These friends met fifteen years ago in the digital marketing world and when they connected on cannabis they decided they knew how to add value to the emerging industry. On today’s show Joyce talks with Rebecca and Madlene about their canna “why” stories, what they are creating...

Tiffany Watkins is known in the cannabis community as Lady Canna and represents the best type of community leader because she’s opening opportunities for so many others in the cannabis industry. Tiffany is a former IT Professional, working many years as a Network Systems Engineer, and holds degrees in Computer Science and Network Infrastructure. Tiffany is now working with the powerhouse Christina...

For our Season Three finale episode we are sharing the story of the founders of Tokeativity , Lisa Snyder and Samantha Montanaro, the global community of active cannabis consumers and business owners that believe in cannabis normalization, equity and empowerment of a modern consumption culture. The Tokeativity community connects through creative, social, and political, intersectional feminist forw...