The Canna Mom Show

Dr. Pepper Hernandez is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and  founder of the Cannabis Holistic Institute in Humboldt County. Dr. Pepper is a healer and an educator and a community organizer who describes herself as an educator of health and wellness and an advocate for cannabis as medicine. On today’s show Joyce and Dr. Pepper talk about Humboldt County, personalized cannabis healing...

Today’s guest, Makaila Sylvan, is the co-founder of The Ghetto Apothecary , a cannabis lifestyle company located in North Carolina. She and her business partner, Kiara Ingram, are new to the legal hemp space but have been well-received by their community - and as a black-owned and women-led business they are modeling a positive cannabis industry movement. Makaila shares insights into her unique of...

Annie Davis is a Clio award-winning business strategist, marketing leader and investor with nearly twenty-years of experience building lasting teams and brands for companies spanning consumer packaged goods, renewable energy, natural products and, of course, cannabis. She has worked for Flow Kana, a leading brand of sun grown flower, Care By Design, a pioneer in CBD wellness, and led direct-to-con...

Lezli Engelking shares her insights on the necessity of cannabis business standards from her experience as a trailblazer in the Arizona cannabis industry. Lezli Engelking is a strategic self-starter who possesses two decades of professional experience across multiple industries including cannabis, government relations, pharmaceutical, mental health, non-profit and publishing. She combines her skil...

Jessilyn Dolan joins Joyce from Vermont to discuss how her experience as a nurse focused on both supporting patients and conducting research on multi substance and opioid use disorders propelled her into the world of cannabis for health. Jessilyn is the co-founder of Nurse Grow Organics Hemp and CBD , the first clean green certified hemp farm in Vermont. She is also a patient and a caregiver and h...

Sarah Cotterill joins Joyce from Indiana, a non-friendly cannabis state. Sarah shares with Joyce why she decided to bring her experiences as a healthcare attorney, corporate executive, entrepreneur, farmer, athlete, yogi, mother, daughter, sister, partner, and friend to create and scale cannabis businesses and products that support agricultural and personal regeneration. Sarah also explains why he...

Adina Leifer is a certified pelvic rehabilitation practitioner and created Silkx Society , a CBD infused pelvic serum that helps people decrease pelvic pain. Before moving to Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and four boys, she was the program coordinator for the Pelvic Health Center at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, CT where she developed a pelvic heath program with a team of physicians and physica...

Sarah Chase is the first Executive Director for the Council for Federal Cannabis Regulation ( CFCR ), a non-profit based in Washington, DC with a mission to assist the government, and specifically-federal regulatory agencies, to rethink, develop, and implement evidence-based cannabis regulations. Before joining the emerging cannabis industry, Sarah had experience with start-up companies in the med...

Michelle Herman is a Massachusetts cannabis advocate who moved to our state to support her daughter’s health needs. She is also a fellow canna-Jew and a someone Joyce hangs out with on clubhouse. On today’s show Michelle shares her canna-mom story, her canna-policy insights and why it’s so cool to be a canna-Jew. And today we speak with Tia Moskalenko the Communication Manager at Askgrowers on her...

Our guests today are both women working in Oklahoma cannabis. Jana Stolins is an educator who has been a dedicated entrepreneur in cannabis for the over fifteen years. She also has a passion for helping older folks and a knack for assisting others to live  their best lives. Her joy is family and farming cannabis. Kim Campbell is a super educator, super advocate and was named Oklahoma Cannabis Woma...

We have a Michigan cannabis show today! Nydia Zamorano-Torres is a cannabis entrepreneur and a ganja clergy woman who lives outside Detroit, and Penny Milkey is owner of the podcast sponsor, Northern Specialty Health Provisioning Center in the upper peninsula. Nydia has several cannabis businesses including UR Wellness to cultivate your wellness, Got-Terpenes which she founded with her son, and of...

Dr. Jennifer Kovacs speaks with Joyce from South Carolina where she’s using her pharmacist’s perspective to influence and create the emerging cannabis industry in her state. Dr. Jennifer is also the owner of Healing Leaf Health & Wellness in South Carolina where she provides education, medical insight and quality products for her community. Brought into cannabis through her own family’s medical ne...

Nikki Lawley is a New York Cannabis Advocate who Joyce has been following on social media for years and meet in person at the Boston NECANN where Nikki spoke on stage about how the traumatic brain injury she suffered in 2016 stole her joy, and how cannabis returned it. Nikki loves sharing her cannabis journey with as many people as she can so she can impact others. She shares with Joyce a story of...

Lucinda Cross is a small business consultant and co-founder of LucidaClub , a curated cannabis retail experience which was created to re-imagine the cannabis retail experience for the canna curious. LucidaClub helps the new cannabis consumer who may know the experience they want, but they don’t know how to find it. Joyce met Lucinda Cross met in Boston at NECANN and that’s where she learned that L...

Dr Rachel Knox and Dasheeda Dawson are the founders of  the Cannabis Health Equity Movement (CHEM). Dr. Knox is a certified Cannabinoid Medicine specialist who received her medical and business degrees from Tufts University after completing her undergraduate studies at Duke. She trained in Family and Integrative Medicine before pursuing additional study in the areas of Functional Medicine, Cannabi...

In 2019 Joyce ordered her first hemp business cards from Erica Halverson’s business, the TINY e PAPER Company. Uniquely, TINY e PAPER makes 100% pure hemp paper on a commercial scale utilizing both hemp stalks and the waste from CBD extractors, which is addressing several problems now faced by the cannabis industry. Erica is on a mission to sell her products and run her business using smarter reso...

This week Joyce interviews her canna-bro and producer, Dave Yas, to learn more about the man behind the voice at Pod617 – The Boston Podcast Network . Although this week’s podcast is not female or cannabis focused, Joyce and Dave do discuss how both podcasting and cannabis are vehicles for change, how Dave transitioned from Lawyers Weekly to podcasting, and why podcasting is a great way to hang ou...

Adelia Carrillo is the CMO of EventHi , an online ticketing platform for cannabis-related events. She also sits on the advisory board for the International Cannabis Business Women Association and is a board member for San Diego Americans for Safe Access . And in 2021, she co-founded Blunt Brunch , an event series empowering and bringing women executives together in the industry to connect, build b...

Pamela Staley, aka Ms. Pamela Sativa, has a big canna story! Joyce was introduced to Pam on Clubhouse with Miss Khadijah Adams, where women leaders in the cannabis industry meet to share and empower. We love her. Pam joins us from Oklahoma where she is a horticulturalist, plant intuitive, educator and flower show judge. Joyce and Pam talk about her years as a grower during prohibition, what she le...

Elana Goldberg is the CEO of The Cannigma , a women-led cannabis publication with a C-suite in Israel occupied by a diverse group of leaders and executives. The mission of The Cannigma publication is to make science and research-backed information available to everyone. Elana’s canna journey started in journalism and brought her to a position of influence in an international cannabis research hub....

Thank you for your support and please subscribe so you never miss an episode! Joyce speaks with Laura Eisman, Allison Krongard and Michelle Keinan about cannabis and sex! Yes, she goes there. Laura Eisman and Allison Krongard are the visionaries behind Her Highness , the premier purveyors of female-forward cannabis couture-products and potions inspired and engineered by women. Laura and Allison cr...

Gretchen Gailey is a journalist, communications strategist and political policy maker. She is the founder of Panoptic Strategies , a consulting firm that works specifically with cannabis clients. In addition to her communications expertise, she has also worked with lawmakers to inform them on tax policy and provided the U.S. Senate Finance Committee with the data necessary to draft cannabis tax le...

Christina DiArcangelo is an entrepreneur and CEO with more than two decades of experience in the medical cannabis, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and medical device industries. Through her roles as CEO of Spectral Analytics Precision Tele-Monitoring , Founder and CEO of Affinity Bio Partners , Board President and CEO of Affinity Patient Advocacy, and CEO & Co-Founder of AI Health Ou...

Holly Cowden is joining us today from Las Vegas, Nevada where she founded her ground-breaking cannabis staffing firm, Trim Force Staffing Solutions . Trim Force Staffing Solutions is the first staffing agency in the Las Vegas to specialize in the cannabis industry. Holly has more than 20 years of staffing experience and is a hard-working pioneering mom in the cannabis industry. Joyce and Holly tal...

Joyce is diversifying The Canna Mom Show stories today with a canna dad! Matt Ryan introduces himself as a citizen scientist from the north coast of Oregon, a caregiver and a steward of the plant. Matt and Joyce talk about family, farming and cannabis, because these topics are very important and very connected. Matt lives his motto of healthy soil, healthy food, healthy people, and on today’s show...