The Canna Mom Show

Dani McQueen built her business, Old Man Farms , with her daughter on her back. Literally! Her CBD Subscription Boxes were nominated as one of the best new CBD products in 2019, however her story is really about advocacy and healing. Born with an autoimmune disorder that required narcotics to control the pain, Dani did not consider medicinal cannabis until her daughter was born with the same condi...

Melissa Whitley is the owner of Mazel Tov Farms , a cannabis brand available in the Monterey Bay area of California. And as you can tell from the name of her company, her story is one of both persistence and the Jewish faith. Melissa is the mother of two young children and a trail blazer in the wild world of cannabis, motherhood and social equity. The Canna Mom Show is happy to launch Season 2 wit...

Meagan Lynn Pilawski is a member of the inaugural class at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy on her way to earning a Master of Science (MS) in Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics from her home in Florida. Although not a career path she had envisioned when she was an oncology and palliative care nurse, it’s a pivot that now seems predestined. In 2014, just three months after givin...

Joyce met Tamala McBath at an event in Worcester in 2019 and has been trying to get her on the podcast ever since. Tamala is a national consultant in compliance and risk management and serves as the Chief Execution Officer (CXO) for the National Cannabis Risk Management Association ( NCRMA ) - a non-profit that provides innovative risk management and insurance solutions to businesses in the cannab...

“As women, we are often the caregivers of our families, our aging parents, even our ailing friends. We must also take care of ourselves so we can handle juggling the many aspects of our lives. We are at the Epicenter of Care for our loved ones and ourselves. We believe that women are the driving force to bring cannabis wellness to the mainstream. We aim to empower as many women as possible with qu...

Julia Gosnell arrived in the cannabis world following an impressive thirty plus years in mainstream corporate America. She is also the mom of two, and the COO of Hippo Premium Packaging which she co-founded with Kary Radestock , a powerhouse in her own right. Before quitting her corporate job in 2017 to focus entirely on cannabis packaging, Julia and Kary attended one of the first MJ Biz Conferenc...

Valentia Valentine is a highly successful and accomplished professional in Carmel, California. She began her career in the commercial real estate industry where she served businesses throughout the Central Valley for over 25 years. But she speaks with The Canna Mom Show as the founder of Synchronicity Holistic , a state-of-the-art cannabis wellness center dedicated to patient care for both the adu...

Jeanine Moss is the founder of Annabis Style odor free hanbags and J. Moss Consulting , where she is now focused on cannabis crisis management. Jeanine Moss joins The Canna Mom Show from LA where she lives with her grown daughter. On today’s show Joyce and Jeanine talk about how her work as a life-long communicator, entrepreneur and a person who likes to go where the action is led her to cannabis....

Johanna Nuding’s grandmother is not only named Joyce, but also shares the same birthday as The Canna Mom Joyce! A strange little coincidence. Johanna has a cannabis story that spans continents, beginning in her home state of Texas where she worked in sales on a prominent sports network, to NY for a radio apprenticeship, then back to Texas to work in real estate development. But then, just like a m...

Sharon Grimes of Accounting4Buds speaks with Joyce and Amie from her home in Vermont, Amie’s happy place. Sharon learned about the cannabis industry from its numbers, literally. After working for almost ten years in the non-profit sector she pivoted into manufacturing where she really learned about accounting. In 2015 she stumbled into cannabis because CPA’s are required to keep learning. The cont...

Josefine Nowitz is the co-founder and managing partner of Cannabis Creative Group , a marketing agency for the cannabis community. Josefine is a strategic and creative leader immersed in cannabis culture and commerce, in addition to being a speaker, blogger, and social media commentator. She is committed to helping clients build their brand, connect with consumers and expand their market share. Jo...

Amy Larson, VP of Marketing & PR at Simplifya , speaks with Joyce and Amie from her home in Colorado. Amy’s work in cannabis tourism was a good learning experience that helped her see the necessity of professionalism in the emerging cannabis industry. Amy is the first person Joyce ever heard claim that professional cannabis years are like dog years! During Amy’s tenure at an integrated marketing a...

Sheila Gibson is an Intellectual Property attorney who is a pioneer in the virtual paperless world. So she’s already pretty cool! But just to make her story a little more interesting, she shares with The Canna Mom Show why she asked a convicted felon to set up her cannabis law practice last year. She is now home with her teenagers (13 & 15) and is trying to enjoy this chaotic moment in history as...

A few months ago, before life as we knew it stopped, Moon Mother Hemp sent The Canna Mom Show a few samples of their full spectrum, certified organic CBD products and Joyce loves them! The face serum and topicals are both silky and smell great and are “Joyce’s Favorite Thing” on this week’s show. Today’s guest is Jessica Bates, founder of Moon Mother Hemp from Louisville, Colorado. She has been in...

Joyce reached out to Kristin Adams after seeing a post regarding her magazine story on cannabis beauty products on a professional women in cannabis Facebook group, which happened to occur – serendipitously- just 24 hours after a good friend recommended Joyce check out the media company Naturx , the magazine group Kristin is writing the beauty story for! Small world. Kristin’s cannabis story begins...

Liz Kost of Fog & Tree was introduced to The Canna Mom Show by her sister Catherine who discovered The Canna Mom Show and thought her sister would make a great guest. And she was right. Liz Kost has been working in the California cannabis industry since 2015 when she ran a design studio for multiple cannabis companies, many of them family run with women leading the way. She is now starting up her...

When Joyce just started The Canna Mom Show in the Summer of 2019, Amie Reiman of My Hip Life was one of her very first guests. Joyce is happy to have Amie Reiman back, and on this episode she introduces this Canadian Canna Mom Amie to our American Canna Mom Amie, and they get along great. On today’s episode Joyce and Amie catch up on her life in Niagara Falls and Amie shares her insights into the...

Kathy Blume joins The Canna Mom Show from her small town in Vermont and shares her personal cannabis story of pain and healing. She has a colorful background in theater and environmental activism, and holds the radical idea that a sex strike could stop climate change and toured her one woman show explaining that radical idea. Never one to shy away from a daunting challenges, from climate change to...

Julie Ann Mejia visited over 100 dispensaries across the country on her journey to heal herself with medical marijuana. Julie Ann Mejia’s personal cannabis story began as so many do, with the inability of traditional medical institutions to heal her pain. At the age of 27 she was seriously injured in a work situation which resulted in years of medications and the development of an autoimmune disor...

Joyce’s mom, Debby Gerber, joined us in the studio to watch the show be recorded then, without much notice, she became the guest. Joyce and her mom discuss everything from her brother’s attempts to grow pot as a teenager to how important it is to stop equating cannabis with heroin. Debby isn’t really a believer, but she’s proud of Joyce for teaching her about cannabis and who knows, may become a r...

On this episode Joyce and Amie open up about themselves and their thoughts on the cannabis industry. Enjoy this lighter version of the ladies kibitzing on all topics cannabis from dirty bongs to the exceptional women working in the industry. Topics Discussed: No One Likes A Dirty Bong [2:25] Motherly Advice [4:20] Cannabis in NY [5:07] Higher Standards in Chelsea Market [5:25] High End Headshop [5...

Mitzi Hollenbeck is a cannabis CPA and found her place in the cannabis industry after serving as a Selectwoman for her small New England town, Lakeville, Massachusetts. While serving on her local board she realized how ill prepared elected policy makers were to handle the fast moving business of cannabis. Mitzi is uniquely positioned to tackle this issue in the emerging cannabis world having both...

Ellen Rosenfeld has been dubbed the Cannabis Queen of the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that is. Her cannabis company, CommCan - The Commonwealth Cannabis Company - is Massachusetts’ only self-financed, vertically integrated cannabis company that is family-owned and operated by lifelong Massachusetts’ residents. CommCan ’s state-of-the-art 60,000 square foot cultivation facility...

Ashley Russell and her mom, Lisa Limehouse, speak to Joyce and Amie from their home in South Carolina. Although a prohibition state, this powerhouse mother-daughter team is on a mission to heal their neighbors and friends with their CBD products and their advocacy. The ladies formed The Lotus Hemp in 2019 to share what they knew about the healing powers of CBD. Lisa had learned about alternative m...

Jennifer Davis is the mother of four and has been a cannabis advocate for twenty-years in central Kentucky. She's a Kentucky canna mom! Jennifer's passion is education and her business is CBD Wellness of Kentucky. Like Joyce, today's guest has a deep interests in local politics and it was Jennifer's connection to a colorful Kentucky politician that brought her into the hemp/cannabis world. Joyce a...