TOPIC: Cannabis Non-profit

Tracy Ryan is the Founder of CannaKids, a California based medical cannabis company, and the 501c3 www.SavingSophie.org. After her infant daughter’s low grade brain tumor diagnosis in 2013, Tracy dedicated her life to helping patients who suffer from life altering ailments, with a focus on children. 

Having witnessed years of unheard of success in tens of thousands of patients suffering from cancer, and many other ailments and diseases, she is now supporting pre-clinical human & humanized mouse model trials led by 

Dr. Anahid Jewett.

 
After two years of research on Tracy's daughter Sophie, and 17 of her CannaKids patients using her line of oils, Tracy and Dr. Jewett have made groundbreaking cancer discoveries that will be published to the medical journals in Spring of 2020. It’s her mission to not only end the suffering of those inflicted by cancer, but also develop a cure for her daughter that millions could benefit from.

TOPIC: CBD CHCOLATE BUSINESS OWNER/NETWORK MARKETING

Dorinda brings a lifetime of experience building successful businesses including Dorinda’s Chocolates to LiveKAYA. Known in many communities for her genuine love of people and heartfelt desire to help others achieve their own dreams, Dorinda is the holder of the vision at LiveKAYA. While growing the company to a world-wide enterprise, she oversees day-to-day operations with a keen eye and deep knowledge of chocolate. Dorinda frequently travels around the country to meet people and share our product and the opportunity, and is committed down to her cells to supporting the growth and success of our Brand Partners.

Dorinda is a natural connector and loves nothing more than bringing the right people together to elevate a project. Having spent many years in direct sales, she has an acute understanding of successful business strategies that create sustainable growth.

Above all else, Dorinda adores her family and considers her greatest accomplishment to be raising her four sons to be the amazing people they are.

Dorinda is a born visionary, always looking to create the next success story, and is thrilled to bring LiveKAYA into the world.

TOPIC: Healthy Safe Cannabis Consumption

 Lolita is a Registered Nurse with over 15 years of experience in various  healthcare settings. Lolita is the founder of Cansoom, a trusted  network of licensed medical professionals that advise consumers about  healthy cannabis consumption.  She is also the first person to write a  cannabis educational book especially for nurses, “The Medical Cannabis  Consultant's Handbook”, she is also the author of  “The Medical Cannabis  Consultant Explained”, and “Your Cannabis Consumption Journal”.
 

In  2017, Lolita founded Cansoom and developed the most comprehensive,  in-person Medical Cannabis Consultant training program for licensed  medical professionals. Cansoom's mission is to connect consumers with  Medical Cannabis Consultants to make cannabis consumption easy and  acceptable for everyone.  The Cansoom platform contains an online  searchable directory of licensed medical professionals and makes it easy  for consumers to find and connect with the right consultant.
 

In  2018, Lolita has also launched a YouTube and IGTV channel, under the  moniker Nurse Lolita, to expand her reach and teach as many people as  possible about cannabis consumption while removing negative stigmas.
 

Through  her hard work and research, Lolita has made cannabis consumption safe  for those who need it to cope with medical issues while also giving  medical professionals the opportunity to learn about healthy cannabis  consumption, own their own business, and become cannabis advocates. 

TOPIC: Hemp Cultivation

Founder of Tallgrass Hemp & Cannabis, Sarah leads with an entrepreneur's heart. Growing industrial hemp in Kansas' first legal crop, she believes in pushing boundaries and providing value. A frequent speaker at Texas Hemp Grower events and other hemp industry panels, Sarah collaborates with other pioneers and advocates for changes to cannabis laws in Kansas--one of only 8 states where residents have no legal access to cannabis. Sarah shares her experiences regarding legal and regulatory snares along the way and her perspective as a female grower in an agricultural state.

An innovator in business, she founded Safe Riders, Inc. in 2003 at the age of 25—the service drove intoxicated individuals home, in their own vehicle. The business was innovative and forward thinking. It solved a very real problem that, as a bartender at Walt’s Bar & Grill, she believed could be positively affected by providing a service solution.

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While earning a Master of Public Affairs degree from Wichita State University’s Hugo Wall School, Sarah worked in Republican politics. She managed campaigns for governor, mayor and state representative. She learned to prefer the parameters of entrepreneurship.

When the opportunity to first grow hemp arose in Kansas, Sarah submitted a successful research proposal and was the first licensee in the state. Assembling an experienced team, learning from available research, and committing to industrial hemp in Kansas, Tallgrass Hemp & Cannabis incorporated in 2019.

TOPIC: CBD Skincare Business

Kat King is the Founder/CEO of Cannamahila. Cannamahila is a Luxury Hemp CBD Skincare line that uses certified organic ingredients, formulated by plant medicine women. The company is based out of Colorado and uses top shelf, organic, full spectrum Hemp CBD distillate grown by a local farm that is veteran owned. This line was manifested out of King’s twenty five year passion for making and providing quality, herbal moon medicines. All of Cannamahila’s infusions are made according to lunar cycles. 

Kat is a plant spirit medicine woman, healer, yogi, musician, award-winning commercial film producer and a CPTSD survivor. She has dedicated over half of her life to the business of Cannabis, film, music, healing and helping to educate people about green living. King is a thirty-year cannabis caregiver and twenty seven-year cultivator. Her passion for herbal medicines, infusions and formulations started in 1993 when she moved to Colorado from Mississippi and started growing her own cannabis, medicinal herbs and food. Living off of the land became a favored way of experiencing life at a young age. From that age forward, Kat became an advocate for living an organic, holistic, regenerative lifestyle, whether living in a city or out in nature. She spent summers on a hundred-acre certified organic farm in the Kootenays, British Columbia Canada starting in 1999. It was on that farm she learned how to properly grow, harvest, formulate and manufacture an extensive organic product line of herbal tinctures, tonics and skincare products. Sustainable, organic foods and alkalinity education is also a huge part of Kat’s life experience and activism.  

King became involved with the Native American church in the 90’s and participated in many different types of ceremonies and practiced tribal teachings over the years. Varying types of entheogens (yopo, peyote, morning glory) were a part of many of these ceremonies and contributed to an even stronger spiritual foundation and deeper connection to plant spirits. She is also an avid supporter of healing through other psychedelics such as psylocybin, MDMA and LSD as a treatment for depression, anxiety, PTSD and other ailments.  

Kat currently contributes as a liaison with Skunk Magazine. She writes articles for the digital version featuring Colorado cannabis companies, farms, advocates, etc. and her “Consciousness & Cannabis in Music” series featuring musicians who are connected to the plant. This year she will be contributing more focused articles on plant allies and female owned/managed cannabis companies. 

Kat has gained a unique perspective with an unlimited amount of contacts within each of the above facets. From growing cannabis in several locations for more than two and a half decades, as well as brokering and working symbiotically with legal dispensaries, farms, laboratories and infusionists, to combining her skills and contacts as a Hollywood film producer, Kat is quickly being sought out for her over all, healing wisdom in this booming industry. What matters most is that she is a plant medicine healer and a steward of Mama Ganja.

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TOPIC: The Legal Side of Cannabis

Chelsie Spencer is a cannabis and hemp attorney. She is a founding member of Ritter Spencer PLLC. Chelsie practices in the areas of medical marijuana and hemp and represents clients across those industries for their business law and compliance needs. Chelsie represents all facets of the cannabis and hemp industries, including dispensaries, growers, processors, manufacturers, retailers, and more. Forbes Magazine dubbed Chelsie the “rare friendly face in the midst of a cutthroat CBD hurricane, the person you want on speed dial when things turn sour” for her work in the cannabidiol (CBD) industry. In addition to navigating complex issues and transactions in these highly regulated industries, she frequently writes, speaks, and presents on issues affecting these industries at conferences and forums across the United States.

Chelsie’s practice also focuses on transactional issues in commercial law and in intellectual property. Chelsie has secured registration of numerous federal trademarks and copyrights for her clients and manages worldwide trademark portfolios, in addition to handling trademark and copyright licensing, consent, coexistence, and assignment agreements for a variety of industries.

Chelsie’s litigation experience includes enforcing and defending claims of copyright infringement, trademark infringement, patent infringement, false designation of origin, trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and tortious interference with contract, among others. She is licensed in both Texas and Florida and has represented clients in federal and state litigation throughout the nation, at both the trial and appellate level. She has tried numerous cases to verdict in both state and federal courts and has secured dismissal of multiple federal lawsuits.

TOPIC: Cannabis Consulting

Madison was first introduced to the legal Cannabis industry in 2011 when both of her parents became involved in the industry.  Madison began consulting in the cannabis industry in 2016; her work consists of supporting operators of all license types.  Her most recent consulting work consists of operations for 12 cultivation facilities, two MIPs and one dispensary.  However, the highlights of her career thus far have been Care Division CBD and Wyldfire Concentrates (THC) which she and her sister, Montana, both founded in Colorado.  Care Division started as a national OTC brand and has now expanded to THC offerings.  Wyldfire Concentrates launched in January of 2020 and is carried across the state of Colorado with plans to launch in additional states this year.