Telling Mom About Using Cannabis and Being a Budtender

Bianca is passionate about cannabis. She even has a podcast about it! When she started working in the cannabis industry, she finally opened up to her mom about all of it. And, a cannabis entrepreneur and investor helps us demystify the plant, the history, the science and the myths for our loved ones.

You can find Bianca's podcast here. 

Featured Expert: 

Khadijah Adams is a business coach, public speaker and cannabis investor. In 2014, when the state of Colorado legalized cannabis for recreational consumption, Khadijah sold her business and all of her worldly possessions with the exception of her car, cell phone, clothes, and computer, and moved to Colorado to get in on the "Green Rush". By late November of that year, Khadijah and a business partner formed Marijuana Investment & Private Retreat aka MIPR Holdings, LLC, a cannabis consulting and investor relations firm located in Aurora, Colorado where she served as the founder and senior managing partner for 3-1/2 years. MIPR Holdings, LLC was later acquired by C. E. Hutton, LLC, a business development and management firm in Denver, Colorado where Khadijah currently sits on the Board of Managers as the Vice President. She is also the Founder of The GreenStreet Academy, an online educational platform that teaches the basics of investing in the marijuana industry, and the co-author of The Minority Report, annual marketing analysis of Minority-owned companies in the cannabis and hemp industries. Khadijah sits on the Advisory Board of The Color of Cannabis (TCC) and is on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee (DEIC) of the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA). Khadijah is also the Founder of Girl Get That Money, and is a public speaker empowering women by starting where they are in their process in business, or in life and helping them design and execute a plan of action that will take their business and personal life to the next level into their journey. Learn more about her work here.

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