MONDAY MANTRAS: Recent Episodes
DJ Vierra Vibe
Join Vierra Vibe every Monday at 5 PM PST for an inspiring, soothing hour of casual chat with Cannabis industry leaders, pioneers and brands.
Introduction to CSA’s Founders’ Membership with CSA Founder, Milan Valorie Ludovico! Learn how you can get involved as a pioneer Cannabis Spa brand or business, get access to our community and receive exclusive marketing benefits!
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Meet the founder of Trusted Canna Nurse, Megan Mbengue, RN.
When Megan’s hospice patients started asking about medicinal cannabis, she realized there are very few medical professionals who know much about cannabis and how it works in the body, much less how to navigate a dispensary and all of the hundreds of products out there. She saw a need for someone with a nursing background to help people, especially elderly, see the benefits of cannabis and incorporate it into their care. Megan most recently worked as a home hospice case manager in Claremont, CA, where she helped many use cannabis with great results in managing their symptoms.
Prior to hospice, Megan was a labor & delivery travel nurse in Southern California, working at various hospitals in the area. Before moving to SoCal, she worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where she started her nursing career in both Labor and Delivery and Oncology. Megan received her BSN from Arizona State University in 2012 and is nationally certified in Oncology, Labor & Delivery, and Hospice & Palliative Care.
Megan has done various programs, conferences, and webinars on medical cannabis and is currently working towards her Masters in Medical Cannabis. Megan is excellent at using her diverse nursing background to connect with patients on a personal level and uses her expertise to bring them the best possible care. She is great at breaking down complex concepts into easy to understand bits of information for patients, families, and health care workers.
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Kat King is a Mississippi native, born and raised in Jackson, Who recently returned to her home state to help start up cannabis businesses in the recently legalized state for medical use, with Petal Consultants.
Most recently (2020-2022), Kat was the GM of Operations and successfully launched a 340,000 sq ft. indoor cannabis facility/park in the state of California. With over sixteen years in the regulated cannabis market, she has professionally consulted on close to a million sq ft. of canopy, including two exclusive hemp flower farms. King has worked closely with dispensaries, farms, laboratories, processors and distributors in California, Colorado, Washington and Canada. She has been a Master Cultivator for more than two decades with hashish experience. In 2018, Kat founded and launched an organic cannabis skincare line out of Colorado called Cannamahila. In addition to all above, she has has worked in celebrity cannabis branding and cannabis-based media production 2013 to present. In 2017-2020 King wrote informative articles for Skunk Magazine and was voted“Top 100 Women in Weed 2020” by Green Market Report.
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Meet Alicia Pingul, Addiction Recovery and Psychedelic
Integration Coach, Cannabis-Assisted Psychedelic Guide, Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Facilitator, and Quantum Healing Hypnosis (QHHT®) level-1 intern.
Alicia works with all explorers of consciousness, creative complex problem-solvers, and psychonauts willing to push
the edges of human potential, through self-transformational healing.
Trained by Daniel McQueen of
Medicinal Mindfulness, in Boulder, Colorado, as a psychedelic sitter, cannabis-assisted psychedelic
guide, and community breathwork facilitator Alicia shares with us how she is
currently credentialing for Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Therapy®
(MBPT) with a specialty in Cannabis-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy through her New Moon Circles for the Wild Woman Project, a “growing movement of courageous, creative, heart centered (often weird & wonderful) women on a mission to remember, to reimagine what it means to be a woman – untamed.”
Not that self-work isn’t involved here; because Alicia’s guided circles are definitely not your typical self-care sesh!
Alicia describes her journey from the first Cannabis circle she hosted on her living room floor, to the present, where she is now, in Colorado - the Mecca of plant -medicine healing. In a city daily renewed with tourists from all over the globe, Denver sustains a steady flow of tourists, many in search of the unique, effective, cutting-edge Cannabis experiences that innovators of the industry are becoming well knowing for in Denver. She reminds us that one of the most essential components to finding your “higher self” is trust and comfortable aesthetics. Her privately hosted events are more like a retreat for inner soul-travel - “an “initiation” of sorts, to your true self as you see through the eyes of the plant” she describes it so tantalizingly for anyone really seeking a memorable and truly spiritual Cannabis experience! Alicia gives detailed account of the diverse choice of activities and styles of communication used in her ceremonies, as well as tips and best practices for anyone hosting these types of events.
Her voice is a soft and genuine tone that almost on a trance a few times! This was a great episode with lots of gems that we need to revisit with Alicia on a future episode!
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Meet Cara Heim, owner of Annapolis, MD, med-spa, Vanity Skin Bar, shares her experiences as a spa owner who recently started integrating CBD skincare into her treatments and aftercare…
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