Potcast 145: The Workplaycation
My cannabis soul sister, Dr. Monica Vialpando, joins me on Potcast 145 to discuss my birthday mushroom journey takeaways, creativity, the art of product formulation, and the newly launched Via Innovations Ready-Made Product Catalog.
‘After the Show’ Notes
Dr. Monica Vialpando is a pharmaceutical development scientist with expertise in drug product formulation. She transitioned to cannabis in 2015, and in 2017 founded Via innovations, a San Francisco-based provider of innovation consulting for the global cannabis industry. Monica leverages her unique academic and industrial experience to formulate water insoluble compounds, enabling next-generation cannabis products. She currently serves as an active scientific advisor to MAZAKALI, Blinc Group and GoFire. She is also an adjunct professor at Loyalist College, Ontario, where she teaches a post-graduate cannabis formulation course.
As a dedicated yoga practitioner for more than 10 years, she holds a 300-hour teacher certificate and combines the scientific and holistic disciplines when designing her products.
At Via-Innovations, Dr. V and her team perform a fit-for-purpose screening with all brand clients. This ensures they create thoughtful, effective products that add value to the end-consumer as well as advance the evolving cannabis industry where quality over quantity is an invaluable concept.
In addition to custom formulations, Via Innovations offers turnkey go-to-market cannabis product solutions across multiple routes of administration.
Email to learn more about Via Innovations newly launched Ready Made Product Catalog.
MJ Relief is our first product release. It’s the same great muscle rub formulation we’ve been batch producing for friends and family the past three years. But now it’s in a convenient tube and ready for pre-sale. Email info@mjskinrelief.com to learn more.
Mon & Jo’s Workplaycation In Action
Last week I celebrated my 44th birthday in Palm Springs with my cannabis soul sister. Mon was posted up in the desert for work and I drove down to join her for a week that I deemed a "work-playcation."
When you're in the throes of entrepreneurship during strange times like these, it helps to be around someone else who's going through it, too. Mon and I make sure each other stays fed and hydrated. We pause and listen to each other's rants upon request. We take turns being a shoulder to cry on or a voice of reason. And we remind each other that we'll look back fondly on these days when we're out of the weeds and into the money. We know it's all part of the entrepreneurial journey. And that if it were easy everybody would do it. But when that “knowing” isn’t covering the bills, it’s nice to smoke a big phat bowl and let mama cannabis remind us that ganjapreneur life doesn't have to be a grind.
