November 23, 2023 • 44 mins
YANA Wellness and Creativity Center™, an entity that provides access to resources & crucial information for creatives in Washington, DC! YANA Wellness and Creativity Center™ consists of a podcast studio for members to record, a wellness room for consultations with their Clinical Psychologist, as well as other spaces that specifically cater to cannabis strain matching, meditation training, yoga, & reiki. Most importantly, YANA Wellness and Creativity Center™ has both Cannabis and Psilocybin Mushrooms for consumption as a wellness and creative support! For more information be sure to visit the website at www.yanacast.com & also follow @yana.creatives on Instagram to tap in with Ari Tokes & the professionals she has over at YANA Wellness and Creativity Center™!
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we have airytoas the CEO of Yana Wellness and Creativity
Center and entity that provides access to resources and crucial
information for creatives in Washington, DC. So she's on the
road hanging out with us today. I love that you
reached out and so we could have you on the
show with us now. Yana Wellness and Creative Center consist
(02:08):
of a podcast studio for members to record, a wellness
room for consultations with their clinical psychologists, as well as
other spaces that specifically cater to cannabis, strain matching, meditation training, yoga,
and riki, which I don't know what that is yet.
We're going to figure out what the hell that is.
(02:28):
Most importantly, Yana Wellness and Creative Center has both cannabis
and psilocybin mushrooms for consumption, as well as a creative
support spot for you guys. For more information, be sure
to check out their website yanacast dot com That's why
a nacast dot com, or follow them on the gram
at Yana dot creatives and see them on Instagram. Tap
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into what Irvery Stokes is doing. She's a professional and
she has a great Instagram too. I like looking at
her Instagram as well. It's very fun and very like ooh,
I could heart a day without further adode. The CEO,
Harry Tolks, is in the buildings.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Ariana.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
But you Yeah, so good to have you back here.
World friends we made a while back, and uh, it's
really good to see you. And I'm glad you tapped
into us because you're in town. And before she's doing
bigger things, yes, or she was helping somebody. Now she's
helping herself.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yes, yes. Before I was behind the scenes watching and
now I get to be on with you guys.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Doing a business. How did this come about? Doude tell
us the story of how.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
You So this is a long time coming, but I
will start by saying I worked in before the cannabis industry.
I started five years ago in cannabis. Before that, I
was in private equity for about six years, and you know,
I was working for white males building their businesses. It
was like I got a lot of experience, a lot
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of fun, but I wanted to do something more impactful,
build something I cared about. So that's when I got
into cannabis. And then I was COO for Street Lawyer Services,
a cannabis brand on the East Coast for about three years,
and you know, found myself doing the exact same thing
building someone else's business. So finally I was like, it's
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my time.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I bought I Gotta go.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yes, eight months ago, I quit, spent about eight months
cultivating myself, like truly figuring out what I wanted to
do differently with this industry and find my my passion
within the Cannis industry. So I started Yana as a
wellness and creativity center about three months ago.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I seen it pop up and I was like, no way, yeah,
and Yana, where has just come from? Because I see
on the site that it stands for You're not alone,
which I love that line. Let alone, just the line alone,
because so many of us in life, you know, will
feel like the woe is me? And you know what,
you're not alone? Folks, Ye go to Yana if you're
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feeling that way and get some help.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So Yana Yannas stands for you are not alone. And
it's actually my nickname. Not a lot of people know this, Ariana.
My mom named me Yana when I was a kid.
And then in college someone's like, you know your name,
your nickname also has an impact and I was like
fuck yeah, Like I'm going to use that. Gave me
a mission, gave me a purpose.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Yeah, how cool is all these other things with it? Wow?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Right? So it definitely felt like something that the cannabis
industry and this mental health, mental wellness kind of you
know industry could really get behind you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Now let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I feel like you've grown a lot, you know, because
I remember you coming in and you know, I just
feel like your energy has changed so a lot. And
you know where does that come from? Is that because
you just decided to boss up and do your own things?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Honestly? It did?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Truly did? It truly came from taking a leap of
faith and uh, you know doing like my biggest spirit was,
you know, not being able to succeed on my own,
so I would really like push and build other people's businesses.
And I felt like a lot of the times they
would pay me so much because they didn't want me
to leave, right, And which is great, But when you're
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not doing something that you feel strongly about, that dollar
value doesn't mean anything anymore. So yeah, quitting my job,
taking time to not work for someone else and focus
on what I need and what I want to do,
really change my whole energy, my whole vibe.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So run us down, Like one experience would be like
when we walk in right, Like I've seen the facility. Yeah,
but like how does it work, how do you monetize it?
And what does that look like for you right now?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
So do you guys know what's going on in like
the DC area.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
So we have this thing called the I seventy one
Initiative and that basically Murio Bowser, our mayor, put that
into place in twenty fifteen. That basically says you can
gift cannabis to anyone. You can give any like gifting laws.
Basically you can give it to anyone, but you can't
sell it. So how the fuck do you get to people?
It makes no sense, but it did give us this
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time to do research and development and like create work
around sell other things. Right, And so I was selling
other things, operating another person's business and it just like
a sticker or something like that wasn't really a value.
And when it came to Yana, I wanted to do
something that was a true business outside of just the cannabis.
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So what we sell is wellness consultations, wellness services. We
sell studio time, we have creative workshops. We bring an
artists who lead workshops. So you're buying mental health wellness services.
You can meet with our clinical psychologists on staff who
can place you to different different products at our shop.
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And then we also have you know, dog therapy that
my dog is here today. We have music therapy. So
all of these just different wellness services. Cannabis being one,
mushrooms being one, and really tying.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It in God's mushrooms have this same lall behind it
as well.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
The I eighty one initiative came out, so it's really
a great playing field.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
For everyone for everyone. Yeah, are there a lot of
clinics that are open like this or you know?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I don't have you heard of anyone?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
But I haven't either.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I mean, you know, I know the gifting rules like
because we had that here for like it was like
proposition sixty four or so like yeah, two fifteen. I
forgot what it was, but it was like you can
give it away to anybody, but you couldn't sell it, right.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
We had that same shirt, so it was buy a
T shirt shut you know.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So you guys are you know, you know, without implementing yours,
are you know, putting yourself out there?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You're basically the same. Come in, get some studio time
and you get.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
A free eighth pretty much.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, my costume and twenty dollars whatever. You can come
and hang out, use the studio, or you could come in.
Now are they members too, Like, are you doing a
monthly subscription?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
They're not a monthly subscription yet. I wanted to, you know,
it's been three months. I kind of wanted to give
people free membership just by being, you know, using our
services your member. But then at some point, Yeah, because
my background is tech management, I do want to go
into a subscription model platform. Sure, yeah, like a Soho
house but more yana and yeahal wellness social wellness focused.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
The funny thing is is that the services, like a
therapy consultation costs more than cannabis a lot of the time.
So you're getting so you're yeah, so you're exactly So
you're getting like true mental health wellness services from like
you know, clinical psychologists. I also have the pharmaceutical.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I mean day but whatever. You're operating hours.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yes, we're open at ten am, we close at nine weekends,
we're open at ten to ten pm. Yeah. So you
set up a consultation online with our receptionists and they
have specific time slots, so yeah, you can do it
that way. It's walkins as well.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
We think.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So someone walks in they say, hey, you know, I
just want to hang out and relax. I'll be allowed
to medicate there or smoke there.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
So while on because you know, I'm trying to stay
with like regulations and what's going on in other states.
While we're opened, I don't allow consumption on site, but
after hours is like with micro parties, and that's when
I allow it. It's a private property, you know in
my lease agreement that I can.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Do that, So that's great smart.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Yeah, I mean I come from private equity the legal scene,
so I was able to kind of use that to
develop something, you know, that loop holes for my business.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Really, I mentioned this in the beginning of the show.
Are you when we come back, You're gonna explain what
it is because I have no idea. It's Canada's Talk
one oh one. We're breaking this down. It's so good
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Creative Center. You've already went to break. I asked you
what is riki meaning, because I'm so curious, and of
course I have definition right here, but I wanted to
(12:01):
see what you guys are doing there. Enriqui is an
energy healing technique in which it is performed by a master.
It says for healing the arts uses gentle hand movement
like I'm gonna do on blue right now to move
with the intention to guy, you know, I wish with
a gentle hand movement with the intention to guide the
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flow of energy and health. You guys. It's so funny
as I read this. I've had this done to me
before when I was sick and I didn't realize this,
and uh they were and it was like I was
really really sick at the time and they just did
this to push my energy away. And it's so they
never touched my body. Just actually know that they touched
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like parts boom boom, boom boom and then coming with
the hand and stuff like that. So it was just
really cool now that I read it and understand what
it is. I just love the fact that you're doing
something like this, and I feel like more people should
because health and wellness is obviously just big and mental
health and any type of health, and cannabis and psilocybin
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just really opens that up and for you guys to
be open for that, and you know, maybe medicate before
you come in, because you're not gonna be able to
sit here right now, medicate together, or medicate right here
until there's an event going on. But that is great
to know that somebody can go in there rather than
some therapists looking at like You're like, I just took
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five caps whatever it is, and now I want to
open up and you guys have all these things.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Safe space, yes, yeah, just safe space.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
That's what's awesome about this. I mean, where did that
excitement for you come from? To think of it that way?
To really help the environment out there and watching UN's
so funny.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So it's from my mom. She actually works for me
at the shop. She's our integrative nutrition is. She's also
a trened and dental meditation teacher. So my mom since
I was a kid, has been my guru. She's just been.
She's Filipino, so she she comes with a lot of
those like just holistic kind of non westernized medicine values,
I guess. So she is really the reason I am
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me and she would love that I'm saying that. But
she's holding it down down there right now.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I mean, can she makes.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
She can?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
She actually came to this country.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Can't.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Yeah, yeah, I've been can't do it all.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Work? Filipino food is one of the best. It's incredible.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, but yes, you know what you're saying about reiki.
We have different consultants that are in this alternative holistic
medicine field, and it's cannabis plays a part in that.
So it's really great to kind of change the stigma
of how people think of cannabis as like you know,
we all know that people think of it as like
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you're lazy on the couch, you don't do anything. But
really it's a part of this whole mental illness benefit.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And do you guys have to have security guards there?
We do, yes, just because of the cannabis.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Side of it, yes, and because you know I came
from that before the tricks, right, so, and I also
want to do social equity programming through my business and
bring in these experts in security it cybersecurity that can
work with my business to to get us to the
regulated market. I mean, that's what we're doing this for,
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right We need to put in place specific like programs
to get us to I legalize market safely.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Do you feel like that DC is going to go wreck?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Yes, it's just not there yet because you know, it's
a federally regulated district. It's not a space.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
It's such all like you even talk about DC and
how it's looked at. I mean the voting even there
is so much weirder and different, Like everything about d
C puzzles me. Yeah, I don't even really fully understand it.
I just know I'm puzzled by it. Right, It's awesome place.
I mean there's so much history, so much history there,
just like real American history of like how they really
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as I just say, think of the American Indians.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
DuPont Circle, so right in the heart of the city
where like a lot of the embassies are Yeah wow.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Some people from out of the countries and people coming
in their experiment.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Oh yeah, I mean we get tons of you know, lobbyist,
government contract workers. That's what DC is.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
It's a pretty majority of that. Anyways.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Yeah, we don't have a huge arts creatives community, but
there is. I mean, we have some of the best
museums that are free in the world, So there is
an arts scene there. It's just it's hard to find it.
As I'm hoping that this place can also be a
hub for artists.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Do you feel that there's a lot of tourists that
come in too.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Uh, Yeah, for sure. I mean DC is only like
five six seven miles long. Yeah, it's a lot of
tourists for sure. And they don't know what the laws are.
So we do this.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Country. What is this place? I mean, what do you
mean you can't vote in? Your vote doesn't count? And
how do you advertise it?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
You know, that's the hardest part places like this, So
thank you. I mean it's really advertising and cannabis is
so hard in general. I do it through the wellness side,
and I do it through my artists. So we have
in house talent that designs like lighters that are social
impact mission driven projects. For example, have a femorotic artist
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who makes these lighter packs that have these avatar looking
humans with like that are female but have penises and
they're like fucking on my lighters and it's bringing to
light you know, yeah exactly, It's like bringing the light
that you don't have to like be one gender and
race to like love and I do really connect to
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the LGBTQ community that is my target with this whole
Yaana concept. So yeah, bringing an artist.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I love doing this and you're really like seeing what
there's other elements besides this opening and you're capitalizing on
what you can do in d C, which is amazing.
And are you from there?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I am born race, Yes, That's why I know what's
like how this city works. That's why I went back home.
I was in working in New York.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I thought you were in New York.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I was in New York, Miami, and d C opening
up three retail locations for someone else. So I was
living in three states, learning all of their jurisdictional laws.
And then yeah, I was thinking about doing New York.
I went through investment rounds. I was thinking about doing
New York heavily, and then d C was just like,
we know you're opera Like they came out with more
(19:00):
regulation saying we know you're operating illegally, but as long
as you have your business licenses, as long as you
pay your income and your sales tax right now, you're
good to go until we switch over. So I went home.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I want to touch on because I didn't realize that
you're born and raised in d C. Yeah, what high
school did you go to?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
In high school?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
So I've heard stories of people who grew up in
DC that you know, as you go to a school
like this, a lot of their family members are part of,
you know, the government. Yes, So did you grow up
with friends and colleagues? If I were like Oh my god,
your dad's a congressman, your mom's a senator, You're this
and that.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, so funny. I'm yeah, I'm just going to share.
I guess that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
These stories are amazing. When I was in DC, I
met a girl there. I was like, these stories are
so dupe. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
No, So I actually moved out. I have a different
story than most. I moved out of my parents' house
when I was twelve years old. Divorce was terrible, right,
So I was just like, this is not at all
you both are. Yeah, I can't go back and forth
between homes. This is not healthy for me. So I
moved in with my grandparents. And my grandfather was president
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of the American Psychology Association for about ten years. He
was an industrial organizational psychologist, so he coined that kind
of term, starting this Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology, which
basically is creating you know. So for example, one of
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the things he did was for the Navy. He helped
decide between like kernels and different ranks in the Navy.
So it was like creating tests for large businesses like
the military, like large corporations for leadership exactly. So that
was what my grandfather did, and the only industry he
didn't really touch on was like the cannabis industry in tech,
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and those are the two that I like fully focused on.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
You're going to be the one that does it for
the family, huh. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I do like to like learn, because he died before
I could really learn from him. He got dementia and
Alzheimer's and I couldn't really learn from him. So I
learned about him in school.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And like they teached about your grandfather. Yeah, wow, yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
You know psychology want to watch about my grandfather?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Is that is that? Is that national? Or is that
just in d C?
Speaker 4 (21:29):
No, that's yeah, he was. He's a professor at Yale
and then yeah he was.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
He is a honor. We can get to say his
name or something.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And he's also Irvine, so he's also Irvine for a while.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yeah. Yeah, she has a good school though, I mean
it's small, but it's very you know.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
But unfortunately passed before I could like learn from him,
So I learned from his people that were for him.
And sure, and yeah, my.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Professors come with continue loyalty. You as what you're saying,
you were the royal people were like, oh my god,
already we go to school with.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Her, Like I wouldn't know. Actually I've moved out of
my family's home. Like it was embarrassing, you know, and
also like I didn't really talk about this kind of stuff.
I thought like my family's industry growing up. I thought
it was like bad because my family didn't succeed in
you know, getting through mental issues. And yeah, so no,
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and a lot of people from where I'm from though,
it is like a bubble.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
We do have a lot of like friends that are connected.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Yeah, so it is a weird, like you know when
your friend's parents are diplomats and like like police officers
can't break up your party because it's the house.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, I've heard like a girl told me she'd have
go to parties at certain places and there'd be secret
service there all the time, covering for uh whoever President's
daughters or whatever. That you're you get to hang out
with those types people, right.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
But then you also learn that like these types of
people when they have no repercussions, they are kind of
dangerous and turned out to me would do whatever the
I mean what accountability.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So growing up in DC that I felt like I've
learned that you know something out here. You know, your
dad may be a cop, but you know he works
for the cop. But the Sheriff's come and you're screwed,
you know what I mean. Out in d C. It's
a little different. You get some real high legislation, legislation
of like oh no, you can't wuck with us. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
And I just also want to say, like he was
a public servant, and I funded this business I completely myself.
Like I even my college, I'm still paying for it.
Like I'm doing all of this alone in a way.
I mean I have a support system, but financially, I'm
doing this all alone. Like I didn't take investor money
because they wanted over fifty percent of my intellectual property.
(23:55):
They wanted, you know, more than fifty percent of my
business without you're not valuing it high enough. So I
took out my barrowe Kay. I was like, you know,
I want to do this myself. Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Know, I think that's important because you know, once you
build something, now the value you can offer less, you know,
because you have value. So you know, I want to
ask you, you know, what kind of products are out
there right now in the market after this break, it's
cannabis stock when I will move right back.
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Louis asking what's out there in the market right now?
I'm almost curious, Blue, what's direction you're going though with that?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Weell, I mean just there's a good qual I mean,
I know you travel quite a bit. You've been to Cali,
I know you've been everywhere Miami National. You know, is
it did you find that you had some really fire
cannabis out there is a kind of low level is it?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
What's out there? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Sure, so it's it's new, and I'm it's so interesting.
It's it's like it's really it's okay, So how do
I even say this politically correct? So basically right now
they're giving out manufacturing cultivation licenses, like just now, they've
(26:20):
just started applications. No, not free, but they are doing
like social equity programming.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
So you do like if you havested, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
If we're a bunch of like nerdy scientists like and
nerdy people, so yeah, there are some really great growths
that you know, we're illegally operating now, got their licenses
and they're small though, and there's no lab testing in
DC yet, So we don't even have lab testing yet,
and they're trying to say, you know, we need to
make retail, but we don't even have labs to test that.
(26:56):
We have to send it out of the state to
get them tested, but there's no laws for that.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
So it's we're still luckily in this gray market where
I can whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I can play if you want to buy some stuff,
that's good. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Everyone needs therapy. Okay, you can.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Agree a therapist weekly. I think it's hands down one
of the best things. I love it. It's, you know,
just somebody to bounce things off and jokes like my therapist.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah, but you can do a free consultation with my
therapist if you want.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
No, my mom is that you can do transcendental meditation
with my mom and that is amazing. But with our
clinical psychologist, doctor Vivid, you can do microdcing sessions.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
How does the microdosing session work? Before I get there,
explain it all.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yeah, so she does those virtually or off site. So yeah,
so she' like we have right next to.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Us an additional church.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Nope, it's sEH Wellness service consultation, but it's virtual or
off site, right, so yeah, we do. She does microdosing
therapy for cannabis and mushrooms because those are both legal
in Washington, DC. And yeah, you can go inward and journey.
She kind of talks you through it. Also, she does
(28:20):
like she can place you with products at our shop
that are like good for certain mental illnesses. And yeah,
it's funny.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I'm really I'm going to open up right now and
tell you guys, I'm searching myself because I didn't realize
that I have so much PTSD that I was talking
to my therapists not too long ago all the for
years I don't see all the time, but I mean,
since I can remember, I in my older years, I
fight in my dreams a lot, and I'm always fighting somebody.
And even last night, as Chanel woke me up, Joe,
(28:52):
what you're yelling, because I was like, get your ass
in here, and I remember saying it and she woke
me up right after and the point I was like,
I'm in here, that's going on. Here's the crazy part.
In my dream, I was in the ring and I
was fighting, and I was telling you, but it was
a vicious, like a mean fight of like somebody who's
talking whatever it was, it wasn't good. Every time she
wakes me up from it and I've hit her like
(29:12):
I sleep with a body pillow and I squeeze it
because I grab her and I push and I hit
her head and like, I just do too much. And
I never thought it was a problem until about two
months ago. I mentioned it to my therapist. He goes,
what do you mean, And I'm like, well, doesn't everybody
do I don't know. I just and he's like, dude,
you really got a lot of things going on with you.
Right now, we got to talk a little bit. So
I've got a real issue that I'm dealing with that
I thought was just I don't know. I thought everybody
(29:35):
fights people in their dreams and goes off and and
it happens about three times a week for me, so
it's not anymore. Oh no, oh dude, it's so bad
to me, Like I'm living. My wife is pounding me.
I'm surprised she hasn't kicked me out of the room yet, Like,
but the body pillow has helped, and I turned the
other way. But now the yelling has come. And last
night as I yelled, and it was get in here, motherfucker,
(29:55):
like and she's like, what are you doing? And I'm like,
and every time I wake up, I go, oh my god,
thank you for waking me up because I'm scared. It's
not like I'm happy dream I don't like it. It's
not like I want to be aggressive, and you know,
I got to I'm a mess. But it's known as
PTSD from the fightings and it goes from bouncing head
(30:17):
of security nightclubs, fighting the streets to you know, fighting
in the ring. Funny times in the ring, I trained
a bunch and you know, get all these things and
it's like and then my mind will go crazy thinking
I'm gonna but it's like weird crazy, like I'm defending.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
You have to talk about it, Yeah, totally, And I'm
doing it literally right now.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I'm in the boxes of going through this new I like,
I need to take some medification, like a mushroom. I'm serious.
I'm like open to it. I don't know if I
need to do something else to get deeper to like
because I don't like it anymore. I finally came to
the conclusion that I don't like it, you know what
I mean, I'm having these dreams too much literally last night,
(30:57):
and it's like, as you say this, and they just
made me want to open up and tell you guys,
and tell the world listening you're going dude. You know,
none of us are perfect and go through things. So
that's why I'm so into what you're doing. And I
love it as well personally because I'm going through something
right now with my therapist.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
No, and thank you for sharing. I think something about
Yana too is that it's it's also not just in DC.
So these are virtual consultations, Like she takes clients from
not just Washington, d C. Through our company, so you
can exactly you do things.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
They're free, they.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Are free fifteen minute consultations. And then she sees it
if we can place you with this right type of
wellness service, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Then sometimes you can help people, sometimes you can't.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
And then we we you know, also have like a
referral network where we can send you to someone else
that's in our network. It's we didn't really value mental
health and like that as much as we did physical health,
and it's so important, like cortisol levels one from stress
can cause a lot of physical damage and does eases
and things like that. So it's important to value your
(32:03):
mental health. And I really wanted to do something in
that that realm.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Nice, you know.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I I really appreciate it too, because there is a
lot like I have PTSC too. Mine's different. I don't
dream about it like I just locked doors behind me
and you know, just I'm just very I'm in gunfights,
I'm in fucking jump being. It's just telling you right
before you go to bed. The secret is it's ten
minutes before you to bed. Just have a good conversation
about what your plan is, what's your plan on doing
(32:30):
and and you know, I'm gonna sleep very well tonight.
I'm gonna you know, dream about positive things and my
growth and how I'm gonna do that, and really talk
to yourself for five to ten minutes, which is quite
a long time to talk to yourself, and then you know,
say your prayer and go to bed.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Maybe you know I'm telling you. And the funny thing
is I'm listening. You know, I'll try it. Yes, I
mean I fall asleep usually on the couch first, and
she's coming downstairs. Dog, I think there's someone in the
house and I'm fighting with the I'm you wank you,
thank you, so much for working out.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Like I'm not a doctor at what I'm at my shop,
but I do.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
That's a nurses out there. J Yeah, down that route.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
I can see the transition.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Right here.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
You know, I really have done a lot. I've had
like twenty lives. It feels like, you know, and I
was I was on only fans for a little bit
and I turned out that route. Yeah, you know, I
wanted to try all of these things in the social
media world that like have stigmas, the one being only fans,
and I was living in Miami at the time, and
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you know, it's actually extremely empowering, like making money for
yourself off yourself. I think, so yeah, I mean you're
not doing anymore, but it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Is nothing wrong. I mean, gee, as far as you
want to go, go right, I mean you're making money.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I have that.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I know that I grew up with that. Just do whatever.
And I'm like, knock it out. Girl.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Well, you know what's crazy is that before representing a
male lifestyle brand, I had to hire a lot of
OnlyFans models and women that, like you, smoked weed and
were hot. Because it's funny is these girls like they
can have their own brands at this point, they're their
own business now.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
So yeah, and you were that, I mean, you're very hot.
Let's just call it what it is. From the day
one movie met you were like, oh you look at
her blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Right, and well she's drown up a lot though, But yeah,
the conversation, like I would say, what was it, I
don't know. It was right after, it was during right
before COVID or during COVID almost that we came out,
and you know, and I just like the and I
could tell by your posts and things like that, Like,
you know, I think I seen her on online somewhere
and she was posted about like I got in your
store this and that, check it out, and just her
(34:53):
language and the way that you know, in the last
I think it's probably been you know, two years, two
or three years, you know, and I just notice that
you've grown quite a bit, and I think it's it's
it's very empowering.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
And the hell that yeah, that part for sure. But
I mean bed me any day, you know. But but
her boyfriend's over there, like I want to you we
got he.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Needs to get used to it.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
But I'm picking it up.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
It is cool to now be able to use that
for myself and my business and.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
You and if you work hard for it, women that
work hard for being beautiful, why not.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
But I did do like a rebrand since we've.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
We've met your whole life.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Yeah, yeah, I really believe that cultivated myself. I wasn't
being paid by someone else to do something. I was like,
I'm going to use my money to figure out what
i want.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Sure deep with calling it yana, like what your mama
calls you. You know what I'm saying that Deep, I
was like, it's yours.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
I wanted to finally do something that was mine.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
My mama used to call me, you know me quota.
It's like these are those good men days.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
But I also love what you guys do too. I
just want to say that, like, you truly are at
the forefront of this media and education for the cannabis
industry and it's really important.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
We couldn't do it without you. Yeah, it's just it's
a showcase great people like you and talents and things
that they're doing. And we really love what you're doing
and push it to the next level and open up
one in every state and people want to go visit it.
On the website. You guys, please, you can do it virtually.
So no matter where you at yanacast dot com, y
A N A c A s t dot com, we
still like to do the high five with everybody that
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comes in here. So we're going to do it with
you today. First time you smoked cannabis? And where did
you get it from?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Okay, I was twelve years old and it was in
my guy friend's basement and it was from a bone.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Me talking. She is not gonna bother in that twelve
year old guy friend. That's going a question. That's the
one name.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Well, you know we met when we were told he
is one of my best guy friends. Yeah, so he
does know the person that gave it to me, Shane.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
His friends one of his best friends. Damnit Shane. Whatever,
So we brought him through today. Guys, here is worst
number two of the high five. What is your favorite
way to use or smoke cannabis?
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Favorite way to use definitely a flower joint, nothing else,
just straight joint.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
I like join because if I'm gonna smoke, I'm just
I'm gonna smoke a little bit.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Yeah, I also have to change my name. It was
our only smokes but like I do more than just
only smoke, and I don't smoke that much. And people
were always like sending me like telling me do promo,
and I'm like, I really don't smoke dabs. I really
don't smoke as much. So I changed it to tokes
for the money you do.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
How much you take for you? I mean it will
be a hot girl. Number three of the high five
Craziest place you ever used or smoked cannabis, especially in
the DC area in front of the White House.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, that ain't crazy though for her, like
she's smoking weed right now, they're watching you the whole time.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
For my dog.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Definitely in front of the monuments. I guess that's pretty crazy.
It's federal property there. Yeah, but it's it's weird because
it's legal in DC, but it's not legal and federal property.
But like everything's federal properties.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
What's the rules? And that's why I say, it's so confusing,
Like what do you can you do there? What can't
you do there? Just to do a resident there, it's
like it's going to raise there.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
It makes sense.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
It makes sense.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Yeah, yeah, if you're born and raised there, you like
you feel like you can do whatever you want because
you know the laws pretty well. But it's still a
little dangerous. Yes, I'm not busting people anymore for operating
the way I am.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Because there's a bunch of different agents around there that
live there and walk there. And you don't even smoke too,
of course, because there's no people. But I'm just saying
it's some of them are smoking. It's a different place.
It's not like Loss, it's not like organ it's not
like no Connecticut. I'm just picking the place. Different state,
doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Yeah, it's nothing like it. They're looking for terrorists. Okay,
So they're really not worried about the podcast.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Ye, they're not worried about the smoke. Yeah, yeah, you're
walking around funny style. Question number four of the High five.
What is your go to munchie after you get high?
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Go to bunchies? I mean, I love sushi, sushi always always.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
What's your favorite kind of sushi?
Speaker 4 (40:03):
I do like yellowtail, and I also love Misa soup.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
My dog's named me, so I had some Sunday. My
new one is this crunchy rice with a spicy tuna
on top of it. Yes, and they put a little
sauce on it. It's just like you gotta have with
the tuna and the you guys need to do and
(40:30):
get people high and right now over here, I want
your number five, Ari. It's so good to have. As
the CEO of Janna Wellness and Creative Center, out and
watching DC, folks. If you're ever out there, go out there,
of course, check out the website and just browse and
get the feeling. If you need some help, they're here
for you. But if you could smoke cannabis with anyone
(40:52):
dead or alive, who would it be? And why?
Speaker 4 (40:55):
Okay, I've thought about this song because I watch you guys.
But Miley Cyrus and her whole family.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Yes, Miley Cyrus A big fan of miy Cyrus.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Actually she doesn't give a fuck.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
She got downs a huge star, like she didn't care,
and she became a huge star in her own right.
She makes good music. Yeah, I mean she's a star.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
She's a stoner, yes, and her mom actually has a
stoner podcast Cyrus Cyrus. Yeah, her mom. You don't know,
it's called her I don't got to figure out.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
But yeah, you guys need and then and then we'll
get her daughter in and yeah, it's a good one too,
And I think she's that good for the whole era
of where she came up, because she's a rebel in
her own right and she kind of fought back. She's
kind of like the not to use Madonna's, but like
a Madonna of the era that she grew up, you know,
(41:53):
to compare for us older folks that are like, who
is this Miley Cyrus If you don't know she's I
mean she she puts out good music too, got hints, Yeah,
that's what I mean. She puts out hits. No matter
what you can say about her, she's putting out hits. Yeah,
well in and we want to get we want to
set them up with yeah. When she put the camera
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on you next time, please when you talk. I just
wanted you two people to see our little very own shaggy,
So like right now, if they can see you, then
they'll be like, why did you call them shaggy? And
then you'll be like, oh, that's why they call them shaggy.
That was Scooby there. Next year, next year and you
and school can take off over there and you can
(42:43):
call that school so sorry, is there anything that we
forgot before we let you on out of here.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
No, that was awesome. I think that was great. I
you know, find me. Should I do this now? My
Instagram is Ari Underscore Toks. My business is Yanna Dot
Creative and watch out for my podcast coming out soon.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
What's it called a cast?
Speaker 4 (43:05):
Yeah, yes, that's the podcast and we're bringing on subject
matter experts and cannabis is all wellness and the arts.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
And give me a phone. Here's my phone, overs like
it's a ring before the show's over and it'll be great. Well, no,
we appreciate you being on the show. Congratulations on all
your success.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
And everything even doing Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
We love you lot with you guys. Yeah, well there
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we have airytoas the CEO of Yana Wellness and Creativity
Center and entity that provides access to resources and crucial
information for creatives in Washington, DC. So she's on the
road hanging out with us today. I love that you
reached out and so we could have you on the
show with us now. Yana Wellness and Creative Center consist
(02:08):
of a podcast studio for members to record, a wellness
room for consultations with their clinical psychologists, as well as
other spaces that specifically cater to cannabis, strain matching, meditation training, yoga,
and riki, which I don't know what that is yet.
We're going to figure out what the hell that is.
(02:28):
Most importantly, Yana Wellness and Creative Center has both cannabis
and psilocybin mushrooms for consumption, as well as a creative
support spot for you guys. For more information, be sure
to check out their website yanacast dot com That's why
a nacast dot com, or follow them on the gram
at Yana dot creatives and see them on Instagram. Tap
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into what Irvery Stokes is doing. She's a professional and
she has a great Instagram too. I like looking at
her Instagram as well. It's very fun and very like ooh,
I could heart a day without further adode. The CEO,
Harry Tolks, is in the buildings.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Ariana.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
But you Yeah, so good to have you back here.
World friends we made a while back, and uh, it's
really good to see you. And I'm glad you tapped
into us because you're in town. And before she's doing
bigger things, yes, or she was helping somebody. Now she's
helping herself.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yes, yes. Before I was behind the scenes watching and
now I get to be on with you guys.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Doing a business. How did this come about? Doude tell
us the story of how.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
You So this is a long time coming, but I
will start by saying I worked in before the cannabis industry.
I started five years ago in cannabis. Before that, I
was in private equity for about six years, and you know,
I was working for white males building their businesses. It
was like I got a lot of experience, a lot
(03:56):
of fun, but I wanted to do something more impactful,
build something I cared about. So that's when I got
into cannabis. And then I was COO for Street Lawyer Services,
a cannabis brand on the East Coast for about three years,
and you know, found myself doing the exact same thing
building someone else's business. So finally I was like, it's
(04:16):
my time.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I bought I Gotta go.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yes, eight months ago, I quit, spent about eight months
cultivating myself, like truly figuring out what I wanted to
do differently with this industry and find my my passion
within the Cannis industry. So I started Yana as a
wellness and creativity center about three months ago.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I seen it pop up and I was like, no way, yeah,
and Yana, where has just come from? Because I see
on the site that it stands for You're not alone,
which I love that line. Let alone, just the line alone,
because so many of us in life, you know, will
feel like the woe is me? And you know what,
you're not alone? Folks, Ye go to Yana if you're
(04:57):
feeling that way and get some help.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So Yana Yannas stands for you are not alone. And
it's actually my nickname. Not a lot of people know this, Ariana.
My mom named me Yana when I was a kid.
And then in college someone's like, you know your name,
your nickname also has an impact and I was like
fuck yeah, Like I'm going to use that. Gave me
a mission, gave me a purpose.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Yeah, how cool is all these other things with it? Wow?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Right? So it definitely felt like something that the cannabis
industry and this mental health, mental wellness kind of you
know industry could really get behind you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Now let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I feel like you've grown a lot, you know, because
I remember you coming in and you know, I just
feel like your energy has changed so a lot. And
you know where does that come from? Is that because
you just decided to boss up and do your own things?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Honestly? It did?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Truly did? It truly came from taking a leap of
faith and uh, you know doing like my biggest spirit was,
you know, not being able to succeed on my own,
so I would really like push and build other people's businesses.
And I felt like a lot of the times they
would pay me so much because they didn't want me
to leave, right, And which is great, But when you're
(06:12):
not doing something that you feel strongly about, that dollar
value doesn't mean anything anymore. So yeah, quitting my job,
taking time to not work for someone else and focus
on what I need and what I want to do,
really change my whole energy, my whole vibe.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So run us down, Like one experience would be like
when we walk in right, Like I've seen the facility. Yeah,
but like how does it work, how do you monetize it?
And what does that look like for you right now?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
So do you guys know what's going on in like
the DC area.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
So we have this thing called the I seventy one
Initiative and that basically Murio Bowser, our mayor, put that
into place in twenty fifteen. That basically says you can
gift cannabis to anyone. You can give any like gifting laws.
Basically you can give it to anyone, but you can't
sell it. So how the fuck do you get to people?
It makes no sense, but it did give us this
(07:03):
time to do research and development and like create work
around sell other things. Right, And so I was selling
other things, operating another person's business and it just like
a sticker or something like that wasn't really a value.
And when it came to Yana, I wanted to do
something that was a true business outside of just the cannabis.
(07:25):
So what we sell is wellness consultations, wellness services. We
sell studio time, we have creative workshops. We bring an
artists who lead workshops. So you're buying mental health wellness services.
You can meet with our clinical psychologists on staff who
can place you to different different products at our shop.
(07:47):
And then we also have you know, dog therapy that
my dog is here today. We have music therapy. So
all of these just different wellness services. Cannabis being one,
mushrooms being one, and really tying.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It in God's mushrooms have this same lall behind it
as well.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
The I eighty one initiative came out, so it's really
a great playing field.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
For everyone for everyone. Yeah, are there a lot of
clinics that are open like this or you know?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I don't have you heard of anyone?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
But I haven't either.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I mean, you know, I know the gifting rules like
because we had that here for like it was like
proposition sixty four or so like yeah, two fifteen. I
forgot what it was, but it was like you can
give it away to anybody, but you couldn't sell it, right.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
We had that same shirt, so it was buy a
T shirt shut you know.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So you guys are you know, you know, without implementing yours,
are you know, putting yourself out there?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You're basically the same. Come in, get some studio time
and you get.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
A free eighth pretty much.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, my costume and twenty dollars whatever. You can come
and hang out, use the studio, or you could come in.
Now are they members too, Like, are you doing a
monthly subscription?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
They're not a monthly subscription yet. I wanted to, you know,
it's been three months. I kind of wanted to give
people free membership just by being, you know, using our
services your member. But then at some point, Yeah, because
my background is tech management, I do want to go
into a subscription model platform. Sure, yeah, like a Soho
house but more yana and yeahal wellness social wellness focused.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
The funny thing is is that the services, like a
therapy consultation costs more than cannabis a lot of the time.
So you're getting so you're yeah, so you're exactly So
you're getting like true mental health wellness services from like
you know, clinical psychologists. I also have the pharmaceutical.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I mean day but whatever. You're operating hours.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yes, we're open at ten am, we close at nine weekends,
we're open at ten to ten pm. Yeah. So you
set up a consultation online with our receptionists and they
have specific time slots, so yeah, you can do it
that way. It's walkins as well.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
We think.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So someone walks in they say, hey, you know, I
just want to hang out and relax. I'll be allowed
to medicate there or smoke there.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
So while on because you know, I'm trying to stay
with like regulations and what's going on in other states.
While we're opened, I don't allow consumption on site, but
after hours is like with micro parties, and that's when
I allow it. It's a private property, you know in
my lease agreement that I can.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Do that, So that's great smart.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Yeah, I mean I come from private equity the legal scene,
so I was able to kind of use that to
develop something, you know, that loop holes for my business.
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Creative Center. You've already went to break. I asked you
what is riki meaning, because I'm so curious, and of
course I have definition right here, but I wanted to
(12:01):
see what you guys are doing there. Enriqui is an
energy healing technique in which it is performed by a master.
It says for healing the arts uses gentle hand movement
like I'm gonna do on blue right now to move
with the intention to guy, you know, I wish with
a gentle hand movement with the intention to guide the
(12:23):
flow of energy and health. You guys. It's so funny
as I read this. I've had this done to me
before when I was sick and I didn't realize this,
and uh they were and it was like I was
really really sick at the time and they just did
this to push my energy away. And it's so they
never touched my body. Just actually know that they touched
(12:43):
like parts boom boom, boom boom and then coming with
the hand and stuff like that. So it was just
really cool now that I read it and understand what
it is. I just love the fact that you're doing
something like this, and I feel like more people should
because health and wellness is obviously just big and mental
health and any type of health, and cannabis and psilocybin
(13:04):
just really opens that up and for you guys to
be open for that, and you know, maybe medicate before
you come in, because you're not gonna be able to
sit here right now, medicate together, or medicate right here
until there's an event going on. But that is great
to know that somebody can go in there rather than
some therapists looking at like You're like, I just took
(13:27):
five caps whatever it is, and now I want to
open up and you guys have all these things.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Safe space, yes, yeah, just safe space.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
That's what's awesome about this. I mean, where did that
excitement for you come from? To think of it that way?
To really help the environment out there and watching UN's
so funny.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So it's from my mom. She actually works for me
at the shop. She's our integrative nutrition is. She's also
a trened and dental meditation teacher. So my mom since
I was a kid, has been my guru. She's just been.
She's Filipino, so she she comes with a lot of
those like just holistic kind of non westernized medicine values,
I guess. So she is really the reason I am
(14:07):
me and she would love that I'm saying that. But
she's holding it down down there right now.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I mean, can she makes.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
She can?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
She actually came to this country.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Can't.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Yeah, yeah, I've been can't do it all.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Work? Filipino food is one of the best. It's incredible.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, but yes, you know what you're saying about reiki.
We have different consultants that are in this alternative holistic
medicine field, and it's cannabis plays a part in that.
So it's really great to kind of change the stigma
of how people think of cannabis as like you know,
we all know that people think of it as like
(15:02):
you're lazy on the couch, you don't do anything. But
really it's a part of this whole mental illness benefit.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And do you guys have to have security guards there?
We do, yes, just because of the cannabis.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Side of it, yes, and because you know I came
from that before the tricks, right, so, and I also
want to do social equity programming through my business and
bring in these experts in security it cybersecurity that can
work with my business to to get us to the
regulated market. I mean, that's what we're doing this for,
(15:34):
right We need to put in place specific like programs
to get us to I legalize market safely.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Do you feel like that DC is going to go wreck?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Yes, it's just not there yet because you know, it's
a federally regulated district. It's not a space.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
It's such all like you even talk about DC and
how it's looked at. I mean the voting even there
is so much weirder and different, Like everything about d
C puzzles me. Yeah, I don't even really fully understand it.
I just know I'm puzzled by it. Right, It's awesome place.
I mean there's so much history, so much history there,
just like real American history of like how they really
(16:21):
as I just say, think of the American Indians.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
DuPont Circle, so right in the heart of the city
where like a lot of the embassies are Yeah wow.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Some people from out of the countries and people coming
in their experiment.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Oh yeah, I mean we get tons of you know, lobbyist,
government contract workers. That's what DC is.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
It's a pretty majority of that. Anyways.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Yeah, we don't have a huge arts creatives community, but
there is. I mean, we have some of the best
museums that are free in the world, So there is
an arts scene there. It's just it's hard to find it.
As I'm hoping that this place can also be a
hub for artists.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Do you feel that there's a lot of tourists that
come in too.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Uh, Yeah, for sure. I mean DC is only like
five six seven miles long. Yeah, it's a lot of
tourists for sure. And they don't know what the laws are.
So we do this.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Country. What is this place? I mean, what do you
mean you can't vote in? Your vote doesn't count? And
how do you advertise it?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
You know, that's the hardest part places like this, So
thank you. I mean it's really advertising and cannabis is
so hard in general. I do it through the wellness side,
and I do it through my artists. So we have
in house talent that designs like lighters that are social
impact mission driven projects. For example, have a femorotic artist
(17:47):
who makes these lighter packs that have these avatar looking
humans with like that are female but have penises and
they're like fucking on my lighters and it's bringing to
light you know, yeah exactly, It's like bringing the light
that you don't have to like be one gender and
race to like love and I do really connect to
(18:08):
the LGBTQ community that is my target with this whole
Yaana concept. So yeah, bringing an artist.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I love doing this and you're really like seeing what
there's other elements besides this opening and you're capitalizing on
what you can do in d C, which is amazing.
And are you from there?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I am born race, Yes, That's why I know what's
like how this city works. That's why I went back home.
I was in working in New York.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I thought you were in New York.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I was in New York, Miami, and d C opening
up three retail locations for someone else. So I was
living in three states, learning all of their jurisdictional laws.
And then yeah, I was thinking about doing New York.
I went through investment rounds. I was thinking about doing
New York heavily, and then d C was just like,
we know you're opera Like they came out with more
(19:00):
regulation saying we know you're operating illegally, but as long
as you have your business licenses, as long as you
pay your income and your sales tax right now, you're
good to go until we switch over. So I went home.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I want to touch on because I didn't realize that
you're born and raised in d C. Yeah, what high
school did you go to?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
In high school?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
So I've heard stories of people who grew up in
DC that you know, as you go to a school
like this, a lot of their family members are part of,
you know, the government. Yes, So did you grow up
with friends and colleagues? If I were like Oh my god,
your dad's a congressman, your mom's a senator, You're this
and that.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, so funny. I'm yeah, I'm just going to share.
I guess that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
These stories are amazing. When I was in DC, I
met a girl there. I was like, these stories are
so dupe. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
No, So I actually moved out. I have a different
story than most. I moved out of my parents' house
when I was twelve years old. Divorce was terrible, right,
So I was just like, this is not at all
you both are. Yeah, I can't go back and forth
between homes. This is not healthy for me. So I
moved in with my grandparents. And my grandfather was president
(20:12):
of the American Psychology Association for about ten years. He
was an industrial organizational psychologist, so he coined that kind
of term, starting this Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology, which
basically is creating you know. So for example, one of
(20:32):
the things he did was for the Navy. He helped
decide between like kernels and different ranks in the Navy.
So it was like creating tests for large businesses like
the military, like large corporations for leadership exactly. So that
was what my grandfather did, and the only industry he
didn't really touch on was like the cannabis industry in tech,
(20:56):
and those are the two that I like fully focused on.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
You're going to be the one that does it for
the family, huh. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I do like to like learn, because he died before
I could really learn from him. He got dementia and
Alzheimer's and I couldn't really learn from him. So I
learned about him in school.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And like they teached about your grandfather. Yeah, wow, yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
You know psychology want to watch about my grandfather?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Is that is that? Is that national? Or is that
just in d C?
Speaker 4 (21:29):
No, that's yeah, he was. He's a professor at Yale
and then yeah he was.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
He is a honor. We can get to say his
name or something.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And he's also Irvine, so he's also Irvine for a while.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yeah. Yeah, she has a good school though, I mean
it's small, but it's very you know.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
But unfortunately passed before I could like learn from him,
So I learned from his people that were for him.
And sure, and yeah, my.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Professors come with continue loyalty. You as what you're saying,
you were the royal people were like, oh my god,
already we go to school with.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Her, Like I wouldn't know. Actually I've moved out of
my family's home. Like it was embarrassing, you know, and
also like I didn't really talk about this kind of stuff.
I thought like my family's industry growing up. I thought
it was like bad because my family didn't succeed in
you know, getting through mental issues. And yeah, so no,
(22:29):
and a lot of people from where I'm from though,
it is like a bubble.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
We do have a lot of like friends that are connected.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Yeah, so it is a weird, like you know when
your friend's parents are diplomats and like like police officers
can't break up your party because it's the house.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, I've heard like a girl told me she'd have
go to parties at certain places and there'd be secret
service there all the time, covering for uh whoever President's
daughters or whatever. That you're you get to hang out
with those types people, right.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
But then you also learn that like these types of
people when they have no repercussions, they are kind of
dangerous and turned out to me would do whatever the
I mean what accountability.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So growing up in DC that I felt like I've
learned that you know something out here. You know, your
dad may be a cop, but you know he works
for the cop. But the Sheriff's come and you're screwed,
you know what I mean. Out in d C. It's
a little different. You get some real high legislation, legislation
of like oh no, you can't wuck with us. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
And I just also want to say, like he was
a public servant, and I funded this business I completely myself.
Like I even my college, I'm still paying for it.
Like I'm doing all of this alone in a way.
I mean I have a support system, but financially, I'm
doing this all alone. Like I didn't take investor money
because they wanted over fifty percent of my intellectual property.
(23:55):
They wanted, you know, more than fifty percent of my
business without you're not valuing it high enough. So I
took out my barrowe Kay. I was like, you know,
I want to do this myself. Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Know, I think that's important because you know, once you
build something, now the value you can offer less, you know,
because you have value. So you know, I want to
ask you, you know, what kind of products are out
there right now in the market after this break, it's
cannabis stock when I will move right back.
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Louis asking what's out there in the market right now?
I'm almost curious, Blue, what's direction you're going though with that?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Weell, I mean just there's a good qual I mean,
I know you travel quite a bit. You've been to Cali,
I know you've been everywhere Miami National. You know, is
it did you find that you had some really fire
cannabis out there is a kind of low level is it?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
What's out there? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Sure, so it's it's new, and I'm it's so interesting.
It's it's like it's really it's okay, So how do
I even say this politically correct? So basically right now
they're giving out manufacturing cultivation licenses, like just now, they've
(26:20):
just started applications. No, not free, but they are doing
like social equity programming.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
So you do like if you havested, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
If we're a bunch of like nerdy scientists like and
nerdy people, so yeah, there are some really great growths
that you know, we're illegally operating now, got their licenses
and they're small though, and there's no lab testing in
DC yet, So we don't even have lab testing yet,
and they're trying to say, you know, we need to
make retail, but we don't even have labs to test that.
(26:56):
We have to send it out of the state to
get them tested, but there's no laws for that.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
So it's we're still luckily in this gray market where
I can whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I can play if you want to buy some stuff,
that's good. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Everyone needs therapy. Okay, you can.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Agree a therapist weekly. I think it's hands down one
of the best things. I love it. It's, you know,
just somebody to bounce things off and jokes like my therapist.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah, but you can do a free consultation with my
therapist if you want.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
No, my mom is that you can do transcendental meditation
with my mom and that is amazing. But with our
clinical psychologist, doctor Vivid, you can do microdcing sessions.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
How does the microdosing session work? Before I get there,
explain it all.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yeah, so she does those virtually or off site. So yeah,
so she' like we have right next to.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Us an additional church.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Nope, it's sEH Wellness service consultation, but it's virtual or
off site, right, so yeah, we do. She does microdosing
therapy for cannabis and mushrooms because those are both legal
in Washington, DC. And yeah, you can go inward and journey.
She kind of talks you through it. Also, she does
(28:20):
like she can place you with products at our shop
that are like good for certain mental illnesses. And yeah,
it's funny.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I'm really I'm going to open up right now and
tell you guys, I'm searching myself because I didn't realize
that I have so much PTSD that I was talking
to my therapists not too long ago all the for
years I don't see all the time, but I mean,
since I can remember, I in my older years, I
fight in my dreams a lot, and I'm always fighting somebody.
And even last night, as Chanel woke me up, Joe,
(28:52):
what you're yelling, because I was like, get your ass
in here, and I remember saying it and she woke
me up right after and the point I was like,
I'm in here, that's going on. Here's the crazy part.
In my dream, I was in the ring and I
was fighting, and I was telling you, but it was
a vicious, like a mean fight of like somebody who's
talking whatever it was, it wasn't good. Every time she
wakes me up from it and I've hit her like
(29:12):
I sleep with a body pillow and I squeeze it
because I grab her and I push and I hit
her head and like, I just do too much. And
I never thought it was a problem until about two
months ago. I mentioned it to my therapist. He goes,
what do you mean, And I'm like, well, doesn't everybody
do I don't know. I just and he's like, dude,
you really got a lot of things going on with you.
Right now, we got to talk a little bit. So
I've got a real issue that I'm dealing with that
I thought was just I don't know. I thought everybody
(29:35):
fights people in their dreams and goes off and and
it happens about three times a week for me, so
it's not anymore. Oh no, oh dude, it's so bad
to me, Like I'm living. My wife is pounding me.
I'm surprised she hasn't kicked me out of the room yet, Like,
but the body pillow has helped, and I turned the
other way. But now the yelling has come. And last
night as I yelled, and it was get in here, motherfucker,
(29:55):
like and she's like, what are you doing? And I'm like,
and every time I wake up, I go, oh my god,
thank you for waking me up because I'm scared. It's
not like I'm happy dream I don't like it. It's
not like I want to be aggressive, and you know,
I got to I'm a mess. But it's known as
PTSD from the fightings and it goes from bouncing head
(30:17):
of security nightclubs, fighting the streets to you know, fighting
in the ring. Funny times in the ring, I trained
a bunch and you know, get all these things and
it's like and then my mind will go crazy thinking
I'm gonna but it's like weird crazy, like I'm defending.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
You have to talk about it, Yeah, totally, And I'm
doing it literally right now.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I'm in the boxes of going through this new I like,
I need to take some medification, like a mushroom. I'm serious.
I'm like open to it. I don't know if I
need to do something else to get deeper to like
because I don't like it anymore. I finally came to
the conclusion that I don't like it, you know what
I mean, I'm having these dreams too much literally last night,
(30:57):
and it's like, as you say this, and they just
made me want to open up and tell you guys,
and tell the world listening you're going dude. You know,
none of us are perfect and go through things. So
that's why I'm so into what you're doing. And I
love it as well personally because I'm going through something
right now with my therapist.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
No, and thank you for sharing. I think something about
Yana too is that it's it's also not just in DC.
So these are virtual consultations, Like she takes clients from
not just Washington, d C. Through our company, so you
can exactly you do things.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
They're free, they.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Are free fifteen minute consultations. And then she sees it
if we can place you with this right type of
wellness service, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Then sometimes you can help people, sometimes you can't.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
And then we we you know, also have like a
referral network where we can send you to someone else
that's in our network. It's we didn't really value mental
health and like that as much as we did physical health,
and it's so important, like cortisol levels one from stress
can cause a lot of physical damage and does eases
and things like that. So it's important to value your
(32:03):
mental health. And I really wanted to do something in
that that realm.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Nice, you know.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I I really appreciate it too, because there is a
lot like I have PTSC too. Mine's different. I don't
dream about it like I just locked doors behind me
and you know, just I'm just very I'm in gunfights,
I'm in fucking jump being. It's just telling you right
before you go to bed. The secret is it's ten
minutes before you to bed. Just have a good conversation
about what your plan is, what's your plan on doing
(32:30):
and and you know, I'm gonna sleep very well tonight.
I'm gonna you know, dream about positive things and my
growth and how I'm gonna do that, and really talk
to yourself for five to ten minutes, which is quite
a long time to talk to yourself, and then you know,
say your prayer and go to bed.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Maybe you know I'm telling you. And the funny thing
is I'm listening. You know, I'll try it. Yes, I
mean I fall asleep usually on the couch first, and
she's coming downstairs. Dog, I think there's someone in the
house and I'm fighting with the I'm you wank you,
thank you, so much for working out.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Like I'm not a doctor at what I'm at my shop,
but I do.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
That's a nurses out there. J Yeah, down that route.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
I can see the transition.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Right here.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
You know, I really have done a lot. I've had
like twenty lives. It feels like, you know, and I
was I was on only fans for a little bit
and I turned out that route. Yeah, you know, I
wanted to try all of these things in the social
media world that like have stigmas, the one being only fans,
and I was living in Miami at the time, and
(33:43):
you know, it's actually extremely empowering, like making money for
yourself off yourself. I think, so yeah, I mean you're
not doing anymore, but it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Is nothing wrong. I mean, gee, as far as you
want to go, go right, I mean you're making money.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I have that.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I know that I grew up with that. Just do whatever.
And I'm like, knock it out. Girl.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Well, you know what's crazy is that before representing a
male lifestyle brand, I had to hire a lot of
OnlyFans models and women that, like you, smoked weed and
were hot. Because it's funny is these girls like they
can have their own brands at this point, they're their
own business now.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
So yeah, and you were that, I mean, you're very hot.
Let's just call it what it is. From the day
one movie met you were like, oh you look at
her blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Right, and well she's drown up a lot though, But yeah,
the conversation, like I would say, what was it, I
don't know. It was right after, it was during right
before COVID or during COVID almost that we came out,
and you know, and I just like the and I
could tell by your posts and things like that, Like,
you know, I think I seen her on online somewhere
and she was posted about like I got in your
store this and that, check it out, and just her
(34:53):
language and the way that you know, in the last
I think it's probably been you know, two years, two
or three years, you know, and I just notice that
you've grown quite a bit, and I think it's it's
it's very empowering.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
And the hell that yeah, that part for sure. But
I mean bed me any day, you know. But but
her boyfriend's over there, like I want to you we
got he.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Needs to get used to it.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
But I'm picking it up.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
It is cool to now be able to use that
for myself and my business and.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
You and if you work hard for it, women that
work hard for being beautiful, why not.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
But I did do like a rebrand since we've.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
We've met your whole life.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Yeah, yeah, I really believe that cultivated myself. I wasn't
being paid by someone else to do something. I was like,
I'm going to use my money to figure out what
i want.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Sure deep with calling it yana, like what your mama
calls you. You know what I'm saying that Deep, I
was like, it's yours.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
I wanted to finally do something that was mine.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
My mama used to call me, you know me quota.
It's like these are those good men days.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
But I also love what you guys do too. I
just want to say that, like, you truly are at
the forefront of this media and education for the cannabis
industry and it's really important.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
We couldn't do it without you. Yeah, it's just it's
a showcase great people like you and talents and things
that they're doing. And we really love what you're doing
and push it to the next level and open up
one in every state and people want to go visit it.
On the website. You guys, please, you can do it virtually.
So no matter where you at yanacast dot com, y
A N A c A s t dot com, we
still like to do the high five with everybody that
(36:46):
comes in here. So we're going to do it with
you today. First time you smoked cannabis? And where did
you get it from?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Okay, I was twelve years old and it was in
my guy friend's basement and it was from a bone.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Me talking. She is not gonna bother in that twelve
year old guy friend. That's going a question. That's the
one name.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Well, you know we met when we were told he
is one of my best guy friends. Yeah, so he
does know the person that gave it to me, Shane.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
His friends one of his best friends. Damnit Shane. Whatever,
So we brought him through today. Guys, here is worst
number two of the high five. What is your favorite
way to use or smoke cannabis?
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Favorite way to use definitely a flower joint, nothing else,
just straight joint.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
I like join because if I'm gonna smoke, I'm just
I'm gonna smoke a little bit.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Yeah, I also have to change my name. It was
our only smokes but like I do more than just
only smoke, and I don't smoke that much. And people
were always like sending me like telling me do promo,
and I'm like, I really don't smoke dabs. I really
don't smoke as much. So I changed it to tokes
for the money you do.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
How much you take for you? I mean it will
be a hot girl. Number three of the high five
Craziest place you ever used or smoked cannabis, especially in
the DC area in front of the White House.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, that ain't crazy though for her, like
she's smoking weed right now, they're watching you the whole time.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
For my dog.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Definitely in front of the monuments. I guess that's pretty crazy.
It's federal property there. Yeah, but it's it's weird because
it's legal in DC, but it's not legal and federal property.
But like everything's federal properties.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
What's the rules? And that's why I say, it's so confusing,
Like what do you can you do there? What can't
you do there? Just to do a resident there, it's
like it's going to raise there.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
It makes sense.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
It makes sense.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Yeah, yeah, if you're born and raised there, you like
you feel like you can do whatever you want because
you know the laws pretty well. But it's still a
little dangerous. Yes, I'm not busting people anymore for operating
the way I am.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Because there's a bunch of different agents around there that
live there and walk there. And you don't even smoke too,
of course, because there's no people. But I'm just saying
it's some of them are smoking. It's a different place.
It's not like Loss, it's not like organ it's not
like no Connecticut. I'm just picking the place. Different state,
doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Yeah, it's nothing like it. They're looking for terrorists. Okay,
So they're really not worried about the podcast.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Ye, they're not worried about the smoke. Yeah, yeah, you're
walking around funny style. Question number four of the High five.
What is your go to munchie after you get high?
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Go to bunchies? I mean, I love sushi, sushi always always.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
What's your favorite kind of sushi?
Speaker 4 (40:03):
I do like yellowtail, and I also love Misa soup.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
My dog's named me, so I had some Sunday. My
new one is this crunchy rice with a spicy tuna
on top of it. Yes, and they put a little
sauce on it. It's just like you gotta have with
the tuna and the you guys need to do and
(40:30):
get people high and right now over here, I want
your number five, Ari. It's so good to have. As
the CEO of Janna Wellness and Creative Center, out and
watching DC, folks. If you're ever out there, go out there,
of course, check out the website and just browse and
get the feeling. If you need some help, they're here
for you. But if you could smoke cannabis with anyone
(40:52):
dead or alive, who would it be? And why?
Speaker 4 (40:55):
Okay, I've thought about this song because I watch you guys.
But Miley Cyrus and her whole family.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Yes, Miley Cyrus A big fan of miy Cyrus.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Actually she doesn't give a fuck.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
She got downs a huge star, like she didn't care,
and she became a huge star in her own right.
She makes good music. Yeah, I mean she's a star.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
She's a stoner, yes, and her mom actually has a
stoner podcast Cyrus Cyrus. Yeah, her mom. You don't know,
it's called her I don't got to figure out.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
But yeah, you guys need and then and then we'll
get her daughter in and yeah, it's a good one too,
And I think she's that good for the whole era
of where she came up, because she's a rebel in
her own right and she kind of fought back. She's
kind of like the not to use Madonna's, but like
a Madonna of the era that she grew up, you know,
(41:53):
to compare for us older folks that are like, who
is this Miley Cyrus If you don't know she's I
mean she she puts out good music too, got hints, Yeah,
that's what I mean. She puts out hits. No matter
what you can say about her, she's putting out hits. Yeah,
well in and we want to get we want to
set them up with yeah. When she put the camera
(42:18):
on you next time, please when you talk. I just
wanted you two people to see our little very own shaggy,
So like right now, if they can see you, then
they'll be like, why did you call them shaggy? And
then you'll be like, oh, that's why they call them shaggy.
That was Scooby there. Next year, next year and you
and school can take off over there and you can
(42:43):
call that school so sorry, is there anything that we
forgot before we let you on out of here.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
No, that was awesome. I think that was great. I
you know, find me. Should I do this now? My
Instagram is Ari Underscore Toks. My business is Yanna Dot
Creative and watch out for my podcast coming out soon.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
What's it called a cast?
Speaker 4 (43:05):
Yeah, yes, that's the podcast and we're bringing on subject
matter experts and cannabis is all wellness and the arts.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
And give me a phone. Here's my phone, overs like
it's a ring before the show's over and it'll be great. Well, no,
we appreciate you being on the show. Congratulations on all
your success.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
And everything even doing Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
We love you lot with you guys. Yeah, well there
it is. Guys. Is Cannabis Talk one on one And
remember this if no one else loves you.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
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