Ashley Elsner Building Venmo For Cannabis
Ashley Elsner is a financial institution lawyer who holds both an MBA and a JD, and has found herself at the intersection of multiple male dominated industries. Although not a cannabis consumer in her youth, she spent a decade trying to heal her injured body until her father, a neurologist, suggested she try cannabis. So, she packed her bags and journeyed from Georgia to California to try an alternative treatment and regained her health. She was sold on the medical benefits of the plant. Now Ashley is using her unique professional skill-set to help those of us working in cannabis. Here today to share her own health story, explain how a financial institution lawyer found her purpose in cannabis, and what she sees as the future of legal payment processing in the firm she co-founded and is now COO of, Artery Pay.
The Canna Mom Show wants to thank Cannabis Creative for sponsoring today’s podcast. Cannabis Creative has decades of experience in web design and development, SEO, SEM, branding, social media marketing and content strategy. You can learn more about Cannabis Creative on their website, and when you are ready to work with their team of cannabis professionals remember to use the code “Cannamom” for a free marketing consultation.
Topics Discussed
(2:11) Susan Feingold helped create a model for the national Head Start Program
(2:30) Bunny Wailer
(2:51) Ashley Elsner Intro
(4:20) Ashley’s Injury
(7:30) Dressing The Part of Attorney
(9:25) Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Complex 2
(10:00) Pain Management
(13:00) Finance Law
(14:55) Meta Data Study
(15:51) Her First Time In Georgia
(17:17) Cannabis Dosing
(18:40) 2016 Georgia to California Medical Refugee
(19:20) Building Her Business
(20:15) Corporate Policy Problem
(21:00) Artery Pay Holistic Banking
(22:12) Paperwork and Cannabis Specialist
(23:00) Payment Processors Reliant On Banking Partners
(24:12) Banks!
(25:23) Taking A Complicated Paper Process and Making It Intuitive
(25:50) There Are No Work Arounds In Finance
(26:00) Venmo For Cannabis
(30:00) Show Sponsorship: CANNABIS CREATIVE
(31:50) Connect With Cannabis Creative
(32:20) 2021
(34:42) Credit Cards
(36:55) Corporate Policy Issue
(40:16) Ashley’s Mom
(42:07) Contact Ashley : Linked-In : Website
The Canna Mom Show wants to thank:
Josh Lamkin and Bella Jaffe for writing and performing TCMS theme music
Amie Searles for believing
Kelly Dolan of Retail Results Inc
Lori Lennon of Thinkubator Media
Kim Kramer of McLane Middleton