Aubrey Amatelli Combining Her Love of Payment Processing and Cannabis
Aubrey Amatelli is the founder of PayRio, a payment processing solution for businesses in alternative medicine sectors. She founded PayRio on the heels of her successful career as an executive in fintech, which included over a decade with J.P. Morgan. Aubrey’s payments knowledge and her industry experience is incredibly valuable in the cannabis payments space.
In addition, Aubrey has a compelling and inspiring story as she's a single mom of three who's led her first startup to profitability in under a year. I love that we can share her inspiring success story in an industry where female executive leadership and business overall have struggled to survive.
PayRio is on a mission to normalize and stabilize payments for high-risk sectors, ensuring that businesses, whether they are dispensaries, delivery services, seed merchants, or e-commerce businesses, have access to compliant, fair, and reliable payment solutions.
We have a special segment guest today, Jamie Morey, founder of Parents for Plant Medicine – a grassroots advocacy group working to destigmatize and normalize the use of plant medicine and also fighting for the legalization of psilocybin.
Culture Corner: I want to recommend a rom-com I watched this weekend with Brooke Shields and Benjamin Bratt – Mother of the Bride. I love that Brooke Shields is my age, 59, and is starring in a romance with most adorable Benjamin Bratt. Set as a destination wedding in Thailand for Brooke’s daughter – it reconnects her with the man who broke her heart when she was 22. Fun, romantic and love seeing women my age starring in this type of movie. Mother of the Bride on Netflix.
Topics Discussed
(1:10) Welcome
(2:30) Countdown to Final The Canna Mom Show
(3:50) Jamie Morey – Parents for Plant Medicine
(4:30) Mushroom Beverages?
(6:05) MA Changing DCF Reporting?
(7:25) Canna Witch
(8:40) Culture Corner: Mother of The Bride
(10:15) Aubrey Amatelli Introduction
(11:32) PayRio explained
(12:45) Becoming a Canna Payment Entrepreneur
(17:55) Mom World
(19:50) Mission to Empower Moms
(22:30) Aubrey’s Canna Journey
(25:00) Aubrey’s Linked-In Canna Revelations
(27:15) Introduction Jamie Morey of Parents for Plant Medicine
(33:32) MA Psilocybin on The Ballot!
(34:12) How to Help –
(35:10) Connect with Parents for Plant Medicine – MA For Mental Health Options – Open Circle Alliance
(35:50) Rescheduling Impact on Payment Processing
(38:10) Talking with Her Kids About Cannabis
(41:00) PayRio Business Talk
(47:33) Building A Solution for The Future
(48:00) Favorite Way to Consume
(48:55) Connect with Aubrey at PayRio.co or PayRio.com or Instagram
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