Cut Flowers to Cannabis with Autumn Shelton
Autumn Shelton is the CFO of Autumn Brands, a coastal Santa Barbara County licensed cannabis cultivator in California. Along with her business partners - the Brand family - she transitioned a cut flower business to cannabis in 2015. Along with creating a beautiful brand and quality cannabis, Autumn is giving back to her community. Autumn shares her story of creating a brand and what her goals are for building cannabis with strong women leaders in 2021.
Topics Discussed
(1:15) Green Wednesday
(1:45) Fair Fight and Stacey Abrams
(3:00) Food Insecurity in MA: Food for Free, The Greater Boston Food Bank
(4:20) Mazon
(4:30) Autumn Shelton Introduction
(5:55) Cut Flowers to Cannabis
(8:03) Santa Barbara County
(10:50) Bright and Light Branding
(12:30) Pesticides
(13:13) Ladybugs and Cannabis
(14:00) Finance and Compliance Background
(14:15) Intergenerational Business
(15:15) Products and Grow
(15:35) Autumn Brand Topical
(16:51) Mom Life and Cannabis
(19:07) Autumn’s Cannabis Story
(20:12) Advice for Moms
(20:50) Using Cannabis To Be A Better Mom
(22:50) Building A New Industry
(24:44) Women Always Reinventing Ourselves
(26:02) Health, Wellness and Education
(26:20) Giving Back #1
(28:20) Building a Culture of Caring
(30:00) Priorities
(29:07) Seven Pack Pre-rolls
(31:52) Sponsorship Promo
(33:00) MRCC
(35:00) Every Mom Needs A Sprinter Van
(36:25) The Epic Sound of Angry Toddlers!
(36:35) Autumn’s Trip Around The World
(37:10) Autumn Brands 2021
(38:18) Anti-Cannabis Odor
(39:23) Local Law Enforcement and Cannabis
(41:11) Connect with Autumn and Autumn Brands
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
Pod617, The Boston Podcast Network