Welcome back to Trailblazin’ with Tara Misu, the podcast where Tara Misu interviews trailblazers shaping the cannabis industry. After a brief hiatus of about two years, Tara is back as your host, eager to dive into more captivating conversations. During her break, Tara obtained a New Jersey cannabis manufacturing license while managing her business, Blazin’ Bakery, and other endeavors. Now, she's returning to the podcast world, excited to share more episodes with her listeners. While she's not committing to a fixed schedule just yet, Tara plans to release new episodes and share previously reco ..read more

Today Tara Misu takes a break from the usual, and hosts a special Halloween edition of Trailblazin’ as she reviews three fun cannabis themed Halloween stoner horror movies! Grab some infused popcorn and a box of ghoulish gummies and get ready to freak out man!  Her guest is Chris Vaglio Rockit Growth Agency, and they're dropping some spooky spoilers on Halloweed, The 420 Massacre, and Weedjies: Halloweed Night!    __________________________   Sponsored by Blazin’ Bakery. Use code TRAILBLAZIN to get 20% off all Blazin’ Brand products including our new CBD dog treats! Visit h ..read more

Jason is an established technology and compliance professional in the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Medical Cannabis industries.  With over 19 years of regulatory audit, quality control, and technology risk management/compliance experience, he works tirelessly to keep his clients compliant and inspection ready.  Over the course of his career, Jason has traveled the world, multiple times over, auditing pharmaceutical IT operations, manufacturing facilities, and data centers, with the primary objective of ensuring that controls are appropriately implemented and sys ..read more

High Friends, so I took a short break while we got cannabis legalized in NJ. Yay!!! This was a huge win for me personally, but I’m back now and legalization will definitely be discussed in upcoming episodes. Now today, this will be the first guest in an area I would love to see discussed more in cannabis: Technology. Really there is no part of the industry that it doesn’t touch in some way.   Today I have Harry Brelsford, an independent network consultant in Seattle, Washington. Harry is the founder of SMB Nation where he serves and mentors over 49,000 members who are Managed Services Pro ..read more

So this is not a strictly cannabis episode but honestly it’s one of my absolute favorites so far. I talk with actor, producer and director Craig Sheffer who has had an incredible career with roles in movies such as the Academy Award Winning film with Brad Pitt A River Runs Through It. He played the antagonist in the John Hughs brat pack classic, Some Kind of Wonderful, which I still hear people say is their favorite movie. Craig starred in the beloved cult horror classic Nightbreed and Hellraiser: Inferno, both from horror master Clive Barker. He was also Uncle Keith on One ..read more

On this episode of Traiblazin’ with Tara Misu I have Swerve founder of The Cali Connection which is second oldest supplier of seeds in America—and the oldest in California. Swerve is a champion of cannabis commerce whose goal is “to never be accused of a profit-over-product”. Which is something we definitely need more of right now. His mission is to provide true-bred strains to the general public, and more specifically, the medicinal marijuana community.   The Cali Connection provides product and comfort to more growers, seed banks, and ultimately patients then any other breeder of seeds ..read more

Steve Bloom is a former editor of High Times, Freedom Leaf and the currently publishes and edits CelebStoner.com, one of the leading online sources for marijuana and celebrity news. While at High Times he produced the Stony and Doobie awards shows, and the Hempilatiion benefit albums raising $200,000 for NORML. He has worked with artists such as Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, Ozzy Osbourne, Wu Tang Clan, Fishbone, Redman, and Ziggy, Stephen, Damian Marley and countless others. Steve was the recipient of NORML's Media & Culture Award in 2004.  He has appeared as a moderator, panelist and s ..read more

This episode is epigenitics expert David Krantz. David developed a proprietary genetic test for the endocannabinoid system. He was named a 2019 Top 100 Healthcare Innovator by the International Forum for Advancements in Healthcare and has spoken at conferences like Bodyhacking Con. David is currently an advisor to AMMA Healing as a specialist on the genetics of the endocannabinoid system along with Dr. Dan Engle (Onnit Labs) and other luminaries in the optimal health field. He also currently serves as the Director of Applied Psychoacoustics at Apeiron Center.   David uses epigenetics to w ..read more

This podcast episode is attorney Matthew Miller of MG Law. Matt is one of the few true subject matter experts on all things intellectual property in the cannabis and hemp space. He has spoken at national industry conferences such as NECANN and CannaCon several times, he was part of an industry panel at the first hemp entrepreneurship event at Rutgers University. Since entering the industry three years ago, Matt has regularly obtained federal trademarks for his cannabis and hemp clients. Prior to that Matt gained experience in other super technical fields such software patents, machine learning ..read more

On this episode of Trailblazin’ with Tara Misu we discuss something every single person in the cannabis industry needs at some point. Money! This interview is loaded with valuable tips on raising capital for your cannabusiness as well as some insights for potential investors.  David Cunic is an entrepreneur who is an Investor Relations Advisor. In the past 16 years, David has started over ten companies, in both the public and private sector many of which he has successfully sold. He has helped companies and clients in securing millions of dollars in the cannabis and hemp space as well as ..read more