Erin Babcock Of Primo Gardens On Why CBD Can Help Promote Health, Wellness, and Ease Pain
…Knowing that challenges and discomfort come with growth and expansion. We can conquer challenges with flow and grace, looking for and learning from the lessons and blessings to evolve into our next level self, equipped with new skills and knowledge. Whether we are conscious of it or not, life happens for us, and by showing gratitude for the past, present, and for what’s to come in the future, we can continue to express more of our authentic selves and impact the world around us.
Being reactive to life isn’t usually enjoyable. We cannot control what goes on outside of us. But we do have a lot of control over what goes inside within us, so we can choose to not be triggered by external things, in order to maintain a high vibration of love, gratitude, and abundance.
Erin Babcock wants you — and all of the people that you care about in your life — to feel less pain and experience more vitality, and she strongly believes that CBD products are the perfect solution to many problems.
She also wants you to know that often mother knows best!
The 23-year-old passionate entrepreneur was introduced to CBD products by her mother, Kelly, who has been in the Hemp business since 2019. Following in her mom’s footsteps, in May 2023, Erin graduated from the University of Maryland with her Master’s in Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics — certainly a modern-day degree.
She grew up playing elite soccer and played collegiately at the University of Akron, where she also earned a degree in Exercise Science.
Erin Babcock is an ambitious entrepreneur, model, and compelling public speaker, with a vision to elevate the health and harmony of humanity. Her main focus is her shop, Primo Gardens in Columbus Ohio, in the sought-after Short North arts district, and through her website, and offers a range of products to help with pain, stress, mood, and everything in between.
But educating others, and helping them with their health, wellness, and easing their pain, is definitely a major part of her mission.
In 2021, Babcock and her business partner, Angela, opened the doors of Primo Gardens Inc, a CBD retail and manufacturing lab in Columbus, that provides health and wellness products to regain balance through the creation of customized, targeted blends for individuals and by helping other people or businesses start their own unique CBD line.
Babcock is a passionate educator and enjoys speaking around the U.S. about cannabis and the endocannabinoid system, along with other areas that contribute to holistic harmony, including movement, and mindset transformation. She is a partner in an educational initiative called Cannabis Business Practicum to help start-ups and small businesses thrive in the cannabis industry.
Babcock is also in the process of developing her personal brand, EEErinergy, which will include aspects of entrepreneurship, modeling, public speaking, and in the areas of harmony, health, and expansion.
Read on for Erin’s best advice for overcoming hardships at work and home, and how CBD products can help us reduce the stress in our lives, especially when it comes to women of all ages.
What gets you bounding out of bed each morning?
Knowing that I have specific education and knowledge that can aid in elevating the health, wellness, and quality of life. of people! The Endocannabinoid System and cannabis science are not well understood by the general public, but I am happy to use my voice to give value and educate when I can!
What is the best health and wellness advice you have to offer?
The best advice I have to offer for elevating your health and wellness is to be aware that being healthy requires living a healthy lifestyle. By including daily habits into your routine that make you feel amazing, you can improve your health, happiness, and wellness! Many activities that people know make them feel good (in the mind, body, and soul), also improve the function of our endocannabinoid systems, by elevating the levels of naturally produced endocannabinoids circulating throughout our bodies.
Some lifestyle habits to include to boost ECS function are exercise, nutrition, meditation, yoga, breathwork, social interaction, smiling, hugging, and the use of cannabis, the cannabinoid CBD is known to elevate levels of anandamide, the bliss molecule, in our body.
Incorporate these habits into your daily life and have fun with them!! By doing this, you are showing love to yourself, accepting yourself, forgiving yourself, caring for yourself, and supporting yourself. Self-love is critical to growth and expansion, and the more you support yourself, the better you will feel, and the easier and more fulfilling your health and wellness journey will be!
What is the best advice you ever received from your mother?
Being in business together, my mom gives me a lot of professional and personal advice. The best advice she taught me is that you never truly know what someone else is going through, so show kindness to everyone. People reflect what is going on in them internally; so next time someone does something that you don’t like, choose to respond with love and grace, instead of reacting with a judgment.
Does mother really know best?
I believe so! Women and mothers have a strong natural intuition.
Women often block our own way when it comes to business and success — what do you tell fledgling entrepreneurs so that they don’t back down from pursuing their personal and business dreams?
Women are raised in a society that has led us to believe that we cannot perform like our male counterparts. But it is our choice whether we as individuals believe that narrative or not. Limiting beliefs are ceilings that we place on ourselves when we think that we can’t do something or that something is impossible. Limiting beliefs withhold potential greatness and evolution from our lives. The sooner we can stop believing them, the sooner we can expand and express our true, authentic self — whether that is professionally or personally.
What keeps you going when you are having a tough day, week, or month?
Knowing that challenges and discomfort come with growth and expansion. We can conquer challenges with flow and grace, looking for and learning from the lessons and blessings to evolve into our next level self, equipped with new skills and knowledge. Whether we are conscious of it or not, life happens for us, and by showing gratitude for the past, present, and for what’s to come in the future, we can continue to express more of our authentic selves and impact the world around us.
Being reactive to life isn’t usually enjoyable. We cannot control what goes on outside of us. But we do have a lot of control over what goes inside within us, so we can choose to not be triggered by external things, in order to maintain a high vibration of love, gratitude, and abundance.
My mom taught me that with hard work, tenacity, and a bit of luck the sky is the limit. Do you agree and why?
I do agree, those three things are key to achieving success. I would add to the ‘bit of luck’ that optimism and certainty that the vision will come true increases the probability of attaining that vision truly through hard work and tenacity.
What is the best business advice you can offer based on your experiences?
After two years as an entrepreneur, my best business advice would be to set a clear vision of what you want your business to accomplish. Make sure that vision is big and benefits other people, and try not to get discouraged when the strategy doesn’t accomplish the vision right away.
As business owners, we must be able to adapt and pivot our strategy as we strive toward our vision. Don’t lessen the vision because a strategy isn’t working, instead, adjust the strategy and try again! It is important to be passionate and love what you are doing so that you can persevere through the hard times and “failed” strategies, and keep pushing towards the greater vision!!
How are your products different and unique? What makes them stand out? It can be confusing.
A lot of CBD products came on the market since it was legalized in 2018, but not all of them are FDA regulated. At Primo, we manufacture all of our products. We use raw ingredients that we have extracted ourselves. Every product and every batch gets tested — nothing goes into it that’s not supposed to be in it, and also make sure the label matches what’s in the product.
We ensure consistency and safety with all our products manufactured in-house. We use natural ingredients for all of our products when we add extracts to complement the CBD. Custom-blended products to tackle certain imbalances. We make a product with oils that help with relaxation or calming the clutter in their head to help with relaxation. and lead to a restful night, and a wonderful night of sleep.
Why do the women in our lives need to check this out?
Women in particular and mothers in general — and parents overall– undergo increased amounts of worry, stress, and pressure exhaustion being responsible for caregiving, with CBD it is all about helping with balance. The use of CBD reduces stress, helps sustain regular moods and hormones, and helps reduce discomfort from chronic aches and pains.
Parents and mothers have added stress being responsible for another life can help them balance out for a normal life and become better parents. In a grocery store with a cranky toddler and stressed-out trying to multi-task it can turn into guilt and raising your voice or lashing out in another way. CBD helps to not let the external stress trigger and allows you to handle situations with more compassion and love rather than reacting to them.
What are the myths surrounding CBD products that you can try to clarify?
A lot of people come into our store and assume that CBD is going to get them high and give this euphoric effect, but in reality, it is not going to do that. The three main words involved are balancing, calming, and relaxing.
It reacts with the body and is working in harmony with the body to provide a balancing effect that works with the mechanisms in our body that help elevate endocannabinoids, which are the receptors all throughout our body. All of this is inner connected to our nervous system, our endocrine system, and all of our other systems. This is pretty much related to every function in our body — appetite, mood, memory, sleep, temperature, and pain. CBD indirectly activates and increases our natural endo system.
What are some of your favorite products?
Gummies are super convenient. You can carry them around in your purse like a daily supplement. CBD tincture is an oil-based product with a dropper in it. Put the oil dropper under your tongue and the oil is absorbed by salivary glands and speeds up the effects rather than a gummy or capsule that has to go through the digestive system. Improved sleep or improve energy and focus. Bring relief to the whole body. A topical slave that’s a cream-based salve put it on whatever area is bothering you. help brings circulation and blood flow to relieve aches and pain in that area.
Talk about the importance of educating people about the many benefits of CBD products.
I see myself using my voice to educate a lot more about CBD and the endo system and as more people have access to this education, the use of CBD by people will increase a lot. It’s an investment in your health but serves more as a preventative, proactive approach rather than medical expenses after you are not feeling so good. CBD that thing we can use daily to resist those imbalances.
This system is central to health and harmony, the more we promote this the better quality of life we are able to live — exercise, diet, meditation, yoga, social interaction, and CBD are other components that have powerful beneficial effects. I see the stigma being reduced, it has come a long way, but I see it reducing as more science and research are done the more it will be accepted.
What do you love about Prime Gardens?
I love that Primo Gardens creates products that bring balance and harmony to people’s lives and that there is an option to completely customize some products to target specific imbalances that someone has. I also love that we help other people or businesses bring their own product lines to life so that they can positively impact their own customers and clients.
What does positive customer feedback mean to you?
They mean the world to me. I love seeing and hearing about how these products are benefiting someone’s quality of life. That is why I do what I do, which is to help others elevate their selves & their health!
How have the products changed your life?
My life and health have significantly improved since I started using CBD. It has brought balance to my holistic health, allowing me to flow more with life rather than react, as well as reduce the pain and discomfort associated with being a lifelong athlete.
How do you enjoy spending your free time?
I like spending my free time with friends and family, people I love. I like being outdoors. Going on a nature hike or taking my dogs for a walk or run, brings me joy. I have one dog and five in the family that are part of our pack. I like to travel. I travel for speaking, modeling, and trade show events. I always enjoy experiencing new things!
What are your social media and website links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eeerinergy/?hl=en
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-babcock-4634a3210/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/eeerinergy
Primo Website: https://primogardensinc.com
Cannabis Business Practicum Newsletter https://allayconsulting.com/cannabis-business-practicum/
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