Get more than high: smoking cannabis to find your higher calling
- Jazmin Hupp, Founder & CEO of Women Grow found direction, happiness and her calling — thanks to cannabis.
- “The thing I love about cannabis is that it allows me to give less fucks!”
- The Women Grow entrepreneurs risk jail for something they truly believe in. Would you?
In the USA, cannabis is a huge business opportunity, having been legalised for both recreational and medicinal use in nine states. Cannabis users are also under renewed threat: mixed messages from President Trump’s White House have cast strong doubts on future legality and enforcement.
Whatever happens, strong leaders are needed in the cannabis industry now, more than ever. And, as far as Jazmin Hupp, Founder & CEO of Women Grow is concerned, as many of them as possible should be women.
Jazmin, named as one of the “most powerful women in the pot business” by Forbes, gave a provocative talk at TOA. She stressed the deep learning and positive life-changes that can come when using cannabis as a gateway to inner peace and personal growth.
Women Grow helps its members become leaders: through networking, they connect with each other in valuable ways. Trust, sharing and support are core values of Women Grow, and the women that take part say they gain strength, self-belief and a sense of community. And that’s before you even bring cannabis into the equation.
Listen to Jazmin’s full, feisty, and frank talk about her life journey, her latent need for validation, and her rejection of it — thanks to the healing properties of cannabis.
Oh, and it’s also high time to check out TOA’s line up of speakers in 2017…
Part 1: Jazmin had got lost — and then figured out how to find herself.
“I am an external validation junkie. I was born naturally happy, and as a little child was complete and fulfilled.
“But I was told sometime in grade school: ‘you’re not really happy — but you will be happy if you do all of these things: get the right grades, go to the right university, get the high-paying job in New York City, find your fairytale prince or princess. And of course you’ll really be happy the day that you found a multi-million dollar company in a multibillion dollar industry.”
“Check, check, check — I went out and did all that. Everyone thought I was doing great… except for me.’”
We can check all the external validation boxes — and still not be happy.
“Have you felt this before? Have you checked all the boxes? Have you been looking for the finish point to congratulate yourself for finally being happy?
“It turned out that in my search for external validation, I had to start looking internally for what really motivated me. All of the external approval, accolades, applause, achievements and acquisition wasn’t really good enough.”
“Women Grow’s entrepreneurs taught me that there was a higher calling: that you could be called to do something so incredible for your community that you would risk jail time to do it.”
Part 2: Why is cannabis helpful to discover your “inner light” — and what you’re supposed to be doing in life?
“Cannabis is one of the most versatile plants on the planet. It is a stimulant, a depressant, and a hallucinogenic. And cannabis, depending on the type consumed, the way you consume it, and your own body, can have any of those effects.
“That’s why it can be a little daunting to get started with: you may have had a first paranoid experience or anxiety-producing experience on cannabis. But cannabis allows us a chance for introspection: to go within ourselves and ask what really makes us happy.”
Cannabis causes euphoria.
“Euphoria is going to be useful: you’re going to need a sense that the world is going to work out for you in a good way, as you go on this journey of doing what you want instead of what the outside world tells you to do.”
Cannabis provides relaxation, a decrease in pain, and a decrease in inflammation.
“A substance within cannabis, CBD, is an anti-inflammatory — and the majority of diseases and conditions in the body that we’re worried about are caused by inflammation.”
Cannabis tends to trigger creativity.
“There’s a reason why cannabis and music go together so easily, because it brings out love in our own inner creativity. You’re going to need a lot of creativity on this journey because you are going to create a path for yourself that is unique to you.”
Cannabis = less fucks!
“Finally, the thing that I love about cannabis is it allows me to give less fucks! You’re going to need to give less fucks about what other people think on this journey.”
Part 3: So you got high. You found a direction that’s true to you. How do you build your higher calling?
You need to research yourself.
“I like to use a lot of cannabis (and some other things) for this. Make sure you understand when it is that you “light up” — exactly when is it that you are in flow? That’s when you are in total alignment with your purpose and your energy?
“This means that no matter what, if the thing you were doing didn’t make any money, and if it might actually throw you in jail, you would still do it. What is that thing for you?”
You need to research your world.
“You need to go out into your world and figure out what the real needs of your community are.”
Start a business — and use it to do good!
“At that intersection of the world’s greatest needs and your greatest talent to serve, I encourage you to create a business in the middle.
“Why a business? In the United States, business is the greatest force of change, outlasting governments and lobbies.”
Be brave and be purpose-driven.
“Through Women Grow I met women who, instead of being profit-driven, were purpose-driven in their businesses.
“They were so purpose-driven that they were willing to risk their own liberty.
“They risk jail time, they risk their own property, and they even risk their children — Child Protection Services can take your children away — for being involved with drugs in United States.
“These purpose-driven entrepreneurs taught me that there was a higher calling; that you could be called to do something so incredible for your community that you would risk jail time to do it.”
This talk has been edited for clarity and length.
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