Your Business as Your Twin with Francesca Vavala

October 7, 2019

Your Business as Your Twin with Francesca Vavala

Show Summary

A business is not a parent-child relationship. It’s that of conjoined twins. We share critical organs, a soul and a heart. Francesca Vavala joins us and talks about her incredibly unique life experience of being born a conjoined twin. She’s lived the perils of separating yourself from a conjoined twin and separating yourself from your business and being wildly successful. Welcome to Episode 273 of the Entrepreneurship Elevated Podcast!

Our Guest

Born a conjoined twin, Francesca and Emily were joined chest to abdomen and shared the liver. They were separated at 4 days old and became the youngest successfully separated twins in the United States and the first at Johns Hopkins hospital. Due to complications at birth, Francescas sister, Emily was born with severe cerebral palsy. At 31, Emily passed away from pneumonia. Not long after Emily passed, Francesca discovered cannabis may have helped Emily’s quality of life and coping with the spasticity that caused her fatal pneumonia.

Francescas discovery gave her new purpose. Seeing how much misinformation and confusion there was around CBD and cannabis as whole, Francesca and her business partner Mike Patterson identified a need to help educate the public about CBD and be a one-stop shop for high quality hemp products that provide the relief not available to Emily.

Today, Francesca connects people with CBD products that improve quality of life, whether that’s through better sleep, pain management, addiction recovery, or any of the other many, wonderful benefits of CBD.

Francesca is an informed and inspired cannabis entrepreneur, advocate, and speaker. She travels across the country and speaks to companies, groups, and at events about access and education so they can learn how CBD can heal your mind, body, and business.

Francesca is a University of Delaware graduate, a lifelong Delaware resident, and lives with her husband, Nick, and their pets in Wilmington, Delaware.