W.E.C.A.N. is an Empowering Online Community for Women to Connect, Grow, and Inspire Change Together.
The Women Empowered Cannabis Advocates Network is a thriving community dedicated to empowering women who love cannabis. We offer a supportive space where connections flourish, growth is celebrated, and meaningful change is inspired.
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Our Mission
At W.E.C.A.N. (Women Empowered Cannabis Advocates Network), we unite women who share a deep love for cannabis and a passion for creating meaningful connections. Our mission is to end the stigma surrounding this remarkable plant and empower women to thrive — personally and professionally — through education, support, and collaboration.
We are a growing community of women — advocates, entrepreneurs, educators, and visionaries — committed to uplifting one another and inspiring positive change in each other’s lives.
W.E.C.A.N. is more than a network. It’s a sisterhood, a movement, and a shared space where every woman has the power to grow, inspire, and live her most empowered CannaBlissed life.
Our Vision
W.E.C.A.N. envisions a world where women are seen, supported, and celebrated for their unique contributions. We are here to build a community that not only helps women achieve their goals but also nurtures the strength, passion, and confidence needed to break barriers and pioneer real change.
Through connection and collaboration, we elevate each other, proving that when women come together with shared purpose, we have the power to transform lives.
Women who love cannabis deserve an inclusive and empowering home base — a place to grow their confidence, spark their creativity, and build the foundation for a thriving future.
Our Values
Empowerment is at the heart of what we do — celebrating women and reminding them that their life matters, is impactful, and is necessary.
Connection binds us together, creating a nurturing community where shared experiences build the confidence to face challenges, celebrate wins, and uplift one another.
Growth is a constant focus as we provide opportunities for education, advocacy, and personal development, ensuring that every woman in our collective feels supported to thrive and flourish.
Above all, we foster a sense of belonging, welcoming women from all paths providing a safe and inclusive space to be their authentic selves.
As our community will tell you…
WE CAN do Big Shit Together!
WE CAN get out there and Never Shut the F*CK UP!
WE CAN make a difference, and together we will!
Our Values
Growing Our Canna-Businesses
As with other networking groups, W.E.C.A.N. members have a variety of opportunities to grow their businesses through connection creation.
But unlike most networking groups, they won’t have to do it with the resistance that often faces cannabis businesses in traditional networking groups.
We do things differently here, and it makes all the difference.
Advocating & Ending Stigma
As we are the Women Empowered Cannabis Advocates Network, advocacy and seeing a way forward that relegates stigma to a relic of the closed-minded past is part of our work here.
We believe that cannabis is a healing modality, that it should be treated as such, and that safe access, decriminalization, and a host of other legal and societal issues need our attention and the advocacy of our members and their businesses.
Supporting Our Amazing Members
While networking and advocacy are essential to what we do here at W.E.C.A.N., we also value encouragement and support.
Kind words, guidance, sharing resources, offering insight, and celebrating wins with one another allow us to recognize each other as people, not simply business owners.
And supporting one another allows us to feel far less alone, making us less likely to burn out or give up on our dream.
It allows us to expand our perspectives and challenges us to step up to become the best versions of ourselves possible.
Creating a Cannabis Community
Kirstie started W.E.C.A.N. because she wanted to maintain her group of cannabis enthusiasts, known as her canna-tribe.
She believes that when you find your people, it's important to keep them together.
Being a member of W.E.C.A.N. means being part of a canna-family, in addition to belonging to the organization — because members are part of a larger community that values their unique contributions.
This community is fantastic, and it's all thanks to the members who make it what it is.
Meet Our Founder — Kirstie Chadsey
“I love bringing people together, and at W.E.C.A.N., COMMUNITY is our word of the year every single day.”
Our Founder and Executive Director, Kirstie Chadsey, has decades of experience leading teams, and building tribes is her jam.
She is also a certified Cannabis Health Coach and Educator, business owner, wife, and mother.
Kirstie created W.E.C.A.N. to bring cannabis coaches, educators, and entrepreneurs from every corner of the industry together to grow their businesses, reach their goals, and find a community that understands and encourages them to share their healing work with others.
Kirstie’s advocacy for an end to cannabis stigma is bolstered by her own work with the healing plant.
And her desire to create a strong, vibrant, thriving cannabis business networking community is backed by decades of experience in the business world.
There she learned how to lead, manage, and grow teams that reached goals and achieved tremendous success.
In her own businesses, she’s done the same. And now, with W.E.C.A.N. in full growth mode, Kirstie is excited to support the next wave of empowered, inspiring, and successful cannabis business owners and entrepreneurs.
Are you tired of trying to grow your Cannabis-Focused Business on your own?
W.E.C.A.N. offers our members resources and education, a virtual think tank for problem-solving, and the comfort of a caring community to help you move through challenges and celebrate your wins (both big and small).
Skip the frustration and shorten your canna-business-building learning curve with our weekly meetings, including two monthly networking events and a monthly social hour to unwind from canna-preneur life.
Recharge your advocacy effort battery in a community that shares your passion for your work and the healing plant that fuels it.
Join our canna-tribe today!
What W.E.C.A.N. Members Are Saying…
“I so enjoy being a W.E.C.A.N. member because I feel like I belong to a sister-ship of some amazing powerful women that empower me to be me.”
— Yakima
“I love being a W.E.C.A.N. Founding Member because I know that cannabis coaches, educators, and others in our nascent industry are here to make a BIG difference in people's lives and in our world. And to achieve that, we need to gather and connect with our tribe. People need spaces like this to connect with each other, with ideas, and with new opportunities, especially in cannabis.”
— Michelle C.
“W.E.C.A.N. is a safe, supportive space where Cannabis Coaches and Educators can connect, share their ups and downs, brainstorm, collaborate, laugh, and uplift each other.”
— Kate