Angela Ardolino
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
I lost my dog. I did everything my veterinarian told me to do from feeding the food to vaccinating her every year to putting the pesticide pill down her throat. $15,000 later, I'm like, there is something wrong with the system. And that was the last time I was putting my health or my beloved animal's health in someone else's hands.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
but but let's talk about the education what are my tactical ways in the for the marketing side how do you educate like content influencers blogs like can you talk you know how to how to pick a product how to use the product dosing dosing was the biggest question okay yeah um you know and basically non-stop education so literally have an education director was my like third big tire
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And teaching him and then literally having him pump out content at the same time, training stores, customers, veterinarians, you name it, as many people as we could get the education to. Because when you're in something like this and it's brand new, you're going to have people who come in who are bad players who make a CBD isolate. Right.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
or something like that, which is actually dangerous or proven dangerous. And then that research and comes out, then everybody goes, no, causes liver damage. And you're like, no, no, no, no. A full spectrum hemp extract, not CBD. Got it, got it, got it. So much education, non-stop.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Video. Yeah. Anyone who will have us, you know, in the retail side, you know, there's different, there's, I don't know what they are, organizations or apps that we go in and educate them. Lots of free education.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Literally traveling around. I've been on tour since I've started. Two years ago, I did get invited. The biggest holistic veterinarian has a huge following, invited me to go on tour with her because of course she uses all the products herself and they worked. And it's great when you get someone like that and they try your product and it works because then they're like, oh, come here.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
I want to talk to you.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Well, there aren't only a few. Everyone else is threatened by you. But yeah, it is. Yeah, it was weird. It got very lonely and weird. And I thought the holistic community would like, you know, let me in, which they did.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And now they need me. They want me to shut the hell up. Yeah.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Do I have to see your ad again? Oh, my God, I saw you again over here. And I'm like, uh-huh.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
I have a podcast, so I'm constantly bringing on the veterinarian who's going to tell me what they did to learn in school and then tell me how they use my medicine. A lot of the times, gosh, constantly now it's telling customers and having them basically do it.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
We had a campaign called 100,000 Pet Parents Can't Be Wrong, and it's just one pet parent after another going, this is my dog, showing the dog, telling the story, because it really is.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
It's more they get specials and free shipping and that type of thing. We do have Facebook groups, big Facebook groups that's more kind of like a club. I'm now considering doing maybe something, you know, with me, with the following.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Because now we've got so many holistic practitioners and nutritionists who are learning what the veterinarians aren't learning.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
You know, I thought the first time a pet parent walked into the vet office and they did the checkup for the dog that had the cancer, had the, you know, hemangiosarcoma, had a tumor on their spleen. And it went down 10 centimeters that they'd go, well, what'd you do? And they'd go, oh, I'm taking this and this. And then I thought my phone would be ringing.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Oh, yeah. Like vets in California were scared to even talk about it. And I'm like, are you kidding? There's also freedom of speech if you think it's a good thing.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Yeah. Yeah. And I wasn't I didn't do anything I was supposed to. I didn't put it in a box. I'm like, that's a waste. I'm not doing that. OK, well, you can't be on Amazon. OK, well, then I'm not going to be on Amazon. Yeah. We're on Amazon now.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And then at the same time, the pet parent learns about their own health and wellness. So I just think it's a beautiful thing.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Well, we're a CBD company, so we're restricted on a lot of things. Just about anything that will have us. Yeah. We all do it.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
SEO. I mean, we're pumping out blogs. We have our team of writers that are pumping out blogs. We have vet techs that work for us.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
A few, but never have, we haven't done too much on influencers. I came from the, your dog, I want you something to be wrong with your dog so that I can send you something that you tried and it works and then you become an influencer. So it was a little difficult, especially in the pets.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Right. Your dog already has to be experiencing joint pain or have cancer. And then that's a big ask, too, for them to try something new and whatever. So it's more of that they reach out to us and hopefully we can establish.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And that's not OK with me. That's OK. I want more than anything to know that you do have options. And then what's great. Here's my Web site where I have one case after another after another. And I tell you exactly what I did and I show you all the pictures, even if they're gross and looking. So, you know, who else does that? You know, who else has an expert?
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Whether it was... Well, I remember, you know, being a woman ain't easy. Yeah. I remember, you know, learning to write a business plan, knew exactly what I wanted to do. Went to the SBA 25. Yeah. Go to the SBA to get a loan. I'm sitting with the counselor. He goes, I just want to let you know, this is one of the best business plans we've ever seen. I sent it, I made copies.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
I sent it to everybody to show them what a good example is. It's incredible. But can I ask you something? What's a pretty little lady like yourself want to do this? Why don't you carry it and start a family?
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
So, but still, like, I'm still so damn naive. Like, it still blows my mind how naive I am. But I feel like a lot of people are. And a lot of people, that's why I love what you're doing. Because a lot of people think you're going to do incredible things. You know, I've put cancer into remission, stopped seizures, got dogs to walk again. Where is everybody going to come celebrate and invite me? No.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
You have to be. Yeah, that's the thing.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Right. And nobody's going to be able to talk about it or prove it or whatever.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
You bet. AngelaArtolino.com is my website if you want to be education, see my protocols and things like that. But my product is CBDdoghealth.com and mycodog.com are my mushroom and adaptogens. And my podcast is Your Natural Dog.com.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Well, I started in, first of all, the medicine, I cured myself of disease. I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, probably from being a crazy entrepreneur and working myself to death. And I didn't want to take the pharmaceutical drugs. I was already living a pretty natural lifestyle. So I was kind of shocked when I was like, how did I get this?
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
I was very upset that I had been diagnosed.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
No, it's another, it's a, first of all, they give the same drugs for all autoimmune diseases and it suppresses the immune system and makes things worse. And then you just get something else and another disease and another.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
It makes no sense to me. Like when you really think about it, it made no sense to me. But that's not what sent me on my journey. I lost my dog. I lost one of my first dogs. You know, I waited until I had the yard and the house and, you know, the money to take such good care of this dog. And at age six, she was dying.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And I did everything my veterinarian told me to do from feeding the food to vaccinating her every year to putting the pesticide pill down her throat. So when that happened to her, And, you know, $15,000 later, I'm like, there is something wrong with this system. And that was the last time I was putting my health or my beloved animal's health in someone else's hands.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
So when I got that diagnosis and they were like, well, here's Humira. I'm like, no, thank you. Already been linked to lymphoma. I don't want cancer just so that I don't have joint pain anymore. And it's not a cure. It's just a band-aid. And there's always a side effect where things get worse.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And how it's worse for animals is that animals are considered to be property. So if I'm an evil player in the pharmaceutical industry, what a great way to experiment or make a lot of money by releasing a drug. And there's no repercussions.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
I mean, there are drugs out right now that like Apoquil and Cytopoint who they have killed so many dogs with strange cancers and issues. And you go to the pamphlet where, you know, gives you all the precautions. They're there.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And so many veterinarians and pet parents have written in and FDA goes, just put it on your pamphlet.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
I believe my secret to my success is my...
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Well, all animals have something called the endocannabinoid system. So I basically make hemp adaptogen mushroom products that interact with that system. And that system is the master system. So literally it helps with everything. So everything from interacting with the 12 pathways of cancer,
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
and killing cancer and removing it from the body to interacting with the five pathways of pain and stopping pain, stopping seizures. I've had dogs that didn't walk like Frenchies. I have a Frenchie on my logo because they're the ones that have the most problems.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
a lot of genetic problems because of that.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
I actually think because there's a lot more rules where you're from, where you're not allowed to have a dog that can't breathe.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Right, they're cute and small and their faces are squished. Well, squished faces can't breathe appropriately. So helping those dogs is really, I can't tell you how many we have. But yeah, we had one case that the dog hadn't walked for four years. Wow. And we met his owner and he was like, I was like, just try it. Just, it's not going to work. It's not going to work.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Literally got home, literally gave him a dropper full. And then he went upstairs to his office and turned around and the dog had, I mean, of course it was weak, but literally had dragged itself and was, you know, stumbling, walking up. And he was like,
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And this is what I hear on a regular.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Oh, yeah. One case after another. And it's often, you know, I've tried other products. It didn't work. Other CBD products. It didn't work. I tried my dogs on five different medications and he's still in pain and he's terrible. I gave him one dropper of your stuff and he's up and he's happy and whatever. And it's because you're interacting with that system. And because I'm kind of a perfectionist.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And I believe my secret to my success is my intention.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And then my intention is to make... I've also educated. I went to the University of Vermont School of Medicine to their inaugural class on the study of cannabis. So I know about the system, how to make the medicine, how to grow the medicine, how to source the seeds. So when I...
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Education, education, education. One of the first things we did is go on tour. So I'm the graduate. I'm the formulator now. I know how the system works. So we went on a tour with my two right and left hand. And they're both educated to go educate as many veterinarians who would, anybody who would have us and then COVID hit. Yeah. Which was pretty good.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
We went to California where cannabis is illegal for longer. Yeah. and literally documenting everything at the same time, found vets who were using cannabis medicine so we could video them and go the next time someone goes, well, my vet says it'll kill them. We'll go, nope, look right here. This vet has been using it for the past five years. So then COVID hit.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Thank you for having me.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Wasn't easy. Now, honestly, the only ones that we really do it with are the ones that are really using the medicine on a daily basis. They've educated themselves. They know how to use it. And then they tell about a case or a pet parent tells us about, you know, that they used it. How'd you find out? And then we reach out to the vet. But it is hard because a lot of vets want to be paid.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And, you know, we're like, don't you want to know how this medicine works?
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
we tried to we tried to but not didn't work so much okay i mean you still battled a lot with what their education is and they're not taught anything about it well it's the same with doctors right like i've worked with a lot of doctors and you have the small percent that like go on and do their own research and they continue to learn and then you have 95 that are like locked into what tech there is nothing on cannabis or cbd so it was like i that's what i thought i thought i'd be like
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
you know, welcomed by the herbalist and the homeopaths, but no, I was even competition to them because it's the queen. It's the queen. Cannabis is the queen medicine. It helps so many things. It's the system is named after that plant. So, um, yeah, I was kind of alone at first I was welcomed and oh, cool. You know, here she is. And then all of a sudden I became a threat because
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
You know, three things can replace hemp and mushrooms and an adaptogen like ashwagandha or astragalus root is a game changer. I saw the research. I read the research where when you put them together, they become more powerful and synergistic. I literally remember going, I wish I could have a product, but what am I gonna make? Everything's been made. And now I'm like, nobody makes stuff.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And all I do is make it right. Source the seed, grow it in the right conditions, how it's supposed to grow, harvest it when it's supposed to. profit isn't my intention and end goal, making real bioavailable natural medicine is. Because then when people use my product one time, they come back after. And that's why our retention is unbelievable.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Yeah. I think what was important is that I'm my customer. So I knew that, you know, I had tried these things and they didn't work. So speaking to me and to, um, to the ones that, that they've tried everything and it didn't work and then being able to show proof.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
That was the first things when I went started talking to holistic veterinarians. They go, this is who I am. This is what I do. What do you want? They're like, well, how do you use the medicine? Give us case studies.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
So it's like, all right, went back to my rescue and took every animal with every problem, every age, had some partnerships with vets that would call me up and go, all right, I got another one. Let's see what you can do.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And every time I would be able to detox them, wean them off their pharmaceuticals, feed them a real fresh diet of real food, and then treat them with hemp, mushrooms, and adaptogens, and always be able to bring them back to homeostasis. A lot of times I'd be treating lymphoma and their Cushing's disease would go away. Or, you know, gosh, when I was treating her seizures and her dementia reversed.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
So I was just like, Oh my gosh, this is awesome. This is easy. So what was cool is that I had multiple cases and pictures. So I got to start with my cases, prove it to the veterinarians, get it into their hands, get into the influencers or the practitioners that are, you know, doing this type of thing.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
Yeah. I'm Angela Artelino, and lately I'm the crazy cannabis witch lady, you know, who makes dogs get better. Old dogs get up and walk again or get rid of their tumors or those types of things. So... I'm like you. I love dogs. For a lot of people, they are sometimes the only way people experience unconditional love. So I love being able to transform their health naturally.
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How Angela Ardolino Turned Her Dog’s Cancer into a Movement
And have a vet that's telling them the CHG is going to kill their dog.