Dr. Beast

Helping leaders build the anatomy of a beast.

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Beast Media & Strategic Communications Firm (BMSC) has helped visionaries, founders, brands, and organizations transform bold ideas into meaningful, measurable impact.

We are a full-service media house. We focus on strategic communications and advisory services specializing in leadership development, brand building, business growth, and high-impact storytelling. Our work sits at the intersection of strategy, creativity, and execution, allowing us to support clients from concept to launch and beyond.

From executive coaching, construction and design, organizational advisory, marketing, branding, and business development; we help leaders clarify their vision, refine their message, and build sustainable pathways to growth. We also provide specialized consulting in emerging and highly regulated industries, including the cannabis sector, where we support operators, entrepreneurs, and organizations with licensing strategy, operational planning, positioning, and market differentiation.

At BMSC, we do more than advise….we create.

Our team develops brands, products, live experiential activations, events, podcasts, and educational content designed to move people, build trust, and drive results.

Whether you are launching a new venture, repositioning an existing brand, preparing for growth, or looking to tell your story more powerfully, we serve as both your strategic partner and creative force. Because great ideas deserve more than visibility. They deserve strategy, structure, and a story that leaves a lasting impact.

ABOUT

a Leader in improving people, places, and processes with purpose AND clarity.

Dr. Alyza Brevard-Rodriguez, more commonly known as Dr. Beast, is a leadership scholar, business architect, cultural strategist and communicator whose work blends authentic leadership, strategic execution, wellness, and human-centered systems to drive sustainable, high-impact leadership and cultural change at the intersection of industry, policy, and education.

Her expertise sits at the intersection of leadership development, brand and narrative strategy, regulated-industry operations, experiential design, education, and media/content production. With over two decades of combined experience across military leadership, entrepreneurship, public service, academia, and wellness/cannabis operations, she brings uncommon pattern recognition to complex environments where pressure, policy, and people collide.

Dr. Beast is the owner and operator of a licensed cannabis dispensary, a former multi-unit wellness studio founder, a business professor, and the creator of multiple media platforms focused on leadership, culture, and policy change. Her work is grounded in qualitative research, lived experience, and real-world execution, not just theory alone.

Clients work with Dr. Beast to clarify strategy, design experiences, strengthen their leadership or vision, navigate regulation, tell credible stories that move organizations forward and win. Whether advising executives, coaching leaders in transition or ascension, shaping retail environments, or delivering keynote talks, her approach is evidence-informed, culturally fluent, and built for sustainability.

This work is for those ready to build with intention, lead with clarity, and create systems that endure.

current roles

Beast Media & Strategic Communications

As Principal and Executive Producer of Beast Media, Dr. Brevard-Rodriguez oversees the company’s creative strategy, editorial vision, content production, brand partnerships, marketing, and live programming. Through BMSC, she is building a culture-forward media and education platform that brings clarity, context, and accountability to cannabis, policy, leadership, and community power — setting a standard for storytelling that is both intellectually grounded and culturally resonant.

Flowers & Tea Podcast

As creator, executive producer, and host, she shapes the vision, editorial direction, and guest experience — holding space for thoughtful conversations on womanhood, leadership, wellness, and life in bloom. The platform blends softness with depth, offering culturally resonant dialogue around politics pot and policy.

Coffee & Cannabis Podcast

Coffee & Cannabis is a flagship podcast created and hosted by Dr. Beast, featuring bold, unfiltered conversations with industry leaders, culture shifters, and change-makers. In her role as creator and executive producer, she curates conversations that examine leadership, equity, entrepreneurship, and the evolving cannabis industry—bridging lived experience with critical insight and cultural relevance.

Professor

Serving as an adjunct professor since 2023 teaching cannabis science, business, and entrepreneurship coursework. In addition to instruction, she develops industry-aligned curricula and educational frameworks that bridge policy, operations, science, and lived experience — preparing students to navigate real-world systems with critical thinking, cultural competence, and practical skill.

is a media network on YouTube built around leadership, business, politics, and policy with a strategic intention around cannabis, education, and culture in the rawest, professionalized form. We amplify real stories, real operators, and real leaders while shaping the conversations that drive communities, industries, and systems forward.

Beast Media NETWORK

Flowers & Tea

Coffee & cannabis

Upcoming Events & appearances

Portfolio of projects

  • "Professor B-Rodriguez has been a great resource throughout the course, always approachable and genuinely invested in her students’ growth. Her real-world business experience made the material practical and relevant, not just theoretical. I would strongly recommend her class to any student interested in business who wants guidance that actually applies beyond the classroom."

    Syed Shah, Former Student

  • Dr. Beast doesn’t just advise, she builds and really gets invovled in the project. Her guidance helped us align our strategy, brand, and operations in a way that finally made sense. She understands pressure, regulation, and execution, and she brings calm clarity to complex environments.

    Former Client

  • Her authenticity is unmatched. What sets her apart is that the work is grounded in lived experience and evidence. The shift in how I lead and communicate has been immediate and lasting.

    Former Customer

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Awards

courtesy: NY Islanders Veteran of the Game

courtesy: Hudson County Chamber

NJ Biz Veterans in Business Award


Jersey City Veteran Business Owner of the Year

2024


2023

Xi Lambda Chapter Citizen of the Year


2023


Cannabis Shero Trailblazer Award

Mindbody's Diversity and Inclusion Visionary Award

2023


2020


NJ Biz 40 under 40

2020


Hoboken Girl’s Women to Watch

2019


U.S. Navy Sailor of the Year

2018


John Jay Graduate Community Award

2017