Vanessa Marquez
OFFICIAL MEDIA KIT
Vanessa
Marquez
Wellness founder, product innovator, and international speaker
A visionary operator translating hands-on wellness expertise into trusted brands, premium plant-based topical products, and forward-thinking industry leadership.
15+
Years as an operator and business owner
2016
CBD Care Garden founded
$300M+
Partner organization revenue scale
THC Free
brand position
OFFICIAL MEDIA KIT
Vanessa Marquez
Wellness founder, product innovator, and international speaker
A visionary operator translating hands-on wellness expertise into trusted brands, premium plant-based topical products, and forward-thinking industry leadership.
15+
Years as an operator and business owner
2016
CBD Care Garden founded
$300M+
Partner organization revenue scale
THC Free
brand position
PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY
A practitioner who became a builder.
Vanessa Marquez is a visionary leader and entrepreneur in the wellness and hemp-derived CBD industry, with over 15 years of hands-on experience as an operator and business owner.
She attended Colorado State University, where she studied in the Biomedical Sciences Program, building a strong foundation in health sciences. She further specialized by completing her Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT) program at the Denver School of Massage Therapy (DSMT), equipping her with deep expertise in therapeutic wellness practices.
In 2016, she founded CBD Care Garden and began building premium broad-spectrum hemp and CBD topicals around a 0.0% THC position, a luxury user experience, and disciplined product standards. Her work now includes CBD Care Garden, Care Garden International, HempNature, private-label and proprietary product development, and RESCU: a new topical innovation concept focused on mobility, recovery routines, active living, and healthy aging.
Renowned for execution, a forward-thinking industry vision, and strong leadership, Vanessa has contributed to the hemp sector through product education, regulatory awareness, and best-practice advocacy. She is also an international speaker and a featured founder in Legacy Makers on the Inside Success Network.
Beyond business, Vanessa is a devoted single mother. Her young daughter is her pride and joy - and a powerful influence on the legacy she is building.
2006-2010
Health & bodywork
Biomedical-science study, professional massage training, and direct client care establish a practical wellness foundation.
2010-2015
First company
Vanessa founds and leads IMassage in Denver, earning 5280 Top of the Town recognition in 2011.
2016-Present
CBD Care Garden
She expands into hemp-derived wellness, premium topicals, spa partnerships, and private-label development.
Current chapter
Global growth + RESCU
International relationships and a new generation of topical innovation move the Care Garden vision forward.
Building trusted wellness brands from formulation to market.
Vanessa connects product quality, thoughtful positioning, and operational delivery across consumer wellness, professional spa partnerships, private label, education, and international growth.
Topical innovation · Active living · Healthy aging
01
Care Garden International
Extending the platform’s partnership model beyond the United States through brands, formulas, education, and market-aligned strategic collaboration.
02
CBD Care Garden
A hemp-based wellness and beauty company serving spa, retail, hospitality, and direct-to-consumer markets with broad-spectrum, 0.0% THC topicals.
03
HempNature
An apothecary-inspired line pairing broad-spectrum CBD with plant-based ingredients for skin, body care, active recovery, and evening wellness routines.
Private label & proprietary development
Strategy is only as strong as the execution behind it.
Vanessa is frequently invited to help develop exclusive brands and proprietary formulas for established spa and wellness operators - including organizations operating at the $300M+ revenue scale. Her work connects concept, market position, formulation direction, and operational delivery.
RESCU
Pioneering topical innovation for the way people move.
RESCU is a proprietary plant-therapy blend combined with a regenerative complex, developed to support mobility, recovery routines, pre- and post-activity rituals, and a healthy-aging lifestyle through a premium topical experience.
Presented for wellness and media context only. No disease-treatment, cure, prevention, or guaranteed-relief claims are made.
MEDIA QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Where the most compelling conversations begin.
Use these interview prompts to explore Vanessa's experience. Each discussion focus summarizes an established theme from her biography and work; it is not a direct quotation.
What first drew you from hands-on wellness practice into entrepreneurship?
Discussion focus: How client care, bodywork, and the experience of building IMassage revealed unmet needs and a path to company building.
What did working directly with massage clients teach you that still shapes product decisions today?
Discussion focus: Comfort, usability, consistency, practitioner trust, and understanding how products fit into real routines.
Why did you enter the hemp-derived CBD category in 2016?
Discussion focus: Recognizing an emerging opportunity to combine plant-based wellness with disciplined product development and professional education.
What did the market misunderstand about CBD wellness when you began?
Discussion focus: The need for clearer education, responsible claims, consistent quality, and credible products designed for professional settings.
How do you balance product innovation with responsible regulatory and compliance decisions?
Discussion focus: Building within changing requirements while maintaining precise language, sound standards, and a long-term view of consumer trust.
What separates a credible wellness product from one built mainly around trend or marketing?
Discussion focus: Useful formulation, thoughtful positioning, operational follow-through, transparent expectations, and a strong customer experience.
What have you learned from developing private-label and proprietary formulas for established operators?
Discussion focus: The importance of translating brand strategy into formulation direction, market fit, operational readiness, and consistent delivery.
Why are spa and wellness partnerships important to the way you build brands?
Discussion focus: Professional feedback, practitioner credibility, education, service integration, and the lasting value of aligned partnerships.
What opportunity do you see for Care Garden outside the United States?
Discussion focus: Market-aligned collaboration, international relationships, education, and adapting brands and formulas responsibly for new environments.
What is RESCU, and what problem are you trying to solve through its topical technology?
Discussion focus: A practical, premium topical concept designed around mobility, recovery routines, active lifestyles, and healthy aging.
How has your definition of leadership changed as your companies have grown?
Discussion focus: Moving from doing everything personally to setting standards, leading teams, protecting trust, and staying accountable for execution.
How do you know when persistence is required and when it is time to pivot?
Discussion focus: Reading market evidence without abandoning conviction, separating temporary resistance from a true need to change direction.
How has being a single mother influenced the way you lead and define success?
Discussion focus: Building with intention, protecting priorities, and creating a meaningful example and legacy for the next generation.
What standards should the wellness industry raise over the next five years?
Discussion focus: Responsible communication, better education, stronger product discipline, operator accountability, and consumer-centered innovation.
What are you building now that you believe will define your next chapter?
Discussion focus: RESCU, Care Garden International, proprietary development partnerships, and the next expression of Vanessa’s topical innovation vision.
“I am inspired by a fierce desire to build the kind of brands that people would like to see more of.”
VANESSA MARQUEZ · IECSC FLORIDA SPEAKER PROFILE, 2019
SPEAKING
An operator’s perspective on wellness, innovation, and growth.
Vanessa is available for keynote interviews, panels, podcasts, television, founder conversations, and industry education.
01Building a Wellness Brand People Can Trust
02Innovation Within Regulation
03From Practitioner to Founder
04The Future of Topical Wellness
05Private Label Partnerships at Scale
06Luxury Without Losing Utility
07Knowing When to Pivot
08Motherhood and Leadership
BEYOND THE BIO
Recent & upcoming projects.
Vanessa’s current chapter brings product innovation, international partnership building, founder storytelling, and a deeply personal definition of legacy into one focused body of work.
01
Launch the next stage of RESCU
Developing a proprietary plant-therapy topical concept for mobility, active living, recovery routines, and healthy aging.
02
Grow Care Garden International
Expanding international relationships and identifying market-aligned opportunities for brands, formulas, education, and collaboration.
03
Build proprietary partnerships
Continuing private-label and exclusive product development for established spa, wellness, retail, and hospitality operators.
04
Share the founder story
Appearing in Legacy Makers on the Inside Success Network and continuing conversations around leadership, reinvention, and impact.
Awards & Accolades
Recognition across business, beauty, and wellness.
- 2022Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing CompaniesClient-supplied recognition
- Feature5280 Top Entrepreneurs in ColoradoClient-supplied feature
- FeatureElle Fashion MagazineClient-supplied feature
- UpcomingLegacy Makers · Inside Success NetworkFounder documentary
- 20115280 Top of the TownIMassage · massage therapy
- 2019IECSC Florida SpeakerInternational spa and wellness education
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