Tonya Millions Fitch
Founder of Astra Wellness in Macon, Georgia.
Key Highlights: 🌟 About Astra Wellness
- Name Origin: “Astra” means “star” in French, symbolizing guidance—just as stars guided explorers and enslaved people seeking freedom.
- Mission: To guide individuals toward optimal health, happiness, and beauty.
👩⚕️ T0nya’s Background
- Over 25 years in healthcare, including 12 years as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologist.
- Inspired to start Astra Wellness after her father, a Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD and chronic pain, lacked access to proper nutritional care during COVID.
🏥 Services Offered
- IV hydration therapy
- Medical weight loss
- Facials, chemical peels, body contouring
- Anti-aging treatments including ozone therapy, infrared sauna, massage, Botox, and fillers
- Functional medicine focused on root-cause treatment and prevention
📈 Business Growth
- Started in a 650 sq ft space; now expanding to a 3,000 sq ft commercial building.
- Received strong community support and referrals from medical professionals.
- Offers a one-stop wellness center model.
💡 Entrepreneurial Insights
- Initially believed a good credit score was enough for a loan—learned the importance of:
- A solid business plan
- Debt-to-credit ratio
- Financial projections
- Showing business income
- Built a relationship with a banker who helped her navigate the loan process.
🧬 Health Philosophy
- Emphasizes treating from the inside out.
- IV infusions bypass the digestive system, allowing 100% absorption of nutrients.
- Helps with depression, insomnia, dementia, skin/hair issues, and more.
- 96% of clients report feeling better immediately after treatment.
🌐 Contact Information
- Website: www.astrawellness.com
- Phone: (478) 200-7575
- Social Media: Astra Wellness on Instagram and Facebook
#SHMS #STRAW #BEST
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I am Rashan McDonald, a host the weekly Money
Making Conversation Masterclass show. The interviews and information that this
show provides are for everyone. It's time to stop reading
other people's success stories and start living your own. If
you want to be a guest on my show, please
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a Guest button. Chris Submit and information will come directly
(00:23):
to me. Now let's get this show started. My guest
is a distinguished healthcare professional with over twenty five years
of experience, including twelve years as a certified registered nurse anesthesiologists.
Her vision is to empower individuals to achieve optimal health, happiness,
and beauty. Please welcome to the Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
(00:44):
Tanya Millions Finch. How are you doing? Tanya?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Hey, mister mc donald, I'm doing well. How are you Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Tell us the name of your business.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
So the name of my business is called Astra Wellness Astro.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Spelled astr and the meaning behind.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That, yeah, so Astra means star in French. And so
if you think about it, many years ago, like during
the during slavery, they didn't have GPS systems. They didn't
have a theory. There is no ways that they could
navigate with, so they had to use the stars. And
so stars guide people many years ago, including explorers, and
(01:24):
so that is my endeavor is to guide people to
health and wellness.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Now, when you say you have twenty five years of
experience in the healthcare business, twelve years as a certified
registered nurse and a caesiologist, that alone, I know is
a well paid job. That's a way of paid job.
You can get a job as a nadhesiologist nurse. How
why are you an entrepreneur?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, I saw a need. As you mentioned before, I
was practicing full time anesthesia at a level one trauma
center here in Macon, Georgia. But my father got sick.
My father fought in the Vietnam War and was suffering
from PTSD and chronic pain, and so he was going
(02:08):
different places and he was just getting worse, to the
point where he was suicidal. And I went to see
him one day. I said, you know what, Dad, you're
just getting worse. I have to pull back from anesthesia
and I'm going to figure out how it is that
I can help you. And so I started doing a
ton of research, and in my research, endeavors I found
(02:29):
that dehydration and poor nutrition will contribute to things like PTSD,
which he suffered severely from, and chronic pain, which he
suffered severely from. This was during the height of COVID
and there was not a place he could go to
get proper nutrition. The only place he could go to
get IB foods was at the emergency room, and I
(02:50):
didn't want him there with a bunch of COVID people.
The closest place was in Atlanta, and he wasn't going
to go there. And so I said, you know what, Dad,
if you need ivy fluids, nutrition, other people in the
community needed as well. And so I'm just going to
satisfy the need in the community and open a place
of my own. And so that's how Astra Wellness was born.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Wow, now can you give us more detail exactly what
is PTSD? I know it stands for post dramatic stress disorder,
What exactly is that? And is it something that can
be calmed down other than and I think that was
your bottom line, trying to achieve that with your dad.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Correct, Yes, that's right. So yeah, So, as I mentioned before,
he fought in the Vietnam War. He was having severe flashbacks. Wow,
the older my dad got. I would go visit him.
He would sit in his room in a dart room,
very anti social. His diet consisted of Coca colas and cigarettes.
(03:51):
He was taking a lot of pay medicine at the time,
and he was just getting worse and worse and worse.
And so all of those flashbacks from the war or
were just causing him tremendous problems, were to the point
where he couldn't function anymore. And so that's what I
in my studies, I found that simple things you can do,
like vitamin D three will help prevent depression and help
(04:14):
treat depression. Something as simple as vitamin B six will
help also to treat depression. And one thing about taking
things by mouth, if you have a healthy gut, a
healthy GI tract, you're still only going to absorb thirty
to forty percent of what you're taking. But if you
(04:36):
have those things infused via iv or intraveniously through your veins,
then you're going to absorb one hundred percent of what
your body is deficient in. And that is why so
many people feel better almost immediately when they get infusions
via IV.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Wow, now your clinic is located and making Georgia. You know,
I'm a big city gap. I always feel that. You know,
when you're in a big city, miss millions, you will
have more options for customers, more options for clients. And
so did that run through your mind or you felt, hey,
this is a need in this community. Let me feel
(05:14):
the need that you feel isn't available, because like you said,
for your dad, you had to go to Atlanta for treatment.
Tell us where you started and then where are you
headed with your business? As far as the success that
you've been having in the making area with Astra wellness.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Okay, sure, so yes. I've always been a firm believer
in that movie. If you build it, they will come.
So that is the thing that happened here. Like I said,
there was a big need for it. And I believe
that if you can satisfy a need, give the people
what they want, then they will come and support you.
(05:52):
So when I started off, I only had My current
location is six hundred and fifty square feet. I have
been so well received in the area where I and
within three years of opening my business, I was able
to purchase my own commercial building. We will be expanding
into a three thousand square feet building.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Come on, now, come on, now, let me ask this.
I'm asking this. See you, that's what you know if
you boxing somebody, that's a knockout. That was a knockout
to my course. Okay, mister McDonald, I won't tell you
something now. I started a six hundred and fifty square
feet I went out on faith. I went out to
save my dad three years. I'm going into a three
thousand square foot which is three Come on now, five
(06:35):
times nearly five times the space you have. Now, now
let's talk about that business plan when you start making
these decisions. Now, is this self funded or you have
to go to a bank to make this decision to
grow like this?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
No, it is definitely not so fun, dude. I did
have to go to a bank, And a business plan
is so vitally important, and I had no idea to
let me be very transparent for a moment. I originally,
when I knew I wanted to expand, I felt like,
oh my god, my credit score is really good. That's
all I need. I was sadly mistaken. You need so
(07:13):
much more, Yes, things like a business plan, knowing your
debt to credit ratio, having an adequate down payment, because
you know you're going to have to put some money
down and show people that you're serious about this investment,
right and you want them to put their trust in you,
so you have to have some skin in the game,
and so all those things. When I first went, I
(07:35):
was so embarrassed. I didn't know what I was doing.
Like I said, my credit scorer is really good, and
I felt like that was all I needed. But something else.
As business owners, I feel like we make mistakes and
is trying to write everything off that will decrease your taxes. Yes,
but you need to show that your business is thriving
and so you're going to need to show income as
(07:58):
a result of that. So that was a lesson that
I had to learn. When I got my first note
from the bank, go back, this is what you need
to work on and come back later. That's when I
was able to have all my ducks in a row,
present the business plan, have a good debt to credit ratio,
have my down payment, all those things, and that was
(08:19):
when I was able to get the loan. It took
me about a year to work on that.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Please don't go anywhere, We'll be right back with more
Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Welcome back to the Money Making
Conversations Masterclass hosted by Rashan McDonald.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And I'm working with a lot of young entrepreneurs am
off this, you know, trying to set them up with
bank mentors. Because don't be embarrassed if you're not ready now,
because that's what you're saying. Rashana went in. I thought
I had I had great credit, you know, I've been
in business for a while. And then I walked in
and I got smacked upside the head saying your business
(08:59):
plan is in at quit is ill conceived, but we're
going to work with you. I think that really needs
to be expounding more because that's where a lot of
people get pushed out the door saying, you know, they
don't want to do business with me. They don't want
to do They just making it difficult for me to
do business. Yes, they are just so that's how it works.
(09:19):
But that doesn't mean you should stop pursuing your dreams.
Talk about that process a little bit more in detail there, Tanya.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, sure, Yeah, that doesn't mean just because they tell
you no, I mean, that's not going to last forever.
It's just a not right now. So my best advice.
What I did was I established a relationship with a banker.
So what do I mean by a relationship? Will you
go in, you open up an account, You befriend whoever
the person is that helps you open your account up,
(09:47):
and then you start putting your money in there. And
that is how you start establishing a really good foundation
at a bank. Go back and ask them what do
I need to do to get to where I need
to be, and they'll be more more than happy to
help you to do that. And that's exactly what I did.
Establish a relationship. I needed to show my financial projections
(10:08):
where I wanted to see my business in the next
three to five years. I had to do like a
financial analysis or i'm sorry, a financial historical analysis. And
they were so gracious they helped me to do that.
I didn't know anything about it, but because I was
starting to establish that relationship with a banker, they helped
me to navigate this whole thing to get to everything
(10:29):
that I needed, and that's how I was able to
get secure the loan.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well, I'm telling you you got the right voice Full
Wellness Center. You know it's not screachy it's very calming,
you know, it's very soothing like that you walk into
her studio, she has that soothing music, water running in
the back world. It's almost like you walk in and
fall asleep immediately. That is the purpose is to really
bring the stress level down when they come into astro wellness, correct, Tanya, that.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Is correct, yes, absolutely when people, and I tell my
people all the time, when you come across the threshold,
I want you to leave all your cares and concerns
outside the door. I want you to be able to
feel the relaxation, the energy in here so that you
can be stress. Come in, just have a seat, close
your eyes, relax a little bit. Because in the world today,
(11:17):
everyone is rushing, rushing, rushing, right, and so we need
to have a safe place that we can go to
and relax, calm down a little bit. Because, believer or not,
stress will also affect your mental health, your well being
as well, and your physical health.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
What are you so proud of most about your company?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Tell you the thing that I'm most proud of is
the response that I have received from the community. I
have the back end of a lot of my colleagues
from the hospital, a lot of my physician colleagues to
the point where they will start referring their patients here
because there's a big difference. So one of the reasons,
(12:02):
let me just back up a moment that I am expanding,
is because now I send my clients out to different
places for the services that they need, and so in
my head, I wanted to create a place where they
can just come and get everything they need, like a
one stop shop kind of place, and so that's why
I need it somewhere larger. Currently I'm doing IV hydration,
(12:26):
I have a medical weight loss program. I also have
an esthetition that does facial black services. She does chemical pills,
body contouring, those types of things. At my new location,
I'm going to be focusing in on overall health and wellness,
anything that's anti aging, anti inflammatory, teaching people proper lifestyle changes,
(12:52):
because it's my belief we don't have to just exists
that we can thrive in life. We don't just have
to feel good, but we want to feel our options
to them, and so so many people come in with
different problems that are not being properly addressed, and so
as a result of that, I'll start offering what's called
functional medicine. Functional medicine is very different from conventional medicine.
(13:14):
Conventional medicine is you go to your doctor, you get
lab work, everything is fine, and they won't treat you
until things go awry. But with functional medicine, my job
is to prevent things from going awry, so we treat
you on a cellular level. The goal is to find
(13:34):
out the root cause of what is going on with you,
Address the root cause, fix that, and not just put
a band aid on the symptoms. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Absolutely? Now I'm going to move something that you talked
about anti aging over here. Is at that anti aging stage,
I'm trying to fight off the time. I'm trying to
I'm trying to get a wrinkled to look straight. I'm
trying to move a bag and make it bagless. I'm
trying to do anything in my face to give me
an up. You know. So somebody you look good for
(14:04):
your age, you shout. That's a couple of moments I
want in my life right now. Okay, how does the
anti aging process work at your that you provide we're
at astra wellness.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Okay, so yeah, one of the things that my goal
is to treat you from the inside out. I believe
that if you treat the inside, the outside will show.
And so the main thing is to de curious inflammation.
What that means is whether it's with your diet, mighty fluids,
proper vitamins, proper nutrition, all of those things, if they
(14:38):
are not where they should be, they're going to cause inflammation.
And inflammation is what contributes to wrinkles, hyper pigmentation bags
underneath your eyes. If your lymphatic system is not flowing,
it's going to be backed up and that's what's going
to cause the swelling or those bags. So that's one thing.
Another thing is I have a skincare lone, a medical
(14:59):
grade skin care hairline too, and so all of that
is anti agent. I will also have at my new
location a hyperbaried ozone chamber. Ozone therapy is very anti agent,
and infrared sana you'll detox, you detox all the toxins
from your body. Then all of those things will be
anti agent. A massage therapist, and then we'll also do
(15:22):
things like botox to prevent wrinkles or help treat wrinkles
and fillers. And because the older you get, the more
fat loss you will have in your face. And so
with a filler, you can build that up, rebuild a
matrix of your space back up to give you that
youthful book.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Oh you know what you're saying now and got me
ready to register and calling some reservations and things like
that make it. But you know when you thank you
for that detail, because I think it's important to people understand.
You know, your move was just not to get a
bigger space. It will supervide more opportunities to create cash
flow within your business model, which is the key. And
(15:59):
I think that that was one of the things you
pitched to the bank as well.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Correct, Yeah, that is correct. Yes, I was very clear
on the people that I wanted to service in the
in the area, because when you go to the bank,
you have to know what your your target audience is,
who you are, your avatar, whatever you want to call them.
You have to know who those people are going to
be because they're going to want to know. Okay, so
(16:23):
you have this great idea, but how are you going
to fund it? Well, you have to have the income
coming in, so you have to be crystal clear on
who your target audience is.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Wow, what is your biggest accompts from ac complishment so far,
you will feel, you know, because I know that you
told an incredible story about your father really motivated you
to moving this direction and walk away from a full
time successful job. But what do you feel is your
biggest account from accomplishment so far?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I'm going to tell you so. So let me back
up with my dad just a moment. So I found
my location in October of twenty twenty. December fifteenth of
twenty twenty, I had just put my patient to sleep
under anesthesia, and my phone rang and it was a
(17:13):
family member. And my family they know when I'm at
the hospital, you know, don't call her, She's busy. And
so it was my dad's sister and she said, Tanya,
has anybody called you? And I was like, oh my god,
if my dad isn't it. She said, yes. My father
dropped dead that morning, about thirty minutes prior to the
phone call, from a rupture a order aneurism that put
(17:37):
me into such a deep depression. Okay, I stopped doing everything.
I could only go home, go to sleep, go to
the hospital, go home, go to sleep, go to the hospital.
But I had to remember my wife, and I said Tanya,
what are you doing? You promised your dad you would
help him and other people. So I had to just
(18:00):
snap myself out of that depression. Right. So my father
was the catalyst to get my business started, but it's
the people in my community who are helping me to
keep that going. And so that is my biggest accomplishment,
the fact that I can offer people in my community
a service that is bodily needed. And people know when
(18:22):
you're genuine. They know when you're genuine, and so that
is what keeps them coming back. And I will have
to say, just myself being able to rise above that depression,
remember my why, and to be a successful business owner
to the point where I can purchase a commercial space.
That's my biggest accomplishment in my business.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Congratulations. I'm gonna turn this little bit on Raushan here.
You know, because I've had a lot of high profile
celebrity guys in my life and over the years, friends, strangers,
and they have always went to these wellness centers like
you've created, and I never saw a need for that.
(19:03):
I mean, they would get the vitamins, like you said,
injected directly into them. You kind of talked about the
value of that. As we close out the show, talk
about the value again of what astra wellness brings and
why the importance of receiving certain types of vitamins that
way versus like I traditionally do two pills a day
(19:26):
or pill a day when I wake up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Sure. Yeah, So normally we are supposed to get vitamins, minerals,
nutrition from our food. Right, as we all know the
food industry, the food is contaminated, everything is genetically modified,
the soil is depleted of nutrients, and so now as
(19:50):
a result, we're not getting what we need from food.
Couple that with poor eating habits, high sugar diet, high
processed foods, not drinking enough water. So all of that
stuff destroys our gut, all right, and so the majority
of people don't have a healthy gut. So as a result,
when you take a pill by mouth or you think
(20:12):
you're eating a healthy diet, if your gut biome is off,
the gut environment is off, you're not going to absorb
what you need. So that's why so many people can
take pills or you know, vitamins and still not feel
the effects of that. When you start an IV, you
bypass the whole digestive tract. Those nutrients are going to
go directly into your veins where your body is going
(20:35):
to absorb one hundred percent of what you need. And
that's why people feel so much better so quickly. I
treat people who are overweight. I treat people who are depressed,
who are stressed out, who suffer from insomnia. I have
people who have hair, skin and nail issues that I treat.
I have college students who come in and they just
need an infusion to help them think better for their exam.
(20:58):
Or I have a lot of people that I'm treating
with dementia, and so I do all of that by
bypassing the digestive tract, giving them exactly what they need
through my customized infusions, and in that way, they're going
to absorb it and feel defects of it. Ninety six
percent of my clients feel better almost immediately.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
So, so how do we go about contacting you? I
know you're in Macon, Georgia, your odds of operation and
also do you can one go online? And if so,
tell us how to go online if we want to
find out more information about ASTRA wellness or setting an appointment.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Sure so, yes, you can book an appointment online. My
website is www dot Astra Wellness dot com and let
me spell that as and Adam SS and Sam Tias
and Tom Ris and Richard i As and Edward Astra
Wellness dot com. And then our phone number here is
four seven eight two zero zero seven five seven five
(21:58):
and then I can. I have social media on Instagram
it's Astra Wellness as t R E Wellness, and then
also on Facebook we're also Astra Wellness on Facebook as well.
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Keep winning
Hi, I am Rashan McDonald, a host the weekly Money
Making Conversation Masterclass show. The interviews and information that this
show provides are for everyone. It's time to stop reading
other people's success stories and start living your own. If
you want to be a guest on my show, please
visit our website, Moneymakingconversations dot com and click the be
a Guest button. Chris Submit and information will come directly
(00:23):
to me. Now let's get this show started. My guest
is a distinguished healthcare professional with over twenty five years
of experience, including twelve years as a certified registered nurse anesthesiologists.
Her vision is to empower individuals to achieve optimal health, happiness,
and beauty. Please welcome to the Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
(00:44):
Tanya Millions Finch. How are you doing? Tanya?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Hey, mister mc donald, I'm doing well. How are you Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Tell us the name of your business.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
So the name of my business is called Astra Wellness Astro.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Spelled astr and the meaning behind.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That, yeah, so Astra means star in French. And so
if you think about it, many years ago, like during
the during slavery, they didn't have GPS systems. They didn't
have a theory. There is no ways that they could
navigate with, so they had to use the stars. And
so stars guide people many years ago, including explorers, and
(01:24):
so that is my endeavor is to guide people to
health and wellness.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Now, when you say you have twenty five years of
experience in the healthcare business, twelve years as a certified
registered nurse and a caesiologist, that alone, I know is
a well paid job. That's a way of paid job.
You can get a job as a nadhesiologist nurse. How
why are you an entrepreneur?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, I saw a need. As you mentioned before, I
was practicing full time anesthesia at a level one trauma
center here in Macon, Georgia. But my father got sick.
My father fought in the Vietnam War and was suffering
from PTSD and chronic pain, and so he was going
(02:08):
different places and he was just getting worse, to the
point where he was suicidal. And I went to see
him one day. I said, you know what, Dad, you're
just getting worse. I have to pull back from anesthesia
and I'm going to figure out how it is that
I can help you. And so I started doing a
ton of research, and in my research, endeavors I found
(02:29):
that dehydration and poor nutrition will contribute to things like PTSD,
which he suffered severely from, and chronic pain, which he
suffered severely from. This was during the height of COVID
and there was not a place he could go to
get proper nutrition. The only place he could go to
get IB foods was at the emergency room, and I
(02:50):
didn't want him there with a bunch of COVID people.
The closest place was in Atlanta, and he wasn't going
to go there. And so I said, you know what, Dad,
if you need ivy fluids, nutrition, other people in the
community needed as well. And so I'm just going to
satisfy the need in the community and open a place
of my own. And so that's how Astra Wellness was born.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Wow, now can you give us more detail exactly what
is PTSD? I know it stands for post dramatic stress disorder,
What exactly is that? And is it something that can
be calmed down other than and I think that was
your bottom line, trying to achieve that with your dad.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Correct, Yes, that's right. So yeah, So, as I mentioned before,
he fought in the Vietnam War. He was having severe flashbacks. Wow,
the older my dad got. I would go visit him.
He would sit in his room in a dart room,
very anti social. His diet consisted of Coca colas and cigarettes.
(03:51):
He was taking a lot of pay medicine at the time,
and he was just getting worse and worse and worse.
And so all of those flashbacks from the war or
were just causing him tremendous problems, were to the point
where he couldn't function anymore. And so that's what I
in my studies, I found that simple things you can do,
like vitamin D three will help prevent depression and help
(04:14):
treat depression. Something as simple as vitamin B six will
help also to treat depression. And one thing about taking
things by mouth, if you have a healthy gut, a
healthy GI tract, you're still only going to absorb thirty
to forty percent of what you're taking. But if you
(04:36):
have those things infused via iv or intraveniously through your veins,
then you're going to absorb one hundred percent of what
your body is deficient in. And that is why so
many people feel better almost immediately when they get infusions
via IV.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Wow, now your clinic is located and making Georgia. You know,
I'm a big city gap. I always feel that. You know,
when you're in a big city, miss millions, you will
have more options for customers, more options for clients. And
so did that run through your mind or you felt, hey,
this is a need in this community. Let me feel
(05:14):
the need that you feel isn't available, because like you said,
for your dad, you had to go to Atlanta for treatment.
Tell us where you started and then where are you
headed with your business? As far as the success that
you've been having in the making area with Astra wellness.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Okay, sure, so yes. I've always been a firm believer
in that movie. If you build it, they will come.
So that is the thing that happened here. Like I said,
there was a big need for it. And I believe
that if you can satisfy a need, give the people
what they want, then they will come and support you.
(05:52):
So when I started off, I only had My current
location is six hundred and fifty square feet. I have
been so well received in the area where I and
within three years of opening my business, I was able
to purchase my own commercial building. We will be expanding
into a three thousand square feet building.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Come on, now, come on, now, let me ask this.
I'm asking this. See you, that's what you know if
you boxing somebody, that's a knockout. That was a knockout
to my course. Okay, mister McDonald, I won't tell you
something now. I started a six hundred and fifty square
feet I went out on faith. I went out to
save my dad three years. I'm going into a three
thousand square foot which is three Come on now, five
(06:35):
times nearly five times the space you have. Now, now
let's talk about that business plan when you start making
these decisions. Now, is this self funded or you have
to go to a bank to make this decision to
grow like this?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
No, it is definitely not so fun, dude. I did
have to go to a bank, And a business plan
is so vitally important, and I had no idea to
let me be very transparent for a moment. I originally,
when I knew I wanted to expand, I felt like,
oh my god, my credit score is really good. That's
all I need. I was sadly mistaken. You need so
(07:13):
much more, Yes, things like a business plan, knowing your
debt to credit ratio, having an adequate down payment, because
you know you're going to have to put some money
down and show people that you're serious about this investment,
right and you want them to put their trust in you,
so you have to have some skin in the game,
and so all those things. When I first went, I
(07:35):
was so embarrassed. I didn't know what I was doing.
Like I said, my credit scorer is really good, and
I felt like that was all I needed. But something else.
As business owners, I feel like we make mistakes and
is trying to write everything off that will decrease your taxes. Yes,
but you need to show that your business is thriving
and so you're going to need to show income as
(07:58):
a result of that. So that was a lesson that
I had to learn. When I got my first note
from the bank, go back, this is what you need
to work on and come back later. That's when I
was able to have all my ducks in a row,
present the business plan, have a good debt to credit ratio,
have my down payment, all those things, and that was
(08:19):
when I was able to get the loan. It took
me about a year to work on that.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Please don't go anywhere, We'll be right back with more
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Speaker 1 (08:38):
And I'm working with a lot of young entrepreneurs am
off this, you know, trying to set them up with
bank mentors. Because don't be embarrassed if you're not ready now,
because that's what you're saying. Rashana went in. I thought
I had I had great credit, you know, I've been
in business for a while. And then I walked in
and I got smacked upside the head saying your business
(08:59):
plan is in at quit is ill conceived, but we're
going to work with you. I think that really needs
to be expounding more because that's where a lot of
people get pushed out the door saying, you know, they
don't want to do business with me. They don't want
to do They just making it difficult for me to
do business. Yes, they are just so that's how it works.
(09:19):
But that doesn't mean you should stop pursuing your dreams.
Talk about that process a little bit more in detail there, Tanya.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, sure, Yeah, that doesn't mean just because they tell
you no, I mean, that's not going to last forever.
It's just a not right now. So my best advice.
What I did was I established a relationship with a banker.
So what do I mean by a relationship? Will you
go in, you open up an account, You befriend whoever
the person is that helps you open your account up,
(09:47):
and then you start putting your money in there. And
that is how you start establishing a really good foundation
at a bank. Go back and ask them what do
I need to do to get to where I need
to be, and they'll be more more than happy to
help you to do that. And that's exactly what I did.
Establish a relationship. I needed to show my financial projections
(10:08):
where I wanted to see my business in the next
three to five years. I had to do like a
financial analysis or i'm sorry, a financial historical analysis. And
they were so gracious they helped me to do that.
I didn't know anything about it, but because I was
starting to establish that relationship with a banker, they helped
me to navigate this whole thing to get to everything
(10:29):
that I needed, and that's how I was able to
get secure the loan.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well, I'm telling you you got the right voice Full
Wellness Center. You know it's not screachy it's very calming,
you know, it's very soothing like that you walk into
her studio, she has that soothing music, water running in
the back world. It's almost like you walk in and
fall asleep immediately. That is the purpose is to really
bring the stress level down when they come into astro wellness, correct, Tanya, that.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Is correct, yes, absolutely when people, and I tell my
people all the time, when you come across the threshold,
I want you to leave all your cares and concerns
outside the door. I want you to be able to
feel the relaxation, the energy in here so that you
can be stress. Come in, just have a seat, close
your eyes, relax a little bit. Because in the world today,
(11:17):
everyone is rushing, rushing, rushing, right, and so we need
to have a safe place that we can go to
and relax, calm down a little bit. Because, believer or not,
stress will also affect your mental health, your well being
as well, and your physical health.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
What are you so proud of most about your company?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Tell you the thing that I'm most proud of is
the response that I have received from the community. I
have the back end of a lot of my colleagues
from the hospital, a lot of my physician colleagues to
the point where they will start referring their patients here
because there's a big difference. So one of the reasons,
(12:02):
let me just back up a moment that I am expanding,
is because now I send my clients out to different
places for the services that they need, and so in
my head, I wanted to create a place where they
can just come and get everything they need, like a
one stop shop kind of place, and so that's why
I need it somewhere larger. Currently I'm doing IV hydration,
(12:26):
I have a medical weight loss program. I also have
an esthetition that does facial black services. She does chemical pills,
body contouring, those types of things. At my new location,
I'm going to be focusing in on overall health and wellness,
anything that's anti aging, anti inflammatory, teaching people proper lifestyle changes,
(12:52):
because it's my belief we don't have to just exists
that we can thrive in life. We don't just have
to feel good, but we want to feel our options
to them, and so so many people come in with
different problems that are not being properly addressed, and so
as a result of that, I'll start offering what's called
functional medicine. Functional medicine is very different from conventional medicine.
(13:14):
Conventional medicine is you go to your doctor, you get
lab work, everything is fine, and they won't treat you
until things go awry. But with functional medicine, my job
is to prevent things from going awry, so we treat
you on a cellular level. The goal is to find
(13:34):
out the root cause of what is going on with you,
Address the root cause, fix that, and not just put
a band aid on the symptoms. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Absolutely? Now I'm going to move something that you talked
about anti aging over here. Is at that anti aging stage,
I'm trying to fight off the time. I'm trying to
I'm trying to get a wrinkled to look straight. I'm
trying to move a bag and make it bagless. I'm
trying to do anything in my face to give me
an up. You know. So somebody you look good for
(14:04):
your age, you shout. That's a couple of moments I
want in my life right now. Okay, how does the
anti aging process work at your that you provide we're
at astra wellness.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Okay, so yeah, one of the things that my goal
is to treat you from the inside out. I believe
that if you treat the inside, the outside will show.
And so the main thing is to de curious inflammation.
What that means is whether it's with your diet, mighty fluids,
proper vitamins, proper nutrition, all of those things, if they
(14:38):
are not where they should be, they're going to cause inflammation.
And inflammation is what contributes to wrinkles, hyper pigmentation bags
underneath your eyes. If your lymphatic system is not flowing,
it's going to be backed up and that's what's going
to cause the swelling or those bags. So that's one thing.
Another thing is I have a skincare lone, a medical
(14:59):
grade skin care hairline too, and so all of that
is anti agent. I will also have at my new
location a hyperbaried ozone chamber. Ozone therapy is very anti agent,
and infrared sana you'll detox, you detox all the toxins
from your body. Then all of those things will be
anti agent. A massage therapist, and then we'll also do
(15:22):
things like botox to prevent wrinkles or help treat wrinkles
and fillers. And because the older you get, the more
fat loss you will have in your face. And so
with a filler, you can build that up, rebuild a
matrix of your space back up to give you that
youthful book.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Oh you know what you're saying now and got me
ready to register and calling some reservations and things like
that make it. But you know when you thank you
for that detail, because I think it's important to people understand.
You know, your move was just not to get a
bigger space. It will supervide more opportunities to create cash
flow within your business model, which is the key. And
(15:59):
I think that that was one of the things you
pitched to the bank as well.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Correct, Yeah, that is correct. Yes, I was very clear
on the people that I wanted to service in the
in the area, because when you go to the bank,
you have to know what your your target audience is,
who you are, your avatar, whatever you want to call them.
You have to know who those people are going to
be because they're going to want to know. Okay, so
(16:23):
you have this great idea, but how are you going
to fund it? Well, you have to have the income
coming in, so you have to be crystal clear on
who your target audience is.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Wow, what is your biggest accompts from ac complishment so far,
you will feel, you know, because I know that you
told an incredible story about your father really motivated you
to moving this direction and walk away from a full
time successful job. But what do you feel is your
biggest account from accomplishment so far?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I'm going to tell you so. So let me back
up with my dad just a moment. So I found
my location in October of twenty twenty. December fifteenth of
twenty twenty, I had just put my patient to sleep
under anesthesia, and my phone rang and it was a
(17:13):
family member. And my family they know when I'm at
the hospital, you know, don't call her, She's busy. And
so it was my dad's sister and she said, Tanya,
has anybody called you? And I was like, oh my god,
if my dad isn't it. She said, yes. My father
dropped dead that morning, about thirty minutes prior to the
phone call, from a rupture a order aneurism that put
(17:37):
me into such a deep depression. Okay, I stopped doing everything.
I could only go home, go to sleep, go to
the hospital, go home, go to sleep, go to the hospital.
But I had to remember my wife, and I said Tanya,
what are you doing? You promised your dad you would
help him and other people. So I had to just
(18:00):
snap myself out of that depression. Right. So my father
was the catalyst to get my business started, but it's
the people in my community who are helping me to
keep that going. And so that is my biggest accomplishment,
the fact that I can offer people in my community
a service that is bodily needed. And people know when
(18:22):
you're genuine. They know when you're genuine, and so that
is what keeps them coming back. And I will have
to say, just myself being able to rise above that depression,
remember my why, and to be a successful business owner
to the point where I can purchase a commercial space.
That's my biggest accomplishment in my business.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Congratulations. I'm gonna turn this little bit on Raushan here.
You know, because I've had a lot of high profile
celebrity guys in my life and over the years, friends, strangers,
and they have always went to these wellness centers like
you've created, and I never saw a need for that.
(19:03):
I mean, they would get the vitamins, like you said,
injected directly into them. You kind of talked about the
value of that. As we close out the show, talk
about the value again of what astra wellness brings and
why the importance of receiving certain types of vitamins that
way versus like I traditionally do two pills a day
(19:26):
or pill a day when I wake up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Sure. Yeah, So normally we are supposed to get vitamins, minerals,
nutrition from our food. Right, as we all know the
food industry, the food is contaminated, everything is genetically modified,
the soil is depleted of nutrients, and so now as
(19:50):
a result, we're not getting what we need from food.
Couple that with poor eating habits, high sugar diet, high
processed foods, not drinking enough water. So all of that
stuff destroys our gut, all right, and so the majority
of people don't have a healthy gut. So as a result,
when you take a pill by mouth or you think
(20:12):
you're eating a healthy diet, if your gut biome is off,
the gut environment is off, you're not going to absorb
what you need. So that's why so many people can
take pills or you know, vitamins and still not feel
the effects of that. When you start an IV, you
bypass the whole digestive tract. Those nutrients are going to
go directly into your veins where your body is going
(20:35):
to absorb one hundred percent of what you need. And
that's why people feel so much better so quickly. I
treat people who are overweight. I treat people who are depressed,
who are stressed out, who suffer from insomnia. I have
people who have hair, skin and nail issues that I treat.
I have college students who come in and they just
need an infusion to help them think better for their exam.
(20:58):
Or I have a lot of people that I'm treating
with dementia, and so I do all of that by
bypassing the digestive tract, giving them exactly what they need
through my customized infusions, and in that way, they're going
to absorb it and feel defects of it. Ninety six
percent of my clients feel better almost immediately.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
So, so how do we go about contacting you? I
know you're in Macon, Georgia, your odds of operation and
also do you can one go online? And if so,
tell us how to go online if we want to
find out more information about ASTRA wellness or setting an appointment.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Sure so, yes, you can book an appointment online. My
website is www dot Astra Wellness dot com and let
me spell that as and Adam SS and Sam Tias
and Tom Ris and Richard i As and Edward Astra
Wellness dot com. And then our phone number here is
four seven eight two zero zero seven five seven five
(21:58):
and then I can. I have social media on Instagram
it's Astra Wellness as t R E Wellness, and then
also on Facebook we're also Astra Wellness on Facebook as well.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
This has been another edition of Money Making Conversation Masterclass
hosted by me Rashaun McDonald. Thank you to our guests
on the show today and thank you listening to audience now.
If you want to listen to any episode I want
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