October 26, 2023 • 22 mins
Imagine discovering a new purpose after surviving a life-altering challenge. That's exactly what happened to our incredible guest, two-time cancer survivor Andrea Della Mura. Andrea's story is a testament to resilience and reinvention, navigating the trials of chemotherapy and radiation, and emerging stronger, more determined, and with a surprising new passion - opening a drip bar in New York! This first-of-its-kind IV vitamin hydration company is Andrea's way of giving back to the community and sharing the health benefits that have been a lifeline for her and her family.
Inspired by her own survival and the strength she found within, Andrea refused to let retirement signal the end, but rather the beginning of a bold entrepreneurial journey. The drip bar has not only played a significant role in her life but also the lives of her family, acting as the driving force behind this new venture. Andrea's passion for the benefits of drip bars is infectious as she details how they enhance the quality of life and wellness. Andrea's transformative journey from survival to businesswoman is a tale of resilience and determination, a true testament to the human spirit's incredible capacity to bounce back. Join us as we uncover this inspiring story, and who knows, you might just discover your next health secret from the remarkable Andrea Della Mura.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Enjoy today's episode.
Welcome back to another episodeof the Buy Time podcast.
I'm your host, jacob K Mead.
I'm excited that you're heretoday because I have Andrea
Delamira and she is a two-timecancer survivor and her story is
so inspiring.
I'm really excited that you'rehere because you're not going to
want to miss out on hearingthis story and kind of how
inspiring it is.
(00:41):
I mean, she's an inspiration tome, she's all across social
media and she is opening a dripbar in New York the drip bar
right is what it's called, and Iknow she's super excited about
that.
So why don't you start withsharing us a little bit about
yourself?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Some things our audience can know.
Thank you, Jacob.
So that's right.
So Andrea Delamira and I am atwo-time cancer survivor.
I had cancer when I was 24 andthen again when I was 39.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yes, and two kids in between.
So it's been quite a journey,to say the least, and here I am
fast forwarding.
Today I'm 54 and I probablyhave never felt better.
I'm very inspired every day byhow far I have come myself, and
(01:30):
I'll tell you why.
Because I could sit back andretire and I decided that that
is not something that I am readyto do.
I feel like I have served myfamily for so many years and now
I'm ready to do something.
As an empty nester, I'm readyto do something for myself and
(01:50):
I'm looking to open a businessin my hometown called the drip
bar, which is an IV vitaminhydration company.
It is a franchise and I'mexcited to bring this to my own
community because it has meantso much to myself and my family
and our health, and I think it'stime that I pay it forward as
(02:14):
well.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You know that's awesome.
I think so many people get tothis mindset of let's just work
until we're 60 and then retire,and you have the option to
retire.
But instead of just retiring,you're like let's get back to
the community and especiallysomeone that has survived cancer
twice now, I mean and to sitthere and say I'm not done yet,
that's inspiring itself.
So I love hearing that and Ifeel like that right there, it
(02:37):
should just touch our audiencelike hey, listen, you don't have
to give up just because you'regetting ready to retire or still
something else out there foryou.
So what does the drip bar do?
What exactly is it?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So we're an IV vitamin hydration company and so
, just to give you a little bitof a background, I've been doing
drips for about seven years.
No, not think about it, I'm 30years from my first cancer.
This year I'm 15 years from mysecond cancer.
But I've only been dripping forabout seven years because it
(03:08):
was never an option for me andwhen I started doing it it was
in a very clinical type ofatmosphere, unlike what a drip
bar is today.
A drip bar is a true dripcompany and it is in a setting
that is comfortable andwelcoming, clean and
professional.
And I Got a drip this morninghere in Nashville at the drip
(03:33):
bar and honestly it's like IWaded a month to get this drip.
I try to drip every monthmyself because it adds something
to the quality of my life andnow I mean I feel I feel pretty
good since I've been up since 3am.
I Think I'm doing okay.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I tell you, when you're up all the time, it's
like exhausted those, thosetrips can really help too.
I've actually gotten one myselfand I tell you the difference
that you feel especially you canfeel, almost feel it wearing
off.
It's crazy If you get them sofrequently.
You can almost feel I'mstarting wearing off here, like
I'm not myself, like I have togo get rehydrated.
I get my vitamins.
So yeah it's awesome, so that'sso cool they open up.
(04:14):
So what made you want to gothis route?
Is it because you've seen thedifference it made in your
health, or what really drove youto want to open up your own
drip bar?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Well, that's that's interesting, because I didn't
know.
I honestly didn't know.
I Think that after after COVIDand being home so much, but even
before that, I was home for avery long time because my
younger son was ill for a reallylong time and I was primarily
(04:44):
the caretaker home.
There was no ability to go backto work because he really
needed to care, didn't even knowif he would actually graduate
high school and that's that'sanother story.
But and it has something to dothe drip bar.
So put a pin in that for asecond.
So I'm gonna come back to that.
But I really didn't know that Icould actually do this as a
(05:06):
business.
This was not on my radar.
I was looking for something,knowing that I would be an empty
nester, and I was looking forsomething that I could do.
But, being 54, I didn't want togo back to work.
Nine to five I've been out,I've been now out of the work
Environment outside the housefor a really long time and I was
(05:26):
thinking how can I possibly dothis?
Add a Quality to my family, add, you know, time to my family?
That is Worth me leaving thehouse for.
But also, I was looking to feedmy soul because I felt, like
you know, money is important,right, money makes the world go
round, but that's not what wasdriving me.
(05:48):
What was driving me was thealmost the loneliness of being
so isolated for so long, and Iwanted to do something that I
was good at, but I didn't reallyunderstand, other than being a
caretaker.
What I was good at, and itturns out that I'm pretty good
at a few things.
So, fast forward a year, youknow, I had a family member of
(06:11):
mine call me one night and theysaid hey, I want to run
something by you.
Have you ever heard of IVvitamin hydration?
And I'm thinking to myself,well, yes, but I'm thinking why?
What's going on?
And they told me what they hadin mind and that they had
invested in this company.
And I said send me everythingabout, let me take a look at it.
(06:32):
And I did.
And I did a deep dive and Isaid you know what?
Oh my gosh, like the lightbulbs that you know that.
That aha moment was like holycow.
I can actually get into, I canget behind this because I
believe in it.
Now I'm going to bring my sonback into it Right Now.
(06:54):
My son was ill for a reallylong time and he had Lyme
disease which really took himdown, and we didn't even know he
would graduate high school andso he started dripping, I guess
about three, three and a halfyears ago, and he's currently a
sophomore in college.
And not only that, he'sactually an athlete, he plays
(07:18):
baseball for his college and itis remarkable to watch the
progress that he has made overthe years.
So not only can I contributemyself and my own health and I
watched my numbers grow over theyears in a better way because I
have such bad gut health that Iwasn't absorbing the vitamins
(07:42):
that I needed, the nutritionthat I needed.
And listen, I'm not a goodhydrator.
I don't eat the way that Ishould, I don't exercise the way
they should, like most people.
Right, we try to fit it all in,but the truth is I needed help,
and when I was able to startdripping and I watched my
numbers literally watched mynumbers change over time I knew
(08:04):
I was on to something.
And then to be able to now opena business and bring this to my
friends and my family and mycommunity and show them that
there is an option of stayingproactive for your health, I
mean, in a way thank you, covidfor people to understand that
it's not okay to sit back andwait for something to go wrong.
(08:26):
So at the drip bar, weencourage people to come in to
see us.
Number one if you're notfeeling well, why is that?
If you are feeling well, let'shelp you maintain that.
Let's see what your lifestyleis, because that's what this is.
It has to be sustainable.
Right For me, watching my sonand being able to drip with him
(08:51):
at times and opening this up inmy own community.
I mean, honestly, I feel likeI'm just scratching the surface.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
You're there for your community, and that's what
matters.
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I, just for me, it's like I will and getting back to
like I could, I could retire andI am not going to do that and
I'm going to have a big debt forbuilding up this space.
You know, I'm pulling out of,I'm pulling everything out of
retirement that I have, but Ijust know that if I build this,
they will come.
You know, over time I feel likeI've been a pioneer in a lot of
(09:27):
things that I've done in mylife.
I've been told that manydifferent aspects.
I've always been on theforefront of something and
pushing forward.
This is no different for me.
This is no different.
I believe in it so much.
I believe in it so much that Iwant people to be able to come
in and experience it, you know,and to be able to say for
themselves oh my gosh, like yes,I see the difference, I feel
(09:52):
the difference.
You know I'm not one to pushanything on anyone.
You decide, do your duty.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh, I know, I've seen the difference.
It's crazy that the differenceis how you feel Mental clarity.
I mean it's astonishing Likeyou walk out and you're like a
whole new person.
And you're living proof of that, your son's living proof of
that.
It's worth for you guys andthen for you to sit here and say
like I'm not just going to sitaround all day in retirement,
I'm going to actually give backto my community.
(10:18):
I'm going to take this risk.
Yeah, that's amazing,especially with everything
you've been through.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
In addition to that, even with the dripping, I
decided that one day a weekwe're going to stay open.
We're going to have events.
One day a week I'm going togive the community the
opportunity to come to me and totell me what it is that they
want to gather for.
What do they want to talk about?
What do we need?
I want to be able to give.
There's local charities thatmean the world to me, anywhere
(10:47):
from the Ronald McDonald houseto cancer societies of any kind.
I want to be able to allow themto come into my space as a safe
space, whether for them to beable to gather themselves or to
come and drip.
Someone wants to bring theirbook club in.
Come and drip.
They want to gather.
(11:07):
We're not just about, and a lotof people will say oh yeah, I
was hungover and that's why Icame to get a drip.
It's like I hear this all thetime.
That's the only time thatthey've gotten a drip and I'm
like well, listen, can youimagine if that's how good you
felt after that?
Can you imagine if there wasreally something wrong with you
or something that you werefighting?
I feel like we all have.
(11:28):
We all fight a monster.
It doesn't have to be cancer.
We all have something that isgoing on in our life, and so
it's kind of twofold.
For me it's let us help youfigure out what's going on with
you, let us help you supportyour health and lifestyle.
But also for me, it's thatspace.
I want to be able to give mycommunity that space to be able
(11:50):
to do something where they feelagain about back to that word
that they feel safe, that theyhave a space that they can
gather and then they can grow.
Because that's what this isWith everything that I'm doing.
Yes, it's a lot of energy, it'sa lot of time, it's a lot of
money.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It is yeah, and you know I can hear it in your voice
and just see your passion forthis and it's really.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But you just want to help people and I understand
that you can't take the cameraout of me, sorry, as much as I
want to run from it in a way,it's like it's sort of like it's
sort of what God has given me,it's my superpower, yet yet I
mean, on the other side of thatis that and I think we spoke
(12:36):
about this a little bitprivately is that there is a
guilt that comes with it,because we as parents, right, we
have responsibility, and formyself, as having adult children
, now your responsibility tothem shifts and so you sort of
dysregulate things in yourfamily.
(12:57):
So, and people don't talk aboutthat, you know, and it's been
hard, like everybody sees in thethings that we post right and
they see a lot of sunshine, youknow, and people call me
sometimes sometimes, sometimeswe well, I was like I look up
and I see the clouds.
We look like, are you sure aboutthat?
But honestly, it is a.
This is a whole transformationfor me.
(13:17):
I feel like I'm getting back tomy own grassroots.
I am getting back to.
My mom has said to me even inthis past year, she sees this
fire that I had as a kid comingback.
I love that and she used to say, like no, your fire wasn't even
red, it was blue, it was so hot, it was blue.
I would challenge everythingand I am.
(13:41):
I think what it is is that I amregaining and and I'm not
playing small anymore because Ifound my voice.
I always had my voice, but Ididn't it down a little bit and
I lost a little bit ofconfidence.
And, and I think, with wellness,it's not just about health,
it's about that mental clarity,like you said to, and I'm
(14:03):
telling you it's all connected.
For me it's all connected and Iagain I go back to like I'm
finally starting to feel moremyself than I ever have been in
my entire life and I want toshare that.
I want to share that with thepeople that I love and the
people that I know, and I wantto show people that if I can do
it, so I love that you'refollowing a passion and your
(14:24):
passion is helping people andyou know sometimes it's very
tough.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
You know we're always out there helping people and it
can be tough on us, but insteadof just retiring, you're doing
this anyways.
You're doing it for yourcommunity, you're doing it to
help other people and I reallylove that.
I always like to say time is soshort, so time when we look at
it, you know we have so muchtime in our life and we don't
know when the last day is goingto be.
But if you can help prolongthat with the people's health,
(14:51):
if you can help, you know, gettheir health better, where they
can spend better quality timewith their family, or spend
better quality time with theircoworkers, or just get their
health better, you're helping inthat way and that's amazing
Just to hear that story.
So I know you talked a littlebit about this, but you survived
cancer twice the first time.
(15:13):
Let's go back a little bit.
So the first time we got cancer, what was that like?
Tell us, kind of, what was thatlike for you?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
So I was 24.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
So if you, remember, I was 24 years old, so it's 30
years.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
This is my 30 year anniversary from my first cancer
, which is so bizarre to me thatit's like 30 years ago, but so
much has changed.
30 years ago, honestly, I wasnaive, and I think that I was
naive for a reason because I hadno idea what was about to
(15:52):
happen.
And so I remember.
I remember going into thehospital because I found this
lump and I had a few doctorspretty much say well, you know
what?
It's probably just a five word,we'll watch it.
And something inside of me,this voice inside of me, just
said no, I don't think so,because I've always been that
(16:15):
too.
I've always been curious, I'vealways pushed the limits on a
lot of things that I've done,and this was thank goodness.
I did that because this wasanother occasion when, thank God
, I did not sit on that, by thegrace of God, I found a doctor,
a female doctor, who understoodmy concerns and she was a
surgeon, and they tried toaccess it and it was a solid
(16:38):
mass which I knew at that pointthat was probably not a good
thing.
So I went into the hospitalthat day and I just remember
waking up and I remember thedoctor saying to me basically
remember, she pulled her massdown and she was like I'm sorry,
kiddo, but it's cancer.
Well, I could say, was okay,like I had.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
No, I'm 24 years old.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
My oldest son now is.
He'll be turning 23 and I thinkabout holy.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Like that was your age.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That's how this is this is the mindset, this is the
you know and um, I'm not surehow exactly I survived um in a
family and friends that lookedat me like wow, like we're.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You got that fight in you.
I know you do.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I never, I never.
The funny thing is, I look backand I never thought that I die
from this.
I never thought I would die.
I never did.
Um, you know, after having thetumor removed, um, having to go
through chemotherapy Inradiation, I thought that would
kill me.
Obviously, I thought that thechemotherapy would kill me.
(17:43):
It was, um, it was pretty awfulback then.
It's still awful for a lot ofpeople.
It has gotten a little bitbetter because they're able to
target different cancers.
Back then you would cancer, yougot this treatment and so they,
basically they took you down todeath and then they brought you
back up and I had, I remember,having blackouts.
I remember hiding Pricus setsfrom my my mom at the time who
(18:03):
was caring for me.
So I'd go back to my childhoodhome and my mom would care for
me part of the time and I justremember, like, okay, I don't
know how I'm ever going tosurvive this, but I'm going to
try.
And once chemo was over and theradiation started, you know,
the hair started growing backand Um, and it was, it was
better, you know.
But then where do you go fromhere?
(18:24):
All I wanted to do is go backto work.
I wanted to go back to work.
I wanted to go back to what Iwas good at.
I'm a social person, um, I hadthe ability to travel as I was a
buyer for, for a company for avery long time and and I liked
my job.
You know, I liked what I did.
But you know, I was naive and Ithink I was grateful for that,
(18:45):
looking back now, because it wasa scary time back then.
It really was.
And then Um, and thenfast-forwarding to um, you know,
having having two kids now, um,and then going in for a
mammogram and um, and it's sortof a unique story as well.
So so, just so, you know, it'skind of a unique story.
(19:08):
So I went in for a mammogramand at the time had my older son
with me.
He was in first grade and hehad broken his arm, playing in
the basement with a buddy of hisand, um, I bored him with me
because I thought, in and outmammogram, take him to the
pediatrician, have his armRechecked and looked at and
thought, you know, let's getthis done.
And I had the mammogram doneand I remember watching the
(19:30):
radiologist walk in the room andI could just look on her face
and I knew, and I knew, and I, Iliterally put my hand up and I
was like, because my son was nowsitting in the room with me and
I was already redressed, wewere heading out the door and I
just said to her I'm gonna needa few minutes, and she
understood the miss, sheunderstood what I was asking, um
(19:52):
, and so I come back and thegood news was my son's arm was
was healing.
The bad news was that, um,something was definitely going
on because it was Because of myhistory, I needed to go back in,
and so we did what they call ascoop, right, and so I went into
the hospital.
They did a scoop and they wentto go see what was Happening,
(20:13):
and so I remember getting thecall and the call said well, we
have good news and bad news.
So the good news was that whatthey saw In the mammogram
happened to be a calcification.
And I said, okay, great.
And they said, but the bad newsis, when we put it under the
microscope, there were that wassurrounded by one millimeter
cells.
I said, okay, well, that reallysucks, because in my mind now,
(20:36):
I know.
What one million millimetrecells means.
And so an MRI, a mammogram andultrasound exams, all of this,
all of this did not matter,because it was still cancer and
the only thing that helped meWas that it went under a
(20:59):
microscope and that's how it wasdiscovered.
If it wasn't discovered fromthat calcification that day, I
would have went a whole notheryear without Going through a
mammogram, and that would havemetastasized, without a doubt,
because there would have been noother reason why for me to go
(21:20):
back.
So it would have been a wholedifferent Vlogging.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Oh, that is crazy.
You know, I thank you so muchfor coming on the podcast and
just sharing that story.
My pleasure powerful and I'msuper excited for you to open up
your location.
I can't wait for it.
I think it's going to be agreat benefit for your community
I mean really just everyonethere and around there.
It's going to be great for them, thank you.
So if people want to find outmore about you, how can they go
about doing that?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Sure so they can go to wwwthedripbarcom slash rye or
find me on social media at thedrip bar dot rye.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Thanks for listening to today's episode.
My name is Jacob K Mead, anduntil next time.
The following episode was recorded on location in a
public setting.
You may hear background noises,as this is related to the
public setting.
Please enjoy today's episode.
Hey everybody, this is Jacob KMead and this is the Buy Time
podcast, where we discusseverything there is to know
about buying back your time.
Be sure to like and follow andshare with somebody who needs to
buy back their time.
(00:20):
Enjoy today's episode.
Welcome back to another episodeof the Buy Time podcast.
I'm your host, jacob K Mead.
I'm excited that you're heretoday because I have Andrea
Delamira and she is a two-timecancer survivor and her story is
so inspiring.
I'm really excited that you'rehere because you're not going to
want to miss out on hearingthis story and kind of how
inspiring it is.
(00:41):
I mean, she's an inspiration tome, she's all across social
media and she is opening a dripbar in New York the drip bar
right is what it's called, and Iknow she's super excited about
that.
So why don't you start withsharing us a little bit about
yourself?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Some things our audience can know.
Thank you, Jacob.
So that's right.
So Andrea Delamira and I am atwo-time cancer survivor.
I had cancer when I was 24 andthen again when I was 39.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yes, and two kids in between.
So it's been quite a journey,to say the least, and here I am
fast forwarding.
Today I'm 54 and I probablyhave never felt better.
I'm very inspired every day byhow far I have come myself, and
(01:30):
I'll tell you why.
Because I could sit back andretire and I decided that that
is not something that I am readyto do.
I feel like I have served myfamily for so many years and now
I'm ready to do something.
As an empty nester, I'm readyto do something for myself and
(01:50):
I'm looking to open a businessin my hometown called the drip
bar, which is an IV vitaminhydration company.
It is a franchise and I'mexcited to bring this to my own
community because it has meantso much to myself and my family
and our health, and I think it'stime that I pay it forward as
(02:14):
well.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You know that's awesome.
I think so many people get tothis mindset of let's just work
until we're 60 and then retire,and you have the option to
retire.
But instead of just retiring,you're like let's get back to
the community and especiallysomeone that has survived cancer
twice now, I mean and to sitthere and say I'm not done yet,
that's inspiring itself.
So I love hearing that and Ifeel like that right there, it
(02:37):
should just touch our audiencelike hey, listen, you don't have
to give up just because you'regetting ready to retire or still
something else out there foryou.
So what does the drip bar do?
What exactly is it?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So we're an IV vitamin hydration company and so
, just to give you a little bitof a background, I've been doing
drips for about seven years.
No, not think about it, I'm 30years from my first cancer.
This year I'm 15 years from mysecond cancer.
But I've only been dripping forabout seven years because it
(03:08):
was never an option for me andwhen I started doing it it was
in a very clinical type ofatmosphere, unlike what a drip
bar is today.
A drip bar is a true dripcompany and it is in a setting
that is comfortable andwelcoming, clean and
professional.
And I Got a drip this morninghere in Nashville at the drip
(03:33):
bar and honestly it's like IWaded a month to get this drip.
I try to drip every monthmyself because it adds something
to the quality of my life andnow I mean I feel I feel pretty
good since I've been up since 3am.
I Think I'm doing okay.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I tell you, when you're up all the time, it's
like exhausted those, thosetrips can really help too.
I've actually gotten one myselfand I tell you the difference
that you feel especially you canfeel, almost feel it wearing
off.
It's crazy If you get them sofrequently.
You can almost feel I'mstarting wearing off here, like
I'm not myself, like I have togo get rehydrated.
I get my vitamins.
So yeah it's awesome, so that'sso cool they open up.
(04:14):
So what made you want to gothis route?
Is it because you've seen thedifference it made in your
health, or what really drove youto want to open up your own
drip bar?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Well, that's that's interesting, because I didn't
know.
I honestly didn't know.
I Think that after after COVIDand being home so much, but even
before that, I was home for avery long time because my
younger son was ill for a reallylong time and I was primarily
(04:44):
the caretaker home.
There was no ability to go backto work because he really
needed to care, didn't even knowif he would actually graduate
high school and that's that'sanother story.
But and it has something to dothe drip bar.
So put a pin in that for asecond.
So I'm gonna come back to that.
But I really didn't know that Icould actually do this as a
(05:06):
business.
This was not on my radar.
I was looking for something,knowing that I would be an empty
nester, and I was looking forsomething that I could do.
But, being 54, I didn't want togo back to work.
Nine to five I've been out,I've been now out of the work
Environment outside the housefor a really long time and I was
(05:26):
thinking how can I possibly dothis?
Add a Quality to my family, add, you know, time to my family?
That is Worth me leaving thehouse for.
But also, I was looking to feedmy soul because I felt, like
you know, money is important,right, money makes the world go
round, but that's not what wasdriving me.
(05:48):
What was driving me was thealmost the loneliness of being
so isolated for so long, and Iwanted to do something that I
was good at, but I didn't reallyunderstand, other than being a
caretaker.
What I was good at, and itturns out that I'm pretty good
at a few things.
So, fast forward a year, youknow, I had a family member of
(06:11):
mine call me one night and theysaid hey, I want to run
something by you.
Have you ever heard of IVvitamin hydration?
And I'm thinking to myself,well, yes, but I'm thinking why?
What's going on?
And they told me what they hadin mind and that they had
invested in this company.
And I said send me everythingabout, let me take a look at it.
(06:32):
And I did.
And I did a deep dive and Isaid you know what?
Oh my gosh, like the lightbulbs that you know that.
That aha moment was like holycow.
I can actually get into, I canget behind this because I
believe in it.
Now I'm going to bring my sonback into it Right Now.
(06:54):
My son was ill for a reallylong time and he had Lyme
disease which really took himdown, and we didn't even know he
would graduate high school andso he started dripping, I guess
about three, three and a halfyears ago, and he's currently a
sophomore in college.
And not only that, he'sactually an athlete, he plays
(07:18):
baseball for his college and itis remarkable to watch the
progress that he has made overthe years.
So not only can I contributemyself and my own health and I
watched my numbers grow over theyears in a better way because I
have such bad gut health that Iwasn't absorbing the vitamins
(07:42):
that I needed, the nutritionthat I needed.
And listen, I'm not a goodhydrator.
I don't eat the way that Ishould, I don't exercise the way
they should, like most people.
Right, we try to fit it all in,but the truth is I needed help,
and when I was able to startdripping and I watched my
numbers literally watched mynumbers change over time I knew
(08:04):
I was on to something.
And then to be able to now opena business and bring this to my
friends and my family and mycommunity and show them that
there is an option of stayingproactive for your health, I
mean, in a way thank you, covidfor people to understand that
it's not okay to sit back andwait for something to go wrong.
(08:26):
So at the drip bar, weencourage people to come in to
see us.
Number one if you're notfeeling well, why is that?
If you are feeling well, let'shelp you maintain that.
Let's see what your lifestyleis, because that's what this is.
It has to be sustainable.
Right For me, watching my sonand being able to drip with him
(08:51):
at times and opening this up inmy own community.
I mean, honestly, I feel likeI'm just scratching the surface.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
You're there for your community, and that's what
matters.
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I, just for me, it's like I will and getting back to
like I could, I could retire andI am not going to do that and
I'm going to have a big debt forbuilding up this space.
You know, I'm pulling out of,I'm pulling everything out of
retirement that I have, but Ijust know that if I build this,
they will come.
You know, over time I feel likeI've been a pioneer in a lot of
(09:27):
things that I've done in mylife.
I've been told that manydifferent aspects.
I've always been on theforefront of something and
pushing forward.
This is no different for me.
This is no different.
I believe in it so much.
I believe in it so much that Iwant people to be able to come
in and experience it, you know,and to be able to say for
themselves oh my gosh, like yes,I see the difference, I feel
(09:52):
the difference.
You know I'm not one to pushanything on anyone.
You decide, do your duty.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh, I know, I've seen the difference.
It's crazy that the differenceis how you feel Mental clarity.
I mean it's astonishing Likeyou walk out and you're like a
whole new person.
And you're living proof of that, your son's living proof of
that.
It's worth for you guys andthen for you to sit here and say
like I'm not just going to sitaround all day in retirement,
I'm going to actually give backto my community.
(10:18):
I'm going to take this risk.
Yeah, that's amazing,especially with everything
you've been through.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
In addition to that, even with the dripping, I
decided that one day a weekwe're going to stay open.
We're going to have events.
One day a week I'm going togive the community the
opportunity to come to me and totell me what it is that they
want to gather for.
What do they want to talk about?
What do we need?
I want to be able to give.
There's local charities thatmean the world to me, anywhere
(10:47):
from the Ronald McDonald houseto cancer societies of any kind.
I want to be able to allow themto come into my space as a safe
space, whether for them to beable to gather themselves or to
come and drip.
Someone wants to bring theirbook club in.
Come and drip.
They want to gather.
(11:07):
We're not just about, and a lotof people will say oh yeah, I
was hungover and that's why Icame to get a drip.
It's like I hear this all thetime.
That's the only time thatthey've gotten a drip and I'm
like well, listen, can youimagine if that's how good you
felt after that?
Can you imagine if there wasreally something wrong with you
or something that you werefighting?
I feel like we all have.
(11:28):
We all fight a monster.
It doesn't have to be cancer.
We all have something that isgoing on in our life, and so
it's kind of twofold.
For me it's let us help youfigure out what's going on with
you, let us help you supportyour health and lifestyle.
But also for me, it's thatspace.
I want to be able to give mycommunity that space to be able
(11:50):
to do something where they feelagain about back to that word
that they feel safe, that theyhave a space that they can
gather and then they can grow.
Because that's what this isWith everything that I'm doing.
Yes, it's a lot of energy, it'sa lot of time, it's a lot of
money.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It is yeah, and you know I can hear it in your voice
and just see your passion forthis and it's really.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But you just want to help people and I understand
that you can't take the cameraout of me, sorry, as much as I
want to run from it in a way,it's like it's sort of like it's
sort of what God has given me,it's my superpower, yet yet I
mean, on the other side of thatis that and I think we spoke
(12:36):
about this a little bitprivately is that there is a
guilt that comes with it,because we as parents, right, we
have responsibility, and formyself, as having adult children
, now your responsibility tothem shifts and so you sort of
dysregulate things in yourfamily.
(12:57):
So, and people don't talk aboutthat, you know, and it's been
hard, like everybody sees in thethings that we post right and
they see a lot of sunshine, youknow, and people call me
sometimes sometimes, sometimeswe well, I was like I look up
and I see the clouds.
We look like, are you sure aboutthat?
But honestly, it is a.
This is a whole transformationfor me.
(13:17):
I feel like I'm getting back tomy own grassroots.
I am getting back to.
My mom has said to me even inthis past year, she sees this
fire that I had as a kid comingback.
I love that and she used to say, like no, your fire wasn't even
red, it was blue, it was so hot, it was blue.
I would challenge everythingand I am.
(13:41):
I think what it is is that I amregaining and and I'm not
playing small anymore because Ifound my voice.
I always had my voice, but Ididn't it down a little bit and
I lost a little bit ofconfidence.
And, and I think, with wellness,it's not just about health,
it's about that mental clarity,like you said to, and I'm
(14:03):
telling you it's all connected.
For me it's all connected and Iagain I go back to like I'm
finally starting to feel moremyself than I ever have been in
my entire life and I want toshare that.
I want to share that with thepeople that I love and the
people that I know, and I wantto show people that if I can do
it, so I love that you'refollowing a passion and your
(14:24):
passion is helping people andyou know sometimes it's very
tough.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
You know we're always out there helping people and it
can be tough on us, but insteadof just retiring, you're doing
this anyways.
You're doing it for yourcommunity, you're doing it to
help other people and I reallylove that.
I always like to say time is soshort, so time when we look at
it, you know we have so muchtime in our life and we don't
know when the last day is goingto be.
But if you can help prolongthat with the people's health,
(14:51):
if you can help, you know, gettheir health better, where they
can spend better quality timewith their family, or spend
better quality time with theircoworkers, or just get their
health better, you're helping inthat way and that's amazing
Just to hear that story.
So I know you talked a littlebit about this, but you survived
cancer twice the first time.
(15:13):
Let's go back a little bit.
So the first time we got cancer, what was that like?
Tell us, kind of, what was thatlike for you?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
So I was 24.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
So if you, remember, I was 24 years old, so it's 30
years.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
This is my 30 year anniversary from my first cancer
, which is so bizarre to me thatit's like 30 years ago, but so
much has changed.
30 years ago, honestly, I wasnaive, and I think that I was
naive for a reason because I hadno idea what was about to
(15:52):
happen.
And so I remember.
I remember going into thehospital because I found this
lump and I had a few doctorspretty much say well, you know
what?
It's probably just a five word,we'll watch it.
And something inside of me,this voice inside of me, just
said no, I don't think so,because I've always been that
(16:15):
too.
I've always been curious, I'vealways pushed the limits on a
lot of things that I've done,and this was thank goodness.
I did that because this wasanother occasion when, thank God
, I did not sit on that, by thegrace of God, I found a doctor,
a female doctor, who understoodmy concerns and she was a
surgeon, and they tried toaccess it and it was a solid
(16:38):
mass which I knew at that pointthat was probably not a good
thing.
So I went into the hospitalthat day and I just remember
waking up and I remember thedoctor saying to me basically
remember, she pulled her massdown and she was like I'm sorry,
kiddo, but it's cancer.
Well, I could say, was okay,like I had.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
No, I'm 24 years old.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
My oldest son now is.
He'll be turning 23 and I thinkabout holy.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Like that was your age.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That's how this is this is the mindset, this is the
you know and um, I'm not surehow exactly I survived um in a
family and friends that lookedat me like wow, like we're.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You got that fight in you.
I know you do.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I never, I never.
The funny thing is, I look backand I never thought that I die
from this.
I never thought I would die.
I never did.
Um, you know, after having thetumor removed, um, having to go
through chemotherapy Inradiation, I thought that would
kill me.
Obviously, I thought that thechemotherapy would kill me.
(17:43):
It was, um, it was pretty awfulback then.
It's still awful for a lot ofpeople.
It has gotten a little bitbetter because they're able to
target different cancers.
Back then you would cancer, yougot this treatment and so they,
basically they took you down todeath and then they brought you
back up and I had, I remember,having blackouts.
I remember hiding Pricus setsfrom my my mom at the time who
(18:03):
was caring for me.
So I'd go back to my childhoodhome and my mom would care for
me part of the time and I justremember, like, okay, I don't
know how I'm ever going tosurvive this, but I'm going to
try.
And once chemo was over and theradiation started, you know,
the hair started growing backand Um, and it was, it was
better, you know.
But then where do you go fromhere?
(18:24):
All I wanted to do is go backto work.
I wanted to go back to work.
I wanted to go back to what Iwas good at.
I'm a social person, um, I hadthe ability to travel as I was a
buyer for, for a company for avery long time and and I liked
my job.
You know, I liked what I did.
But you know, I was naive and Ithink I was grateful for that,
(18:45):
looking back now, because it wasa scary time back then.
It really was.
And then Um, and thenfast-forwarding to um, you know,
having having two kids now, um,and then going in for a
mammogram and um, and it's sortof a unique story as well.
So so, just so, you know, it'skind of a unique story.
(19:08):
So I went in for a mammogramand at the time had my older son
with me.
He was in first grade and hehad broken his arm, playing in
the basement with a buddy of hisand, um, I bored him with me
because I thought, in and outmammogram, take him to the
pediatrician, have his armRechecked and looked at and
thought, you know, let's getthis done.
And I had the mammogram doneand I remember watching the
(19:30):
radiologist walk in the room andI could just look on her face
and I knew, and I knew, and I, Iliterally put my hand up and I
was like, because my son was nowsitting in the room with me and
I was already redressed, wewere heading out the door and I
just said to her I'm gonna needa few minutes, and she
understood the miss, sheunderstood what I was asking, um
(19:52):
, and so I come back and thegood news was my son's arm was
was healing.
The bad news was that, um,something was definitely going
on because it was Because of myhistory, I needed to go back in,
and so we did what they call ascoop, right, and so I went into
the hospital.
They did a scoop and they wentto go see what was Happening,
(20:13):
and so I remember getting thecall and the call said well, we
have good news and bad news.
So the good news was that whatthey saw In the mammogram
happened to be a calcification.
And I said, okay, great.
And they said, but the bad newsis, when we put it under the
microscope, there were that wassurrounded by one millimeter
cells.
I said, okay, well, that reallysucks, because in my mind now,
(20:36):
I know.
What one million millimetrecells means.
And so an MRI, a mammogram andultrasound exams, all of this,
all of this did not matter,because it was still cancer and
the only thing that helped meWas that it went under a
(20:59):
microscope and that's how it wasdiscovered.
If it wasn't discovered fromthat calcification that day, I
would have went a whole notheryear without Going through a
mammogram, and that would havemetastasized, without a doubt,
because there would have been noother reason why for me to go
(21:20):
back.
So it would have been a wholedifferent Vlogging.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Oh, that is crazy.
You know, I thank you so muchfor coming on the podcast and
just sharing that story.
My pleasure powerful and I'msuper excited for you to open up
your location.
I can't wait for it.
I think it's going to be agreat benefit for your community
I mean really just everyonethere and around there.
It's going to be great for them, thank you.
So if people want to find outmore about you, how can they go
about doing that?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Sure so they can go to wwwthedripbarcom slash rye or
find me on social media at thedrip bar dot rye.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Thanks for listening to today's episode.
My name is Jacob K Mead, anduntil next time.
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