November 3, 2022 • 29 mins
Amy sat down with her friend, Meredith Lile, to talk about the benefits of float therapy. Meredith first started floating to help with her anxiety and she loved it so much that she decided to open two studios of her own in the Nashville area: Pure Sweat + Float Brentwood and Pure Sweat + Float Cool Springs.
Meredith explains what float therapy is and the benefits (sleep being one of them because of all the magnesium that’s in the float tub!!) She also shares 4 things she’s thankful for (one of the things being her husband’s sobriety…which is such a blessing!)
FLOAT THERAPY BENEFITS:
The buoyancy and healing effects created by the dense Epsom salt solution removes the feeling of gravity on the body, relieves all pressure and stress that gravity normally places on one’s muscles and joints, aiding in pain relief. The reduction of environmental stimulation - such as sight, talk, interruption and noise - enables the mind to become tranquil and clear.
Provides Deep Relaxation
Lowers Blood Pressure + Heart Rate
Reduces Stress on Spine, Hips + Joints
Relieves Pain + Muscle Soreness
Boosts Hair + Skin Health
Restores Magnesium + Sulfate
Lowers Cortisol, Acth, Lactic Acid + Adrenaline
Improves Circulation
Distributes Oxygen + Nutrients
Increases Endorphins
Aids in Visualization + Creativity
Boosts Performance
Relieves Insomnia, Fatigue + Jet Lag
PS+FS Brentwood: https://www.puresweatfloatstudio.com/brentwood
PS+FS CoolSprings: https://www.puresweatfloatstudio.com/coolsprings
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Okay, cass up roAP, little food for you. So life.
Oh it's pretty, it's pretty beautiful. Thank you. That's a
little moth said. You're kicking with four al right. I
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got my friend Meredith here and she is the owner
of Pure Sweat and Float in Nashville. But there's multiple locations, right,
how many do you have? I have to and I
have to four more on the books. But they're growing nationally,
so Portland's, Utah, Iowa, Washington, d C. Actually my GM
actually left in his ompany one there, So it's definitely
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on the rise. And people are just all into health
and wellness. Yes, and why when I first heard of floating,
I did not know what that meant. And I had
heard conversations about how certain athletes did it or certain
podcasts that I listened to that people that love to,
you know, do really awesome things to their body that
I felt like nobody else would have access to because
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like maybe they have a lot of money, or they
just have no access to it or the resources or
a friend that has a place. So I love that
this sort of stuff is becoming more readily available for
people and popping up all over. But I had never
floated before because I just I was like, I don't
even know what that will do for me. But I
have gone and I have floated, and I have been
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to your studio, and I want you to describe to
people what it's like, and then what are the benefits
of floating? So if someone sees this in their town,
or maybe they're vacationing in Nashville and they want to
treat themselves to a little spa day, what are the
benefits and why are people floating? Yeah, I have two
different types. I have a pod and then I have
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a room, but they're basically the same concept. There on
a thousand pounds of medical grade salt, we check the salinity.
You float in there like completely effortlessly. You can let
all your your muscles go, your spine sometimes it's gonna pop.
It helps with any inflammation in your body. That's why
so many athletes love to do it. It helps with
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cortisol levels, brain functioning. We get kids in that have
concussions sometimes after a sports activity and the doctor will
send a prescription into us telling them that they need
to do some floating. I mean it helps with organ functions.
So it has a host of benefits but really the
main thing is we are so busy today in society,
and I mean think about our kids growing up in
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this this world today with the stress levels that are
are in an all time high, and this really like
kind of centers you helps you meditate. Artists do it
for creativity. People do it for you know, corporately, for
ideas that they want, you know, to grow their company.
It just really kind of like pulls you into yourself.
And that's why it's important to do it by yourself.
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I mean, we'll allow people to do it together if
they really want to do it as a couple, but
so many times it's really just about you getting in
there and getting more in a meditative state, decompressing and
just taking all that noise away in your head that
I know I have every single day and I know
you do too going on. So it's got a host
of benefits, and it helps people sleep at night because
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of the magnesium that your skin absorbs, which is our
largest organ. We get pregnant women that come in especially
late in their trimester because they're miserable from you know,
all the weight that's on their body and their their
joints and muscles. We get people in there with the problems.
I mean, it's really for I'd say my studios are
probably there's something for everybody, you know. When I'm asked
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about demographics, I'm like, I kind of can hit almost
every one of them because they all have such, you know,
incredible benefits. So what made you even get into this? Well,
actually it had to do with anxiety. I had a
bad marriage years ago and I started having panic at
hacks and um, I was on medication and just kind
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of got through it and everything was fine. And then
all of a sudden, when I was here, I was
in Mississippi, I was here and they started triggering again,
and I was just kind of in la la laand
on my medication and my kids were like, hello, you know,
I just wasn't present. So I started looking up other
modalities outside of Western medicine, and I came across floating.
So once I did it, I wasn't you know, cured
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overnight or anything, because it's a practice, but it definitely
helps you decompress, because anxiety is just a lot of
you know, stuff going on in our head. So then
I came home to my husband and I said, oh
my god, I love this and this there's nothing like
it in Williamson County, and my kids were getting older,
so I was thinking, you know, maybe this is my
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next phase in life. I really wanted to have a
purpose and I really wanted to be doing something that
helped people. And it wasn't just, you know, something off
the cuff. So Corey thought I was crazy and we
started digging around own into it. So we opened the
first one in Franklin, and then we opened the second
one three weeks prior to COVID. So that was, you
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know a little challenging. We made it, we got it,
and then we have you know, a few others planned
around the area. Yeah, it's exciting, and it's I love
that everybody is so into health and wellness and taking
better care of themselves. And then the more widespread it gets,
the more you know, affordable everything. I'll get for everybody,
and you can use you know, your insurance cards r
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H s A and f S F s A. You know,
if you have that, that's really good to know because
I use my I'm thankful to have an hs A
card and I am shocked at the things I can
use it for and I had no idea. So if
you do happen to have one of those. Just a
quick side note here, make sure that you check with
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all the different things or that maybe you even want
to try out there, maybe appointments you already have on
your calendar. You might be able to use your just
say card for various things that fall into this category.
Because I would have never thought I could have used
it to float. I know it's so great because you
know it has science behind it, So the insurance companies
are backing us a good bit, which is great. All
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of our products have the science behind it, so um
that always makes me feel really good too. So it's
not a just a fad or a thing. It's literally
a legit holistic route to go. If you want to
step away from Western medicine for a little while. I'm
not saying you need to. Everything's a balance in life. Yeah.
I think that those can live by side by side
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together because some people might need or That's what I'm
trying to do in my life because I've I've leaned
holistic for a lot of things, but I also appreciate
so much of it what Western medicine can do, and
I think that I can use both of them as
I see fit. For my life. I just had a absolutely,
I don't know how else to put it other than
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a psychiatric evaluation couple of weeks ago and was given
some prescriptions and I went ahead and filled them and
I already have eliminated one because I already know it's
not working for me, and so and that's okay, and
I'm going to try some actual holistic things to maybe
go a different round. And I called and made that
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decision with the nurse practitioner that I was talking with,
and she's all about that too. She's like, people's healing
journey in a sense is gonna look so different because
your chemical makeup and your body is so different than
someone else that's going to come into my office, and
things that work for you might not work for someone else,
and vice versa. And so I'm trying to find that
balance too of when I might need medication for a
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season and when I might need, you know, something else,
and how can they live together? Right? Even I'm getting
some brain treatments done and I took all my my
new medicine stuff to her and I'm like, look over,
this is this going to affect what we're trying to
do with my brain holistically and she signed off on
it and was in full support. So I love that too.
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I've built a team of people that feel the same way,
and I think sometimes it's for some people it's so
black and white. They're either totally holistic over here and
they have no room for I can't believe you would
ever take anything or put that in your body. And
then you have some people that are like, what is
this woo woo holistic? You know stuff, Just take the medicine,
who cares. But I love people that can live in
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the middle of that, in the gray area. I think
that is. And I'm the same way. I do take
medicine from a doctor, and then I also practice my things,
you know, and other things as well. I'm always going
to want to go to other cities, jumping in different
wellness places just to kind of see what they have,
what's new, how do they do it. But yeah, I
definitely blended as well. I mean, we do have some
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people come in and they only will go holistically. I
had somebody come in with cancer and he was doing acupuncture,
changed his diet, infrared saunas and that was all he
wanted to do. So that was somebody that was on
one one end of the spectrum, and then there's other
people like you said, that are just fully on Western medicine.
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You know, that's backed by somebody that's been to medical
school and knows what he's doing, you know. So yeah,
I think I'm with you though. It's a it's a
great balance and it's fun that we can kind of
incorporate things. Yeah, I see how they work. Back to
when my mom had cancer, we were on such a
journey of trying to figure out. She was typically a
holistic type person, and then once she was diagnosed, she's like, okay,
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keemo me up, radiate me up, whatever you need to do, Like,
I'll sign me up. But there was a point where
the treatments were no longer going to be working. There
she was doing a trial and we've kind of reached
the end of our of our rope, and my sister
and I were googling places in Mexico or other countries
that were doing things that are not even allowed here
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in the United States, And I think back to the regiment.
But I mean, you would read these stories of how
it saved people's lives. We never made it to Mexico.
By the way, my moment I was gonna ask, did
you get there? We didn't didn't quite make it there,
although we were close, and then she ended up just
her body got too weak and she ended up passing
away shortly after. But I was I had already talked
(10:11):
to my job and said, hey, I'm just letting you know, Bobby,
he's the host of our show, and he was very
much in support of whatever I needed to do to
take care of my mom. And my sister and I
were the primary caregivers. And I had already said, hey,
so if I needed to go to Mexico for I
don't know, six to eight weeks, because that's how long
they recommended it, would that be possible? But I mean
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it was this, the specific juices every day, the some
potato soup, coffee, enema's multiple times a day. And some
people say they have gone and they have done that
and they had cancer and then the cancer was gone.
Now would that have happened for my mom? We will
never know. But also some people go and they do
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all the chemo radiation surgery and they are healed of it.
My mom actually was in a remission of sorts. It
didn't last as long as we wanted it to. They
needed it to last five years for her to be
in the clear, and she didn't ever make it to
the five year mark. Obviously, we she battled it and
it metastasized and it lasted about two years. But it's
just interesting all that's out there in the world and
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all the different things that we can do for ourselves.
And I love that you had something going on with
yourself and you tried something and it worked for you,
and you were so passionate about it, and now you're
getting to live it out. And I love that you
said I want to do something that has a purpose
and your your heart is really behind it, and you
found that. And for somebody else listening, it may not
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be opening up a Sweat and Float studio or a
float and Sweat. I feel like, I say floating sweat,
and yeah, I think that's the title of your studio,
is the pure Sweat and Float. But maybe it's something else,
like what is it that maybe it's gonna get you
thinking about doing something that has a purpose, whether it's
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on the side or your act full primary career or
talking to your partner about hey, I'm you know. I
just think of how you probably never saw yourself doing
this because moren't you go a paralegal at some point? Yeah,
oh gosh, when I'm with my first husband when he
was in law school, that's what I did. Um. But
then I actually parlayed into real estate, which I really enjoyed.
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I wasn't very good at sales, to be honest, because
I was a little too honest sometimes could be like,
you can't say that to people. I'd be like, you
don't want this house, and he'd be like, but it's
their choice. You can't tell him that. So you're trying
to sell book house. But when we blended kids, and
as soon as they got to be teenagers and we're
running to activities and then they were going on college visits,
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I really, you know, went into part time and that
just wasn't feasible in that industry. It was too hard
because people need to go after work and they need
to go on the weekends. But yeah, so I was
really at a point where I was like, what is
my purpose in this world? And I always felt like
I had a higher purpose than just not the being
a stay at home mom is not the most challenging,
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wonderful job on the planet, but always felt like I
needed something more, you know, to give back and to
just contribute to the community. So it's really been rewarding,
and I think that's why I do get excited to
open more, because I see all the people we help
and people leave better people, happier people. At our studio
we always laugh about people come in kind of with
a snarky attitude sometimes and then they leave with a
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smile on their face, and I'm like, if that's all
we do for them today, that felt good, you know. Yeah,
So what do you have a particular I think you
would say their name or is there a client story
where or a day or someone like that that's come
in where you go home and you're like, okay, because
I'm sure, especially during opening a studio right before COVID,
I'm sure there were days you're like, what are we doing?
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Why did I do this? Oh? My goodness, But then
you have a client or a story or something, and
you realize, Okay, this is why I'm doing this, Oh
for sure. Actually it's my manager in Cool Springs and Franklin.
She was a client in the beginning, and she was
suffering from all sorts of things from lyme disease, which
so many people have nowadays, and I'm like, that is insane,
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how many people have it. But she started doing it,
and then she asked if she could just work part
time because she was feeling so great and feeling so
much better. And I just was like, I don't know
if I want to hire a client, because I can
get weird, you know, if it doesn't work out for
some reason. But I took her on and now she's
the manager of that studio and she is so passionate.
She embraces everybody who walks through that door, and she
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has a story to tell herself about how since she's
been doing this, she's never felt better. She's not running
back to the doctor all the time. She's not a medication.
I'm not saying that's going to be the case for everybody,
but she's just one that's, you know, a pretty neat
story and she's so invested in it, which is great
for me to see. And that's when where it turned
into a career for her, exactly. And now she's full time.
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She kept asking for more hours and I'd be like, Okay,
are you sure. She's like, yep, give me more. Yes.
We've had people that we've helped with thyroid issues. You know,
she couldn't lose weight. She ended up losing twenty pounds.
She was not cold anymore because she was constantly having to,
you know, go around her house with heaters because that's
one of the symptoms that you get when you have
thyroid issues. And so she's a huge advocate too, and
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she still comes into my studio today. We have lots
of supplements that kind of go hand in hand with it.
So yeah, things like that or that's awesome. You mentioned
lime disease and I got bit by a tick the
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first time of my whole life this year? Did you
really did you find? I found it. It was on
my arm. Well, I don't know how. I think maybe
my dog Ka brought it in from outside. I had
to have because it wasn't when I woke up. I
don't think it was on my arm. And some point
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within the first hour or two of waking up, I
looked in the mirror and thought, is that a new
freckle or or something that has popped up right here
on my bicep area? And I got closer because it
was the teeny tiniest little tick that you ever did see. Yeah,
that's why. I thought in the mirror it was a freckle,
a new one, and so I got closer and I thought,
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I think those are little little legs coming out, and
it had stuck his head in there, and so then
I thought, well, I gotta get it out, but I
want to make sure it wiggles its way out, because
you don't want to get the head stuck in there.
So I went and I got a match and I
lit this stuff. I knew, I don't know, I should
have gone straight to Google first, but I don't. I
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just went off. Yeah, So I got the match and
then I blew it out so that the match stick
was hot, and then I stuck it to its butt,
and I don't really know that I noticed it wiggled out,
but it was obviously still going to be stuck in there.
But I knew you had to do that. And then
I got tweezers to pull the rest out with hopefully
the head not getting stuck in there, and I saved
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it and I put in a zip blog bag, and
then I went to Google. And that's when Google said,
keep your tick if you want to mail it off
and have it tested for lime disease, but put the
date on it and put it in the freezer. I've
never heard of this. I put the tick in the freezer,
zip blog bag with the date, and then I started
googling places that I could mail the tick off too,
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and I found a place sent it off paid seventy
five dollars. They had multiple tests you could run, but
of course each test was seventy five dollars, and some
of the other stuff I was testing for I wasn't.
I was like, I can't pay hundreds and hundreds when
this is maybe nothing, but yeah, you hear more and
more people have lime disease and it's crazy. So I thought, well,
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I just gotta make sure that this wasn't an infected
tick that then infected me, and so I just paid
That's the only test I did, mailed off seventy five dollars.
Had no idea, Am I even mailing this to a
real place? Like who's getting this tick? And our the
He's like putting seventy five dollars per person in their
pocket and then they're like, you're good, You're negative. Do
I have any idea? They tested the tick and did
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I freeze it properly or did you know all the
things or when it when it shipped off? Did it
was it too hot? And then I love your proactiveness though,
because I'm the type that just plucks it off and
just praise, you know, I'm like, oh, I hope I
don't get lined to. It's crazy all the people that
have it but didn't even see the tick, you know,
like they'll be like, I guess I had one that
fell off eventually, but you know, because that's where they
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come from. I could see how the pluck and prey
pluck and prey works, Like I just plucked one off
my daughter the other day. She had one like on
her back and I was like, look, well, I can't
my test if it was real, if they really tested it,
it was negative. So it feels really good about pretty
good about it. But I got bit in May and
the bump it's it's like November now and the bump
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on my arm went away, I would say, and about September,
I know it and it would itch at different times.
It didn't always itch, but randomly you would just start itching.
And I would think, this is the most bizarre thing
ever because it hasn't itched in a while, and be
I got bit months ago. How in the world. So
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then I started to think, am I having phantom itches?
You know how like do you ever think you're getting
a text message or your phone is like or if
you have an Apple Watch, you feel like something's vibrating,
or your phone in your bag and it's like a fan.
Like you just were used to that stuff. It didn't happen.
It didn't happen. I heard the text message thing all
the time, and then of course I'm running to my
phone looking real quick, and then I'm like, oh my god,
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put your phone down right. Nothing is that important, which
again brings you back to like that's probably why sometimes
you need to find a way to give yourself that
time to relax, whether it is a sweat or it
is afloat or when I got into cryotherapy, have you
ever thought about putting that at one of your studios
or is it not? Actually I have recently thought of
that because you know, with opening new locations, I think
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what else should I add? Like right now, the cold
plunge is very popular. Have you done a cold plunge? No,
I've only done the cryotherapy, which is for people if
you're not familiar, to get into like this box this, yeah,
like a tube like a Yeah, the one I go
to is fully covered. My head doesn't stick out or anything,
and I do cry o pro. So I get to
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negative two twenty two and I'm in there for three minutes,
and it was very therapeutic for me. Why I started
going is because I just wanted some people listen to music.
When I first started going, the whole first year, I
would get in and I would do three minutes in silence.
There was so much going on in my life that
that was like my three minutes to reset. Nobody could
talk to me. I was so cold. I couldn't even
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really talk to myself, and so I didn't have some
of those thoughts, Like all I was thinking about was
I can't wait for this to be over this or
my brain would just kind of go numb for a second.
But all these amazing things were happening inside my body
and endorphins being raised and the vagus nerve in my brain,
and so I would emerge and I would feel like
a new person, and so anyway, I think that that
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would be something. And then the cold plunges I see
people like Dirk Spinley does those on the road. He
takes like a trash can with ice and he's always
posting about him online and he'll make whoever's on his
tour with him, like the opening acts. They have to
like get in the ice bats. That's great and they
sit in there forever. But it is it is very therapeutic,
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it really is. And and they have all sorts of
studies behind that too, you know, like bringing your body
temperature down that that load does for you. But I
have thought of cryotherapy because I think that's also a
great tool as well. I've done it twice. Um, I
thought it would fix my bad knees, and so I
didn't give it a long chance. You know, I only
did it twice because it was so cold. I like
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the heat. But um, but I know so many people
just swear by it, so I need to go give
it a try again. I would encourage you to keep going.
My chiropractor noticed when I started going consistently. He said,
whatever it is you're doing, your back is better. It doesn't.
I still have flare ups in different issues in my
upper neck, shoulder area, and then a chronic pain that
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is in my lower back that I've had since my twenties.
But I get really from a chiropractor. But he also
knows my back and knows it well, and he said
that things he was feeling because he does a lot
of muscle work too. He doesn't just pop to adjust you.
He does some muscle releasing and he's like, your back
feels different, and he thinks that it was because of
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the consistent cryotherapy. That's what I think. Consistency is so
key on so many of these things. You know, like
the songs are the same way, the more you do them,
the faster you sweat, the more you purge. Um, Like
you're saying, the consistency with the cryotherapy made your back better.
That's amazing. And I love too with the float Like
I was thinking, I wanted to start to go more,
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which I think obviously, if you can go more, that's great,
but you also can still get the benefits if you
can just go twice a month like you were saying,
right exactly, because it's still in your body and you
know it's still in your system. So um. Yeah, So
that's the good news is you don't have to go
that often. Um, but you can come obviously as much
as you want. I was watching something on a video
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the other day and this guy went three or four
times a week. I thought, Wow, the only side effect
with magnesium too much of it is diarrhea. But that's
the only thing. If anybody's gonna wonder, what's the side
effective I have too much magnesium? I've learned that the
hard way with some Mago seven, these pills that I
take where sometimes I mean I take them. They do
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help with sleep, Like you were saying, that's probably why
again why I sleep well after a float. But these
Mago seven pills sometimes I'm like, okay, I do not whoops,
I should have only taken three and I took five,
but I really need to go to the bathroom. And
then well, yeah, I definitely went to the bathroom, I know.
And then you're like, stop, stop, now, I haven't got
stuff to do. Okay, what four things are you thankful
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for today? That's something I like to do with a
lot of guests. Four things gratitude. So if you could
think of four things big or small, like it could
be something on a deeper level, or it could literally
be that your favorite drink you had this morning, or
coffee or book they writing or something like that. Well,
first and foremost, you know I'm going to be cliche,
(24:19):
but it is true. But my kids, because they have
really hung with me through you know, divorce and their
dad and you know a lot of stuff with that
and moves. We moved from Mississippi to Nashville to kind
of start over. So I've just they've just been my
kind of my rocks through it all, which is amazing
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because they're kids and they shouldn't have to do that,
and they're actually growing up to be, you know, great kids.
I'm so thankful for them, especially today as they're getting
to be young adults and I can be friends with
them now and not so momish. You know that it
comes full circle. So stay tuned with you, you know,
with kids, like, there's all the seasons, um, but I'm
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in a good season right now with them for sure.
And second is my husband's sobriety is a true blessing
because well, first of all, I was about to kick
him to the curb, but yeah, he's just really worked
hard on it. He's changed. He's the best step step
dad in the world to my kids, and he's a
great dad to his own children. So having him sober,
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he's present and not such a pain in the butt anymore.
You know that that is such a huge thing. And yeah,
how the sobriety allows him to be that that dad
and then even the better partner to you? Absolutely, yeah,
because you know you do it a second time, you
want it, you want it to work. So what's interesting
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is I met him sober and I thought, this is great,
is our designated driver? And you know, and then it
didn't stay that way. But yeah, I'm so thankful for
just what he's put into it. And it's every single day.
I don't even know if I could do that every
single day that it meant to stay sober like that. Yeah,
it's a dedication, for sure, it is. But you're you're
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part of that. Like if you met him sober and
then that's a testament to of it didn't stay that
way and then you were like, wait, this is not
what I signed up for this. I did not know
that I was going to have to be going through this.
But he sensed you being like, yeah, we're done, buddy.
Because you can't tell them to go get help, you
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can't tell them to do anything. They've got to do
it on their own. And I know everybody in the
world who is listening knows that, um, but it's hard
not to say you better, I'm going to divorce you
if you don't go do it. But yeah, he stood
at the end of the bed one day and said
that he was powerless. And he gets on his knees
every morning and praise, and before he goes to sleep,
he goes and he praised, and he does his reading.
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So you know, I'm blessed that he's there because there's
a lot of people that would give up or not
care or you know, or couldn't couldn't get over it.
So the West the first two things I was going
to say, the first thing and the second thing I love.
I'm loving the so far. So now I can't thankful
for well, you know, I am thankful that I have
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a chance to start a business and I do have
the backing I call him my investor, my husband, um
that he, you know, gave me the chance to do
it and took my craziness with building out and finding
spaces and just all the things that go with it
and allowed me to do that. So I'm grateful that
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I get another shot at a career because I always
had always felt like I just had to do more
in life. I was just never settled. I tended to
get that way sometimes get real like what next, what next?
And I'm much more type A. I don't like to
just you know, hang out and sod to home like
go go, go go. So I'm thankful that I had
the opportunity, you know, to do that and have my
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next phase now that my kids are older and get
to do something like that. And then lastly, it's probably
women friendships. I have found that they are so important
just to you know, have people around you that are
positive and loving and you know, just there for you.
And I realized a lot of that leaving Mississippi. I
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had some just wonderful friends there because I went to
college with a lot of them, and we still keep
in touch. We still try to see each other, you
know a few times a year. But um, and then
the women like you that I'm meeting, you know, in Nashville,
it's just so nice to have that connection. And we're
so different from men, so it's different talking to a
man than it is a woman and raising children and
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starting businesses and all the things that go with it.
So I'm super grateful for friendships. Well, thank you so
much Meredith for coming over and helping us better understand
floating and how it changed your life and what it's
doing to help others. And you know, if you're listening
right now and you have a float place in your area,
maybe check it out. Treat yourself to that. Or if
you happen to be in the Nashville area or you're visiting,
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then you can check out one of Meretiths locates Pure
Sweat and Float in Brentwood and Cool Springs. And I
hope wherever you are right now, whatever it is you're doing,
you're having the day that you need to have. And
if you happen to be coming to Wichitall this weekend,
I cannot wait to see you in person Saturday night.
It's going to be such a fun and special evening.
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And if last minute you want to join us, you
can hit up select a Seat dot com. Slash Amy
love to see us
Okay, cass up roAP, little food for you. So life.
Oh it's pretty, it's pretty beautiful. Thank you. That's a
little moth said. You're kicking with four al right. I
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got my friend Meredith here and she is the owner
of Pure Sweat and Float in Nashville. But there's multiple locations, right,
how many do you have? I have to and I
have to four more on the books. But they're growing nationally,
so Portland's, Utah, Iowa, Washington, d C. Actually my GM
actually left in his ompany one there, So it's definitely
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on the rise. And people are just all into health
and wellness. Yes, and why when I first heard of floating,
I did not know what that meant. And I had
heard conversations about how certain athletes did it or certain
podcasts that I listened to that people that love to,
you know, do really awesome things to their body that
I felt like nobody else would have access to because
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like maybe they have a lot of money, or they
just have no access to it or the resources or
a friend that has a place. So I love that
this sort of stuff is becoming more readily available for
people and popping up all over. But I had never
floated before because I just I was like, I don't
even know what that will do for me. But I
have gone and I have floated, and I have been
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to your studio, and I want you to describe to
people what it's like, and then what are the benefits
of floating? So if someone sees this in their town,
or maybe they're vacationing in Nashville and they want to
treat themselves to a little spa day, what are the
benefits and why are people floating? Yeah, I have two
different types. I have a pod and then I have
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a room, but they're basically the same concept. There on
a thousand pounds of medical grade salt, we check the salinity.
You float in there like completely effortlessly. You can let
all your your muscles go, your spine sometimes it's gonna pop.
It helps with any inflammation in your body. That's why
so many athletes love to do it. It helps with
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cortisol levels, brain functioning. We get kids in that have
concussions sometimes after a sports activity and the doctor will
send a prescription into us telling them that they need
to do some floating. I mean it helps with organ functions.
So it has a host of benefits but really the
main thing is we are so busy today in society,
and I mean think about our kids growing up in
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this this world today with the stress levels that are
are in an all time high, and this really like
kind of centers you helps you meditate. Artists do it
for creativity. People do it for you know, corporately, for
ideas that they want, you know, to grow their company.
It just really kind of like pulls you into yourself.
And that's why it's important to do it by yourself.
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I mean, we'll allow people to do it together if
they really want to do it as a couple, but
so many times it's really just about you getting in
there and getting more in a meditative state, decompressing and
just taking all that noise away in your head that
I know I have every single day and I know
you do too going on. So it's got a host
of benefits, and it helps people sleep at night because
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of the magnesium that your skin absorbs, which is our
largest organ. We get pregnant women that come in especially
late in their trimester because they're miserable from you know,
all the weight that's on their body and their their
joints and muscles. We get people in there with the problems.
I mean, it's really for I'd say my studios are
probably there's something for everybody, you know. When I'm asked
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about demographics, I'm like, I kind of can hit almost
every one of them because they all have such, you know,
incredible benefits. So what made you even get into this? Well,
actually it had to do with anxiety. I had a
bad marriage years ago and I started having panic at
hacks and um, I was on medication and just kind
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of got through it and everything was fine. And then
all of a sudden, when I was here, I was
in Mississippi, I was here and they started triggering again,
and I was just kind of in la la laand
on my medication and my kids were like, hello, you know,
I just wasn't present. So I started looking up other
modalities outside of Western medicine, and I came across floating.
So once I did it, I wasn't you know, cured
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overnight or anything, because it's a practice, but it definitely
helps you decompress, because anxiety is just a lot of
you know, stuff going on in our head. So then
I came home to my husband and I said, oh
my god, I love this and this there's nothing like
it in Williamson County, and my kids were getting older,
so I was thinking, you know, maybe this is my
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next phase in life. I really wanted to have a
purpose and I really wanted to be doing something that
helped people. And it wasn't just, you know, something off
the cuff. So Corey thought I was crazy and we
started digging around own into it. So we opened the
first one in Franklin, and then we opened the second
one three weeks prior to COVID. So that was, you
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know a little challenging. We made it, we got it,
and then we have you know, a few others planned
around the area. Yeah, it's exciting, and it's I love
that everybody is so into health and wellness and taking
better care of themselves. And then the more widespread it gets,
the more you know, affordable everything. I'll get for everybody,
and you can use you know, your insurance cards r
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H s A and f S F s A. You know,
if you have that, that's really good to know because
I use my I'm thankful to have an hs A
card and I am shocked at the things I can
use it for and I had no idea. So if
you do happen to have one of those. Just a
quick side note here, make sure that you check with
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all the different things or that maybe you even want
to try out there, maybe appointments you already have on
your calendar. You might be able to use your just
say card for various things that fall into this category.
Because I would have never thought I could have used
it to float. I know it's so great because you
know it has science behind it, So the insurance companies
are backing us a good bit, which is great. All
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of our products have the science behind it, so um
that always makes me feel really good too. So it's
not a just a fad or a thing. It's literally
a legit holistic route to go. If you want to
step away from Western medicine for a little while. I'm
not saying you need to. Everything's a balance in life. Yeah.
I think that those can live by side by side
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together because some people might need or That's what I'm
trying to do in my life because I've I've leaned
holistic for a lot of things, but I also appreciate
so much of it what Western medicine can do, and
I think that I can use both of them as
I see fit. For my life. I just had a absolutely,
I don't know how else to put it other than
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a psychiatric evaluation couple of weeks ago and was given
some prescriptions and I went ahead and filled them and
I already have eliminated one because I already know it's
not working for me, and so and that's okay, and
I'm going to try some actual holistic things to maybe
go a different round. And I called and made that
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decision with the nurse practitioner that I was talking with,
and she's all about that too. She's like, people's healing
journey in a sense is gonna look so different because
your chemical makeup and your body is so different than
someone else that's going to come into my office, and
things that work for you might not work for someone else,
and vice versa. And so I'm trying to find that
balance too of when I might need medication for a
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season and when I might need, you know, something else,
and how can they live together? Right? Even I'm getting
some brain treatments done and I took all my my
new medicine stuff to her and I'm like, look over,
this is this going to affect what we're trying to
do with my brain holistically and she signed off on
it and was in full support. So I love that too.
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I've built a team of people that feel the same way,
and I think sometimes it's for some people it's so
black and white. They're either totally holistic over here and
they have no room for I can't believe you would
ever take anything or put that in your body. And
then you have some people that are like, what is
this woo woo holistic? You know stuff, Just take the medicine,
who cares. But I love people that can live in
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the middle of that, in the gray area. I think
that is. And I'm the same way. I do take
medicine from a doctor, and then I also practice my things,
you know, and other things as well. I'm always going
to want to go to other cities, jumping in different
wellness places just to kind of see what they have,
what's new, how do they do it. But yeah, I
definitely blended as well. I mean, we do have some
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people come in and they only will go holistically. I
had somebody come in with cancer and he was doing acupuncture,
changed his diet, infrared saunas and that was all he
wanted to do. So that was somebody that was on
one one end of the spectrum, and then there's other
people like you said, that are just fully on Western medicine.
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You know, that's backed by somebody that's been to medical
school and knows what he's doing, you know. So yeah,
I think I'm with you though. It's a it's a
great balance and it's fun that we can kind of
incorporate things. Yeah, I see how they work. Back to
when my mom had cancer, we were on such a
journey of trying to figure out. She was typically a
holistic type person, and then once she was diagnosed, she's like, okay,
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keemo me up, radiate me up, whatever you need to do, Like,
I'll sign me up. But there was a point where
the treatments were no longer going to be working. There
she was doing a trial and we've kind of reached
the end of our of our rope, and my sister
and I were googling places in Mexico or other countries
that were doing things that are not even allowed here
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in the United States, And I think back to the regiment.
But I mean, you would read these stories of how
it saved people's lives. We never made it to Mexico.
By the way, my moment I was gonna ask, did
you get there? We didn't didn't quite make it there,
although we were close, and then she ended up just
her body got too weak and she ended up passing
away shortly after. But I was I had already talked
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to my job and said, hey, I'm just letting you know, Bobby,
he's the host of our show, and he was very
much in support of whatever I needed to do to
take care of my mom. And my sister and I
were the primary caregivers. And I had already said, hey,
so if I needed to go to Mexico for I
don't know, six to eight weeks, because that's how long
they recommended it, would that be possible? But I mean
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it was this, the specific juices every day, the some
potato soup, coffee, enema's multiple times a day. And some
people say they have gone and they have done that
and they had cancer and then the cancer was gone.
Now would that have happened for my mom? We will
never know. But also some people go and they do
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all the chemo radiation surgery and they are healed of it.
My mom actually was in a remission of sorts. It
didn't last as long as we wanted it to. They
needed it to last five years for her to be
in the clear, and she didn't ever make it to
the five year mark. Obviously, we she battled it and
it metastasized and it lasted about two years. But it's
just interesting all that's out there in the world and
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all the different things that we can do for ourselves.
And I love that you had something going on with
yourself and you tried something and it worked for you,
and you were so passionate about it, and now you're
getting to live it out. And I love that you
said I want to do something that has a purpose
and your your heart is really behind it, and you
found that. And for somebody else listening, it may not
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be opening up a Sweat and Float studio or a
float and Sweat. I feel like, I say floating sweat,
and yeah, I think that's the title of your studio,
is the pure Sweat and Float. But maybe it's something else,
like what is it that maybe it's gonna get you
thinking about doing something that has a purpose, whether it's
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on the side or your act full primary career or
talking to your partner about hey, I'm you know. I
just think of how you probably never saw yourself doing
this because moren't you go a paralegal at some point? Yeah,
oh gosh, when I'm with my first husband when he
was in law school, that's what I did. Um. But
then I actually parlayed into real estate, which I really enjoyed.
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I wasn't very good at sales, to be honest, because
I was a little too honest sometimes could be like,
you can't say that to people. I'd be like, you
don't want this house, and he'd be like, but it's
their choice. You can't tell him that. So you're trying
to sell book house. But when we blended kids, and
as soon as they got to be teenagers and we're
running to activities and then they were going on college visits,
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I really, you know, went into part time and that
just wasn't feasible in that industry. It was too hard
because people need to go after work and they need
to go on the weekends. But yeah, so I was
really at a point where I was like, what is
my purpose in this world? And I always felt like
I had a higher purpose than just not the being
a stay at home mom is not the most challenging,
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wonderful job on the planet, but always felt like I
needed something more, you know, to give back and to
just contribute to the community. So it's really been rewarding,
and I think that's why I do get excited to
open more, because I see all the people we help
and people leave better people, happier people. At our studio
we always laugh about people come in kind of with
a snarky attitude sometimes and then they leave with a
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smile on their face, and I'm like, if that's all
we do for them today, that felt good, you know. Yeah,
So what do you have a particular I think you
would say their name or is there a client story
where or a day or someone like that that's come
in where you go home and you're like, okay, because
I'm sure, especially during opening a studio right before COVID,
I'm sure there were days you're like, what are we doing?
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Why did I do this? Oh? My goodness, But then
you have a client or a story or something, and
you realize, Okay, this is why I'm doing this, Oh
for sure. Actually it's my manager in Cool Springs and Franklin.
She was a client in the beginning, and she was
suffering from all sorts of things from lyme disease, which
so many people have nowadays, and I'm like, that is insane,
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how many people have it. But she started doing it,
and then she asked if she could just work part
time because she was feeling so great and feeling so
much better. And I just was like, I don't know
if I want to hire a client, because I can
get weird, you know, if it doesn't work out for
some reason. But I took her on and now she's
the manager of that studio and she is so passionate.
She embraces everybody who walks through that door, and she
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has a story to tell herself about how since she's
been doing this, she's never felt better. She's not running
back to the doctor all the time. She's not a medication.
I'm not saying that's going to be the case for everybody,
but she's just one that's, you know, a pretty neat
story and she's so invested in it, which is great
for me to see. And that's when where it turned
into a career for her, exactly. And now she's full time.
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She kept asking for more hours and I'd be like, Okay,
are you sure. She's like, yep, give me more. Yes.
We've had people that we've helped with thyroid issues. You know,
she couldn't lose weight. She ended up losing twenty pounds.
She was not cold anymore because she was constantly having to,
you know, go around her house with heaters because that's
one of the symptoms that you get when you have
thyroid issues. And so she's a huge advocate too, and
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she still comes into my studio today. We have lots
of supplements that kind of go hand in hand with it.
So yeah, things like that or that's awesome. You mentioned
lime disease and I got bit by a tick the
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first time of my whole life this year? Did you
really did you find? I found it. It was on
my arm. Well, I don't know how. I think maybe
my dog Ka brought it in from outside. I had
to have because it wasn't when I woke up. I
don't think it was on my arm. And some point
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within the first hour or two of waking up, I
looked in the mirror and thought, is that a new
freckle or or something that has popped up right here
on my bicep area? And I got closer because it
was the teeny tiniest little tick that you ever did see. Yeah,
that's why. I thought in the mirror it was a freckle,
a new one, and so I got closer and I thought,
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I think those are little little legs coming out, and
it had stuck his head in there, and so then
I thought, well, I gotta get it out, but I
want to make sure it wiggles its way out, because
you don't want to get the head stuck in there.
So I went and I got a match and I
lit this stuff. I knew, I don't know, I should
have gone straight to Google first, but I don't. I
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just went off. Yeah, So I got the match and
then I blew it out so that the match stick
was hot, and then I stuck it to its butt,
and I don't really know that I noticed it wiggled out,
but it was obviously still going to be stuck in there.
But I knew you had to do that. And then
I got tweezers to pull the rest out with hopefully
the head not getting stuck in there, and I saved
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it and I put in a zip blog bag, and
then I went to Google. And that's when Google said,
keep your tick if you want to mail it off
and have it tested for lime disease, but put the
date on it and put it in the freezer. I've
never heard of this. I put the tick in the freezer,
zip blog bag with the date, and then I started
googling places that I could mail the tick off too,
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and I found a place sent it off paid seventy
five dollars. They had multiple tests you could run, but
of course each test was seventy five dollars, and some
of the other stuff I was testing for I wasn't.
I was like, I can't pay hundreds and hundreds when
this is maybe nothing, but yeah, you hear more and
more people have lime disease and it's crazy. So I thought, well,
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I just gotta make sure that this wasn't an infected
tick that then infected me, and so I just paid
That's the only test I did, mailed off seventy five dollars.
Had no idea, Am I even mailing this to a
real place? Like who's getting this tick? And our the
He's like putting seventy five dollars per person in their
pocket and then they're like, you're good, You're negative. Do
I have any idea? They tested the tick and did
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I freeze it properly or did you know all the
things or when it when it shipped off? Did it
was it too hot? And then I love your proactiveness though,
because I'm the type that just plucks it off and
just praise, you know, I'm like, oh, I hope I
don't get lined to. It's crazy all the people that
have it but didn't even see the tick, you know,
like they'll be like, I guess I had one that
fell off eventually, but you know, because that's where they
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come from. I could see how the pluck and prey
pluck and prey works, Like I just plucked one off
my daughter the other day. She had one like on
her back and I was like, look, well, I can't
my test if it was real, if they really tested it,
it was negative. So it feels really good about pretty
good about it. But I got bit in May and
the bump it's it's like November now and the bump
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on my arm went away, I would say, and about September,
I know it and it would itch at different times.
It didn't always itch, but randomly you would just start itching.
And I would think, this is the most bizarre thing
ever because it hasn't itched in a while, and be
I got bit months ago. How in the world. So
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then I started to think, am I having phantom itches?
You know how like do you ever think you're getting
a text message or your phone is like or if
you have an Apple Watch, you feel like something's vibrating,
or your phone in your bag and it's like a fan.
Like you just were used to that stuff. It didn't happen.
It didn't happen. I heard the text message thing all
the time, and then of course I'm running to my
phone looking real quick, and then I'm like, oh my god,
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put your phone down right. Nothing is that important, which
again brings you back to like that's probably why sometimes
you need to find a way to give yourself that
time to relax, whether it is a sweat or it
is afloat or when I got into cryotherapy, have you
ever thought about putting that at one of your studios
or is it not? Actually I have recently thought of
that because you know, with opening new locations, I think
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what else should I add? Like right now, the cold
plunge is very popular. Have you done a cold plunge? No,
I've only done the cryotherapy, which is for people if
you're not familiar, to get into like this box this, yeah,
like a tube like a Yeah, the one I go
to is fully covered. My head doesn't stick out or anything,
and I do cry o pro. So I get to
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negative two twenty two and I'm in there for three minutes,
and it was very therapeutic for me. Why I started
going is because I just wanted some people listen to music.
When I first started going, the whole first year, I
would get in and I would do three minutes in silence.
There was so much going on in my life that
that was like my three minutes to reset. Nobody could
talk to me. I was so cold. I couldn't even
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really talk to myself, and so I didn't have some
of those thoughts, Like all I was thinking about was
I can't wait for this to be over this or
my brain would just kind of go numb for a second.
But all these amazing things were happening inside my body
and endorphins being raised and the vagus nerve in my brain,
and so I would emerge and I would feel like
a new person, and so anyway, I think that that
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would be something. And then the cold plunges I see
people like Dirk Spinley does those on the road. He
takes like a trash can with ice and he's always
posting about him online and he'll make whoever's on his
tour with him, like the opening acts. They have to
like get in the ice bats. That's great and they
sit in there forever. But it is it is very therapeutic,
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it really is. And and they have all sorts of
studies behind that too, you know, like bringing your body
temperature down that that load does for you. But I
have thought of cryotherapy because I think that's also a
great tool as well. I've done it twice. Um, I
thought it would fix my bad knees, and so I
didn't give it a long chance. You know, I only
did it twice because it was so cold. I like
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the heat. But um, but I know so many people
just swear by it, so I need to go give
it a try again. I would encourage you to keep going.
My chiropractor noticed when I started going consistently. He said,
whatever it is you're doing, your back is better. It doesn't.
I still have flare ups in different issues in my
upper neck, shoulder area, and then a chronic pain that
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is in my lower back that I've had since my twenties.
But I get really from a chiropractor. But he also
knows my back and knows it well, and he said
that things he was feeling because he does a lot
of muscle work too. He doesn't just pop to adjust you.
He does some muscle releasing and he's like, your back
feels different, and he thinks that it was because of
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the consistent cryotherapy. That's what I think. Consistency is so
key on so many of these things. You know, like
the songs are the same way, the more you do them,
the faster you sweat, the more you purge. Um, Like
you're saying, the consistency with the cryotherapy made your back better.
That's amazing. And I love too with the float Like
I was thinking, I wanted to start to go more,
(22:48):
which I think obviously, if you can go more, that's great,
but you also can still get the benefits if you
can just go twice a month like you were saying,
right exactly, because it's still in your body and you
know it's still in your system. So um. Yeah, So
that's the good news is you don't have to go
that often. Um, but you can come obviously as much
as you want. I was watching something on a video
(23:08):
the other day and this guy went three or four
times a week. I thought, Wow, the only side effect
with magnesium too much of it is diarrhea. But that's
the only thing. If anybody's gonna wonder, what's the side
effective I have too much magnesium? I've learned that the
hard way with some Mago seven, these pills that I
take where sometimes I mean I take them. They do
(23:29):
help with sleep, Like you were saying, that's probably why
again why I sleep well after a float. But these
Mago seven pills sometimes I'm like, okay, I do not whoops,
I should have only taken three and I took five,
but I really need to go to the bathroom. And
then well, yeah, I definitely went to the bathroom, I know.
And then you're like, stop, stop, now, I haven't got
stuff to do. Okay, what four things are you thankful
(23:56):
for today? That's something I like to do with a
lot of guests. Four things gratitude. So if you could
think of four things big or small, like it could
be something on a deeper level, or it could literally
be that your favorite drink you had this morning, or
coffee or book they writing or something like that. Well,
first and foremost, you know I'm going to be cliche,
(24:19):
but it is true. But my kids, because they have
really hung with me through you know, divorce and their
dad and you know a lot of stuff with that
and moves. We moved from Mississippi to Nashville to kind
of start over. So I've just they've just been my
kind of my rocks through it all, which is amazing
(24:40):
because they're kids and they shouldn't have to do that,
and they're actually growing up to be, you know, great kids.
I'm so thankful for them, especially today as they're getting
to be young adults and I can be friends with
them now and not so momish. You know that it
comes full circle. So stay tuned with you, you know,
with kids, like, there's all the seasons, um, but I'm
(25:00):
in a good season right now with them for sure.
And second is my husband's sobriety is a true blessing
because well, first of all, I was about to kick
him to the curb, but yeah, he's just really worked
hard on it. He's changed. He's the best step step
dad in the world to my kids, and he's a
great dad to his own children. So having him sober,
(25:22):
he's present and not such a pain in the butt anymore.
You know that that is such a huge thing. And yeah,
how the sobriety allows him to be that that dad
and then even the better partner to you? Absolutely, yeah,
because you know you do it a second time, you
want it, you want it to work. So what's interesting
(25:44):
is I met him sober and I thought, this is great,
is our designated driver? And you know, and then it
didn't stay that way. But yeah, I'm so thankful for
just what he's put into it. And it's every single day.
I don't even know if I could do that every
single day that it meant to stay sober like that. Yeah,
it's a dedication, for sure, it is. But you're you're
(26:05):
part of that. Like if you met him sober and
then that's a testament to of it didn't stay that
way and then you were like, wait, this is not
what I signed up for this. I did not know
that I was going to have to be going through this.
But he sensed you being like, yeah, we're done, buddy.
Because you can't tell them to go get help, you
(26:26):
can't tell them to do anything. They've got to do
it on their own. And I know everybody in the
world who is listening knows that, um, but it's hard
not to say you better, I'm going to divorce you
if you don't go do it. But yeah, he stood
at the end of the bed one day and said
that he was powerless. And he gets on his knees
every morning and praise, and before he goes to sleep,
he goes and he praised, and he does his reading.
(26:47):
So you know, I'm blessed that he's there because there's
a lot of people that would give up or not
care or you know, or couldn't couldn't get over it.
So the West the first two things I was going
to say, the first thing and the second thing I love.
I'm loving the so far. So now I can't thankful
for well, you know, I am thankful that I have
(27:08):
a chance to start a business and I do have
the backing I call him my investor, my husband, um
that he, you know, gave me the chance to do
it and took my craziness with building out and finding
spaces and just all the things that go with it
and allowed me to do that. So I'm grateful that
(27:30):
I get another shot at a career because I always
had always felt like I just had to do more
in life. I was just never settled. I tended to
get that way sometimes get real like what next, what next?
And I'm much more type A. I don't like to
just you know, hang out and sod to home like
go go, go go. So I'm thankful that I had
the opportunity, you know, to do that and have my
(27:52):
next phase now that my kids are older and get
to do something like that. And then lastly, it's probably
women friendships. I have found that they are so important
just to you know, have people around you that are
positive and loving and you know, just there for you.
And I realized a lot of that leaving Mississippi. I
(28:13):
had some just wonderful friends there because I went to
college with a lot of them, and we still keep
in touch. We still try to see each other, you
know a few times a year. But um, and then
the women like you that I'm meeting, you know, in Nashville,
it's just so nice to have that connection. And we're
so different from men, so it's different talking to a
man than it is a woman and raising children and
(28:35):
starting businesses and all the things that go with it.
So I'm super grateful for friendships. Well, thank you so
much Meredith for coming over and helping us better understand
floating and how it changed your life and what it's
doing to help others. And you know, if you're listening
right now and you have a float place in your area,
maybe check it out. Treat yourself to that. Or if
you happen to be in the Nashville area or you're visiting,
(28:58):
then you can check out one of Meretiths locates Pure
Sweat and Float in Brentwood and Cool Springs. And I
hope wherever you are right now, whatever it is you're doing,
you're having the day that you need to have. And
if you happen to be coming to Wichitall this weekend,
I cannot wait to see you in person Saturday night.
It's going to be such a fun and special evening.
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