456 - A Story of Anti-Aging, Podcasting & Business Expansion w/ Stefanee Clontz
Welcome to Episode 456 of Your Morning Drive.
In this episode of Your Morning Drive, host Logan Lewis welcomes Stefanee Clontz, an expert in anti-aging and preventative wellness. They discuss her journey in the wellness industry, the establishment of Hydra+, and the importance of hormone balancing and wellness trends.
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Logan Lewis (00:00.983)
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preventative wellness space with nearly 15 years of experience transforming how people approach health and longevity. Longevity? Jivety? From medical weight loss and hormone balancing to peptide therapy and aesthetic enhancement, she's built a reputation for delivering real results through cutting edge treatments as an employee of the great organization Hydra Plus.
Logan Lewis (02:24.622)
She's developing each Metro Atlanta location with a one stop destination for total wellness. She's also the host of does this podcast make me look fat? A show that makes us humor expert insight and honest conversations around aging, wellness and body image. Please welcome my friend, Stephanie Klontz. Hello. Hello. How's it going? Thanks for being with me today. Oh, this is so fun. You're here. You know what I saw on a, um, I think this was a zoom.
a zoom meeting or something, they said that one of the best things that you can do when you're on camera to disarm everybody is to give a little wave. wow. As it just makes it so like, hey, I'm not here for any harm. Yeah. Does that make sense? Yeah. Wave is kind of if you break it down, a wave really kind of is a it's like a lets the guard down. It's like a friendly. It's almost like it's the universal friendly
gesture. Everybody, matter what language you speak or what region in the world you live in, a wave is a universal like, hey, how you doing? I like that. Maybe I'll start every episode with, Yeah, you're going to get more viewers. Maybe that'd be great. Always would welcome that. Stephanie, welcome. How are you? Thanks. Great. I mean, it's horrible outside. It's a thing we don't have any windows. Actually, I like hearing it. But if you guys are in the Atlanta metro area, you know.
We're in the middle of some crummy weather right now. Yeah, so didn't do my hair so much good, but that's right That's all great. You know, it feels like I was thinking about it on the drive in today that This is the wettest summer. I think we've had in a long time Yeah, I've lived here for going on 20 years and I remember summers being like this. Yeah, even like
Just the south in general, maybe the entire country, but my father-in-law lives in Nashville and me and him were talking the other day and he was like, yeah, I've lived in Nashville for 50 years and I've never seen it as wet as it is this summer. It's crazy. The highs are really supposed to be like 70 this week. That sounds great. I know. I'm here for that. relief is on the way. I can't wait to wear, I love wearing shorts, but I can't wait to wear pants again. You know what I do at the end of every summer when I'm like over it?
Logan Lewis (04:45.128)
I donate all of my sundresses and shorts and whatever and then I just buy fall clothes so that I can manifest the new season. like that. Except when we have the Indian summer. Then now you're stuck. You've got scarves and beanies but it's still like 94 out. What is the Indian summer? I've heard that term forever and I know there's a song by Brooks and Dunn called Indian summer.
It's like every year, right? Just when it starts cooling off and then you're like, okay fall is on the horizon. Yeah, and then you get visited with one more streak. Right. Of heat. And it gets like to be 90 degrees the next week. summer. Indian summer. Okay. So it's like the tease of like fall is coming, but then it's like, oh, just kidding. No, it's not. Yeah. Wow. Very cool. Very fun. Now I know. Thank goodness. You see, learn something new every day.
And for those of you who just knew the Brooks and Dunn Indian summer song, now you know. And now I'm going to listen to that song on the way home to see if I can pick on any of those clues. Yeah, because I don't know that song. But I did listen to Brooks and Dunn when they came out with Boots, Scoot and Boogie. Yeah. OK, so that was 30 years ago. Yeah, it was a long time ago. But I grew up in Texas, and so we listened to country music. But this is when it was like before it was all pop.
Right. So, Tim McGraw. And Reba was at the height of her career. Sure. who were the sisters? The sisters? Yeah, the sisters. I don't know. Was there a mother and daughter? A mother and daughter who sang? I don't know. I don't know. I need to know. I need to brush up on my. The Judds. Yes. Winona Judds. Forget the other one's name. Naomi. There it is. There it is. And then. That is a mother.
mother daughter right? Michael Montgomery? Yeah. Yeah. The auction. That was my favorite song. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. See, so it's like I'm not versed in country music. just don't listen You know the history. Yeah. I just don't listen to it anymore. Yeah. It has gotten a lot poppier, much to my father-in-law's, I've mentioned him already, but my father-in-law worked in music row in Nashville and he was a recording studio.
Logan Lewis (07:06.375)
engineer guy so he he worked with Reba and some of the goats Alan Jackson's and Alan Jackson yeah and some of the goats of all time he's got all these stories talking about like Brooks and Dunn as if they're just like co-workers yeah and he's like yeah you know Brooks and Dunn they like it this way in the studio it's like I'm like you're talking about some of the greatest musicians in that genre of all time and he's like yeah I just I just went to work every day and they were there I'm like that's crazy
Do you know that there's a luxury bus that goes from Atlanta non-stop to Nashville? No, I did not know that. so what do you get there in like maybe four hours and it drops you off right on Broadway? Really? I think so. From Atlanta to Nashville. That's kind of cool. Yeah, see, and there's Wi-Fi on there and I think that there's like a foodie drink. ticket in it. But it's not like the Greyhound vibe. Right. It's like a nice. It's a nice ass bus. Yes. My girlfriend and I were thinking about doing that.
to go to the new house that's in Nashville. That'd be fun. And we're going to get like the cowboy boots and wear fringe from head to toe. Of course. Like we're going to do it right. Yeah. You can't go to Nashville and not wear a cowboy hat. Get you a cowboy hat. Yeah. cowgirl hat. Like a straw one. I want like a straw hat. then maybe some cutoffs and then some boots. High cowboy boots with some little chunky heel. Yeah. Sure. You know? Sure. Make it cute.
I'm due for some cowboy boots. need to, I need to invest. do we get cowboy boots? There's a place nearby ish. I think it's in Canton. Boot barn. Yeah. Yeah. There's another big, well-known boot place, but the name is escaping me. But maybe I don't really wear that kind of stuff. So I wear my cowboy hat like twice a year. And every single time I do, I'm like, I've
freaking love this thing. Do you really? I love wearing a cowboy hat. It just puts off like this aura about you. Like when you walk into a room, it's like if I could wear a cowboy hat all the time, I would. probably would. I need one? Maybe. Okay. But like when I go somewhere like a Nashville thing, like my bachelor party was in Nashville.
Logan Lewis (09:18.698)
And I absolutely brought my cowboy hat. Well, you have to. Yeah. It's like a mandatory uniform. And while I was there, I was kind of giving off like a little beach cowboy vibe because I was wearing like these like Hawaiian shirts with the cowboy hat. So it was kind of like Jimmy Buffett kind of. And I was like really loving that beach cowboy vibe. So I was like, oh yeah. See how I can pull that off. Oh yeah. Yeah. It was pretty sick. There's some pretty great pictures of me in this cowboy hat. like on Amazon or something. Yeah, I'm sure you Right?
Cause you could, it's easy to spend a lot of money on the cowboy shit. How much is a hat? A nice hat could be like 200 bucks. no. A nice hat, like a Stetson. How about just a trendy cowgirl hat? Yeah, I'm sure you could get one on Amazon for like $30. Yeah, that's what I want. There you go. And some boots and whatever. It's one of those things that you can spend a ton of money on or you could not.
and probably still put off the same vibe. Ah, yep. $38. There you go. That's exactly what I was trying to accomplish here. The straw hat's a vibe. These are like $19. Yeah, there you go. Okay. There you go. Look at that. Maybe I should do that for Halloween or something. I love Halloween so much and I have no idea what I'm going to be this year. I love Halloween. What were you last year?
I was at... was at... I was at Post Malone. Are you? Yeah, I did all the face tats. I can show you a picture. I did all the face tats. I got some cigarettes, Bud Light. Did you? Oh, yeah. And I can't drink beer because I'm allergic to some of the ingredients in the beer. Yeah. So I just bought a Bud Light Tallboy and then just poured it out and then poured like mixed drinks in the can and just drank it out of the can. And it was great. And people were like, I thought you can't drink that. I was like, no, I got cocktails in here. But yeah, I loved the Post Malone thing. It was so fun.
It took so long. You should be Guy Fieri. So that's okay. That's so funny because my friend, she went through like this. She was obsessed with Guy Fieri last year for a period of time. Yeah. So she dressed up as Guy Fieri. That's fun one to do. She really pulled it off and we took a picture together and she, it was so fun. I love Halloween. I always go above and beyond for Halloween. Do you go to the little Five Points Parade? I don't. That's a really good one. I should go to that. You see how elaborate these costumes are.
Logan Lewis (11:44.371)
Sometimes it's almost scary because you can't tell if those weapons are real. You can't see behind people's masks and stuff. I think a lot of people might recycle their Dragon Con outfits and wear them for Halloween. So you get people start making Dragon Con costumes like a year in advance. Have you been to that parade? I've not. come on. Yes.
Yeah, I mean I did tattoos all over my arms, my fingers and knuckles. I mean it took probably a solid hour to get all those on. You get like a bunch of pictures of him so you can get all of the tattoos just right. He has more tattoos than that now I think. yeah, mean there's, I took a couple selfies at one point that had... He has so many on his face. So Or like his eyelids and stuff. yeah, like I had one on my neck. I had like, I had them all over my face. Does he have a barbed wire on his head? Yeah.
I tried to do a lot of them in the place that they actually are. The ones like the always tired under his eyes. That's what it says under his eyes? The snake tattoo, this one you can't see but it's like a gun. It's like a hand holding a gun and it's huge. It was like all up and down my neck. It was crazy. It took so long to put it on but what took even longer was to get it off. yeah, here's the gun. because you had to go to work with it. that's a cool tattoo. Yeah, it was really cool.
And if anything, was like, damn, I want more tattoos. you have any real ones? I have a real tattoo right there on my leg. One star. One star. That's all I can ever be. It's motivation. That's not a very good Yelp review. No, that's actually the average rating of a Your Morning Drive episode. Is it really? No, I'm kidding. I can't believe you only got one. Well, it's kind of a family tattoo. like we, my
My dad and sister still need to get it. My mom and my brother have it though too. And like depending on your birth order is which shade, which star you shade. So I'm the oldest kid. So like that would have been dad, mom, me, my brother and my sister. So when my sister gets it, she'll, she'll shade that star. Okay. And then when my dad gets it, he'll shade the first star. I like that actually. Yeah. There's a little, it was an easy like, yeah, I'm going to get my first tattoo and it's going to be a family tattoo. But now I kind of want to go like.
Logan Lewis (14:04.808)
I want to go road. Be like, okay, I'll take the dragon on sea. It was really cool too, because I basically got the tattoo for free because I interviewed the tattoo artist at her studio. And afterwards she was like, do you want a tattoo? And I was like, yeah, yeah, I do. And so she gave it to me right after the recording ended. It was lit. That's awesome. I just tipped her, you know, a hundred bucks or so. So you were interviewing her for.
Just her, mean to promote her business. She served in the military. So we talked about her career in the military and it was awesome. Shout out to Ashley. She was great. But I kind of want to like date around the tattoo artists. Like I want to go to different ones and see the strengths and weaknesses. I've done that. Be careful. Yeah. Because there's, you know, obviously they have different styles and their lines are different and whatever.
Like if you're doing like a sleeve or something like that, you got to stick with the same person so that the arm's consistent. Are you trying to get a sleeve? I mean, I have a half here and a quarter here. Yeah. You've got a forearm sleeve right there. So yeah, that's probably plenty. You think so? Yeah, because I have others elsewhere too. You do? Yeah. So I probably have close to 20 tattoos. Wow. Really?
But I did what you were doing, wanted to do, and I was shopping around and I had to get a bunch of them touched up to make them look cohesive. So. That makes sense. Very cool. These are only forever. that's right. They're only there for. Pick something that you like. You know what's so funny is you see old people like from like their generation and old people don't really have tattoos. So I'm curious about like what these next couple of generations are going to look like as elderly people with tattoos. know.
That's true. Like that's something that we've never seen as an old person with a tattoo. if you were in prison or if you were in the military or you know I've seen like Holocaust survivors you know with the like serial numbers on their arms sort of thing but wasn't like parents who have sleeves like you know not when I first got into the healthcare industry I had my very first tattoo that had to be very small because it needed to fit under my
Logan Lewis (16:21.784)
Michael Kors watch at the time. Do remember when Michael Kors had this big watches? so that was, cause I said everything else has to be covered by my scrubs. Well, look at me now. The world has changed since then. No. And it's like so much more socially acceptable. So you'll see doctors and nurses with full sleeves or neck tattoos. I'm like, I'm so glad that people accept that now. you know, it's so funny because, know, to the, to the older generations argument of like,
Or if I see someone with a tattoo, just means they're like that has never crossed my mind. Unless they're someone that exists anymore. No, no. mean, unless that person is embodying like a lifestyle that is that is, you know, that fits the stereotypes. Like if you see somebody that's decked out in tattoos and then they go and they're, you know, they're wearing the metal chain and then they're
They have the big boots on and then they go and they drive a motorcycle. It's like, okay, that guy is living the biker life. But otherwise, if I go to my barber shop and my barber has a tattoo, like I'm not going to be like, whoa. What if he has a teardrop under his eye? I don't care. What if he has a neck tattoo? That one I couldn't do. The neck tattoo? Yeah, I don't think I could do a neck tattoo. Like on you? Yeah. Just because. do a neck tattoo.
That one feels like I'd get judged a little bit for that. Maybe. It's already like, you know, when I want to be professional, I'll be not today in my Murder Croaker shirt. But so then I mean, you know, a little bit of ink show and that's OK. Yeah, I think so. I worked at a restaurant when I was in college and they were just like, no tattoos. And it was like those chilies. Shout out to chilies. They were like so anti tattoo. But then towards my the end of my tenure of working there, they were like, OK.
body piercings. How long were you there? Couple few years. You know, I heard it yesterday on TV, a commercial for the Olive Garden. That's still around. It is. They actually just built one in Cartersville. Is the line like two hours long to get in? It was for the first couple weeks because all the old people were like, I want unlimited breadsticks. We haven't been yet just because every time we want to go, it's we drive past it and it's like crazy busy. And I'm like, I guess we'll just
Logan Lewis (18:40.294)
Go somewhere else. No, that was still a thing. I haven't been to an olive garden in probably 10 years more. Maybe more than that. haven't been in probably 30. I don't remember going to that. And that was like a big deal. It's like Italian and the unlimited salad and the breadsticks. They were not even really that good. No, not really. They were like really doughy. Yeah. And then they wave the giant wand over you. They're like, would you like some more parmesan with your salad? I did love that. And you're just like...
Stop. No, I remember that. But that's what made me think of it. Cause Chili's was the same way. My mom is a huge restaurant chain person. I am not that. So yeah. Well, like my daughter has not ever tried Applebee's or Chili's or any of those things. Why are you holding out the goodness that is Chili's? Well, no, but Chili's is actually really good. I remember that from being younger that they do have a
They had some sort of like tequila lime chicken or some bad. They have like a God I was just I literally went to Chile's like like some sort of Caribbean salad. Yeah But yeah, okay, so my mom was really into all of the She just isn't much of a mom-and-pop kind of no restaurant gal She likes she likes being able to go to a Chili's in Dallas and a Chili's in Atlanta The food is exactly the same sure like gross. Yeah, that means it's frozen. Yeah
And that they nuke it. So if you're to a mom and pop place, it's like the menu is whatever they got for the week or whatever. I'd much rather have that. Yeah. I'm with you. As I've gotten older, I'm like, let's support other small businesses. let's, let's, let's go to a local restaurant. mean, I won't lie. We do go to a chain here and there, but
because sometimes a chain is safe. That's probably to your mom's point. She knows that when she goes to Applebee's, it's gonna taste a certain way and she knows it's not gonna be, if she has a bad experience, it's not gonna be because of the food. It's gonna be because of the service or something else. So if she's paying for something, she knows that it's gonna be at least consistent for the most part. Yeah, like she's like not much of a, like when I travel, I like to eat off of food trucks or whatever's in the case or whatever people are, have like the street carts.
Logan Lewis (21:00.448)
Sort of thing. That's my go-to. That's when you get the real good shit. I know that's I'm saying but like you said she's like, know, maybe it's a cleanliness thing Yeah, or it's just a consistency. Yeah, it's just a it's a safety net. Okay. Well, yeah I just go for it. My parents weren't much of Mom and pop supporters growing up either They always took us because me and my siblings were really picky eaters when we were kids So they knew that if they took us to McDonald's that we would eat, you know
Nuggets or a burger whatever or if they took us to Applebee's that we would get the you know, whatever So they didn't really venture out now. I think they've gotten better, but they still consistently go to like chain restaurants and Usually when they're when they're like you they want to get dinner with us. I'm like, yeah, let's go to this place instead Okay, so you can change the mind. Yeah, try to change your mind here in there Like what's a mom-and-pop restaurant that you make it when somebody says hey, we're here from out of town Where's a good place in Atlanta to go? What would you say?
near us, there's a restaurant called eight track and it's really, really cool. Eight track. Yeah. It's like a play on words. It's called like 80 E track. yeah. I like when you go inside, it's all like seventies and eighties, like stereo systems, like good talk. Like you'll have to look up a picture of it later. It's a crazy interior and it plays rock and roll music and it's really
Cool inside. It's really cool inside. Okay. so like whenever people come into town, we take them there. Okay. Like you guys would like this place. but another, another good restaurant, man, I don't venture to your side of the woods that often. You come in just to Atlanta. Not, not a lot. If I'm being completely honest, I kind of fucking hate it. No, if you live that far out, you're not going to come into the city. No. And like for a night out, like date night.
I will say like when we've celebrated like an anniversary or something we'll come into Atlanta like there was a our first wedding anniversary we stayed in like a nice hotel downtown and you know stay there for the weekend and did you know some sightseeing stuff during the day that she had never done like she had never been to the World of Coke so we did that together and then we went to I think we didn't we didn't go anything crazy I think we went to Ted's Montana Grill
Logan Lewis (23:28.893)
And then we went to a couple other local like pizza joints and stuff for like dinners and lunches but I was just asking one of my coworkers about the Koch Museum and she's never done it and like you have to be a tourist in Atlanta for a little bit because there's so much cool stuff here that we don't we just totally take it for granted. Sure. museum's a lot of fun. The aquarium is like I do love the aquarium. in the southeast. It is. And they do a lot of cool events there.
where can go at night or they'll do some, they do a slumber party there. You can stay the night in the aquarium. Not that I would recommend that, but. Have you done it? No. I would love to do more with the aquarium. Like I'm trying so hard to expand my network so that I can land a relationship with someone that works at the aquarium that can get me in. Cause I want to like do something like crazy. Like I want to like swim with the sharks and shit. You can scuba dive in there. Yeah. But it's like.
It's like 450 bucks for $30 for 30 minutes set in the water is cold and you have to wear all of their gear. Yes. They have to make sure that it's clean. No, can, but you can dive with the whale sharks. Um, and you get in free every year on your birthday. Did you know? Yeah, but my birthday never like falls on a day. That's convenient for me to be able to go for free, but I'd love, I love going to like zoos and aquariums and stuff. just find it fascinating. I've never been to the zoo here. It's
Not a lot to talk about. No, because it's in the middle of like, Greenup Park. so like the parking situation is just atrocious. So you have to, well, I mean, you can Uber there. I took my daughter there, gosh, maybe eight or nine years ago. So maybe they've done more. How old is your daughter? She'll be 11 in February. She just started fifth grade. What day is today? On Friday. Damn. What county are you in? Cobb. Cobb County? Dang, I didn't realize.
Yeah, I know. She's like, yeah, I start school this Friday. I'm what? Like I haven't even bought any supplies. I didn't even go to her orientation. Wow. Bad mom over here. Listen, I have a job. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. They're like, yeah, the orientation is going to be on a Friday from 1pm to 4pm. Yeah, that's not. So what do do if you are busy making a living? Yeah. You know, what do do? You can't. Yeah. So you just ask them to like send you like the
Logan Lewis (25:48.394)
The packet. Yeah, just send the packet home with her. Yeah. You know, to email you some bullet points. Yeah. I'm sure you're not alone there. I think there's probably a lot of parents that can't make it. Honestly, I think because this is a private school, I think that the majority of the parents there have one parent who does not work. And so it's easy for pick up and drop off and for early dismissal and for attending school events. And in my case, I'm like, can my daughter
with you. You know, I have to piggyback on some of the other parents. I mean, it's like that for soccer practice. I'm the last mom that comes screeching in to pick her up from practice. You know, if it's a if a weekend event, like, you know, we have a lot of Botox parties at work. And so a lot of times I can't make a soccer game or make a school event if it's on a Saturday. And that's just the way it is. Yeah, you know, but it's tough.
It is tough, but I think if your kids understand, it's not like a malicious thing. just have to work. I would like to think that like your daughter doesn't think like mom just doesn't want to be a part of it. Like I doubt she thinks that. Cause you know how it was like, that was the picture that they painted about dads who worked all the time. Like, dad doesn't care. And it's not that we don't care. It's that, you know, we are busy building empires and you know, investing and planning and you know,
earning for the future so that our kids don't have to do what we did. Speaking of empires, I want to talk about the empire that you're building. But before I talk about that, I want to talk to you about a friend of mine who is building their own empire right now. Can I tell you about them, Stephanie? Yes. I'm going to talk about Good Days Canned Cocktails right now. They're building an empire in the metro Atlanta or just the Atlanta area. are a local company.
Founded in Athens slash Marietta. Okay, one of their co-founders lives in Athens. He tackles that market in the other Contacts Jason. He lives in Marietta That's where these drinks came. Yeah, they are a local company Let me tell you about good days guys. Good days are a classic canned cocktail that meets the need for any Occasion whether you're spending the day at the lake at the pool having a corporate event
Logan Lewis (28:09.78)
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You are setting up your phone. Yeah. We're about to talk about Hydro Plus, right? We are about to talk about Hydro Plus. Your thing needs to be tightened a little bit, sis. no, it's good now. It's good now. Would be better if you were in the shot too. That's good. Okay. There we go. Look at that. Okay. That works. Are you about to film it? Well before.
Logan Lewis (29:42.046)
Go. Go? Yeah. Why are you pausing? I don't know. So let's talk about this empire that you're a part of. Hydra Plus. My three year work anniversary is coming as next. Only three years? You've given off the vibe that you have worked at this place for the damn eternity. That's cause I eat, sleep and breathe it. Yeah. How'd you get there? and how long is, sorry, and how long has the business been around?
The business has been around since like COVID. Right. And, I decided in like August of 2022, told my former business partner, I'm going to go away soon. And it's just like, I knew it was time to move on. Right. And, so what were you doing then? I was working at just one clinic and we did, mostly testosterone replacement, weight loss. IV hydration was just kind of back burner service, but.
so this is August and I'm like, my plan is to be gone by the end of the year. And, within one week, I had two job offers. So the first one was for another similar men's bond. would have been just one location. They're offering me the same amount of money. And, I would probably be doing the same things, just commuting farther. And then the other offer was from. Pacto plus, and now this is like.
you know, a challenge because it's three med spas and they're only IV hydration thus far. And, you know, the purpose of me coming on board would be to incorporate the medical weight loss. So this is like whole Ozempic and Margaro and all of that. And then adding in the testosterone replacement and also incorporating the Botox and the spa services and that sort of thing. you...
choose between a job that's similar to what you are already doing, making the same money as just a change of scenery, or you take on this challenge where it's the most uncomfortable, but you have the most room for growth. So, December 2022 is whenever I made my leap of faith. Wow. So, okay. So you're doing...
Logan Lewis (32:03.612)
So you've always done this kind of work. I've been in this for close to 20 years. Wow. I started I think 2008. So yeah, I mean, I didn't really know that this was my wheelhouse until I just had been in it for so long that like, this is what I'm supposed to do when I grow up. You think so? Yeah, definitely. You don't see yourself doing anything else? let me backtrack on that. Do you think that there's another avenue that you would dip your toe into in the future?
Or do you think that it would always be kind of centered around the wellness space? Well, like if I moved to like a tropical island, I wouldn't mind having like a juice bar. I can so see that for you. You know what I mean? Like I would make fresh squeezed juices. Like I don't think I'm above any other job. Sure. And so let's say, you know, I decide to pack up and move to Panama or something like that. I wouldn't mind having a coffee shop or a
some sort of juice bar or something. can see the juice bar. really this is my forever home. Atlanta. Not Atlanta, Hydra Plus. And we are branching out. We're in a fourth location in Florida. But I think that after really getting going when we started doing the weight loss, and I think the most encouraging part for me was that so many patients followed me.
I have patients that I've seen, gosh, for almost 10 years. Wow. And I know the history of their family and their kids' names and where they work. sometimes we'll all go out to dinner or they just end up being good friends of yours. Or they've seen my daughter grow up because she was two at the time. And they remember seeing her in the office, playing under a little fort behind the front desk.
I think that's really what was so promising is that so many people were willing to say, okay, wherever you're going, we're going to. And so I want to say we, you know, to start at a new company and people don't know, you know, they're going to another location and they don't know what business you're with. I think maybe 70 people followed me in the first month. Yeah, that's a lot. That is a lot.
Logan Lewis (34:26.741)
And fast forward to now, maybe we've had 3,000 people come in our doors for weight loss. And it's a very competitive space now because everybody's looking for Ozempic and Wigovie and Majaro, anywhere they can find it, except for if they can get it through their insurance, then obviously that's the better deal. But a lot of insurance companies are making it astronomically expensive. So for that reason, they'll come to our med spots for that. See you
I don't know if anyone's ever sneezed on a podcast before. I don't think I ever have either. Wow. It was first time for everything. I was like, I want to make sure that I don't sound like. Stuffy. I take one of those every single day. What you know that because it dries you out can also kill your libido. So I always warn patients about that. Really? Yes. So people are like, yeah, you know, I just don't know. I just don't have any much drive. And they're like, yeah, I take a Claritin every day.
Son of a bitch. Because guess what I struggle with, Stephanie? There's nothing I haven't heard. I did this Father Figures and God Talks speaking event during this lunch and it was all men. And we were talking about just like normal stuff about testosterone, what happens over time. And I think a lot of us just don't realize that we don't have to just, okay, well, it's because of being older.
You don't have to feel fatigued all the time. You don't have to not have any attraction to your spouse. You don't have to, you know, have a lowered sense of well-being. All of these things can be remedied just by balancing hormones. Super easy. Hmm. Might be time for you. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. After the age of 30, it's just kind of inevitable. Really? Yeah. Cause our hormone level, like I think our testosterone levels decreased by 1 % every year.
after the age of 30. Wow. And just everything that's in our food, the hormones and the plastics and the plugins and all of the synthetic stuff that just destroys your endocrine system and people don't realize it. Yeah. So. Now you got me thinking. Yeah. It's like, I mean, think about like, do you use Tide Pods? No. Do you use like a scented? Probably. Do you use deodorant? Yeah. With aluminum in it? I don't know.
Logan Lewis (36:55.227)
What brand do you use? I don't know. I just use it. So think about that. You're putting aluminum here and you've got lymph nodes here. So that's what causes cancer. Or do you use like Glade plugins at home? That for me is a deal breaker. Glade plugins? Like the things that you plug into those outlets? don't think so, We do not use first started dating my husband. He had cinnamon plugins and I was like, okay, see? Cinnamon. That's why this is not going to work out if you don't get rid of those.
I'm telling you it's not negotiable Wow the plugins I did when I was in college and thought like I needed to put like some kind of scent in the room But now I'm a candle guy. I I love my guilty pleasure really I will say that I live by the 80 20 rule and that's the 20 part of the 20 that's you know, not necessary I try to get soy based candles you have I think what you have to be most aware of is what's in the wick like what the wicks made of because that's where
the chemicals are but so crazy that this shit just exists in our world and like we just like you said like in your cologne do you wear cologne yeah there you go and do you heat up your food in plastic in plastic yeah like if you bring like a Tupperware or something to work not a lot okay I will say but still you if you do at any point wow because that releases the xenoestrogens in the plastic
It makes you wonder Stephanie, makes you wonder. No, they're killing us. So it's survival of the fittest. So you just have to be in front of all of that. So you have to use aluminum free deodorant. have to make sure. One thing, this is in the 20 % category. I use fluoride toothpaste. Do you? Yes, because I've used like fluoride free toothpaste and I feel like it just, my teeth don't look as white. You very white teeth.
Well, yeah, probably makes the fluoride. You just don't eat it, right? Because that can get into like the blood brain barriers. So like my daughter was real and she's 10 and she is very anti fluoride toothpaste, but she started realizing the same thing too. And now she steals mine. But I told her, said, yes, it is toxic, but just don't eat it. You know, brush your teeth with it and spit it all out and just, you know, be done with it. Yeah. Some people like eat their toothpaste. I know. It's weird. I know. So you can't do that.
Logan Lewis (39:23.247)
think the other things that people don't realize are like, what? That's bad for you? I'm like, yes, you cannot use anything in your dish washing soaps. Or there's color additives in your shampoo or in your ketchup or any of that Shampoo or your ketchup, folks.
Not interchangeable things. Yes, but like you look at that and you're like, why would there be yellow five in dish soap? Right. What is that? What's that adding? I don't know. That's like that caramel popcorn that would be caramel popcorn. Remember how green that was? Oh, it was green. That was probably the worst shit ever. Did you know that they do that with like fresh carrots too? They put dyes in those. They that dyer salmon to make it look more appetizing.
It's ridiculous. We need to cut that shit out. Why don't you open up your Hydra swag? I will do that. We have a gift. You're sipping out of your gift. I know, thanks. You're so welcome. She brought some swag. Ooh. And all the people know that I love hats. Like it's a problem. Yeah, I have a hat addiction too. Do you really? I like snapbacks. Flatbills and snapbacks. Oh yeah.
This is shit. This is, this is great. But you like the curved bill. I do. So because if it was a flat bill, like I like flat bills, but I inevitably just find myself like unintentionally curving it. Okay. So, okay. I also have a huge head.
Huge head. I like this hat. it's so soft. Well, you know, I believe in getting like swag for people that I would actually use. for sure. So I like, you know, I'm always hit to toe with Hydro Plus stuff except for today, because I thought maybe it was my freebie day. This is your freebie day? Yeah. So it's like, I'm let Logan wear the Hydro Plus stuff. So I wear it all the time. and this is one of the good pens too. Always get the good pens. yeah.
Logan Lewis (41:35.137)
I got a good key chain in there with a belay clip. Little coaster situation. Yeah, because we were voted best hangover cure two years in a row by Jezebel magazine. Best hangover cure. imagine three years ago we were like just a, we weren't a household name. And so now to be voted for stuff like that, I think that's a big deal. That is a huge deal. I mean, whether people know your name or not, it's to be voted.
The best of anything is really cool because that's like, that's just validation. Cause you know, day to day you're just doing the thing and you're grinding and you're just building the thing. So for someone to come through and be like, we think you're the best hangover cure. And you're just like, wow, like that's crazy. It's like, know how much putting yourself out there it takes to get people to know that your household name.
to become a household name. I know it. Because I don't know if I talked to you since then, this TV show came in and filmed. They found some article that I contributed to about semaglutide and alcohol consumption. And I was basically writing part of this article where the alcohol and beverage industry is hurting because so many people are on GLP-1 drugs and they're noticing it in their sales, right?
So they approached us and said, hey, you we're going to do an episode specifically about GLP ones and what it does to people when they consume alcohol or people consuming less. And they shot a full episode on us. investigate TV plus is owned by gray media, which owns 130 TV channels. So this is going to be like nationwide, you know, like after the noon newscast and they need a show to put in instead of.
Mori Povich or instead of soap operas. Like this is this show that they'll be plugging in. So I'm curious to see how that one ends up. Well, this is really cool and I love this hat. And this is really good timing Stephanie, because I, well, first of all, I don't know why I thought this, but you know, squirrel ADHD. You're the first person I've ever met.
Logan Lewis (43:56.48)
that spells their name the way that you spelled. I think I'm the only one. No, actually. My mom's name is Stephanie. She does your mom follows me on Facebook. my god, she does now because when we put out our clip, she texted me. was like, Logan, this is so funny. I was like, you think so? And she was like, I just cried.
You guys are so funny. Who is this woman? Yeah, because you have to have like really dynamic personalities for your podcast episodes to not be snoozers, right? Because and you've had plenty of guests and I have to or it's like, come on, say something funny. Yeah, like do something show some personality. Yeah. So bring a cool prop or something that we can do. Yes. So that's the reason why I tried it like, you know, spruce it up. Like we did the whole process food thing and yeah.
Um, and we did that with my daughter too. I don't know if you've seen that segment, but we found like, it's funny because we didn't have to go to the gas station to buy stuff. We just picked up foods around the office that coworkers had. We found an orange Fanta and we had a packet of ketchup and some jelly and whatever else. And she was looking at the labels and would be like, okay, that one has a lot of red 40 in it. Right. That one has high fructose corn syrup. Wow. Yeah, that's insane.
But we were just talking about swag and Stephanie. wanted to actually bring up the fact that, you know, swag is something that a lot of companies struggle with, which is who knows. But if you're looking to level up your company's merch game, let me tell you about my friends at branded and devoted designs. need that. I need that contact. I will. I will hook you up. Your brand deserves better than boring swag. If you contact branded and devoted designs, you can level up with.
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Logan Lewis (46:07.335)
Foaming at the mouth that because you know you gotta have good swag you have to have good swag otherwise like you don't want cheap cheapy t-shirts No, I always order good shirts for our staff to wear yep in different styles and different designs And then the hats obviously those are a hit we have fanny packs. Yeah, and we did those little keychains with it with the belay clip on them and I'm like so next month
for Hydro Appreciation Week, which is we do every September, the week of my work anniversary. All of it. And so yeah, so I call it Hydro Appreciation Week because without all of the clients, like we wouldn't be where we are. Sure. Three years. Sure. Now. So guys, if you were looking to have that company merch game leveled up, you can go to their website. You can contact them, brandedanddevoteddesigns.com. They'll make your brand stick. If you mentioned that you know me,
They'll give you 10 % off that order. So take advantage of it. If you're in need of a t-shirt refresh or some new hats, or you want some golf tees or some coasters or literally anything that they can, that exists, they can put your logo on trash cans. I don't know. might want trash cans with your favorite swag? I love hats. But I also love a nice t-shirt. Like I'm going through a little bit of a t-shirt phase. So like anybody, I'm just like,
Do have a t-shirt? I should have brought you a t-shirt. That's okay. You can just come pick one up. Yeah, I'll go with someone sometime. But I love a good, but if it's not apparel, I love keychains and I love, I love coasters too because like everybody has coasters just laying around their house because if you're like us, like you have a drink with you at all times, you need something to set your cup on at all times. like.
I don't care whose logo is on the coaster. And then if someone comes over and they're just like, what's Hydra Plus? And then it's an opportunity to talk to somebody about what you do. Yeah, we put our coasters out at like Mutation Brewing and some like local bars for that reason. So that if they read the coaster, they see, oh, okay, Hydra Plus. I think there's a discount for a hangover. There is. Yeah. It was like, there was a special on it. Normally like 200 bucks or something. And it said you can get it for like $95 or something like that. So that's a hell of a deal.
Logan Lewis (48:28.266)
So we're doing for, hydropreciation week, calendar magnets, you know, isn't that always a hit? Yeah. cause you'll always have that on your fridge. So then we stay top of mind. also doing, a reusable grocery tote. There you go. There you go. That's, that's clever. what was the other cups too? Like glasses, single wall metal cup with a, with a lid.
Like a 12 ounce cup. Like a, like a little wine, a metal wine glass thing or something like that. I love those. Step that people are going to use. guess, don't know if we, did we do this in the eighties and nineties? Did we always walk around with some sort of cup or water bottle? I had the Nalgene. I wasn't there. So, uh, I wouldn't know, but I don't think so. Oh, that's great. I am a little bit older than you. Yeah. Yeah. A little bit. What year were you born? 96.
Shit. You could be my son. Which, I mean, you don't look like I could be your son and that is why she's in the industry that she's in because it's working, 1980. I will be 45 in November. Wow. I would have not guessed that. I would have guessed maybe 35 or maybe 38 at the most. Okay. At the most. personality doesn't give 45. Good.
Well, I don't want it to be like this old hag. You are not an old hag. I'm like biohacking all the things right now. So like I tried cupping and... What's cupping? Is that that thing where you... Yes. The big red... Yes. Okay. So it draws blood to that area and it feels good. My siblings used to do that. And then I just tried cold plunge. I hated that. I've done acupuncture. Really liked that. I've brain tap.
But I was just trying all these things, like what can I do to be an even better version of myself at 45? Why did you hate the cold plunge? Just too much, too cold? Well, okay. So I played division two sports in college and I was forever in the ice tub. you know, having to do that for free that many days a week in college was miserable in itself. And so to pay to do that, I'm like,
Logan Lewis (50:55.124)
I can probably do without this but it's so good for you. Is it really so good for you? Is it the same as like taking a cold shower like or do you really have to be really just submerged in it? You have to be submerged in it I want to try it but I am such a bitch That like I know I wouldn't last. I made it through they said stay in there for at least two minutes. I made it 3 30 second dips little baby dips and then I was like, whatever so I did the infrared sauna and it was hundred and
42 degrees in there and they can make it like 25 minutes. And then I went and did red light therapy too. There's this place in Florida that you can do all the things in one place. you know, red light therapy is like, even though it doesn't feel like it's doing anything over time, that can increase your metabolism and it can help burn fat. And then it can help with like clearing up your skin if you have some sort of like acne or scarring or whatever. So like,
It's good for you. just can't tell that it's doing anything. Yeah. One thing I wanted to ask you, I specifically wrote this down this morning because I wanted to ask you, because I am curious. and I know we're jumping all around the, all of the subjects. This is not typical your morning drive format, Stephanie. No, I usually have this like way of doing things, but we're just having great conversations. So I'm not changing anything. So I'm just going to throw this question at you. Why do you guys do this podcast?
because it's, an interesting move from y'all's business. Is it? mean, I just think like not based on like your subject matter, just the fact that you have this podcast where you guys talk about these things or you talk about these things with your guests or by yourself. Do you ever do them by yourself or do you always have a guest with you? about doing that because I listened to not skinny, but not fat. Okay. And
And it's this woman who does a podcast by herself and she's in her Manhattan apartment doing it while her kids are in the other room. So I probably could, if you're good at talking and you can say entertaining things without having somebody tee you off, tee you up. I guess I could try it. Do you do it?
Logan Lewis (53:10.324)
Not really. I used to, but I found myself bored and I thought if I was bored, then the person listening would be bored. Okay. So I just stopped. But people have been telling me recently that I should like just start like monologuing and just like going on for 10, 15 minutes and seeing if I can. And if they're good to release them, if not, then to not. Sure. Then you can just scrap it. But, um, I don't want to guess I could try that. We have like plenty of guests. So you said, why are we doing this? Why are you doing it? How did it come about?
This is just one of those things that comes in my mind and I'm like, we should do a podcast. And I want to call it, does this podcast make me sound fat? I always like to do the, does this podcast make me sound fat? like, so you can imagine, you know, I have all of these like, you know, random ideas and I present them to the owner of our company and I'm like, okay, hear me out. A podcast called does this podcast make me sound fat?
and we interview patients and clients about their successes, about their transformation, what they've learned, their food cravings, their hormones, all of that stuff. And I had that idea probably two years ago, but I didn't have the bandwidth to start putting it together until just this past year. So we've started in January and we've probably done 60 plus.
Podcasts, mind you, this happens in between appointments. So I'll be in a weight loss appointment and then I'll be drawing blood and giving an injection and like, shoot, we have a podcast. And so you scramble to do the hair and makeup and then go back into appointments. it's a scramble every Monday and Thursday. It is a scramble. I noticed that. And y'all, your podcast is so different than mine. Just in the case that we would have been done.
by now and when we were doing years. mean, we recorded for like 10 minutes, I think, or at least it was like five minutes. No, was closer to 30. Was it? Yes. It just went by very quickly. Oh, I'm just thinking of the clip. Yeah. Because I just have only edited one clip from our interview. I need to put the full interview. Can you get everybody on? What are you doing? I know. What do do all day?
Logan Lewis (55:33.779)
It's not like you help people with their medical issues. I know. And sometimes I have these days where I'm like, God, didn't get anything done today. And then, you know, what keeps me grounded is that, you know, people are like, how do you do it? How do you all the things you do? Like you must not sleep. it's like, no, I sleep. I'm sleeping about nine hours a night. That's a lot lately. Maybe this is not a sleep thing. think that I just do more than most when I'm awake.
I think that you've got something there. I also do a lot of things while I'm awake and people often like, but you start early. You're up really early. I do get up really early. Yeah. I mean, I could probably get up earlier and I want to get up earlier. like who like texts me at like five 30 in the morning. They're like, you're up. I'm up. We're all up. Yeah. You respond though. Cause you're up. Not because I want to be, you know, what I've found is that
Like you can't dictate how the entire day is going to go. So if I want to, if I know I need to work out and really, I mean, I've got podcasts that day, I've got to go to networking event. I got to see patients. I got to get my kid from soccer practice, all of these things that I have no choice but to take a six 30 class AM six 30 AM class. Then it's just done. Yeah. So that's what I'm about to start doing is, is going to the gym because I need to
get my ass in shape. But you know, you're up early anyways, so might as well. I might as well. But I'm going to wake up even earlier on gym days to go to the gym maybe at like five or four thirty, which sounds so horrible. Horrible. Horrible. But that just means that on the nights before those gym mornings, don't text me past seven o'clock because I will not respond. This is the thing that I've realized that if you if you're one of those people who likes to have like a nightcap.
dinner and whatever, you have to know what time to stop at night so that you can get a productive workout in the morning. Well, you know what I have been struggling with Stephanie and I don't know what to do is I need to figure out the time of day that I need to stop drinking anything because I have to pee all night. I don't get up and go.
Logan Lewis (57:57.617)
But I wake up every morning. Would you have trouble going back to sleep? Because I wake up every night between 3 AM and 4 AM to go to the bathroom, but I go back to sleep. Oh, I struggle. Unless I'm dog tired, dead, I can't get back to sleep within... It's a 20 minute process. I'll get on my phone, watch videos, and then hopefully that will put me to sleep. No, because the light. Yeah. When you put that light in your face, then it just wakes up everything.
Yeah, so it's like, you know, you're supposed to turn on the light and you go to the bathroom. And this is this is the funny thing and I don't and people are like, well, how do you see? Easy. I just sit. Yeah, I sit to pee. Only is that a guy thing because I only do it in the middle of the night. You do, you know, because I don't want to turn the light on because I know that that will get miss if you're sitting down. Correct. So if I'm sitting down, but I mean, do more guys do this and they talk about this?
I've seen my husband doing that and I'm like, is that a thing? am openly open about a lot of things that I do. I'm openly open. Okay. Because I have no shame because it's like, yeah, when you explain it and it's like, yeah, I don't want to turn the light on because if I turn the light on, I'm going to wake up. Yeah. So you just get to sit to peace. So I just sit and it solves that issue. Yeah. I am more likely to fall back asleep if I sit because while I'm sitting, I'm going, but I'm just like, I'm like,
Yeah, you keep your eyes closed. don't have to worry about like spraying the back of the wall. this may be gross. I don't know, but I'll open. I'm openly open. Remember, sometimes I just don't flush either because that sound is so loud. That's not an ASMR sound that you like the sound of a toilet flushing. It's like water rushing. Well, we sleep to to white noise. You have a white, you have it on your phone or a white noise machine. We have the A-L-E-X-A. I don't know why I spelled it out. I'm used to spelling it at home because if you say her name, she'll be like,
What do you need? And I'm just like nothing. I was just saying your name So we make her listening in on you all the time We program her every night at like 9 45 to turn on white noise and every day at like 7 30 to stop Yeah, it's like
Logan Lewis (01:00:10.458)
It's so lovely. You don't like music with frequencies in it? I can't do music because the music... chimes and the... Yeah. You can't do that? Because it sounds like it's something that I could like start to vibe with. Because your body will mimic that frequency. Right. That's the whole point of it. I need to try it. Because there's like different like...
Frequency is like 963 Hertz and 528 and you find the one that like you resonate most with. I guess that will resonate. You will resonate with. Do you guys sleep with anything on like that? I used to do that for my daughter. used to like when she was first born, I had her, um, I had a little stuffed animal that made, made whale sounds because apparently that's what it sounds like in the womb. Oh, that sounds like that in there. That's kind of scary.
We are aliens, aren't we? So, she used to listen to that and then We got onto this white neural beat singers had this like spiritual awakening right right before she turned to and And she really liked 528 Hertz, which is so funny I don't know why she just that was the she listened to the same one every night and I always liked 963 but there's a different frequency if you're trying to heal an ailment or if you're trying to heal your broken heart or if you're trying to
lose weight or trying to get rid of anxiety. So you find the one that you like and then like in a perfect world, you listen to it with like headphones on. that way you get like the full experience. But I just like to let it play on the TV. You just find a YouTube channel. I want to ask you about, cause all this stuff you do is it's of course, I would, I would argue and say that it's up and coming.
Like a lot of people are starting to open their mind up to other medical solutions, like the IVs, like the peptides, like all of these things that HydroPlus does. How would you explain that to a skeptic? Is that the word skeptic? Is that the right word? Yeah. Felt weird when I said it. How would you, yeah, cause skeptical. How would you
Logan Lewis (01:02:25.527)
Convince someone who would say yeah, I've seen that and you know it it feels weird It puts something into your body like that. Like how would you break that down to someone who is here stuff like that all the time and I want to be honest with you I was nervous about doing it because I've done something like that before and how'd you feel afterward? I never asked you about that. Did you notice a difference? I felt weird I'll say but it was probably all the B vitamins It was it might have been because I was not used to it
And it did at first, like when I got in the car and like shut the door, I was like, I felt weird at first. I felt like a little, a froggy, a little lightheaded a little bit, but I was like, I was like, okay, so this is, this is fast. Like I'm feeling the effects already. Like this is like, I figured it was going to be something that I would like feel like a couple hours later. No, it's pretty quick. Like, especially when you're sitting there for 30 minutes or 20 minutes or however long it takes.
Like typical skeptic then. Right. Who is like, no, I don't think that I need that. Right. And really, do you eat well? So these are the things I asked. Do I eat well? Do you eat clean? Do you take any good supplements? Hell no. So, because like, do I personally notice anything from like a wellness Myers IV? No, but usually like the immune support one, because I put 50,000 milligrams of vitamin C in that and I can actually turn the corner.
in less than 24 hours, like if you feel like you're getting sick. But like the wellness part is because I don't feel anything because I start my day with trace minerals and with, I take a prenatal vitamin, no, I'm not trying to get pregnant. And I take all kinds of other things. I also, know, juice and I eat very clean, lots of vegetables throughout the day, mostly plant-based if I can.
So I don't think that I have as many vitamin deficiencies as maybe the average American who eats a lot of processed foods, eats fast food maybe three times a week, doesn't exercise, doesn't take any supplements. So in the case of someone like that, yeah, so that's how you can feel the difference is that like a wellness Myers, which has a ton of different vitamins in it, fills in all of your nutrient gaps.
Logan Lewis (01:04:44.791)
So that's why you were feeling kind of froggy, because it was like that B12 really. Yeah, my body was in shock. That one hit you hard. yeah, it did hit me hard. And at first I was like, like, to be completely honest, I was like, fuck this thing. Like that made me feel weird. But when I was describing it to like my parents or my wife, they were like, well, maybe that means that you needed it because your body went into some kind of shock that it was like, whoa, we're not used to this. This is great. We love this, but we don't know how to react.
to it because you never have it. And I was like, maybe I need to try it again. Yes, you do. So it's the same thing for testosterone replacement. And it's the same thing for peptides where people are like, oh, OK, yeah, I just thought it was a part of old age. I think it just, I just look like this because I'm almost 50. Or that was hard to say. Almost 50. I know.
Right? years, I will be half a century old. Wow. You old ass lady.
my son Logan over here. anyway, I mean, then when I tell people, yeah, you don't really have to feel like that. You don't have to fall asleep after your meals. You don't have to, you know, walk around with a lowered sense of well-being or deal with like a bunch of brain fog all the time. Like you can balance your hormones, not to where you're like roided out with big muscles and you know, a mustache and a deeper voice, but just to where you're like, you know, optimized, then why wouldn't you?
Yeah, I mean, that's the thing is like, that's just not the kind of person I would be is I don't want to be that like ripped guy. Like, like, fine. don't like I don't strive for that. I want to be in good shape and like a comfortable like yesterday I went and helped my friends move, which first of all, we're 30. That's for the birds. That shits for the birds. I made it very known yesterday. I was like, this is the last time I'm doing this shit.
Logan Lewis (01:06:48.429)
And like all of our friends were there and I was like for all of you, just you know, this is the last time I'm doing this. At this point you gotta hire movers. And there's people who will pack you up and unpack you. And I'm fine to help you unpack or help you pack, but I am not going to move your shit. And I made it known that when I got there, I was like, maybe this shows how much of a
I am but I said I'm not moving any of the big shit. I'm not gonna hurt my no my strengths I carry your lot your laundry baskets for sure. I carried all of the miscellaneous shit Yeah kitchen stuff bedroom stuff clothes, but I'm not carrying your dresser. I'm not doing it yes, moved everything in their house from one house to another in like seven hours It was horrible. Yes. It was very efficient because we had like eight dudes there help
Okay, so it was nice. Yeah, and we're all buddies. So, I mean we were like, you know shooting the shit the whole time but you gotta get some was hurting today man. Almost when I got home last night Stephanie, I almost texted you and said there's no way I could do the podcast tomorrow. Well, actually I woke up this morning and thought it might be too rainy to do a podcast. The roads are terrible. They are. I'm glad that I woke up though today because I was kind of I was excited of course to see you and of course to do the podcast.
So I was like, yes, I'm so glad I didn't text her last night. But last night when I was on the couch, I was like fucking drained. I get it. Like I got home and I laid on the couch and it was like around dinner time and I was like, I am so hungry. And she was like, all right, well, what should we just go? Should we go sit down somewhere? Like, should we go out to eat? Should go to Olive Garden? And I was like, I don't know because I'm so tired.
I climbed like 30 flights of stairs yesterday. decision fatigue. Did you know that? Oh, I have horrible decision-making skills. Well, but if you've been making a lot of decisions throughout the day and then you come home and then it's like, babe, what do you want for dinner? Like, I don't know. What do you want? Do you guys have this conversation? All the time. do you feel like having? And then it's this back and forth. like, for me, don't want to like, my daughter usually dictates what we're going to have for dinner, which is fine. She's good. She's picked steak. She picks
Logan Lewis (01:09:02.36)
homemade ramen, she'll pick pesto, homemade pesto. And so it's like, I just know what she's going to tell me when I'm basically cooking for the night. But anyway, I don't want to have to make that decision. Yeah, that's a really good. I've never heard that decision fatigue before, but it makes sense because I and you, and I'm sure a lot of people are decision makers and whether you're doing it for your full-time job or your own hustle, like you're making a lot of calls. So.
The little mundane things you don't want to have to make a decision on isn't the reason why Is it mark zuckerberg where he wears the same outfit? For work every day or not work or whatever he does But he wakes up and wears the same t-shirt and the same colored. Yes Steve jobs did that too. Yeah, he was alive That's what they were saying is that you need to you need to expend that energy Making more productive decisions than what is it you're gonna wear for the day? Yeah. Yeah
I like that a lot. makes total sense. does make sense. is kind of part of showing off your personality with what you're wearing. I know you're in your t-shirt era and I've totally been through one of those. I love a t-shirt era. Like I love that shirt you're wearing. The Murder Kroger. What a niche joke for our Atlanta people. Murder Kroger? I have been to Murder Kroger. I used to work at Kroger. Not Murder Kroger, but I worked at Kroger. Have you been since they remodeled it? No. Okay. So let me tell you that for Mother's Day- Do they have an exhibit?
They don't but they have a wine bar that faces the Beltline and so for Mother's Day last year my husband and daughter like okay what do want to do? And I was like I want to go drink wine at Murder Kroger. They're like that's what you want to do with your day and I love that store. So you can it's like outdoor and it's covered and there's TVs so you can sit outside. Better soak it up because it's gonna be gone soon. What? That wine bar. Why? Because.
It's going to be, how do know? Because my Kroger in Cartersville, they had a big bar, shut it down. Apparently Kroger shutting all of them down over the next few years because that's too much of a liability. People get trashed at Kroger and then they drive home and get to our accidents. don't know if it's going away anytime soon, but they shut ours down just in, I think it was like April or May. Yeah. People called it the crowbar.
Logan Lewis (01:11:28.554)
yeah. And you could go and they would give you samples of beers like this much and you get three of them. You could do little flights. You get three of them and you don't have to pay for them. They're free samples that are this much. And then you go and you pay for your beer. Well, maybe they charge for the flights or they cap you at. Yeah, they might cap you. But either way, too much for liability. I was like, why are they crowbar down? Like when I tell you the Carter's little community was pissed.
Because Crowbar is like where everyone would like start their evening because the bar closed at like seven. So everyone would start their like Thursday night at Crowbar and then they would go to some of the other bars in town. now they're like, well, shit, now we need a new spot to start our night. Do they have that sort of thing at like Publix? I don't know. I don't think so. I've never seen a Publix that's got a bar. Publix though has like a lot of like the food like area where you can get like a pizza or you can get the puffs up or you can get the chicken.
They don't have gluten-free bread yet. What is up with that? Yeah, that's weird. mean, I love PubSum, they need to get with the gluten-free. Get with your shit, Publix. It seems like it's real hokey, right? Like it's just this trendy thing, but why not? People will pay extra to have it, whether they have celiac disease or not. I've gluten-free for, I think, almost three years. My choice. Yes. And I feel so much better. And it's hard to explain because it's like...
You don't know that something was going on with you until you take it out of the equation, right? So I don't feel as puffy. I don't feel as bloated, as swollen, you know, self-diagnosed body dysmorphia as it is. And so like taking away the gluten, just don't like, don't beat myself up as much, which I still do anyway. but yeah, why would you not add that into your, to your menu? Like I will ask restaurants if they have something gluten free and I like,
I hate to this, I like them better when they do. Sure. You know? Well, I mean, just because those restaurants are taking into account that not everybody wants.
Logan Lewis (01:13:33.577)
Gluten or insert ingredient here. Yeah, offer a gluten free bread or gluten free pasta. Right. So because there's some restaurants and really authentic Italian restaurants in South Florida and that's like the first they have to call them and ask and if they don't have it, I'm like. But you guys, so you guys are expanding into Florida. We are. You are looking for a new location. That's kind of around the time that we started talking is that you you've been going to Florida recently to kind of do some scouting.
Was that always the plan to expand into Florida or other States or is the business just gotten to the point where it's like we're at the point now where we can, you know, entertain the idea of growing. And I remember about a year ago, I was telling the owner, like, I don't want to go anywhere up 400 because pretty saturated, um, from Sandy Springs all the way up to coming. And, um, I was like, if anything, I want to go into like a smaller town. So
I Cartersville wouldn't be a bad idea. It wouldn't. But I was thinking like Conyers, McDonough, East Point, something like that. he was like, wow, you could have given me a hundred guesses and I never would have thought you would say McDonough. But so like I'm thinking of like, let's go somewhere where we aren't or where something like this doesn't exist instead of like, you know, trying to.
make a footprint where there are already a lot of other med spots. don't want to jump into like a Kennesaw or something that is like crazy pop. I don't want to say that they have a ton of businesses like Hydro Plus, but it exists. Whereas like Covington, Conyers, those little areas, there's no way it exists in Conyers. There's no way. Exactly. So that's what I wanted to do is be like the new kid in town where it's like, God, what is this IV hydration stuff? So Florida just made sense then for that? Well, there's this small pocket.
that does not have any IV height. Well, there's actually one IV clinic and there's one weight loss clinic that are in that area, but it's our only competition. And so, I think we could make it work and I need to know I can make it work because the pressure's on me. Well, you were also, when you were talking about what you, you know, when you got your job offer initially from Hydra, you were talking about how they brought you in to introduce X, Y, and Z.
Logan Lewis (01:15:53.159)
And I know now that like judging from your LinkedIn and like from your like social profiles, like you are the COO of this company. Were you hired in as the COO of this company? The DOO. DOO? Yeah. What's the D? Director. Director of Operations. Operations Officer. Those are the same, right? What's the COO? COO is like the person under the CEO.
Like you are the right hand man to the person in charge. Okay. And a D O O. And that's probably just, I mean, it's probably the same thing in your context. Yeah. But like if you're going to like CEO, because if you're thinking of like, but you have your owner and he's in charge or she who he he's in charge, are you two the two people then you're the C O O. Okay. But D O O is the same thing in this context, but like
If you're thinking of like Coca-Cola, have the COO, the CEO, the CFO, chiefs of all of those things. The chiefs. people. Yeah. You are technically that person, I guess. Okay. Which is amazing. So were you initially hired in as the director of operations? Yes. Okay. Yeah. So you've just kind of owned that from the get-go. Yeah. I think that I didn't know what I was in for, you know, just
just coming out of a role where, and this is obviously why I moved on from my last job, was because I just felt like I was this guinea pig in a wheel, or a hamster, whatever, that I just felt like I was just doing the same thing every day, but I wasn't just growing. There isn't any, I don't really get to showcase my ideas and promote events and network and whatever, because I was just, like, not.
doing mundane things, but I was doing what was required of the job, but like, could, it could be so much more than that, you know? So I'm just like, yes, I can draw blood and I can give injections and I can see patients all day, but if you, if I can't get out of this office, then I can't grow the business. And so now like, you know, being with Hydro Plus, we've got three fully functioning locations.
Logan Lewis (01:18:13.124)
that if I don't have patients on my books or I don't have podcasts or whatever, I go out to networking events or I I schedule certain things or I get in with the community so that I can, like indirectly it brings new business in the door. And that's what I've been trying to do all this time. Very cool. Very cool. And it's going well. It is going well. I'm trying to think what else we have coming up. So when I first started, they were,
zero Botox events ever happening. And it's funny enough because all of the nurses who were originally working there were put through Botox training so that they could learn how to inject people, but nobody ever held an event. So we had a freezer full of Botox and I was like, okay, hear me out. $5 a unit Botox for the first 20 units. And if you get Botox, you know that is cheap AF. All right, so $5 a unit, first 20 units. Let's just get people
understanding that we offer this here now. First event was a hit. We only had one injector. We were doing, you know, one event a month rotating at the locations. Got so busy that we started doing two events a month. So now we've got a rotation of four injectors and we've got two talks events a month. We're starting to do some little pop-up events where, you know, we're going to go to a gym, offer them free, be the gym members.
free B12 shots, free vitamin injections, testosterone, blood testing. We can check your blood pressure. We can check your A1C, some diabetes testing. And I'm trying to get more and more of those lined up for the coming months. Just like, you know, if you don't get out there into the community, then people don't know you exist. Sure, they drive by your store all the time, but they don't know what you have in there. So you gotta let them know. Yeah. It's important. It's important.
Stephanie, there comes a point in every conversation that I have with my guests where I ask them a collection of questions. God. These questions could be rapid fire if we want them to be. They could be discussed if needed. They're very first date kind of questions. They're very casual questions, but they get to know you. You know, we just kind of got to know you as like a business woman and a podcaster and a COO or DOO depending on the day. But now we're just going to get to know you as like
Logan Lewis (01:20:38.438)
Stephanie. This is very, it's a speed dating. Yes, speed dating. So in speed dating fashion. Well, before I tell you these questions, before we talk about these questions, I want to tell you about one more friend of mine, Stephanie, one more friend. Those friends are called Hammerhead Creations. If you're looking to elevate your business or your brand on the internet, Hammerhead can help. They offer top tier marketing services, social media management, website design.
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and discover how you can take your business or podcast to the next level. And then you too can swim with the big sharks. Stephanie, what is your favorite movie? Elf. Elf? Yeah. Really? Yeah. That's a very quick answer. I like it. I support it. It's kind of seasonal, but yeah, that's probably the one that like, you know, where you're like ugly crying, laughing. Yeah. Ugly cry laughing. For sure. Yeah.
What was your first job ever? The first time you collected a paycheck, what was it from? Like high school? Sure. High school days? I think I worked at Mervyn's. Mervyn's, have you heard of that? What is Mervyn's? It's like a department store. know what you're talking about. Yeah, like older ladies shop there. It's like a Kohl's, right? Yeah. Maybe it was like Kohl's of the 80s. The Kohl's of the 80s. I think so.
And, and I worked there through high school. parents really weren't really fans of me working. Really? They wanted me to just focus on school, like just like any other teenager, you want your own money. Sure. Instead of work there a few hours a week, just so I had money for, you know, bubble gum and and the movies and with the girls and all those things. What would your walkout song be? you would be that song, give it to me by Timbaland.
Logan Lewis (01:22:58.344)
Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake. That one. like it. I like it. I like that beat. I think I could walk out to that one. Okay, good deal. You know, I asked somebody what their walkout song was the other day and they're like, what does that mean? I was like, you know, like if you're about to enter like a fight, the songs playing in the background, or you're stepping up to bat, you know? Yeah. I know I'll forget what my husband's walkout song was when he used to when he was pitch.
Pitching for the Braves. But he had some song that was just like, that's just what we get him like, fired up. Yeah, for sure. Beyond the Mound. Additionally, with music, you get to organize yourself a music festival. get to pick your three headliners. Alive or dead, who are your three headliners? You know, he's gotten a lot of backlash lately on
and on social media, I put Justin Timberlake there. Really? What's the backlash been? Because they're saying that he hasn't been performing like he used to with all the dancing and that he's just been pointing the microphone and the audience has been saying, I paid $300 for a ticket not to hear myself sing your song. Right. And then come to find out he has Lyme disease. I did see that. Yeah. We're starting to see patients for Lyme disease. Really?
And let me tell you something. Now it makes sense why he was probably not himself on stage because that is a very debilitating disease. If you don't address it, it starts having all kinds of like neurological effects on you. It's bad. Yeah. Yeah. It's really bad. My buddy in high school had Lyme's disease. You know, it's crazy. See, it's like how many how how many people are getting still getting bitten by ticks? Right. Is that where it comes from is ticks? Yes. But there are like five hundred thousand cases of it a year.
So anyway, so he's one of the people apparently Avril Lavigne was dealing with that too. That's why she disappeared Really? Like I think in the early 2000s because she was dealing with that Alright, so we've got we've got Justin Timberlake. Who else will we put on there? Maybe some Nelly Furtado. Okay. Do you remember her? Oh, I do. Yeah. Were you born the year that she was popular? Probably but I know the music I dabble. Okay, and then okay, so we have a guy and a girl and then we probably need a
Logan Lewis (01:25:23.031)
Maybe Maroon 5. Ooh, that's a good choice. That's a good lineup. I'd go to that festival. On a day that you aren't working in any capacity, which I'm sure is few and far between. know, it's like does that exist? How do you take care of yourself? What's self-care like for Stephanie? self-care is solo travel. so like I, and I just booked my Labor Day solo trip and my husband is staying behind to watch the
Virginia Tech, I think they're playing Miami here in Atlanta. So I was like, okay, well, I'm not doing that. So I'm going to Mexico City. Love that. For Labor Day weekend. By yourself. Yes. And I just came back from Panama and that was my solo trip just for the summer. And Panama changed me. So that's self care for me because I went on this canoe ride into this indigenous village and you spend the day with them.
and they cook you fish that they got out of the river that morning and give you a fruit spread. There's all kinds of tribal dancing and whatever. And for seven hours, you've got no phone signal. You can't be on social media. There's no Wi-Fi. You're just there. You're just present. so I used to just like, you know, and I went to some other tour where we were swimming in this secluded lagoon and again, no cell phone service. And it's like to be completely unplugged like that.
And life is so simple, you've got no choice but to be present. Like that self care for me. Wow, I love that. That sounds fun. I love Panama. I'm in love with them. What is some advice or a quote that you live by every day? Something that someone told you at one point that you just kind of, something that you'd like write on your bathroom mirror. This is funny because I don't think the owner of Hydra remembers saying this to me.
But he said that I am notorious for jumping and building my plane on the way down. And he was like, sometimes you just got to jump, build your plane on the way down. And I feel like that is like a true reflection of me. Like I'm a risk taker in business and in personal life. And I don't make fear-based decisions. I'm just like, I'm up for it. I'm up for the spontaneity.
Logan Lewis (01:27:48.649)
Yeah, I like it. like it. What's your biggest fear?
Am I afraid of anything? you? don't know, spiders? Besides maybe the obvious, like something of course happening to your husband or your daughter, like of course everyone fears those things. Yeah, but you can't live like that. You know what I mean? I don't think that I am afraid of too many things, which is interesting. Are you afraid of failure? Yeah, but that's why you just can't let things fail. know what I mean? Because you know what's crazy is,
The number two fear that people, most people have is speaking publicly. Have you heard of that? I'm afraid of speaking publicly. How? You're a podcaster. But it's great because I'm talking to you. I guess. So the number one fear is dying in a fire and the number two fear is speaking publicly. And I know that because, you know, I'm a comm major. So, you know, I was a news reporter in a former life, but, um. Yeah. I can't believe we didn't talk about any of that shit.
I mean, because this was so long ago. But anyway, my public speaking professor said that, yeah, like most people are afraid to speak publicly. I find that fascinating. yeah, I couldn't do it. However, I've been presented with a couple opportunities in the next six months or so that I'm going to need to I need to get over it. How do I get because I agreed to do these things.
You should. I agreed to solely so that I could get myself ready for doing those things. What are you doing? I was asked to speak at a conference for journalism. I want to do that. You would be a good person to do it with. So maybe I'll have you as my cohost. Yeah. And I'll T you up. I'll T you up for what you need to say. We'll be teaching college students about podcasting. I love that.
Logan Lewis (01:29:49.377)
I'll do that with you. Maybe we'll talk about it. Okay. and then like to give like another, by our friends here at fireworks, they want me to do a lunch and learn about podcasting. can I be in that? Maybe. Okay. And if you can't be in it, you can come to it. Yeah. but yeah, so things that would require me to speak in front of anywhere from 20 people to 200 people. Well, and I'll tell you that freaks the hell out of me. I'll tell you what.
And this may be encouraging and this may like be like, great. Thanks for sharing. But whenever I like speaking in front of a group of people, it's really just like the first 60 to 120 seconds, the first one to two minutes where you feel the true butterflies in your stomach. And then once you can cruise through that, then it's smooth sailing. That's a good point. I think I've heard that once or twice before. It's just nerves. But then like after you.
get going and you know what you're going to say, the rest is easy. What I can, last time I publicly spoke in front of people, there was like 50 people in the room and I convinced myself that nobody was listening. I was just like, they're not listening to me anyway. They're on their phones. They're talking to their neighbor. They're, not listening to me. Does that help you? It helped in the moment. Okay. I was doing some, I did some light standup comedy and I just convinced myself that they weren't listening.
And worked. Okay. You know how these that's kind of like when people say you just picture everybody naked. Right. And like, I don't know that that would really calm my nerves. Right. Because there's a few people in the audience. I don't want to see naked. There's a few people I would love to see naked, but not everybody. lastly, Stephanie, what is your main motivator? What pushes you? What keeps you going? What is your morning drive? Morning drive.
You know what? They asked me that when I was on the Women in Power TV show a couple of weeks ago and you know, mean, maybe I do it for my daughter. Maybe you do it to show. Yeah, like why the hell do you do all the things that you do?
Logan Lewis (01:32:02.013)
I guess just to set this example, You want to be known as somebody who is reliable and can get shit done, right? Or like, you know, like there isn't too much that I can't do. I can't ride a motorcycle. I failed my motorcycle course and I also feel like chemistry. But other than that, like there isn't too much else that I can't accomplish. And so I think that it's important to set that example.
especially if you've got children watching you. So my daughter is 10 and she is smart as all get out. But I like for her to see that you can have a lot of irons in the fire and there can be all kinds of opportunities to go to the top. To tell me she watched our podcast. She said, I watched your podcast with Logan. She's laughing about how you called her a smart cookie and talking about all the ASMR stuff. She shows it to her friends, which is really cute.
I love that shouts to shouts to you my friend. She is my morning drive. Oh, I love that. I love that a lot. I can't believe we didn't speak, sit here and talk at all about the fact that you're a scuba diver. You love to scuba dive. I mean, I don't love it. didn't love it. Your laptop is covered with manta rays and seahorses and turtles and a giant ass great white shark.
What do you love it? It's just, it's just okay. She doesn't love it. It's just all over her damn computer. Well, okay. So here's a story about, about the scuba diving. So, you know, my husband works in the Bahamas, so he's there like twice a month. And, you know, we kept doing all of these little snorkel excursions and it got to the point where like one of my friends was like, okay, that's enough of a snorkeling. Like you need to get certified so we can go diving.
And so there's a place in Marietta, it's a dive shop and underneath is a pool. So you could do your classes there and then you do your checkout dives. So I got certified, I wanna say three, four years ago and I really haven't done that many dives. I've done like 27 dives. Maybe four of them have been like shark feedings. Something like What do mean shark feedings? You swim all the way down. I think we were down like 32 feet and everybody kneels in a circle.
Logan Lewis (01:34:20.794)
And then the dive master comes out with a box of chum and he's wearing a iron, is it iron? The little metal, he wears a metal suit and he's chumming the water and all these like reef sharks are in groupers and whatever come swarming in and you're just part of the madness. And like my fear was that their tails would whip the regulator out of my mouth. And so I watched the whole thing like this because, and this like the last- And where is this?
This was an asshole in the Bahamas. Wow. So the last shark feeding I did, I get all the way down and I kneel and I look at my tank and I've only got half a tank of air, right? This is before the shark feeding ever started. does that just mean someone fucked up and they didn't fill it up all the way? No, they gave me a used tank for my second dive. So I'm telling the dive master like that there's like signs that you can underwater and whatever. I'm telling him I basically only have half a tank. So he was like.
Okay, so he puts me next to the photographer and tells me to share air with him. So now I'm going to take this one out. You can't come up to the surface for this stuff. Yeah, pull one out and I'm sharing air with him because everybody has a spare regulator. So the whole feeding happens and you add that element in. Yes. And so like, if all dives, this is not one where you want to only have half a take.
So then after the feeding is over, all the sharks leave and then they tell me to switch and they say, go up to the top. So I'm the first one up after the shark dive and I was like, yeah, you guys only gave me half a take. They're like, shut. But I survived it. Wow. Yeah, I really want to do the shark diving thing because sharks are my biggest fear. I'm afraid of sharks. Are you? you don't dip your toes in the ocean because you're scared they're sharks? Well, I get in the ocean, but I will only go out.
to about like waist deep and I'm like, all right, I'm good. Really? Yeah. I won't go further. Oh, this is going to be next level for you. Yeah, I won't go. But I want to do it because A, to say that I've done it, but B, because like I want to like tackle some of these fears. And I feel like the aquarium would be a safe place to try it because I know. It's a killed at Sea World. In front of everybody in front of people.
Logan Lewis (01:36:39.537)
That's crazy. was so long ago, but it feels like it was just yesterday. Yeah. You see the news and it's just like the world trainer killed. wild animals. it's the same thing with like the whole Siegfried and Roy and whatever, you've been working with them, but they are wild animals. They can lash out at you. so at any moment they could snap out of this performance and still in shark's defense, I'll tell you that they do not like the bubbles coming out of your regulator.
So they don't like them. They don't like the bubbles. So if you're swimming past them and they're swimming past you, like, I mean, they may come up to you and divert, but like they really don't want anything to do with you. Really? So that's what helped me overcome my fear. Cause you know, I mean, these sharks are bigger than me. They're not that big cause they're reef sharks, but you know, eight feet is still significant. Yeah. It's a big animal. Yeah. That's a big animal, especially you're in their house. Right. What if that shark
came walking around our house and was just wandering around. Of course you would want to attack it. So I try to remind people of that. Like, look, you're in their home, so you have to respect the waters. And I heard that they can like sense like almost like dogs can. They can sense fear. Yeah. So if you're sitting in there shivin in your boots, they might surround you. They might be like, Hey, we have no intention of hurting this guy, but he's freaked out. we're going to say, we're going to
Figure it out like what's going on with it very curious and and usually any kind of bite or attack is usually this mistaken identity Yeah, like they mistake you for a seal or an eel or an Insert animal here a dolphin. Yeah, that's why surfers always get bitten. Yeah, because it then when they're on their board, it looks like the belly of a turtle Mm-hmm. Good point. So the shark attacks that happen
Underwater are very rare. Yeah, it's usually the ones that happen on the surface surface Yeah, I told somebody on a podcast like six months ago I was like, know what? I will go diving with hammerhead sharks because my company hammerhead creations People are like if you've got your whole brand is about sharks. You should you should go diving with sharks That'd be a cool like promo video video to put on your website. I'm like, yeah, that would be pretty sick But
Logan Lewis (01:38:59.997)
It's easy. hours of online classes though. And that's fine. I'll do that. But it's just the fact of like, I would get certified but never go. Because I'm so afraid to do it. I'm so afraid of sharks. You could start, just start easy. Like go swim with the, what are the sea cows called? Manatees. You can go swim with the manatees and Crystal River. Crystal River. Is that what it's called? Crystal? I don't know. It's in Florida.
Yeah, I did my check out dives in Florida. Yeah, I mean, I'd love to swim with any kind of animal really. mean, to be able to start there. I've never even swim with dolphins. I was to on my honeymoon, but I COVID on my honeymoon and was in this nice ass resort in Mexico and sick as hell. was horrible. How are you? Puerto Vallarta. Okay. It was great. I'm going to Mexico City. Yeah, I loved it.
Yeah. Well, I mean, I love the resort. Not the fact that I COVID on my honeymoon. That was bullshit. I know because you don't get to leave. No. just got to hang out in your room. Sucked balls. But yeah, shark diving one day. Stephanie, tell the people listening where to find you, how to get in contact with you, what Hydro Plus does, what you do, all the things. See where you can find us.
On Instagram, probably Instagram, which is so funny because people will go look at your Instagram account before they Google you. That's like a real thing now. So our Instagram is the Hydro Plus. Our website is thehydroplus.com. I'm usually tagged in all of that stuff. You can see our podcast interviews and a bunch of promotions that we have going on and whatever events that we have coming up. So yeah, check us out there.
We're on YouTube, we're on Spotify. Does this podcast make me sound fat? But other than that, yeah, just look on our Instagram. That's probably where like, because I think that's the easiest for companies to update. Yeah, because you can post content quickly. You can put videos on there. You can update like if there's a weather closure or if there's a, you know,
Logan Lewis (01:41:07.438)
delayed opening or any kind of changes, a lot of times the best way to do that is on social media. Because people are on that all day long. Right. Right. I'll make sure to put the link to the website and the Instagram in the description of the episode so that when clicking or when listening, sorry, you can scroll down, click what you need and get in touch with Hydro Plus if that's what you choose to do so. yeah. Tell you what we offer. IV hydration, medical weight loss,
hormone replacement, peptide therapy, aesthetics of botox and fillers. And we do some spa treatments too. We've got some red light therapy and microdermabrasion, facials, micro-needling, dermaplaning. We do all the things. All of the things. It could be your one stop shop. That's what I like to call it, one stop wellness. One stop wellness. like that. you all the things there. Huh, one stop wellness. You should trademark that. that on a t-shirt. I think we do.
One stop wellness. If you don't, you're about to. Stephanie, thank you for your time. I love being on other people's shows because it's so different than our own for work. So it's like the different formats are really cool. I appreciate you coming. I appreciate the swag. I love it. I'll wear the hat all the time because it's a comfortable hat. And I'm lucky to know you, dude. I think you're a lot of fun. You guys do good. I mean, I
Received the IV. I understand it. I got it. It made me feel some type of way, but I knew that that was the correct. It was the it was what I needed. So I'll probably be back for more and I want you to come back for more. We'll have to do more conversations like this. This was fun. It flew by. I want to like partner with you on some of your events. I'll bring you into some of mine too. Okay. Okay. I like that. I like it a lot.
So guys, again, I'll make sure to throw Hydro Plus's information in the description of the episode so that you can get in touch with them, get to learn, get to know them, learn more about what they do and learn more about Stephanie. And of course my links are in the description as well. Shout out to fireworks for having us shout out to good days for providing our beverage today. And shout out to branded and devoted designs for the swag that they produce for me and for all of you that hit them up. So.
Logan Lewis (01:43:28.57)
Thank you guys for listening today. We will catch you next time.