Travel More & Float!

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SPEAKER_09 0:17

What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Raven in Real Life show. And we have my friend Maria in the bag. What's up? So today we're gonna talk about just being busy and how to kind of calm yourself down and come back to yourself. We have a couple different guests, but I definitely wanted to start the conversation with you today. Thank you. Because if you look up busy, that is you. So let's talk about all the new things that you've been working on the last couple of months.

SPEAKER_10 0:42

Okay, yes. Most importantly, um, I've been learning about community and how important it is and the power of people right here where we live. So I started the Columbus Fashion Council, and I had a meeting, and the meeting turned into let's do a pop-up next week. So we did, and it was fantastic. Shout out to the tap for allowing us to do that there. Um, and it was fantastic. People came to actually see the show, and it was great. So we are going full speed ahead for that. Uh Miami swim week's coming up, still New York Fashion Week in September is on the back burner, and my kid graduates on Saturday, so I'm super excited.

SPEAKER_09 1:24

Yay, mine too. High five. High five. We did it. Way to go, parent. Okay, that's I'm excited. All of my kids are 18 or older, so we're not legally responsible for any of them.

SPEAKER_10 1:36

That's the most important part. Yeah, but you also, so you also went to Arizona. Yes, did a lot of model castings, Miami, Arizona, Atlanta, online virtually, all the things. All the things just to, yeah, um my hustle game is strong, as is yours, ma'am.

SPEAKER_09 1:53

Yes, ma'am. But we hustle together, so we're also part. Um, if you guys don't know about it, I feel like maybe we brought this up last time, but look into B and I. If you are a business owner or the face of a company, look into B and I because definitely helped. We're members of two different chapters, one each.

SPEAKER_10 2:08

One each, yep.

SPEAKER_09 2:09

Um, so so how has that been like the networking with the business community here?

SPEAKER_10 2:13

It is insane. When you find your tribe, it is it means the world. It you can go places that you didn't know that you could go just because you already know you have people who believe in you. Uh, and then with the B and I part of it, it just it's a community of like-minded people who are ready to pour back into your business when you pour into theirs.

SPEAKER_09 2:32

Yeah, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_10 2:32

You fill up my cup, I fill up yours.

SPEAKER_09 2:34

For sure.

SPEAKER_10 2:34

I love it. It's great.

SPEAKER_09 2:36

You always fill up my cup. Oh, you really do. So something that you did for me recently was, and this will go into our next couple of segments, but you've got me a float at one of those places.

SPEAKER_10 2:51

What I actually got you was a moment to just pause and reset your nervous system. Yeah. Because homegirl get cruzy. So I just saw a chance to pour back into you and r help you know that I love you and I support you, but also that um, you know, I'm a friend who believes in you as a whole person. Your spirit, your mind, your body, and all of those things are important because we are so busy and we do go nonstop.

SPEAKER_08 3:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 3:20

And so um the one of one of your next guests, and we'll give it away, um, has created an environment where it is you just walk in and you just want to sit down and just and I thought, hey, you probably need that.

SPEAKER_09 3:34

I do, I do.

SPEAKER_10 3:35

And did you did you go?

SPEAKER_09 3:36

I thought I went yesterday. And it was absolutely amazing, first off. So I and I asked her afterwards, like, because my mind didn't completely shut off. Because that's I think that's your goal.

SPEAKER_10 3:49

I think I called you and said, Hey, the hardest part for this is going to be Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 3:52

And I was like, no, I relax. I go to like I could lay my head down. I could have two cups of coffee and lay my head down and go to sleep. But I guess in that, um, it was it felt so nice. I was just pushing myself off the side.

SPEAKER_10 4:05

Lights off, no sound floating on the water. There's nothing to do.

SPEAKER_09 4:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 4:10

It's just weird.

SPEAKER_09 4:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 4:12

Kind of.

SPEAKER_09 4:12

It could feel good.

SPEAKER_10 4:14

It feels good. Like it's it's it's a I say weird because of lack of my uh better word, but it's one of those things where you're just like, it's okay for me to be here right now.

SPEAKER_09 4:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 4:23

Um, and just to kind of shut my mind off, which I told you was a hard thing for me to do, but it it I felt better afterwards. I will say rejuvenated and my muscles were great.

SPEAKER_09 4:33

The entire time that I did it, I did not think about my dishes or my laundry. And that's all I've thought about for about three and a half months because I still haven't need you to get on that.

SPEAKER_10 4:41

But for real, but good, but shutting some tabs off. That's exactly what this place does, and I'm here for it every single time.

SPEAKER_09 4:50

And you did that in a way of not just like, here you go, this is for you. This is a you experience this and then do it for somebody else.

SPEAKER_10 4:57

100%.

SPEAKER_09 4:58

So, what are some other things that you're doing right now to kind of shut down? Because you you're doing so much.

SPEAKER_10 5:04

Yes. Um, so another way that I shut down is I pour back into other people. Um, just with a text message of like, don't forget who you are.

SPEAKER_08 5:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 5:14

And I believe in you, keep shining. Just uh because those things help me sometimes. Um, I am pouring really hard back into the community, just trying to show up for other people's things, just because I don't have to be in charge of it in order for it to grow. Um so we went last night to a networking event and just helping people in our community who are also doing similar things to the things that we're trying to do because it's not competition, it's it's it's business and it's love. So just shining light everywhere I can.

SPEAKER_09 5:43

I love that. Oh, let's get a shout out to all of them that were there last time too. So um it was held at Stir Up Trouble.

SPEAKER_10 5:49

And then um Evolve Event Community Events, Evolve Community Events. Cache, yes.

SPEAKER_09 5:56

Did I just say Gauche?

SPEAKER_10 5:57

You said Gauche, but her name is Cachet. Her name is Cash. It is Cash.

SPEAKER_09 6:00

She supported all of our stuff when we did the women. She was there all the time, 100%.

SPEAKER_10 6:04

And I was finally in town for something that they were doing, and Stir Up Trouble is amazing. If you've not been, um Go Bianca is a a great host there. Yes, and they had a panel of other entrepreneurs. Um, and we actually kind of have been doing simultaneously things with these people, so it was really good to see um hear the questions of other people in our community, and they sat in a panel, they were all nervous, and it was cute, and I was like, oh, that would be too.

SPEAKER_09 6:30

It was so cute, and it was so cool. I think one of my favorite answers, just because like I wonder what is how do you strike that balance, was when they asked them of um, you know, now that your business is thriving, how do you get out into the community? Because we're still like constant community runners. 100%. Um, so I we're gonna have to learn that. But in in learning that, we're definitely gonna have to balance our equilibrium and our whatever else.

SPEAKER_10 6:55

And I'm learning that being in the community and and finding this place. Um, I I'm learning that it is so important to balance not just your mind, but your soul, your body, how you feel, what you're thinking, all of that plays into how your business thrives.

SPEAKER_09 7:12

Yep.

SPEAKER_10 7:12

And it is important that you know that if you are an entrepreneur, your life, your world, it all is uh coincides with how your business succeeds.

SPEAKER_09 7:25

Faux show. And that's what they told us last night.

SPEAKER_10 7:27

I learned that last night. I that's not a me thing.

SPEAKER_09 7:29

Faux show.

SPEAKER_10 7:30

Yes, it was great.

SPEAKER_09 7:31

So whenever I come back, I'm gonna have the owner of that place, Solace, and I can't remember the whole name, so you don't have to come back to figure it out. Be back in two minutes.

unknown 7:41

Bye.

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SPEAKER_09 10:11

Welcome back, you guys. And make sure when you watch commercials during this show, just know they are truly supporting me. So please go and check them out on social media and support their businesses when you need it. But right now we're going to talk a little bit about you and your business. So right here I have Miss Casey Boyle, and you have brought Solace to our community. Tell me the full name because I'm messed up.

SPEAKER_07 10:35

So it's Solace Shades of Healing Float and Wellness Studio. It's a mouthful, yes.

SPEAKER_09 10:41

But you know what? In post-production, they're gonna have that across the screen beautifully. So it's okay. So tell me a little bit about it and the different things that you guys have.

SPEAKER_07 10:50

So they we have three century deprivation tanks, and so they're actually cabin suites, they're not the pods where you have to close it. So you actually get to walk into a tub, it's 200 gallons and it's a thousand pounds of magnesium. So you just float effortlessly. But what it does is that it's magnesium, which is a nerve mineral, and it helps your body relieve stress, pain, anything like emotions that doesn't serve you, kind of just kind of washes away. Yeah. Um, but then we also have a couple ladies on that do practice Reiki, they're Reiki masters, and then we have dandy apothecaries, so we have herbal elixir, we have teas and complimentary tea too, so that when you can come in, you can enjoy and so it's very everything about it is very holistic. It is very holistic, it's practical healing.

SPEAKER_09 11:40

So let's go before we talk more about this, let's go backwards. You tell me a little bit about you, where you're from, and then kind of what got you into a natural pathic or holistic way of living.

SPEAKER_07 11:50

So I'm actually an army wife. My d husband is here, we're here off of uh drill orders. So uh I actually was introduced to this in 2021 and it was my I'm a type one diabetic, and so that's kind of what catapulted me into the natural world because doctors uh they don't know all the things that you can do to really help. And so when I was introduced to it, uh it I realized how much it helped me with my sugars, um, helped me with my cardiovascular health, and I was happier. Yeah, and it just was an all-encompassing health and holistic ritual. So it just something that I just kept on and it became a dream of mine to have my own, and then now here I am.

SPEAKER_09 12:37

Was it specific that you wanted this or was it like a goal? Like you wanted to have your own business. Okay, yeah, and and for this specifically, yes.

SPEAKER_07 12:47

So I wanted to have a float and uh sauna studio. Yeah. So when I was doing my business plan, I realized that there was something that was here, and so when they closed the doors, I kind of stepped in, and that's all she wrote.

SPEAKER_09 13:02

And this is it's so I'm lucky in in my entrepreneurial journey, however you say it. I I have not done brick and mortar, so I haven't had that high crazy rent, any of that kind of stuff. So you've really, really jumped out there on the line, and it looks like you are already gaining a lot of notoriety in our city, and people are getting to know you and coming and just showing up. So, what does that look like for you? How do you see your growth happening here?

SPEAKER_07 13:29

Well, the growth has been exponential just in the last month. Yeah. Um, really, as soon as a friend of mine, Cherie, came on, it was just like everything just kept exploding. Uh, she was introducing me, she was helping with my social media, and so with that the relationships kept coming, and now I'm starting to get out there. I'm new to the community. Yeah. So being able to be in the right room with the right people has helped with my growth. So I have people that are interested in helping me with the further growth. And so uh really the sky's the limit. We have so many things for store in the future.

SPEAKER_09 14:08

So, okay, now Sheree, does she do so?

SPEAKER_07 14:11

She is a social media manager, does she manage other people, or is she kind of just literally she has her own thing going on, she is very, very unique in what she does. So pretty much she took what I didn't know was there, and she pretty much extracted that essence out of me to help build my brand and to help build the awareness and help make solace, which you all see today.

SPEAKER_09 14:33

Yeah. Hey, you guys, actually, I know her too, and now that she's said this, I think I might have to talk to her about reach out to them. So how what has been the most beneficial thing for you in in like a holistic journey that you've taken?

SPEAKER_07 14:53

Really, it's um being able to have practical tools for me and my family and not being dependent on the Western healthcare system that really isn't conducive to whole body healing. And that's including energetic healing, which studies are done by the way. Um I very much it's grounded in science. So everything I do, there is scientific evidence to support what I am doing right now.

SPEAKER_09 15:25

So um, yeah, it's so it's true health care because people like to say that health care is not truly health care, it's sick care.

SPEAKER_07 15:32

It's pretty much, yeah. So we're pretty much what they say is uh a patient cured is a patient lost. Well, we're gonna help them lose some of those patients.

SPEAKER_09 15:42

Oh no, medical community. So what's your next step, or like what's something that everybody needs to know about?

SPEAKER_07 15:50

Well, we're actually doing a thing where we're working on making each room its own personality. I love this. So giving its own character, so whether it's like celestial or like the grove, very foresty, or like lake vibes. So each room will have its own, so that is something that we're in the works. Uh we have other things that we have going on at different events and people coming on, and so I'm very excited to see what's in the future.

SPEAKER_09 16:18

So people just probably need to watch the social media or something, right?

SPEAKER_07 16:22

Yes, and but I'm also getting out there with magazines and with you. So yeah, it's it's getting out there.

SPEAKER_09 16:28

Y'all follow this journey.

SPEAKER_07 16:29

You'll start seeing me everywhere.

SPEAKER_09 16:30

Follow this journey. And we have like 30-ish seconds left. I want to ask this just real quick because people forget that people that look like you are even diabetic. Well, how old were you when you found that out? And what would you like to say to, is there anything you'd like to say to that community about you know keeping their health in check?

SPEAKER_07 16:50

So I w it was until I was like 25 when I found out, but um, that the this right here is a great way to help control your blood sugars. There are natural ways to get your body back into balance to where your body can do what it's supposed to do.

SPEAKER_09 17:05

Sweet. Thank you so much for having me. And up next, I'm gonna have one of the I don't know if I'm saying this correctly, but I'm gonna have one of those Reiki specialists so I can learn more about the practice. See you after these messages. Get it back!

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SPEAKER_09 19:04

Welcome back, everybody. I am really excited about this segment because I don't really know anything about Reiki. But Miss Leana Hayes is gonna learn me some things. So thank you so much for being here. Thanks for having me. And are you any relation to the Hayes that I met with earlier?

SPEAKER_06 19:21

I'm not. It's crazy. I mean, it's both our married names. So yeah.

unknown 19:25

I knew that already.

SPEAKER_09 19:26

So come on, tell me about Reiki. What is it? Where'd it come from? All that jazz.

SPEAKER_06 19:31

Yeah, so Reiki is a Japanese term. It means universal life force. And basically it helps to reset the normal energy field of the body. It brings it down into rest and digest so that the body can heal.

SPEAKER_09 19:43

Okay. So how do you actually accomplish that?

SPEAKER_06 19:48

The laying on of hands. Okay. That's it. So people come to the center, they lay on my massage table, fully clothed, comfortable clothing, obviously, and I just pour into them.

SPEAKER_09 20:00

Okay. And so I've been told that as you do this and the more you do it, you can literally feel like I want to say the force feel. What do you feel? Like what does it feel like to you when you're doing it? Um to me or to the or on your side of it.

SPEAKER_06 20:20

So for me, it feels warm. You can feel energy moving. Sometimes you'll have emotions that come up because emotions get trapped in the body, and that's actually what makes us sick or chronic pain. And so when we move that energy, some of that stuff comes up and it feels like an emotional release.

SPEAKER_09 20:40

Really?

SPEAKER_06 20:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 20:40

You feel their emotion. I do. Wow. So did you believe because there are gonna be naysayers out there because it's not typical medicine. What do you say to them if they don't believe that something's really happening there?

SPEAKER_06 20:57

It's a process, and it's kind of something that you can't really understand until you experience it. Some people will call it a placebo effect, but studies have shown that placebos work. Yeah, true. You know? And Fort Belvoir and Walter Reed hospitals are big military hospitals, they've had Reiki programs since 2009, and you know the military does the military doesn't do anything, they don't have a leave ed.

SPEAKER_09 21:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 21:21

So I mean, this is there are so many studies about the power of it. And I I mean I use it to heal myself. I use it to heal my kids. They've got fevers, anything like that.

SPEAKER_09 21:33

Like it knocks it off. So you can actually perform it on yourself as well?

SPEAKER_06 21:37

I do every day.

SPEAKER_09 21:38

Does it um does is there a different benefit whenever you use someone else to perform that on you, or is it the same thing?

SPEAKER_06 21:48

Yes. So when we have someone else there to hold the space, you know, for the truth of who we really are outside of who we believe ourselves to be. Someone who knows our wholeness. Like it helps us elevate to that knowing. So if I'm being worked on and someone else's shit is knowing my wholeness, it helps me trust that to let go.

SPEAKER_09 22:13

I love that just made me a little bit emotional the way they even explain that.

SPEAKER_06 22:18

And it is. This is where science meets spirit.

SPEAKER_09 22:22

So what uh tell me your story. Where are you from? What were you like growing up? And then what brought you to this?

SPEAKER_06 22:29

I am from Columbus, Georgia. Oh, okay. Yeah, we moved back when I was six, and I've been gone since 2014 because I was in the military. So I'm a prior service Air Force nurse. And I just moved back here in February of this year. So yeah, I've been gone for a while, but I went and I healed and I did all the things, and I'm coming back, you know, to help the community. And growing up here was interesting. I am mixed, black and white, so I experienced this separation, you know, that existed then, and there was a lot I had to heal from that, and I did. So I'm happy to be back sharing this.

SPEAKER_09 23:08

How do you think that this could change a community if it were really just uh supported on a big big community scale?

SPEAKER_06 23:16

So this is the thing. So the military is so like Fort Benning, they had a Reiki practitioner, but they don't now because the community isn't really involved. And so they kind of follow what the community does. So I am reaching out to other polit like well wellness centers that don't have energy healing on board saying, Hey, let's get this into the community so that it becomes more well known and not so taboo, you know, and then allowing that to come onto the military base so that our soldiers, you know, that are fighting to protect us have an alternative wellness offering.

SPEAKER_09 23:56

Are there people that come in to see you and just their presence you can feel in our our uh negativity or just bad vibes or whatever, just reeking off of them? I don't know that the talk.

SPEAKER_06 24:11

Of course. Of course. But we meet everyone where they are.

SPEAKER_09 24:15

Okay. So um that's something I'll listen to. I listen to um a lot of motivational podcasts, and they talk about how a lot of people won't believe that you can truly feel someone's energy. But if you walk onto an elevator and a couple were just fighting, you're gonna feel that whenever you walk into it.

SPEAKER_06 24:32

It is palpable, that is the tension. But when we don't practice trusting that, yeah, it's easy to just say no, I can't. And really learning to trust yourself is all about becoming a Reiki practitioner. So my goal is to host classes to open other people's hands up so that they can start doing this work on themselves every day because it is a practice.

SPEAKER_09 24:54

I would be so down to learn some of it, and me and my cubs could have like ramen and reiki nights. That would be so fun.

unknown 25:01

We could do it.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

Let's go.

SPEAKER_09 25:05

We're gonna we're gonna do it. Um, so in my last segment, I dedicate how people talk about uh health care isn't health care, it's sick care. You're a nurse and you've done this. Do you agree with that statement?

SPEAKER_06 25:21

I think that the medical profession has its place.

SPEAKER_09 25:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 25:25

Okay, because not everybody is ready for the spiritual side, or they need both in tandem, right? But uh yes, I would agree that we are mind, body, and soul. So we can't just treat ourselves as physical beings. We have to, in order to heal, we have to treat all facets.

SPEAKER_09 25:44

Agreed, agreed. So um, and I've known plenty of people that have gone through, you know, major sicknesses, and it's always don't look into the negative stuff connected to what you have going on. Try to stay as positive as you can, meditate, pray. This goes right along with that. So I'm excited to have met you. I can't wait to learn more. I'm gonna come check you out.

SPEAKER_06 26:05

I'd love to have you.

SPEAKER_09 26:06

Do you have any last message or any way that you want people to know that they could get in touch with you and learn more about this?

SPEAKER_06 26:11

Yeah, so we're located at 1511th Street, 11th and Broadway, across from Iron Bank. It's a beautiful spa setting, totally luxurious, and you can go online to our website at shadesofhealingga.com.

SPEAKER_09 26:25

All right, you guys, until next time. This was Raven in Real Life.

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