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46: A Former Philosophy Professor's Journey into Holistic Wellness
Dasha Grankina's journey from Soviet-born philosophy professor to Louisville wellness entrepreneur reveals the fascinating intersection of Eastern European health traditions and American innovation. With a background managing schools and businesses in Russia, Dasha brings scientific rigor and practical experience to Bodhi Salt, the wellness center she co-owns with Anna Shulgina, that's challenging how Kentuckians think about respiratory health, allergy management, and overall wellbeing.
"Salt is not that expensive, right? You cannot claim the right on sodium chloride," Dasha explains, highlighting why pharmaceutical companies rarely promote salt therapy despite its effectiveness. At Bodhi Salt, clients experience how salt particles work as a "cleaning detergent" for airways, helping those suffering from Ohio Valley allergies breathe easier without medication side effects.
Beyond their signature salt rooms, Bodhi Salt offers uniquely tailored wellness experiences including steam barrels where clients sit with their heads outside while their bodies detoxify, red light therapy that accelerates healing and promotes collagen production, and Shirodhara oil treatments that leave clients feeling "like you had a nine-hour uninterrupted sleep just in one hour." Each service is backed by scientific research while still honoring traditional wellness practices.
What makes Bodhi Salt truly special is its personalized approach. Whether you're an athlete seeking faster recovery, a parent helping a child with allergies, or someone battling skin conditions, Anna and Dasha's team creates customized experiences using combinations of salt therapy, aromatherapy, breathing techniques, and other modalities. They even offer "dog therapy" courtesy of Ozzy, their French bulldog receptionist who sometimes naps with clients during salt sessions.
Experience the perfect blend of science and wellness at Bodhi Salt, where Eastern European traditions meet modern health science in a luxurious, results-driven atmosphere. Your lungs (and skin, and stress levels) will thank you.
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Hey besties, Thank you so much for joining us for another episode of Small Business Bestie. I'm your host, Michelle, and I have an amazing guest today. I've already been chatting with her just a minute and the chemistry is off the chart. You guys are going to have so much fun listening to this. I can't wait. Tell me all about yourself.
Speaker 2:Well, my name is Dasha Grankina. I was born in Soviet Union, I was made in USSR, so I'm tough as like most of the cookies from there, and by the time I moved to United States, I lived several lives already, and a couple of years as well. I was always in a small business. I was always owing something or discovering something or promoting something, so I'm really into creating things. So my first major, though, was not in business at all. It's history and philosophy, and I used to teach philosophy and political science in university back in Russia. But just to support myself and support my family, I have to open the business, because the salary of a professor of the university is not that high, and I also had to support my husband, who is an anesthesiologist, but, believe it or not, in Russia he couldn't make more than to pay our electricity bills.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you're telling me that you are a university professor and your husband was an anesthesiologist and you were, like we don't make enough money. I need to open a business. Sure, crazy, right, right, yes, oh, my gosh. Okay, so tell me about the business. How, what did you do so?
Speaker 2:the first thing I started by myself. It was a printing shop, so I printed books, printed textbooks and wedding invitations, and then we get into the design side. So part of that. And then also I was running a school, k-12 and and five-day care center, so we printed the materials for that as well. Yeah, because I have twins, right, and I wanted to create an environment for them to cherish and grow and improve their mindset. So what else, what better you can do than to open your own things and control it and make sure that they have all the best, the best education, the best care, the best physical improvement, all of that Best food as well. So that's what I did for quite some time in the school and daycare. There's still a running wagon there in Russia. I had to sell my print shop. It was like bittersweet, but anyway so.
Speaker 2:And then we decided to give a shot for my husband because he wanted to. Well, he was really miserable there. Let me tell you that, being a great specialist in his field, and he was born to be a doctor, so he cannot do anything else except for that. That was his calling. He tried several things, just one okay, to step out of medicine. He was absolutely miserable. It was not the man I fell in love with and we decided he would go to the United States. So he did and so he cherished. Right now. Right now he switched to family medicine but by the time, like we are talking right now, since we moved, he is the president of the hospital, medical director, stuff. He has a bunch of patients that are really loving him, so we find our home in here. That's amazing For me always finding the good things wherever I am.
Speaker 2:Like the older situation you give me a situation, I'll find something good in that. The older situation you give me a situation, I'll find something good in that. So, even though I was not going to move to the United States and I was working on a dissertation on the political situation of Great Britain of modern times and I wanted to move to Great Britain, but since my husband was the first to you know, to claim the spot, we decided to give it a shot here in Louisville and we moved to Louisville right away. So we didn't travel a lot throughout the country and I'm happy to call it home. My kids grew up here and I build a lot of huge community in here with a lot of friends and I just I just love it in here. I love Louisville, except for one thing, okay, higher River Valley. I never, ever in my life, had an allergy and I developed an asthma here and well, it's not fun. Let me deal with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I think that's very common People who move here, even from other places within the States. We move here and we're like what is all the stuff in the air? I know it's crazy, isn't it? It's beautiful, though. I mean the stuff is in the air because it's so pretty here.
Speaker 2:Yes, I love all the. You know the blooming season. I love to watch it. I just soak it in all the old neighborhoods in Louisville. I love old Louisville, all of that, but I cannot breathe All of that. But I can breathe Right. So here in Louisville.
Speaker 2:So first I started as a yoga teacher. So I used to teach yoga back in Russia as well. It's hard to believe that I could squeeze another activity in my schedule, but I did somehow. So I certified myself. I get certification in Louisville as a yoga teacher at Yoga Baum. This is my home yoga studio. I love them, I love their owner, and after that I started teaching yoga and building the community around that. Then I had to find some activities for my kids, especially when they got from school and told me like okay, you know what, mom, we learned this thing in math class three years ago and I was like what is that? I started looking at the program. It was oh gosh. So I put them through the math school and I started teaching math in there. So apparently, with the major in philosophy from Russian University, you can teach calculus, which is not a big deal. I'll leave it to that. Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, okay. So you started taking calculus. What is it? You started teaching calculus with a philosophy degree.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because well, this is something that we are graduated from the high school back in Russia, yeah, and not all the kids in here, unfortunately. I feel really sorry for that and I'm doing everything to improve the quality of education in the United States everything in my power to do so, because this is my passion. I've been in education for 26 years now. So, and long story short, I became a principal of my school, but this is what it was. Not my business, it was just business that I get to run, and I did that successfully for a couple of years, but there was something about that. I want to create more. I want to improve the business I want. I wanted to flourish and grow.
Speaker 2:The most important things, which is the owner was not really interested in Right. Important things, which is the owner was not really interested in Right. By the time when I met, when I met Anna, I was already having this thing that we need to part and I need to do something. My own, yeah, the things that I know how to do. I know how to open the small business. I know how to run it. I know how to make it successful, right.
Speaker 1:So you met Anna and it was just like fireworks, chemistry, and you knew.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say so. So people who are meeting us, they're like oh, guys, you're best friends, right? Like you know each other forever. Like no, we know each other for a year.
Speaker 1:You've only known each other a year? Yes, well, that's incredible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know Okay, but you, you see, we are like just two, two puzzles, just two puzzle figures. So we just connected because I know how to run it, I have an inspiration, I have the vision, but spreadsheets are not my favorite thing to do?
Speaker 2:yeah, like at all. I'm just I'm I'm losing my confidence looking at them. But Anna is great with them all. She is great with creating the business model, like scientific business models, and you can see the progression in there, right, but I'm worried about what does it have to look like? What do our clients look like? So what do we need to do to improve it and to make it efficient day to day? Yeah, and to make it enjoyable day to day, and you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so in Louisville you're having allergies. You're not loving that. Did you know that you wanted to start a health and wellness business? Or was that just kind of like you guys met and then you were like what can we do together to create something? What do we want?
Speaker 2:to create.
Speaker 1:That was the second part.
Speaker 2:So what can we do? Because we have several concerns about, like, compare our life back in Russia, in here in United States. It was. The first was education, obviously, because we both have kids. I was not in there anymore because my kids are in college right now. Not in there anymore because my kids are in college right now.
Speaker 2:I feel, feel for your people, but I'm done with that right. Yeah, feel I still have a plans to open educational program on the base of our center. For sure, because I feel that need, that urge by myself to educate people, because it was one of my yoga teachers, actually, who told me that if you can live a day without teaching, you shouldn't go to a teaching path at all, because you have to have an urge to teach, you have to have an urge to share the knowledge and see the improvements in your students. And that's what I do. That's what I have every time when I'm seeing somebody like I want to help, I want to give an advice, not just like, okay, you should do that, right, but given advice how you can improve your educational path, how to can you can get better in what you do, yeah, so yeah, and when we started talking to Anna.
Speaker 2:So the first idea was to open the kindergarten or daycare center, but from the business perspective it's not really the thing that you want to do as a startup. You have to have a backup, like the huge backup that will feed that first daycare center. And you can do, because I've been there already and so the school that I was running was supporting the first day and only the fifth one became profitable. So the same situation is in the United States. For the daycare center to be profitable, not just run by the passion Because, yeah, my kids are in college, you know it's cost a pretty penny. I cannot run like on the charitable base, like all together, even though we do a lot of charity here.
Speaker 1:But you have to make money we have to make money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's why the daycare center is still in our mind. So when we create a profitable holding, a profitable corporation, we will get back to that because, we want it to be like on a high quality.
Speaker 2:everything that we do here like it's, it's really thoughtful and we thought really thoroughly about every single detail in here. So we will not find any like cheap things because, okay, that will work this way. No, everything that we do we are really into like high quality of the services that we are providing, so the same going to be with the daycare center. So, and then we are really into the high quality of the services that we are providing, so the same going to be with the daycare center. So, and then we start talking about the health issues that our families are having here in Ohio State, in Ohio Valley, and Anna mentioned the salt therapy that they used to do in Russia and there was a place in Louisville as well, but it was not really kid-friendly and, you know, just not super convenient. Right, they're still running and I wish them all the best. They have a slightly different concept that we do and we are like we are running here. There are a bunch of Siena fish, so we are not into their prey.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. I think the way Ana described it was make the pie bigger, right, it's a big enough pie for all of us.
Speaker 2:Of course, especially when you live here.
Speaker 2:Every single person in the guy of Allah needs that Right and our role is to educate people On the first stage of our business.
Speaker 2:We need to educate people, we need to tell them how does it work, how important it is, and slightly get into the fight with pharmaceutical companies, which is a big deal. Yeah, because you know what, michelle? It's really interesting when I start reading the American Allergy Associations and others, when you start Googling or just like put in the search of this association, hollow therapy, the soul therapy that's what we do here you will find out that they're not really advising you to do so because they tell that there is not enough research that would support the idea. And let me tell you that there are a bunch of research. There are a lot of research, not just in Eastern Europe, which is obviously a lot in there, and doctors will prescribe you to go to the hollow therapy and we have holotherapy in every single clinic, and one of my daycare center was for the kids with allergies, so it was absolutely mandatory thing to have the holotherapy room for the naptime in the daycare center.
Speaker 1:Yes, otherwise they would their nap time in the daycare center?
Speaker 2:Yes, otherwise they would never let me open the daycare center for allergic kids. Wow, yes, and here they are telling that you know what? No, not enough resources. But the thing is, salt is not that expensive, right? You cannot claim the right on nitric chloride because it's just a simple salt element, yeah, so you cannot put a label with pharmaceutical company on top of that. So that's why you cannot push it Right and you cannot claim it as insurance, which is really, really, really sad.
Speaker 2:And the biggest battle that we are having here with our educational goal is to claim that this is working. But the thing is, american society unfortunately gets used to the pill so much. So there is one thing got a pill or inhaler and oh, you have the side effect from inhaler. So here's another pill for you to fight the side effect. Oh, you're having a gut problem for that, guess what? You have another pill for that. But it takes some second right to swallow the pill or just like pop the inhaler and engage some time commitment to come to the hall of therapy. And this is the biggest obstacle that we are having with our business now. But with my educational background, I am determined to fight it and I'm really persistent. Okay.
Speaker 1:So what do you have? Specific tactics of ways that you are going to implement your educational plan to help everybody understand? Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2:First of all, we are big on social media so we are running, like on Monday usually we have wellness tip and on the wellness tip we are telling people okay, so here is a red light therapy combining with soul therapy, how does it work? And like, how does like what is mitochondria and what is producing in our body and how the soul particle connecting to your mucus to get it out of your body. So we are trying to explain things with a simple language to people so they can understand it better, because of course, it'll shove, you know, the scientific articles to, you know, to the population. They were like who's going to read it? People are not reading that. So 30 second reels that. What is our main educational tool?
Speaker 1:right now. Right, and I think that's like it's so important to use the resources that we have available to us. We live in a society where people like you said they're not going to read a blog that you put out, they don't have time for that. But everybody's scrolling through the reels and if you can capture their attention and say, hey, I have a solution for a problem that you're having, you know, you could really educate people quickly and efficiently that way, so great job.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we are trying our best and we are created that. Anna told you everything about our kids room and kids program. So we are getting to people through their kids, right, because kids are the most vulnerable population and of course, we are eager to help them. If you have a kid who is like, cannot breathe, you will do whatever and first of all, of course, you will do all the you know, the puffs and all the things. But it's really important for me personally, for Anna as well, to explain people that we have something that doesn't have a side effect, right, not just for your breathing but for ADD. So my own kids, like I, can share that.
Speaker 2:My own kid he has ADD and, yes, he wasn't medication because otherwise he couldn't run through the day and he wouldn't finish the school, graduate from school and get to like engineering specialty when he is right now.
Speaker 2:But if I would have a resource to go with him to the salt room every day, that would help a lot because the salt has property when it comes down your mind, but keep it focused so pretty much amphetamine salt does the same thing. That would help a lot because the salt has property when it comes down your mind, but keep it focused. So pretty much the amphetamine salt does the same thing, but make it available for the kids, make it available for the families. That's our, you know, foremost goal and we are keeping the prices, especially for the kids room, as low as possible and the membership for the kids especially, super low as well, and we have a sibling discount. So we are doing everything financially what we can, to provide for the families to make them want at least to try it. So you see, like this is our cost for the months and this is your cost for your nebulizers or for your doctor's visit and for amphetamines salts. And compare to that, compare that only thing that you need to invest is the time Right.
Speaker 1:And if you can make their time investment enjoyable, you're much more willing to invest the time right. It's not like you're asking people to come sit on a bed of nails, no, Our rooms.
Speaker 2:They are luxurious, they are so comfortable and if your kids can play with it by themselves, we have a Wi-Fi for you.
Speaker 1:Okay, I was just going to say what are the specific conditions other than just thinking like nasal allergies or respiratory allergies, what are all of the different types of symptoms or things that salt therapy can help with?
Speaker 2:So I can explain to you, like in a simple words, the simplest words as possible, how the salt works. Okay, so, when you're inhaling the ions of salt, it will work as the cleaning detergent in your body. It starts to get the mucus out of your lungs, you start cleaning your airways, all the system in there, and when it's clean, your body will keep, you know, that process of cleaning itself. So the skin conditions that we usually have skin is our marker. So whatever happened on the skin, something even worse happened inside of you. So all the skin conditions, they need to be treated internally. So that's how the soul starts working.
Speaker 2:And also, being in an assault environment with the open wounds, or like, for example, my daughter used to have an eczema when she was a kid and her pictures from kindergarten, graduation she was all in gauze I understand how frustrating it can be. Yeah, because you look at that little human being that you love with all your heart and you cannot help it. So the salt will soak in, right, and it will clean your skin. But the most important part, it will work from the inside. So it's cleaning your insides first and that will boost your immune system. And if you have an immune system working for you on its most. It will keep the process of healing your body Right and we are not claiming that we are healing you, so you don't have to.
Speaker 2:Please do not cancel your doctor appointment after you bought your membership in here. So this is a holistic approach that can help you with the mild condition, but in severe cases, of course, you will have to go to the doctors. So this is another thing that I want to mention. We are not into that goddess spiritual thing. Please don't go to the doctors, don't make any vaccines and stuff. No, I'm a super cynical person. Spiritual thing. Please don't go to the doctors, don't make any vaccines and stuff. No, I'm a super cynical person and, as Izana, we need a scientific proof to everything. So everything that all the services that we have in our center has they have tons of literature behind us that we read ourselves Everything that we have in here has a scientific proof of why it's here, even the cedar barrels, the simslam, something like magical from the Russian fairy tale, but there is a scientific proof of why you need steam sauna versus dry sauna.
Speaker 2:So it's always something that you can ask me about every single service in here and I will get you a lot of links of articles if you need to read that itself, where I can explain how it works. So, in the same as health therapy, it's not just something magical. Okay, I'm breathing the ions of salt. I'm getting better. No, you're breathing the ion of salt and they are working in you because it's chemistry and biology.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm not a very scientifically brained person. I try to educate myself and I realize that words are just like going in and out and not actually making sense in my brain, so I gave up on that a long time ago. I rely on really smart people that I trust to tell me if it's right or not. But anecdotally I can say that I think that salt therapy is absolutely effective, and I haven't read the literature. I just know how it makes me feel. You know. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so every time when you step into a salt environment, you're calming down pretty much right away, right, so you feel at ease, and then you start inhaling that and then you know the greatest effect that soul has for the people with congestion. And that's what I'm asking to our clients who are coming to us the second time how do you feel about your eyes being open? How do you know? Because when the congestion which is always here in your sinuses and you kind of get used to that okay, this is something that I live with, but you don't have to, right, and after the first session of the soul therapy, you're waking up next morning and you can open your eyes. And this is just but not. This is science it's magical science.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, I think that, uh, where I live, my life is kind of that like tight rope between. I need proof that this works, but I also I'll go a little woo-woo with you, you know. Yeah, I do, I'm the same way. Have some energy to some crystals, it's fine you know.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not against the energy and the crystals. Yes, you know, and there is an old family legend that my grand grandma was a village witch. Okay, so she was doula and herbologist of, so she was a witch. Yeah, she was a witch. So I guess she had some scientific proof to everything. But for like sparkles and stuff she would have, you know that herbs and crystals and all that, that's just for like marketing entourage.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I love that. So tell me about the steam barrels. Now I understand the salt, the steam barrels. You said there's scientific proof that steam sauna is better than dry sauna In some cases.
Speaker 2:Okay. So that's why we have both. We have dry sauna, okay, red sauna, and we have steam sauna, for example with the active running eczema, you don't want to go to the steam sauna.
Speaker 2:It will make it worse, right? Or with like with open psoriasis, you don't want to go to the steam sauna because, again, the same thing, right? So you can find the steam sauna in lots of cultures all over the world. And when you have something running around all over the world for centuries and centuries back, you'll start thinking, okay, probably there is something in it, right, and there is. So when you get into that steam environment, several things would happen.
Speaker 2:And our steam barrels? Let me tell you that there are several. You know the steam sauna situation that you can get involved. So the most popular back in Russia and you know the Eastern Europe, is a steam bathhouse. When you are in a room full of steam and you can find this they're similar one in Turkey. Find this, they're similar one in turkey hamam, it's steam room, right, right, whether our steam barrels.
Speaker 2:You are sitting in a barrel with your head out of the barrel so you can breathe normal air, not steamy one, not moist one, and the steam is sealed in the barrel.
Speaker 2:So your body is in a barrel, which is a great for the people who have some heart problem and some blood pressure, so you can be in control of your breathing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, on top right, and what happened in there? The steam will open your pores, to start with, and start cleaning process of the skin, and then the heat that comes with the steam will start to warm up your body all the way down there and since you're breathing normal air, you can tolerate the temperature better, so it can stay there better and eventually it will start warming your visceral fat, the fat that surrounds our inner organs, and start the process of detoxification organs and start the process of detoxification. Pretty much like talking with a really simple language. It will melt your extras from your body and we are like we are hard, we are hard, hard animals, right, so we are preserving the head and that's how we work, that's how we run. So the process of detoxification will continue another 48 hours after you get from the barrels Because you know, since our cells start, you melt down. Okay, let's make it happen.
Speaker 1:And it will continue.
Speaker 2:So the same when you are going to a workout and that the process will continue, especially after heavy lifting right will continue, especially after heavy lifting right, because you get into that muscle structure and it will continue the process of burning calories and stuff like that. So the same pretty much going on in the steam barrels. So it will warm you up. The clear skin will be the momentary effect. You will see it right away, you will feel it right away. You feel it a million bucks after that and yeah, and then that effect will like the gives that keeps on giving. Yeah, and the next week, we will add. So I will start trying that tomorrow. So I have a good friend of mine here. He is a business owner himself. He is writing acupuncture and orb shopping here in louisville.
Speaker 2:He, he is he's legit rich and and yeah, so he uh shared some orbs with us just to try it out yeah because he knows what orbs will work for what condition.
Speaker 2:So it's not just like, let's just put some eucalyptus because it smell good, we can do that as well. Of course, if you like the smell of eucalyptus, by all means we're gonna throw it in there. But if there's a special goal that you want to reach, and it's everything in here you see, it's everything about like small tailored um experienced. So in here we will want to do the same. So since we already got in here from siberia, which was kind of a hustle during the war to bring us there, we're gonna squeeze the most out of that. So we're to tailor your experience in there. So if you want something for your skin, there's going to be one herb. If there is something for your female health, it's going to be another herb, and so on and so forth. Yeah, so it's going to be like menu of whatever you want to do. And of course, since we are all about collaborations, we will refer to that friend of mine from Meridian so he can do the consult on some specific things and we can adjust it in here as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that sounds amazing. So if I came to your business and I wanted to spend half a day there. In your opinion, what's the like? If you're coming, this is what you should do, or the order you should do it in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have the perfect plan for that, okay. So it's always like you always give me the time frame and I will tell you how to enjoy yourself. On full list, I see. So we will start with the soul trium. Okay, so we will start with the soul trim.
Speaker 2:Okay, and in a soul trim, just to amplify your experience in there, we are offering pranayama classes, the breath work, yes, and I'm certified pranayama teacher and, like I'm really annoying about the details of how you're breathing, how you can make it better. So, and again, if there is a goal for you to calm down, there's one way we can do that. If you want to again lose something, I don't see that you need. But if you want to just like have some toxins out of your body, there is a breath work for that as well. So, for different goals, you tell me what you want to do, we can do that. Or if you don't want any work at all, you just sit in our luxurious lounge chair, close your eyes and enjoy, and, starting tomorrow, we are offering the paraffin gloves and so so you can take the most of your time in there. So you got your paraffin gloves and socks, close your eyes, enjoy yourself, okay, for 45 minutes after that, you already feel amazing and relaxed and we will offer you some tea in between the sessions. We're always running some herbal tea in here. They're not caffeinated, they're not charging for that at all. We just want you to enjoy yourself in there in our chill-out zone where kids are not allowed, by the way and then after that you would go to oil treatment, shivadara.
Speaker 2:And then here we again. We're working on collaboration with ayurveda specialists to make the experience really unique for every single person. So if there are any goal you want to reach or any problem with your health or mental health you want to fight, there are some solutions that you can try from Ayurveda. Again, no side effect, just total serenity, enjoyment. So you're laying down on that heated table with your oil streaming to your forehead and your third eye and just melt all the worries and thoughts away. And after that.
Speaker 2:So I actually I really love to ask people what do they experience during the shuradara, because every single person is unique and experience is unique. So I never tell you, like, what you should experience, because I don't want to spoil it and I don't want to see any thoughts in your head. But what I can really promise you you will feel rejuvenated and so relaxed and like you had a nine-hour sleep uninterrupted just in one hour, yeah. So after that you probably do not want to talk to anyone, just like silently, go to chill out zone again, grab some tea while we're preparing your barrels. So in your barrels again, we can tailor that to your experience with the different herbs or scents that you want to add to that.
Speaker 2:So you're sitting in your barrels with your head soaking in with this oil. So we give you a fancy towel layer so you can be we're going to keep that the process of the wool treatment and you will spend next 45 minutes a day in the barrel. So 30 minutes, it's all up to you, nobody rushing you there, and then after that you probably want to have a limo service or uber, because I don't think you can dry after that no, you can't, for sure.
Speaker 1:That sounds so heavenly. Well, it is heavenly. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I'm there, I'm so there.
Speaker 2:So I have a friend, she's from Eastern Europe as well and she got the service. And then she called me that night. She had two girls and we are Eastern European, we're really strict parents and, yeah, I must be too. And she called me to say you know what? Almost nine and I haven't yelled at my girls yet, not even.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. I, admittedly, am a very strict mom. I am definitely the authoritarian in our house. Things are the way they're supposed to be and they have to be that way, you know. So Of course, yeah.
Speaker 2:How other ways they wouldn't know Right.
Speaker 1:I'm on the same page. Yes, my daughter is six and we were. I can't even remember what we were doing the other day, but she looked right at me and she said we don't have to be perfect. And I was like, like, you're right, we don't wise.
Speaker 2:I needed that reminder she's so wise and okay good luck with that yeah, I really want to like.
Speaker 1:I just want to go live at your center. Can I just come move in? Yeah, sure of course.
Speaker 2:so we have a membership that you can, you know, just pay a monthly rent and live in here.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm so excited. I mean the services that you guys are offering. They sound amazing. I've experienced some of them, but never in this way, so I am like I cannot wait to come visit you guys.
Speaker 2:You're very welcome. I would really love to meet you in person.
Speaker 1:Yeah, same same. I'll just come spend a day over there. We'll hang out and I'll get some treatments.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you have dry sauna, you have?
Speaker 1:steam barrels, you have salt therapy and you have Shirodhara and red light therapy Is red light like I know that I've seen the dry saunas that are red light dry sauna combined. Is that how it?
Speaker 2:is. We have several modas that are red light, dry sauna, combined. Is that how it is? We have several modalities of the red light. So first, in a dry sauna, yes, we have a block. It's near red light therapy.
Speaker 2:So again, get back to science, huh? So the red light is one of the most researched sequence of the light right now and a lot, of, a lot of people in different fields are using that. It just happened to be red, it's just a sequence of the light and that sequence can penetrate through your skin. So I'm not going to get into the physics physics, but that's how it works. So when, for example, you're going into in the sun, right, and then you get tan, right, because that's how ultraviolet waves are working on you, so the red light is.
Speaker 2:And then you have you know, we have those glasses for the blue light from the screen, right, because those waves are affecting our eyesight and the red light is like it just happened to be red, right. So those waves will penetrate your skin, get into your mitochondria. Mitochondria is just like those guys who live in our cells and they are producing energy out of our calories, and the happier they are, the more calorie they eat, the more energy they produce so that our metabolism works this way right. So the happier our mitochondria, the healthier and more energetic we are. Okay, also, the faster they produce the energy, the faster you heal and recover right.
Speaker 1:So is this why red light therapy is so good for, like, post-surgical recovery and things like that? Absolutely yeah, I see okay.
Speaker 2:And the same with the skin condition. The mitochondria see the wound and go okay, we have to work on that. But if they're like sluggish and they don't have an energy even though you ate a lot of food but they're like I don't know, let's have another six pack and then see. But if they're happy and good working mitochondria, they will have to heal your wounds and scar tissues and whatever you have in your skin way better, okay, and faster, awesome. So that's why it's good for the skin.
Speaker 2:Obviously it boosts our collagen level. So in my 40s plus, the collagen is not really, you know, eager to be produced in my body by itself yeah, unfortunately. Then also it's great for the muscle recovery. Or if you're training for something right. So we have several customers here who are training for half marathon or marathons, right, so they're training and their muscles start to get rigid right With itself. So they cannot get into training, but they have to. So the red light therapy will help to recover after the training and get to the next one. It's also great for the tissues around our joints. So if you have artificial joint or you have some problems with your joint, so we're not healing arthritis here, but we help the tissue around the joint be healthier.
Speaker 2:So we can support it better, and hence we don't have that much pain anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so basically, everybody needs to come. Oh yeah, of course, for all the reasons.
Speaker 2:We are really. So right now we are trying to get to the young athletes because this is something that they need they need to try to recover and getting ready for their big meets. So my son is a swimmer, so I know how important it is, because if you have the extent of like extensive training before the meet and by the day of the meet, you're really stiff, you cannot perform right, and this is something that will help you really fast and effective.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you're in heaven there.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's like win, win, win all the way around, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And yeah, and in our red light. So the modalities, I start talking about that and then just like so the red light sequence panel that we have in the dry sauna, that's great. So in a dry sauna you can combine three like most important thing, and some bits and pieces too, so it is heated, so you already start to kind of recover, use your muscle because they start to warm up and they are ready. Then you have your cell therapy in there because we have hollow hologenerator attached to the sauna and we have a red light panel. So it's all in one. And then of course you can change the lights. You can change the color of the lights to enhance your mood and stuff and you can add aromatherapy to that one. But that red light panel is kind of near red light sequence, so it's not the highest sequence of the red light possible. Then we also have the red light mats in the soul trim so you can do yoga on your red light mat or you can sit on your red light mat during the soul session, but again, it's not the highest sequence. And then we get into the queen of the red light.
Speaker 2:In our facility is a red light booth. So the red light booth combines two main services that we are providing. It's hollow therapy. The hollow generator is there, so you're inhaling the salt and there's a red light with the highest sequence one can buy for money for now, and the similar things are used by NASA for the astronaut to recover after being in an antigravity environment, and this is great for, like, we have a lot of clients here coming here with different issues and they are really happy with eczema, arthritis recovery, for like training and you know, like lots of women are using that with their collagen level. So, yeah, this is the best and you only need 15 minutes to be in there 15 minutes To reach that effect.
Speaker 2:15 minutes Because the salt they are in enclosed environment right, so the concentration of it's way higher because the volume is less than in room. So it's 15 minutes and you had the balls.
Speaker 1:I see. So if I come there, I get the option to have hal therapy in multiple different other modalities all combined in one. Yeah, this is amazing.
Speaker 2:We're kind of creating this situation. When you cannot not have the halo therapy in here, it will get you anyway, getcha.
Speaker 1:Anyway, great job. Oh well, okay, is there anything else that you want to make sure that our listeners know about, either you or the business, or anything else, before we wrap up?
Speaker 2:Well, we are very welcoming and we will also look after you, so we will never sell you something that you don't need. And just because we have the opening for the sim barrel but it's not your gem, we'll just. Okay, guys, sorry, not, not this time. We are very client oriented people and we will go away and beyond to make your experience amazing. I believe you well, come and see for yourself, yeah, yeah and also we have a dog therapy here.
Speaker 1:Wait now, See, I was trying to wrap this up, but you just opened a whole new can of worms, it's never ending. Dog therapy.
Speaker 2:So we have our receptionist. Ozzy is the cutest French bulldog, my gosh, and if you're lucky enough, he will spend the time with you in a salt therapy and salt room because he likes to nap on your laps. I see, okay, and he's really welcoming. He never barks and he would just like being the best friend of yours.
Speaker 1:All right. As if there weren't already enough reasons to come visit you, now you're throwing in a French bulldog, I mean.
Speaker 2:I know, and he will launch his own product line pretty soon, really, of course. Like he's a serious businessman himself, I see We'll have to have him on the show. Next time he has an account.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've had so much fun talking with you and also with Anna earlier. This has just been the best way to spend my day. I've had so much fun talking with you and also with Ana earlier. This has just been the best way to spend my day. I can't thank you guys enough.
Speaker 2:I'm happy to hear it, michelle, so you're so welcome to come here in person and see it for yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was telling her earlier that we're going to have to try to like organize an event to have some of the small business besties all go meet up and do a yoga class together.
Speaker 2:Spend some time with you guys bring the kids so we have the amazing tutors working for us. They are just. They're good with, not good. They're excellent with kids. I cannot be like as good as they are. So they will look after them from two and up, so maybe they can get you know younger kids as well, but the youngest they got it now was two years old and they were all happy.
Speaker 1:Wonderful. All right, we're going to make it happen. I'll bring my family and then I'll come back with the besties and I'll report back to everybody and let them know how wonderful it was. Let's do that, yeah.
Speaker 2:Like. We love to meet people and to collaborate and exchange the ideas for the business and how we can work together, because I think that for the small business, that's what it takes the community of the business, especially businesswomen, working together and support each other. So that just gives me chills. When I met some fellow businesswomen especially businessmen as well, too. Okay, give them that Just yeah, to support each other, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, give them that Just yeah, to support each other. Yeah, and I've been in a situation recently where it's come to my attention that the relationships that I've built in my professional life since moving to Kentucky, I thought that I was just like creating a network for, like, business purposes. I was just networking. I'm doing air quotes, if you guys are listening to this. Yes, yes, yes, I'm doing air quotes if you guys are listening to this. Yes, yes, yes. But recently, like, I'm going through a separation from my husband and you know, the world is kind of feels like it's falling apart around us.
Speaker 1:You know, and the people who have been here for me are the small business besties. Right, it's those women that I've been networking with, that I've connected with. Like, yeah, we bounce business ideas off of one another and we support each other in business, but when I came to a place in my life where I needed support outside of like, I need somebody to buy my product or you know, whatever, those have been the women who have stepped up and showed up on my door and brought me food or flowers, or, you know, one of the besties even came in and hung artwork in my house for me. Like, brought her drill, her hammer, her measuring tape, all the things. Right, oh, that would be me, yeah. So I guess my point is that, like, it's so lovely that business brings us together.
Speaker 1:In the beginning, you know that's how we form these bonds and relationships, but at the end of the day, like these are your people, you know we can count on one another.
Speaker 2:I totally agree with you, michelle. I'm so happy that you're creating this circle of women and we are so excited to be included in it especially like being here from abroad, from the other half of the world, and not having any family in here, that the welcoming that I felt from Kentucky is just like it's. It's still give me chills for that, because, yeah, I did not expect that, and especially from the fellow businesswomen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I'm glad you're here. I'm so excited to come support your business and get to know you guys better. We've got to get off of here because we will just go on all day otherwise. Okay come here and let's chat our heads off here. We're going to do it. It's been so much fun. I will make sure to link the website, all of your social media, all of that in the show notes and descriptions. But just before we jump off, one more time, tell everybody the name of the business and the website.
Speaker 2:So it's Body Salt and the website is B-O Okay, wonderful, awesome.
Speaker 1:It's been so much fun. I look forward to meeting you in person. You're welcome, all right. Talk to you guys later. All right, besties. That does it for today. If you're interested in becoming a part of the Small Business Bestie community, join us in the Facebook group or find out more information on the website at smallbusinessbestieorg. Please share the podcast with your friends, who could use a friend in business. No-transcript.