From Corporate Healthcare to Wellness Entrepreneurship: How Shahayra Majumder Is Bringing IV Therapy to Madison

Free Agent Podcast with Meg Schmitz – Guest: Shahayra Majumder, Hydrate IV Bar Franchise Owner

Meg Schmitz: Hello everyone, and welcome to or. Welcome back to my podcast. My name is Meg Schmitz, and the name of the podcast is Free Agent. And we’ll get to all of the details of that.
But this discussion is all about taking control over your financial future. The mission of my show is to share inspiring conversations with real people who took the leap into self employment, business ownership, franchising and freedom from corporate refugees and executives tired of the desk job, to entrepreneurs and investors looking to share camaraderie and inspiration through their own business journey. My podcast seemed a spotlight on real people who stepped into the unknown, took control over their destiny, and became their own boss. These conversations are such fun conversations. And so today my guest is Shahayra Majumder.
And Shahayra and I have not met in person. We were connected by a mutual acquaintance in Madison. So if I have some missteps because I don’t know your whole story, then, audience, please forgive me, but this is going to be a good one. And I’ve been looking forward to this for such a long time. So I’m delighted that you’re able to make time for me today, Shahayra, and welcome to the show.

Shahayra: Thank you so much for having me. I’m really looking forward to chatting.

Meg: So you are a franchisee with Hydrate IV Bar in Madison, Wisconsin. Tell me, tell us, how did you find yourself looking for a business? And why did you decide on franchising?
And then, of course, how did you end up deciding on hydrate IV Bar?

Shahayra: Yeah, it all started for me in late 2024. My partner and I were in Vegas for a music festival, and we both got really sick. We got hit with the bug while we were traveling, and we were like, gosh, how are we gonna make it through the rest of our itinerary?
There’s so many sets we have yet to see, and we were just really feeling zapped for energy, so we decided to try Take the leap in the hotel, and we immediately turned the page. It is what made all of the difference in us being able to make it back on the plane home and finish out our trip and really be able to use all of our time off that we accrued to take this trip and not just be sick in the hotel room.
And it was a amazing experience that I just held on to throughout all of 2025. I, you know, had a couple of bouts with food poisoning. Covid.
And every single time, an IV is what helped me not lose any days, not throw off my travel schedule, be able to just really stay on top of my immune system. And my partner, he struggles with chronic GI issues, and his whole family does as well.
And we’ve just heard more and more stories about people having the ability to reach their wellness goals and their health goals by supplementing with vitamin IV therapy and ensuring that they get all of the vitamins and nutrients that they need that they’re not able to get via, you know, traditional food that we’re eating every day.
Food is less nutritious than it should be, Our soil is less nutrient rich, and the food that we grow organically is even less nutritious than it’s always been. So it’s been something that we grew a passion for.
And in the Madison area, of course, nobody drinks here. There’s no partying or any dehydration that goes on in the dry North Pole that we live in. So it’s not like we were dreaming about opening this ever since we started getting IVs regularly. Of course, I’m being sarcastic.
We’ve been thinking about this for a couple years now, just imagining, wow, like, what a game changer this would be to bring to the Madison community this wellness modality that Folks are really just not even used to seeing here as much as you might in a bigger city like Vegas or South Florida, where I’m originally from, my partner’s from New York.
So when we travel, we get exposed to, you know, these cutting edge therapies that folks are doing in bigger cities or maybe high net worth circles are already, you know, have been using for a while.
Um, but the, the potential to bring this to just everyday people in Madison was something super exciting to us.
And to answer your question about why franchising, I mean, this is not the business that we wanted to reinvent the wheel on on our own. There is so much that goes into making sure, you know, whenever you’re entering a client’s vein, you want to make sure that you’ve got the best, best business operations, the best clinical staff, that you’re, that, you know, you’re doing everything above board in terms of legal compliance.
And Hydra by far is the premier IV therapy service provider in the franchising industry, but also in just the general national IV spa chains that we’ve been researching, whether they were corporate or franchised.
Hydrate has medical oversight from Guardian md. We’re a member of the American IV association. We have a super amazing IV advisory board and we get a lot of great support from our franchisor in helping us determine what’s going to be the best practices to implement system wide throughout our entire franchise.
So Wisconsin, we’re actually a bit more regulated.
We are implementing a special compounding hood in our facility that is just going to be a best practice that now all of their corporate locations and other franchise locations are going to be adopting as well, just as a best practice.
So I just really, really loved how Hydrate was going about intentional growth in their business, making sure that they weren’t sacrificing quality for speed of growth, making sure that there’s a really high standard in client care that we’re providing. That was super important to me.
So yes, that’s why franchising and really why it was Hydrate or nothing for us. We interviewed pretty much everything out there and in the last moment, it’s kind of a serendipitous surprise to us to find out that one of the franchisor ownership members was born and raised in Sun Prairie.

Yes and his wife started her first business in Middleton. They moved out to Denver, grew Hydrate and so this is a big homecoming opening for us. So yeah, it couldn’t be more aligned for us with Hydrate. I’m a big fan girl, if you can’t.

Meg: That is a great story. I, I live not too far away in Milton and so in my own medical journey in 2025, learned that I’m bone on bone in my right knee. Someday I’ll need a replacement. I’ve got arthritis in my right foot. I’ve got this, that and the other thing going on.
I decided on December 28 that I would just stop drinking for a period of time and see, see how that goes.

Shahayra: Good for you. 

Meg: Yeah. And so doing I ran through chat GPT, some of my questions and hydration is. We live in Wisconsin. People drink.
Like alcohol is just breakfast, lunch and dinner. We’re just, we, we’re a state that consumes a lot of alcohol and it’s hard to get away from it. Conversely, the more you hydrate and the more you pay attention to what you’re putting into your body, I think it’s. You are in a prime location in Wisconsin to do this. It’s a medical community.
Yes, it’s a state capital, but it’s a big medical community with the regulations that are in place. I think that positions you really nicely. How long ago did you sign your franchise agreement and are you actually open?

Shahayra: Yeah. So we are in the middle of our brick and mortar construction.
We’re expecting for that to be, knock on wood. I don’t want to jinx ourselves with any delays or anything, but we’re expecting to be open late February, early March.

Meg: Oh, great.

Shahayra: Yes. But the really, really amazing thing about our business in general is just that there’s nothing that is keeping us from coming to you to do mobile concierge visits.
Especially if you’re feeling really under the weather, you don’t want to get in your car and, you know, get the snow off of your vehicle to go drive in. That’s totally fine. Our nurses are trained on how to do mobile service calls and we compound any bags that we’re mixing for that particular client under our hood within our facility and then drive that over to the mobile call that we’re doing.
Otherwise we can also do pop ups at different businesses, which is sort of how we’re operating right now. Pre our spa being open, our nurses are still operating under the hood, still using medical grade refrigeration for all of our ingredients that require temperature sensitive storage.
And we are booking those appointments ahead of time so that we can bring those to those mobile visits. Whether that’s, you know, right after your Pilates class and. Or after your hot yoga and you rehydrate. Yeah, yeah.
So that’s kind of how we’re operating right now, but then come Q2, we should be operating every single day out of our brick and mortar, but then also offering those concierge services.

Meg: It’s so amazing. For anyone who has not tried IV therapy, it is, it’s what I call for. I have a 4 year old dog who’s got advanced chronic kidney disease, and so every other day we’re doing half a bag of IV hydration for her. I call it Go Go Juice because it’s for humans too.
The difference, just as you said, in the first couple of minutes, this is a game changer from feeling absolutely crappy to being able to get up and go.
That’s why I call it Go Go Juice because you can. And so I’m delighted that you’re bringing this to the attention of people because I. You had said it.
Also, people believe that this is a fad or that it belongs to the wealthy, the, the exclusive enclave of people who can afford this kind of thing. No, you’re.
You talk about your services that you’re offering and, and how price competitive they are in the, in the.

Shahayra: Yeah.

Meg: In the scheme of things. 

Shahayra: Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for the question. Yeah, it definitely does get sort of a blanket assumption of, oh, I can’t afford that, or that’s for rich people.
But there’s no reason where, you know, this can’t be a service that’s available to anyone to take proactive charge of their health.
You know, I think about the ER bill that I have to pay just to get a saline bag when I’m, you know, suffering with food poisoning, when there isn’t an IV clinic for me to go to.
Whereas, you know, it’s maybe a tenth of that $2,000 bill to get our top of the line IV, which is 259. It’s the Katy cocktail that’s got kind of all of the bells and whistles of what we offer. It’s our founder’s favorite.
It’s what she used to offer or what she used to order, rather. And so many clients wanted it every time because it’s what she would get that we just started offering it on our menu.
But that’s the most expensive walk in IV that you might pay for.
And I always like to ask people, like, what’s the cost of getting sick? Can you really afford to burn through your PTO and not save that for when you actually want to have fun?
Yeah. And I always ask folks too, like, what is, what is the cost of not maintaining your health?
I mean, that’s the only real thing, real, tangible thing that we have control over in this life is our health and our wellness.
So, you know, how can you take care of everyone else that needs tending to and yourself if you’re not, you know, on top of the ball?
So that’s.
That’s really what. What the memberships that we offer are structured around is incentivizing people to be able to keep up with that consistent supplementation.
Our medical directorship suggests at least six months of consistent monthly IVs towards whatever your goals are.
So whether that’s, you know, you want to build up your immunity, maybe you’re getting monthly IVs with extra vitamin C, zinc, glutathione, that’s that really powerful antioxidant for your liver to just kind of detox and start feeling really good, especially if you’re quitting alcohol.
I know that that’s something that a lot of people like to do when they make a sober pledge.
But in addition to our membership options, which right now we’re actually running a founding special which locks you in to our opening rate at any of our locations for a membership, but we also offer packages, and of course, you can walk in and just, you know, play pay the list price for any IV.
But if you’re the type of person that, like me, knows you’re going to be getting an IV, you know, at least quarterly, if not monthly, there’s options for you to not leave money on the table and really commit to showing up in an affordable way for your body.

Meg: Yeah, it’s. I cannot state this loudly enough, and I won’t go into the reasons why today it’s so important, but sign me up, because I understand after doing more research in the last two weeks of December, about some of the medical benefits of this.
And so it’s not for the rich.
It’s not. It’s not a fad.
This is really.
By the way, my father was a urologic surgeon and my mother is a nurse. And so I come from a medical family.
And even so, for a while, I had this kind of head trash, like, oh, come on, do I really need to.
Yeah, I really do.
I wanted to part from this part of the conversation because I think this has been a great invitation to people to open their mind and consider coming into the hydration world. World. IV Hydration world.
Tell me about your past career.

Shahayra: Yeah.

Meg: And. Yeah, tell me about your past career and. And what made you feel like being unsteady and unsafe was a good decision to make?

Shahayra: Yeah. You know, I think that it was more like I started to just say the quiet part out loud to myself. Myself, where I felt in my career. I. I moved here from Florida right after I graduated from the University of Florida to work at Epic Systems. Six months into my career at Epic, Covid hit.
And it was, you know, one of the busiest times of our lives at Epic, trying to support our customers that were dealing with a global pandemic everyone was underprepared for.
And then after my career at Epic, I went to a couple of smaller health tech startups out of Silicon Valley, both really focusing on creating equitable access to health care and automating the red tape that’s involved and getting approvals from insurance payers for medical claims.
So my background professionally has been in the health care tech world, so I’ve had some intimate familiarity with the burdens of the American health care system, with how insurance is failing a lot of Americans. And that’s a whole separate conversation in and of itself, for sure.
But that is, you know, part of what gave me the passion to really pursue this and go up against those, you know, perceptions that this might just be a fad.
Because I think once it’s available and folks are able to walk in and get these services and realize, like, oh, actually, this is nothing new. This is just like the IV that I would get in urgent care, except I’m, you know, not forced to be next to someone going into cardiac arrest, you know, when I just want to get some fluids.
And it’s just. It’s just something that I’ve been super passionate about, getting people, like, a more democratic access to these healthcare services where they don’t have to go through the burdens of, you know, submitting their claims to insurance or not even being granted an appointment for six months, you know, when your ear infection has long developed into sepsis at that point, you know. Right.

Meg: So, yeah, that. That was a major passion for me. I feel like my brain’s going all over the place based on your question, but hopefully that kind of captured what. What you were trying to ask people. Who listen to this podcast.
I named it Free Agent because there’s so many people in corporate America who say, work for the boss. I want to be the boss. I’m tired of that. Now some people are continuing with their career because it pays well and because there’s no boss looking over your shoulder. The pandemic gave us additional flexibility, hybrid situations and whatnot.
The. The audience that tends to listen to this is wondering, can I. Can I take the leap and should I Take the leap. When is the right time to take the leap? You’re young and, and so that’s inspiring.
I’m 62. I’ve got people who are my age who are saying, oh, I’m too old to do that. Doesn’t matter what your age is. It really comes down to what are your goals, what’s your motivation, and can you manifest that outcome that, that you hope to attain? Can you tell me what your goal is and how you’re going to manifest that?

Shahayra: Yeah, I love the question. I, I think, you know, just seeing how broken health care is in America has been a huge motivating force for me because I just, I really do feel passionate about bringing these services to Madison. It’s, it’s, it feels like a small way for me to do good on the grassroots level as a business owner. And kind of. To your earlier question about, you know, how did I know that I was ready to start, you know, working for myself and leave the seeming security of a salaried role where someone else is writing my checks?
It, it didn’t feel like the safer decision. It felt like the necessary decision based on my values and the type of work I wanted to be doing with my time.
You know, we, we get one life. You’ve got a set number of years to do the most damage you can. And I felt I was working, you know, with so much passion on other people’s businesses without really having the ownership and the decision making power to affect the change that I really wanted to be making.
And it just got to the point where I was like, okay, like if I want to be, you know, making the shots on which partnerships we’re pursuing and how we’re reaching the community, and if we’re doing, you know, vaccine education in the local community with our nurses, plus providing fluids for folks that are, you know, trying to not get sick during cold and flu season or during back to school, like being able to have that very tangible positive net benefit for everyone involved in the business is just something that was like, I can’t sit behind a desk anymore working for somebody else when this is just within my grasp.
So, yes, I think that, you know, how I’ve been motivated to pursue that is just keeping that carp idea mentality of it’s time to seize this moment and people want this and all I have to do is execute on providing it. You know, that’s oversimplifying for sure. But yeah, I think that that’s how I’m going to manifest is really just holding on to that drive and passion. For…

Meg: Good for you.

Shahayra: Yeah. 

Meg: Manifestation is something that has been a big deal for me since 2012 was the first big year that I did that. And then in 2014, 23rd, 2013 again, it was, it was a necessary pivot that I needed to make in order to, to realize what, what my personal goal was.

I think it’s so important for. For people to trust whatever your higher, spiritual, higher universal energy, higher your God, and to listen for and watch for the signals that you’re going in the right direction. So question, besides the passion piece of this.
Is from a financial standpoint, are you going to open one location? Is this a wealth management diversification tool for you or.
Tell me more about. About the money piece of this.

Shahayra: Yeah, I. We are betting our shirts on this. We’re leveraging our shirts on this.
My partner and I, we joke that some guys buy engagement rings, but he bought me a franchise.
But that’s okay because the franchises will pay for the ring and everything else that’s to come. Hopefully.
Yes. So it’s definitely our first baby. It’s our first business.
He and I are both 29 years old and we kind of figured, okay, like, let’s make the jump now, and if it fails horribly, we’ll learn everything not to do.
But we’ve surrounded ourselves with such a great support system. Our franchisor is amazing, and we, we have such a solid team that we hired. Our nurses are incredible. We feel super positive about this business and, you know, nobody knowingly goes into something expecting that it could fail.
But, you know, hoping for the best. Preparing for the worst has been our mentality, and we’ve really just jumped all in with our one location.
We’re the first location in the Midwest, first location in Wisconsin. So we really want to get number one stabilized and doing great before we start branching out.
But we already have some feelers out for where, you know, location number two might be, and it’s definitely not something that either of us see.
Just staying local to Madison. We’ve both got family in South Florida, in Northern California, in the D.C. area, in Ohio, all over.
So, you know, this is something that, that can be scaled to a number of different communities that we have local ties to that we believe this could resonate with.
So we’re very ambitious. Hydrate is going to definitely be a core of our business portfolio and then hopefully enable the rest of our dreams.

Meg: Well, good for you. I will invite you to join my monthly networking group. It’s people from around the country. In fact, we just met this morning. It’s the first Friday of every month and it’s a great opportunity for people to say who they are with their businesses and what opportunities, what doors, what challenges are you facing in January that we as a collective can help you to address.
Because for sure, at some point it’s like anything that you do, you get in, you go, yeah. And then something happens. You go, oh, shit.
And you have your franchise, but you’re earlier on in it. There’s an amazing network in not only Madison, Milwaukee, southeast Wisconsin of like minded business owners.
And so I’ll, I invite you to join that group because, number one, you bring the spark of energy and enthusiasm at the front end of, of your journey and you’ll meet people who have realized that outcome that you’re looking for.
I can’t wait to see you expand. Expand in Wisconsin first, come to Milwaukee as well.

Meg: So with your, with your plans. Well, let me, let me take a step back. In your sheet for today’s podcast, you had made reference to a book of poetry that you wrote. And there are a couple little teasers in there that your upbringing and your life thus far has not just been this upward trajectory of, hey, everything’s awesome for Shahayra.
Talk about. Because this is what, this is your story and what makes it real. Not entitled to this. You, you have grit and determination.
Where did it come from?

Shahayra: I love the question. Thank you. Yeah, my poetry book. I wrote that in 2022.
It was born out of a lot of processing that I did during the pandemic. You know, I had just moved out of Florida. I’d never seen snow before, and then moved to Wisconsin and then all of a sudden couldn’t go outside.
Luckily had like six months there to meet a few people that I could, you know, have a little bubble with. But I spent a lot of time alone, as a lot of us did.
And when the world stops like that, you’re forced to confront a lot of what’s going on in your head.
And I grew up in a first generation immigrant household. My parents are Bangladeshi and they immigrated to this country well over 30 years ago at this point. I was born and raised here, but my parents were from a different culture and time period. They, they had an arranged marriage.
Dating was just foreign to them. To think that, you know, their daughters might be interested in dating other boys. Like, what? That’s not something that even happens where they’re from.
So, you know, my older sisters went through a.
A little bit more of the ringer than I did. Thankfully, but it was a cultural adjustment. Growing up feeling like I wasn’t 100% American, but also I wasn’t 100% Bangladeshi either.
And then having to grow up in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the income inequality is very transparent. You know, I went to elementary school on Palm beach island, where the 1% lives.
And then I’d go back home to West Palm beach, where you know, we were. I mean, we. We lived a very blessed life. I never felt any strain, but I look at, you know, what my parents made, and I wonder how they made it work with three children in South Florida.
So, yeah, I mean, it wasn’t always easy growing up, and I wasn’t even always aware of why it wasn’t easy, but I always knew that the only way out of my circumstances was me.
I always knew that my parents weren’t going to be received in the same way as I am received. And I always knew. They always told me, if you want to go to college, you got to get a scholarship. We can’t afford that, like.
And I just had to work hard, and I. I feel like that grit was instilled in me from before I even realized that it was, if that makes sense.

Meg: Sure, yeah. Yeah. 

Shahayra: And so it just sort of. It. It feels now, this jump into business ownership feels like it’s something I’m.
I’m doing for my family as well. You know, they came to this country to give their children the opportunity for freedom and financial success. And it feels like, you know, doing their choices justice, all of the hardship that they went through to raise us. It feels like I’m finally, you know, giving my family a shot of building generational wealth and, you know, feeling more stable. So, yeah, it.
That’s definitely a motivating factor for me, too. Every day.

Meg: Yeah. People who come, Americans like me, I. I’m not a language person. I was never able.
I. I just don’t have the brain. I don’t have the brain for math either. I just.
People who grow up here, whether you travel or not, don’t realize how challenging it is to move from a different country and culture. Particularly like that your parents upbringing, their morals and ethics, and now coming to the United States, where it’s a lot of the time it cross purposes to the way their custom.
And now here you are being raised here. So you’ve had language culture, so many adaptations, and I think that’s a huge piece of what makes. Will make you in particular successful so that you. You’ve seen other ways of living. And here you are in the United States.

Well, other ways of living. There’s a big difference. I was wondering how you got from Florida to Madison. But that was, that was a job decision with Epic, right?

Shahayra: Exactly.

Meg: And so you have more of the success markers, Shahayra, than many native born Americans who.
We have this attitude in the United States that we’re self made and maybe franchising is cheating, which is not. You’re still a business owner.
So talk a little bit about any of the. Have you had any like head on collisions to like, whoa, I never saw that coming. Or wow, this is a real head spinner.
I didn’t expect that. A lot of people jumping out of the corporate environment and into business ownership or franchising just don’t expect certain things. So is there anything that stands out for you? That was a surprise so far.

Shahayra: Yeah, I think it’s been an adjustment to be in that business owner seat.
I think, you know, it’s a little bit of imposter syndrome where folks are reaching out to me for, you know, approval on, let’s say, if they can work from home one day. And I’m like, yeah, I don’t care. Like, you don’t need to, you don’t need to ask me for approval.
Like just to, you know, leave early to pick up your son from daycare because the daycare closed early. Like obviously, go do that.
But then I have to remind myself like, oh, actually they are checking in with me to make sure that it’s fine and that I didn’t need them for something else.
So that’s just been an adjustment. But I think that it’s been an easy and natural adjustment and I think that it’s been something that, you know, everyone that is a part of our team has been really happy about being here in Madison.
For them, for example, my nurses, one of them is just like, I am tired of being in the hospital where clients I just can’t. Or patients in the hospital, she can’t, you know, feel like she’s actually doing them any, any justice by telling them, oh, like, you know, these are all the things that you need to make sure that you’re doing, but we’re going to discharge you.
And then she doesn’t have any say on that patient’s well being from that point forward. And she just feels like her. That wasn’t why she got into the field of nursing, but now she’s super excited, super passionate again and motivated about talking about NAD therapy and how that’s going to help so many people with chronic issues.
And the fact that this is a facility where she feels safe recommending that therapy to people that might otherwise, you know, need a little bit more monitoring that they’re not going to get in another environment where it might currently be offered.
So, yeah, it’s been surprising to see, like, a pleasant surprise, I should say, to see how receptive people are to this new work environment.
Even amongst our staff, amongst, you know, the corporate franchise as well, feeling that level of support whenever we have a question about, oh, like what is the contraindication about administering X vitamin with Y antioxidant and having the ability to get answers to those questions.
Whereas maybe previously in corporate America, I felt like this is a question that we really should know the answer to. But I’m just going to get, like, thrown around the flagpole with people punting off the hot potato because they don’t know who is the stakeholder to answer the question.
So those. Those have been surprises, but in the best way.

Meg: Yeah. Excellent. I’m so glad to hear that. I’m really excited about what you. What you are bringing to Madison.
Besides that Shahayra. I was. I was about your age when I got involved in my first franchise. And you use the word imposter, and that’s absolutely how I felt like. They all know I’m young.
They all know I have no experience. I’ve never cut hair a day in my life. And it took me a while to realize that what I was bringing was my psychology background and bringing culture and instilling confidence. And that’s what clearly you’re doing already.
You’re serving a group of people. And I will say that they’re pretty similar to hairstylists. They get kicked around a lot. And there’s so much bureaucracy in the healthcare system.
What you’re going to bring to them is a breath of fresh air. And you’re no imposter. Or how should I say? We’re all imposters. We all have been all of our lives.
And I use this analogy a lot. You haven’t brought home a baby yet, but you bring home a baby from the hospital and it has no idea. You’ve never done this before.
You. Your bicycle has no idea that you’ve not never done this before.
It’s all in here. And so. And so the beautiful thing for you with a franchise is that there’s a template for you to learn from and. And execute off of.
But now the really exciting thing is that you get to bring the sensibility from your past job experiences. What a huge wealth of tactile knowledge about the industry that you’re going to bring, not only to your employees, but then they’re going to instill that on your. Your clients.

Shahayra: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thank you for saying that.
You know, it’s something that I don’t necessarily consciously think about myself as something that I’m bringing to the table, but I do think that my background, you know, growing up in an immigrant household and, you know, just understanding intimately the adversities that come with that, but more importantly, the resilience and having the ability to lead with empathy and cater to the immigrant populations also with these services that maybe don’t have someone that’s willing to sit with them and get a translator that can explain their medical diagnoses and what might be the best IVs to supplement with their conditions and their particular things that they’re running into.
We have a Spanish speaking full time front desk rep as well, in particular to help folks in the Spanish speaking community. We’re also looking into a Hmong employee as well since there’s a large Hmong population in Madison.
So, yeah, that’s definitely something that we are passionate about. It’s part of democratizing access to healthcare, is serving all people, regardless of background.
And my intimate experiences with seeing, you know, how a doctor treats my mom versus when I’m in the room versus when I’m not, to help break down understanding what they’re trying to say, you know, has definitely helped inform some business choices as well in order to serve all patient populations, client populations, I should say.

Meg: Well, you are a breath of fresh air. And this is, and this has been such a delight for me to have you on today. Do you want to tell people where to find your book of poetry? I looked it up already, but if you want to put in a plug for that, I think your point of view is really important.
So tell people where they can get it.

Shahayra: Oh, thank you so much. Yes, my book is available on barnes&nobles.com. it is print on demand, so we’ll print it as soon as you order. And if you reach out to me at Madison hydrate IVbar.com, i’d be happy to sign a copy for you.

Meg: Oh, okay. Well, sign me up for that. Yes, that would be terrific. Okay. Shahayra, this has just been a delight.
I can’t wait to meet you in person. Where is your location opening?

Shahayra: Yes. So we’ll be on Madison Yards Way. It’s on the west side of Madison, right across from the new Whole Foods, right off University.

: Excellent. So put me on the on the need to know list for your grand opening. And I will drive out there and say hello and sign up for a membership because.

Shahayra: Amazing.

Meg: I again, I grew up in a medical household.
I’m not a big believer in pharmaceuticals, but I am a big believer in hydration and things, supplements and additives that can support your immune system, your gut health, whatever it might be.
And so, yeah, invite me and I will come and be maybe your charter flagship member.

Shahayra: Amazing. Thank you so much, Meg. I’ll be sure to invite you.
I can’t wait to host you in our spa. And thank you so much again for having me. This has been great.

Meg: Thank you.