 Wow, this is a great room. I remember a couple of years ago with Ashkahn, we were in San Francisco and there was about 25 of us sitting in a room together and now we have almost 500 people here. So this is really, really just heartwarming to see and it's so cool. I'm going to play a little video and it kind of gives what we're doing in True Rest. It talks about our new float podcast. It talks about us franchising and then it gives a little breakdown about our pods and so I slept about 20 minutes, two days ago there's a little guy inside of my head that was so excited. He was just jumping up and down. I couldn't even sleep so it's so so awesome to be here and just love this industry. So enjoy the video. Thank you very much. Welcome to the float podcast, an entrepreneurial journey. My name, my name is Nick Janicki. Once a wide-eyed hippie with purple dreadlocks and now the founder of the True Rest Float spot, the fastest growing floating franchisor in the world and CEO of float pod technologies, the industry leader in float pods. Follow me along in my entrepreneurial journey with what will become the next billion dollar industry to enter the health and wellness sector. Let's connect with world-class athletes, actors, musicians, doctors, industry experts and explore the mindsets of powerful entrepreneurs. Let's get this floating party started. Hey guys, welcome. This one is a money, what did we name this one? A briefcase of money or lots of money is in a briefcase? I forget what we named the episode but anyway this is a great episode. This is episode one of the float podcast. Go to floatpodcast.com for more information and this is basically me paying my dad back who was an investor on my original store five or six years ago and so this was a huge moment for me. It's super awesome, super fun. We got a briefcase full of money. We have some awesome footage of Chase stacking up piles of money and then me walking out with a hundred thousand dollar briefcase. I interviewed Pops, my dad, a little bit about the flotation industry and then basically dump a hundred thousand dollars in his lap. So enjoy and we'll see you in the next episode. When I started this my big thing was like pay back the people that helped you first was my biggest thing and so you know we talked earlier this afternoon and one of the things we wanted to do is I just wanted to show you this just to open this up real quick. Just click this button okay so one of the things I wanted to do is we still owe you a money. So this is actually a hundred thousand dollars in cash. Oh wow that's hilarious. So these are ten thousand dollars we owe you this and so we wanted to just you know. I'm not sure we want to get this on people. Thanks for the money. It really comes down to communication and knowing that everything that is outside of us we cannot control but everything inside of our hearts we can control and so you know if you're having a hard day and something's happening with you I can come and say you know what it's okay we're gonna get through this together and we're gonna help each other and I'll bring you up if you're down. Right. If vice versa if I'm down and having a hard time there's many nights where I'm just being tears. Right. You know our bank account is nothing or negative and we were eating ramen noodles and I would just be in tears and you would come to me and say you know it doesn't matter we have each other and we're gonna make this work and we're gonna get through it and it's tough but you know you gotta lean on one another. So if I need to go subcon- you know super conscious or sub conscious or we're really just present and just watch because I've had some floats where I'm just watching and what and then I'm watching myself watch. Okay. And then and then there's not there's no difference between the observer and the experience and and those have been profound times as well and I geek out on that ability we have to watch our own watching. Right. Right. And to have the distinct ability of consciousness reflecting on itself. Right. In like a mile it's a time to mile that you go through. Okay. The bike started kind of acting up started shaking I don't know if you know what a head wobble is. I know what it is. Like tank slap. It's like when the handlebars go left to right. And you're going 195. You're going 195 miles an hour you don't want that to happen. Not much. Sounds like you want. Okay. So you know I reacted very quickly it was like a more stabilizing very grounded and focused reaction. Yeah it was it was incredible the way I handled it I didn't actually even know I was capable of doing that. I found that as a kid super grounded I float before every single race because of this. Wow the podcast has been tons of fun and we have tons more great episodes coming with all kinds of people. And now on to the true rest franchising side of things. We're the fastest growing floating franchise or in the world. We have four stores open. All of them are exceeding expectations. Two more will be open within the next 30 days and dozens more on the way. Super excited have tons of great testimonials from franchisees enjoy. I am absolutely without doubt in the right place doing the right thing. I questioned it before the university only because trying to weigh you know what I should do is it right. This is new. This is something that's emerging. I have the intuition in that the nudge is telling me do it but there's always that little thing in your mind that makes you ponder and question things and after this week it's there's no doubt in my mind this needs to be out there. This is a missing element that people need in the in the world of healing natural healing. I think having a huge amazing team of great people that already know what is going on in every aspect is invaluable. And for me it's not just have about having a team it's about the specific team that's involved with true rest because they're just the best people on the planet and I know that we have our backs covered and they'll do anything to help us to be successful. To be honest originally I was not interested in being involved in franchising. I had called to purchase pods and they offered franchising to me and I said oh I'll just let somebody call me and I'll hear their pitch because I've been a private business owner for many many years and after hearing what they were doing and seeing that we were getting in at the ground floor level and meeting everyone involved I was absolutely sold on franchising with true rest. You know when I when I first talked with Lori about opening up a float pod center I said you know we can do this we this will be a piece of cake it's no big deal we've been in business for years and we can build it out we can do this and then I'd actually called Nick and said hey Nick I think I'd like your business plan and he said well we don't we don't do the business plan anymore we do a franchise and I said yes I was so excited to hear that because I didn't want to have to recreate all of the software I didn't want to have to recreate the pricing I didn't want to have to recreate what the look of the of the spa would be I didn't want to have to practice and say well this didn't work on this one but the next one we build will be this so the value of franchising and having the systems in place how can you go wrong you we all have a passion and it's not this machine that we're a fluid system you know and it's a beautiful thing it's not like any other franchise that you would hear of it's just a beautiful thing to be a part of why would you want to invest in something with the unknown now we're invested in knowing Nick and Holly's mistakes that they and then they're teaching us you know paving the way and it's like like why would you not want to be part of success so it's like they've paid the road and now we just need to get in the car and go all right guys now on to the float pod technology side of things we're basically making custom filter packages for people that need to get through their individual cities and municipalities we're super excited about that we've gotten through the state of Florida which was a big one for us we're going into Washington state which is also another big one for us and we're just super excited about everything that's going on here we do have a new model coming out soon though we're not going to release any single piece of information my lips are totally sealed until next year when we're actually going to be releasing it so we have lots of exciting things going on here a float pod we are on version four of our pod we've made drastic improvements every version come talk to a sales rep about float pod technologies we have a booth right outside we also have reps for true rest if you're interested in true rest franchising the true rest numbers are mind boggling they're way beyond our projections so reach out to us talk to us here at the conference we're here for you we love this industry and we're gonna we're gonna push it forward so let's do this together and we'll talk to you soon thank you so much so I think Ashkahn's gonna introduce lunch but yeah come find us we're gonna be hanging out in our booth in the corner there but just so excited I'm actually gonna jump up and down and we have so many people here and just just come talk to us it's so awesome like yes let's do this thing thank you