The Determined Society with Shawn French
The Wake-Up Call That Changed Stacey Kay's Health, Career, and Life
23 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What experiences led Stacey Kay to a wake-up call about her health?
You dealt with addiction in your 20s?
I did.
Alcohol? Drugs. Drugs, wow.
I was having heart palpitations. My arm went numb. I basically thought I was having a heart attack. That was a big wake-up call that I needed to slow down. I wasn't happy doing what I was doing.
Chapter 2: How did addiction and anxiety impact Stacey's early career?
The stress was getting too much. I was having these outbursts and I just wasn't mentally fit or healthy. I had a moment where I just had a meltdown in front of my daughter and my husband. And that's when I realized I had to do something for me.
Yeah.
Yeah. The only person I could blame was myself.
Let's talk about what's in my arm.
You are hooked up to what's called a lactated ringer bag, an isotonic bag of fluids. It's exactly what's in your body.
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Chapter 3: What role did meditation play in Stacey's healing journey?
I have more conversations with people about their stress level when their IV is dripping than nutrition. It saved my life, Sean. I feel younger and better right now than I did in my 30s.
What's up, guys? We're back here with Stacey Kay, the founder and owner of Hydrate, a concierge mobile IV and hydration company. As you guys can see, I'm hooked up on a lot of stuff right now, and we're going to go through and she's going to talk about what she has me on. There's some specific reasons why I asked for a certain ingredient in this.
But before we get to that, Stacey, welcome to the show, girl.
Thank you.
It's
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Chapter 4: How does Stacey define true accountability and self-compassion?
been so long since I've seen you.
I know it's, I'm very happy to be here. Thank you.
I'm very happy to have you here. And, uh, you know, we've been talking about this for quite some time. I think I saw you at a year, about a year ago. I think it was at G's graduation party.
Yeah. Yeah.
Right around this, uh, right. I wasn't even a year ago.
Right.
No, it wasn't. Gosh, time flies.
Time flies.
Sometimes I think it's been a year, but it's only been a year.
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Chapter 5: What challenges did Stacey face while transitioning to a new career?
That was a long time ago.
Right. Before all of this, Sean.
I know. Before all of this.
I'm so proud of you.
Oh, thank you. And by the way. I appreciate you. It's so proud. It's been a long road, right? Yeah. I think I might have been with paychecks when.
Yes.
You know, and then it was then I got into medical.
And we were talking about our corporate jobs and the sales grind. Oh, man.
Yeah, sales grind, that's a real grind, man. It's so difficult.
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Chapter 6: How can someone pivot into meaningful work later in life?
It can bring you to your knees.
I'll tell you what, and I'm going to blame it all on Dan. He put me through a lot of stress at Paychex. I love it. But no, it was a very high paced, high volume, high touch job. And with that, your health can struggle. You know, when I started at Paychex, I was in decent shape.
And then as the years went on, that's when I really started to struggle again with my weight because I was always pouring. I was in and out of the car, eating on the go. And we always pride ourselves in sales, like to never have breakfast or never eat lunch alone. You want to be in front of somebody. And then you're constantly eating out and it can wreak havoc on you and the stress.
And it's hard to enjoy the holidays when you're completely stressed out over sales. But for you, let's touch on that real quick. Well, no, actually, let's talk about what's in my arm. Sure.
So you are hooked up to what's called a lactated ringer bag, and that has some additional electrolytes normal than just like normal saline, which is typically what they'll hook you up with if you go into the emergency room in the hospital, which is, you know, an isotonic bag of fluids. It's exactly what's in your body.
So this has some additional potassium and calcium chloride in it, and we give these to our clients who... have food poisoning, who have been maybe had vomiting for three days, hangover bags, just because it's extra hydrating, UTIs, those sorts of things.
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Chapter 7: What advice does Stacey have for managing stress and anxiety?
And then I added a B complex to this, amino acids, because your workout routine, so synthesizing that muscle. And then we added some magnesium, which magnesium is like responsible for over 300 processes in our body. Our brains, our heart, our muscles all need magnesium and we just don't get enough of it in our diets anymore.
What are some foods that do contain magnesium?
Leafy greens, nuts, seeds, all whole foods. Like, right?
You lost me at leafy greens.
Yeah, I know.
I'm like, I'm out.
So try to drink. Could you drink your leafy greens? Because that's an alternative.
Yeah, no. And again, I eat what I need to eat. But, you know, to get the volume that you need, you know, you just can't find it in a bunch of, you know, romaine or broccoli. Right. You know, a lot of times you do need a supplement, especially if you're super active.
sure the other thing with magnesium it really helps you sleep better yep absolutely um magnesium glycinate is the one that you want to lean on if you need you know to sleep better that helps again relax those muscles and um um there's eight different magnesiums um What's the name of that one? It's bio-optimizers.
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Chapter 8: Why is it important to maintain a balanced approach to health and wellness?
It has a really good powder that has all eight of the magnesiums in it. So I'll go to a powder. But anything ingested, right? So like a supplement, which I'm a fan of supplements. I partner with two high-quality vitamin groups. You're getting 20% of that absorbed. Today, Sean, you're getting 100% of those vitamins absorbed.
See, that's interesting, right? I want to tell you a funny story. The audience might get a kick out of this one. So I went to, I think, vitamin shop and got some magnesium glycinate, right? And it was a powdered form. And that night I made the mistake of not mixing it with like electrolytes or something. And I put it just in there with water. It was the, it was like God awful, like God awful.
And now, you know, but I did go down there and I threw some essential amino acids in cause I didn't, I don't think I had any electrolytes in it and it made it taste better, but a 20% absorption versus a hundred percent absorption. That's a, that's a mass differential there.
It is. And, you know, that's why we always think we're ahead of the game when we're really behind it, because we think, OK, we're eating right. We're taking our supplements. But the absorption rate is so low that we need to support and augment. And I always say with this company, we're not here to fix and cure.
We're here to support and augment because we have you have to be doing things on your end. Right. Diet, exercise, sleep, sunlight, stress levels is huge. I'm a big fan of meditation. We'll go into that, too. But we have to have our mind and body synced up. And so we don't do IVs on healthy people every week. I've got people asking me for them, but I don't think it's healthy or natural.
So I like the once a month maintenance if you have a good back, you know, plan that you're doing on the back end.
That's great because that was the next question I was going to ask you. For somebody like me who's active, how often would I need to have something like this done? I mean, if it's once a month, that's a pretty easy lift. And you come, I mean, Holly, we're at the studio right now and I'm hooked up on a bag. 100% mobile.
Right?
100% mobile. How often do you see people doing regular maintenance or do they use it as a reactionary supplement?
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