Dylan Calm
Co-Host of Art of the Float
Unsatisfied with the world IT and empowered by his now wife Sandra, the goal of creating a holistic wellness center with a focus around float tanks was born.
On December 14th, 2011 Dylan and his now wife Sandra opened the a float center with 2 float tanks. Today, the Float Shoppe is an integrative wellness center which encompasses a total of six modalities (floating, counseling, yoga, acupuncture, massage, and naturopathic medicine) with a staff of thirty (2 owners, 8 float facilitators, 6 massage therapists, 1 acupuncturist, 1 naturopath, 2 counselors, 9 yoga teachers, and 1 meditation teacher.
Today, most of his thoughts are geared towards refining our float center and making the customer experience as perfect as possible. He is constantly thinking about how his team can continue to improve the Float Shoppe so it can facilitate furthering personal growth.
Dylan Calm has hosted 236 Episodes.
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184: Reopening
May 6th, 2020 | Season 2 | 1 hr 12 mins
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
Depending on where you are in the country, your float center might be looking at opening up soon. In fact, Indiana is starting to reopen, so Kim and Gloria are gearing up, and Drew isn’t far behind. The crew checks in on the emotional roller coaster of it all, including the 4 locations + a full-time corporate gig life for Glo-Mo. (Who’s a control freak? No one on this podcast….)
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183: Live Free or Die
April 24th, 2020 | Season 2 | 49 mins 16 secs
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
So, the world is in waiting, and some of us are ready to “live free or die”. With many centers, including ours approaching 6 or so weeks since closing, it’s time to check in to see what’s happening in the minds of each co-host in regards to the financial assistance they’ve received, and their plans for reopening each center.
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182: Float Friends Check-In (Live Community Recording)
April 3rd, 2020 | Season 2 | 28 mins 41 secs
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
In our last episode, we invited the float industry to join us as we talked to a small business attorney in a live recording. After his departure, we stayed on for this bonus episode as we check in to see how everyone is doing during this time. You’ll hear from Beth Jones, the current FTA president and a fellow float center owner, about how her center bounced back after a devastating hurricane hit her area a couple of years ago. Others share what they’re doing during “downtime”, how their mental health has been impacted, how they’re still striving to serve the community.
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181: Exploring the Payment Protection Program with Small Business Lawyer Jesse Calm
April 1st, 2020 | Season 2 | 47 mins 1 sec
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
As a small business owner, times are certainly challenging right now. Most float centers have closed their doors and now need financial assistance to cover expenses and take care of their employees. For this live-recorded episode, we invited anyone in the industry to join us as we talked to Jesse Calm, a small business attorney who shared information about the Paycheck Protection Program, which is an element within the recently passed CARES Act in the United States.
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180: What’s Happening During COVID-19 Closures
March 27th, 2020 | Season 2 | 1 hr 14 mins
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
Times, they are a bit strange. Someone’s binging on Netflix, someone’s not sleeping, somebody is hanging with the Tiger King, and someone else might be getting cozy with the whiskey. With all four co-hosts’ centers closed during the COVID-19 closures, the crew chats about their expectations for the national relief programs and what they’re each doing during the “downtime”.
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179: Zooming out on COVID-19
March 18th, 2020 | Season 2 | 1 hr 30 mins
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
If you listened to last week’s episode, get ready to zoom out, spin around, and question it all. Blood, sweat, and tears. It’s all here because it’s pretty amazing what can happen in a week, salty friends. The crew, along with Sanda (Dylan’s amazing partner at The Float Shoppe and in life) comes back together to hash out what they’re feeling, what they’re doing, and how they’re handling the way events have unfolded in the last week with the COVID-19 virus. If you’re debating closing, you’ll hear the thought process each person went through in order to arrive at the decision to stay open or close their center - from the size of the center, number of employees, and how people get to work.
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178: COVID-19 or Corona Virus, with Jason Macdonald
March 11th, 2020 | Season 2 | 1 hr 11 mins
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
In this episode, we invited a special guest, Jason MacDonald to join us to talk about what we, as owners, should and shouldn’t do when it comes to Corona Virus, or COVID-19. Jason is an industry advocate who has spoken at past Float Conferences, and he a Health Regulator in Canada.
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177: Rise of the FTA
March 5th, 2020 | Season 2 | 36 mins 40 secs
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
There are murmurs of a new hope for the FTA as Beth Jones joins the podcast and discusses how the FTA awakens anew.
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176: Employee Management Discussion
February 27th, 2020 | Season 2 | 54 mins 15 secs
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
The crew discuss the pitfalls of employee management and brainstorm ways to improve morale, employee output and overall cohesion.
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175: Hot Laundry Talk
February 20th, 2020 | Season 2 | 33 mins 2 secs
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
You might not be ready for this one, but you’re about to hear some passion. The crew is ready to talk about the honest to goodness truth of what most float centers REALLY do - laundry.
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174: Prepping for Media Visits
February 13th, 2020 | Season 2 | 48 mins 37 secs
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
The gang is here to share how to get media folks into your space, what to expect, and how to prepare.
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173: Family Therapy Part 2
February 6th, 2020 | Season 2 | 56 mins 33 secs
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
Too much to balance. Sell your center? Meditate? What's the right thing to do!?
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172: Family Therapy
January 30th, 2020 | Season 2 | 39 mins 28 secs
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
The crew talks about family behind the scenes, burnout and not knowing if this industry is fulfilling anymore.
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171: This Episode Expires in 3 Days (Gift Card Expirations)
January 23rd, 2020 | Season 2 | 43 mins 52 secs
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
Gift Card Expirations and ways to work within the laws and still create FOMO!
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170: Is That Stealing?
December 12th, 2019 | Season 2 | 36 mins 38 secs
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
If it’s on the internet, it must be yours for the taking, right? And since we’re one big, happy loving float family, we always share and play nice, yes? Well, maybe not. After a discussion was posted in the Float Collective about the sharing/borrowing/stealing of content, the Art of the Float crew is diving into the great debate to share their ideas about what’s right, what’s wrong, what’s a little right, but maybe not, and what’s probably always cool.
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169: Holiday Promotions
December 5th, 2019 | Season 2 | 39 mins 35 secs
float therapy, floatation, floatationtherapy, floating, floattank
We look at how our holiday promos are going, how we approach them, and how we'll handle the post-holiday financial drought.