The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Shawna Brioux on Turning Healthcare Frustration Into a Mission for Change
Fri, 28 Feb 2025
SUMMARYShawna Brioux, a registered nurse and entrepreneur, shares her inspiring journey from Canada to the U.S., where she built multiple businesses, including Smokeho Swim and AquaSol Infusion. After witnessing the inefficiencies of traditional healthcare firsthand, she pivoted into the world of IV infusion therapy and biohacking, helping people optimize their health before illness strikes.In this episode, Shawna opens up about the challenges of entrepreneurship, how she overcame setbacks like a national IV bag shortage, and why she believes preventive care is the future of health. Whether you’re a business owner, a health enthusiast, or someone looking for inspiration, this conversation is packed with game-changing insights!CHAPTERS02:05 - Moving to the U.S. & Starting a Swimwear Brand04:12 - From Nursing to IV Infusion Business06:34 - The Problem with Traditional Healthcare08:57 - Biohacking & The Future of Health11:20 - Overcoming Business & Personal Challenges13:45 - Entrepreneurship is a Never-Ending Battle16:02 - The Power of Preventive Care18:27 - Pivoting After a Business SetbackCONNECT WITH SHAWNA:Business: AquaSol Infusion (IV Infusion & Aesthetics)Swimwear Brand: Smokeho Swim
Chapter 1: What inspired Shawna to start her IV infusion business?
Shawna Brio is a dynamic entrepreneur and registered nurse from Canada. She is the founder of Smoke Show Swim and the powerhouse behind Aquasol Infusions, an IV infusion and aesthetics business designed to help people enhance hydration and overall well-being.
People want to live forever and people are now understanding that you can biohack your body and you can really live a really long time and you can be healthy and you can be happy without medication.
Chapter 2: How does Shawna view traditional healthcare?
And how have you worked, you know, as you've got into entrepreneurship, got hit with these big challenges, how have you learned to work through them and what would you advise someone struggling right now?
Oh my gosh, where do I start?
Chapter 3: What is biohacking and its future in health?
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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Legacy Makers. Today I'm here with Shauna. We're about to dive into her legacy, all the amazing things she's doing. I'm so excited to be here. Shauna, welcome to the show.
Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here as well.
Good. So let's dive in. If people are watching, they haven't watched your episode yet, but they're starting to learn about you. Maybe they've seen you on our socials, but do you mind just giving a couple of minutes intro on what you do and all the amazing things you've got going on?
Yep. So I am originally from Canada. I'm from Toronto. I moved down here maybe about 10 years ago.
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Chapter 4: What challenges has Shawna faced in her entrepreneurship?
Better weather down here, right? Yeah, definitely.
So I have a swimwear line that I have been working on, an eco-friendly swimwear line. I've been in Miami Swim Week in 2022. My background is I'm a registered nurse. So I actually traveled around during COVID. And that is kind of what brought me into my next business, which is an IV infusion.
And what's the story behind the IV infusion business? Why did you start that?
I just saw a lot of nasty per se and crazy things during COVID when I was traveling. So I just don't really always agree with the way health care is ran in the hospital. So I wanted to make a change and focus on wellness and preventative care and holistic and alternative medicine. And so
Which is great. I mean, if you're in the health space, America is very well known and most countries in the world, sadly, they're there to cure a disease versus stop you getting the disease in the first place. Right. And I came from a fitness and health background and, you know, there's much more money, sadly, in America and, you know, helping people.
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Chapter 5: Why is preventive care crucial for health?
cure a disease well not even cure or just stabilize a disease right pushing the medication yeah yeah because you get a long lifespan out of that right if someone's sick for 20 years then they can bill for 20 years whereas if no one's sick then there's no money so i'm always passionate and excited when i meet someone like you that's trying to counterbalance that and we have a lot of great people in legacy makers that are you know biohackers or health experts or or whatever right and pro athletes olympian
and you know, all trying to make the world a better place and a healthier place. So someone's listening. How does what you do help achieve that?
We try to start on the basics. So you know, the basic nutrition should be the basic building blocks. People shouldn't have to wait until they're sick to go and start taking care of themselves. They should start
Or get in the minerals that are deficient and the whole vitamins.
Right, the education, just the convenience of us going to their house, maybe if they're sick. You know, if they just need a bag of sodium chloride, they shouldn't have to be in the ER for 12 hours and then have that bill. They can just go to our clinic or any clinic, you know, on the infusion. Or someone can come to them and just, it's just... A better way of life.
Yeah. And I know that, you know, especially in America, I've seen it really take off in the last five years. And I still don't think it's mainstream, but because I'm in the health space, I kind of aware of it and seen it get more popular. So if someone doesn't understand what it is, can you just explain like the concept?
So basically, I mean, you can do an injection in the IM in your muscle or you can do it intravenously, which is through the vein. It's the IV bag like you would get in the hospital and it just runs throughout your body and goes straight to all of your organs.
And do you do a mix of different solutions? And what are the most popular?
IV drip artists. So I can tailor to whatever you mean. But yeah, we do like vitamins, minerals, coenzymes like NAD. We do amino acids.
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Chapter 6: How does IV infusion therapy work?
Right.
And, you know, I'm in endurance sports, a lot of ultra endurance from electrolyte side too. But for an average person, let's talk a little quickly. Why is the basic minerals and vitamins so important for the average person?
I mean, a lot of people don't drink enough water. We also, for us, we live in Florida. So, you know, it's humid. It's hot. We sweat a lot. A lot of people work outside. It's just, people are busy.
And I think the big one, too, is a lot of people don't get the vitamins and minerals they need from their diet.
Exactly. Because all the processed foods and all the foods that we're eating is just...
Well, and even if you do eat natural, it's very hard when you, you know, I was a scientist when you study how much vitamins and minerals you need from fruits, vegetables. You have to eat a lot of it and vary it a lot.
And it's not often a lot of people, even if they do eat fruit and vegetables, they have their go-to three or four, which might give them this spectrum of vitamins, but they're missing all of these minerals and other vitamins. And I think what's important too is, Why is it better than a cheap multivitamin? Like, why would someone pay for this over a multivitamin?
Well, you only absorb maybe like 30% of your oral intake, but with the IMEs, it's like 99%.
Because it's going straight in the bloodstream versus being broken down by digestive system.
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Chapter 7: What are the benefits of IV therapy over traditional vitamins?
And you see it, you know, here you're out on the beach and there's a lot of healthy people working out, right? Compared to other countries. So how do you see your business expanding worldwide?
I definitely want to franchise it and grow it. And I mean, it just doesn't really, it starts with like the infusions, but there's so many different things that you can do, like salt therapy and red light therapy, just everything. It's just going to continue growing, especially as people realize like it really does work.
Yeah, yeah. There's so many add-ons and I think it becomes addictive too, right?
It does, yeah.
And I know also, you know, you mentioned red light. I do a lot of red light. I have red light pads at home that train so much. So juicy, eventually you expand into like ivy, having hot, you know, infrared saunas and all those things and building out the like biohacking tools.
Yeah, so this hurricane that just hit, Hurricane Milton, it actually destroyed the main warehouse that produces all the IV bags. So it's a national shortage right now.
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Chapter 8: How does Shawna see the future of her business?
Gosh.
Like they were even canceling surgeries. So I had a very difficult time getting the IV bags because obviously they give the bags to the hospitals first. So I was like, what am I going to do now? Like I can't even pay the lease. So I had to...
do something so i started aesthetics i hired an esthetician yep so now i have aesthetics in my business um so i'm doing microneedling red light therapy and all of that stuff and people actually like really love it and they believe in it and like red light therapy people know how beneficial it is even more than i even realized yeah there's a ton of science behind red light yeah so
And I do want to highlight that that's something that's great about entrepreneurship, that sometimes a setback can help you propel forward, right? Initially, it's like, oh, crap, this happened. But it forces you to pivot and do something you were maybe never going to do. And then when you recover from the initial thing, i.e., in your case, you get IV bags back going.
Now you've got this whole new business model that it kind of forced you to do.
It was an idea and I was like, I'm going to do it. But I just got comfortable.
It pushed you quicker to do it.
Yeah, it pushed me definitely to do something. Sometimes it's a great thing, yeah.
You can't be comfortable in business or else you're just going to... Yeah, I think the moment you feel you're okay and get comfortable, it's like you get hit again. I've been doing this 12 years and I've... Don't think I've ever had like too much of a breathing space without something coming up. So let's talk about that more.
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