The Void #11 Starting a gym from scratch with Tyler Maidment – Feb 27, 2022
In this episode, Tyler Maidment sits down with Mitch and David to discuss the struggles and successes associated with starting a gym from scratch. Tylers talks about how he came up with the money and how he implemented his unique fitness program. So if you’ve ever thought about starting your own gym, tune in and learn how Tyler did it. If this show raised questions you’d like us to answer, please feel free to email them to [email protected] Thanks for listening and thanks for sharing! Enjoy the show!
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hey everybody and welcome to the void a
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show dedicated to filling the void
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between being an employee and becoming
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self-employed most people refer to
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starting your own company as taking the
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leap as if they’re blindly jumping off a
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cliff and into the unknown
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this show is here to help you understand
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that it doesn’t have to be that way
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as always if you like what you’re
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hearing on the show please do us a favor
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and help share the void with somebody
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else who might want be wanting to start
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their own company david and i saw an
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opportunity to help others understand
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that self-employment is well within your
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reach and just as our businesses have
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grown organically and by word of mouth
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we want this show to grow the same way
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so if you see somebody asking questions
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about starting their own service-based
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business please do us a favor and drop
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them a link to the show
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i’m your host mitch smedley and with me
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as always is david hilton mitch what’s
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up buddy what’s going on
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not [ __ ] yeah got me a cool new shirt
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though got a cool new shirt is green
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look good on me yeah it it looks nice
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you know what it looks like a really
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badass free shirt yeah and there’s
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there’s no free shirt that’s a bad shirt
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that’s right it’s like free beer yeah
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what’s your favorite beer cold beer cool
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yeah what’s your second favorite free
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beer that’s like that’s the same thing
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it’s the easy way exact same thing man
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right no but i’m doing good marcus
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what’s up
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how’s it going y’all marcus is back
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there
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often
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looking at my new shirt often heard
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actually i’m not looking at my new shirt
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y’all can’t see it oh yeah i love it
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we’re looking at your new shirt nobody
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else has seen it nobody else has seen it
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i love it i’ll be rocking this
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[ __ ] all week yeah sir
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nah just keep wearing it with us today
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we’ve got tyler madement tyler what’s up
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y’all we’re gonna we’re gonna dive in
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we’re gonna dive in a little bit with
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tyler here in a here in a few minutes uh
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dave how about you kind of go over
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the uh the framework of this show and
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then uh then we’ll get to the heart of
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tyler all right well we’re gonna uh
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just to recap what the steps and the
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outline of the show are so preparation
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steps personal finance prep all right
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episode one and two
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two business finance prep episode three
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three systems prep episodes four five
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and six
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that is before you get your business
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started yeah all right that’s what
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you’re doing there after right when you
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get your business started then you go
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into the beginning steps number four
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community involvement work okay that’s
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episode seven
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five wake up do work repeat episode
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eight six evaluate performance make
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adjustments and improve see i like how
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mitch didn’t put on here every night
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episode 10 he didn’t do anything because
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the last time i pulled it out yeah and
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then he’s keep he he screws it up
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it wasn’t left three weeks it’s a less
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screw-up yeah well no one’s it’s obvious
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we have no editing because no one’s
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going through and checking this work if
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you’ll notice where the screw-ups happen
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is on the step evaluate performance make
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adjustments and you would think that he
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could pull his head out of his ass for
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three seconds and right there right damn
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you would think well that’s all right
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it’s okay so if you’re new to the show
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those steps that david just went over
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are all found in our first nine episodes
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and they pretty much cover the framework
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and all of the rules
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for
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how to start a successful service based
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company so you’ll want to go back and
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listen to episodes one through nine
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um and and get kind of a gist of of
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what’s going on so we’re gonna refer
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back to a lot of those episodes uh in
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today’s show as we’re working with tyler
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here so
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um
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uh as as we said earlier today we have
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tyler madement with us um tyler is the
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owner of a gym a workout facility called
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dog pound kc and that’s d-a-w-g
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pound casey
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like dog dog yeah we get it yeah you
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don’t have to drive with the cleveland
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browns no affiliation no no affiliation
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with the cleveland or any other gems
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that are d-o-g right
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right this is our own this is his own
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gym awg i don’t even know if you could
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legally say that when you said it
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thank you
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it’ll be all right
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so tyler’s had a gym for a couple of
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years it’s actually the gym that i work
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out at every morning at 5 00 a.m and so
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is your
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no offense tyler
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he’s doing the right thing he’s up
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earlier than i am i don’t know how you
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guys do it yeah i’m just standing there
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but you know there’s a lot of fun
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he ain’t working out at 5am he’s he’s
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telling you idiots
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he’s laughing at us dying at five
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smartest guy in the room right yeah yeah
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yeah so uh
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tyler’s got a pretty cool story for how
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his gym came to be and and some of the
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struggles that he overcame with it so
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uh tyler how about you tell everybody uh
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a little a little bit about how your gym
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came to be okay so
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you know
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years and years ago probably like 10
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years ago i started personal training
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and it seemed like a great idea
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until you really break it down
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so i finally got my first opportunity
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at a commercial gym like i said probably
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10 years ago
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and uh
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i got certified got certified three
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times
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just because they they don’t tell you
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about pay you know it’s and you don’t
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really care when you’re
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23. so you’re like i’m gonna go do
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something i love
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so i got certified
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like seven times over
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uh then i started this gym and i was
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terrible
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terrible like any trainer would be you
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think you know what you’re doing
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um but after a while i started to get
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the hang of it
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and then i really took off and then uh
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from there
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kind of
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went to new york city trained a little
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bit had a mid-life crisis i was 25 at
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the time
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came back mid life crisis at 25. i think
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oh man i think you’re gonna have a
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mid-life press anytime so
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i was like this is boring
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went to new york came back and then
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uh you kind of realize you’re working
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for the man and you’re
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anybody can sit at their job and count
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the money they make the company right um
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and then feel like they deserve better
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not always the case so i decided to
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privately train
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so i basically booth rented really
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popular thing to do
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different ball game uh
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started that that failed miserably
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um didn’t realize how important the
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structure around me was
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um but then i kind of bounced back
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and from there
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uh kind of recovered a little bit right
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things got back on my feet how to get
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some help
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if you’re running any sort of personal
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training ideas through your mind
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just realize
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90 of trainers
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aren’t trainers within three months
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we’d get people coming all the time
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you know there’s just a lot of things
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that go with it it’s not always about
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the best the best program right it’s
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about
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the whole thing can you talk can you
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sell can you
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relate with people so
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from there i
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went
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through a couple different gyms that
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changed ownership
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and then eventually
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i’d kind of almost hit
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i would say rock bottom where i was like
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i don’t know if i want to do this
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anymore
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and then i went to a different gym
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and then
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it all turned around for a little bit
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and then as usual when you’re training
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there’s no stability
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you really need somebody in your life
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that’s stable
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like any of those kind of jobs i would
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assume
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um
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and then
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it really hit rock bottom and then i had
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an opportunity
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uh through an investor a silent investor
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in a way but
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an investor
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and uh this gave me the opportunity to
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start my own gym
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and at the time it was it was one of
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those
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now or never things literally yeah um i
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had kind of
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trained and i was at that point in my
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life where it’s like do i want to switch
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careers and get something
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more stable
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and
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i decided uh
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i couldn’t give up doing what i love
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so i got this investment and then it
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it all started to hit it once
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went uh all the way in
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had about a 15 000 investment
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and i was broke like beyond broke right
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so i knew the margins were gonna be
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tough and i had an idea of how i wanted
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this gym to go
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um
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and then
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it was pretty much get it open as soon
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as i can
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i couldn’t afford proper weights
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i’ve lucked out found somebody that
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finally gave me the chance to rent
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starting a business without any credit
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tough i mean
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i was building a shim day at night
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and then uh
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throughout the the build
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the investor kind of stayed out of it
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which really worked out well for me
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since i was kind of trained in the
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matter of like what i wanted to do
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and i had actually worked with them
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before as a client so it always comes
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around
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and uh
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throughout that time
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i mean i was so broke i was sleeping
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next to an electric heater because my
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gas got turned off right ramen noodle
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broke like ramen noodle bro yeah yeah so
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you know now people are like you don’t
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understand it’s like no no i understand
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you don’t understand yeah i mean i was
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borrowing money to get dog food for my
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dog yeah dog pound dog pound um and then
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we finally opened
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and it really took off uh
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it it was all about building the
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environment for me
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and really loving what i do i would
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assume right
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um that’s what it takes it takes some
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passion and then it’s turned into it’s a
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really successful business
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something that i dreamed of
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something you know it’s not it’s for
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everybody right uh and you’re proud of
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it proud
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and it’s you know based around everybody
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it’s everybody’s gym it’s not my gym
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right you know it’s mitch’s job you’re
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just running the gym i’m just there yeah
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only thing i do is like mediate
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make sure everybody likes to work out
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and just be kind of
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not the principal but like
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the overlooker of the gym
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and it’s really turned into a great
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thing
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and now you know two and a half years i
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was
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sleeping next to a heater
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staying with friends
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and now i’m kind of looking to start my
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next gym right right that’s kind of that
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well that’s awesome that’s awesome
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you it’s a really great story it is is i
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like it it is really cool and we get to
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talk in depth you know
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when it’s just one on one before the
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shows and after the shows and stuff and
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and the challenges is that you know
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we’re not gonna you know get into eight
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hour show or anything but the challenges
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that he had to overcome to do it i mean
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they are inspiring you know hey i’m at
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my lap i i am at the end of my rope what
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am i going to do i want to start a gym i
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have no money
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what the f am i going to oh hey
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just happenstance guy comes along hey
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i want to be partners with you right
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i’ve got this money and instead of
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instead of like you said you didn’t know
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what you were going to do you were like
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no i’m going to grab it by the balls
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yeah i’m going to take this okay you
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know what let’s do it and then he jumped
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all in and sometimes
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that’s what it takes right to get
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rolling you’ve got to jump all in well
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and there’s a lot of people that will
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ignore
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obvious signs you know they’re oh
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you know oh i want to start this gym oh
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i want to start this gym but i don’t
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have the money and then somebody comes
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up and says well i’ll invest 15 grand
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there’s some people that would like
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they’re so addicted to wanting to do
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something but not actually doing it that
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they would say like oh no i’ll find the
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money some other way and it’s like no
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you idiot that was your chance yeah and
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some people panic
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some people are afraid of the success
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that it could have yeah or or you know
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what it means to oh i am on my own now
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right oh [ __ ] right you know and then so
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they don’t even take the steps to do it
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right right you know and i think a lot
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of that’s a problem for a lot of people
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one of the things that you mentioned was
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a lot of trainers
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forget that there’s a whole lot of other
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aspects to being a successful trainer
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and that’s true with any business right
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like
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like if you are a doctor
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just because you got your
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doctorate
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or your you know you became a medical
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doctor
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doesn’t mean you can now go own a
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successful practice somewhere
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you don’t have the business sense to do
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it right so just because you’re the
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world’s best trainer working in somebody
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else’s structure
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doesn’t necessarily mean you’re gonna be
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the best gym owner and
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we kind of hit that on the last episode
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with the e-myth
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um that
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that book talks about
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that jorge brought up yeah yeah that uh
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that highlights
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the different aspects of like you you if
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you want to open your own business doing
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something
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you have to appreciate what you’re doing
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but you also have to have a mega
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appreciation for all of the aspects in
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the business that it’s going to take to
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pull it off
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one of the cool things about your story
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that i like is we’ve often
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said that the more adversity you go
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through the more success you’re going to
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see on the other end and
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ramen noodle broke sleeping next to an
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electric heater with no gas and borrowed
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dog food that’s pretty much it that’s i
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mean lended 50 bucks to buy my dog some
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dog food yeah so that’s uh that’s like
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bottom rock bottom right so there’s
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nowhere to go there was no no backup
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plan yeah i didn’t have a backup there
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was no you were all in like i was no
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other option no other like it was either
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make it or
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be homeless right yeah right and i think
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that motivated me and a lot of times
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yeah people wouldn’t do it but for me it
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can motivate you if
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you like
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you can’t you can’t you you there’s some
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people that would go into that and and
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they would
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you know it’s either gonna make it or
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fail well they don’t put in the prep
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work to be successful and so it’s like
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it’s not even chance like you don’t even
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have a chance to make it you’re just
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gonna fail and but you’re gonna go into
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it with that attitude of make it or fail
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right you had done the prep work you had
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some money
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you you had the knowledge of how to be a
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trainer you had the knowledge
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of a vague knowledge of how to kind of
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run everything
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and so
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you had enough
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in the tank right to say make it or
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fail yeah and everybody when they’re
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doing their job they’ve got their idea
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of how things should be done right and
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in my heart i knew that the way i’m
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going to do it
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is the you know
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it’s innovative it’s going to be awesome
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yeah and it it can’t fail but throughout
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that process
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you know building the gym waking up at
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3am right you just lose your mind you’re
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like what am i doing
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i’m building a gym i had walmart
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treadmills when i started right like
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like my house was full
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of gym equipment
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that was literally not even commercial
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grade right right and i knew that
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you know i had a good idea
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and in my mind based off the literature
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like this program is going to be the
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best program anybody can get at the best
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price right with
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in my mind the best trainer right that
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cares the most and
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you know i could have quit a long time
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ago
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but it’s like one of those things where
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it’s like do you want to do anything
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else and i couldn’t think of anything
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i’d rather do right and it wasn’t about
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the money well and that’s that’s a
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really powerful moment there’s a lot of
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people
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that myself included
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within two years before starting our
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company
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i was going through those things of like
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should i change the like should i
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completely do a different career should
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i completely pull up stakes in the
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plumbing industry and just go some other
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direction and all of that
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that might be a sign
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if you’ve if you’ve had a light
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shining in the back of your visions of
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one day owning your own company and now
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you’re considering completely switching
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careers you’re probably really close to
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having enough passion and energy to go
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start your own business doing the thing
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you’re passionate about being pushed to
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the edge right is a great motivator
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right you know what i mean it’s like the
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wildebeest in africa right you know no
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one wants to be the first guy right
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that’s that’s like the inside of your
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mind yeah you know you’re just it’s all
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it’s all building and it’s all building
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and it’s all right to the edge and
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you’re like
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well [ __ ] i gotta do something right
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what am i gonna do do i wanna do i want
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to do something else do i want to go
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back to training do i want to
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just jump in and do it yep do i want to
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be feel safe do i want to be comfortable
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do i want to not stress about it no
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right no not i’m going to jump across
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the river that’s what i’m going to do
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well and what’s what’s also funny too
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and we’ll probably say this time and
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time again
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you think
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that there is less security when you’re
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working for somebody else but once
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you’re on your own
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and once you have a little bit of money
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coming in through the business not even
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enough to say the business is successful
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the business is just merely functioning
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enough to float enough to go right
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once you’re to that point
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you recognize that the danger was not
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working for somebody else
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yeah
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or i’m sorry you recognized that the
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danger was working for somebody else
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because now
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sorry yeah
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because now that you’re on your own
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there are zero barriers between you and
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ultra success
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other than yourself yeah whereas when
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you’re working for somebody else
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you know they could fire you tomorrow
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they could get bought out by a national
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franchise and axe a whole department
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they could they could decide to pull up
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stakes and move in a different direction
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and shut down the company
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you know they they could have a
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personality conflict and get rid of you
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they could alter your pay they could
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alter your benefit they could change a
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whole lot and you’re just along for the
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ride whereas when you
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own your own company
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even if it’s a company of one
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then you’re in control of all of that
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and so that’s that’s a really that’s a
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really really cool advantage but you
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won’t know that
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until you’re a few months on the other
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side of it yeah it’s one of those things
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you don’t learn it until right you learn
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it once it’s happened right i think it’s
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even heightened with training because
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you know there are circumstances where
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it’s a smaller business to where there’s
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less variables like
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bigger business i feel like you’re more
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protect you’re more protected right i
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was booth rating out of these gyms
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and then they’d sell
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and a new owner would come in and he’d
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be like i just don’t i just don’t
18:29
[ __ ] like you yeah yeah yeah i’m the
18:31
man around here right exact same point
18:33
yeah and it’s like that’s a great
18:35
example good nice to everybody had a
18:37
great business built there and then it
18:39
was gone yeah because i got an egomaniac
18:41
guy
18:42
i wanted to come in
18:44
and start his own thing and it’s like
18:46
anywhere you’re booth running you’re
18:47
literally just a [ __ ] guest right and
18:49
right you know you walk around in
18:50
eggshells
18:52
and you know i didn’t feel the i was
18:54
willing to be like just give me a job
18:56
where they promised me hours yeah and
18:59
like in my mind i felt safer
19:01
doing a job where it’s like
19:03
nobody knew i was there i just had hours
19:05
yeah i could work as much as i want
19:07
collect the check
19:08
have health insurance
19:10
all those things i wanted
19:12
and it crosses your mind
19:14
anytime you’re doing something like that
19:16
is like
19:17
the grass is greener right but then you
19:19
kind of have to think to yourself
19:21
is there anything i’d rather do and for
19:22
me
19:23
it was always one track right right i
19:26
like it tell
19:27
tell everybody about the lawsuit
19:30
okay so
19:32
this is this this is pretty good this is
19:34
pretty wild yeah and that’s why we have
19:36
pre-show talks because we
19:38
we we let the guests just drug up
19:41
whatever bs they want yeah and then
19:43
we’re like oh dude that is great we’re
19:45
talking about that talk about that yeah
19:46
so at the beginning i kind of said joked
19:49
around about
19:50
don’t say dog pound legally you might
19:52
not be allowed to right right i said
19:54
d-a-w so here’s why it’s specifically
19:56
d-a-w so
19:58
i’m broke
20:00
we’re starting off
20:01
and i spend
20:04
so of course like i couldn’t hire
20:06
anybody to paint i painted right and i
20:09
was like man i’m not gonna have a plain
20:10
looking gym so i went to hobby lobby
20:13
bought a projector
20:15
and
20:16
uh
20:16
i literally projected these the word
20:19
d-o-g-p-o-u-n-d
20:22
yeah at 27 feet long yeah and it’s an
20:25
awesome mirror i’m so proud of it he’s
20:27
this mural
20:29
so jim’s cool yeah i did it myself like
20:32
my mom came up and helped me uh and then
20:34
i got it done i returned the projector
20:36
because i needed the 54 dollars that’s
20:38
freaking amazing
20:41
and that i take a picture of it
20:44
it’s illegal but it’s okay is it because
20:46
walmart will return anything yeah yeah
20:49
no judgment i i don’t mean i had to
20:51
return i love
20:52
that is the creative ingenuity that you
20:55
needed when you are that low yeah i’m
20:57
almost going to go buy one on my next
20:59
gym and keep it and like by early 90s no
21:01
no return it yeah yeah
21:04
return it again right so make mitch buy
21:06
one and loan it to you i post this
21:08
picture
21:09
and i get
21:10
there’s this guy
21:12
that owns a gym
21:13
and know my luck so this is right after
21:16
you see i post this picture i post this
21:18
picture this is like before your opening
21:20
but like not even open yeah yeah you’re
21:22
creating a buzz i’m creating a buzz i’m
21:24
like pre-promoting yeah i didn’t have
21:26
any like i couldn’t pre-sell memberships
21:29
because like i didn’t have the equipment
21:30
yeah yeah
21:31
you know i wasn’t really sure how this
21:33
was gonna work um
21:35
and i get a message from
21:38
i mean they got the blue check on
21:39
instagram this is a famous person yeah
21:42
my luck
21:43
he
21:44
owns a gym in new york in l.a from my
21:47
experience with the dude he was a really
21:48
nice guy so i have nothing poor to say
21:50
about him
21:51
this person is in my inbox and he’s like
21:55
hey i grew up around there my luck yeah
21:57
he grew up locally i had no clue and
22:00
he’s like i just want to let you know
22:02
i spoke with my attorneys and my
22:06
investors and
22:07
uh we don’t know if you can keep that
22:09
name yeah and i’m like man i just spent
22:12
like i i foiled the windows during the
22:15
day
22:16
to get this thing done put your heart
22:18
and soul in it and i was so proud you
22:19
know it was kind of fun when you’re
22:22
key to that like when you’re working for
22:24
yourself or creating your own business
22:26
it never feels like work right like it’s
22:29
so much better it’s like if you told me
22:31
to go paint a mural
22:32
i’d never do that for you it was like
22:35
but it was like
22:36
working for yourself is easy yeah so i
22:38
mean i probably spent
22:41
six
22:42
days straight
22:43
day and night doing this yeah and he’s
22:45
like well we’re gonna speak to our
22:47
attorneys and let you know
22:49
and i was like in my mind i’m like oh
22:51
[ __ ] this guy so i like looked him up
22:53
and like he’s legit training justin
22:55
bieber like legitimate oh yeah yeah and
22:58
uh i’m like training right now
23:00
so i start getting mail
23:03
because i you know i couldn’t afford
23:04
this i wasn’t gonna change it right and
23:06
it’s like i couldn’t afford to fix it
23:08
and i didn’t know what else to do
23:10
so i left it and then
23:13
we’re we’re starting to take off and
23:15
like it’s kind of in the back your mind
23:17
looks like it’s going to go away right
23:18
and then
23:20
long story short i get a cease and
23:21
desist letter assist yeah i’ve had a few
23:24
of those and um for different reasons i
23:26
had invited like all my friends to join
23:28
the facebook page
23:29
and i’m like dang this is like kind of
23:31
going
23:32
i’ve got a lot of followers on this page
23:34
yeah and uh it’s gone i i log in i’m
23:37
like it’s gone yeah and if you don’t
23:39
learn how business works like yeah
23:41
facebook’s a big one yeah yeah yeah the
23:42
enter like the domain was gone right the
23:45
website was gone
23:47
and i was like clicking around and it’s
23:49
like third attorney who’s on retainer
23:52
basically said
23:53
not today yeah i never got that domain
23:56
back yeah i contacted an attorney of
23:58
course i had zero money
24:00
i met with an attorney he’s like if i
24:02
write on this paper it’s going to cost
24:03
you and i was like we’ll see you later
24:05
so i finally found a cool one that
24:07
specializes in this kind of thing you
24:08
can see it got to go and he was
24:10
basically i mean i changed i like
24:13
i knew there was a gym called dog pound
24:15
but i know there’s a lot of gyms whole
24:16
lot of different things different logo
24:18
different color different market
24:19
obviously
24:20
and didn’t matter so when you’re
24:22
trying to create a name
24:24
there’s a federal trademark that really
24:26
matters yep
24:27
definitely make sure it’s not federally
24:29
trademarked
24:30
um so pretty much legally any gym
24:33
containing the letters dog pound in that
24:36
order right
24:38
um they have a duty to protect that yeah
24:41
and yeah i mean it could be the gym
24:42
could have been called carpet right and
24:45
they legally could have been like
24:47
no it’s not right um so
24:49
the guy was actually really nice to me
24:51
my the attorney i finally met with said
24:53
well it’s i think you got a case but
24:55
it’s going to cost you 12 000 figured
24:57
out and sounds like they got the money
24:58
yeah and i said cool so i came up with
25:01
uh a cooler name d-a-w-g dog pound yeah
25:05
you can only afford you can only get as
25:08
much justice as you can afford right
25:10
that’s like the american way yeah yeah
25:12
yeah so
25:13
so now you had to redo all your logos in
25:15
the gym like yep i even had to even had
25:18
to email
25:19
his attorney
25:20
and they had to okay it and make sure
25:22
right that they were cool with it right
25:25
and that was like really demoralizing
25:27
cause i’m like [ __ ] you i change it i
25:28
need i need permission from this guy in
25:30
new york when you get to when they got
25:32
the money do what you got to do man yeah
25:34
i yeah those things you think don’t
25:35
matter right they can end up mattering
25:38
business owning a home can be a humbling
25:40
experience yeah because you you
25:41
obviously
25:43
you don’t want to be punked right but
25:45
you also
25:46
don’t want your work to go to waste
25:47
right and you also don’t want your dream
25:48
to be crushed and you want to keep
25:50
moving forward so sometimes you got to
25:51
swallow your pride and be like and it
25:52
was i’m just going to okay i’m going
25:54
gonna do what i gotta do and i’m just
25:56
gonna keep going right and like it was
25:57
the money too like when you’re starting
25:59
off yeah like you’ve seen my my door
26:02
still says d-o-g yeah yeah but it’s like
26:04
i couldn’t afford to redo it right i
26:06
could afford to start to i had a restart
26:08
basically and uh yeah you know it all
26:10
worked out makes you better right right
26:13
you learn a lot man you learn a lot you
26:15
hit on something there too that i have
26:17
often said to my wife over and over and
26:19
over
26:20
once you flip over to being
26:22
self-employed
26:23
time almost becomes irrelevant so when
26:26
you’re working for somebody else you
26:28
count your commitment to work in the
26:30
number of hours
26:31
right you’re oh i put in 44 hours this
26:34
week and you know 40 is kind of the
26:35
benchmark right so anybody does over 40
26:37
and they feel like they’re
26:39
over achieving right
26:41
when you’re working for yourself
26:45
i’ve put in
26:46
countless 60 to 80 hour weeks working
26:49
for myself
26:50
but it doesn’t feel like i’m putting in
26:53
a six it’s different when it’s for you
26:55
and you don’t when when you put in a 60
26:57
hour a week for your employer you almost
26:59
have
27:00
like
27:03
well
27:03
there’s a little bit of resentment
27:05
almost like your soul’s getting taken
27:07
yeah yeah you’re working and you’re
27:09
waiting for 330 to roll around and
27:11
you’re looking at the clock and you’re
27:12
working before the clock yeah you’re
27:14
just like oh waiting for 3 30. when
27:16
you’re on your own and 3 30 is rolling
27:18
around you’re like oh [ __ ] i gotta keep
27:20
going i got so much to do you just keep
27:22
you know you’re like you need another
27:24
hour when you’re working for somebody
27:25
you’re like oh man i wish this hour
27:26
would just go away well and it works the
27:28
other way too so like yeah there’s been
27:30
there’s been times and you have this in
27:32
your days and your schedule the way that
27:34
your classes are structured there might
27:35
be times where i have two or three hours
27:37
in the middle of the day where i’ve got
27:38
nothing to do and i’ll come home and
27:39
hang out if the kids are like if it’s
27:41
over the summer i’ll hang out with the
27:42
kids if it’s not i’ll hang out with the
27:44
wife and and so on
27:46
and it used to be like you felt like you
27:48
were kind of cheating against your
27:49
employer if you if you did that like you
27:51
were kind of getting away with something
27:52
and now it’s like no i’ve earned this
27:54
like i yeah right i put it back it’s
27:56
it’s just a trade right it’s just as
27:58
long as the work’s getting done it’s
28:00
getting done sometimes and it also works
28:01
the other other way where it’s like you
28:04
want these problems that normally in a
28:06
nine to five would go away
28:08
they don’t go away yeah when you’re
28:10
always on your ass so like we’ll go back
28:12
to that story about getting sued like
28:14
the front of my building i had built a
28:18
a
28:19
literally a sign
28:20
like that looks professional out of with
28:22
hobby lobby letters that i crimped by
28:24
hand
28:25
with literally 70 dollar
28:28
led lights from amazon
28:30
yep that i needed change yeah and i had
28:33
to get like my dad to come out
28:35
and help me with the ladder and like do
28:37
all this stuff because
28:40
you can’t afford to sometimes you’re
28:41
starting small business yep i had to go
28:43
out there and
28:44
make an o or get rid of the o make an a
28:47
make an a and make a w you know but it’s
28:50
cool like
28:51
to get that help it was more satisfying
28:53
when it was done i even have a picture
28:54
yeah of changing it yeah but those
28:56
problems when you have a small business
28:58
or a business
29:00
they
29:01
you can’t brush them off like yeah you
29:03
can’t wait for somebody on the second
29:04
ship to pick it up and fix that side
29:06
like it’s not going anywhere like i’ll
29:08
burn my next 30 minutes up and the next
29:10
guy continues yourself when you come in
29:13
yeah when you come in in the morning and
29:14
you’re like man whoever closed this
29:15
place down did a shitty job and you
29:17
realized oh that was me right oh [ __ ] i
29:19
was exhausted
29:21
yeah
29:22
um
29:23
talk talk a little bit about like what
29:28
what when you started
29:29
or when you were preparing to start what
29:32
was the easiest
29:34
thing
29:35
that you encountered
29:37
in your preparation to get of all the
29:39
things that you had to do to get
29:40
prepared to start
29:42
what was the easiest
29:44
so for me i knew that you know i love
29:46
personal training i’ve i’ve done
29:49
you know
29:50
i’m considered an elite i’ve done 10 000
29:52
one-on-one sessions i’ve trained
29:54
athletes
29:55
um i’ve trained across the country like
29:58
but the easiest part for me was the
29:59
structure of how i wanted to do
30:02
team classes i was gonna have to let
30:04
back on personal training because
30:06
covering
30:07
i knew based off my business plan and my
30:10
business model like
30:12
if you’re a trainer you can’t cover the
30:14
overhead of a commercial space
30:16
doing sessions right
30:17
i mean when i do sessions
30:20
they mean more to me here because
30:22
it’s really based around it’s like a gym
30:25
membership where you’re at with me but
30:26
it’s also training
30:28
but it’s also classes
30:30
so when i designed the easiest part was
30:32
designing that structure
30:34
of everything i’ve always wanted in my
30:36
mind of like the best program
30:38
um so
30:40
essentially i i really go off the
30:43
literature and the science behind
30:45
working out and i design this program
30:47
where it’s
30:48
the most effective six day program it’s
30:51
like if i was gonna work with somebody
30:53
six days a week personal training i’m
30:55
handing it to you with these team
30:56
training classes yep at literally the
30:58
cheapest rate in town yeah um and i
31:01
designed it where it’s like based off
31:02
the literature you’re hitting
31:04
every muscle group twice a week split
31:06
out perfectly so you know
31:08
mondays and thursdays are leg day
31:10
you’re getting that recovery you’re
31:11
hitting it twice a week tuesdays fridays
31:14
our upper body it’s all upper body
31:15
targeted just like you’re working with
31:16
somebody like you’re trying to have
31:18
results
31:19
frequency is the key today was arm day
31:22
by day yeah so frequency is key if
31:23
you’re doing your workout like i missed
31:25
it
31:26
still waiting
31:28
and then
31:29
wednesday saturdays are the cardio
31:31
program
31:32
and then you know the last thing is
31:35
i always wanted people to
31:36
to be successful and 80 of that’s in
31:39
their eating
31:40
i take groups of people that everybody
31:43
every week i’ll take new members new
31:44
signups to the grocery store and
31:45
literally walk them down every aisle
31:47
yeah and teach them how to eat properly
31:49
yeah spends two hours with you in the
31:51
grocery every tuesday night do this do
31:53
that don’t eat this this is what this
31:55
does to you this is what this does to
31:57
you and educating them is to all the
31:59
false advertisement where it says fat
32:01
free but it’s actually very unhealthy
32:03
for you because it might be fat free but
32:04
it’s loaded in sugar have a bunch of
32:06
other [ __ ] or or something like that so
32:08
i try to never eat sugar he he teaches
32:10
you how to identify a lot of that stuff
32:14
nice so the easiest part was just really
32:17
getting the chance to
32:20
make the program of your dream when you
32:21
care about something like that and you
32:23
right you know it like in your mind it’s
32:25
the
32:26
most uh
32:30
best thing ever it’s the most innovative
32:32
idea of all time it’s like you got this
32:34
great idea and then it’s like you get to
32:36
showcase it yeah it wasn’t just your
32:38
dream to have the gym but it was you it
32:40
was your dream to be able to make your
32:41
own program and really help people and
32:44
reach so many people yeah like everybody
32:46
i ever worked with it’s like i’m
32:48
confident that they’ll never work with
32:49
another trainer because i feel like i’ve
32:52
you said i care i care the most i’ve
32:54
made the best program i’ve put the most
32:56
into it right
32:58
and then it’s like having that chance to
33:00
have that same
33:01
relationship with so many more people in
33:03
the gym training aspect well and another
33:05
another cool thing and i can say this
33:07
because i’ve gone to your gym for almost
33:09
a year now um trying to work for that
33:11
that free that free month right trying
33:13
to get
33:15
by 12 months get one free right right
33:18
so
33:19
one of the cool things about the way
33:21
that you’ve done it with the team
33:22
sessions is once you’ve attended quite a
33:25
few of those you kind of get the hang of
33:27
it a little bit
33:28
but there’s a lot of people in them like
33:29
the class we’re in there’s like i don’t
33:31
know 20 to 25 people in that class and
33:33
it’s a smaller like 1200 square foot
33:35
space so it’s it’s pretty packed
33:37
but um
33:40
you you’ll have newer people come in
33:42
when you have enough enough seasoned
33:44
people in there
33:46
then it allows tyler a chance to focus
33:48
on the new people and give them the
33:49
attention they need but also what
33:51
happens is the existing people you kind
33:54
of get to know everybody in your class
33:56
as people routinely show up
33:58
like there’ll be people where maybe it’s
34:00
on opposite ends of the room and tyler’s
34:01
helping a new person over here
34:03
well there’s enough other people that
34:05
have done it for a while that they’re
34:06
all willing to jump in and help too and
34:08
it’s like the complete op like everyone
34:09
wants to go to planet fitness and make
34:11
fun of people right because they don’t
34:12
know how to use the machines and they
34:13
don’t know how to do any of that and
34:15
that’s it’s really kind of like shame on
34:17
planet fitness why don’t you have people
34:19
walking around why don’t you not get a
34:20
sued by planet fitness well i mean
34:23
no it just is what it is like
34:26
yeah a lot of them are like you should
34:27
have people walking around and saying
34:28
hey it looks like you’re struggling with
34:30
how to use that machine let me help you
34:31
like i’m not a trainer but i can at
34:33
least tell you how to use that machine
34:35
safely
34:36
right yeah and instead of i mean geez
34:38
all you got to do is just google planet
34:39
fitness videos and you can come up with
34:41
a million people that are going to get
34:43
themselves hurt
34:44
because
34:45
there’s not anybody there to shape them
34:47
what i loved about it was
34:49
you know i could walk in a plane of
34:50
fitness and not have any clue what the
34:52
hell to do
34:53
i see a whole bunch of gyms or i see a
34:54
whole bunch of pieces of equipment i
34:56
could figure out how to use them but i
34:58
don’t know
34:59
the days that like i don’t know that i
35:01
should be working these on these days
35:02
and these on these days and giving my
35:03
days rests and all of that stuff and i
35:05
don’t know that that i should
35:07
interchange my exercises with this one
35:09
versus this one instead of
35:12
instead of doing two pulling exercises
35:14
in a row where you’re already kind of
35:16
tapped out or you know pre-exhausting
35:18
your biceps yeah yeah yeah like if
35:20
you’re gonna if you’re gonna go do a you
35:22
got one exercise that might be
35:23
pre-exhausting your biceps and then
35:24
you’re planning on going to curl next
35:26
and well crap now i can’t hardly curl
35:27
because it takes away the output of your
35:29
curl yeah and like like he was talking
35:32
about like for me
35:33
one of the biggest things i saw with
35:35
jim’s is like
35:36
man like why can’t we all
35:39
be a team right
35:41
for me
35:43
you know anybody that comes in new
35:45
i’ll partner with somebody that i know
35:47
right like i know is a good
35:49
good coach and it’s like i consider
35:51
mitch a coach in the class like
35:53
you know sometimes somebody knew will
35:54
come in and i’ll be like i’ll grab mitch
35:56
back you’re going to partner with this
35:57
guy i know mitch’s personality i know
35:59
this guy’s yeah relative personality and
36:02
i take as much pride in
36:05
uh the 70 year old coming to our class
36:08
for the first time
36:09
yeah
36:10
working with the d1 athlete
36:12
and them getting along and
36:14
having the same effectiveness in the
36:16
workout because
36:17
it’s designed correctly yeah and it’s
36:20
for every level yeah and it’s and it’s
36:22
really i like it the the way that your
36:23
structure is too really has to go a lot
36:25
with it’s it’s not just the fitness
36:28
it’s the diet too and it’s not just the
36:30
diet it’s the fitness and they go hand
36:31
in hand and
36:32
and so you put both of those together
36:34
really well and that’s why you have so
36:36
many amazing transformation photos yeah
36:38
so you cannot out you cannot work off a
36:41
piss-poor diet yeah
36:44
you can’t outrun a bad diet i just i
36:46
don’t run a bad day i feel like it
36:48
should be saying that forever cover that
36:50
yeah so that was um
36:52
so so that was the easiest what do you
36:54
think
36:55
that the most difficult area for you to
36:58
deal with overcome
37:01
you know
37:02
that those first couple of years was
37:05
uh so obviously cove it happened
37:08
yeah yeah um and
37:10
you know all gyms must close all gyms
37:12
were closed um
37:14
just board up and then let people in the
37:16
back
37:26
let’s just say the local health
37:27
department allowed him to have friends
37:30
come work out with him okay
37:32
and uh then they told me to stop and
37:34
then they said we can’t do that anymore
37:38
and you know
37:39
as a business
37:40
i feel like
37:41
i’m the only person during covid or the
37:45
sorry the only business during kobet
37:47
that actually didn’t bill people
37:49
right i you didn’t you turned it off he
37:52
froze all the bills at all
37:54
good on you yeah meanwhile every place
37:56
is saying yeah we’re gonna work with you
37:59
you know my lease it’s like oh yeah
38:01
we’re gonna work with you and then they
38:03
prorate it for 12 months an extra 100
38:05
they get their money yeah like electric
38:06
company they got their money yeah and
38:08
then
38:09
they don’t there’s very few i never
38:12
i was just losing money yeah but luckily
38:15
doing the proper paperwork and stuff
38:17
like that i did get granted uh some
38:20
relief yep um but and you had people
38:23
that were still okay
38:25
you offered to freeze their monthly
38:27
billing and they said no keep it going
38:29
keep it yeah and that’s one thing
38:31
being a small business and a good
38:33
community
38:34
you don’t realize how much it matters to
38:37
some people yeah you know i always
38:39
thought it was me where it’s like
38:41
a small business i’m gonna i’m gonna tip
38:42
more i’m gonna i’m gonna buy more it’s
38:44
more important to me yeah and you’re not
38:46
the only one that feels that way if
38:48
you’re like that yeah and i’ve had that
38:50
been blessed with that uh
38:52
then the the second most difficult was
38:55
uh the investor slash business partner
38:58
it always gets sticky and he was a good
39:00
friend is a good friend of mine but we
39:02
kind of reached that breaking point of
39:05
what do you want to do
39:07
what do you feel like you deserve
39:09
and what do you see your future as right
39:12
and we luckily amicably
39:16
kind of just parted ways and still
39:18
friend of this day
39:19
uh but it you know the longer it went on
39:23
the more frustrating it could be yeah
39:26
because you you know anytime you’re a
39:27
partner with anything
39:29
you know
39:30
i was there building it and
39:32
like literally drilling holes in my
39:34
finger how to trying to figure out how
39:35
to do
39:37
to hang a mirror non-construction guys
39:40
that was the expectation coming in and
39:42
he you know he knew but like
39:44
we kind of reached that agreement and it
39:47
amicably worked out where
39:48
you know it did become
39:51
he did he did become just an ambassador
39:52
and he and everything worked out he got
39:55
his money right
39:56
um but once that was over with i really
39:59
felt like a lift off my back of
40:02
you know i’m working for
40:04
my dream right um and it’s like there’s
40:06
nobody
40:07
that can really stop you right right
40:10
with with their so
40:12
was he
40:14
did he after you opened did he work
40:16
there with you we attempted that
40:19
um
40:20
and then
40:22
he wasn’t
40:23
you know there was a lot of different
40:24
things that came along he wanted to be a
40:26
trainer
40:27
um but he did have like training is a
40:30
it’s a love of the game yeah there’s a
40:32
skill like you have to
40:34
like genuinely want
40:37
to see people be successful or you’re
40:39
not gonna right you’re not gonna be
40:41
successful and
40:42
uh he he made a lot of money
40:45
he made a lot of money doing his job uh
40:48
and he saw training
40:50
as a lucrative way to do something more
40:53
enjoyable
40:54
than the job he currently had to make
40:56
extra money doing something he liked and
40:58
i kind of yeah okay doing something you
41:00
know
41:01
it’s a glamorous thing but trust me when
41:04
you’re training those people you look up
41:05
to
41:06
they go home
41:08
and they’re [ __ ] broke yeah
41:10
like they
41:11
if it’s if they if they got money it’s
41:13
daddy’s money yeah because there was no
41:15
point in my training career
41:17
where i could have saved enough money to
41:19
make a like a real gym right like you
41:22
and you were one of the most successful
41:23
trainers
41:26
yes so like i would hit 90 of a 30 000
41:29
training budget
41:31
with seven trainers on staff
41:33
i’d hit almost 90 of the budget yeah and
41:36
i was still
41:37
broke pretty close to broke yeah and
41:39
then it goes through phases it’s like
41:41
you like any business you have to
41:43
project this can be a bad month this can
41:45
be a good month
41:46
um but
41:47
you know throughout that
41:49
he gave me the opportunity
41:51
and uh
41:52
it worked out
41:54
really successfully for me but
41:56
you know when you’re starting your
41:57
business like that’s something you have
41:59
to realize is like
42:01
anybody that’s tied to you
42:03
you’re eventually everybody grows
42:05
different ways
42:06
and uh he didn’t realize that training’s
42:09
not a lucrative thing yeah and i
42:11
literally broke it down like this is the
42:13
max you could make yeah like and i
42:16
wouldn’t be making anything and i did
42:19
all this uh
42:21
so luckily we worked at an agreement
42:22
that was good for both um
42:24
and like i said like at the beginning i
42:26
thought about all those jobs that
42:28
you know
42:29
i could make more money
42:31
but not be as happy or do what i love
42:33
right and i think that’s where he was
42:35
yeah
42:36
and uh
42:37
and so there’s there’s a lot of lessons
42:39
to learn there i think one of them is
42:42
really
42:43
if you’re going to have a partner and
42:44
you’re going to go into business get it
42:46
all in writing get it on writing both of
42:48
you sit down and say hey what are my
42:50
roles going to be yeah what are we going
42:52
to do don’t just say hey okay i want to
42:54
take this money then we’re going to book
42:56
because
42:57
your idea and his idea obviously we’re
42:59
different right and i think a lot of
43:01
people are that way get it down get it
43:03
in writing decide what you’re gonna do
43:05
yeah you know before you jump into bed
43:07
with somebody yeah business partnerships
43:09
are a lot like marriages where more of
43:11
them end up in divorce than end up in
43:13
success and they’re also the closest
43:15
ones
43:16
can
43:17
hurt you the most yeah yeah we never
43:19
reach that point where it’s like the
43:21
people you love the most you can hate
43:22
the most yep
43:23
you know i still care about them
43:25
great person still friends
43:27
but i always knew in the back of my mind
43:28
like that’s a great way for a friendship
43:30
to be over yeah yeah one of the it
43:32
sounds like and not just over but really
43:33
fortunate yeah yeah and you know he was
43:36
a really self-aware person yeah and he
43:38
made good money so it’s not like the
43:40
partnership failed like he he served a
43:43
role without everyone did their spot
43:45
yeah and without him you wouldn’t be
43:46
where you are right and he still made
43:48
out financially fairly well
43:50
so i’ll ever forever be indebted to him
43:53
for giving me the opportunity yeah and
43:55
that’s why when i paid him back i
43:58
he made money on the deal yeah yeah yeah
43:59
um and i’m always blessed to have met
44:02
him yep and uh if i see him now it’s
44:04
like hey
44:06
yeah you for
44:08
and i’d be there for him now if you need
44:09
anything well and that’s so that that
44:11
hits on a really cool point with
44:13
if you’re considering a partner in
44:15
business
44:16
make for sure that that the the two
44:19
people that are considering being
44:21
partners are bringing two separate
44:23
things into opposing things to the
44:26
business in other words like mine’s a
44:28
plumbing business right if i’m bringing
44:30
the plumbing but i didn’t have the
44:31
business sense there’s no point in me
44:34
partnering up with another plumber who
44:35
also doesn’t have the business sense
44:37
like that’s a partnership bound to fail
44:39
so if i was gonna part like if i didn’t
44:41
have a business since and i’m a plumber
44:43
i’m right i’d want a partner
44:45
i’d wanna partner with a business guy
44:47
who knows nothing about plumbing right
44:49
and then we got to let each other play
44:51
in their area of expertise it would have
44:52
never worked if we were both trainers
44:54
well and that’s that’s about the time
44:56
that everything spoiled down was when he
44:59
really tried to get into training and i
45:00
was like okay
45:02
another funny story is he was a client i
45:05
worked with
45:07
that you know i really worked with them
45:09
and i treat every client like
45:11
i mean that 50 minutes we’re working
45:12
together i don’t give a [ __ ] who you are
45:14
right like you’re gonna get the best
45:17
and he wasn’t the person you’d think
45:20
and the your millionaires would be the
45:22
person
45:23
that’s like dude i want to invest in you
45:25
right and uh like us
45:27
i believe in you right so it goes to
45:28
show like
45:30
quality is like
45:31
some trainers i know would have been
45:32
like this dude’s
45:34
not serious he’s
45:35
in this for like they wouldn’t have
45:37
taken it seriously and thought
45:39
this dude’s just [ __ ] around right
45:41
right and i was like quit [ __ ] around
45:42
we’re working today and we’re gonna hit
45:44
your goal and come back like
45:47
six years later he’s like hey i got this
45:49
money i want to do this and i’m like
45:50
dude i’m poor but okay right well and
45:52
that’s that’s people respect often
45:54
authenticity right so if you know you
45:56
can pull some more out of somebody and
45:58
you you don’t have a problem asking them
46:00
push harder lift more work out harder
46:03
they respect that right so and i know i
46:06
respect this morning
46:08
did you cry
46:09
no no i’ve come close to throwing up a
46:11
couple times
46:13
he’ll never forget my first day but
46:15
anyway whoa
46:17
mitch’s first day oh boy we got time we
46:20
got tired of the podcast you know let’s
46:21
just you know no no no no you brought it
46:23
up five minute cliff note for less than
46:25
five minutes okay i ended up in the
46:27
corner with him holding my legs over my
46:29
head because i was about ready to pass
46:30
out and you know oh my gosh
46:33
uh i can’t tell if this is a story that
46:36
makes me want to go more or makes me
46:37
want to go yeah so this is why you
46:39
should always work with a professional
46:41
that’s that’s got a lot of experience so
46:43
he came in
46:44
and i know all the signs and symptoms of
46:46
everything yeah and my favorite question
46:48
is are you dizzy nauseous or lightheaded
46:50
and i looked at him
46:52
he didn’t even have to ask was he on the
46:54
ground no he looked at me people get a
46:56
look
46:57
your eyes go funny when they’re not
46:59
glassy eyed when they’re losing it yeah
47:01
like they’re seeing a
47:03
not clearly and he had the look they’re
47:04
looking two feet past that
47:06
he was like i was like does he naturally
47:08
he’s like dizzy dizzy and i said
47:11
immediately like lay down lay down let
47:13
me elevate your feet so we’re in the
47:14
middle of a class 20 people it’s his
47:15
first day and he’s in the corner
47:18
and like this is a really important
47:20
thing that matters to me it’s like
47:23
did it feel awkward to you no no like
47:25
like i went there for that reason yeah
47:28
i needed the help right i’m gonna help
47:30
you and if anybody
47:32
like
47:32
even remotely said anything i’d be like
47:35
what the [ __ ] are you doing dude yeah
47:36
like so like it’s important to me that
47:38
he had a good experience but credit to
47:40
mitch like most the time it’s hit or
47:42
miss
47:43
and uh he still had like six days left
47:45
on his free trial
47:47
and i signed up that day and i’m like
47:49
good job mitch and he’s like i’m ready
47:51
to sign up and i was like
47:53
okay yeah so yeah yeah i figured if you
47:56
can kick my ass that hard to make me
47:57
about pass out this is where i’m gonna
47:58
be nice i didn’t mean to pull you off
48:00
there but no no there’s a good mitch
48:02
story out there yeah and as we’ve gone
48:04
through some of these podcasts before
48:06
i’ve given a few i have a giant laundry
48:09
list that i’m gonna give up dave dave
48:11
loves little mitch diggs mitch has a lot
48:14
of stories man yeah how long would you
48:16
give him until
48:17
he was getting dizzy not just her
48:18
lightheaded i don’t know
48:21
dave’s dave’s a little athlete oh
48:23
so he’s an athlete you an athlete dude i
48:26
not only that i worked in new
48:27
construction for 20 years
48:29
wearing a toolbar he’s got a little
48:30
endurance with him eight hours a day
48:32
five days a week oh man hang and duck
48:34
work digging ditches hey write a check
48:36
tomorrow at 5 00 a.m cardio you said it
48:38
what you said what don’t you try to
48:40
check that ass can’t count
48:42
is that a challenge if we want to make
48:44
like it would be the question on this
48:46
[ __ ] well it is forever level so
48:49
if i like yeah if i wanted to try it on
48:51
it because
48:52
everyone works out to their own levels
48:54
yeah i guarantee i could do mitch’s
48:55
level whatever he’s at oh man that
48:57
sounds like i don’t know
48:59
holy [ __ ] i don’t know
49:04
marcus would have to get up at 5am and
49:06
that ain’t happening
49:09
why do we have to go that’s the only
49:10
time i work out
49:12
you’re not flexible at all i don’t have
49:14
any other time in the rest of the day
49:16
you can’t go to the 6 p.m show no i’m
49:18
not usually home from work by six well
49:20
you know what you can’t tell him what
49:21
you’re running
49:22
he might not know what it sounds like
49:25
isn’t that an excuse no no that is a
49:28
structure a very structured day first
49:31
off no it’s not because i’ve been over
49:32
here at four well afternoon to shoot
49:34
shows so that’s a load of [ __ ]
49:36
getting up that early is a task in and
49:37
of itself so you have to i’m not getting
49:39
up that early so you can’t do everything
49:41
nothing of mine fires that early toilet
49:44
you know what i’m one of those things
49:46
one thing fires that early
49:48
it ain’t muscle it ain’t oh boy
49:50
oh boy
49:52
we got out that yeah that derailed
49:54
quickly
49:55
coming up one hour guys 10 minutes
49:57
uh one one final question for you tyler
50:00
what would you say was the easiest
50:03
portion of your first
50:06
few years of opening
50:08
so i feel like
50:11
being a small business
50:13
again it was just like
50:15
people
50:16
really want
50:18
when people see something new coming up
50:21
like they want to go there right and uh
50:23
i feel like the community really helped
50:25
like spread the word
50:27
and then you know getting the chance to
50:29
work with certain people
50:31
verified that what i’m doing you know it
50:33
is the in my mind the best and it’s like
50:36
the the member shared like you know i
50:38
don’t have to run an ad right for
50:40
another day i feel like referrals
50:42
um you know once you come everybody
50:45
wants to come and have their friends try
50:47
it but i feel like the community is
50:48
really helpful
50:50
um and then like we said when we’re
50:51
closed with cove but it’s like
51:07
yeah and i available like
51:08
you know
51:09
getting the support from people and
51:11
yeah if people have budgeted
51:14
their gym membership for the year right
51:16
they’re looking at okay you gotta close
51:17
for a month or two or you know i don’t
51:18
know how every moment was then they’ve
51:21
already budgeted
51:22
and they want to see you successful and
51:23
they want to make sure they have a gem
51:24
to go back to right when things are open
51:27
back you know so
51:28
you know people are okay saying no just
51:30
keep it and
51:32
and we’ll get it back to it when we can
51:34
so
51:34
um word of mouth referrals is huge uh
51:37
for sure that is
51:39
when you’re new into business and you’re
51:41
getting a lot of word of mouth referrals
51:42
that means you’ve built a really
51:43
successful brand
51:45
and and that
51:47
is key
51:49
you’ve built something that people want
51:51
to refer you’ve built something that
51:53
people enjoy so much that they want to
51:55
see other people enjoy it too
51:57
so
51:58
um
51:59
that’s that’s the big telltale sign if
52:01
you’re getting a lot of word of word of
52:02
mouth referrals new into business
52:04
then
52:05
do not change anything with your brand
52:07
because you’re you’re locked in right
52:09
there and then it’s like last thing for
52:12
me is i it’s the quality of service like
52:14
you know i had the opportunity to get
52:16
the investor because i treat every
52:19
session like
52:21
that’s the most famous person the most
52:22
important person in the world
52:24
when you know essentially a lot of
52:26
people be like who’s the [ __ ] is this
52:28
person right and then it’s like when i
52:30
come into these classes it’s like
52:32
everybody i work with
52:33
it’s an opportunity to show yourself
52:36
show your work
52:37
show why
52:38
you separate yourself
52:40
and i feel like it’s just kind of
52:42
you know through word of mouth like
52:43
you’re not going to refer somebody
52:44
you’re like
52:45
right
52:46
and then it’s like i’ve done 20 sessions
52:48
because i didn’t have anything to do
52:50
yeah and i wanted to show
52:52
somebody that typically
52:54
couldn’t afford to work with a trainer
52:56
what it’s all about why people pay for
52:58
it yeah and it’s just quality of service
53:01
to me
53:02
and you know treating every job
53:05
it’s like a job to me like this is the
53:08
best
53:09
and most anybody’s going to care about a
53:10
program you’re in yeah so yeah he says
53:13
the opportunity to show yourself
53:16
i mean dude
53:17
when you’re a plumber and you go to the
53:18
house yep that’s the opportunity to show
53:22
everyone what you’re about what your
53:23
company’s about yep i’d want another
53:25
plumber to come in there and be like
53:32
i want to try and be like dude i could
53:33
never come up with something that
53:34
[ __ ] crazy cool right right or that
53:36
effective every business owner
53:39
should be striving for that right and
53:41
they should be trying to teach their
53:42
employees that because
53:44
the more employees you can teach to be
53:46
that way and and to really kind of give
53:49
your
53:50
i don’t want to say soul but your soul
53:52
into them to say hey this is how we’re
53:54
going to do it if you can do that and
53:56
you can be like this yep that’s how you
53:58
are successful yeah especially in small
54:01
communities when i was in the working
54:03
force working for somebody else my motto
54:06
was to go into the job every day and
54:08
prove to my boss every day that hands
54:10
down without a question i was the best
54:11
man for the job that day
54:13
and that motto is still very much the
54:15
same today
54:16
it’s i go into every customer’s home now
54:19
and prove to that customer that hands
54:20
down without a doubt we were the best
54:23
choice for them in their home every day
54:26
and tyler does it too yeah nobody ever
54:28
comes to your job after something to be
54:31
like who the hell did this work right
54:32
just like i in my in my heart feel like
54:36
nobody’s like i worked with dog pounder
54:38
tyler and it was all right yeah like
54:41
that would i would lose sleep over that
54:43
yeah and i checked your website out
54:44
before like i’ve only known tyler for a
54:47
couple weeks now yeah there are no bad
54:48
reviews on there right there are no bad
54:50
google reviews on there right
54:53
remember oh yeah so there’s there was
54:55
one bad google review and it’s from his
54:57
neighbor because we were too loud yeah
54:59
and so we worked together and got
55:00
everybody in the gym to give him a good
55:02
review to like bury it it is fake people
55:05
because i know everybody that comes in
55:07
yeah it’s a private jet yeah it’s from
55:09
somebody who’s never set foot in this
55:10
game
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it was a fake name so yeah yeah google
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review
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we’re remove it now yeah yeah they’re
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trying to get google to remove it it
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bothers so tyler give everybody your uh
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give everybody your website and your
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instagram
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and facebook stuff so they can find you
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so facebook it’s d-a-w-g
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dog pound kc
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uh facebook instagram youtube
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follow it if you’re not even interested
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in training or even if you’re not from
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around here because i do like to help
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people i do
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share a lot of tips it’s not a click
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this button
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i’m literally just get bored and want to
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help people yeah um and if you’re
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interested trying out free class you
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know do you have a free class structure
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like like come try out seven day free
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trial seven day free trial so anybody
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and everybody um if you go to our
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website you don’t have to go to our
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website classes are at 5am 10am 4pm and
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6pm monday through friday just show up
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about five minutes before
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and i’ll treat you like family the
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second you walk in the door make sure
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you’re partnered with me
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hey guys we’re at blue springs mo right
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outside of kc so if you are seeing this
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like all obviously i’m going to share
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this with all my friends that i think
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are fat need to get you know a workout
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you know he’s going to send it to me
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you guys are all close enough to check
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out the dude seven days is a long time
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yeah you know that’s a lot of free
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workouts yeah you’re gonna so you’re
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gonna i’m not going but there are free
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workouts available right and if you
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you’re gonna love it and regret it and
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love it again all in those seven days
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right
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if you have any like want to book it
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online or forget the class times it’s on
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the website just click classes all right
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i love it man sweet meal well guys that
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pretty much sums up our show today with
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tyler and dog pound kc
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if you guys have any questions for tyler
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feel free to send them in to us and we
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can pass them on to tyler um and and
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we’re not obviously we’re not opposed to
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having tyler on in future shows so um
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we’re gonna want to check out how his
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business is going yeah yeah here another
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six months we’ll follow up yeah um so if
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you if you have any questions for tyler
57:14
or any questions for the show send them
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in to ask mitch mitch smedley.com
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that’s uh ask mitch at mitch
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