#11 - Joe Cirulli | Gainesville Health & Fitness CEO and University of Florida Legend Talks About How He Grew His Business to 440 Employees

Cirulli has created an environment at Gainesville Health and Fitness (Gainesville, Florida) in which the staff treats him like family and vice versa. Some of the staff is in fact Cirulli’s actual family. In addition to Coley-Cannon, several Gainesville Health and Fitness employees have been with Cirulli for 15, 20, or 25 or more years. It is not hard to understand why. Cirulli has rewarded his management team with whitewater rafting trips and excursions to Costa Rica. One year, as a Christmas bonus, Cirulli took his staff to a mall in Orlando and gave each employee an envelope containing more than $1,000 that they were to spend that day. Website: http://www.ghfc.com/joe Fun Fact: In order to get his business off the ground Joe slept in his car and lived in his clubs