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The Personal Trainer Hustle — 203 episodes

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203. 5 Prospecting Misconceptions - Lesson One From Prospecting Course (FREE)

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202. Q & A: What Must You Learn On The Path From New Trainer To Gym Owner?

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201. Q & A: How Do I Close An Already Healthy Client?

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200. Q & A: What Makes Personal Training A Good Job?

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199. 7 Ways You Can Grow If You Work At A Gym Where They Give You The Clients

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198. 5 Reasons Why You Are Losing Clients During Your Trial Sessions

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197. How To Use Discounted Sessions More Effectively And Get More Clients From Them

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196. Stop Selling Short Term Plans And Start Getting Longer Commitments

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195. The Realities Of A Personal Trainers Schedule

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194. Q & A: How Do I Know When To Transition To My Personal Training Business Full Time?

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193. Q & A: Can I Be A Full Time Trainer Without Evenings And Weekends Available?

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192. Becoming A Successful Personal Trainer Takes Time

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191. Q & A: How Do I Know Who I Should and Should Not Mentor?

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190. Q &A: How Do I Mentor Someone While I Am Still Growing?

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189. 3 Scheduling Mistakes That Might Be Costing You Your Career

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188. The 5 Biggest Mistakes I Made My First Six Months As A Personal Trainer

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187. How Do I Get More Clients Out Of Working The Phone With A Limited Schedule?

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186. Three Steps To A Better Sales Strategy

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185. Q & A: How Do I Increase My Chances Of Getting A Personal Training Job?

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184. Why Good Questions Matter!

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183. Q & A: How Do I Show More Enthusiasm And Personality In My Sessions?

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182. Why You Should Present Two Personal Training Options During A Sale

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181. Q & A: Should I Leave A Negative Workplace?

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180. Q & A: How Do You Keep Your Composure In The Heat Of The Moment?

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179. Q & A: How Do I Get Back The Motivation To Start My Business After Twenty Years Of Coaching?

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178. If I Only Had 30 Minutes To Give You Sales Advice THIS Would Be It

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177. Checking In On Your New Client Funnel (The Steps A New Client Takes To Get To You)

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176. Q & A: What Was Your Personal Trainer Certification Process?

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175. Q & A: Are Workout Challenges Fair To People Of Different Fitness Levels?

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174. How More Emotional Selling Points Lead To Higher Sales Conversions

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173: Q & A. How Do You Ask Clients About Using Their Videos For Marketing?

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172. Q & A: What Do I Talk About With Clients Between Sets?

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171. 3 Things I Got Wrong About Becoming A Personal Trainer

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170: Q & A: What Do You Think About High End Gyms That Don't Pay Staff Well?

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169: Q & A: What Should I Prioritize In My First 60 Days Of A New Personal Trainer Job?

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168. The Sales Skill That Made Me $1,000 in 30 Minutes

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167. Why Most Trainers Have To Quit Within Their First Year

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166. What To Do About Clients Who Say They Want To Try Working Out On Their Own First

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165. Q & A: Why Am I Losing Clients After Just A Few Sessions?

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164. Q & A: How Do I Apply All The Theory I Learned During My Certification?

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163. Where Are You Losing Your Potential Clients?

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162. Book Report On The ONE Thing

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161. Q & A: Why Do I Get So Nervous When Talking To A Client?

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160. 5 Tips On Coaching A Bootcamp

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159. Using My "Second Brain" To Be More Productive

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158. Q & A: Any Advice For A Newly Certified Personal Trainer?

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157. Q & A: What Do You Say And Not Say During Sessions?

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156. The 5 Best Lessons I Learned From My First Managers

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155. Q & A: What Are Some Marketing Tactics For My New Fitness Studio?

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154. Q & A: Do I Work At A Gym Before Opening My Own Studio?

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153. Q & A: How Do I Close The Sale At The End Of A Free Session?

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152. Q & A: How Do I Get More Male Clients?

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151. Q & A: What Should I Say or Ask As A New Trainer Interviewing For My First Job?

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150. The Goal Before The Goal, Before The Goal...

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149. Q & A: How Do I Grow And Convert Sales Using Social Media?

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148. Q & A: How Do I Go From Part Time To Full Time Personal Training?

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147. How Many Clients Do You Need?

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146. Simple Sales Tips (On The Road)

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145. Q & A: How Do I Expand, Work Less Physically And Make More Money?

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144. Listener Instagram Review & Feedback

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143. 3 Hard Truths About Your Personal Training Career

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142. Q & A: How Do You Incentivize Clients To Commit To Longer Packages?

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141. A Simple Method To Increasing Your Rates

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140. What Is Prospecting?

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139. Q & A: What Do You Need To Look For In A Mentor?

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138. Having A Website Vs A Social Media Account

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137. 3 Things You Have To Stop Saying To Your Clients

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136. Q & A: How Do I Get Confidence For Sales When I Am Slender & Introverted?

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135. Q & A: What Should I Put In My Resume & What Should I Wear To My First Interview?

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134. Q & A: How Do I Change Customers Opinion Of Me As Being Too Young And Female?

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133. The Pros and Cons Of Following Online Influencers

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132. Q & A: How Do I Set Up A Legit Personal Training Business And When Do I Change For Growth?

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131. Pointing Out The Elephant In The Room (Dealing With Uncomfortable First Meetings)

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130. Q & A: What Is A Consultation?

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129. The Deeper Reasons People Buy Personal Training

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128. Q & A: What Are Three Things I Can Do To Be In The Top Sales People At My Gym?

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127. Why Saying You Are A "Personal Trainer" Is Not Enough

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126. Q & A: How Do I Get More People To Come To My Garage Gym?

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125. Q & A: Any Tips On Starting A Mobile Personal Training Service?

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124. 5 Reasons Why Hard Workers Still May Not Get Ahead

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123. Only Sell The Next Step In Your System (Sales Advice)

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122. Q & A: What Should I Do While I Complete My Certification?

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121. Q & A: How Do I Talk To Someone Who Didn't Know They Were Getting A Consultation?

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120. 5 Things You Should Actively Be Working On To Make Sure You Are Moving Towards Success

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119. Q & A: How Do I Market Myself With My Physical Therapy Background?

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118. Sooo...What Do I Talk To My Clients About?

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117. Q & A: Health And Wellness Is My Passion, Where Do I Start?

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116. The 5 Biggest Mistakes I Made When I Got My First Personal Training Job

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115. The 5 Levers You Must Always Grow and Adjust In Your Personal Training Business

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114. I Sold Two Packages In An Hour Today. Here Are Some Take Aways...

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113. Q & A. What Are The Best Steps To Succeed As A Personal Trainer And Eventually Business?

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112. Q & A: Any Advice On Starting An Online Nutrition Or Weight Loss Coaching Business?

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111. What Is A Potential Client Looking For?

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110. Q & A: Recommendations On Starting A Sports Performance Facility From Home?

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109. Q & A: How Many Times Is Too Many To Follow Up On A Lead?

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108. The 3 Problems You May Have When You're A New Personal Trainer

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107. Q & A: How Do I Create Business Relationships With Local Businesses?

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106. Where Is The Problem In Your Personal Training Business?

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105. Listener Q & A: Deciding How Much To Charge & Choosing A Location To Start Training Clients with LaTonya "Opanike" Shelton (Fitness In Plain Sight)

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104. Guest Listener Q & A: Moving From Corporate Training to Private and Advertising Through Social Media Platforms with Megan Snyder

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103. The Elements Of Prospecting

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102. If I Was Starting Over Today

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101. How Analysis Paralysis Is Affecting Your Sales Presentation

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100. 7 Life Changing Lessons I Learned From Becoming A Personal Trainer

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99. Q & A: How Do I Talk To Clients About Nutrition When I Am Not A Nutritionist?

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98. 10 Things To Learn While Working At Your Gym Before Moving On

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97.Q & A: How Much Experience Should I Get Before Trying To Open My Own Gym?

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96. Sales Advice When A Prospect Says They Want To Talk To Their Spouse First

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95. Understanding A Sales Funnel For Beginners

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94. Q & A: Any Creative Advice On Placing Flyers At Local Business?

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93. New Business Building Blocks, A Live Update.

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92. Telling Is Not Selling (Best Selling Advice)

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91. Q & A: Any Advise On Starting A Personal Training Business After Retirement?

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90. Sales And Business Lessons I Learned From Fishing

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89. On Getting Paid What You're Worth

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88. Q & A: What Advise Do You Have For A Teenager Starting A Personal Trainer Business?

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87. Flyer Talk - What Goes On A Flyer?

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86. Guest Listener Q & A: Starting Your Personal Training Business with Yesenia Vela

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85. Sales Lessons From The Movie Glengarry Glenn Ross

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84. Are Your First Workouts Too Intense For Beginners?

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83. Guest Listener Q & A: Working On First Actionable Business Steps with April Hutson

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82. 5 Tips On Dealing With A Prospect That Has Their Guard Up

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81. Q & A: When Can A Trainer Grow In Their Career?

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80. 3 Reasons Why Good Form Is More Than Just About Injury Prevention

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79. How Im Putting Together A New Service At My Gym

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78. Before Anything Else, Be Likable.

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77. Q & A: How Do You Build Your Business With A Child At Home And Limited Time?

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76. The 5 Steps Between Having No Client And One Client

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75. Q & A: What’s Your Advise On Approaching People In The Public About My Training?

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74. Consider This If You’re Thinking About Leaving Your Gym

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73. Q & A ft. Crystal Lopez: How Do You Overcome Inherit Shyness When Training Clients?

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72. The 3 Most Important Concepts I Learned From My PT Certification

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71. Thanksgiving Episode: 5 Things I Am Grateful For

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70. The 3 Life Changing Lessons I Learned My First Year As A Trainer

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69. Q & A: Am I Late To The Game? Advice For Someone Starting A Personal Training Business

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68. Having Less Than 10 Clients vs Having More Than 10 Clients

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67. Q & A: Is It Important For You To Look In Shape In Order To Be Successful As A Trainer?

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66. Who Is Your Message For And What Is Your Objective?

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65. Q & A: Have You Ever Had To Deny Someone Service?

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64. 3 Ways To Keep Your Clients Motivated And Engaged

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63. Exercise vs Training

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62. You Have To Have Grit with Lesley Goldberg (At Your Side Private Exercise)

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61. Free Sessions, Extending Your Consultation & Using The Rule Of Reciprocity

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60. How To Get Back To Talking About Packages & Plans After The Initial Assessment

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59. What Is The Point Of A Consultation Anyway?

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58. Q & A: Is Nutritional Advice Outside Of A Personal Trainer’s Scope Of Practice?

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57. Hourly Pay vs Productive Pay

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56. Using the 80/20 Principle During Your Consultation, Assessment & Programming

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55. Q & A: What Do You Say To A Prospect Even If They Don’t Need Help?

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54.5 Things Your Manager Finds Important That You May Not Be Thinking About

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53. 5 Ways You Should Be Tracking Your Clients Progress

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52. Find What You Are Passionate About with Pam Karamad

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51. Just Keep Going with Isai Hernandez (Anytime Fitness)

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50. Why Your Friends And Family Might Not Support Your Training Career

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49. How To Use Your Clients Success Stories To Overcome New Prospects Concerns

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48. Should Personal Trainers Sell More Gym Memberships?

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47. Before You Take Your Clients From Your Gym To Start Your Own Private Training, Listen To This!

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46. The 3 Easiest Things You Can Think About To Improve Your Next Consultation

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45. Make Gyms Great Again with Angel Lorenzo (FNZO Fitness)

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44. Why You Have To Really Care About Your Clients with Jovan Sledge (OutWerk Bootcamp)

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43. 5 Things You Must Remember Before Starting Any Training Session

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42. The 3 Easiest Things You Can Say To Improve Your Next Consultation

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41. The 3 Easiest Things You Can Do To Improve Your Next Consultation

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40. Your Personal Training Contract Overview

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39. Are You Getting Proper Feedback From Your Client?

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38. 5 Things I Sacrificed When I Became A Trainer

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37. The Day I Asked ”How”

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36. You Don’t Always Need A Huge Social Media Following

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35. Good vs Great Personal Trainer ft. Norberto Aparicio

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34. Every Trainer Starts With Zero Clients

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33. The 3 Step Method To Teaching A New Exercise More Efficiently

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32. Is Going Past Your Clients Session Time A Good Idea?

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31. A Trainers Journey with Norberto Aparicio (Logic Fitness)

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30. 3 Steps To Easier Renewals

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29. Passing Out Flyers The Sam Way

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28. Life Is Like A Fucked Up Puzzle

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27. Increase Your Pay The Old School Way

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26. 5 Things You Must Communicate To A New Prospect

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25. Opening A Gym Pro’s & Con’s - Bonus Episode

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24. Online Personal Trainer Pro’s & Con’s Part 4/4

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23. Boot Camp Personal Trainer Pro’s & Con’s Part 3/4

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22. Mobile Personal Trainer Pro’s & Con’s Part 2/4

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21. In-House Personal Trainer Pro’s & Con’s Part 1/4

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20. Don’t Rely On Your Friends To Be Your Clients

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19. The Life Cycle Of A Client

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18. What A Prospects Want Vs What They Need: 4 Questions to Ask

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17. The Pro’s And Con’s Of Working At Certain Gyms

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16. How To Smoothly Transition Into Showing Prices

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15.What A Personal Training Certification Can Do For You

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14. She Signed Up With Me After Trying Other Places

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13. Hard Skills vs Soft Skills: It May Not Be More Certifications You Need

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12. What Are You Asking When You Meet A New Potential Client?

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11. What’s Your Personal Training Shooting Percentage?

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10. Is Hard Work Really Enough?

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9. How The Pros Handle A First Meeting With A Potential Client

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8. Clients Problems, Being Ready For Surprises & Putting Our Team First ft. Crystal Lopez

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7. Why People Don’t Value Our Training And What To Do About It

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6. Client Retention, Prospecting Opportunities & Using Empathy ft. Mike Bellini

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5. Why The Manager Might Not Be Giving You The Leads

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4. Asking Questions That Get People To Try Your Services

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3. Killing The Ego & Winning ft. Sean Tolentino

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2. Prospecting Advice For Introverts

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1. The Flexible Schedule Fallacy