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The Profit Lifestyle for Fitness Entrepreneurs — 218 episodes

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Episode 218: How To Win In Our New K-Shaped Economy

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Episode 217: The Fitness Industry Is Splitting in Two (And You Need to Pick a Side)

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EPISODE 216: Damn That Medical Weight Loss & HRT… He’s So Hot Right Now

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Episode 215: The Key to Keeping Your Staff (It’s Not What You Think)

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Episode 214: The Smarter Way to Build Your Q2 Marketing Plan

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Episode 213: The BEST Marketing Plan for Your Business (That Costs $0)

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Episode 212: Why People Aren’t Walking Into Your Gym in 2026

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Episode 211: The Tactical Cash Flow System Every Business Owner Needs to Implement ASAP

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Episode 210: Event Recap: What You Missed At The 2026 Gym Profits Summit in Scottsdale

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Episode 209: 100% Non-Negotiable Protection for Business Owners That Almost No One Has

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Episode 208: My Personal Experience With Tirzepatide / GLP-1s

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Episode 207: How To Offer Medical Weight Loss & GLP's/Peptides For Massive Profits

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Episode 206: Creating a Winnable Model Using a Profit Predictor

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Episode 205: The $10K Weekend Playbook: How Gym Owners Generate Cash On Demand Without Paid Ads

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Episode 204: Why Simplicity Is the Fastest Way to Grow a Profitable Gym

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Episode 203: Is Adding GLP-1s & Peptides to Your Gym Business Worth It?

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Episode 202: Private Labeling Your Own Gym Supplements with Jason DeRose (GYMSUPPS.ORG)

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Episode 201: Why Your Gym Is a Terrible Retirement Plan (And What to Do Instead)

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Episode 200: The Future of Local Fitness Marketing: SEO, AI Search & the All-In-One System Built for Gym Owners

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Episode 199: Small Town Domination — How 27-Year-Old Gym Owner & Equipment Expert Colton Burt Built an Empire Across Rural Wisconsin

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Episode 198: The Most Connected Man In Fitness — Sumit Seth, CEO of NAAMLY

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Episode 197: Charging a Shit-Ton for Your Services Using the FOGG Behavior Model

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Episode 196: Why Brand is more important than Marketing

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Episode 195: What to Do When You Feel Maxed Out (But Still Not as Successful as You Want to Be)

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Episode 194: The Work-Optional Lifestyle: Why You Started… and How to Get Back to It

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Episode 193: The 10K Weekend Playbook: How to Generate $20K+ in New Revenue Without Paid Ads

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Episode 192: How to Hire (and Keep) the Right Operator or GM for Your Gym

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EPISODE 191: Hormones, Peptides & Performance with Premier Functional Medicine

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Episode 190: Your Software “Dashboard” Sucks—Here’s the Spreadsheet You Actually Need

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Episode 189: Do You Really Need More Leads? (The Truth Behind Gym Growth)

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Episode 188: The Power of Words, Stories & Mindset (with Mark England)

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Episode 187: The Gym Profit Summit Is Coming 🚨

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Episode 186: What Happens To Your Business & Family If You Die?

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Ep 185: The 9-Word Email You Can Send TODAY To Sign Up Generate New Clients Out Of Thin Air

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Episode 184: Special Guest Appearance on Dan Goodman’s Podcast | Adding $100K Without More Members

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Episode 183: Level Up Your CEO Skills—Or Risk Losing Everything

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Episode 182: Making $2M By Buying Your Gym’s Commercial Real Estate

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Episode 181: How to Negotiate (or Re-Negotiate) Your Lease Like a Baller

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Episode 180: Are You Getting Ahead or Just Getting By? (The Brutal Truth Every Gym Owner Needs to Hear)

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Episode 179: The Business Owner’s Kryptonite & The Worst Part Of Owning A Business

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Episode 178: Mathematically, Your Business Is Set Up To Fail

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Episode 177: Cure Your A.D.D. (Adventure Deficit Disorder) & Get Your Life Back

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Episode 176: We’re Hosting a Live Event in Scottsdale! (Here’s What You Need to Know)

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Episode 175: Is High Ticket Still Relevant in 2025?

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Episode 174: The Standard Is You | Mike Arce of Loud Rumor| Gym Culture & Leadership

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Episode 173: How to Get a $30–$100K Line of Credit IMMEDIATELY for Your Business (No Bullshit Scam)

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Episode 172: Behind the Scenes of the Growth & Scale Gym Conference By: Matt Wilber

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Episode 171: How to NOT undervalue your nutrition services! Charge THOUSANDS instead!

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Episode 170: The Top 10 Books That Changed Our Lives (And Can Change Yours Too) 📚 The Ultimate Entrepreneur's Reading List 📚

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Episode 169: Commercial Real Estate and Buying Your Gym (for Lucrative Returns)

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Episode 168: Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal (How to Get FREE High-Quality Leads)

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Episode 167: How to Use AI to Save Time and Make More Money

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Ep 166: The Top 6 Hiring Mistakes That Fitness Entrepreneurs Make (That You Will Regret!!)

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Episode 165: Welcome to The Profit Lifestyle for Fitness Entrepreneurs

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Episode 164: Acquiring New Members in Your Gym for FREE

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Episode 163 - Town Hall: Paid Ads & Lead Gen in 2025

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Episode 162 - Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty: Learn the Secret to Securing Cash When the Banks Won’t Help

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Episode 161 - How Sierra Increased Her $699 6-Week Challenge to $999 Overnight

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Episode 160 - What Would Your Life Look Like if You Worked with 10 Dream Clients Who Paid You $150,000 a Year?

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Episode 159 - DON’T PAY THE IRS!!! BIGGEST BUSINESS TAX WRITE-OFFS IN 2024

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Episode 158 - 5x Your 6-Week Challenge Part 6 of 6: “How To Renew High-Ticket Mentorships Into 12-Month EFTs”

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Episode 157 - 5x Your 6-Week Challenge Part 5 of 6: “How To Fulfill Your High-Ticket Mentorship Program

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Episode 156 - The Profit Lifestyle: Big Sexy Profits, Indestructible Wealth, And Lifestyle Design

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Episode 155 - 5x Your 6-Week Challenge Part 4 of 6: “How To Sell Your 6-Week Challenge For $3,000: The Perfect Consultation

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Episode 154 - 5x Your 6-Week Challenge Part 3: How To Sell Your 6-Week Challenge For $3,000

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Episode 153 - 5x Your 6-Week Challenge Series Part 2 Of 6: Triple your revenue with just 30 dream clients using our ‘HML’ framework

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Episode 152 - 5x Your 6-Week Challenge Series Part 1 Of 6: How Adding Just 20 High Ticket Clients Can Add $20,000/Month To Your Revenue

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Episode 151 - How Shannon Went From $35k/mo to $70k/mo While Working Part Time In Her Gym

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Episode 150 - How Jeff Added $120k/year In High-Ticket In His Gym WITHOUT Paid Ads

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Episode 149 - What To Do When Paid Ads Deliver Sh*tty Leads

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Episode 148 - How To DOUBLE Your Profits In HALF The Time

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Episode 147 - How Sierra Went from $25k/mo to $53k/mo by adding a True High-Ticket Offer into her 6-Week Challenge gym

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Episode 146: Ozempic/GLP-1 Is The #1 Cause Of "Gymcession"

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Episode 145: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Playbook For Your Fitness Business

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Episode 144: Steal My Gym Metrics System

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Episode 143: How To Overcome The “GYMCESSION”: The Five Mile Celebrity Strategy For ORGANIC & PAID Leads

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Episode 142: Getting More Leads With Our DUAL LEAD FLOW Strategy

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Episode 141: How To Build Indestructible Wealth USING THE INFINITE BANKING CONCEPT

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Episode 140: How To Hire The Right People & Keep Them For A Lifetime

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Episode 139: Achieving Multi-Millionaire Status As A Gym Owner

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Episode 138: Here are my 4 years of P&L statements

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Episode 137: Sales Jedi Training

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Episode 136: Unlocking Profitable Reviews: Shannon's Success Blueprint

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Episode 135: Growing & Scaling To Multiple Locations Without Screwing Up Your Life

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Episode 134: Gym Owners, Ready to Pass the Sales Torch?

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Episode 133: The Top 6 Mistakes Personal Training Studio Owners Make

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Episode 132: OBJECTION HANDLING MASTERCLASS! You're going to get them no matter what, so may as well learn how to handle them!

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Episode 131: The 5-Step Sales Process We Use To Sell $3k Programs (without any 1:1 PT sessions)

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Episode 130: Overlapping PT: The new "Session Type" that is the key to 75%+ profit margin + ultimate SCALABILITY

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Episode 129: The 4 Main Roles and Compensation Plans To Hit 30-50% Net Profit

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Episode 128: The Proven, DFY $10K WEEKEND PLAYBOOK Workshop

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Episode 127: How To Convert Gym Profits Into Mailbox Money

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Episode 126: I can vividly remember asking for $840 for a 12-pack of 1-on-1 personal training sessions back in 2018.

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Episode 125: How I brought in 43 Highly Qualified Organic Leads in 60 seconds.

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Episode 124 - Fueling Success: A Deep Dive with Jennifer Broxterman of Prosper Nutrition Coaching

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Episode 123: Unveiling the Secrets to Thriving in a Fitness Recession with Guest Jeff Weinach

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Episode 122: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome And Powerful Visualization Techniques With Guest Mark England

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Episode 121: How to Get and Nurture 100+ Leads Per Month without Burning Out

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Episode 120: Gym Goldmine Mastering Funding, Credit, & Cash Flow To Bankroll Your Fitness Empire

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Episode 119 : Good to Great: Turning Your $100k Profit Gym into a $300k Powerhouse!

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Episode 118: Interview with Corey Willis on how he went from $99 ACV to over $1,000

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Episode 117: ADS EATING YOUR PROFIT? Learn the 1-Client Break Even Strategy

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Episode 116: How To Make The 6-Week Challenge Work in 2023

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Episode 115: How Scott & Dave Would Double Revenue at Orangetheory Fitness in One Year

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Episode 114: How Desiree McCullough Made in $43,000 In 30 Days

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Episode 113: How We’re Getting To $1m In Revenue Faster Than We Ever Have With Our 7th Gym

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Episode 112 : How we changed our sales process and went from $4k in new business per month to $40k in new business per month

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Episode 111: 6-Figures In Tax Savings For Gym Owners: The Top 15 Fully-Legal Tax Write-Offs & Credits.

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Episode 110: The 3 Biggest Roadblocks To A Self Sustaining Gym, And How To Overcome Them.

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Episode 109: How To Attract, Hire, And Develop Coaches & Trainers That Will Allow You To Replace Yourself.

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Episode 108: TACTICAL TRAINING: The 7-Minute Sales Script We Used To Sell $40,670 In New Business In 4-Weeks.

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Episode 107: TACTICAL TRAINING: What To Focus On If You’re Above $100k Profit Vs. Under $100k Profit.

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Episode 106: Starting My 7th Gym: A Tactical Analysis Of The Deal And Model.

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Episode 105: Tactical Business Training: Acquisition To Combat The Summer Slowdown.

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Episode 104: How To Design A 9-Week Signature Program That Sells For $2,000 to $8,000

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Episode 103: How To Scale A Massively Profitable Gym That Can Run Without You.

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Episode 102: TACTICAL TRAINING: How To Scale To Multiple Locations Without Risking Everything

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Episode 101: What To Expect In The Next 100 Episodes… LFG!!!

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Episode 100: Commercial Lease Tactical Training- How Not To Lose Your Ass.

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Episode 99: A True Underdog Story- With Gym Owner Hugh Green

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Episode 98: How To Generate High-Ticket Leads 100% Organically, With Will Schiller.

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Episode 97: Becoming A Pro At Behavior Change, With Dr. Janine Stichter and Scott Schutte.

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Episode 96: Incredible Coaching Skills To Help Your High-Ticket Clients With Mindset With Mark England Co-Founder & Head Coach Of Enlifted.

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Episode 95: The Orange Beard Of Wisdom, Josh Price… And Lessons Learned From Over 6 Years Of Business Mentorship.

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Episode 94: Finding your 2nd in command, so you can scale up and out- Justin Poulet, Partner and Client Success Director of Clients & Community.

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Episode 93: Fix Your Gym In 15 Minutes: Turning "Dead" Leads Into Thousands Of Dollars

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Episode 92: The One Fitness Business Event You Don’t Want To Miss- With Tim Lyons And Randy Angsten

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Episode 91 - Fix Your Gym In 15 Minutes: From Bricks and Mortar to Digital Domination- How To Make Big Bucks with Online Coaching

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Episode 90 part 2: Facing Failure And Bankruptcy As A Gym Owner

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Episode 89: Part 1. Facing Failure And Bankruptcy As A Gym Owner

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Episode 88: How Gym Owner Taylor Hutchinson modified his 6 Week Transformational Almost Overnight To Instantly Smash All-Time PR Revenues

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Episode 87: Fix Your Gym in 15 Minutes The 6 Most Common Problems Gym Owners Make With Their Offers & Price Sheets

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Episode 86: Google Analytics 4 And How Reviews Give You An Unfair Advantage - With Andres Escobar, Founder of ReviewBiz.io

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Episode 85: Making Huge Profits With Delivered Meals To Your Clients- With Todd Abrams, The CEO & CoFounder of Icon Meals

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Episode 84: No More No-Shows… Maximizing Paid Ads ROI

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Episode 83: How To Handle Objections Without Sleazy Tactics

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Episode 82: If I was broke and I had to do it all over again

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Episode 81: What Does Gym Owner Freedom Look Like To You?

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Episode 80: Austin Garber: From Rookie Independent Personal Trainer to Gym Owner in 10 months

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Episode 79: The True Story Of How Shannon Logan Reclaimed Her Gym and Her Life After Years Of The Grind.

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Episode 78: Scaling the 1on1 coaching experience with simple technology with Trevor Wittwer.

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Episode 77: PT Legends LIVE Training: Overlapping PT... Overcoming The 1-on-1 Personal Training Bottleneck.

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Episode 76 - How Gym Owner Robert Gill Reversed His Failing Gym And Personal Finances In Just 4 Weeks

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Episode 75 - LIVE Training: ABC- Always Be Coaching (Not Closing!)

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Episode 74 - LIVE Training: The Tom Brady Offer You Need To Win In Your Business

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Episode 73 - The Ongoing 1099 Contractor vs W-2 Employee Debate With Gym Lawyer’s Attorney Matthew Becker

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Episode 72 - LIVE Training: 💎 The Flawless Renewal System- Renewing High-Ticket Clients at > 90%

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Episode 71 - PT Legends LIVE Training: The 7-Minute Phone Call That Made Us Over $40,000 In Our First Month

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Episode 70 - The Fortune Is In The Follow Up - With Dustin Bogle

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Episode 69 - LIVE Training: Building Out Your Field Of Dreams High-Ticket Transformational Offers!

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Episode 68 - Unplugged From The Matrix - How Robert Sold $40k in New Business in 1 Month!

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Episode 67 - PT Legends 2.0 - The Future Of Everything

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Episode 66 - When Is Franchising Worth It in the Personal Training World? with Jeff Larsh and Dan Visentin

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Episode 65 - Your Story Is The ONLY Sales Script That Matters

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Episode 64 - How To Build Out a Nutrition / Transformation Coaching Program That Is ACTUALLY Worth $3,000-8,000

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Episode 63 - Special Guest Jason Brown - From CrossFit Gym Owner The GOAT Of Exercise Programming & Creator Of The Conjugate X Conditioning Method

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Episode 62 - A Debrief Of My Epic Trip To The 2022 Funnel Hacking Live Event & Acceptance Of My 2 Comma Club Award

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Episode 61 - The Evergreen Online Coaching Strategy That Will Always Work, Even When The Platforms Change

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Episode 60 - How To Get A Blackbelt In Handling Sales Objections - with Joe Marcoux and Jeff Burlingame

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Episode 59 - How To Double (2X!) Your Group Membership Rates In 1 Day

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Episode 58 - Special Guest Bryce Henson, The New CEO Of Fit Body Boot Camp

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Episode 57 - How Gym Owners Can Scale WITHOUT Taking On The Risk Of a 2nd Location

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Episode 56 - Scott Rammage Teaches How To Use A Podcast To Create Authority In Your Space

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Episode 55 - The One Daily Action That Will Make You Your First Million

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Episode 54 - How To Crush Being A Nutrition Coach With Expert Jennifer Broxterman

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Episode 53 - 3 Reasons Why the $599 6-Week Challenge Will Kill Your Gym

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Episode 52: The Legend Of Online Coaching, Will Schiller With New Age Coach

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Episode 51: The One Thing You Need To Do To Keep Clients Forever

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Episode 50: 1 Year Anniversary- The Latest Strategies & The New PT Legends

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Episode 49: How Finding Your ONE Thing Will Change Your Life

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Episode 48: How much would you pay to get in the best shape of your life?

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Episode 47: What Personal Training & Health Certifications Are Actually Worth The $$?

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Episode 46 - Online Training Sucks… Buyer Beware!

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Episode 44 - Mindset and Mental Health with Colm O’Reilly

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Episode 45 - $200,000 Lessons for Independent Personal Trainers

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Episode 43 - How To Defeat The Dreaded Spousal Objection

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Episode 42 - PushPress CEO Dan Uyemura On Evolving Intelligent Software For Gym Owners

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Episode 41: The NEW Book That Every Fitness Business Owner Needs To Read

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Episode 40: PT Legends Saved My Gym, With Matt Chenard

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Episode 39 - How To Get A Low Cost Per Lead On Facebook & IG Ads

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Episode 38: How You Can Get On A Podcast As A Guest

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Episode 37 - The War in Ukraine & Its Effect On Studio Owners

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Episode 36: Special Guest Andrew Frezza- How To Be A Rockstar Coach

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Episode 35: PSA (Public Service Announcement)- How To Handle The Fear When Your Leads Have Been Cut By 80%

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Episode 34: The #1 Quality You Need In A New Hire To Avoid A Disaster

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Episode 33: The #1 OG PT Legends - Deonte Mason and Laken Summerville

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Episode 32: A Must Listen - 6 Steps To Get Your Closing Percentage To 100%

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Episode 31 - Why Personal Trainers NEED To Offer High-Ticket Programs If They Want To Make Money AND Have A Life

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Episode 30 - Why The Highest Profit CrossFit Owners Add High-Ticket Offers Into Their Gyms

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Episode 29: Why We Settle For Less In Our Business, And Dave’s Colossal Rejection

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Episode 28 - What I Learned When A Competing Gym Moved In Next Door And Shared A Wall With Me

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Episode 27 - The Best Bolt-On Added Revenue Stream To Add To Your Gym

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Episode 26 - Perfecting The Personal Training Model with Jeff Larsh and Dan Visentin (Greenlight Personal Training)

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Episode 25 - How to Overcome the Hardest Sales Objection in The Game

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Episode 24 - The Elephant in the Room - How Much Does Mentoring Cost?

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Episode 23 - The #1 Thing You MUST Have To Build a 7-Figure Fitness Business

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Episode 22 - Facebook Ads Are Dead

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Episode 21 - How True Core Gym Owner Shannon Logan Smashed Her Glass Ceiling by 140%

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Episode 20 - Behind The Curtains - How to Fulfill a $2-7k Transformational Offer

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Episode 19 - Nutrition Coaching Pitfalls And Best Practices With The HSN Expert, Nicole Aucoin

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Episode 18 - How To Mop Up The $40k That’s Laying Around Your Gym

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Episode 17 - We Were Wrong! Group Training May Be The Best Business Model

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Episode 16 - Does High Ticket Equal Hard Sales?

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Episode 15 - How to Hire a VA To Save Time As a Gym Owner - Special Guests Scott Rammage and Josh Price

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Episode 14 - Why Your Business Plan is a Waste Of Time

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Episode 13 - Does a high ticket or high ARM model work if I have a Crossfit gym?

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Episode 12 - The 2 Biggest Reasons Why Your Fitness Consultations Suck -

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Episode 11 - Is Online Training the Golden Goose?

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Episode 10 - Why 63 Is Our Favorite Number

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Episode 9 - Why I Have A Death Calendar On My Office Wall

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Episode 8 - How To Overcome Fear And Charge Your True Value

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Episode 7 - The Surprising Number Of Times Police, Fire, Or An Ambulance Been To Our Locations

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Episode 6 - How Covid-19 Saved Our Fitness Business

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Episode 5 - Why We Sucked For 8 Years Release Date

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Episode 4 - The 7 Minute Call That Made Us $42,000 in 4 weeks

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Episode 3 - Best Fitness Model Debate: Group vs. 1:1 vs. Semi-Private

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Episode 2 - How To Charge $111-$222 Per Semi-Private Session

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Episode 1 - Broke Personal Trainers To 7-Figure Business Owners.