Fitness Business Podcast: Leadership, Innovation, and Profit

Casey Conrad, BA, JD, has been in the health and fitness industry for 27 years. In addition to authoring "Selling Fitness: The Complete Guide to Selling Health Club Memberships," she has created and published over 25 other sales, marketing and management training products for the industry. Most recently Casey has created an entire line of comprehensive training programs that are delivered on-line....

Michael  Stelzner is the founder of Social Media Examiner, author of the books Launch and Writing White Papers, and the man behind Social Media Marketing World–the industry's largest conference. He's also host of the Social Media Marketing podcast, founder of the Social Media Marketing Society, and host of the weekly Social Media Marketing Talk Show. During the show you will learn:  The concept of...

Casey Conrad, BA, JD, has been in the health and fitness industry for 27 years. In addition to authoring "Selling Fitness: The Complete Guide to Selling Health Club Memberships," she has created and published over 25 other sales, marketing and management training products for the industry.  During the Intensive Series on Sales you will learn: Week 1: The 8 Steps to Fitness Sales Week 2:  The 5 pre...

Frank   Furness  CSP is an internationally sought after Sales & Technology Speaker and Social Media Presenter He is a specialist in sales, technology, social media and goal setting and how they work in tandem to produce great results for organizations. He currently spends seventy percent of his time speaking internationally, working in fifty three countries.  He has presented at Entrepreneurs Univ...

Casey  Conrad, BA, JD, has been in the health and fitness industry for 27 years. In addition to authoring "Selling Fitness: The Complete Guide to Selling Health Club Memberships," she has created and published over 25 other sales, marketing and management training products for the industry.

Rick  Caro has been in the health club industry for 44 years as club owner, operator, Chairman of the 10th largest U.S. club company and as a consultant of over 3,000 assignments.  Rick  runs 2 major industry events, sits on Boards and Advisory Boards of several companies serving the club industry.

Casey   Conrad , BA, JD, has been in the health and fitness industry for 27 years. In addition to authoring "Selling Fitness: The Complete Guide to Selling Health Club Memberships," she has created and published over 25 other sales, marketing and management training products for the industry. 

Mark   Miller is the  Chief Operating Officer of Merritt Clubs with over 25 years of experience at the Senior Management level; Mr.  Miller  joined the Merritt Team in 2000 as Regional Fitness Director responsible for all Fitness, Programming and Operations. Since that time he has moved into the strategic role of COO. In addition to running the Merritt Clubs, Mark speaks at several industry confer...

Derek  Gallup is the Chairman for IHRSA (effective 7/1) and Executive Vice President of Fitness for New Evolution Ventures. He works with several different brands including Crunch, UFC Gyms, Steve Nash Sports Clubs.  Derek  has 23 years in the fitness industry and has worked with other brands on Fitness and Retail including Hard Candy Fitness, A-Rod Energy Fitness, 24 Hour Fitness. Yoga Works and...

Dr Bill Sukala is a Sydney-based health communications consultant and clinical exercise physiologist who has over 25 years of experience working as a health professional and over a decade of web programming and SEO experience.  He recently launched Health Pro SEO, a niche website consulting service specifically created to help health professionals 1) audit and overhaul their websites (or start a w...

Rick  Caro has been in the health club industry for 44 years as club owner, operator, Chairman of the 10th largest U.S. club company and as a consultant of over 3,000 assignments.  Rick  runs 2 major industry events, sits on Boards and Advisory Boards of several companies serving the club industry. He wrote the Financial Management textbook for the industry and has received every award, including...

With over 25 years Fitness Industry Experience, Kristen Green is the Executive General Manager of the multi award winning Aquafit,a large multipurpose fitness & aquatic centre located in South West Sydney. In 2004, Kristen was engaged to start up the Aquafit business. Aquafit was an immediate success, having achieved profitability within 6 months. this role, Kristen has developed and implemented a...

Amanda Vogel has a Master's degree in human kinetics and is a certified fitness instructor. She regularly speaks at top fitness conferences--including IDEA World, NASM Optima, canfitpro and IHRSA--where she educates fitness pros on group exercise, social media, fitness writing and blogging.

Jennifer  Gluckow has northeastern smarts and New York City savvy – a rare combination that has her positioned as the next big thing in sales. Okay, she's not ALL New York. She's traveled the world, educated in the Midwest at The Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, and spoken to audiences from coast to coast. Jennifer 's a speaker, trainer, writer, blogger, Facebooker, I...

Carrie Kepple is an entrepreneurial leader with a decade of international and senior level fitness business management. A strategic leader of club business, advocate for women in leadership and expert in opening new clubs and rehabbing failing clubs. Newly appointed to the IHRSA Board of Directors and presently club manager of Les Mills Newmarket in Auckland NZ. Experience acquired from senior lea...

Lindsey  Rainwater is an experienced advisor and consultant to the fitness and wellness industry. She is a published author for Club Solutions Magazine, has been featured on multiple podcasts and many talks at industry events, in 2017, IHRSA recognized her as a "Rising Star". She is most known for her widely published original content, and consulting on business solutions to industry professionals...

Terry Hawkins founded People in Progress Global in 1989 after a decade in senior management roles within the apparel vertical. News quickly spread of People in Progress Global's ability to generate strong results and create a significant shift in the individual learner's mindset. After leading the business for 21 years in Australia, she relocated to Los Angeles in 2010 to focus on scaling the Peop...

Shannon  Fable is an experienced business and program developer in the health and wellness space. With nearly 20 years in the industry, she has presented and educated in six continents on group fitness, personal training, management, business development and time management.  With a proven track record for assessing needs and developing programs, systems, and structure for a wide variety of busine...

Known globally as Mr Retention for his ground-breaking work in member retention, exercise adherence and membership growth, Paul Brown is the creator of the Face2Face Retention Systems which are the standard operating procedure for several of the world's most successful and prestigious health club groups with many millions of success stories to date and growing rapidly. He is an award-winning Keyno...

Justin Tamsett has been in the fitness industry since 1988 as a personal trainer, sales person, club manager and multi-club owner. During this show he shares the hottest tips to video live stream for fitness professionals including: Why you should consider doing a LIVE video, How to get people to watch, How to get people to interact , Tips for planning your first live streaming video.

Paul Brown Mr Retention is known for his ground-breaking work in member retention, exercise adherence and membership growth, he is the creator of the Face2Face Retention Systems which are the standard operating procedure for several of the world's most successful and prestigious health club groups with many millions of success stories to date and growing rapidly. During this show you will learn th...

Bedros Keuilian is a best-selling author, speaker and business consultant. He's the founder and CEO of Fit Body Bootcamp, one of the nation's fastest growing franchises and an investor in over a dozen companies ranging from software, digital ad agencies and coaching and consulting services. During the show we discuss:  Lead generation opportunities outside of funnel pages How to connect with prosp...

  Retention tools that have lasted the test of time Whats missing from our current retention programs Tips for improving member retention Known globally as Mr Retention for his ground-breaking work in member retention, exercise adherence and membership growth, Paul Brown is the creator of the Face2Face Retention Systems which are the standard operating procedure for several of the world's most suc...

Daniel is the founder and CEO of 4U Fitness, a personal training studio franchise based in Tampa, Florida. Previously he was a professional hockey player, model, and certified personal trainer originating from Budapest, Hungary. In 2011, with $150 in his pocket, not speaking english and nothing else to his name, he moved to the U.S. after two events changed his life forever. Daniel lost his grandp...

Known globally as Mr Retention for his ground-breaking work in member retention, exercise adherence and membership growth, Paul Brown is the creator of the Face2Face Retention Systems which are the standard operating procedure for several of the world's most successful and prestigious health club groups with many millions of success stories to date and growing rapidly. He is an award-winning Keyno...