Gym Business - Business for Unicorns Podcast

Sarah-Jane Kurtini grew up in England and moved to Bondi, Sydney in 2009 with her husband, Jason to live by the beach with their two children. Sarah-Jane co-founded Tinybeans in Sydney and then in 2018, she and her family moved to New York to help the business grow on the other side of the world. Tinybeans is a Modern Family Album App for parents to capture and privately share their children's lif...

Scott Royal Smith is a real estate investor and asset protection attorney in Austin, TX.  Scott became an entrepreneur while still in law school, purchasing and running an auto mechanic shop, to pay his way through school.  After graduating, Scott begin his law career as a high-stakes corporate litigator. He spent the last 8 years of his career analyzing real estate investment and asset protection...

Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva, the creator of The Ziva Technique and regarded as a leading expert in meditation for high performance. Her debut book, Stress Less, Accomplish More was just published by HarperCollins on Feb, 2019. Emily describes... The Ziva Technique is a powerful trifecta of mindfulness, meditation and manifesting designed to unlock your full potential. It's benefits inclu...

David Bach is one of the most trusted financial experts and bestselling financial authors of our time. He has written nine consecutive New York Times bestsellers with over seven million copies in print, including two #1 New York Times bestsellers, The Automatic Millionaire and Start Late Finish Rich. In addition to his books, David has impacted millions of people over the past two decades through...

Nathan Hirsch is a serial entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and eCommerce. He started his first eCommerce business out of his college dorm room and has sold over $30 million online. He is now the co-founder and CEO of FreeeUp.com, a marketplace that connects businesses with pre-vetted freelancers in eCommerce, digital marketing, and much more. He regularly appears on leading podcasts, such...

Marisa has advised many venerable brands, including Goldman Sachs, Omnicom, Morgan Stanley and NYSE Euronext. She led NYSE Euronext through a dramatic brand transformation, retooling their listings franchise to become #1 in attracting technology IPOs. Through those interactions with both Fortune 500 companies and pre-IPO startups, she identified a market need to advise growing companies on a host...

Martin is Founder and CEO of Americord Registry, a company that preserves umbilical cord blood stem cells on behalf of expectant mothers. They ranked for the past three years as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. Before founding Americord, Martin was an investment banker in Healthcare and Healthcare Technology at BMO Capital Markets. Martin worked in investment bank...

Dave Gerber, President and Founder of Synergy Development and Training, LLC is a change catalyst, motivating people to become the best version of themselves. Dave inspires his audiences to transform the way they engage with the world around them, build stronger relationships and organizations. His dynamic, humorous style and remarkable depth and breadth of content has earned him the reputation of...

Jill Coleman launched her personal brand at JillFit.com in 2010,and was a co-founder of Metabolic Effect, Inc.. Her 16-year journey in the health and fitness industry began when she got her very first job at a gym just for the free membership at age 15! Since then, it has been a whirlwind of education in exercise science and nutrition, fitness competitions, landing several national covers for fitn...

Flaviu Simihaian is a Romanian entrepreneur, angel investor, and life hacker with a passion for fixing the healthcare system. He is the co-founder of Troy Medicare, who are building the first transparent, pharmacy-friendly Medicare Advantage plan. He also co-founded Amplicare (previously iMedicare), a Software-as-a-Service platform that 6,000 pharmacies use to grow their business and save time.  ...

Miki Agrawal was named 2018 Fast Company's "Most Creative People".  2017 "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum, "Social Entrepreneur of the Year" by the World Technology Summit, and was one of INC Magazine's "Most Impressive Women Entrepreneurs of 2016." She is the co-founder of THINX , a high-tech, period-proof underwear brand and led the company as CEO to a valuation of over $150 Mil...

Orrin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Netsurit. Netsurit provides proactive IT support, strategy, and consulting to streamline client business operations, increase productivity and boost profitability. Orrin is passionate about the power of culture, strategy and scalability. His work is focused on well built and well-managed technology environments. Main Topics: Culture Dreams Program Creating a Tran...

Adriana is the Founder and CEO of Girls in Tech, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization devoted to empowering, educating and engaging women in the tech industry across 60 chapters in 36 countries. No stranger to growing brands and building amazing companies, Adriana has worked with tech companies like Indiegogo, Oracle's Involver, and Change.org. She has also served in executive roles at Og...

John Franklin started Flipside Performance by offering free park workouts in 2013. He bootstrapped the company to $2mm+ in revenue in less than 5 years. Now John teaches business owners how to get more clients by improving their sales and marketing processes. There are 200+ success stories & counting. Main Topics: Lead Generation Sales Tracking Marketing ROI & Retention Mentioned in this Episode:...

Molly is the co-founder and woman-in-charge of Girls Gone Strong, a movement started in 2011 by seven women who wanted to change the landscape of nutrition and training information for women. Two and a half years later and it's become a REVOLUTION! GGS offers evidence-based, body-positive, actionable tools to help women reach their health and fitness goals while falling in love with themselves. To...

Jim McCarthy is the co-founder and CEO of Goldstar , a company that sells millions of live event tickets to millions of people on behalf of more than 5,000 venues and producers each year. An e-commerce veteran, Jim has spent his entire career in high-growth businesses and likes to share his knowledge and insight with others. He's the editor and main contributor to Selling Out , a website for live...

Andrea is a business leader, feminist, activist, professor, dancer, flutist, board member, mother and wife. The first ever Chief Client Officer at VaynerMedia. She is responsible for scaling VaynerMedia's full service agency business globally. She is in charge of its client teams, thought leadership, new business and brand reputation.   In this episode, Michael and Andrea discuss: Growing A Health...

Pete Dupuis is one of the few fitness professionals who identifies specifically as a "business guy." He has served as the Vice President and Business Director of Cressey Sports Performance since co-founding the company in 2007. With an MBA from Babson College, more than a decade of fitness industry experience, and a profound appreciation for the nitty-gritty realities of managing a fitness facilit...

Patricia was born in Caracas, Venezuela to a Venezuelan-Slovenian family. In 2003, she received a B.S. in industrial engineering from the Simon Bolivar University in Caracas. She also studied photography at the Roberto Mata School of Photography in Caracas. In 2008, Patricia moved to New York to study at the International Center of Photography, where she was awarded with a Directors' Fellowship an...

When Cary Borish opened the first Marathon in 1984, their goal was simple: to provide the neighborhood with the highest quality fresh food at an excellent value. The seeds they planted in their 10-seat burger joint in Northeast Philadelphia have grown into what Marathon is today. In this episode, Michael and Cary discuss: Cary's experience running a family-owned business How to handle conflict whe...

Arin Sullivan is the Director of Programs and Client Services, overseeing Education, Business Development, and the Support Center. The Programs & Client Services department endeavors to expand the knowledge of the arts and cultural sector and deepen the impact of the high-quality data and resources provided by the Cultural Data Project. An actor and stage manager at heart, prior to joining the CDP...

A serial entrepreneur for over fifteen years, Joe is the CEO of the publicly traded, revolutionary blockchain company, Lannister Holdings. CHRIS BROWN, Chief Technology Officer In their own words... Lannister Holdings is generating scaled revenues and growth by developing, owning, and delivering proprietary technology to the financial sector. In this conversation we discuss: Blockchain technology...

Rachelle is an accomplished Executive Coach and Facilitator who has built a stellar client reputation by getting results. As e talk about in the podcast Rachelle recently started her own leadership consulting agency called Equalibrium with her long-time friend and business partner Katie Byrme. A little more about Rachelle - She is a qualified counsellor, and certified in a variety of Emotional Int...

In our first crossover episode, Michael speaks with host of The FitCast, Kevin Larrabee. They talk about the struggles of starting a new business, the rollercoaster of life, and the current state of the fitness industry. Kevin Larrabee graduated from Keene State College with a BS in Health Science in August 2008. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength...

Radha Agrawal is a community force. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Daybreaker, an early morning dance movement in 22 cities around the world with a community of over 350,000 members who connect through dance, yoga, music and mischief. Her upcoming book "BELONG: Find Your People Create Community and Live a More Connected Life" published by Workman comes out next fall (September 2018) and open sou...