The Active Life Podcast

Tom is a coach at the Madlab School of Business. We have heard stories about Tom making in excess of $100,000 as a group fitness and one on one blended fitness professional and we wanted to get the low down on how he does it. . Enjoy this episode which will be especially valuable for coaches who want to #turnpro   If you love this podcast , please click HERE to leave a review. Thank you again for...

Meet Active Life 1 on 1 coach, Dr. Katie Harper. . Dr. Katie attended the first ever Active Life coach workshop, before we changed the model to be an effective one, and yet, she still stuck around! . When Dr. Katie came to the first workshop she was a physical therapy student, now, a full blown DPT, Dr. Katie in a major asset to the team as the only coach on staff who has a doctorate and prefers t...

Meet Active Life 1 on 1 coach, Dr. Kate Dowd. . Dr. Kate came to Active Life a bit under a year ago as an attendee at a workshop. Kate was immediately drawn to the way that Active Life educates health and fitness professionals, and she decided to go full on with us. . Kate’s eagerness to join staff was welcome. She was someone who we spotted at the workshop as a clear superstar who we wanted to ha...

Jair Lee is a coach's coach. . I visited EXOS in Scottsdale, Arizona immediately after the CrossFit Games in 2017. There were a bunch of highly skilled coaches on staff there, one stood out, his name is Jair Lee. . Not only did Jair have the acumen to teach the technical skills, Jair was able to penetrate the mindset of his athletes in a way that I have not seen many times. Jair is a well read, we...

Meet Active Life 1 on 1 coach, Dr. Jen Lesniak . Dr. Jen was the first coach hired and trained by Active Life to take clients. A close friend of Dr. Sean since chiropractic school, Dr. Jen brings a lot of credibility to the Active Life staff. . Dr. Jen has competed at the North East Regional event as an individual twice, she owns Lumber City CrossFit in Buffalo New York, and she has run a successf...

Nicole Race is a group fitness gym owner in St. Pete Florida who has transformed her business (Elevate St. Pete) over the last year and change. . Her gym has gone from grossing approximately $16,000/month to almost $80,000/month in under 18 months. Want to know how she did it? You’re going to want to listen to this episode. . Nicole and her husband Taylor decided to #TurnPro to such a major degree...

Meet Active Life 1 on 1 coach, Dr. Matt Stevens. . Dr. Matt has been on staff for almost two years now and he runs a clinic with another Active Life 1 on 1 coach in Cleveland Ohio called Pure Physio. . A physical therapist in practice, Dr. Matt’s clinic has become famous for being the go-to place for elite endurance athletes as well as CrossFitters. . Dr. Matt brings a unique vibe to the Active Li...

Jason Ackerman is a proverbial CrossFit OG. . Jason (Jay) May have coached at more CrossFit L1 and L2 workshops than anyone else in history. He is one of the people, not just coaches, who I (Dr Sean) has the utmost respect for. . He has owned multiple gyms, coached at others, and now owns a successful nutrition support company called “Own your Eating.” This episode gets gritty about what it takes...

Meet Active Life 1 on 1 coach, Dr. Todd Dersham. . Dr. Todd has been on Active Life 1 on 1 staff for almost two years now and has been a friend of Dr. Sean since chiropractic school. As a former collegiate basketball player, Todd has the unique experience of knowing what it’s like to train for performance to benefit a team. He knows what it’s like to be treated like a discardable object and he has...

Joshua Harrison was Dr. Sean’s first ever mentor in the professional fitness space. Working as his personal training manager, Joshua taught Dr. Sean the value of selling, the value of tucking your shirt in, and the value of time. . On this episode Joshua talks about what it takes to be a great personal trainer, how to make a living doing it, and what most people are doing wrong. If you love this p...

Meet Active Life 1 on 1 coach, Lance Einerson. . Lance has been on staff for a bit over a year now. He is a physical therapy student, a crossfit coach, a husband, a father, and an adventure seeker. . Lance has a unique story that makes him uniquely perfect for high stress clients who come to us for one on one help. He’s a great coach for anyone, but for those clients especially, Lance can empathiz...

Chris Zaino is back on the Active Life Podcast. The first time Dr. Zaino was on (Episode #103) we talked about how he battled through life threatening Ulcerative Colitis and became Mr. Universe and the owner of a multimillion dollar chiropractic clinic. On this episode, we get granular and tactical. You’re not going to want to miss the immediately applicable advice that Dr. Zaino gives on this epi...

Do you truly know your “why”? . If someone challenged you on it, would your actions line up with your words, or do you think that maybe, there would be room for you to improve the alignment? . Have you ever asked yourself why that is? If you are living your true “why”, then wouldn’t your actions line up? Could it be that you’re mistaken and you don’t know as much about yourself as you think? . Mak...

Dr. Glenn Livingston   What if you had a disorder and you didn’t even know it? . Dr. Glenn Livingston is a best selling author (600,000 copies sold) of the book “Never Binge Again”. In his book, and in this interview, Dr. Livingston, or Glenn as he asked me to address him, goes into his story of binge eating, how he realized he had a problem, and how he solved it. . Glenn is a fantastic story tell...

Chris Spigner is an early adopter of the Active Life Methodology. Chris flew to New York from his home in Grand Cayman for our first ever official coach workshop. He was one of sixty coaches in attendance from over 20 states and five countries, and yet, he stood out. . Three years later Chris has become a go to for feedback about all services we offer to coaches through Active Life and because of...

Bedro Keuilian is an absolute monster in the group fitness world. . A former personal trainer whose family immigrated from communist Russia when the Berlin Wall fell, Bedros learned from a young age what it meant to struggle. He took the lessons learned in his early life and transformed them into the fitness empire that is Fit Body Boot Camp. . In this interview, Bedros discusses some very vulnera...

“I still own my gym, I just don’t work there.” . For those of you out there who own businesses, this should NOT be a crazy thought, but it probably is for many of you. Chris Cooper owns Two Brain business, a company he started when he realized that CrossFit gym owners may be great coaches, but owning a business and being a good entrepreneur was something totally different. . He has coached thousan...

She’s back. I get it, everyone likes my wife more than me. That’s ok, so do I. On today’s episode we discuss why we think it’s great that our three year old has told us she wants to earn money. It’s deeper than you might think. Tune in.   REVIEW US!   If you love this podcast , please click HERE to leave a review. Thank you again for all of your trust, attention, and support.   Follow us on instag...

James Hobart joins us on the Active Life Podcast today! . I can’t lie, I was a bit of a fanboy interviewing James. James has been around the CrossFit scene since 2009, competing, coaching athletes, and coaching coaches. His intentional experience has made James a worthy and valuable ambassador of the CrossFit brand, though unofficially as such in our interview today. . On today’s episode we cover...

There was a time when “coach” meant something in the fitness world. Now it seems you can get your title at a weekend workshop. . You are a less effective version of your full time self if you do something part time. There should be no debate about this. It does not matter how much passion you have for a profession, if others share your passion but dedicate all of their energy into being incredible...

The man, the myth, the legend, Kelly Starrett joins us on the Active Life podcast today! . Kelly has been a CrossFit Affiliate owner for 14 years now and he has been influencing the culture of both athletes and fitness professionals ever since. . The author of best seller “becoming a supple leopard” and the creator of world renowned Mobility WOD, Kelly did such a good job creating awareness around...

When I first took my CrossFit Level 1 in 2011, EC Synkowski was there on staff to humble me. I asked her for a proverbial handout and she put me in my place, we talk about that experience on today’s podcast. . This was a very fun conversation with a very smart, valuable, thoughtful, and well spoken person. It’s a conversation that selfishly I have been waiting seven years to have. We talk about a...

Naudi Aguilar is a critical thinker’s critical thinker. On this episode Dr. Sean sits down with the founder of Functional Patterns and dives deep into the mind of the man who is taking it upon himself to fundamentally change fitness.   He wants to make such big changes to the landscape that Naudi doesn’t even really consider what he is doing to be fitness, but more biomechanical training. He bases...

Have you ever heard someone say “I need this job”, and be happy about it? Didn’t think so. At Active Life one of our core values is to be wanted, not needed. This applies both to our clients and our staff. . We have enough redundancy that we don’t need any of our staff members. And that’s how we like it. We also have such rockstar staff members that none of them need Active Life. And that’s how we...

Anders Varner is the co-host of the wildly successful Sheugged Collective Podcast. This episode is about many of the events in his life that lead to his current place in the world being possible. . Anders is passionate about professionalizing the coach just like we are at Active Life. For him, there was a transformative moment back stage at a country music concert that set him off on this wild tra...