The Fitness Business Podcast

In this podcast partner interview Chantal Brodrick chats to the President of Tribe Team Training North America, JP Richard, about their plans for 2021 and how they are working with clubs. 

Take your goal setting to a whole new level! Christian Swann shares with me how you, the listener, can throw out your outdated way to set personal goals and modernize your strategy! It's quite an interesting and efficient way to become the best you!

As our lives begin to get back to a level of normalcy and your members transition back to your clubs, it's more important than ever to capitalize on their energy and provide them with an amazing, welcome back, group fitness experience! Learn from the experts of live events, Les Mills, on best practices when planning an event, who to include, and important marketing tips & tricks to make sure that...

Christa's energy and passion for boutique fitness shines brightly in this episode of The Fitness Business Podcast. She delivers an important message to all studio owners about how important it is to create and build a strategic business plan. One of the key messages she delivers is how important it is to know your community and to cater to their needs. Christa also gets real and discusses the mist...

The Fitness Business Podcast Fanatics share their views on the new direction of the industry, post-covid. They discuss their thoughts and insights on the changes that have taken place, which of these changes they forsee will continue, the new way to market the fitness clubs and boutiques and they shine some insights on how to reignite the fitness industry as a whole.

Named as Canada's most promising young HR leader, Jomana Elwenni is a strategic HR Executive with progressive experience in demanding, global environments in the Fitness, Retail, and Hospitality worlds. Jomana is currently the Director of Human Resources for Orangetheory Fitness Canada. Championing national leadership and management of full range of HR functions for over 110+ locations across mult...

Most fitness businesses hear the word "referral" and think of member or client referrals, but in this episode, Michael delivers an amazing insight on how to find referrals outside of your fitness walls. He poses the questions...."how well do you view your relationships with other businesses in your community." By creating partnerships with other businesses, gyms can cross market and reach a whole...

Life is too short not to love your work. Discover Strength, believes you should be able to build the career you want while doing work that changes lives. Imagine owning a distinguished fitness business, back by a market-tested business model, where efficient, 30-minute workouts are provided to your clients by expert, educated personal trainers. Imagine building a thriving business while doing work...

In this episode, Pete McCall discusses the importance of staff training and making your team members better by focusing on individual and team development.  He also discusses, that despite budget cuts there are creative ways to continue to educate your staff without spending a lot of money. You won't want to miss this episode, so you can start your journey on developing a 12 month professional dev...

As the fitness industry comes back stronger than ever in 2021, now is as a great time to reimagine your business: who are you aligned with? Who are you doing business with? Who is cheering you on? Who is your customer and what do they want now? If something or a certain partnership isn't aligning with your goals going forward it may be time to reimagine your business and who you're working with! Y...

Mark Schaefer is a globally-recognized keynote speaker, educator, business consultant, and author. His blog {grow} is hailed as one of the top marketing blogs in the world.  Mark shares his new book Cumulative Advantage: How to build momentum for your ideas, business and life against all odds with our Fitness Business Podcast family.

Group Fitness Professionals Ellen de Werd, Rebecca Pinto and Shannon Fable take to discussion about the future of group fitness and what the industry looks like moving forward.

Frank  is passionate about creating a little L.I.P. Service, that is, Leadership, Inspiration and People Management.  That servant leader mindset is used to formulate actionable and executable initiatives for his clients as explained in this episode.

Looking for a creative way to bring residual income into your gym, group fitness or personal training program? Youth fitness is quickly growing as one of the top "add-on" programs in the fitness industry. With children becoming more sedentary, due to the pandemic, and parents looking for a way to get their child off the coach or away from the video games, now more than ever is the perfect time to...

On today's show we welcome Jeffrey Kazmucha. Jeffrey is the founder of AMP Venture Partners. We dive into a number of hot topics  including digital innovation, market strategy, and the potential of future CRM's marrying the Doctor, patient and Personal Trainer relationships together. Jeffrey also touches on his beliefs around budding technologies like AR, AI, VR wellness and digital health that wi...

Lisa stresses the importance of integrating medical fitness into the fitness community. Personal trainers should take the opportunity to add to their tool box and become a specialist in training clients with chronic disease and health issues. Lisa talks about the opportunities that MedFit Network provides to fitness professionals across the world. Take a listen and learn a new skill!

Have you been considering remodelling your health club or are you ready to begin construction on your new health club? Do you have an in-club design in your head that no architect or general contractor has yet to get correct? If you're wanting to make the designs in your head come to life then, Fitness Business Podcast Episode 347 – The Value Proposition for Creating Unique Spaces is for you! We'r...

Nathalie brings her positive mindset skills to the Fitness Business Podcast. She shares her 2 step process on how to change your language and begin to talk to your brain (your personal assistant) in a positive manner. F inding the  confidence and clarity to unlock your full potential is what this confidence expert is all about! 

Kevin Mullins is the author of a unique calendar style book entitled,  Day by Day: The Personal Trainer's Blueprint to Achieving Ultimate Success.  This book was written to help personal trainers all across the globe build their pt business and their relations with existing clients. Kevin is also the Director of Product Development for The St. James in Virginia,  a Master Instructor for the PPSC,...

In today's episode, Annette gives her professional advice on how to improve a club's ability to connect with the customer and provide a customer experience that's worth talking about. Listen and learn, as Annette teaches us how journey mapping can assist in that connection along with bringing "the customer into your team meetings."

Organic marketing is the base for all fitness marketing in this day and age. Luke preaches consistency and making sure your content speaks to your following. In this episode, Luke focuses on the benefits of organic marketing as well as the biggest mistakes to avoid and if he could offer up one piece of advice it would be, "get your followers to buy into the person, not the service."

Do you ever wonder if you're using your software systems to the fullest extent? Are you confident in the quality of data you're receiving from your current systems? Do you truly feel that you have made your member processes simple enough so that members can engage with your business when and where they want to?  The team at ASF Payment Solutions & Club OS joins us this month on The Value Propositi...

In today's episode Brittany talks about automating processes and getting them to the point where you, the owner or general manager, can step away from the business for a period of time and still have the business run efficiently and effectively. Brittney is a processes guru and loves to share her journey, with other fitness business owners, how she was able to get all of her information out of her...

In this episode, Nick answers top marketing questions to help owners promote their businesses for 2021. Listen to Nick's top advice for optimal advertising on social media platforms. Nick also stresses the importance of on-line reviews and gives advice on how to gather more reviews for your future members to read

In this episode:  Key data around podcasting, Tips for getting started, How to reach more people with your podcast, How to monetize your podcast.  Featuring special guest:  Dave Keine