I just finished reading Buy then Build by Walker Deibel, a book about acquisition entrepreneurship and the steps to take to buy businesses. To say this book blew my mind is an understatement. Sure, it talked about what you would expect: the specific steps (leaving absolutely no detail out) you need to take to become …
We were on top of Mt. Rainier in Washington state. We started our summit bid a little after midnight, and it was now 6:30 in the morning. It was around 6:00 am that we had reached the summit successfully, but that was behind us now. We were now on the descent. You’d think we were …
I’ve PR’d over 20 times since the beginning of the year. From WODs to lifts, I’ve been making crazy strides. Although really cool, it’s not that I care about this. I share that because I want to illustrate a point. And no, it’s not that gym owners should obsess over their snatch 1RM. It’s that …
What does wealth look like to you? A million dollars? A lifetime supply of Chick-fil-A? A family to come home to every night? This answers varies from person to person. For me, wealth means living life on my own terms in the truest, most extreme ways. I left multiple jobs, including a six year stint …
My 6 Pillars of Wealth (They Have Nothing to Do with Money) Read More »
We were at just over 13,000 feet. My friend, Tomas, who had traveled to Tanzania to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with me, had been coughing all throughout the night. The cough sounded more like a gurgle, and it persisted when we all woke up at 5:30 am to get back on the trail. Reluctantly, he checked in with the …
Basic Human Needs: What Are We Supposed to Do with Them? Read More »
For the past two years at our gym, we’ve run an annual competition in the winter time, and there’s always something about it that utterly exhausts me for weeks, if not months afterward. I’ve chalked it up to different things: dealing with people outside our gym, the seeming unprofitability of such large-scale events, or the fact …
Vulnerability Hangover: What It Is and How It Applies to Gym Owners Read More »
In March of 2018, I was lost. I had quit my job in July 2017 to become a full-time gym owner, hoping that my full-time efforts would result in full-time revenue. It hadn’t. Lee, my boyfriend and partner, had a full-time job, so by the time he came home each night, he was too exhausted …
I’ve always been kind of a misfit. Growing up, I was raised in a strict household, where getting anything but straight A’s and a perfect score on my SAT risked getting me disowned by my family and left outside in below-freezing Korean winters. OK, maybe a hyperbole on the last one, but the rest is …
My Strengths Didn’t Lead Me Here; My Weaknesses Did Read More »
I read something the other day where a gym owner was talking about “people over profits” as one of her tenets as a gym owner. She talked about paying her staff’s living wages from a retirement account on certain months when they were down on money, and I was dumbfounded. Your finances are in a state …
