103: Coss Marte | Staying Out of Prison with Muscle and Conviction
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Coss Marte (@CossMarte) is the founder and CEO of ConBody, a NYC-based fitness studio that hires formerly incarcerated individuals to teach fitness classes, and author of ConBody: The Revolutionary Bodyweight Prison Boot Camp, Born from an Extraordinary Story of Hope.
What We Discuss with Coss Marte:- How a 13-year-old immigrant from the Dominican Republic scaled up a $5 million per year drug business -- the Uber for cocaine.
- How Stephen King (probably not the one you're thinking of) brought this whole operation down, inadvertently leading to a domino effect of positive change beginning with Coss Marte.
- The power of mindset and fitness to stay sane and healthy behind bars -- where the odds are stacked overwhelmingly against personal improvement on any level.
- What Coss and ConBody Fitness are doing to help rehabilitate the incarcerated and break the cycle of recidivism so many fall into.
- How lessons learned from the illicit drug trade transferred to Coss' legitimate business and helped him build a bridge of understanding between the world's successful and its formerly incarcerated.
- And much more...
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| 1:32.0 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger, and as always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo. |
| 1:37.0 | Today we're talking with Koss Marte. He's the founder and CEO of KhanBody, which is a New York City-based fitness studio that hires formerly incarcerated individuals to teach fitness classes. |
| 1:49.0 | Koss personally served some time, six years in fact, some of which was spent at one of the most notorious prisons in America, Rikers Island. |
| 1:57.0 | His story is fascinating. Today we'll discover how a 13-year-old immigrant from the Dominican Republic scaled up a $5 million a year drug business, which basically became the uber for cocaine in New York. |
| 2:08.0 | We'll explore the power of mindset and fitness to stay sane and healthy behind bars. And we'll hear the story of lessons learned both in prison and on the streets that spawned another business, KhanBody Fitness, that helps those both inside and outside prison get healthy, stay that way, and more importantly, |
| 2:26.0 | stay out of jail after their release. This story is fascinating, whether you're an entrepreneur, you're into fitness, or you just like an interesting story of a life other than your own, you will dig this episode. And of course, we've got worksheets for today's episode. |
| 2:39.0 | So you can make sure that you solidify your understanding of the key takeaways here from Koss Marte. That link is in the show notes at jordanharbinger.com slash podcast. |
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