#20- Michelle August, Founder of Spinco: Cultivating Community in the Fitness Space, Working Out to Increase Productivity and Overcoming The Fear of Failure
The Dream Bigger Podcast
Siffat Haider
4.8 • 625 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, I’m chatting with Michelle August, the founder of Spinco about all things fitness and entrepreneurship. Michelle founded Spinco, one of Canada’s best known spin studios when she was just 22, and grew her business very rapidly (the 10th location just opened its doors).
Michelle and I talk about cultivating community in the fitness space, creating a safe yet challenging environment for those new to working out, overcoming the fear of failure while launching a business, productivity hacks, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys, and welcome to another episode of the Dream Bigger podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm your host, SIF, and I'm the founder of icing and glitter, which is a blog, Instagram |
| 0:17.6 | page, and YouTube channel. |
| 0:19.4 | Before we get into today's episode, I wanted to thank you |
| 0:22.1 | guys for all the amazing emails and reviews after last week's episode. I'm so glad you guys enjoyed |
| 0:27.5 | it, and your emails make my day. I was in LA last week and didn't have a chance to answer |
| 0:32.5 | everyone immediately, but I promise I'm getting to you if I haven't yet. I also wanted to take a second to announce that I'm bringing back my beauty giveaway for the next |
| 0:41.3 | few weeks. |
| 0:42.2 | This is good news for you because I'm giving away a beauty goody bag to everyone who subscribes |
| 0:47.1 | to and reviews this podcast. |
| 0:49.0 | All you have to do to receive one of these is send me a screenshot of your subscription |
| 0:53.0 | and review and check your |
| 0:54.8 | mail a few weeks later. Your reviews are so important and mean the whole world to me, so if you |
| 0:59.9 | enjoy the Dream Bigger podcast, I so appreciate you taking the time out to write one. With all that |
| 1:05.8 | out of the way, let's jump into today's episode. I'd like you guys to give a warm welcome to Michelle August, the founder of Spinco. |
| 1:14.2 | If you're into fitness classes and are from or have visited Canada, you've probably heard of Spinco. |
| 1:20.0 | It's like an institution here. Spinco, as the name suggests, is a spin studio that Michelle started when she was just 22 years old. Since then, it's grown exponentially, having just opened the doors to its 10th location. |
| 1:33.0 | Spinco was a fundamental part of my fitness journey. It was my first taste of group fitness, and I fell in love with it immediately. |
| 1:39.6 | To this day, it's like therapy to me, both physical and emotional, and you can always find me there once a week whenever I'm in Toronto. I knew I wanted to chat with Michelle about how she became |
| 1:48.6 | an entrepreneur in the fitness world, and I'm so happy I did because it was a really interesting |
| 1:52.8 | conversation. I hope you guys enjoy this episode, and if you haven't tried Spincoe yet, |
| 1:58.0 | give it a go. And with that, let's welcome Michelle August to the Dream Bigger |
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