224: How The Founder Of BOOMBOX Boxing Club Is Navigating Owning A Fitness Business During Covid
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It’s not often that you hear about two co-founders meeting on Tinder. But that’s actually the business origin story of this week’s Side Hustle Pro guest, Angela Jennings of BOOMBOX Boxing Club.
BOOMBOX is a boxing-inspired, hip-hop-fueled fitness studio.
A finance professional at a global accounting firm by day, Angela always knew she wanted to tap into her interest in food or fitness.
After being introduced to boxing three years ago by Tinder match and co-founder, Reggie Smith, Angela became passionate about the sport's potential to be a fun and powerful workout to people of all fitness levels and backgrounds.
The pair launched their first studio in Washington, DC in 2019 and it's now host to members who sweat through themed boxing workouts or private training with coaches.
In this episode, I really love what Angela had to share about:
- Deciding on a location when each co-founder lives in a different city
- Building buzz leading up to opening day
- Navigating the fitness industry during covid and how they are working to adapt
- How she’s doing this all while side hustling during a pandemic and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Why boxing? So my partner Reggie introduced me to boxing and even when he first |
| 0:11.2 | brought it up I was adamantly against it. |
| 0:13.2 | So our story is that he and I met on tender, |
| 0:16.3 | I think at this point, eight years ago. |
| 0:18.3 | Wait, wait, I don't think I've ever had an entrepreneur |
| 0:21.3 | say they met their co-founder on too there. |
| 0:24.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, |
| 0:28.0 | the podcast that teaches you to build |
| 0:30.0 | and grow your Side Hustle from Passion project to profitable business and I'm your host |
| 0:34.9 | Nakela Matthew Zakome. So let's get started. |
| 0:38.2 | This episode of Side Hustle Pro is brought to you by Comcast Rise. |
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