Welcome to The My Butting Green Podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of My Butting Green,

and your host. Don Saladino has coached actors, athletes, and musicians for over 20 years,

and is known for helping people transform their bodies in short periods of time.

He's worked with Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Krasinski,

Emily Bluntley, and Shriver Sebastian Stan, and Half-Away Zachary Levy,

Hugh Jackman and the list goes on, and apparently before the call, I found out he worked with

Wally Zerbiac, who I played basketball against, and he became an incredible player way, way better than me.

And he's had the honor of gracing the cover of the iconic Muslim fitness magazine,

so Don, such a pleasure to have you. Thanks, Jason. It's like to be on, man. This is great.

So you're the guy. Like, you're the go-to guy. If I'm an actor or an athlete, and someone says,

hey, you got to transform your body. You need to put on a lot of lean muscle mass,

or lose fat, or ultimately, usually a combination of both. Like, you are that guy they go to.

So walk us through. How did you become that go-to guy? It was interesting. First off, thank you.

Appreciate the compliment. You know, it was probably my love from passion for fitness at a

really young age. I went off to play college baseball. I had dreams of trying to move on from

there. When that didn't work out for me, I was so connected to fitness. I really felt like I

was minoring in nutrition and weightlifting when I was in college. It was just even my coaches,

like, do the program you want to do. It was always, he just knew where my head was when it came

to research, and I was in a good place. So when I graduated college, I went and I worked in a

big box gym for a year, cleaned up weights, the things I needed to do back in 1999.

I then in 2000 broke off, opened my own one-on-one training business, started doing pretty well,

actually. As a young guy, you're making about, I was making about 200,000 bucks a year. I thought

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