Colette Dong and Aly Giampolo: Co-Founders of The Ness

Second Life

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Colette Dong and Aly Giampolo are the co-founders of The Ness, a digital fitness platform and workout studio in New York City. The two first met when they were working as professional dancers, and after finding that they both wanted to move on to the next chapter of their careers, they teamed up to create The Ness, a trampoline-based workout that delivers high-intensity movement with low impact on the body. In this episode, Hillary talks with Aly and Colette about their first lives as dancers and how their training informed their business philosophy. Plus, they discuss the health benefits of bouncing on a mini trampoline and what’s next for this budding fitness empire.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Hilary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of Who Outwear, and
0:11.2	this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
0:16.7	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting
0:20.9	aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their Second Life.
0:26.5	My guests today are the co-founders of The Ness, a fitness studio and digital platform
0:32.7	that teaches dance-based workouts on mini trampolines.
0:37.5	Alley Jam Polo and Collette Dong are two former professional classical dancers.
0:43.5	After studying dance as kids and all the way through college, they met in New York City
0:48.2	where they performed in circuses and plays and all kinds of other live performances together.
0:55.0	In 2019, they realized that they wanted to turn a page in their careers, and so they created
1:00.8	The Ness, a fitness studio in New York City where bouncers can join in person or from
1:06.9	around the world on their digital platform.
1:10.3	The workout prides itself on being high-impact like a hit class, but still have low impact
1:15.4	on the body.
1:16.8	I personally love the method myself, I love bouncing, I love their scope classes, I truly
1:24.0	love everything that they do, and I'm not the only one.
1:27.7	The Ness is growing and just last year they grew their revenue a whopping 75%.
1:35.7	In this episode, we're talking about so many things like Alley and Collette's first
1:40.7	lives as dancers to how they got the idea to start a business of their own and their
1:46.4	biggest takeaways from it, three years in.
1:50.1	Now, on Second Life, it's Collette Dong and Alley Jam Polo.
1:56.2	Okay, ladies, are you ready?
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