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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Creating The Best Version of Yourself | Interview With The President of Equinox, Scott DeRue

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Scott DeRue, President of Equinox, shares his thoughts on: [:41] - How the Equinox experience sets their fitness clubs apart from their competitors [3:43] - What Equinox does to promote a high-performance lifestyle for their members [12:06] - How his time as Dean of the University of Michigan's School of Business led to his current role [14:17] - How he empowers his team to adapt to changing customer preferences Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

At the end of the day, our job is leaders is to understand what does our organization,

0:04.6

what does our team need in order to be successful?

0:09.2

This is the flavor.

0:11.6

I am so excited because I've waited years to speak with this man, Scott DeRue.

0:16.4

He's the president of Equinox, an amazing fitness club that I'm actually a member of

0:22.2

and my daughter in the city.

0:23.7

So we are actually participants in the fitness business that you have established.

0:29.2

It is the best out there.

0:30.7

I'm sorry to say it has everything that you need.

0:34.4

And to that end, Scott, I was hoping that you could tell me, you know,

0:38.4

your internal vision of the experience that I'm having and my daughter is

0:43.4

having as we frequent Equinox.

0:46.4

Sure.

0:46.8

And David, I really appreciate the opportunity.

0:48.5

It's great to join you.

0:50.2

And you're exactly right.

0:51.4

The experience is really what differentiates Equinox and it's our people.

0:57.3

It's our programming.

0:58.4

It's the environment that we're able to create.

1:01.1

The sense of community that we're able to create that really separates

1:05.2

the Equinox experience from from all the rest.

1:08.6

And the vision that we have is really about taking what happens inside the club,

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