EFR 012: Pioneering the YouTube Fitness Industry with Nick Wright
Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning
Chase Chewning
5.0 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
NWB IN THE HOUSE!!! I had the pleasure of reconnecting with my old friend, Nick Wright. Nick has lived, eaten and breathed YouTube fitness over the past five plus years. His story is one that always comes to my mind when I think of someone truly applying passion to purpose. A native Rhode Islander, I had the privilege of getting to know Nick for his year in Richmond, VA. We crushed countless workouts and even more Chipotle meals together with my younger brother (Maxx Chewning, whom Nick references in the interview) and our other gym rat friends.
Being one of the firsts in the industry, he has had the unique perspective of watching his profession grow exponentially while helping usher in a new era of content creators. He always stays true to himself and has an admirable "no bullshit" policy when it comes to conveying his story through his videos, whether in the gym, smoking his favorite cigar or spending quality time with his longtime girlfriend Arianna.
Nick's YouTube channel can be found here (no, we won't kidding about Scondore) at www.youtube.com/scondore and on Instagram and Twitter @nickwrightnwb.
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| 0:00.0 | Episode 12, with none other than YouTube fitness pioneer, Nick Wright. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome back, everyone. |
| 0:08.6 | Thank you all so much for joining me again on what I know will be an amazing episode. |
| 0:14.3 | I am your host, Chase Tuning, and this is Everford Radio. |
| 0:23.8 | Welcome back, everybody, to this week's episode of Everford Radio. |
| 0:28.0 | I am here with, I'll call him a long time friend. |
| 0:31.0 | I've known them through the interwebs for a few years and actually had the privilege of calling him a neighbor for about a year back in Richmond, |
| 0:39.5 | Virginia. I'm joined by none other than Skondor himself, Mr. Nick Wright, NWB. Nick, how |
| 0:48.1 | you doing, man? Thanks for being on the podcast. I'm great. I haven't heard Skondor forever. |
| 0:52.6 | You know, honestly, I forgot about it until it's just in my head going through the intro for you. |
| 0:58.2 | So what is Skondor real quick? |
| 1:01.4 | Oh my God. Well, I actually have a video on it. It's called my 20,000 subscriber video. What |
| 1:06.0 | does Skondor mean? But to break it down, it was a character that I created and a creative writing story that I wrote in sixth grade at 11 years old. |
| 1:15.6 | Wow. |
| 1:16.0 | Scott was like, I don't remember exactly anymore, but it was like roughly along the lines of like a cross between like a wizard and something else. I don't remember. |
| 1:24.4 | Oh, not like a like a Liger, you know, it's bred for its mythical powers. No, I mean, it was kind of like a liger in the sense where it's a hybrid, but it's a hybrid like humanoid things. Shout out Napoleon Dynamite. Yeah. And then, well, what's funny is actually how that happened was, how it became the name, was because I ran the same time, I made my first email address ever, and all the variations of Nick were taken. So I just like, what would not be taken? Boom, Skondor used it. And then the same thing happened with my instant messenger name. And then eventually when I made the YouTube channel, I was like, well, Skondor's been everything. Skondor, baby. There you go. Hey, you know, consistency is key. That's what they say in the biz, right? |
| 2:01.6 | That's what they say in the biz. So speaking of the biz, you know, for those of you who do not know who Nick Wright is, first of all, go educate yourself. Secondly, Nick, why don't you give us a little background as far as who you are, what you do, and your, you know, kind of your origin story. All right. So I'm Nick, right? |
| 2:19.3 | 25 years old. |
| 2:21.0 | As far as YouTube goes, let me back way up. |
| 2:24.5 | I started bodybuilding when I was 14 years old, like training for it and became obsessed |
| 2:28.6 | with the actual sport of bodybuilding and wanted to compete immediately. |
| 2:31.9 | So I did my first bodybuilding competition at 15 years old in 2006. |
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