Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

This can be a little bit of different episode because I had a question from a client this week

and I thought, there's not normally what I talk about on the podcast, but why not?

And I love talking about it.

So maybe people will be interested.

And the question was, it would be fun to hear more about

how you started your business, the mistakes you made, the successes, how long before you started

making enough money to be financially independent, et cetera, and just general journey. And like I said,

I don't normally talk so much about business here because it's a fitness podcast at the end of the day.

But I thought this would be a cool opportunity to do it. And if you do want to hear more about

the business side of things and more content related to that, then you want to head over to the

AF Mentors podcast, which I will link in the show notes. So I thought I'd start this with how I started

my business, because why not, you know, start from the start because that would be an obvious thing to do.

And I guess broadly, after university where I studied sports science, I did the standard, go to London and work at a prestigious gym as a

personal trainer. And the reality of that, in my opinion, now some people might love that,

but the reality of it, in my opinion, is not actually that much fun. You work really long hours.

You're paid very little, like insane that you're at

these kind of like really high-end clubs and things. And then it's like the personal trainers that are

paid not very well. And then maybe when you're kind of at the top, maybe you're paid slightly better

or some people have better deals, but certainly when you're starting from the bottom, bottom like it's very hard to live in London off that um so you work long hours

you're not paid very well and not having fun in it sorry not having a lot of money in a very

expensive place to live means that your living standard is actually quite low or certainly mine was

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