Episode 60: George Foreman III, Former Professional Boxer & Founder EverybodyFights

Hurdle

Emily Abbate

Health & Fitness

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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If you ask George Foreman III what it’s like to grow up with a two-time heavyweight champion as a dad, he’s pretty humble about it—because that’s all he’s ever known. Graduating with a degree in business administration from Rice University, Foreman went on to preside over his dad’s business, traveling the world meeting celebrities and managing contracts. Amidst all the glamour and chaos, he came face to face with his #hurdlemoment. Standing at 6’5’’ and weighing in at more than 280 pounds, he realized he wasn’t happy in his corner of the world, going as far as to shut himself in a hotel room for three days. Then, he made the jump into boxing himself. After a year of training, Foreman stepped into the ring for his first fight weighing in at 231 pounds. He’d go on to have an undefeated professional boxing career that ended in 2012, a year before he opened the first EverybodyFights in Boston. In episode 60, we chat about everything from depression and the scary side of entrepreneurship to his goals for expanding EverybodyFights dramatically by 2021.

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0:00.8	What's going on, guys?
0:02.1	You are listening to episode 60.
0:05.4	60!
0:06.3	I'm so geeked over that.
0:08.5	A hurdle.
0:09.8	A podcast that talks to everyone from entrepreneurs to top CEOs and athletes about how they've
0:14.7	gotten through tough times, hurdles of sorts, by leaning into wellness.
0:19.8	My name is Emily Abadi. And for today's episode, I'm going to be
0:23.8	chatting with George Foreman III. If you don't know of George Foreman III, you likely know of
0:29.4	his father. He's a two-time heavyweight champion, the guy behind the Foreman Grill, George
0:33.7	himself, also a professional boxer in his past, and the co-founder of a chain of boxing
0:41.0	inspired gyms called Everybody Fights. Before I get into George's story, quick shout out to my sponsor,
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1:14.1	All right. So let's talk about my guy, George. If you ask George what it was like to grow up with a
1:18.5	famous dad, he's pretty humble about it. And that's because really that's all he's ever known.
1:22.9	He graduated with a degree in business administration from Rice University and went on to manage
1:28.2	his dad's business, traveling the world, meeting celebrities, and managing contracts.
1:33.3	And in all that hustle and bustle, that's when he came to his hurdle moment.
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