Finding Purpose in Prison w/ Eric Bassett — Real Chalk #49
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eric Bassett is the brain behind EB30X, a 30-minute workout that changes lives. His brick-and-mortar gym is located in Illinois, but he trains people around the country and he won't turn anyone down no matter what their physical limitations are. Everyone wants to train fit people, but Eric is working hard to bring fitness and health to the people who need it most. The videos of him training with clients (or "teammates," as he calls them) who have upwards of 100 pounds to lose have gone viral and gained him lots of attention in the fitness world.
I sat down with Eric at the Fit Expo in San Diego to talk about his brand and his experience with building his business. We discuss the similarities and differences in our stories, how we found our callings, and why failure isn't the worst thing. Turns out, landing in a federal prison camp can be exactly what needs to happen for you to figure out what your purpose in life is—who knew?! Plus, we take some hits at those pyramid scheme-based shake companies, hate on water breaks and Botox, and deal some hard truth about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. This episode is a wild ride, don't miss it!
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| 0:00.0 | Oh right, Gibrone is it is Tuesday. It is time for another episode of Real Chalk |
| 0:05.6 | It's time for me to get my talk on time to give you guys all the things all the reads all the motivation get you guys |
| 0:11.8 | Poppin it's another day of the week. It's it's it's Tuesday |
| 0:16.5 | I'm gonna come down. I get to sit down with mr. Eric Bassett |
| 0:21.1 | He is down in the Chicago area. He owns a company called eb30x eb happens to stand for Eric Bassett |
| 0:28.7 | And he's getting it done in 30 minutes. Not only that this man does not just train |
| 0:34.4 | Everybody out there he happens to specialize in training people who are like really really big like 700 pounds big |
| 0:40.7 | And he does workouts with them maybe just in their bedroom. We talk about that on the show |
| 0:46.2 | It's amazing |
| 0:47.7 | Some of the things that he does with clients that happen to be 700 pounds, right? Like he does slam balls on the bed literally |
| 0:54.5 | And I remember |
| 0:56.2 | Listening to him say that and I was like wait a second. You're doing slam balls to the bed not to the ground |
| 0:59.9 | I've never even seen that before but I guess when you're that big, you know |
| 1:03.2 | Those are some of the things that you need to do to get it done |
| 1:05.3 | And he does get it done and I think he started to go viral on Instagram and other social media networks because he was |
| 1:12.5 | Getting all these people who were losing a hundred plus pounds and he has like this hundred |
| 1:16.5 | pound weight loss club that is one of his things that he's known for so |
| 1:21.4 | We're gonna get into that |
| 1:23.1 | And then as we sit down we'll talk about some things that happen in his life that got him to where he is and how he found his calling and |
| 1:30.2 | He's just really amazing story when he's in jail and his bungee |
| 1:34.3 | It happened to own this multi-million dollar company and taught him a bunch of amazing business things and it just it really really |
| 1:41.9 | Starts to turn into a really great story it starts off just a little bit slow and it picks up and it winds up being like an amazing |
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