How Drew Manning went from FIT to FAT to FIT and created a business as a result
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Drew is the NY Times Best Selling Author of the book, Fit2Fat2Fit and is best known for his Fit2Fat2Fit.com experiment that went viral online. He's been featured on shows like Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, The View and many more. His experiment has become a hit TV show, called Fit to Fat to Fit, airing on A&E!
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| 0:00.0 | Hold on to those afterburner's Fire Nation JLD here and welcome episode 1611 of EO Fire |
| 0:10.8 | right show it today's most successful entrepreneur seven days a week check out Fire Nation our |
| 0:17.2 | free podcasting course so that you can create room monetize your podcast over at freepodcastcourse.com |
| 0:25.6 | now let's chat with today's featured guest Drew Manning Drew are you prepared to ignite oh I'm |
| 0:33.7 | ready man let's do this. Drew is the New York Times bestselling author of the book fit to fat |
| 0:40.7 | to fit and is best known for his fit to fat to fit.com experiment that went viral online he's been |
| 0:47.6 | featured on shows like Dr. Oz good morning America the view and many more his experiment has become a |
| 0:54.4 | hit TV show called fit to fat to fit airing on a and e. Drew take a minute fill in some gaps |
| 1:02.5 | from that intro and give us just a little glimpse of your personal life. Yeah for sure so basically |
| 1:07.5 | I did that fit to fit experiment over five years ago and it was such a humbling life changing |
| 1:14.4 | experience because here I was grew up my entire life in shape and so I couldn't really relate to |
| 1:19.9 | my overweight clients right I worked in the health and fitness industry and I thought I knew what |
| 1:24.8 | they needed to do to change which was just eat healthy and exercise but it couldn't really relate |
| 1:29.5 | to them and they couldn't relate to me because for me it was easy to be in shape and so I felt like |
| 1:34.6 | I needed to do this journey of of getting fat on purpose as crazy as it sounds and so yeah I stopped |
| 1:40.6 | exercising for six months I ate junk food for six months and it was it was it was fun at first it |
| 1:46.4 | felt like freedom but really quickly over about a month or so you're trapped and and that's where |
| 1:52.1 | the lessons started to learn that I started to learn along the journey and it totally changed my |
| 1:57.1 | perspective and here we are today with a new your time best-selling book of the lessons I learned |
| 2:01.9 | and now a TV show where I am coaching other trainers through this process so they can be more |
| 2:07.0 | empathetic and have more respect for their clients. So there's something Drew that I like to talk |
| 2:11.3 | about called the curse of knowledge in fire nation it is so real like because you know something or |
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