Leaving Healthcare to Build an SS Gym | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #46
Starting Strength Radio
Mark Rippetoe
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Mildly entertaining, somewhat obscure guests, relatively interesting topics, |
| 0:07.0 | semi-professional production quality, reasonably well-informed commentary, a great value for the money, |
| 0:14.8 | hundreds of fans all around the world. It's the starting strength gyms podcast with your host, Ray Gillingwater. |
| 0:27.6 | Hi, James. Hey, how you doing? Hey, everyone. Me James. Hello, everybody. James Johnson, |
| 0:35.9 | Wildman. He drove 10 hours round trip from Salt Lake City to |
| 0:41.2 | Boise to be here just to have a conversation with me for you all to see. So yeah, you know, |
| 0:48.2 | all 600 of you. But James is our new owner for Salt Lake City. And when I first met James within the first five minutes, |
| 0:59.0 | I was like, I need to work with this guy. |
| 1:02.0 | So James, James is one of us. |
| 1:05.0 | Great attitude, lots of experience in business, |
| 1:08.0 | good kind of philosophy on life. I wanted to bring him on the podcast |
| 1:12.4 | today just to have them meet you all and to have you meet him. So James, welcome, man. |
| 1:19.0 | Appreciate you having me. What in the hell prompted you to buy a starting strength, Jim? |
| 1:24.1 | I'm glad you did. Yeah, I am too. At least so far. |
| 1:30.3 | Well, you know, you're not angry yet because you've only just started. |
| 1:34.8 | But yeah, give us some of the background and what led you to this decision. |
| 1:39.3 | Well, the short of it is it works. |
| 1:49.0 | So it's been extremely beneficial to me, so I want to spread that to provide the opportunity to other people. |
| 1:50.5 | Yep. |
| 1:50.8 | That's kind of the foundation of it. |
| 1:55.3 | I'm currently in health care, and I run nursing homes. |
| 2:00.6 | Nursing homes provide care for people who have already been sick. |
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