Max Lee - Why He Moved His Family to Taipei and Opening Up 20+ Gyms Across Asia

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

Society & Culture:places & Travel, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 890 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Max Lee is not your typical gym owner. In fact, he was never even planning on going to the gym, yet alone opening up 20+ gyms across Taiwan. Heck, he didn't even live in Taiwan 4 years ago - and he wasn't planning on staying that long. But Max is always open to opportunities, and that's what has lead him and his family to leading such interesting lives. You'll hear all about it in today's show, including their year of full-time worldschooling, what life is really like in Taipei and how they decided on it, and how Max and his wife found themselves opening 20+ gyms in Taiwan.

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0:00.0	Hello, travel nerds and welcome to the extra pack of peanuts travel podcast. I'm your host
0:05.8	Travis Sherry. And joining me today is someone who has world schooled his kids since 2022,
0:12.5	who's found himself in a fascinating position of planning to open 25 anytime fitness locations
0:19.3	in the next four years in Taiwan.
0:21.2	And this to me is the most, the thing that got me the most, Max, was when you said,
0:25.3	I believe living in Taiwan is the perfect cross between Southeast Asia and East Asia.
0:30.7	And I thought, okay, all right, I am intrigued.
0:34.4	Max Lee, Max, welcome to the show.
0:38.2	What's up?
0:38.8	What's up, Travis?
0:40.2	We have had the good fortune of talking about a lot of this stuff off the podcast, you know,
0:46.4	going back and forth.
0:47.5	You've visited me here in North Carolina.
0:49.1	We've met where did we meet when I got to meet your wife and kids?
0:53.8	Where were we? I was trying to remember your wife and kids? Where were we?
0:54.4	I was trying to remember that.
0:56.2	World Domination Summit.
0:58.0	Okay.
0:58.4	X, the last one, yeah.
1:00.3	That's what I thought that we had met at the last World Domination Summit in Portland.
1:04.0	And you were just planning to then move to Taiwan like a month later or something.
1:11.4	Yeah, I think it was like maybe two months, one or two months after that.
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