Ray's First Fitness Industry Interview | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #49

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

Training, Fitness & Nutrition, Strength, Barbell, Health, Fitness

4.6 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Carl Case invited Ray to join him for a discussion on the Local Business Hacks podcast where Carl interview fitness industry leaders to discuss their keys to success. To save you a click, we've re-posted the episode here. Interested in hearing how Ray communicates Starting Strength Gyms to the uninitiated? Listen in. Spoiler: Carl became a Starting Strength Gyms Online Coaching client immediately after the interview was recorded. At 6'4", Carl needs to be at least 260lbs. We'll get him there, with a 500lb+ deadlift, in 18-months or less - as long as he sticks to the program. 01:53 - Ray's business background 03:50 - Coming across Starting Strength 06:29 - How to make Starting Strength more accessible to more people 11:50 - How can the world get involved with Starting Strength Gyms? 15:55 - How to get connected with Ray 18:24 - Think big and go for it 22:12 - Hire Slowly. Fire quickly. 26:21 - Are you a right fit for Starting Strength Gyms? 30:37 - What historical figure would you have dinner with? 31:31 - Empowering the right people to make decisions 39:01 - Ray's current top books and podcasts 40:57 - Starting Strength Radio 41:33 - Lex Fridman 42:10 - Negative and positive character traits

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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.
0:29.0	Hey, local business hackers. I'm your host, Director of Global Business Development for
0:33.2	Refarizer, joined today by Ray Gillenwater, co-founder of starting strength gyms.
0:38.3	Ray, welcome the local business hacks.
0:40.3	Thank you.
0:41.3	I happen to know a little bit about your background and what got you to this point in your career,
0:46.3	but I'd love for you to share with our audience, you know, this journey all over the globe
0:51.3	that has brought you, you know, to create what is starting strength gyms?
0:55.4	Sure, sure. Yeah. I was running the Australian New Zealand business for Blackberry back when they
1:01.7	were a relevant company. This was in 2012. And I had spent all my time becoming as good of a businessman as I could be.
1:13.6	So I started in the telecom industry about eight years prior to that as a customer service agent making, you know, 12 bucks an hour.
1:23.6	And then eight years later, I'm running a continent for a Fortune 100 company at 26.
1:30.9	So that was pretty cool.
1:32.8	And yeah, the problem is, though, is that's not exactly a healthy lifestyle.
1:39.1	You know, if you want to excel to that degree, you have to be completely obsessed.
1:45.5	You know, Elon Musk is an Elon Musk because he takes vacation every three weeks, right?
1:50.2	So the process of completely dedicating my existence, all of my waking hours to my job,
2:00.3	meant that I was neglecting my physical existence.
2:03.6	And I didn't realize the true ramifications of that at the time.
2:10.6	But when I left Blackberry, I was 27 when I left, and I decided then that I needed to get my health in order because I'd had
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