Real Chalk — The Entrepreneur Path w/ Dave Driskell — 39
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2018
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
This weeks episode is with Dave Driskell Owner of CrossFit Wanderlust in Bali, international man of mystery, male model, fittest old man in asia, and a laundry list of other unique traits and talents that have gained almost 80k followers on the GRAM.
Dave and I go way back to when CrossFit was originally booming, and Instagram had just started. It was an incredible time for both the sport and social media. Although Dave and I walked 2 very different paths over the years (He was the social media guy and I was the young competitor), we still wound up doing the same thing later on in life. We opened gyms! Super successful ones! On completely different ends of the world!
In this episode, we talk about every single step that we took to get our gyms to where they are. We talk about the contracts we signed, the problems we encountered, things we would have changed if we could do it all over, and so much more. Did I mention it's super funny? Well, it wouldn't be a Real Chalk episode if it wasn't funny ;)
If you have ever thought about opening a gym, a business, or ever just wondered exactly what it all entails, then this episode is for you. This is not your typical bullet point style talk however. We get super in depth and it's truly an amazing listen with tons of valuable knowledge on decision making and business.
Enjoy!
- Ryan
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| 0:00.0 | I am so excited to air this week's episode with Mr. Dave Driscoll on old time friend of mine |
| 0:05.3 | Used to drop into a gym that I used to work at nonch county before I own my own gym |
| 0:09.6 | Low and behold years later. We both own our own gyms now. They're both super successful |
| 0:14.8 | and we talk about |
| 0:16.8 | how our gyms became successful and |
| 0:20.1 | How did we get to where we are at right now? |
| 0:22.8 | So either whether you want to be a gym owner or you want to do something in the fitness industry |
| 0:27.6 | Maybe you want to be a personal trainer. Maybe you want to start some sort of |
| 0:31.5 | Small business that is not a crossfit gym |
| 0:34.8 | But it is some sort of a training facility. You're gonna get |
| 0:39.0 | Some crazy inside information in this episode that no one really talks about like when you're talking to an investor |
| 0:45.8 | And they want to do something with you like what are your options? |
| 0:50.8 | That you choose from before you start signing some serious paperwork and some life changes |
| 0:56.4 | We talk about what that process looked like for Dave what that process looked like for me |
| 1:02.8 | What would we have done differently if we could do it again? |
| 1:07.2 | All the little headaches that happen along the way |
| 1:10.4 | Ways to talk to your coaches ways to do some different management stuff ways to make more money in your gym |
| 1:16.5 | The way that Dave's gym makes money is way different than mine makes money |
| 1:20.7 | He's in a destination spot in Bali and he gets a lot of drop-ins |
| 1:24.6 | Whereas mine is more |
| 1:27.2 | I'm trying to keep my members there for as long as I can and my everyday members are my main income |
| 1:33.4 | But what's amazing about this episode is just the interaction that we share in between each other. It's very fun. It's very |
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