Taking ownership of the process and Leveling Up in business, bodybuilding, and life with Mark Coles
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today Ben speaks with his good friend and fellow gym owner, fitness mentor, and trainer Mark Coles. Mark has just written a book called Level Up: The Fitness Professional's Road Map to Achieving Excellence (which Ben wrote the foreword to) and they discuss Mark's journey from personal trainer to gym owner to trainer mentor and beyond; how he grew his business through clarity of vision; how to identify goals and think big; and taking ownership of your process and your life, whether it's with relationships, business, or bodybuilding. This is a must listen to anyone looking to become a leader in their life or work, understand how to find their passion and happiness, and just be inspired.
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Episode Timestamps
- Importance of Enzymes for Digestion [3:00]
- Introducing our guest Mark Coles and his work [07:00]
- The value of doing what you love [10:30]
- Start of career as a personal trainer [11:10]
- Mark as a child and teenager [13:20]
- Increasing your rates with levelling up in your business [15:23]
- People who played parts in Mark’s devotion to body building [15:42]
- Acknowledging what kind of coach do you want to be [18:15]
- Get noticed [21:31]
- How Ben and Mark became friends [ 24:14]
- Difference between arrogance and confidence [26:28]
- Envisioning the challenges involved in the career path [29:29]
- Small wins count! [32:42]
- What was it like in start! [34:00]
- Why Mark wrote a book [40:50]
- Having control of your body is important for body building [44:15]
- Maintaining balance as a coach and a business owner [46:00]
- Mastering the 3 P’s [47:15]
- Personal development is very important for growing as whoever you are! [49:18]
- Biggest lesson in the gym – The learning curve! [50:48]
- What you are inspired by, matters! [53:26]
- Advice for all business owners [54:35]
- Get in touch with Mark [56:13]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Ben. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome back to the Muslim Intelligence Podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | I have another amazing episode for you today. |
| 0:14.0 | My great friend and incredible human being, Mark Coles, joins me today from his gym in Nottingham, England. Mark has been the |
| 0:23.9 | owner of a gym called M10, a mentor to hundreds of personal trainers around the world, an incredible |
| 0:31.2 | coach to not only clients, but also other coaches, and just a guy who's actually got something |
| 0:37.3 | of incredible value to offer to the |
| 0:39.4 | fitness industry. There's a lot of people out there now claiming to be coaches and leaders and |
| 0:44.4 | mentors and no one has any real experience in the trenches getting results. They read a book and |
| 0:50.2 | they think they're an expert. They feel inspired and I think you're an expert. Marcus, somebody who not only can he talk to talk, but he has walked the walk and continues |
| 0:59.4 | to walk the walk as he inspires so many incredible fitness professionals around the world |
| 1:05.2 | to thrive. And ultimately, he's the one behind the scenes producing results with coaches and not only producing |
| 1:12.7 | results from perspective of monetary gain, but from a freedom and balance perspective. |
| 1:20.8 | Teaching you not just to accumulate more money, not just to accumulate more muscle, but ultimately |
| 1:26.5 | how to balance his three P's, which Mark will |
| 1:29.4 | tell you about in this podcast. He gets into a lot about his background and what has led him to |
| 1:35.7 | be this way, some of our mutual mentors. And one of the things I love about this podcast is |
| 1:42.3 | talking about giving yourself permission, I think big. |
| 1:45.2 | Mark has done an insane amount of personal development work. |
| 1:49.4 | And, you know, on par with some of the stuff I've done and probably exceeding me in some areas, |
| 1:54.6 | he talks about some of the greatest influencers he's had in his life and some of the pillars |
| 2:00.1 | that he still holds on to to really |
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