Today I'm honored to introduce you to Danny Matranga, a husband, new father to a ridiculously

cute baby boy, strength coach, nutrition coach, content creator, and massive Harry Potter

fan, which I just found out this morning.

Danny's incredibly passionate, talented, and has earned my utmost respect.

He works tremendously hard to provide free, helpful, and encouraging content to help people lose fat, get stronger, build muscle, and improve their health. This is my first time meeting Danny in person, and I'm blessed to have him here on the show. Danny, welcome to the podcast. Dude, thanks for having me. I appreciate the gauzy intro that I probably didn't deserve. A hundred percent

deserved. Very, very, very kind. So who are you? I probably like a lot of people who listen to this and

like you, I am a like fitness focused training enthusiast at my core. I love exercise. I love

coaching exercise. I love connecting people with exercise.

And from like my teenage years, I had a pretty good inclination. Like I should follow this passion I have for movement and I want to share it with people who, like I could see like you probably from very early on.

Movement isn't in people's lives the way it should be. And so I think like when

people ask like, who am I? I answer pretty proudly, like, I'm a personal trainer, which is

uncool to say now in the digital age, but like, I'm a personal trainer. I've been a personal

trainer. I stay a personal trainer. I'm proud of helping people connect with their fitness. To your

point, I do some stuff online, but it's just a translation of what I'm doing with my clients.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm a trainer, and I think ultimately I look at myself as like,

I try the best I can to live a life of service for the people I love and the people I can help.

And just health and fitness

is the way I'm best equipped to do that. So I am a trainer, bro. Did you face any kickback on that

growing up? Like, hey, this is the career that I want to chase. Was anyone in your life being like,

you shouldn't do that? Absolutely. I remember being my undergraduate career in college,

taking like the track to go into physical therapy but i had already when i was in my undergrad had a lot of success fortunately with

like building a clientele i would spend way more time training my clients than i would at school

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