Welcome to the Unstoppable Entrepreneur Show, 20 minutes or less of PowerPac strategy to disrupt your thinking, elevate your mindset, and help you scale your sales online.

I'm Kelly Roach, former NFL cheerleader and Fortune 500 executive, turned 8-figure entrepreneur. Let's go!

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So, Gillian Michaels is on the Unstoppable Entrepreneur Show, and first of all, it is such a huge honor for you to take the time to be here with me today. I'm so appreciative and so excited to have you here.

So thank you.

It's my pleasure. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, so clearly everyone listening knows who you are. You've dominated the fitness industry for years, but what I'm really interested in exploring today is just the fascinating nature of you as a business person.

Obviously, staying strong mentally and physically, I believe gives you a huge competitive edge in building your empire, right?

And we talk about this on the show all the time, like, without your health. There's no wealth, right?

But I would love to explore, like, I mean, what is it, eight New York Times bestselling books, millions and millions and millions of people downloading the app?

You know, you're a business phenomenon. Talk a little bit about that journey.

Gosh, okay. It's a bit of a long journey. I'll try to make it as concise as I can.

I think one of the most important things, right, with the evolution of any business that you begin, whether you're your own brand or you're starting a company that becomes its own brand,

is to have authenticity, integrity, honesty, right? And that's what passion is. Passion, perseverance and patience.

So for me, I fell into this line of work because ironically, you know, it was my own journey utilizing fitness as a means of empowerment in all facets of my life.

I found it to be transcendent. Mind you, I started at about 13 when I was overweight and kind of started to figure it out.

Okay.

It was very wax on, wax off for me, like realizing how it had changed the DNA of my self-image, myself words, right?

What I thought I was worthy of and capable of doing. So I'm inherently passionate about what I do.

Now, to make a very long journey as short as possible, I, at around 24 made a huge mistake of thinking I needed a real job, right?

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