Vinnie Tortorich: A chat about life, health, fitness, and the myth of pure passive income
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2014
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Vinnie is the Founder and Host of the Angriest Trainer Podcast, which get's over 350,000 downloads per month. Vinnie's book, FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL, was rejected by every book publisher he approached, so he self published it, and it remained a top-seller on Amazon through its first year, (and is also being nominated for book of the year by Audible.com). That's not all... FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL was just optioned by Sony pictures to be turned into a television series. The book is on it's way to 100,000 copies sold.
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| 1:00.0 | Vinnie, Tour de Rich. |
| 1:02.0 | Vinnie, are you prepared to ignite? |
| 1:05.0 | I can't wait. |
| 1:06.0 | Yes. Vinnie is the founder and host of the angriest trainer podcast, which gets over 350,000 downloads per month. |
| 1:15.0 | Vinnie's book Fitness Confidential was rejected by every book publisher. |
| 1:20.0 | So he self published and it remained a top seller Amazon through his first year, also being nominated for Book of the Year by audible.com. |
| 1:28.0 | Fitness Confidential was just option by Sony Pictures to be turned into a television series and the books on its way to a hundred thousand copies sold. |
| 1:37.0 | Vinnie, I've given Fire Nation just a little insight. So share a little bit more about you personally and then just expound upon this greatness. |
| 1:46.0 | I don't know if you would call it greatness, John. |
| 1:50.0 | I mean, I do. |
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