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We Are Cash Flow Positive | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #22

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

Training, Fitness & Nutrition, Strength, Barbell, Health, Fitness

4.6740 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Starting Strength Gyms has just reached an important milestone: WE ARE CASH-FLOW POSITIVE after four years of intense work. Owner Ray Gillenwater discusses the long road it took to get here, as well as the future plans of the franchise. He tells you exactly how well the individual gyms are doing along with deep insight into the philosophies and business strategy of Starting Strength Gyms. 04:27 - Ray's phone consult with Rip 09:40 - Ray's business plan / All in 17:46 - Nine gyms were sold and none built 25:02 - We will not comply 28:12 - September 2022 Coaches Conference 32:20 - We are cash-flow positive 38:18 - Competition 47:06 - We built a successful business

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, it's Pete Troopers. The World's OK as starting strength coach here to talk to a few things before this episode.

0:04.5

New gyms keep getting added to the list, but our current holdup is being able to fill them with starting strength certified coaches.

0:12.3

And since we won't lower our standard for coaching, we're going to grow our own.

0:16.2

There's plenty of apprenticeship opportunities out there currently and in upcoming gyms.

0:21.7

So if you're interested,

0:26.6

head over to starting strength gyms.com. Click on the coach tab, fill out the form so you can speak to a recruiter in a cappel, and she'll let you know what opportunities are available. There's also

0:30.8

a map there to show you what's on the board and what's coming up. Along with that, we have our

0:35.7

coaches prep course. It's an online preparatory

0:38.4

course that's a design to help get you ready for the starting strength coach certification. It's

0:42.8

open to any level. You're assigned a starting strength coach mentor. You'll have to go through

0:48.1

23 different modules, including academic written assignments as well as coaching assignments,

0:53.1

where you film yourself

0:54.5

coaching different aspects of the lift and get real feedback from a starting strength coach

0:58.8

mentor it's a great opportunity to learn for somebody that is not able to coach in a starting

1:03.5

strength gym or somebody that is becoming an apprentice it is a great compendium to the apprenticeship

1:08.9

program so to check that out hover to starting strength.com and check out their coaching tab,

1:13.0

and you'll find the prep course information there.

1:15.3

Lots of opportunity on the horizon, folks,

1:16.8

so don't miss out.

1:18.2

Enjoy the episode.

1:19.9

Mildly entertaining, somewhat obscure guests,

1:24.3

relatively interesting topics,

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