Why Most Personal Trainers Stay Broke And How to Fix It
Jeremy Scott Fitness
Jeremy Scott Fitness
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Most personal trainers aren’t broke because they’re bad coaches. They’re broke because nobody ever taught them business. In this episode, I break down how I went from grinding nonstop and barely getting by… to building real income, real systems, and real freedom.
If you’re a trainer, coach, or gym owner who wants to stop trading time for money and start building something that lasts, this one’s for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's going on, guys? Welcome back at the Dreamers Got Fitness Podcast, a radio show. |
| 0:03.8 | Coming to you on this Wednesday, February 25th, 2026, hopefully it finds you staying safe and staying sweaty all at the same time. |
| 0:12.6 | On today's episode, we are doing a quick one for my little niche fitness community why why coaches and personal trainers are broke |
| 0:27.7 | why most of them are and and hopefully how to fix it now I realize obviously this episode is not |
| 0:35.8 | for everybody but even if you're not in the coaching space, |
| 0:41.3 | if you're not in fitness or in training, you could apply this to any small service-based |
| 0:49.0 | business. If you just kind of look at it through that lens, I'll share some, I guess, kind of, you know, Swiss Army hacks for all of those things. So if you just kind of look at it through that lens i'll share some i guess kind of you know swiss army |
| 0:56.1 | hacks for all those things so if you're in space you're entrepreneurial you got a bottleneck and |
| 1:01.6 | you provide a you know a badass kind of service um and you're coaching it you know typically you're |
| 1:08.4 | limited by you know the the talent that you have |
| 1:12.1 | and the talent you can surround yourself with. And this is kind of a fix for some of those things |
| 1:16.7 | to help you guys kind of get out of the being broke rut. If you run a business like that and |
| 1:22.8 | you think things are not moving in the right direction as quickly as you like. So, excuse me, I'm trying to drink my coffee with a mic on. |
| 1:33.2 | It's early. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm at my house. |
| 1:35.5 | It's 5.11 in the morning. |
| 1:38.5 | So you're the first people I've talked to today. |
| 1:42.5 | Housekeeping things. |
| 1:43.7 | So if my kids screams or dog barks, you guys know why. |
| 1:46.6 | I got real stuff to do this week. |
| 1:48.7 | It's not the easiest week of work, but I want to get this out to you and done so I could |
| 1:54.0 | have a Friday, kind of Saturday, Sunday that's not a 10-hour plus work day. |
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