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We get to know Chad Landers in this Trainer Spotlight episode of FITLETE Radio.

GEORGE: Introduce yourself and tell us a little about what you do and your background.

Hey, I'm Chad Landers. I have a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois. I was also the first American, and at the time only American, to get a postgraduate diploma in sports nutrition through the International Olympic Committee. I've had a personal training studio called Push Private Fitness for 22 years now in Los Angeles, and I've been a personal trainer in Los Angeles for 32 years. I work with anybody. I mean, I've had clients as young as nine years old and as old as 95. I've worked with a lot of famous people, actors and musicians, and a lot of, you know, professional people. So I really don't limit myself to a certain avatar, if you will. I will train anybody and everybody who wants to get stronger. Typically at my studio, it's strength training and, depending on the client, maybe some interval cardio work, but I've stuck with that for 30-some years in spite of all the trends and fads that have come by, whether it be, you know, I was here when Taibo first got big and have seen, you know, dozens of places like Curves and Orange Theory and CrossFit Boxes come and go, and I just keep doing what I do because I know that it works. So yeah, the mission of my business is just to make strength training accessible to anybody and realize that it doesn't have to be this big, crazy thing that maybe we see on social media nowadays, that you just need to be consistent and trying to do a little bit better than you did the day before. And that's really true with training as it is in life. If you just try to do a little bit better than you did the day before, things are probably going to work out for you pretty well in the long run.

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We get to know Meagan Baron in this Trainer Spotlight episode of FITLETE Radio.

GEORGE: Introduce yourself and tell us a little about what you do and your background.

My name is Megan Barron and I own Get Fit New Hampshire. I operate out of Concord, New Hampshire. My gym is a large group personal training facility with an emphasis on personal. So I work with clients between the ages of 50 to 70 for the most part men and women and really clients who are looking to age with grace so they can continue to do the things that they love to do and the things that they need to do as they mature. So while definitely people come to me because they're like, hey I want to lose weight. I want to feel better. The main person who's coming to me is like I want to work out again, and I don't want to get hurt when I do it. I want to be able to pick up my grandkids. I want to be able to put my own luggage in the overhead compartment. I just want to be able to retire and actually live my life. So those are the people that I work with and I absolutely love these people. So, yeah, I've been doing this for about 13 years. I do have a degree in exercise science and I started out at Get Fit New Hampshire as just an intern. I came to this gym as just a person off the street fresh out of the Marine Corps. He hired me on as an intern. I worked for free and eventually worked my way into a part-time position and then into a full-time position and then six years in he was like, hey, I'm ready to sell and I was like, oh, well, I guess I'll buy him out. So I bought out the previous owner in 2018 and it's been a ride ever since. So that's how I ended up where I'm at now, and I just like I never feel like I'm working. I absolutely positively love what I do and who I work with and I just wouldn't change it for the world.

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We get to know Tyler Argento in this Trainer Spotlight episode of FITLETE Radio.

GEORGE: Introduce yourself and tell us a little about what you do and your background.

Hi, everyone. Well, my name is Tyler Argento, and I am a personal trainer and yoga teacher and online coach. And I graduated with my degree in exercise science and sports administration. I went to Radford University in Radford, Virginia. Best four years of my life. As you can tell, I had a great time in college from my last story. But no, on a real note, everything always works out the way it's supposed to. And it's funny because it totally led me to exactly where I am today, which I have been a personal trainer for about 10 years now. And I've been teaching yoga for about 10 years now as well. I simultaneously got my degree or my certifications at the same time shortly after I got my degree, my bachelor's degree. And I worked in the bank, Wells Fargo, for two years and I became a manager eight months into me working there. So it's kind of really cool because I run a business today and my business is called Power Flow. And it's just really interesting how, again, everything works out because working in the bank. I live in Newport Beach, California, and it's a very business heavy city. And I was able to work with a lot of really cool people when fresh out of college and just kind of see how business works and banking works and understand like what accounts and business accounts and IRAs and all the things. So it really helped me learn the behind the scenes of a business. And I apply that all to my business. So not only am I, I guess, the founder and CEO of Power Flow Fitness, but I'm also the head coach. I'm the photographer. I'm the videographer. I'm the administrator. I am the marketer. I'm the banker. I am the financial advisor. And it's crazy because now I do delegate a lot of that stuff out to people and I have relationships with those people for Power Flow. But it's really fun. And I'm obsessed with Power Flow. And the mission of Power Flow is literally how it sounds. It's to stay strong and stay mobile. And it was the beautiful marriage between strength training and now power lifting and yoga and marrying the two and just becoming the best version of you, strong and mobile and powerful.

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We get to know Jane Metcalf in this Trainer Spotlight episode of FITLETE Radio.

GEORGE: Introduce yourself and tell us a little about what you do and your background.

Hi, my name is Jane. I'm a certified personal trainer and I am the owner of Move Well Feel Well personal training services. So personal training is actually my second career. I started off working in politics actually for almost a decade now. I worked in several state legislatures and I am so glad to not be working in politics anymore. Let me just say that and I'm so, so glad to be able to help my clients and do some meaningful work as a personal trainer. So I love working with perimenopausal moms who have older kids. They have a little bit more time freedom, but they have some injuries, whether it's from delivery or it's just the aches and pains that we pick up along the way. So I love helping them be able to learn how to lift weights around their injuries, eventually through their injuries, eventually getting them to their pain-free place. And then they thrive and they bloom and it is an absolute joy to be alongside them for that journey. So that's my business. That's my goal. And then I'm online and I am in person. And so I just realized that I love doing both. I love helping people in different areas, from different states, from different time zones. And I also love being in the community and helping my one-on-one people in person because it's super rewarding to be able to be there to watch a person lift some heavy weight, to watch a mom lift some heavy weight that she never thought she could lift and then feel wildly proud of herself when she can do it. She feels good, tired, but it's like a good tired, not a pain tired.

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We get to know Eric Buratty in this Trainer spotlight episode of FITLETE Radio.

GEORGE: Introduce yourself and tell us a little about what you do and your background.

Most people simply know me by my first and last name, Eric Buratty, and that's spelled E-R-I-C-B-U-R-A-T-T-Y. And that remains consistent across all platforms and domains, so if you were to do a Google search, and this is how people know me personally and professionally. In terms of my education history, I did graduate from Salisbury University back in 2011, and since that time, I've been heavily involved in the health and fitness world. I've written for a few online publications, I've published my own book, actually books, plural. The most recent being Make America Fit Again, and you can find that on Amazon. I believe some third party sellers also carry that, like Barnes and Noble. But my clients, my ideal clients that I work with now tend to be, I guess, more so like the 40 to 60 year old population with their age range. And they're just trying to get unstuck or trying to reverse or undo some of the stress they've accumulated on certain joint areas. Whereas when I first started out in the fitness world, I was more into the aesthetic goals. So your typical, I want to improve my body composition, that sort of thing. And if that's what people are about, that's exciting for them, that's great. But I find more excitement and I gravitate mostly towards people that are in the preventative maintenance side of things. So that is mostly along the lines of what I do when I operate out of the private studio that I train at in Gaithersburg, Maryland. And then when I also do, I travel to people's houses, and I also cater to people within recreation community centers locally.

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Book: Make America Fit Again

We get to know Emma Kirchner in this Trainer spotlight episode of FITLETE Radio.

GEORGE: Introduce yourself and tell us a little about what you do and your background.

My name is Emma Kirchner. I'm an online health and fitness coach, health and fitness and nutrition coach, based out of Utah, originally from California. Moved out to Utah to snowboard. Best snow in the country, hands down. I founded my fitness and nutrition coaching company, Fit Habit Coaching, about almost two years ago. But I have an interesting background. I went to undergrad and grad school for software engineering. And up until a couple of weeks ago, I was actually a software engineer. But I discovered that my passion was helping others avoid the same pitfalls and mistakes I've made on my health and fitness journey. So I decided to leave my software engineering role and pursue my passion full time. I've struggled with everything from body image issues, my relationship to food and exercise, gut health, hormonal issues, and I've gone from fat to fit countless times. Since I've basically undergone the entire gambit of things you can experience in the industry, figured it was probably my purpose to help others avoid those same pitfalls and mistakes that I've made. So the mission of Fit Habit Coaching is to make fitness approachable and sustainable. I want to help my clients achieve lasting health, weight loss, fitness goals, and make it less overwhelming for the general population. You don't need to be in the gym hours a day. You don't need to eat a restrictive diet all year long. Fitness should support your life. Your life shouldn't revolve around fitness. It should help you live a better life. So that's my mission, and hoping to just help others with that.

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We get to know Tiana Gonzalez in this Trainer spotlight episode of FITLETE Radio.

GEORGE: Introduce yourself and tell us a little about what you do and your background.

My name is Tiana Gonzalez, and I'm from the Tri-State area of New York City. My social media handle is Tiana's Mind and Moves, and my former business name was Fit by Tiana LLC. Now, I say former because about two or three years ago, I decided, you know what, I want to do more than just fitness. I have a background in dance, martial arts, powerlifting, CrossFit, and most importantly, competitive bodybuilding. In fact, I got my IFBB Pro Card in 2010 and figure. And it was in the pursuit of getting my Pro Card and figure that I did quite a number to my metabolism and to my overall health. Now, all of the lessons that I learned, digging myself out of that hole, finding my way back to normalcy, to getting my hormones under control, and to, I mean, I say this in air quotes, fix my metabolism. Those lessons that I learned and all of the different areas, whether it was with an endocrinologist or my gynecologist or my integrative medicine doctor, like all of those things put together is what really fueled me to get into the fitness industry in the first place. So I left behind this amazing career where I was making six figures in commercial real estate, still using my engineering degree. I walked away from it all in 2013 to pursue fitness full time. And it's been a ride. It's been a rollercoaster up and down. And I've realized, like I said, over the last two or three years that the impact that I want to make is much bigger than just fitness. I want the everyday person to understand that with a little bit of discipline and a whole lot of consistency, they could make ripples that will have a long-term effect for the better for their health, wellness, and longevity...

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We get to know Ron Duppert in this Trainer spotlight episode of FITLETE Radio.

GEORGE: Introduce yourself and tell us a little about what you do and your background.

My name is Ron Dupert. I am a certified personal trainer down in Charlotte, North Carolina. I actually got my bachelor's degree in exercise science up in New York at the State University at Cortland. And currently, I am the facility leader at a private fitness studio called Lake Norman Fitness Specialist, which is in a small suburban town north of Charlotte called Cornelius. And I honestly love to work with anybody, anybody that is really willing to work hard. I typically work a lot with, recently, I've actually noticed I've been getting a lot of people who are cyclists, runners, people that are just looking to get better overall so they can play with their grandkids, play with their kids, play other sports. But recently, I've actually been getting a couple more golfers, which has been interesting enough, because I don't have any golfing background or I don't have a golfing certification, but I do have an understanding of the sport, per se. So the workouts I've been running up recently have been focusing a lot around the game of golf, which is kind of fun because it's just something new for me to learn. But yeah, no, I love training anybody and anybody that's willing to work hard. And I don't want people to think that training has to become an absolute priority in their life, but I do think it is necessary for them to incorporate strength training or some kind of training routine into their life so they can get better at anything else that they want to do in life, whether that's sports, playing with their kids, their grandkids, hiking, cycling, golf, etc

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We get to know Bryan Fitzsimmons in this Trainer spotlight episode of FITLETE Radio.

GEORGE: Introduce yourself and tell us a little about what you do and your background.

Hey I am Bryan!, So as far as education goes, I'm going to forget, like I've done a bunch of certifications as I'm sure many of your guests have, but I've been coaching and personal training, nutrition coaching since 2015 for mostly moms over 40. I started at a place called Get in Shape for Women that was basically like Curves and I absolutely loved it. And then I transitioned to a gym that specifically catered to the 40 plus population. So I got to work with a bunch of people, men, women, and everything in between for, uh, what was it? Seven years. And in that time I got certs like, uh, PPSC, pain-free performance. Uh, what else? Uh, precision nutrition level one. Uh, those are the big ones. Oh, CSCS. So certified strength and conditioning coach, uh, specialist. Uh, and then recently I got a menopause coaching certification with Girls Gone Strong, which is probably like the big one that I talk about because that's pretty much my clientele is like that area of life. So I love riffing on stuff like that and talking about solutions and best practice and things like that. So yeah, that's pretty much that as far as like education goes. And then as far as business, I catered my business. When I went out on my own, I'm like, I'm going to serve the people that I'm used to serving, that I'm best at serving. That is the mom's 40 plus population. And my whole company is based on making it simple because they have been completely screwed over the past 20, 30, 40 years by marketing and a bunch of BS. So my goal is to simplify everything, make it realistic and let them hit and allow them to hit their goals in a way that doesn't feel like it's some gigantic grind, which unfortunately is like the norm right now... read full trascript at https://thisweek.fitletes.com/

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We get to know Krysta Huber in this Trainer spotlight episode of FITLETE Radio.

GEORGE: Introduce yourself and tell us a little about what you do and your background.

My name is Krista Huber. I am the founder and creator of The Fitness Fix, which is a fitness and nutrition coaching method that keeps things simple, keeps things honest, and keeps things real. I work closely with women, helping them really see that everything that's been holding them back when it comes to finally losing the weight, building muscle, having more energy, just overall having more confidence in every area of her life truly comes down to the fact that she's been conditioned to not put herself first. And why has she been conditioned to do that? Because society has shown her over the years that the way to get praised, the way to get ahead, the way to be successful, the way to be deemed well-liked, the way to be deemed good, comes at the expense of her in the sense that it is her responsibility to put everyone else's needs before her own. I see this often with moms. I see this often with women who are very focused on pursuing their careers. I see this with entrepreneurs. I see this with women who really want to pour into their relationships. And what I do to support them is really teach them how to recognize the fact that when we do in fact put ourselves first, we're able to show up better in all of those relationships and in every capacity that we want to because we're no longer pouring from that empty cup. I see myself as the last coach that you'll need to work with to finally lose that weight for good. And I play an important role in my clients' lives in helping them up-level in every way, whether that is expanding in their career, changing jobs, finding a new relationship, having the courage to move to a new city, but really up-level their lives in a way that's calling them into becoming their highest selves. I'm also most recently the founder of a new content coaching business that I've created for 2025. It is called the Clarity Collective and I help coaches, consultants, business owners, thanks to my experience in both the online training space and running an online brand and building an online business, as well as working in person in multiple gyms over the course of the last almost 10 years now, help these business owners have a lot more clarity in who they're talking to, who they want to work with, and how they actually communicate, call those clients in, and target those clients to really speak directly to them in all of their content, but making content fun again, making content something that isn't falling to the very bottom of their to-do lists, simply because there are so many other things going on in their businesses.

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