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Your host Bryce Henson interviews health and fitness expert Drew Manning.  Drew is the New York Times best-selling author of Fit2Fat2Fit: The Unexpected Lessons from Gaining and Losing 75 lbs on Purpose.  Hear about his journey and how it has led him to be a more empathetic fitness and health coach.

Learn about his passion for the Keto Diet and how it works.  Drew shares great insights into his life and work and how it has empowered him and others. Listen along for key points and encouraging types to help propel you in your journey. 

• 01:20 - Bryce introduces today’s guest Drew Manning from Fit2Fat2Fit.
• 01:35 - Drew shares his back story from growing up in a family of 11 kids, being active, and continuing into fitness and getting a business degree.
• 06:15 - Drew shares recommendation points for entrepreneurs with a background in business that is interested in getting into the fitness industry.
• 08:50 - Listen along as Drew walks us through his Fit2Fat2Fit journey. Hear about his experiment that led him to better understand his client's struggles.
• 16:01 - Bryce asks Drew what sort of work needs to be done in identity and how do you help someone develop theirs.
• 21:47 - Get a high-level view of Drews's books: “Fit2Fat2Fit” and “Complete Keto: A Guide to Transforming Your Body and Your Mind for Life”
• 27:18 - Learn about what kind of supplementation is part of the ketogenic diet. 
• 29:10 - Hear about why Drew embarked on his journey again at 40 and how it went.
• 36:50 - Bryce’s famous lightning round Q&A. Q: What is the hardest thing you have been through? A: My divorce and break up. Q: What's your biggest accomplishment to you today? A: Being authentically happy. Q: What is your zone of genius? A: Tying in the mental and emotional part of the transformation into the physical part. Q: What are you most passionate about today? A: Being a Dad!
• 49:40 - You can find and follow Drew at www.fit2fat2fit.com.com.

“What you are aware of you are in control of, what you’re not aware of controls you.”

-Rumi

Your hosts Bryce Henson and Bedros Keuillian join forces for an amazing show. Listen in for key elements that make for an incredible coach from identifying your avatar to accountability.  Discover the framework for developing coaching skills and devotion from your FFP hosts. 

Grab some excellent knowledge about how to grow your mindset to push you past your limiting beliefs on today’s show. 

• 01:00 - Bryce introduces today's show on the value and framework of their coaching alongside co-host Bedros.
• 02:00 - Bedros breaks down the difference between a trainer and a coach. 
• 06:35 - Bryce asks Bedros to share what makes him and the other coaches he has seen an incredible world-class coach.  
• 14:08 - Bedros and Bryce discuss the top framework points of being a successful coach. Learn about identifying who you want to coach, find out their desired outcome, and hold them accountable.
• 22:46 - Follow along as Bryce segway into mindset coaching.  
• 27:44 - Learn about how you can grow your mindset and free you from your limiting beliefs.

“Figuring out that the obstacle is the way”

-Bryce Henson

Your host, Bryce Henson interviews fitness finance advisor extraordinaire Max Phillips. With a strong background in fitness and nutrition, Max came to meet Bedros at the perfect time.  Hear about his amazing journey through “The Project” and how it transformed his life.  

Max is Fit Body Boot Camp’s financial advisor and has a ton of knowledge to share with you today. Listen along to hear how the process works and how to be a successful franchise owner. 

• 00:50 - Bryce introduces today’s guest, Fit Body Boot Camp’s financial advisor and nutrition coach Max Phillips.
• 01:40 - Hear Max’s backstory from growing up in a small town in Michigan playing sports to getting his business degree and into the working force.  Follow along to hear how he found his path and passion.
• 06:50 - Max shares how he found Bedros and the “The Project” program and how it changed his life. 
• 13:00 - Hear about Max’s conversation with Bedros that put him on the FBBC journey.
• 16:00 - Bryce and Max talk about priorities and realizing there’s more to life than just work and grinding. 
• 17:35 - Max gives insight into his background in fitness and nutrition.
• 23:20 - Get a look at the process behind Max’s role as a fitness franchise advisor. 
• 28:00 - Listen along for common questions Max gets during the process.
• 36:15 - Bryce’s famous lightning round Q&A. Q: What is one big passion in your life? A: Helping others. Q: What is a big habit you have? A: Starting the day off with a workout. Q: Book recommendation? A: “Outwitting the Devil” by Napoleon Hill. Q: 

“Our biggest enemy is ourselves ”

-Max Phillips

Your host, Bryce Henson interviews his good friend Hailey Harris.  Hailey has her Bachelor's in psychology and is pursuing a degree in nursing while working at Bryce’s Yorba Linda location as the facility coordinator. Follow along in today’s show to learn about Hailey’s personal fitness transformation story and how her perspective as a client has propelled her into being an amazing facility coordinator.  

Hailey shares her personal fitness transformation story, learning how she did it and what keeps her strong throughout her journey.  Stay tuned for key points on what a facility coordinator does and how you can be confident in presenting problems and solutions. 

• 00:50 - Bryce introduces today’s guest, a fitness transformation success story and Bryce’s facility coordinator at his Yorba Linda location, Hailey Harris.   
• 01:20 - Hailey shares her backstory starting in college studying to be a cryotherapy technician in college and needing a job. 
• 02:00 - Hailey walks us through what cryotherapy is and why she started her journey there. 
• 04:10 - Hear how Hailey lost over 55lbs on her weight loss journey for better health.
• 08:35 - Get a client's perspective and learn how having this has helped Hailey to be an amazing facilitator. 
• 10:00 - Get a glimpse into what some of the concerns that come up for clients.
• 11:20 - Learn about the lack of nutrition education new clients have and how Hailey as a nutrition coach helps them. 
• 14:00 - Hailey shares amazing client results and how they got there.
• 15:27 - Learn about the importance of community and what it can do for you in a gym setting.
• 17:50 - Follow along as Bryce and Hailey unpack her role as a facility coordinator. 
• 26:22 - Hear about Hailey’s zone of genius and why she has been so successful.
• 28:20 - Learn from Hailey what about working for FBBC makes team members want to stay and flourish. 
• 30:19 - Bryce’s famous lightning round Q&A. Q: What are you most passionate about? A: Helping people. Q: Habit that has led to success and helped as a facility coordinator? A: Using a calendar and the knowledge and support from boot camp. 

“I look at everything from the client-aspect ”

-Hailey Harris

Your host, Bryce Henson interviews one of the top email copywriters in the world. Ian Stanley, the persuasion hitman who has sold over $100M in products and services online and off since 2014.  Hear Ian’s backstory of how he discovered copywriting and excelled his skills and career in such a short time.  

In this episode Byrce asks Ian some very detailed questions around copywriting, stay tuned to learn extremely valuable content.  Learn how having a good operations team, copywriter, and media buyer are the top three categories you need to implement to succeed. 

• 01:05 - Bryce introduces today’s guest, stand up comedian and one of the world's best copywriters Ian Stanley
• 02:05 - Ian gives us his back story from living in a mobile home at 19 years old to writing e books, teaching tennis, and trying to sell stuff online to becoming an amazing copywriter.
• 07:35 -  Bryce asks Ian why he chose the copywriter route versus sales, learn about his journey through learning copywriting. 
• 15:35 - Learn how to make money while you sleep with a good operations team, copywriter, and media buyer.
• 20:23 - Hear how the first line is the most important and opening with a story is the most effective way.
• 35:40 - Follow along as Ian dives deeper into how copy works from an aspect of feelings. Learn how your big idea (the hook) is the most important part of your copy.
• 47:05 - Ian and Bryce talk about having conviction as a sales person, listen along to hear how important it is to believe in what you are selling.
• 54:00 - Bryce asks Ian to share his strategy and reasoning for writing shorter copy with less commas, stay tuned for the details.
• 59:45 -  Bryce’s famous lightning round Q&A. Q: What is the best advice you have received? A: Don’t do a bunch of different things, focus on one thing and get really good at it. Q: Book recommendation? A: “The Surrender Experiment” by Michael Alan Singer and “The Big Leap” by Gay Hendricks. Q: The best habit you have acquired? A: Not touching your phone for the first couple hours of the day. 
• 01:08:00 -  Find Ian on Instagram @becomingianstanley and @almostpassiveincome as well as www.feedthwolf.com and www.persuasionhitman.com 

“The writing isn’t as important as the idea ”

-Ian Stanley

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Your hosts, Bryce Henson and Bedros Keuilian team up to talk about their predictions for the fitness industry for 2022. Hear about what services will be continuing to work and grow throughout the industry and for Fit Body Boot Camps.  Listen along for the importance of tribal communities, finding your pack, and the strength that comes from working together. 

Bryce and Bedros talk about how technology has grown and through the pandemic has allowed for more services to be offered, more people to be reached, and enhanced quality. 

Tune into today’s show for excellent pieces of wisdom and great tips on beneficial ways to grow your fitness franchise this year. 

• 01:10 - Bryce and Bedros talk about their 2022 Predictions for the Fitness Industry.
• 01:27 - Group training will continue and grow throughout this year, here how and why.
• 09:00 - Bryce and Bedros talk deeper about the importance of live in person training and workouts and how they will continue to offer hybrid options for those that need online services.
• 13:00 - Learn about the importance of having online services and how it impacts those that go out of town for an extended period of time or move.  
• 15:00 -  Bryce brings up the topic of being able to leverage technology and asks Bedros to share how it will make a big impact over the coming year.
• 27:40 - Bryce hits on the importance of having a relationship based business. 
• 32:17 - Follow along to learn about nutrition coaching from your hosts.
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“Fitness is a very intimate thing ”

-Bedros Keuilian

Your host, Bryce Henson interviews a young and very talented entrepreneur, Mike Zakarian.  Mike built his career in the industry from the ground up, he is a certified personal trainer, fitness coach, and proud owner of the very successful East Orange Fit Body Boot Camp.  Mike is one of the coaches in FBBC’s franchise business coach program, where he leads and teaches other gym owners how to excel in their business. Learn how Mike propelled himself into the industry and about his personal trials, tribulations. Listen along for excellent pieces of wisdom and great tips on Marketing and the startup process of opening up a new gym.

• 01:16 - Bryce introduces today’s guest, certified personal trainer, fitness coach, franchise business coach, and owner of East Orange Fit Body Bootcamp. 
• 02:02 - Mike shares his backstory from growing up as a small kid and his first time in a gym as a teen and how it changed his life. 
• 08:42 -  Bryce asks Mike to share what it was like in the first 6 months of starting his franchise from the ground up as a new owner.
• 13:05 -  Get the inside scoop on what it is for Mike working with his spouse and who did what in the first 6+ months of opening.
• 15:35 -  Listen along to learn about Mike's zone of genius and strengths and what his partner Marlenes are.
• 17:30 - Hear what Mike's take on marketing is and what makes it his zone of genius.
• 20:40 - Bryce transitions into the franchise business coaching program FBBC has and asks Mike to share about the process of becoming a coach for the program.
• 25:00 -  Hear about the commonalities and differences between coaching clients in the gym and gym owners.
• 27:40 - Mike talks about the nutrition side of coaching and how he helps his clients with diet and supplements.
• 31:16 - Bryce’s famous lightning round Q&A. Q: What is one of your biggest passions? A: Taking care of our team to help them support themselves. Q: What is the best advice you have received? A: To be able to define a problem properly. Q: What’s your best habit? A: Taking time to prepare for my day. Q: Book recommendation? A: “Traction” by Gina Wickman.

“Transformation is not a body transformation, it’s a transformation in their identity ”

-Mike Zakarian

In this episode, Bryce Henson learns about getting ‘naked’ with former US Navy Seal William Branum. Will is the founder of “Naked Warrior Recovery,” a CBD company created to support physical and mental recovery through innovation and excellence. 

Learn how to ‘GET NAKED’, Will’s philosophy and mindset which is about taking off your ego so that you stop wearing it around like body armor. Allowing yourself to be vulnerable and remove self-limiting beliefs through taking action.

Today, William is focused on sharing the recovery benefits he has experienced through quality CBD (THC Free). He founded NW Recovery in hopes that other Veterans and First Responders can experience their own recovery.

From Navy Seal to founding NW Recovery, listen in as Will bares all and shares his vulnerabilities and how he overcame his many hardships and failures. 

If you’re looking to build an unbeatable mindset in business and life by learning the importance of prioritizing recovery and the ‘GET NAKED’ mindset you don’t want to miss this episode!

- 01:02 - Bryce introduces today’s guest, founder of Naked Warrior Recovery, a former

Navy Seal, Will Branum.

- 01:44 - Will shares his back story from growing up in Mississippi, being heavily

involved in Boy Scouts, and his desire to be a part of something that was bigger than

himself.

- 13:13 - Hear about Will’s 3 year journey into becoming a Navy Seal and what his

biggest takeaways and advice are on not giving up.

- 15:00 - Bryce asks Will to share about his BUD/S experience during his Navy time.

- 28:50 - Will breaks down what the “Naked Warrior” mindset is.

- 39:40 - Hear about Will’s CBD business “Naked Warrior Recovery” and how he

transitioned into civilian life and became a business owner.

- 47:00 - Bryce asks Will to share his thoughts on why recovery is so important in life

and to gym owners.

- 49:54 - Learn what you should know and where you should go to tap into the right

information on CBD and to learn more about how it can help.

- 54:50 - Bryce's famous lightning round Q&A. Q: What is your zone of genius? A:

Because I know how to quit but I have the desire to never quit. Q: What is the best

piece of advice you have received? A: It’s ok to change your mind and it is ok to ask

for help. Q: What is your best habit? A: Planning out my next day the night before.

- 1:03:10 - Find and follow Will at www.new-recovery.com and www.5sealsecrets.com

“Lessons are learned through failure ”

-Will Branum

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Your host, Bryce Henson interviews the very successful Erik Van Horn on today's show.  From franchisee to regional developer, and investor to consultant Erik is a franchising specialist and impressive franchisor.  Listen in today to learn valuable tips and insider info from a franchisee and franchisor perspective. Bryce and Erik talk about the franchising industry, get pockets full of useful information and tools to help you in your own business.

• 01:10 - Bryce introduces today’s guest, a franchising specialist, expert in multi-brand ownership, and a franchisor, meet the impressive Mr. Erik Van Horn.
• 02:22 - Hear Erik’s backstory growing up in South Dakota, his shift from wanting to go to law school into becoming an entrepreneur.
• 07:45 - Bryce and Erik talk about their commonality of both being marketers first and foremost.
• 11:35 - Bryce asks Erik to share about owner operator versus franchisor tactics.
• 15:52 - Erik shares about his business/brand Liberty Tax and how he grew it.
• 20:35 - Hear Erik’s zone of genius and what he thinks franchisees' zone of genius should be.
• 26:55 - Bryce asks Erik what the overall value of the franchising industry is in general and who makes the best franchisors, hear what he has to say.
• 33:45 - Get a glimpse into some of the questions about the franchising industry that Erik gets. 
• 35:55 - Learn what the investment ranges are for new incoming franchisors from an investment perspective.
• 38:30 - Bryce talks about the franchise advisory council they created to collect feedback and Erik shares about brands collecting feedback from their people.
• 41:25 - Bryce and Erik talk about some of the challenges the franchisee industry faces.
• 44:24 - Bryce’s famous lightning round Q&A: Q: What is your biggest source of passion? A: Helping people. Q: What is the best piece of advice you've been given? A: Don’t change your lifestyle for a year after your income makes a big jump. Q: Book recommendation? A: “Who not how” by Dan Sullivan and “Source of Learning” Podcast by Justin Donald. 
• 50:15 - Find and follow Erik at www.franchisesecrets.com.

“They need to have that go-getter mentality ”

-Erik VanHorn

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Your hosts, Bryce Henson and Bedros Keuilian join forces today to update us from an entrepreneurial stance on the recent indoor mandates. Owning and running a franchise in California and New York is once again showing its difficulties with new mask mandates.  Learn what's going on, your choices, and what is correct versus the right thing to do is. 

• 01:03 - Bryce teams up with co-host Bedros to talk about recent indoor mask mandate updates.
• 02:15 -  Bedros gives insight into the new updates on the newest “flattening the curve” and what the reality of it really is.
• 08:04 - Hear what the updated rules and regulations suggest you should do to comply with the new mandates and the choices FBBC gives you.
• 10:00 - Bedros and Bryce address the real pandemic of obesity.
• 13:32 - Bryce talks about preventative health care and how we can change the conversation around what is healthy.
• 17:30 - Your hosts further unveil the curtain on their stance and how they support their franchisees. 

“We’re all just freedom-loving, security wanting, community needing Americans ”

-Bedros Keuilian

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