Meeting Gold Presents this week's guest DAVE DEKKER! Dave is the owner and founder of Herc's Nutrition, With over 20 stores across Canada. He's started with only $5,000 to invest and a dream to inspire others to be their best version. Growing up having a home gym, his father, the owner of a powerlifting club, and his grandpa Dekker a wrestler. Dave was encouraged to live a healthy and fit lifestyle. But Dave wanted so much more, he wanted what no one else was offering. He wanted relationship growth.

 Dave speaks on how much the health industry has significantly changed over the years, from being meatheads to women who weren't allowed to work out to now, fitness being so open and accepting for everyone and anyone. "Being confident, positive, healthy, and happy is what people want to be" Dave says. He shares his story on how he can relate. Dave graduated from Western and has worked a lot following school. He became comfortable with money, and success but uncomfortable with his body and the way he was living. He says "there wasn't any soul in it.'  

 Dave started putting together an image of what he wanted his future to look like and opened his first Herc's store in 1996. Catering to locals, he started having more and more customers coming in from afar. Which immediately motivated Dave to open more locations. With a good background in fitness, it was easy for Dave to connect with his customers and be able to expand his already successful business. Dave tells us "there were good days and bad days, but there's nothing better than being around like-minded people to encourage you to be right where you should be and that's what Herc's is all about.' It's about nourishing and supporting a healthy and happy lifestyle to share that happiness with others around you.

For the next guest, he asks, "As your biggest perceived failure ever turned out to be your greatest success?"

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