Welcome back to the rhino julie show. Those of you who are on YouTube. Hello. Just know you can also go to Spotify and iTunes if you want to listen in your car or while you're working out or something like that. Today's topic is not about how it's been like a year since I've done a podcast episode. No, it's not about that.

Today is about starting fresh and talking about how in 2004, I started my business, which I have two crossFit boot camp nutrition, personal training gyms. And then I have a ninja warrior gym, and then I have a corporate team building and wellness program. And I have my rhino, Julie mastermind, but I started in 2004 with just over $100, no savings.

I had a few thousand dollars in debt, you know, cuz they give credit cards to people when they start college. And they're like, here's the credit card? And they're like, yeah,  I wanna buy a laptop.  I wanna buy a camera. I had no credit because I had an issue with my social security number. I would go to the banks and try to get credit to start my business.

Cuz people are like, Hey, you need capital in order to start a business. And I'm like, yeah, that sounds smart. Now I'd go to the banks. And they're like, sorry, denied, denied, denied 15 years later. And we can talk about this another time. How one time I borrowed $20,000 from a member because I. Needed to make payroll.

And if all the checks cashed, I would be negative like $24,000 or something. Yeah. Anyways, those were hard times and I had to do 10% interest to the member and four free memberships for him and his band, which I'm very thankful. For him giving us money, but it was just really hard without credit. Okay. And here's what happened in 2004, I bought my first pieces of equipment for my business.

I bought buckets to put water in. I bought cones. I bought a fence post and I went out to the parks. I was also 65 pounds. Overweight, went out to the parks and I set. What I called obstacle courses. Like now we have legit obstacle courses because we have a Ninja Warrior Gym, but back then I did the best I could.

I wore camo. I had a whistle people thought I was really weird. . But I dreamed of building obstacles and playing on them for my exercise. And at this time I was obsessed with my idea. People thought it was dumb because this was before boot camp for fitness. This was before now it's kind of mainstream. You go to a boot camp, you workout, you know what it is back then we'd get calls and people would say, Hey, I have a really bad kid.

I wanna sign them up for your bootcamp. So anyways, 65 pounds overweight wearing camo had my whistle, by the way, I wanted to go to the military just to do their obstacle course. That's how I started this business, but that's a terrible reason to join the military. So I didn't do that. And then I started like my own bootcamp for civilians.

I remember I was so miserable in my body. I was miserable in my relationships. I also had no idea what I was doing. But I was driven by my dream. And 18 years later, I just, a few Sundays ago, I met with Rachel, a photographer from the review journal, and I met with Parker, the awesome manager of my ninja warrior obstacle gym.

And they're doing a story on our rhino ninja gym. And I have conquered my weight loss issues once. And for all, I have built a successful multi-location health and wellness business. We make over a million in revenue between the businesses that I have, but it's not really about that. It's about. Happiness.

like, I love what we do. I love our team. I love our rhinos. People ask me if I have kids. I say, no, but I have 600 rhinos because we call  our gym members rhinos. I'm in love with my relationships. And I have stuff that I want to share about all this. And I will be sharing, like I'm going to be sharing a lot about.

My journey and just how to kind of build yourself up from nothing. And I'll be sharing business things that come to mind, but I share in two different places. So when I share on my podcast and I share on YouTube, like I, I'm very, I'm kind of more methodical about it because I don't like there are some things there's, some people I wanna protect.

There are some. Vulnerable things that I just don't want out there on the interwebs, you know? And so there's gonna be some good stuff. I'm still plenty embarrassing and vulnerable on the interwebs, but I just wanted a safe space to share very personal stuff, personal stuff, about relationships, personal stuff, about building a business personal stuff about.

Getting over the idea that you can't make money, make a lot of money and be a good person. . And I've, I've gotten over that. I mean, I still have some triggers, but just, you know, just, just working on mindset and working on the cool stuff that, that comes to mind. And so what I did is I started a mastermind and it's for women it's for women who wanna learn about manifesting, learn about business, learn about relationships, and even how to be foodies and fit in your jeans.

If you wanna learn about that and. We are a tight bunch already. We have 18 women in the mastermind. I just adore each one of them. And we are going to share deeply. We're gonna play this game of life together. And message me if you want the info. Otherwise I am going to be going when I go live, I usually go live in the mornings on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook.

So make sure to jump over there. If you want to interact live, I would love to interact with you on those live streams. But I also will be coming on here and doing podcasts and I will also be streaming my podcast on to YouTube. So. We will continue this conversation about how to build yourself up for nothing with no credit, no capital, how to follow a dream, how to be okay with that dream, changing how to manifest the things in your life that you want to manifest, how to.

Just pick yourself up when you feel like the whole world is crashing down around your shoulders. That has happened many, many times to me. And I just really can't wait to share with you about it. And then I can't wait to get in my mastermind. Like this morning, I went in the mastermind. So I'll tell you like how my day goes.

So I wake up, I set my intention for the day I make my coffee. I, I meditate a little bit. I don't meditate very long. It doesn't take me very long to drop into the good feelings. And then I get on my computer and I just start typing stuff, whatever comes to my head. And then some of that goes into a post for the whole wide world.

And then. The more private stuff goes into a post for my mastermind, into a live for my mastermind. And then I went live this morning to the whole wide world. It was super duper fun. I loved it. And I loved interacting with people. And then I went live into my mastermind and holy cow, like the difference between going live to a group of people who want to grow and learn versus going live to Z whole world and all of the.

People and things that come with the whole world, like people who are just like scrolling and don't really care about you at all, then they're like, who's that chick? I don't know.  There's just a big difference. And then I'm gonna be coming on and making my podcasts. And again, If you wanna be in the mastermind, and just be able to really have more support and, you know, just be in on all of this SuperDuper cool private stuff, go to www.rhinojulie.com and you can see that info.

You can also get on my email list as well. If you want at www.Rhinojulie.com, I only send super duper heartfelt emails. And so basically if you want to learn about business manifesting relationships, Any of that good stuff, join me would love to have you otherwise I will be seeing you on the interwebs and it's gonna be fun.

Guys. Life is a game that we make up. Let's play. It's my new tagline. I really, really like it. Subject to change without notice. It's also a Rhino Julie quote. I looked it up and no one else has said it that I could find on the innerweb. So I'm like, yes, my quote. All right. Bye friends.  rhino tough.