The InstaGuy Grows Your Instagram: Today’s co-host, he is a fellow Podcaster, a blogger, a former competitive bodybuilder and his last corporate gig was in the mechanical engineering field. Most recently he has launched his new brand, “The InstaGuy.co” He helps entrepreneurs and business owners grow their following and brand on the social platform Instagram.…

The InstaGuy Grows Your Instagram:

Today's co-host, he is a fellow Podcaster, a blogger, a former competitive bodybuilder and his last corporate gig was in the mechanical engineering field. Most recently he has launched his new brand, "The InstaGuy.co" He helps entrepreneurs and business owners grow their following and brand on the social platform Instagram.

Tony doesn't just talk about Instagram on this episode. We dive into his Vietnamese background, how important education is to an immigrant family and how Tony went from a scrawny 110lb High School Graduate to putting on 45lb's in a year to enter the world of competitive bodybuilding.

On this Instaguy episode you will hear:

Mastermind groups and the Fire and Adjust Podcast

He went into the mastermind with a brand in mind, which was really broad and not niched down enough. The health and fitness market was very over saturated. After niching down Tony's first brand he created within Sololab was The Fit Asian Man.

The Diet and nutrition part of bodybuilding strained his willpower more than the training

The Ab's are not made in the gym, they are made in the kitchen

When he graduated High School in 2006, he was really scrawny, weighed 110lb full clothed and was 5 ft 8". When he started college thats when he started working out. Tony's first interest in bodybuilding peaked in 2010.

Meal Prep

Packed on 40+lb's. It took a year to do. It was a commitment, this was not a short term goal, this a long term goal. People always focus on the short game with that bad four letter word, DIET.

The Tupperware Lifestyle

Translating bodybuilding to business, Solopreneurship and connecting the dots to his new brand

Getting the reps in. Bringing in anchor clients to help them out and get testimonials from them

Case study: Tony is growing Michael O'Neal's @Solohour Instagram account. When he started he was at 3000-4000 followers. Now he is at 13.1+k Followers.

Case study 2: Miriam from More Than Organized, had around 1000 followers and is now around 4,500. She is now getting a lot of traffic to her site from Instagram

Mistakes when building your Instagram accounts and your brand

Having a great mix of personal and business posts will really help you build a good following on Instagram

Feeling bottlenecked and second generation immigrant

Old school mentalities

Geared to be a good employee

Why immigrant families focus on education

Document your processes so you're ready to outsource. A lot of Entrepreneurs are afraid to let go. Time-Value-Money

Leaving his engineer gig to become The InstaGuy.co

What Tony is doing right now to keep a balanced lifestyle

Final Words

Links and Resources

TheInstaGuy.co

The InstaGuy on Instagram

Tony's First Brand - The Fit Asian Man

Solohour's Instagram Account 

More Than Organized Instagram Account

People Mentioned

Michael O'Neal

Ron Fugle

Miriam Ortiz y Pino

Final Words

Nothing is forever. Nothing is permanent. If you make a job or career choice now, it doesn't have to be the rest of your life. There are options out there. It's not about what you are doing today its about what you want to do tomorrow and the choices you are making along the way.

You have the freedom to make a choice.

Action Steps

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Start Your Revolution! Today’s Revolution episode was recorded live from the SYR CrossFit gym. The Crossfit community has grown exponentially here in the Greater Lehigh Valley area over the past few years. Today’s co-host runs one of the largest CrossFit facilities in the Lehigh Valley. He found the love for fitness after leaving the corporate…

Start Your Revolution!

Today's Revolution episode was recorded live from the SYR CrossFit gym. The Crossfit community has grown exponentially here in the Greater Lehigh Valley area over the past few years. Today's co-host runs one of the largest CrossFit facilities in the Lehigh Valley. He found the love for fitness after leaving the corporate world and decided to launch his own fitness gym and community. Welcome to the show Rob Eschbach.

On the show we talk about CrossFit's growth in our local area, buying and re-branding a gym, losing members to then tripling SYR's membership within three years of business.

On This Revolution Episode You Will Hear: 

SYR - Start Your Revolution

Coffee with a Cop

A growing CrossFit community within the local area

Behind the name First 13

The metamorphosis from CrossFit Honor to becoming SYR. Creating a new brand and taking a drop in initial membership

Rob's background before SYR. Settling from a travel intense lifestyle

Starting a family while building the business

Bringing on a valued partner and a GM

Changing the brand, increase the membership

What the CrossFit organization lacks is business support. Teaching new Box owners the business skills necessary to run a successful gym

Basic Sales 101

Keeping a full-time job while starting the business and growing the business

Being out priced in the market? Instead doubled and tripled membership

Reaching membership goals by year three

SYR have a 80% female membership which is unusual for a CrossFit Gym

Rob had a Powerlifting and bodybuilding background, the first week of CrossFit he was more sore than he had ever been which showed him that positive change was afoot

Have the ability to embrace change, put yourself in that awkward situation and realize you're not going to win. The best lessons learned are the ones when you have failed and you have to come back and try again

Retention rate from the first time they ran the women's program

The New You 6 Week Challenge

What are the ladies from the program expecting to get out of it

Goals from the program and how they help them meet their goals

Reason for not providing the fundamental program

Throw the scale away and why?

The flat-line effect, following similar programs but adapting us

"Nutritionist's" that don't know squat about modern nutrition

World WOD 1 competition - Over 30 teams committed

Releasing their own branded competition after World WOD 1

Where to find Rob

Final Words

 

Links and Resources

First13 Athletics Website

SYR on Facebook

SYR on Instagram

SYR on Twitter

First13 Barbell Club on Facebook

Coffee With A Cop

UTE Crossfit - Tommy Hackenbrook

New You 6 Week Challenge

World WOD 1 Competition

Rob Eschbach on Facebook

Rob Eschbach on LinkedIn

People Mentioned

Tommy Hackenbrook

Natalie Sisson

Final Words

Start Your Revolution. You as an individual not as a group. It is you reinventing yourself. You are what you make yourself. Put the work in and you will make yourself whatever you want to be.

Action Steps

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Today’s GoFundMe campaign guest and co-host is a gentleman I found online, through a mutual CrossFit coach friend of mine. He had shared a post that I found inspiring and worthy of sharing across all of social media. Mostly because it involves crowdfunding that was benefiting children and their fitness at the elementary school level. This…

Today's GoFundMe campaign guest and co-host is a gentleman I found online, through a mutual CrossFit coach friend of mine. He had shared a post that I found inspiring and worthy of sharing across all of social media. Mostly because it involves crowdfunding that was benefiting children and their fitness at the elementary school level. This campaign is on the popular GoFundMe platform. This online system allows someone to go out there to try to fund a dream, get a business going, launch charity or simply find funding with just the power of the internet.  Nowadays it's truly about the power of Google, of people, social media and building communities that can step behind something of value. The co-host today is from Vermont, he runs a program through HEScrossfit.com, and his name is Peter Driscoll!

Peter has been teaching physical education in Vermont for ten years. He currently teaches at the Hartland Elementary School aka HES. Nominated for the Vermont Teacher of Year Award by his peers in 2009 and earned his CrossFit Level one certification in 2010 and incorporated much of the CrossFit philosophy into his P.E. classes. He also trains for obstacle course races, recently finishing in the top 1% at the Vermont Beast Spartan Race in Killington. He's using all of this background and more to build a successful GoFundMe campaign to benefit his students while teaching other teachers that they could do the same!

In this GoFundMe episode you will hear:

HART - Hardwork, Attitude, Respect, Teamwork

Better than yesterday

Using acronyms for the students to help remember the most important attributes of their program

Six years ago is when Peter started to take CrossFit more seriously

Doing positive things with his certification and being recognized for it

Finding CrossFit from the Hotshot Wildland Firefighting training and GoRuck events

Goal of getting Certified for CrossFit for Kids

The real strength of what you learn is through teaching. His goal for the program was to build confidence up, from within the children. They say confidence is the foundation in which all our successes is built upon. Their motto is, "Form, Consistency, Everything else". The kids are run through a fundamentals program, so they learn the form and the technique before any weight gets applied.  If you don't have those techniques consistently developed, you have a high risk of injury

The lead up's Peter was talking about, in the education world they call this Scaffolding, to scaffold those movements and scaffold that information for the kids is vital.

Initial costs of opening a CrossFit gym includes the $3,000 affiliate fee, equipment costs, rent, utilities, insurance, marketing and salary expenses. For a medium-sized gym aka box, an owner can expect an up-front cost of at least $5,000 for equipment and $1,000 or more per month afterward to maintain and replace equipment. But since Peters project is a non-profit they get the fee waived and the agreement they have with CrossFit HQ is the school community can access their box and nobody can be charged a nickel.

In 2014 Peter and his brother founded tabatakids.com. They created music specifically for Tabata and Peter then brought it into the classroom so teachers can take a four-minute movement break with their students and they do it to the music.

At a conference Peter was presenting about how to introduce Table into the classroom for kids. On one of the days, he was not presenting he went to a session on how to bring CrossFit to your school. It was there that he learned that if you apply as a non-profit, you can operate as a non-profit.

"If you have a body, your an athlete." The magic word in CrossFit is Scaling because regardless of your comfort level, your experience level or your fitness level; we can make it awesome for them and the culture they have cultivated is incredible.

The Lebron James of CrossFit

Building a Brand, Marketing,

Good day Freelance loving ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of The LIVETHEFUEL Show. Today’s co-host is a gentleman I have had the pleasure of connecting with recently. He is from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. An amazing, professional photographer as well as an entrepreneur.  He’s also in the process of becoming a published author of his…

Good day Freelance loving ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of The LIVETHEFUEL Show. Today's co-host is a gentleman I have had the pleasure of connecting with recently. He is from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. An amazing, professional photographer as well as an entrepreneur.  He's also in the process of becoming a published author of his first book, due to be released in 2017 called "Freelance to Freedom." He has taken some amazing photos of a lot of major sporting events including Super Bowels, NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup and much more. Today's Co-Host is Vincent Pugliese!

This is a great conversation about being self-sufficient, getting over yourself and fueling your lifestyle while impacting others with your message.

In This Freelance Episode You Will Hear:

About the book Freelance to Freedom coming out in 2017

Co-Founding the business with his wife, Elizabeth

The reason behind starting ElizabethVincentPhotography.com

What his family business was and how his Dad called him out

Being taught how to be self-sufficient as a kid and knowing the value of the dollar

Getting over the notion of being too good to do something, sucking it up and getting on with it

Developed skill

Arrested for stealing and no direction in life, becoming passionate about what is now fueling his lifestyle

On of Vincent's most painful and physical moments of his life, leading to one of his biggest career accomplishments

You can't plan for everything, DiSC profiling and Strengths Finder 2.0

Feeling empty after achieving his goals

Narcissism and making people happy for a living

Ah-ha moment

Following the Dave Ramsey Plan to pay off his debt and personally thanking him

The impact of his book on others before its even out

Where to find Vincent

Final Words

Links and Resources

ElizabethVincentPhotography.com

Vincent on Instagram

Vincent on Facebook

FreelanceToFreedomBook.com

Disc Profiling

Strengths Finder 2.0

People Mentioned

Michael O'Neal 

David Geffen

Dave Ramsey

Sidney Crosby - captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL)

Final Words

To not stop. To not stop doing. When you have a conversation with somebody and you hear about regrets they had, about something they wanted to do. But they for some reason just stopped. Don't be the one that feels that regret.

Even through the hard times, you have to keep going. Don't get overwhelmed by it. Just be better than yesterday.

Good day ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another episode of the LIVETHEFUEL Show. Today’s co-host is from California, she is the voice of Thursday Nights on ABC, a stand up comic, and now a author of a new cookbook.  Further accolades include the regular podcast co-host of “Fitness Confidential” with Vinnie Tortorich (One of my top…

Good day ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another episode of the LIVETHEFUEL Show. Today's co-host is from California, she is the voice of Thursday Nights on ABC, a stand up comic, and now a author of a new cookbook.  Further accolades include the regular podcast co-host of "Fitness Confidential" with Vinnie Tortorich (One of my top favorite podcasts), a professional voice over artist (she's the intro and outro voice of this show), a fellow lifestyle promoter of NSNG (No Sugars, No Grains), and now author of the "Eat Happy Cook Book" just to name a few. Welcome to the LIVETHEFUEL show, Anna Vocino!

 

On This Episode You Will Hear:

The voice behind LIVETHEFUEL intro/outro and the voice, Don Lefontaine

Keeping your intro copy short, long intro's just turn off your listeners

Skipping through the AD's

Eat Happy - the digital version and audio books

People think when you are super healthy you cannot do a lot with food, it is all about adding herbs, spices and seasons. The fat is the conduit for carrying that flavor.

Eggs being the perfect food, Villa Cappelli olive oil and taking a shot of olive oil every morning

NSNG - No Sugars Grains message

You got time to clip coupons? You got time to read labels of what you are buying

You can't adopt all the children, meaning you cannot help everyone

The Four Hour vs. The Bulletproof

Bio-hacking and the "23 and me" test

Who's going to eat well all the time?

Clear vs. brown alcohol, but whiskeys are distilled compared to other liqueur

Ciroc vodka made from grapes, blue ice vodka is made from potatoes, all the big brand names are made from grains

Popular snack for Vinny Tortorich, Olives and drinks olive oil while on endurance bike rides

Olive oil can go rancid very quickly, it is very sensitive to sunlight

Giving Olive oil as gifts.

A follow up book about pairings, the majority of all the recipes in the book are Anna Vocino originals

Hello Fresh vs Blue Apron

Chicken cauliflower "rice."

Coconut oil and almond oil

Good and bad ways of processing food, undenatured vs denatured processing

The mystery of inflammation

I was on joint supplements for five years, I have not been on them for over a year because of cutting out grains from my life

The Ingredients honor the recipe

Making desserts for this lifestyle

Getting my mom to follow the recipe

Family and friend health issues, you've got to reprogram the body and lifestyle

The book is just one more tool in your health arsenal, this is for a joyful life

Where to find out more about Anna

Final Words

Links and Resources

Eat Happy Cook Book By Anna Vocino 

AnnaVocino.com

Anna on Twitter 

Anna on Facebook 

Anna on Instagram 

Podcast show: joint with Vinnie Tortorich of Fitness Confidential

23andMe

Geneticgenie.org

HelloFresh.com

People Mentioned

Don Lefontane - The famous voice behind : "In a world"

Amy Schumer

Dave Aspray

Vinnie Tortorich

Tim Ferriess

Michael O'Neal

Final Words on NSNG

We make way to much of this. The weight loss industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, and we are over thinking it. Cut out the Sugars and Grains (NSNG). Make that your foundation, just tweak everything else to suit your body. Then move a little and do some exercise.

This is all simple stuff. We all make far too much of it. Don't over think things. Especially Women, because they are very hard on themselves if they "Cheat" or "Fall off the wagon." We all get knocked off once in a while. You just got to get back on.