Introducing Aadam Lodhi, founder of Dojo Launch. Aadam is an entrepreneur based out of Toronto, Ontario. He helps martial arts gyms get more students with digital marketing. Aadam is on a mission to move the martial arts industry forward through creativity and innovation. Aadam has successfully tripled his family business dojo’s revenue, which inspired him to help promote and grow over 100+ dojo’s across the country. Learn about how he started and his passion behind how martial arts has provided him more confidence and patience to successfully pilot his own business. 

Our host, Kenny Bhullar, brings his friend and client Tania McDonald to catch us up to speed on how Kenny stays motivated physically and mentally despite not getting the result he wanted in his jiujitsu competitions the past year. We also discuss how to shut the brain off, knowing when to “turn the switch on” and off, dealing with life’s setbacks and resistance, alongside how to look at things positively when life throws you curveballs. 

This was a very special episode featuring YEGfitness magazine’s nominees for Edmonton’s best community supporters. To be nominated alongside the following is an absolute honour: Jordan Jeske (owner of Projct YEG and Projct Golf; founder of the golf society yeg), Kellie (founder of fit your life yeg), and Tony Nguyen (co-founder of F.R.E.E Fitness). This episode brought on wide ranging topics associated with the perks of being more vulnerable, meeting your clients/customers where they are at, how to build your own sense of community, the beginning journey of what building a community looks like and how it creates life changing experiences and many more. If you resonate with this episode please share with a friend and like us on Instagram.  Take the time to nominate your favorite community supporter by clicking the following link. Voting ends January 15th: https://yegfitness.ca/best-of-yeg-fitness-awards-2021/

Introducing Andrew Coates: "Graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a Bachelor of Commerce(Co-op) Honours. Grew up as a competitive cross-country skier, basketball player, and dabbled in many other sports. Became a die hard fitness enthusiast in my early 20’s. Began my career as a certified personal trainer in the fall of 2010 in Edmonton, Alberta. 19000+ client coaching hours and counting. Devotion to reading and studying everything I’m able to find time for, about fitness, nutrition, behaviour change, and anything related to a career in the fitness industry. Owner of Andrew Coates Fitness, founded in January of 2017 and contracting at Evolve Strength South. Currently split my days between Evolve and my home studio in south Edmonton. Host of The Lift Free and Diet Hard Podcast with Andrew Coates (formerly The Fitness Devil with my friend and co-host Dean Guedo. A weekly show of discussions with fitness industry leaders. Fitness Writer for not only my website here but for major fitness publications including T-Nation, The PTDC, Generation Iron, and TrueCoach, with more in the works. Cofounder and MC of The Evolve Canadian Strength Symposium, an Edmonton Fitness Conference featuring industry leading speakers including cofounder Dean Somerset, Lee Boyce, and more. Mentor of a small group of fitness professionals around the world. I post daily ideas and fitness industry philosophy on my rapidly growing Instagram account @andrewcoatesfitness. You can follow me on Twitter but I mostly just use it to create graphics for IG."

Ken Brickley is part of a group of entrepreneurs in the creator economy that share a common purpose; to help people improve their health and happiness. Founder of MacroActive, the company works to scale the impact of personal trainers, coaches, instructors and athletes. The platform allows these influencers to deliver their own fully branded customized meal plans, training and mindset programs, turning their fans into subscribers, but more importantly, scaling their impact of millions of lives instead of only a those at their local gym or studio. They have helped more than 500,000 people lose weight and feel better about themselves while generating more than $50 million dollars in earnings for the online personal trainers we work with in countries all around the world.

Introducing Andrew Coates: “Graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a Bachelor of Commerce(Co-op) Honours. Grew up as a competitive cross-country skier, basketball player, and dabbled in many other sports. Became a die hard fitness enthusiast in his early 20’s and began his career as a certified personal trainer in the fall of 2010 in Edmonton, Alberta. Devoted to reading and studying everything he's able to find time for,  whether it's about fitness, nutrition, behaviour change, or anything related to a career in the fitness industry. Owner of Andrew Coates Fitness, founded in January of 2017 and contracting at Evolve Strength South. Also, the host of The Lift Free and Diet Hard Podcast (formerly The Fitness Devil with my friend and co-host Dean Guedo). A weekly show of discussions with fitness industry leaders. Fitness Writer for not only my website here but for major fitness publications including T-Nation, The PTDC, Generation Iron, and TrueCoach, with more in the works. Cofounder and MC of The Evolve Canadian Strength Symposium, an Edmonton Fitness Conference featuring industry leading speakers including cofounder Dean Somerset, Lee Boyce, and more. Mentor of a small group of fitness professionals around the world. He posts daily ideas and fitness industry philosophy on his rapidly growing Instagram account @andrewcoatesfitness.

This week on the 2nd Floor, we have the pleasure of sitting down with Jon Cheung, Founder and CEO of Evolve Strength, a fast-growing chain of gyms based in Edmonton, Alberta. Jon first opened Evolve in 2015, after completing his career as a strength and conditioning coach where he spent some time with both the Edmonton Eskimos and the Edmonton Police Service Recruits.

In this episode, we discuss many topics, but the one that stands is the risk he undertook to open his first gym. Without that decision, Evolve probably doesn't exist today. Tune in to this week's episode to learn about Jon and his story.