The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger

This is one of those talks you'll want to come back to again and again when things get hard and they will as a business owner. It's what you signed up for and everyday you head says to quit but your heart keeps you in the game, you demonstrate that necessary courage that entrepreneurship demands. This is a special episode where Erin shared her State of The Union to our IFCA students and we wanted to share it with our community here!

Time Stamps:

(2:00) No One Understands The Entrepreneur But Entrepreneurs

(3:20) Why Most Coaches Quit

(5:38) Your Stuck Because You Return To The Same Patterns

(11:24) Your Nervous System Doesn't Care About Your Goals

(16:38) Self-Awareness

(19:30) Results Take Longer Than Your Expect

(21:30) The Real Definition of Courage

(25:33) Borrowing Beliefs

(29:25) Stacking Evidence

(30:50) Full Identity Crisis

(32:42) Fear Means Lean In

(38:35) What Landed In This Talk?

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You need to approach your content in a strategic way if you want results in 2026 and in today's episode, I'm going to breakdown the 5 types of content that are crushing right now. I'll explain each type, give you examples, and also explain how paid ads are the key to accelerating followers, engagement, and clients.

Time Stamps:

(0:30) Why Your Content Isn't Going Viral

(2:10) Demonstration Reels

(4:40) Negative Hooks

(7:37) Credibility Hooks

(8:50) Story Based Vulnerability

(10:42) B Roll with Text Overlay

(11:40) Paid Ads

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If 2026 is the year you want to go from fully in-person to either a hybrid model or fully online, you can't miss this episode. I want to share with you some advice I recently gave inside of IFCA to a trainer looking to go online but hesitant and some valid concerns. This episode will help you break your limiting beliefs and show you why going online is far more valuable for your clients and you.

Time Stamps:

(0:49) Recent Webinar Example

(2:18) Your Clients Ultimately Want The Result

(5:07) The Position of Power

(7:38) Hybrid Next Step Pitch

(9:25) Breaking Limiting Beliefs

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"The Three Steps To Transition From In-Person to Online Training WITHOUT Sacrificing Results & Quality"

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I used to work 70 hours a week. Grinding to make 30-40K/ month. I used to wonder how I'd ever have a family AND the life that I wanted. In the 3-4 years before having my son… I figured it out. I was able to scale from 40K to 140K/month and I went from working 70 hours a week in that business to 4 hours a week in that business. Delegation and leadership played a part but the BIGGEST difference was learning how to increase LTV of every single client that came into my coaching (so I could work with LESS clients and make MORE money) and that's what I want to talk to you about today.

We'll talk about what LTV actually looks like, what you need before you start running ads, how to not make the same mistake I made that costs me 6 figures, and more!

Time Stamps:

(0:45) 70 Hours A Week When I First Started

(2:07) Increasing LTV

(5:25) Upcoming January 4th Workshop

(5:50) The Mistake That Costed Me Multiple 6 Figures

(10:57) The Backend Offer

(12:05) LTV and Ads

(12:50) Your Offer

(13:59) My Maturity Leave

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Alyica Israel AKA Be Your Own Daddy is back on the podcast and we are going to talk about a lot of her business journey but one part in particular when she started to run ads and everything changed. Well not everything but when you listen, you'll understand what changed. The marketing game has changed since 2019 and it's important to keep up with what's working and hearing it from someone who's crushing in our field today is exactly what we are bringing you!

Time Stamps:

(0:10) Be Your Own Daddy Is Back

(1:30) What AB Barbell Looked Like Before IFCA

(3:40) Stubborn About Mentorship

(7:34) Data and The Entrepreneur's Mental and Emotional State

(12:55) 2019 vs 2025 Marketing Game

(19:50) Ads and The Ego

(23:00) Alycia's Ads Journey

(28:43) Ads Improve Your Sales and Nurture Skills

(41:35) The Fearlessness of Lacey Iskra

(44:00) Parting Advice

(48:33) Where To Find Alycia

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If I were to build a fitness coaching business from scratch in 2026 using everything I know about where the market is heading, this is exactly what I would do. We'll look at Alex Hormozi's value equation to frame this conversation, finding who would actually pay this much for this service, how to sell the vacation not the flight, and more!

Time Stamps:

(2:15) Team Off-Site and What I Learned

(5:25) Alex Hormozi's Value Equation

(7:29) Likelihood of Achievement And Doing It Yourself First

(10:53) Decreasing Effort and Sacrifice

(13:25) Pricing

(14:27) Who The Hell Will Pay This Much?

(16:49) Selling The Vacation Not The Flight

(18:43) Data Problem over Discipline Problem

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If you aren't crystal clear about your niche and who your offer serves, you will be at a disadvantage going forward and we don't want that for you. In today's episode, I'll explain how to finally find your niche in 2025 going into 2026 that will attract the clients you want to work with. You'll be surprised how specific some of our IFCA students are with their niches and we hope this inspires you to go deeper with your offer.

Time Stamps:

(0:29) Finding Your Niche

(1:01) IFCA Client Examples

(2:22) Niching Is About Precision, Not Exclusion

(2:39) Tokyo Book Stores and Niches

(3:49) Confusing Is Losing

(5:49) Choosing Your Niche

(7:56) Your Unique Method

(9:51) Matching Your Client Niche?

(11:06) Psychographics vs Demographics

(12:16) Cardiac Rehab Niche Example

(13:46) Your Next Step

(15:01) DM Me "AI Offer"

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The functional health world is exploding right now and if you have the skills or desire to have the to deliver in this field, 2026 could be your best year yet. Today, I have on a former student, success coach, and incredible entrepreneur Lacey Iskra on the show to talk about her business LifestyleU and how it has evolved from fat loss to root cause functional health coaching. We talk about marketing, content, and getting over your fear of putting yourself out there.

Time Stamps:

(0:10) THE Lacey Iskra

(1:30) Lacey's Journey Through IFCA

(9:10) Virality Isn't Luck

(10:50) Positioning Success

(18:20) Pivoting From Fat Loss

(21:17) Offer=Problem You Solve

(22:49) The Blue Light Blocker Glasses

(23:45) What LifestyleU Solves

(30:00) Lacey's Content Creation Process

(38:28) People Need You

(41:50) Where To Find Lacey

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Pursing passive income sounds like a smart idea until you find out its bullshit especially in the beginning. We didn't start thinking about passive income until we were taking home 100k a month from our business and we were able to reach 100k take home months by investing in ourselves and increasing our active income streams. I'll explain why you shouldn't chase low tickets offers, what to do instead, and why your offer is your first step to success.

Time Stamps:

(0:17) Passive Income Is Mostly Bullshit

(3:35) Hormozi's Value Equation

(5:10) Recently Came Back From A 20k Retreat

(7:44) Fixing Your Offer

(9:35) If You Need Help, This Is Our Jam

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Have you ever had a moment in your business where you think…

Okay, everything is working… but also nothing is working… and also I'm exhausted… and also I need someone to just tell me what to do next"?

Maybe you're a mom trying to grow your coaching business on three hours of sleep.

Maybe you're getting sales calls where people say things like "I'm a 4 out of 10" and you're sitting there wondering if you should even give the price.

Maybe you're leading a coach who's missing renewal KPIs and you're thinking "Is this a coaching problem… or a me problem?"

Or maybe your VA hits you with her personal financial stress and suddenly you're like "Wait a second. This is not my responsibility… but now I feel weird."

Today I'm taking you inside an open office hour call with my IFCA clients.

Real situations. Real messiness. Real coaching.

And I'm going to walk you through the exact frameworks I used to solve them so you can apply the same thinking in your business.

Time Stamps:

(0:20) Open Office Hours Call

(2:05) What We'll Cover

(3:25) New Mom and Entrepreneurship

(7:24) 4 Out Of 10 During Sales Discovery

(10:35) Self-Awareness As A Leader

(14:37) Ghosting and Still Paying?

(16:15) VA Employment Issues

(18:20) Important Recap Points

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