The Healthpreneur Show with Yuri Elkaim

Today I’m talking with a longtime friend of mine, Brad Pilon. We’re part of the same masterminds, we’ve traveled together with our families, we’ve known each other for years.

Brad is one of the original gangsters in our space. He is the one man who really started the whole topic of intermittent fasting, way back in 2006! He released his book, Eat Stop Eat—which has become the bible of intermittent fasting—and at the time, it truly broke every rule out there with respect to dieting and fitness.

Besides Eat Stop Eat, Brad has also started another company called Venus that became the most successful product on ClickBank for three years. We’re talking absolutely monstrous numbers here, which he will get into in the interview.

If you’re wondering what is possible when building an online business … If you have a product, a book, a course and you’re wondering what can happen in terms of numbers and volume, you have to check out what Brad has to say. 

In this episode, Brad and I discuss: 

• Self-publishing vs. traditional publishing 
• Commitment to one idea 
• The intermittent fasting journey 
• How to deal with negative responses from customers 
• Setting your business up to be flexible 
• Brad’s crazy twitter story 

4:00 - 11:00 - The Eat, Stop, Eat journey. 

11:00 - 18:00 - The Venus story.

18:00 - 26:00 - Flexibility and scaling.

26:00 - 32:00 - Using email effectively.

32:00 - 35:00 - Rapid Five questions.

35:00 - 39:00 - Yuri’s notes from the conversation after the conversation.

Today’s podcast guest is Mario Tomic. He is a certified physique coach, public speaker, digital entrepreneur and world traveller—he is a true digital nomad.

Mario lives nowhere—he travels all over the world, generally moving from country to country every three months, and runs his online fitness business from anywhere he can get a wi-fi connection. His coaching company helps entrepreneurs, consultants and executives reclaim their fitness to get in the best shape of their life, and his specialty is being able to bridge the gap between complex exercise and nutrition research, and behavior change psychology.

In this interview, Mario will give us a glimpse into what his digital nomad life looks like. He’ll also be sharing some cool lessons from his days working as a digital marketing consultant for some big companies, and how he has translated that into helping him grow his own business.

In this episode, Mario and I discuss: 

• The motivation to get into the fitness coaching realm 
• Some amazing digital marketing hacks 
• Staying in it for the long haul 
• Monetization and why avoiding it is sometimes better 
• Mentors and coaches 
• Working remotely  

3:00 - 11:00 - Insights from Mario’s digital marketing background

11:00 - 15:00 - Mario’s “calling”

Today’s podcast guest is Mario Tomic. He is a certified physique coach, public speaker, digital entrepreneur and world traveller—he is a true digital nomad.

Mario lives nowhere—he travels all over the world, generally moving from country to country every three months, and runs his online fitness business from anywhere he can get a wi-fi connection. His coaching company helps entrepreneurs, consultants and executives reclaim their fitness to get in the best shape of their life, and his specialty is being able to bridge the gap between complex exercise and nutrition research, and behavior change psychology.

In this interview, Mario will give us a glimpse into what his digital nomad life looks like. He’ll also be sharing some cool lessons from his days working as a digital marketing consultant for some big companies, and how he has translated that into helping him grow his own business.

In this episode, Mario and I discuss: 

• The motivation to get into the fitness coaching realm 
• Some amazing digital marketing hacks 
• Staying in it for the long haul 
• Monetization and why avoiding it is sometimes better 
• Mentors and coaches 
• Working remotely  

3:00 - 11:00 - Insights from Mario’s digital marketing background

11:00 - 15:00 - Mario’s “calling”

15:00 - 21:00 - Life as a digital nomad

21:00 - 25:00 - Mario’s daily routine and productivity strategies

25:00 - 27:00 - Thoughts on mentorship

27:00 - 30:00 - Building and optimizing a remote team

30:00 - 32:00 - Rapid-fire questions 

Today we’ve got a solo round on the Healthpreneur podcast where I’m going to talk to you about the two-letter word that will transform your business. This world will help you prioritize what is most important and ultimately make you more efficient and effective. 

I don’t want to give anything away here and I don’t want to waste any of your time, so let’s just get right into it!

0:00 - 4:00 - The two letter word 

4:00 - 12:00 - Priorities, and some of my personal stories  

Today we’ve got a solo round on the Healthpreneur podcast where I’m going to talk to you about the two-letter word that will transform your business. This world will help you prioritize what is most important and ultimately make you more efficient and effective. 

I don’t want to give anything away here and I don’t want to waste any of your time, so let’s just get right into it!

0:00 - 4:00 - The two letter word 

4:00 - 12:00 - Priorities, and some of my personal stories  

Today, we have the one-and-only Pat Flynn on the podcast. Pat is a self-described fitness minimalist, expert generalist, and business coach. He has built a six-figure monthly income as a solo entrepreneur, he has one of the top 500 health and fitness wellness blogs, and he’s an international bestselling author of three “For Dummies” books! Pat also has his own podcast called “The Chronicles of Strength,” which I was on a few weeks ago.

So he’s pretty qualified for this podcast. The coolest thing about this episode is that Pat has some interesting—and controversial—ideas about specialization. While many of us focus on becoming the best we can be at one skill, and focus on doing it better than anyone else—Pat doesn’t necessarily agree.

Pat is more of a generalist. And you’ll see that he has some really solid points on why it may actually be better to be decent at a lot of things, instead of being really good at one thing. Plus, Pat is going to share what he believes is the one thing you absolutely must master in order to be successful with your business. 

In this episode, Pat and I discuss: 

• Pat’s new book 
• Side projects and the benefits of being an entrepreneur 
• Generalism 
• Bootstrapping 
• Using numbers and metrics to build a successful team 
• Communication—why it is so important 

3:00  - 6:00 - Pat’s background and his new book.

6:00  - 14:00 - The benefits of being a generalist.

Today, we have the one-and-only Pat Flynn on the podcast. Pat is a self-described fitness minimalist, expert generalist, and business coach. He has built a six-figure monthly income as a solo entrepreneur, he has one of the top 500 health and fitness wellness blogs, and he’s an international bestselling author of three “For Dummies” books! Pat also has his own podcast called “The Chronicles of Strength,” which I was on a few weeks ago.

So he’s pretty qualified for this podcast. The coolest thing about this episode is that Pat has some interesting—and controversial—ideas about specialization. While many of us focus on becoming the best we can be at one skill, and focus on doing it better than anyone else—Pat doesn’t necessarily agree.

Pat is more of a generalist. And you’ll see that he has some really solid points on why it may actually be better to be decent at a lot of things, instead of being really good at one thing. Plus, Pat is going to share what he believes is the one thing you absolutely must master in order to be successful with your business. 

In this episode, Pat and I discuss: 

• Pat’s new book 
• Side projects and the benefits of being an entrepreneur 
• Generalism 
• Bootstrapping 
• Using numbers and metrics to build a successful team 
• Communication—why it is so important 

3:00  - 6:00 - Pat’s background and his new book.

6:00  - 14:00 - The benefits of being a generalist.

14:00 - 16:00 - The power of communication.

16:00 - 25:00 - Marketing and Pat’s 80% rule.

25:00 - 29:00 - Pat’s advice for starting in a new market.

29:00 - 30:00 - Rapid-five questions. 

On today’s episode of the Healthpreneur Podcast, we’ve got a special guest. All of our guests are special, but our guest today has actually been invited by NASA on multiple occasions to advise them on strategic countermeasures for long term space flight—which is pretty crazy, right?  

His name is Mark Alexander and he is the creator of ARX Fitness Technology. ARX is a weight-lifting system that uses motors instead of gravity—and it is taking the world by storm, having already been adopted by a lot of the leading bio hackers in our space.

We’re going to talk about how Mark developed this technology, why he developed it, some of the challenges he’s faced, and how he was able to make it into a success story. If you have an idea for a product or a service, or if you’re thinking about how to position yourself in the marketplace—there is some great wisdom in this interview that you definitely don’t want to miss.

In this episode, Mark and I discuss: 

• What adaptive resistance technology is all about 
• Efficiency 
• How to educate effectively 
• The simpler, the better 
• Creating a product vs. selling a service 
• The death of the big gym model 

04:00 - 9:00 - The creation of ARX

On today’s episode of the Healthpreneur Podcast, we’ve got a special guest. All of our guests are special, but our guest today has actually been invited by NASA on multiple occasions to advise them on strategic countermeasures for long term space flight—which is pretty crazy, right?  

His name is Mark Alexander and he is the creator of ARX Fitness Technology. ARX is a weight-lifting system that uses motors instead of gravity—and it is taking the world by storm, having already been adopted by a lot of the leading bio hackers in our space.

We’re going to talk about how Mark developed this technology, why he developed it, some of the challenges he’s faced, and how he was able to make it into a success story. If you have an idea for a product or a service, or if you’re thinking about how to position yourself in the marketplace—there is some great wisdom in this interview that you definitely don’t want to miss.

In this episode, Mark and I discuss: 

• What adaptive resistance technology is all about 
• Efficiency 
• How to educate effectively 
• The simpler, the better 
• Creating a product vs. selling a service 
• The death of the big gym model 

04:00 - 9:00 - The creation of ARX 

09:00 - 15:00 - Education  

15:00 - 18:00 - Biggest challenges 

18:00 - 25:00 - Market strategies; products vs. services 

25:00 - 30:00 - Asking yourself the important questions 

30:00 - 35:00 - Rapid five questions 

In this episode, I am going to go over the final ten traits that all successful entrepreneurs have in common. This is part two of our series, so today we’ll be going over traits six through ten. If you missed the first five, be sure to go check them out on episode 14.

02:00 - 03:00 - Taking calculated risks 

03:00 - 04:30 - Your own products 

04:30 - 06:00 - The riches are in the niches 

06:00 - 06:30 - Never giving up 

06:30 - 08:00 - Good humans 

08:00 - 10:00 - Crushing it