Today I had the opportunity to sit down with the founder and CEO of Mountainside Fitness, Tom Hatten. During the interview, we dive into Tom’s story of how he founded Mountainside Fitness as a 22 year-old college drop out with only $2,000 to his name. During the interview we talk about Tom’s unbelievable roller coaster ride that includes bankruptcy’s, jail time, personal tragedies, and the up’s and downs of his 28 year entrepreneurial journey that helped Mountainside Fitness become the largest locally owned gym in Arizona with 16 locations, over 95,000 members, and contributions of over $500,000 to charities in the last 6 years. Tom also provides his advice and lessons learned on what it takes to start and maintain a multi-million dollar business.