UX3 Restoration Radio By John Rowley

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UX3 Restoration Radio drills down with Tom Terwilliger on how he went from outlaw biker to Mr Universe to host of a top TV show for 17 years and is not a top personal development and fitness coach.

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John Rowley: Hi, this is John Rowley, welcome to UX3 Restoration Radio. Today I’ve got a great guest, old friend, we’ve known each other for a long time, we’ve reconnected in recent years through social media. He’s been kind enough to meet me here, we’re in the gym at the 4 seasons, which I think is appropriate for this interview. His name is Tom Terwilliger. How are you?

Tom Terwilliger: I’m good, I’m going to call you Johnny Boy, because is that what they used to call you in the neighborhood?

John Rowley: I’m Johnny Boy, I’m about.

Tom Terwilliger: Good to be here man, I appreciate it.

John Rowley: I appreciate it. Give them the low down on you, times on the gym, blah blah blah, give them your bachelor.

Tom Terwilliger: Geez man, I go … Certainly in terms of the fitness business, I go back many years. I opened my first athletic club in New York in Long Island back in 1987, after winning the National Bodybuilding championships, the Mr America title, which I strived for for countless years. Took me 3 to win it, 3rd place, 2nd place, and ultimately, let me tell you something, you talk about restoration and tenacity, not to blow my own horn in that respect, but it was a lesson, it was such a powerful lesson. Coming back that 3rd year, because the 3rd year was certainly the most challenging for me in terms of winning that national championship, I ran into the greatest emotional, psychological obstacles, much more than I did the first or second year or so, because it was about validation. It was just like “I’ve got a shot to really be this champion, not just compete for this championship, but actually be it, you know?” All this negative resistance came up. “You’re not that guy, you’re not a champion, you can’t be Mr America.” I started wrestling with all that, man. After winning the National Championships, the natural progression was, like a lot of athletes do in this field, open your own gym, right? I had no clue what I was doing, I had no clue.

John Rowley: That’s a blessing, you wouldn’t have tried.

Tom Terwilliger: If I had known what I was getting into, I never would have done it. It’s like “Hey, raise some money, open a gym.” Literally, we really struggled for the first year or 2, then finally figured it out, because I was willing to be flexible in many respects, willing to learn, not just pretend “I can still do this,” until we go under. There were some things to be learned, right? My partner was also a fairly good business person, so he helped along the way in that respect. We opened up a second one, and moved here to Denver, Colorado, and opened up a few personal training studios with my wife, Dawn, who’s my business partner today. Along the way too, some really fun experiences happened. Again, a lot of that stems from that love of bodybuilding, love of the sport was … I’m doing a television show called Muscle Sport USA, did Muscle Sports USA on Fox Sports for about 16 years or so.

John Rowley: Great show too.

Tom Terwilliger: Oh yeah, it was fun, man. It was during that heyday of the bodybuilding and just the inception of the fitness and the figure competitions and stuff, we were right at the beginning of that. It was fun, man. Today, my wife and I, we’ve gotten out of the bricks and mortar gym business, we’ve gotten into the digital world, we’ve got some successful books out there, and a bestselling book called the 7 Rules of Achievement, that sort of opened the door into the coaching,

UX3 Restoration Radio is proud to have Clark Bartram on. Clark is a top fitness professional, best selling author and an all around good guy. Listen in while we discuss the role forgiveness plays in your life.

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John Rowley: Hi, this is John Rowley. Welcome to UX3 Restoration Radio. I’m here with a very good friend of mine. He’s been a mentor of mine for years, we’ve been friends for a long time. My buddy, Clark Bartram. How you been doing, man?

Clark Bartram: I’m amazing, and he’s on an incline. I’m really not that short. It’s the hill, just so you know.

John Rowley: There’s no hill. The whole theory, the whole [inaudible 00:00:30] concept behind this podcast, behind this radio show is restoration. Taking your life … Some people take their lives and everybody talks about transformation, I want restoration because most of us were born healthy. Most of us were born mentally sound and then over a period of time through challenges or whatever else, maybe gain weight, maybe have mental challenges, spiritual challenges, things like that. Have you ever had anything like that in your life, where you’ve had to overcome something in order to get to where you are today?

Clark Bartram: Absolutely. I think it’s a great title for what you’re doing and it’s a great subject because we all need restoration. We’re guys, right? Let’s look at a car. Matter of fact, we were driving to the gym and I saw that nice Chevelle up on the thing and the first thing I did was I looked at it and I thought, “How great would that car look restored?” That’s what people do. They go into the restoration business and they bring cars like that back and they take so much pride and joy in them. Let’s think about life for a minute. We put all that emphasis in something that really does nothing. It’s a car. It’s an inanimate piece of metal. It might look good, it might mean something to us, but we overlook our life oftentimes and we don’t restore the thing that really matters.

It’s my opinion that if we take a real hard look at ourself, we all can find something that needs restoration. Yes, I’ve had certain things and I work on myself daily, on every single area of my life. It could be spiritual, it could be mental, it could be physical, it could be in my relationship, and those are all areas that we need restoration in. I applaud you for what you’re doing and I think it’s really great. I really want to encourage everyone watching to take a real hard look at your life because I think as guys we get so much pride and we get so much arrogance built up, we’re like, “I’ve got it all figured out,” when the truth is you don’t. You don’t have anything figured out, I’m going to tell you right now, you don’t. That’s just the truth.

John Rowley: What have you had to overcome?

Clark Bartram: Everyone … What do you want to talk about?

John Rowley: I know you had military experience, business experience, did you have something devastating in your life that you really had to work on overcoming?

Clark Bartram: Let’s talk about forgiveness. I think that’s one of the biggest things that people have. You mentioned business. The first thing I thought was a good friend of mine stole a lot of money from me. I won’t say how much, but it was a lot. He did it to myself and another friend of ours, so collectively this guy got a whole lot of money. Matter of fact, he’s in prison now because of it, but I had to learn on restoring my thoughts toward this person because what could happen instantly? Someone steals from you, you want to kill them, you want to do all of these things that are not conducive to a pro...

John Rowley has the honor of interviewing Jon Benson. Jon is a expert in diet and nutrition and is one of the top copywriters in the world. At a very young age he had a massive heart attack. He then went on to restore his body and his life. He shares his secrets with us today…

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John: Hi, this is John Rowley with the UX3  Restoration Radio. Today we’ve got a wonderful guest on. In fact, he’s not only a very, very close personal friend of mine he’s a mentor of mine. He’s a business partner of mine and he single-handedly turned my whole business and my life around. His name is John Benson and he is definitely one of the best copywriters in the world if not the best copywriter in the world. He’s a fitness expert. He’s a nutrition expert. He’s an expert with so many frickin’ different things that it’s almost annoying. How are you, John?

Jon Benson: I’m feeling pretty experted right now. I’m a copywriter so I can make stuff up. I’m good, I’m really good. How are you, John?

John: I’m doing good. Well as you know we had talked before and you know the theme of this podcast which is restoration, restoring your body, your mind or whatever to where it needed to be and may have been at one point. You’ve got a very, very dramatic story. I’d love you to share that with us if you don’t mind.

Jon Benson: Yeah, I’ll share the dramatic story but then I would like to come back and actually share what’s going on right now because the dramatic story’s going to sound really, well, crazy, dramatic, and you’re blurry by the way. Just so you know you’re very blurry right now.

John: I know, I’m noticing that. I’m trying to see if I can fix that.

Jon Benson: Very blurry, oh there we go.

John: I don’t know what happened.

Jon Benson: I got a little frog in the throat right now so I apologize for having to clear my throat a lot so yeah, there’s the dramatic story, the almost died, wheeled out on a gurney kind of thing and I’ll tell that story but then there’s the story that is going on right now which to me is even more serious, more dramatic, and I’ll talk to you about that as well. Like a lot of other entrepreneurs tend to be workaholics, you tend to be super passionate about what you do and a lot of people get into fitness because they were so out of it. I wasn’t one of those people. I got back into it. I played ball in college and was really active throughout my high school and college years but got out of it when I went into work for myself and by the time I hit 30 I was clinically obese and had numerous illnesses. I was diagnosed with heart disease at 25.

I ignored that because at 25 you think that you’re indestructible and you think oh who cares about this thing called cholesterol? I’m not going to get into the cholesterol debate because your cholesterol numbers are not nearly as important as people think they are but run with me on this one, when you have familial hyperlipidemia, which is what I have, and you have this weird genetic dysfunction which I also have these numbers are very important and I ignored them. I ended up with a massive heart attack in my early 40s. That’s very young to have a massive heart attack and almost die. I woke up in the middle of the night, it was 4 in the morning and that’s what they call the death hour in heart attack lingo. Four in the morning is the most common time to have a heart attack and most people don’t wake up from the one that I had. They just die.

I’m very lucky that I had gotten myself into good shape and I was fit but all the damage had already been done and I didn’t know that some of the things I was eating to actually be in g...

John Rowley is thrilled to interview Bedros Keuilian on UX3 Restoration Radio. Bedros shares his story of going from a refugee in a communist country to being a highly successful entrepreneur. Not only entertaining and inspiring, but Bedros gives you tips, tricks and techniques to turn your life around.

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John Rowley: Hi. This is John Rowley with Restoration Radio. I’ve got a really good friend of mine today. In fact, I’ve been dying to do this interview because Bedros Keuilian … “kelian” or “kulian”?

Bedros Keuilian: “Kulian”.

John Rowley: Keuilian, Bedros Keuilian. You can see we don’t edit these things. Bedros Keuilian is not only a friend of mine but he’s been a mentor of mine both afar and up close. I’ve reached out to him in the past to get some information for business and for fitness. He’s got an incredible business mind. His back story is phenomenal which is what I want to talk about today. I want to do this in reverse a little bit. I’d like Bedros to talk a little bit about his businesses and then we’ll get into back story because his businesses are incredible but when you hear the back story, you’re really going to understand how incredible it is. Now, Bedros, thank you so much for being here today.

Bedros Keuilian: Yeah. Thanks for having me, John.

John Rowley: Now, you’ve got several business. You do marketing. You own Fit Body Boot Camp which I want to become part of at one point. Tell us about your business structure and what you do.

Bedros Keuilian: Yeah. my business structure is pretty cut and dry and then I believe in having elegant, simple businesses. I’ve got the whole model of an elegant business from Joe Polish. I’m a big fan of Joe Polish. I’ve been in his 25K Group for a long time. To me, if it’s too complicated, if there’s too many moving parts, if it makes a lot of revenue with a very small amount of profit, I’m not a fan of businesses that way. My accountant who’s also a very dear, near friend of mine because he also happens to by wife’s uncle, he’s a guy who’s not only an accountant but an entrepreneur. He built and sold his accounting firm for $25 million back in the early ’90s.

John Rowley: Really?

Bedros Keuilian: Yeah. He’s got a saying. Then he goes, “Revenue feeds the ego, profit feeds the family.” I remember him telling me that 12 years ago when I first met Di, my wife, and then, of course, meeting him at some party at his house in Fremont. He goes, “Do you see that other house way over there on the hill?” I go, “Yeah.” He goes, “That’s MC Hammer’s house before it got … [02:00] He used to live there before it got repossessed and he owned this hill and he had wild boars and turkeys in his massive mansion.”

It’s almost like rich dad, poor dad. I had two people to look at in my life to model. My father, we came from a communist country and he worked his butt off here in a small, little business to be a tailor and get food on the table, roof over our head. Then I looked at Uncle John who’s my accountant now which is really cool and he just like, man, he can build an empire.

Going this elegant business model, simplicity and high profits, I decided to enter the world of fitness, of personal training. Where else can you get several hundred dollars per month from a client and, in exchange, give them a value of fitness and better health, et cetera, right? I start off personal training. I owned five personal training gyms. Built them up and sold them and right around that time, it was the early 2000s and I knew that the Internet was this new playing field that was going to be the almighty ...