This is the 4th installment in a series of blog entries my wife wrote for her personal blog a couple months back. If you missed the first three entries here are links to part 1, part 2 and part 3. My wife’s account is far better than anything I could write up which is why I’m […]
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Athletic Lab: The Story of a Startup Part 3
This is the 3rd in a series of blog entries my with wrote for her personal blog a couple months back. If you missed the first two here are links to part 1 and part 2. My wife’s account is far better than anything I could write up which is why I’m re-syndicating here. This […]
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Athletic Lab: The Story of a Startup Part 2
This is the 2nd in a series of blog entries my wife wrote for her personal blog a couple months back. If you missed the first one you’ll want to start there. As I mentioned in the first entry my wife’s account is far better than anything I could write up, I thought I’d re-syndicate […]
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Athletic Lab: The Story of a Startup Part I
A couple months ago my wife started a personal blog. Among her first entries was an awesome series on how we started Athletic Lab from nothing (from her perspective). The context of the series was that I had just left behind Athletic Lab to become the fitness coach at the Vancouver Whitecaps (MLS)…leaving behind what […]
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Returning
2 weekends ago I went back to Athletic Lab, the training center I started 3 years ago,?for the first time in the 6 months since I left to become the fitness ?coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps. The trip was jam packed full of scheduled and unscheduled business. It was great seeing the growth of the […]
Company Communication
When the physical location portion of my company opened almost 4 years ago, the only people working were my wife and I. Communication was quite easy. It occurred over dinner when I got home from a 12 hour day. 4 years on, 10 more employees, me and my wife having moved 2,500 miles away, and […]
On Loan
Once word broke that I was leaving NC for Vancouver and now again since I’ve started updating this blog again, I’ve been getting quite a few questions about how I’m able to be with the Vancouver Whitecaps and still co-own and operate Athletic Lab 2,500 miles away; and why I’d even want to do it […]
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Bittersweet Outcomes
For 3 years I poured every ounce of my being in to my training center. All my relationships during that time period either stemmed from or had to tag on for the ride during that time period. It was grueling but I loved every moment of developing a business, my passion, from nothing. Taking huge […]
Flight to Vegas
I recently took a business trip to Las Vegas. I’ve gone there at least once a year for the past 8 years. I’ve left from cities all over the U.S. and the scene on the departing flight is the same every time. Everyone’s happy. Everyone’s hamming it up with their seat mate whether they knew […]
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Work-Life Balance
I don?t have it. Last week I calculated out my work hours for the week and it was almost 90. That?s right?averaging more than 12 hours for 7 days of the week. I get to Athletic Lab at 7am most mornings and don?t leave til 8 and sometimes later. Then I go home, eat dinner, […]