Jon Goodman of the Personal Trainer Development Center on Living like the Blue Power Ranger, Business, & Travel

EPISODE 50!!!  

In the 50th episode I interview Jon Goodman the man who has made it his goal to educate people on how to become a personal trainer through the resources he has developed.  Jon has been one of the most successful trainers in the business and on the business side of the fitness industry, Jon, is one of the smartest and most idolized individuals when it comes to running and operating an online business.  Jon’s personal training book, Ignite the Fire, is a must have resource for any one new to personal training and it is his goal to get it in the hands of every personal trainer in the world. 

In this episode we discuss:

- How he got into the fitness world 

- Jon’s personal training book, Ignite the Fire, on Amazon

- Jon's blog and resource(s) on how to become a personal trainer (the Personal Trainer Development Center)

- What Comes First Cardio or Weights

- The moment that spurred him to start the PTDC

- How he goes about building relationships with people

- Don't wish someone happy birthday on Facebook, contact them randomly

- Show that you care

- Why do young trainers struggle with creating relationships

- Focus, what is the most important thing right now

- Do the extra two seconds that no one else is willing to do

- How does he keep his focus on what he is doing

- Spend at least half an hour a day on a project he is currently working on

- Becoming an outsider for the ecosystem of the industry he works in

- We're too close to stuff

- Spending time alone with his thoughts and what he learned or learns while getting away from the world

- A metal spoon 

- A Gluten Free Vegan Italian Restaurant

- Should new entrepreneurs need to hire a business coach

- Making the PTDC weekly best of list

- What are his current goals in business

- If you do something for money you have nothing, if you do something for yourself and it fails- Neil Gaiman

- What is specific to what you want to achieve either in fitness or business

- What his training looks like now and how he trains when traveling

- Where he finds the places he stays at

- His travel hack(s) that he has used occasionally

- Guilty Pleasure track

- His favorite super hero

- Connecting with the the character that was behind the scenes i.e. Donatello and the Blue Ranger

- From Certification to Qualification

- Ignite the Fire Audio Book

- Two industries: one sells books the other changes lives

- The act of dreaming and how it sells books

- Dave Eager- What is the What

- Haruki Murakami 

- S by JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst

- How he schedules his day

- What is it that I need to spend my time on

- Make yourself scarce

- Taking the time to do what no one else is willing to do

- If you cant take care of yourself you cant take care of others

- Greatest mistake he made and what he learned from it

- Creating templates for clients

- What clients are really paying you for

- Who from history he would have dinner with