Jake A., a former corporate fitness manager, founded a private training facility after the pandemic revealed gaps in services for clients with autism and Down syndrome. He secured a 3,000 sq ft space, hit profitability in one month, and quickly scaled to hire staff and serve both the special needs and general populations.
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I was just a personal trainer working in corporate fitness centers, working my way up through management, constantly trying to earn a title and do more for a big company to make a big company wealthier. And this pandemic hit and kind of shattered everybody's world. It sometimes took a team for my clients with autism or down syndrome to be able to move without that hands on manual manipulation or encouragement. And I started to realize that there was a real need in that community because a huge social part of their life had been shut down and a huge physical part of their life had been shut down. I couldn't as a solo endeavor, take on the amount of clients and this mission to create equal access to health and fitness for the special needs community and the general population alone. So we put it down on paper and I started to ask questions because I wasn't an entrepreneur yet. I was a personal trainer working in corporate fitness and in management. But I decided this is what I want to do through Pam's motivation and a program creating support systems to help, you know, guide us to where we're going. My business partner who joined me along the way and I ended up in a 3,000 square foot private training facility on a prime location off a busy street that became profitable in one month with, with a whole slew of clients that we could barely keep up with demand and how to start hiring a team and be able to actually provide jobs. Just sitting here thinking about it, from where we started on a worldwide shutdown to providing jobs and just everything that I've learned from Pam is just mind blowing.
