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Turn Your Passion Into Money?

Name: Turn Your Passion Into Money?
Uploaded: 2025-07-30T00:00:31+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this concise monologue, the speaker challenges the popular maxim that if you follow your passion you’ll never have to work. Drawing from personal…

30 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this concise monologue, the speaker challenges the popular maxim that if you follow your passion you’ll never have to work. Drawing from personal experience, they recount how a love of fitness led them to start a single gym, expand into a nationwide licensing model, and eventually sell the business to private equity. Thirteen years later, despite still enjoying working out, they no longer run a gym and have no members, choosing to keep fitness purely as a hobby. The speaker concludes that it’s acceptable—and perhaps healthier—to keep passions separate from one’s professional life.

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If you follow your passion, you'll never work another day in your life. False. I was told to get into starting gyms because I was into fitness, and then I started a gym, and then I started more gyms, and then I started licensing gyms to thousands of locations, and then I sold that to private equity. And now, 13 years later, I now have a gym and I have no members because I like working out, and I'm not starting a gym business again. I just want to work out. And so Maybe the moral of the story is you can just have passions be passions and you can have work be work. And I think that's totally okay.