60-year-old grandfather of 9 who after failing as a bodybuilder found unconventional training and became intrigued by kettlebells, heavy clubs, sandbags, and then fell in love with the Mace.

Joe Rakoski and Justin Quinn are the Co-founders of Natural Force, a whole-food based nutritional supplement company that is on a mission to help people live happier, healthier lives through quality nutrition while minimizing their impact on the planet. As avid fitness and health enthusiasts, Joe and Justin were frustrated with the lack of truly healthy supplements and started Natural Force as an alternative to the industry “status quo”. Natural Force is also focused on environmental sustainability and employee welfare. They operate with a completely remote team, no physical office, are in the process of significantly reducing or eliminating plastic from their product packaging.

Dr. Robert Silverman is a chiropractic doctor, clinical nutritionist, national and international speaker, author of Amazon’s #1 bestseller “Inside-Out Health”, and founder and CEO of Westchester Integrative Health Center. The ACA Sports Council named Dr. Silverman “Sports Chiropractor of the Year” in 2015. He is on the advisory board of Functional Medicine University, a diplomate with the American Clinical Board of Nutrition, and a diplomate with the Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition. Dr. Silverman is a seasoned health and wellness expert and has appeared on many mainstream media including Talks at Google.

Chris is the Director of Sport Science at PUSH/NEXUS, a Lecturer at the University of Toronto, and a Strength & Conditioning Coach with the Freestyle Ski Canada and Paddle Monster. Prior to joining PUSH, Chris was the Lead Strength & Conditioning Coach at the Canadian Sport Institute Ontario where he trained some of the best athletes in the world to podium performances over multiple Olympic cycles, including Ice Hockey, Canoe/Kayak, Trampoline Gymnastics, Cycling, and Figure Skating. This has led to Chris developing two specialty areas of focus: training for acrobatic and action sports, and concurrent strength training for endurance sports.

Joel Jamieson is a conditioning expert who teaches coaches how to write science-based conditioning programs that deliver real-world results. After coaching everyone from Navy SEALS and UFC world champions to dozens of teams from the NFL to the NCAA, Joel shared his conditioning principles in his book, Ultimate MMA Conditioning. Since then, he’s leveraged heart rate variability technology in two fitness apps, BioForce HRV and Morpheus, to help people train at their daily ideal intensity. When he’s not at the gym, Joel's out flying his seaplane or helicopter. If he had a catchphrase, it’d be, “I could land in that.”

Kevin Koskella is an online entrepreneur and digital nomad. He decided he wanted to be free of the corporate world when he lost his job after the dot-com bubble burst. With a history of competitive swimming, he returned to the water and started doing part-time work as a swim instructor and personal trainer. In 2005, he turned Tri Swim Coach, his business teaching swimmers to become triathletes, into a full time, location independent, online business. Today he works with entrepreneurs around what he teaches triathletes: you need experts so you can be the most successful. That’s why in 2017, Kevin founded Work Hero, a service that helps online entrepreneurs by accomplishing their design and technical tasks so they have the freedom to focus on the work they do best. For a flat monthly rate, teams of experts focus on the annoying and technical tasks that business owners should not have to deal with.

Eric began his career as a sales failure. At his first sales job, he was put on quota probation after failing to meet the minimum quota two months in a row. It was at this point that Eric met his sales mentor. After being professionally trained Eric achieved his quota and eventually become the top producer at that company. Eric went on to become the top producer at 2 more companies prior to starting Eric Lofholm International. Eric is a naturally gifted teacher. For over 19 years Eric has been sharing his proven sales increasing ideas with people all over the world. Eric has written 15 books on sales and success.  Eric lives in Rocklin California with his wife and 4 children. Eric believes that selling equals service. He also believes in working towards mastery of the fundamentals of lead generation, appointment setting, and delivering a high-quality presentation. Eric has delivered over 1,500 public and private presentations.

A wife, mom and adventure sports athlete, Sarah is a women's fitness specialist that takes functional training to a whole new level. In her unique approach to treating patients, she believes in teaching. Fully understanding every aspect of the body is a necessity to complete healing. She integrates functional movement with cutting-edge exercises to bring you a results-driven online program for postpartum recovery, with an emphasis on the pelvic floor and abdominals. When she is not hanging off the side of a mountain, Sarah enjoys writing and presenting at Core Exercise Solutions and figuring out how her patients can continue to pursue their dreams and lead a strong, adventurous life.  

Mike Arce is the founder & CEO of Loud Rumor, the #1 Marketing & Advertising agency for fitness & wellness studios. Mike is also the host of three multiple podcasts: The GOAT Show, The GSD Show, & MINDBODY's BOLD Show.

Ari Gronich is highly trained and certified in many disciplines within the fields of bodywork, emotional release, energy work, nutrition, health, kinesiology, and sports therapy. For all of his adult life, he has helped transform his clients' bodies and lives through increased performance, enhancing physical, mental and emotional health.

Casey Conrad, BA, JD, has been in the health and fitness industry for 26 years. In addition to authoring “Selling Fitness: The Complete Guide to Selling Health Club Memberships,” she has created and published over 25 other sales, marketing and management training products for the industry. Most recently Casey has created an entire line of comprehensive training programs that are delivered on-line. These include membership sales, personal training sales and Internet marketing. She has spoken in 24 countries, is a feature presenter at conventions and trade shows worldwide and writes monthly for numerous international magazines. Her website is www.HealthClubSalesTraining.com and she can be reached at [email protected].

To say Tom has been through a few things in his 30+ years of being an entrepreneur is an understatement. He’s definitely had more failures than successes, but wouldn’t have it any other way. He sold His fitness business which he owned for 9 years a year ago to become the Impact Pilot, helping entrepreneurs generate more income through better sales strategy and using stories to sell. Tom has a BFA Degree in Theatre from DePaul University in Chicago and holds his private pilot license for single engine airplanes, which was a lifelong dream he achieved in 2013. He’s been a contributor to CBS Radio in Houston, a guest on Great Day Houston television show, Univision Television, Fox 26 News, KPRC Channel 2 and The CW Houston. He is also a presenter at the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in Houston. Special Gift for your audience: www.TomJackobs.com/storybook

If you were going to sum up Rick Streb in 5 words, those would be the five to use... And in exactly that order. Rick enjoys his professional life, but it takes a back seat to spend most of his time with his beautiful daughter and friends. He has made it a priority to build his business around his life; not his life around his business. Rick Streb, the creator of ProDiets.com, is an innovator in fitness and nutrition. He has been a respected member of the health and fitness industry for almost three decades. He has established himself as one of the top trainers, nutritionists, and coaches for competitive bodybuilding, fitness and figure athletes in the United States today with zero ever finishing out of the Top 5 in their competitions. Rick’s keen understanding of how to customize eating plans and training programs for each client has given him a special standing in the health and fitness community. Rick’s clients have included professional athletes, television and music celebrities, bodybuilding competitors, fitness models and beauty pageant contestants throughout the United States who participate in his coaching programs and obtain very successful results. He’s also built a tremendously successful boutique training business serving women ages 35-55, helping over 750 ladies look and feel better than they ever thought possible in the past 3 years. Along the way, Rick has developed a variety of proprietary systems to build effective fat loss nutrition into his clients’ programs to ensure that he could maximize their results no matter what type of client he is working with at the time. These days Rick has found his true professional calling – sharing what has worked in his own businesses with other fitness entrepreneurs. He coaches and consults with fitness professionals around the world who want to provide the best for their clients by integrating world-class nutrition programming into their businesses, and helps them generate more clients, more profits and more freedom to enjoy life. His program "Nutrition Profit System" has transformed hundreds of fitness professionals' businesses. You could say he is the “trainer of trainers” when it comes to nutrition. In 2007 Rick received the Community Leadership Award from the President’s Council on Physical Fitness & Sports for his commitment to his clients and passion for helping improve his community. It is that commitment and passion which distinguishes him from other fitness personalities. Rick is considered to be one of America’s leading fitness professionals with 3 fitness-related degrees, a dietetics degree, and over 27 years of experience as a fitness industry leader and numerous fitness and nutrition-related certifications. His online programs “ProDiets.com” and “The Extreme Fat Loss Formula” have transformed thousands of bodies just like yours through his health clubs, personal training, online training, phone coaching, magazine articles, and books.

Greg Justice, MA, is a best-selling author, speaker and fitness entrepreneur, and was inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame in 2017. He opened AYC Health & Fitness, Kansas City’s Original Personal Training Center, in May 1986. Greg is the co-founder and CEO of the National Corporate Fitness Institute (NCFI), a certifying body for fitness professionals, and Scriptor Publishing Group. Greg holds a master’s degree in HPER (exercise science) and a bachelor’s degree in Health & Physical Education from Morehead State University, Morehead, KY

Working in the Health & Fitness industry for nearly 2 decades, Menachem brings with him a unique skillset allowing him to help individuals, teams, and fitness businesses move forward, to be stronger, fitter, and more impactful.

Max is an eternal student, scientist, and artist of life and movement. Through his gym, books, videos, and online coaching programs, he helps tens of thousands of people get just a little better every day. He is a master of simplifying complex subjects and breaking them down into easy, effective actions. He loves to learn new skills like music, languages, juggling, and hand balancing.

Joe has been a high-level athlete (CrossFit, Ironman, Ultrarunner), coach, movement and nutrition expert for over 17 years who has a love for sharing what he has learned about his own training with the world.

Ben is a faculty member at California University of Pennsylvania. An exercise physiologist, he holds certifications from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA). He has interests in injury prevention/performance enhancement for endurance athletes and using movement to enhance quality of life. After travels through Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama and Florida for school and work he has been in the Pittsburgh area since 2004. Ben is an active contributor to his profession, with work on a variety of committees of the NSCA, as well as presentations and publications both nationally and internationally. The idea for Moving2Live and FitLabPGH came from his interest in listening to long form movement related podcasts that were directed either towards professionals or the general public.

My passion is to engage and challenge people in living healthy, more active lifestyles. With increasing obesity rates and a lack of focus and education on preventive medicine, our country is facing a health epidemic. The solution starts with parents modeling a healthy active lifestyle for their children to follow. Everyone needs the inspiration to change and someone to hold them accountable to their fitness goals. It’s my promise to offer inspiration, education, equipment, and training – specifically supporting families – so that childhood obesity is no longer an issue in our country.

Daniel Waide is the Chief Commercial Officer at Wexer.com, the leaders in virtual fitness technology connecting you with consumers, both inside and outside the four walls of the gym.

National Articles: ESPN Kevin Minter weight loss article Golf Digest top trainers article CBS Sports Jon Rahm training article Isagenix Jon Rahm video Certifications: NSCA CSCS, TPI Golf Fitness, OPEX Program Design, USA Weight Lifting, TRX, FMS Level I & II, FMS Y-Balance, FMS FCS (Fundamental Capacity Screening) Top athletes: Jon Rahm (Performance Director, PGA Tour #3 in the World & 5-time Tour Winner in 45 tournament starts), Kevin Minter (Jets), Justin Morneau (MLB MVP), Lindsey Davenport (USTA Former #1), Jon Dornbos (NFL Long Snapper & Magic Man), Chris Capuano (MLB All-Star), Kevin Zeilter (NFL Pro-Bowler First Round Pick), Kevin Chappel (PGA Tour Winner), Brandon Harkins (PGA Tour), Brandon Hagy (PGA Tour), Grace Park (LPGA Tour Former #2 in the World) Head Performance Director: ASU Mens & Women's Golf Team (National Champions 2017) Wellness Project: Poarch Band Creek Indians (oversee all nutrition, training and assessments) Future of Fitness: the future of fitness will be an integrated approach among fitness, medical, and health care professionals on the care of the client or individual as a whole instead of each individual parts. Fitness will be focused on optimizing the human first and performance second with a focus on recovery, stress reduction, and the ability to move well. Training will involve a more multi-disciplinary approach of breathing techniques, martial arts, nutrition, and recovery to focus on how to optimize the minimal dose response of training due to the time restrictions of people. Due to the increase of technology and the loss of function, training will become more of movement literacy and efficiency rather than improving performance. The impact Advantage is trying to make is to provide the guide to understand where clients are and what is their true reasoning for training. We dig deeper to provide a clear and simple pathway to assist them to optimize their health, fitness, or performance in order to handle the demands of life or sport. Our goal is to create a more resilient person to not only handle the demands of life but to achieve the impossible, whether in life or sport. We do this by creating a unique environment and experience and constantly evolving our education and mindset. Spencer earned his degree in Exercise Physiology from Ohio University. He prides himself in studying the latest fitness trends and research. His philosophy on training focuses from the ground up and from the core outwards in proper movement patterns. He uses multiple disciplines of training when designing training systems and motivating people. Human performance is his passion in life. He has performed at high levels in his athletic career and knows what it takes to win. He was the starting linebacker at Ohio University, and a four time Junior Olympian in track and field in the 100 meter, 200 meter, 400 meter, and 200 meter hurdles. During his time as a student-athlete, he was the president of the Ohio University and Mid-American Conference Student Athlete-Advisory Committee. He was selected as

Billy Polson is a nationally recognized fitness entrepreneur, presenter, personal trainer and business coach. Men's Journal magazine named Billy one of 'America's Best 100 Trainers', while he has appeared in and contributed to numerous national publications including Fortune, Inc, Women's Health, Kiplinger, The Huffington Post, and CBS Small Business Pulse. In 2004, he founded DIAKADI Fitness in San Francisco, which currently houses the practices of 90+ of the Bay Area’s leading practitioners from the fitness and health industries. The Business Movement, DIAKADI’s fitness entrepreneur education program, has helped hundreds of personal trainers with gaining the skills and confidence to leave their corporate training jobs, develop their own brands, grow their private practices, and find great financial success as fitness business owners and independent personal trainers.

Kate Jaramillo is a certified group fitness instructor and a ketogenic living expert. Kate is leading the way in the Ketogenic community as the Creator of Ketogenic Living 101, Ketogenic Living 102, the Ketogenic Living Coach Certification, and co-creator of the Keto40. What began as an experiment with a small group of women has turned into a thriving business, helping others make ketogenic living simple, doable and delicious, and now spreading the fat-fueled revolution worldwide as Ketogenic Living Certified Coaches. Kate wholeheartedly believes in the power of a ketogenic lifestyle to burn fat, clear brain fog, conquer sugar addiction, and treat, prevent, and cure chronic and life-threatening disease. Her online programs help make this lifestyle and business opportunity accessible to busy people trying to juggle it all. Kate’s degree in communications and experience leading group fitness classes have given her the unique ability to communicate effectively to a room full of individuals who are hungry to make a lifestyle change.

Mike Bledsoe is the CEO and host of Barbell Shrugged, one of the top fitness podcasts in the world. Mike also hosts The Bledsoe Show podcast and is a founder of the newly minted Shrugged Collective - one of the first fitness media networks of it's kind. He is also the owner of Faction Strength & Conditioning in Memphis, Tennessee.

About Angela Anderson: Health, wellness and fitness entrepreneurs work with me create and experience a new level of true wealth by understanding how to use their mind, instead of letting it use them. With over 20 years in personal development and entrepreneurship in the areas of subconscious belief reprogramming, health & fitness, and business, I help others radically upgrade their personal and professional lives by helping them reconnect with their deepest desires, reprogram their beliefs at the subconscious level, and then take deliberate & focused action. As an Advanced PSYCH-K® Facilitator and former employee at the PSYCH-K® Centre International, a leader in scientifically-based transformational coaching, I can show you how to leverage the best of neuroscience and biology ... and share with you proven mind management tools to unlock and transform the vault of your self-limiting, self sabotaging, negative beliefs. I totally get how important it is to take care of your mind, body, and spirit while giving your all to your business, family and more - so I love to balance my neuroscience-based approach with health related insights.

Dr. Eric Goodman is the creator of Foundation Training and the author of "Foundation: Redefine Your Core, Conquer Back Pain, and Move with Confidence."  A graduate of the University of Central Florida, with a bachelor’s in health sciences and physiology, he earned his doctor of chiropractic at Southern California University of Health Sciences. When he’s not traveling around the country to teach Foundation Training, Dr. Goodman lives in Hawaii with this wife and baby daughter

Joey Percia is a former fitness pro turned copywriter and marketing consultant. Over a decade ago, he started his career as a health and fitness professional. Now he writes, coaches, and consults with the same reputable coaches, brands, and companies he has looked up to for years. Joey's had rockstar clients in different industries including dating, pharmacy, cannabis, habit-building, digital marketing, online business development, self-development, real estate, chiropractic, and of course other health and fitness related businesses. Clients credit his approach to copywriting and marketing as “genuine, refreshing, and badass."

Check out her new book: The Athlete's Log for Mental & Physical Training Chrissy Barron was a former Collegiate Cheerleader at California State University Northridge where she competed on the university's collegiate national team for three consecutive years. In 2011 she found CrossFit and since has aimed to be competitive in the sport, qualifying for the American Open as a 63kf lifter in 2016. She currently lives in Alpharetta, GA, and trains at Training Think Tank. After college, Chrissy worked for many businesses, where she gained experience in online marketing and social media and chose to apply those skills to Nova 3 Labs. Chrissy decided to pursue a Masters Degree in Sports Psychology in 2016 and is set to graduate mid-2018 on the honor roll. She plans to utilize her degree to impact as many lives as possible in the CrossFit space.

Dontre possesses a unique set of experiences and talent in the fitness business. Over the past 15+ years, he has built, owned or managed his facilities and coached other gym owners from the ground up and has been assisting other companies to grow their base and create wealth. Through his company Fitness and Marketing, Dontre teaches the art of client attraction and persuasive sales techniques.

“I help coachable and teachable professionals create freedom through a profitable home business" If you would like to know more or check out my free training on building a successful home business and effective social media marketing strategies, feel free to check out my BLOG. I specialize in helping people advance their skills through coaching and personal development. I work with people who want more out of life and who are willing to change themselves and take personal responsibility for their own results. I offer proven training in team leadership, customer satisfaction, sales, recruiting, mindset, social media marketing, social media recruiting, lead generation, and personal development. Sought after for coaching and development to improve colleague effectiveness and skillsets to reach business objectives. Top recruiter in multiple sales organizations in the development of new sales teams. Looking forward to connecting with you! P.S. If you are struggling with building your business through social media and are looking for a more consistent way to build your business online feel free to check out this training - http://www.coachmikemacdonald.com/LeadTraining

Promoting a positive and pro-active perspective for personal growth and development… Integrating body, mind, soul… Michael Koth is a personal trainer, spiritual counselor, versed in clinical and depth psychology, who has been ministering to the needs of clients for over forty years. His focus is to help people to help themselves. Because of a tremendously varied background, Michael’s personal experience allows him to reach even the most unique person. Michael did his doctoral work at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Masters and Bachelors at Antioch University, Los Angeles. He began his education as an undergraduate at 40 years old because it took him that long to put the pieces of his childhood together and focus on an education. Drug addiction, alcoholism, sexual abuse, eating disorders, and domestic violence are some of the experiences that ultimately acted as the catalysts to find personal solutions. Leaving no stone unturned in seeking personal wellness became his inner mantra, and sharing the loving solutions, which ultimately became Physicology, is the way he can give back for all he has received. This treasure of personal experience as well as a background in health, wellness, and mindfulness, creates a perspective that can be tailored to assist others in achieving their goals. His methodology is behavioral based and focuses on working from the inside out. Everything matters, especially you. . .

Lindsey Rainwater is an experienced advisor and consultant to the fitness and wellness industry. She is a published author for Club Solutions Magazine, has been featured on multiple podcasts, books, and many talks at industry events, in 2017, IHRSA recognized her as a “Rising Star”. She is most known for her widely published original content, and consulting on business solutions to industry professionals. Lindsey is also the CEO founder of The Women in Fitness Association, an association focused on supporting the professional Women in the Fitness Industry.

When just beginning his career as a fitness trainer over fifteen years ago, Eric had the opportunity to develop fitness programs for teens on the autism spectrum and undergo high-level ABA training both clinically and academically. As he became increasingly dedicated to working with this unique population, Eric found a near-total lack of information concerning best practices and approaches when creating fitness programs for those with autism. Steadily, and over the course of a decade working with hundreds of athletes who had significant variance in their ability levels, he began to create the outline for Autism Fitness as a business and mission; providing not just fitness programs, but effective and reliable fitness programs for every individual with autism and related disabilities. Autism Fitness was to serve as a bridge between the professional fitness and autism communities (families, educators, and therapists). Today, with his athletes in the greater New York Area, the Autism Fitness Toolbox, and the Autism Fitness Certified Practitioner program, Eric continues to build a gateway towards a more optimal, independent future for the ASD community and future generations. When not working with his athletes he is either in the gym, playing outside with friends, or reading.

Avital has been helping hundreds of people around the world discover truth and happiness for over 13 years through yoga, healing, and dance. It is her wish to help others see the light of their soul and feel the love that already exists in this universe. That light and love can help us find inner freedom. After double majoring in Engineering and Dance at Washington University in St. Louis, she landed a job at Microsoft in 2001. Her whole life’s goal was to do well in school so she could get a great job. After reaching her life goal at 22, she had to figure out what she was living for after that. So she did what many other young seeking adults do, she hit the road to travel the world with a backpack. As she practiced yoga postures in the middle of hostels or jungles, or on the most beautiful beaches of the world, people often approached her to teach them. It was a great joy to share something she loves, and to help bring inner peace to many people. The travels shifted her paradigms about life toward, what she was soon to learn, were the philosophies of yoga. Dance seemed to sparkle its way into her travels as well, as she was often invited to train with professionals. In Mexico, after her first dance of salsa ever, a local professional salsa dancer invited her to train with him for a competition in a month, convinced they would win. Two weeks into her trip in India, she was performing Bollywood at a nationally televised Miss South India pageant.  In 2004, Avital became a certified Ananda Yoga® Instructor. She settled in Santa Barbara, California, and immediately founded an outdoor yoga business, managed yoga and fitness programs at the YMCA, and became a teacher trainer. she also had some fun teaching and performing Bollywood and Salsa. Longing to share the deeper aspects of yoga postures and the spiritual path, Avital moved to Ananda Village. There she has worked as an Ananda Yoga Teacher Trainer and the Sales and Marketing Director for Crystal Clarity Publishers, Ananda’s publishing company. she have been sharing yoga, healing, and spiritual dance at Ananda, around the world, and on the World Wide Web.  With a desire to work with people one-on-one, she has started offering Energy Healing and spiritual counseling through Tarot Readings. The energy healing draws from Ananda’s Level 2 Healing training, Pranic Healing, and her intuition. She might be one of the only Tarot Readers who combines universal ancient wisdom derived from the Bhagavad Gita with how to live fully today! Avital recently authored and published a book - "Healing Happens: Stories of Healing Against All Odds"

Josh Hillis is the Chief People Officer for One by One Nutrition, Author of Fat Loss Happens on Monday, and Nutrition Habits Coaching Expert for Strength Matters Magazine

Stuart is the CEO/Founder of WTF Gym Talk. He has worked with hundreds of micro gym owners starting, fixing or growing their business. Empowering them to forge their own path and achieve their business aspirations, because remember… passion isn't enough to run your business... there needs to be profit, too.

Khaled Elmasri, Founder, and CEO of Rise Elite and host of the RISE Fitness Business Conference.   He spent over 12 years in corporate America as a Fitness Manager, Regional Fitness Manager, running all aspects of a personal training dept. for companies such as 24 Hour Fitness, The Bay Club, Life Time Fitness and many others.   Khaled has advised, built many fitness training departments and lead hundreds of personal trainers that have generated millions of dollars in revenue over the past 12 years.   

Pat Rigsby is a business coach who has built over twenty businesses in the fitness industry, with 6 becoming million dollar or multi-million dollar ventures. Two have been multiple time winners on the Entrepreneur Franchise 500 with another being a multiple time honoree on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing businesses in the U.S. Pat now coaches entrepreneurs who want to build their own Ideal Business. You can connect with him at www.PatRigsby.com.

Do you want to wake up happy, excited and motivated to help more people and live a fun life full of freedom and travel? Then the Remote Revolution Show was created just for you. Your hosts George Crawshaw and James Moody both had this vision for their lives from their early 20s, now they live their life with absolute freedom, travel and work from anywhere in the world, whilst still making a living pursuing other business projects and impacting other people's lives. This podcast is about fueling the remote revolution to help more fitness professionals take their business online and create a life of freedom.

Andy is Co-Founder of the Whole Life Challenge and former owner of CrossFit LA (CFLA), one of the most successful CrossFit training centers in the world. Established in 2004, CFLA was the ninth licensed CrossFit affiliate in the world (out of 10,000+), and the first to be featured in national media. A former professional adventure racer, extreme athlete, and master white-water kayaker and mountaineer, Andy has completed three Eco-Challenges, one Raid Gauloises, and the La Ruta de los Conquistadores (a three-day mountain bike race known as the world’s hardest). A classically-trained trumpet player (Eastman School of Music) and a Marine Gulf War veteran, Andy was the oldest participant, at 43, to qualify for the 2009 CrossFit Games. Andy has been a CrossFit trainer for over 11 years and hold CrossFit sports-specific certifications in Olympic weightlifting, gymnastics, powerlifting, the Pose Method of Running, endurance, and nutrition. Andy is a VIVOBAREFOOT running coach and a CHEK level 2 corrective high-performance exercise kinesiologist and nutrition and lifestyle coach. With an undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and a master’s degree in spiritual psychology from the University of Santa Monica, Andy lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Julia, and their son, Dashel.

Marcus Filly is the owner of Revival Strength and creator of Functional Bodybuilding.  Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, he played multiple sports as a child including soccer, baseball, and golf, which eventually led to a collegiate career in soccer at the University of California, Berkeley. There he earned his degree in Molecular and Cell Biology with an emphasis in Nutrition and Physiology. After Berkeley, he completed a year of graduate work at the Ohio State University School of Medicine. His interest in both athletics and human health and performance eventually led him to CrossFit in 2007. He has gone on to compete at the CrossFit Games 6 times, three times as an individual (2016 12th fittest) and three times as a team member (2012 6th fittest team). Marcus is also the captain and member of the Phoenix Rise in the NPGL. For two years he has been voted to the all GRID league team, in 2016 earning 1st team honors, and in 2015 earning the award for leadership excellence. Marcus has been a health and fitness coach for 8 years since leaving Medical School in 2009. He was formerly a CrossFit facility owner for 5 years, has completed all 5 of the OPEX CCP courses, and has coached clients remotely from all over the world. He has coached athletes at the CrossFit Games as well as several Regionals athletes. He lives with his wife Megan, and daughter. He lists his parents, Barbara and Roy, as his role models and drive to succeed in life.  

Biography: Holistic Health Practitioner for 30+ years. Published Author: Author of Better Living With Whole Foods, which is currently sold on Amazon. Proprietary Programs: Creator of the 21 Day Reset & the A.W.O.L. (A Way of Life) programs. Athletic Background Competitive Powerlifter: 1st place in CA State Championships, 2014 2 - 1st place USPA National Championships in 2013 & 2014 1st Place in USPA Military Nationals & Best Lifter Award in 2013 2nd place in the IPL World Championships in 2013. And, set 6 USPA CA State Powerlifting Records. Professional Background Founder/Owner at My Fit Life, a premiere Holistic Health & Wellness Company, Since 2001 After going blind due to Glaucoma and getting his vision back with Cannabis Oils he Founded MOVIDA in 2016 MOVIDA is an Urban Lifestyle Brand Providing Therapeutic Grade Supplements & Wild Crafted Superfoods to Help You to Help You Look Better, Feel Better, & Live Better than You Ever Imagined Possible. Al has dedicated his life to spreading the good word about Alternative & Holistic Therapies and will continue to do so with the many therapeutic benefits of Cannabis.

Tony Gentilcore, CSCS, is a co-founder of Cressey Sports Performance where he served as strength coach from 2007-2015. He now owns and operates is own small studio, CORE, located in Boston. He's a regular contributor to publications such as Men's Health, Women's Health, T-Nation.com, BodyBuilding.com, and STACK.

Annick is the Author of CLEAR, Motivational Speaker, Lifestyle Coach, and an award-winning Designer. She helps people simplify their lives, live more fearlessly and curate a life they love filled with wellness and beauty. She often travels for work or pleasure; spending a lot of time in airplanes, cars, and on motorcycles. Annick has always been a huge supporter of empowering women to get involved in motorcycling and racing, and is a contributor for womanrider.com. In the rare moment that she is in one place for any length of time, you’ll find her training in a gym, visiting a museum, or immersed in a creative project.

Julie Starr is a Boston-based, internationally known wellness and nutrition expert with more than 12 years of experience in the industry. Julie’s strong credentials, which include an M.S. in nutrition from Boston University, Nutrition Specialist Certification, training as both a doula and midwife, yoga and barre master teacher, coupled with her unique counseling technique have led to the creation of STARR LIFE. STARR LIFE is a wellness brand that offers services in nutrition, ranging from individual counseling, group nutrition events, corporate wellness, virtual services, to fitness classes at her boutique studios. Her clients range from top chefs to renowned fitness instructors, busy moms, college students, to corporations. Julie loves nothing more than helping people discover their healthiest self. Julie founded STARR YOGA studios with locations in Boston, MA and West Hartford, CT and offers yoga and barre trainings. She is also the proud mother of her energetic and food-loving daughter, Isabel. Website: www.starrlifestudios.com

Julian Rosen is a writer, speaker, and coach who specializes in helping stressed-out entrepreneurs to build thriving businesses. Through his revolutionary coaching platform, The Fearless Life Project, Julian helps entrepreneurs to optimize their clarity and performance while counteracting effects of stress and anxiety so that they can grow and scale with confidence. As a business owner with anxiety, Julian is committed to connecting with and supporting other entrepreneurs who are passionate about building their bold vision in a powerful and fulfilling way.  

John possesses a unique set of experiences and skills in the fitness business. Over the past 25+ years, he has built, owned and managed his own gyms, consulted other club owners from the ground up and has been a consultant assisting others navigate their clubs through transitions or troubled times. As a busines sconsultant, through his business GymBuilders, John has assisted countless others in starting their own fitness businesses. John’s personal gym ownership has been both in independently branded gyms and nationally franchised operations. Some of his own have been Paragon Fitness, Adrenalin, All Out Fitness and Rock Solid Training. He has been an owner of franchise brands such as Gold’s Gym and CKO Kickboxing. Early in John’s career he was the Eastern Advertising Manager for Weider Publications: Muscle & Fitness, FLEX and Men’s Fitness magazines. Additionally, John has been an independent contractor working with local dealers and manufacturers representing the top commercial fitness lines. He continues to maintain relationships with all major fitness equipment manufacturers and their representatives. Each endeavor has offered John different perspectives, knowledge, skills and experiences. However, his passion has always been the club side of the business. Whether it’s building his own clubs, working with existing operations, working with teams of fitness professionals or helping others open their first fitness venture John’s passion quickly reveals itself to others.

Jessi Kneeland is a writer, speaker, teacher, and body image coach for women. She is an iPEC certified life coach and a NASM certified personal trainer, with 9 years of experience in the fitness industry in NYC, and 4 years of running an online coaching business. Jessi regularly runs workshops around the country on body image and women’s empowerment and is the creator of Authentic Body Confidence, a 12-week group coaching program designed to help women break free from body image issues. Her mission on earth is to help women build trust in themselves and their bodies, step into their authentic power and create the big, juicy lives they were meant for.