Latest / AI for Founders with Ryan Estes / How Brett Beck built Bellabooty: from gym floor to global product
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- 0:00Welcome to AI for Founders. I am Ryan Estes.
- 0:03I might be AI today. I don't know.
- 0:06Today's guest is someone who perfectly embodies the spirit of
- 0:09invention, grit and functional fitness.
- 0:11Brett Beck is the Co founder of Bella Booty Fitness and a true
- 0:15product innovator, bringing physical ideas to life with the
- 0:18kind of energy and execution that most founders only dream
- 0:22of. We originally met from our
- 0:24daughters. Shout out to the South Ravens.
- 0:26And I quickly realized Brett's story needed a mic.
- 0:29From building patented fitness gear like the wildly popular hip
- 0:33thrust belt, to fighting off counterfeiters and scaling up AD
- 0:362C brand with 0 VC money, Brett brings the hard won insights of
- 0:41a scrappy, resilient entrepreneur.
- 0:44Whether you're building software or hardware, this journey offers
- 0:47powerful lessons into product market fit, IP protection, and
- 0:51building something people actually want.
- 0:54Let's get into it. But first, some business.
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- 1:33Let's go Kickcaster by Moeburst Brett.
- 1:53How you doing, buddy? Doing great.
- 1:56Nice, I'm so excited for this conversation.
- 1:59I really appreciate you doing the show.
- 2:01Yes. Excited to be on.
- 2:03Thank you. You bet.
- 2:05Now, before we get going, I just want to give a shout out to the
- 2:08South Ravens because we were introduced because our daughters
- 2:12are best friends and, you know, we at their graduation and just
- 2:18click and I was fascinated with what you do.
- 2:21So I really wanted to bring you on the show so we can kind of
- 2:23explore it. Now, this show is for founders
- 2:26and entrepreneurs, and you might be my favorite kind of
- 2:29entrepreneur because you, correct me if I'm wrong, are an
- 2:33inventor. Yes, we, we, I've dabbled
- 2:38around. We, we engineer, patent engineer
- 2:41design different products and I've been doing that since my
- 2:4620s. So cool company.
- 2:49Like that's how I kind of fell into it.
- 2:52I didn't not an engineering degree into the direct consumer
- 2:56band we can dive into. That let's do it so you know
- 3:00most of folks we have on the show are probably technical
- 3:03founders we're you know, working with AI products, working with
- 3:06SAS products in the service industry and some perspective.
- 3:10But you know, an agency, I found it probably 20 years ago, we did
- 3:15a lot of product launches. And so we would do a lot of
- 3:19crowdfunding at the time, you know, Kickstarter was a great
- 3:22way to raise 100,000 bucks. And so that was really kind of
- 3:27my intro to folks that, you know, and that's why I say an
- 3:29inventor, because when you, you bring something from an idea
- 3:32into the world and it's a physical item, there's just
- 3:35something like magical and incredible about that that you
- 3:38don't get from service and software.
- 3:40So what I'd love for you to do is just describe the products
- 3:44that you design. Well, I'll describe.
- 3:47Let's go with the latest front. Yeah, not right now.
- 3:50It's our company's called Belief Pursue LLC, right.
- 3:54So we're project product development company.
- 3:58Bella Booty Fitness is one of the brands.
- 4:00It's our first flagship. We ran for this company that's
- 4:04Al. And we've invented a couple
- 4:08different products, but the one that's out on the market right
- 4:10now, that's in the hottest categories, the hip thrust belt,
- 4:14right? Yeah, and obviously, Bella
- 4:19Booty, it's about your glutes, core and inner thighs.
- 4:24Our core values is strength, balance, competence.
- 4:26Do that, do that company. Yeah.
- 4:30What we do is we focus on the the the glutes in the core.
- 4:34So hip thrusting, let's just let's let's take a dive back.
- 4:37Hip thrusting is a popular movement right in the glute
- 4:41training category. It's.
- 4:42Huge and how where did that come from?
- 4:45Like I all the gals do hip thrusts.
- 4:47It's like their go to and they can do incredible weight with
- 4:51it. Buddy, a lot of guys are doing
- 4:53it like like if you if you scarf the gyms years ago, you didn't
- 4:57see a hip thrust like the $3000 benches out great hip thus has
- 5:01been like it's it's a key component in your your compound
- 5:04movements for lower back pain, knee pain, like you're glued in
- 5:09your latter you're tubing is muscle groups that keep you
- 5:11fired as you age. Yeah.
- 5:13Oh, hip dressing is not just for women.
- 5:15I train a lot of men and would like I had 6 clients this
- 5:18morning already and half of men, half of women, right.
- 5:21Yeah. So it's it's it's a very key
- 5:24component to keeping your body strong and your stability right,
- 5:28which then helps with knee pain and lower back pain and
- 5:30everything else. So let's get to the belt.
- 5:32The belt was, we noticed we have our own facility in Venice
- 5:37Beach, California. We know it.
- 5:39And then we go around and we do a lot of shoots around different
- 5:42gyms. A lot of my friends on the gyms
- 5:43and the big box chains, I like to go around and watch like
- 5:47people with their movement, what's going on because I like
- 5:51to look at movement patterns and how can I make something more
- 5:53efficient that's not like a 7 foot barbell and let's go back
- 5:57to hip thrusts. So if you go to some of the
- 5:59gyms, it started like 7 foot barbell or they'll take a huge
- 6:03dumbbell and put it on the nipples, right?
- 6:06No, like you'd see people wrapping yoga mats around it.
- 6:09You'd see people sticking big old knee pads under it,
- 6:12whatever, right? The the shoulder pads.
- 6:15And then they would take it in the middle of the the gym and
- 6:17start hip dressing off a bench, right?
- 6:20Me and my wife were like, dude, there's got to be an easier way
- 6:24to do it hip like a more efficient way of doing hip
- 6:26breath. And at the time Bella Beauty's
- 6:30already been established. I already had a plug that we
- 6:34developed that's a standing on product that we took off the
- 6:37market because we're redesigning it.
- 6:39So we had the business on pause. We're just doing educational
- 6:42videos on training and that's when this one popped in our
- 6:45head. So we we grabbed a leather belt
- 6:48strapped in two dumbbells made of videos worked with my my one
- 6:53of my partners, Eric Peterson. He's had a design for believe
- 6:56pursue got him jumped on a plane out to our engineers in China,
- 7:03sat there for two weeks and started ripping out prototype or
- 7:05after prototype after prototype after prototype, after us doing
- 7:09one with a bell looping in bait like weights.
- 7:12The the key thing is I wanted to make one that has or we as a
- 7:17team wanted to make one that you can fit a kettlebell, A dumbbell
- 7:22and a plate. Second key feature and one is
- 7:26make sure it's efficient so you can travel with it.
- 7:28Third key feature is it big box gyms to small medium gyms would
- 7:32want it because it takes less space.
- 7:34Me owning a space, I understand the capabilities of like having
- 7:38big, I had big equipment in there.
- 7:40I have one of the big original hip thrust machines in there
- 7:43compared to my belt, right? So I wanted to make sure it
- 7:48clicked off all those boxes. And then the second thing is
- 7:51really the comfortability for the consumer because I train
- 7:55people for a living all day. So we were testing nerve
- 7:58prototypes every day on different types of hips.
- 8:00I have guys that are 6 foot four, 260 lbs sat athletes.
- 8:05So my little tiny black foot two, you know what I'm saying,
- 8:09with the different waist sizes, bellies doesn't hip side
- 8:15everything, right? So we have to be really detailed
- 8:19on how we're going to make this efficient to wrap around every
- 8:22type of waist. Yeah.
- 8:24It's so cool. It's so cool because it's one of
- 8:27those moves that you can really stack some serious weight.
- 8:31You know what I mean? And I think that's why it's so
- 8:32popular. Of course people want the the
- 8:35dump trunk booty, you know for sure, you know, and that's the
- 8:38one way to get there. But it is like a highly it's
- 8:43super popular move. And if people don't know what
- 8:45we're talking about the hip trust, it's typically what
- 8:47you'll see is people will sit perpendicular to your, your
- 8:52bench press bench and they put the middle of their back on it.
- 8:55And then you kind of have your, your, your legs tabled out.
- 8:59And then most of the time what people do is they take the big 7
- 9:02foot Olympic bar, put it on their hips and they dip and then
- 9:05flatten out. And it's, it's a fun move.
- 9:08It definitely fires up the glutes, but it sucks because
- 9:12that especially you put some weight on there, it hurts.
- 9:15It hurts your hips. So this is is brilliant because
- 9:20it's all for that pain points and it kind of taps into like
- 9:23this, this popular exercise that's going on right now.
- 9:28So I would love to hear kind of the how you work through what
- 9:33you want to do. How are your qualifying
- 9:36projects? Because I know a part of being
- 9:38kind of a entrepreneur nightclub, a product guy is you
- 9:42have to prioritize your projects.
- 9:44So how do you go from idea to, you know, mediation to market
- 9:50and how do you prioritize which project you're going to work on
- 9:52at any particular time? Let's how many you because we
- 9:59have a couple, obviously we have some other brands we're coming
- 10:02up with. We have some patenting and our
- 10:05our other brands are in the recovery area.
- 10:09But let's start with Bella Booty because that brand was founded
- 10:12on a, a partner patented a the product that we we took the
- 10:18market, took it off the market. We were in Group training before
- 10:21anybody else. We tested internationally.
- 10:25Everybody loved the product, but they didn't like the show.
- 10:27And then I had to put it on the shelf and hold it and we were
- 10:30doing classes. And then so while the brand was
- 10:36on hold because we couldn't sell product, had about 100 units
- 10:42from my test groups in and this was our base product that we had
- 10:45that you haven't seen. My wife and I had to, I wanted
- 10:50to keep the brand alive, right. So we both were, I was running a
- 10:53gym in Santa Monica, 220 fitness and I was teaching classes,
- 10:58teaching group classes at 100 units, but I couldn't sell them.
- 11:02I'm like, OK, so we need to team up with Reebok, Nikey, everybody
- 11:06who started doing pop up classes and started bringing hiring some
- 11:09Drupex trainers. My wife started training on it
- 11:12and we started doing classes around LA to keep the brand
- 11:15alive until we came up with this next idea.
- 11:19And you got to because it's the best name.
- 11:23Because I'm all about like, I'm all of it.
- 11:26Like I was one of those guys that just ripped through
- 11:28CrossFit and would have a herniated disc.
- 11:30You like every sciatic twice a year.
- 11:33And not like I would train heavy, but not properly If I
- 11:37took a step back from that and really started training my inner
- 11:40thighs, my glutes, my lower core and balancing that body, I could
- 11:45go heavier. What better range of motion feel
- 11:49the morning, you know what I'm saying, without the wear and
- 11:51tear and joints. How we chain about the belt was
- 11:55it was there was a it was a glue training started becoming a lot
- 11:59more popular and we they come up with another great in like the
- 12:03hip thrust product. Like that idea was that we were
- 12:07watching it and I'm a pretty good eye.
- 12:11Since I've been in the industry for 96, I've always had a good
- 12:14eye for product consumers. Anything for glutes and legs
- 12:18sells, anything for recovery, recovery items sell, lower back
- 12:23pain, sell, neck pain, sell. But you got to come up with
- 12:26something innovative. Now there's a lot of like white
- 12:28labeling, slap labeling on I'm a, I'm a, I'm an inventor.
- 12:32But then they white label something from China invent like
- 12:36a massager or something. So it's like we had to come up
- 12:39with a really something that actually makes you more
- 12:42efficient. And that's what this product
- 12:44does. They affect him of history and
- 12:47it makes that movement a lot safer.
- 12:49But because you got to think of a lot of women now, they
- 12:52American women compare like say, my my life's from Easter Air,
- 12:56like she's from Estonia, right? Those women know that to go in
- 12:59front of everybody and start hit dusting out a big gym.
- 13:01They like to go on the corner, take their weights.
- 13:03So you can't drag a 7 foot barbell over there.
- 13:07A7 foot barbell when COVID had everybody working out inside
- 13:11their house or their apartment. You can't.
- 13:13You can't do it, but it's a pain in the ass.
- 13:16It's definitely an alpha move. All the angles of this simple
- 13:20little piece of product, right angles and just came to light.
- 13:26That's so cool. Yeah, you're right.
- 13:28It's a total alpha move in the gym.
- 13:30You got to be that person to be like, nobody's bench pressing
- 13:33right now. I'm doing my hit thrust in the
- 13:35middle of the whole thing. You're like.
- 13:37You know, some people let me stop you there.
- 13:39So like, we would notice that at the gym, I would go go to bench
- 13:42press and there's a girl with my bench press on the floor doing a
- 13:45hit for us. And I'm like, I can't bench
- 13:47press. And that's when I was like, oh,
- 13:50we have to get this done. Like all the more what you could
- 13:55help for not only B to B play but the B to C party.
- 13:58Just. Simple product.
- 14:00Yeah, because you know, it's great that you got you got guys
- 14:03and gals at the gym. It's awesome.
- 14:05But the Bros, the Bros in the black tank tops, if the gals are
- 14:09on the bench for like half an hour, they're like, dude, what
- 14:11am I going to do? I'm only here to bench.
- 14:13I'm. 50 The other yeah, I mean it's done well that we're plenty
- 14:19and we balled that. So it's like we took that and
- 14:21we, when we take a product to Margaret, we test very
- 14:23methodically. We started, we started with
- 14:26$150.00 bonds and then we start mapping it from there, pushing
- 14:32it 20 and 30% so and then getting it on to TikTok, then
- 14:35getting it on to this right. I had to make sure my patents
- 14:39were all clear because I have a utility in design because these
- 14:41days it's a soft good so it can be ripped off and we like we had
- 14:46to battle through that the first two years.
- 14:49We still battle it everyday. Well, I mean.
- 14:52Sweeps down on the Internet, then you have your reworks,
- 14:55everybody that went around our patent, but we control that
- 14:58category in that category where the where the lead is in that
- 15:01category. So it's so funny to watch
- 15:03because when you see us bunker down like through the tariffs,
- 15:06you've had to bunker back a little bit.
- 15:07So I didn't want to run it to work.
- 15:09But when we start pressing the gas, you'll see everybody else's
- 15:12sales going. Yeah.
- 15:14Well, this is a really important point in differentiation between
- 15:18the design patent because as I understand, like it's very hard
- 15:23to to file for like a utility patent infringement with Amazon.
- 15:29And ultimately that's where, you know, the rubber meets the road.
- 15:32But with a design patent, you can it just anybody with their
- 15:35eyes is like, oh, I can see that they're ripping this off.
- 15:39That this was my learning curve before the Amazons in the world
- 15:44and all the free supposedly free platforms yeah out it was TV,
- 15:51radio, print, retail, yeah, e-mail campaign.
- 15:57So I've been counterfeited before back in the early days
- 16:00that we had to go after several companies, but it was a
- 16:04completely totally wait. So this going in, we launched a
- 16:09little before before our design Pat was got through like 3
- 16:13months before we had videos go viral and I'm like, Oh no.
- 16:17And I kept calling my attorneys like dude, we're rushing on
- 16:21TikTok right down Amazon's like we didn't we waited to go on
- 16:25Amazon. We didn't Meta first to build
- 16:28the demand. So when I went to my Amazon
- 16:30company, they looked at some of their like, oh, we can skip the
- 16:33internship. We're ready to rock'n'roll
- 16:35creative demand, and I'm all about creating the demand on the
- 16:38platforms or you're gonna overspend, and I don't like to
- 16:42overspend. We're not a we, we, we started
- 16:44this company with 0, right? So to the point of we just got
- 16:51off track. Where were we at?
- 16:53We were at taking the product to your Amazon guy.
- 16:57Yeah. So once the counterfeit started
- 17:00coming, my my patents finally got approved.
- 17:02There was a bunch of them on there.
- 17:04We need to file and get into the APEX program, which they do have
- 17:07a program designed for utility patents.
- 17:11Yeah. So back in the day, the utility
- 17:14patent used to be the most important, right?
- 17:17Exactly is. But then you just said it's
- 17:20easier to take down, just quicker and faster.
- 17:24But the iPods are now starting to catch up.
- 17:26It took Amazon a long time to get that in place, and it takes
- 17:29a long time to get that. But once you got approved and
- 17:32then you got your design patent approved and you got your
- 17:34utility, you're bulletproof as long as keep them down, right?
- 17:38You have to keep them down. And that's another service I pay
- 17:41in a monthly fee. To take them out.
- 17:44Yeah, I use, I use a company that washes an AI across US all
- 17:48platforms and then all my international patented ones
- 17:51where I place the international patent so I get their pool wing.
- 17:55Yeah. And this is, this is something I
- 17:57learned from a buddy of mine because he faced the same
- 17:59challenges. Because notoriously, it's not
- 18:01that China doesn't respect IP, it's the fact that they don't
- 18:06even consider it. They're just like, what are you
- 18:08talking about? This is a great design.
- 18:10We're just going to use it now and put our own thing on.
- 18:12I mean, I'll, I'll agree to a certain extent.
- 18:17Tell me about your experience. Oh, we are getting crushed.
- 18:22We'd still have to go after them and we could.
- 18:24I mean, we have a class. We were last year 190 companies
- 18:29in China. And see here, there, Here's the
- 18:31kicker. When I borrow my patents,
- 18:34everybody thinks that you can just follow your Chinese patent
- 18:36and you always want to follow your Chinese patent first.
- 18:39That's a fact. I always find exactly what I
- 18:42found on my UX China will give you a design and a utility
- 18:46patent, right? Though it's easier to get
- 18:49through, takes less time, but then you have to file what you
- 18:53have if you want to take that, like if you can, you can use
- 18:56those to take down off platforms.
- 18:58But if you want to stop and go after somebody in China, China,
- 19:01he'd defy your pre litigation fees.
- 19:04Nobody really tells you that. Some of the senior law firms
- 19:06don't even tell you, which is crazy to me because they're
- 19:08going to take your money for your patents and then you're
- 19:10trying to patent. They better tell you that well,
- 19:12you better file pre litigation, which that means the government
- 19:15goes in and goes in and looks through the patents and then
- 19:18puts their stamp on it and you can swim China.
- 19:21Yeah. So you didn't go after in China.
- 19:23So we do all that with all my products before I launch now.
- 19:28This is a wrinkle I haven't heard of.
- 19:30So I mean, you can. Do they enforce that?
- 19:33Does the government go and enforce the?
- 19:35Design they will. If you have your pre litigation
- 19:37filing, sometimes they'll give you a you'll pat your, your,
- 19:43your, your design and your chili patent will approve the first
- 19:46nice following your pre litigation info goes sometimes
- 19:49it won't approve. Yeah, you happen to have all
- 19:52ours approved. Yeah, pretty much had that going
- 19:55to happen with a lot of our products because we know what
- 19:57we're like. We do tremendous searches.
- 20:01Our shit is innovative. Like we come up with really
- 20:03good. Cool, I love it.
- 20:05And you know, it's it's really important that you're talking
- 20:08about this because, you know, back when Kickstarter was really
- 20:11like poppin, you know, Kickstarter campaign with it was
- 20:14like 4045 days, something like that.
- 20:16So let's say you come out of the gate, you have a gangbusters
- 20:19launch. You did 200,000 the first day.
- 20:21You're like, Oh my gosh, the whole rest of the the campaign
- 20:24is just a big party, but the manufacturers in China would see
- 20:28that. And so a lot of.
- 20:29Time we we consult with 30% of our consultant with young
- 20:34entrepreneurs, they don't make these mistakes.
- 20:37So who my partner, we've been in the industry.
- 20:39He comes from big corporate design like Matrix Lifestyle.
- 20:44I come from direct to consumer products and I've been knocked
- 20:47out before. How to fight it internationally.
- 20:50So we, we like to help and guide a lot of these guys.
- 20:53And at least when Kickstarter came out, I would see people, a
- 20:56couple of my guys, friends and people were consultative, like
- 20:59how we're going to start. And I'm like, well, what about
- 21:00your Chinese paths? Yeah, we all those, yeah, we, we
- 21:03could wait. I'm like, I mean, don't take a
- 21:06step back. And the ones that went ahead and
- 21:09said now Brad, we're going to go, they got crushed.
- 21:12One that lists country once they took a step back, slowed it
- 21:14down, right. And then they crushed her.
- 21:17So it's like you got to be patient.
- 21:20Yeah, it was. And you know, while you're in
- 21:23your Kickstarter campaign, they can already be manufacturing and
- 21:26shipping them, but before you even gotten your funds.
- 21:29Honey, they were making like my friend, you know, launch film.
- 21:34They're one of the biggest big star companies out there. 100%.
- 21:36He's a good friend of mine and I, but when he first started we
- 21:39were meeting up from I brought him a lot of projects and they
- 21:43crushed. But I would see it.
- 21:46You just, you got to be careful this day of age.
- 21:49You have to be here. Yeah dude, Launch Boom was so
- 21:53such a cool company. If if you ever run into that
- 21:55guy, tell him I'm a big fan. I just talked to a couple of
- 21:58days ago like we're cool. Yeah.
- 22:00Different model now it is actually incredible. 4
- 22:05prompters. Cool, because I remember it was
- 22:08like he he built those lists of buyers on Kickstarter for meta
- 22:13to do targeting and retargeting. And then he just could
- 22:16categorize all of these massive lists so that if he sold
- 22:191,000,000 bucks of E bikes, somebody else has an E bike.
- 22:22He's like, dude, I got you teamed up man.
- 22:24It's so cool. I love that.
- 22:26OK, so one thing I love about this story too is the name and
- 22:30the brand was important, more important than the product in
- 22:33the beginning. You're like Bella Booty, such a
- 22:36good name that you're like, we have to figure out a way to to
- 22:40bring this forward. Are a lot of your ideas like
- 22:43that where you're like, hey, I've got a brand built now we
- 22:46just and we have a service market.
- 22:48Our Tam is XYZ. Now we need to go back Phil and
- 22:53see what the product is. You know, So what I love about
- 22:56the validation of this is it became just like what you're
- 22:58observing from training, what you're observing in the gym.
- 23:01Be like, okay, this is what people want.
- 23:03And then you go service a lot of entrepreneurs, especially in, in
- 23:06kind of like consumer goods. Well, they get obsessed with the
- 23:11product 1st and then they can't see anything like, oh, I haven't
- 23:15asked anybody if they want it. Whereas you're looking for like,
- 23:18here's what people already doing.
- 23:20Like how do I, you know, capitalize on that?
- 23:23Well, you know, we, we, well, our, our gym here is like a
- 23:30product development center basically.
- 23:33We're in tech central here. So we, we, we train a lot of
- 23:37designers, marketers, lawyers, people in the industry and
- 23:42they're, they don't, they're our good friends, but they're also
- 23:44not going to tell us what we want to share defeat on the
- 23:47product. If it's uncomfortable.
- 23:49So what I in fact, I took our belt and I increased our cost,
- 23:54which my friends would like. My part is like, dude, we can't
- 23:56increase our cost right now. I'm like, buddy, it gives a 10
- 23:59times better customer experience.
- 24:01We're going to increase like it minimal.
- 24:04Then we then we took it, we created the mini belt because we
- 24:09were seeing a lot of women had a lot tinier waist.
- 24:12Our belt was too big. So we came in at a cheaper
- 24:15version, not a cheaper quality size, but a smaller in belt that
- 24:20goes for the really little people like little waist that
- 24:24fits more comfortable than IA new one that's coming out.
- 24:27I don't know what's his name yet because patents are almost here.
- 24:30It's even it's going to be our flagship.
- 24:33So I'd listen, we listen to our consumers from all the way from
- 24:36our heavy lifters to our Pilates girls, to our yoga people to
- 24:40your like my, my 60 and 70 year old men trying to get their back
- 24:44pain and knee pain help with that not not gone, but help
- 24:48elevate that, you know, so. Yeah, well, you know, that that
- 24:54movement in particular, it, it is like very popular now,
- 24:57probably for good reason, because it works help sculpture
- 24:59booty, you know, but also it's it's people been doing that in
- 25:03yoga for thousands of years. Well, no.
- 25:07You know therapists have been doing it for lower back pain.
- 25:09Blue bridges and hip thrusts have been used for years.
- 25:11Yeah, 100%. And that was like one element of
- 25:14like my training that I, I really, that was neglected
- 25:17because I never really knew about it.
- 25:19So I'm a martial arts guy, was a CrossFit guy.
- 25:23I love lifting and and then I got really into yoga and
- 25:27movement largely because I was nursing, you know, injury at
- 25:30shoulder, a elbow, just like a lifetime of abuse, you know, but
- 25:35through through a movement, you know, articulating the hips, you
- 25:40know, front and back, you know, was like movement.
- 25:42I'd never even noticed. So of course, like I'm super
- 25:45tight, you know, right there. And you have to practice that in
- 25:48all the like different kind of articulations.
- 25:50Real quick, pelvic strengthen your pelvic floor, men of the
- 25:53strengthener pelvic floor just as like 1 into two.
- 25:55You've seen a lot of the guys don't understand that.
- 25:58Yeah, totally. Trainers don't.
- 26:00Some traders will understand that and they'll just put you
- 26:03straight into squads. Bench press this.
- 26:05Yeah, right. Like you got to really know the
- 26:07body and watch people's movement patterns.
- 26:10Yeah, well, and, you know, just to, you know, stereotype, you
- 26:14know, dudes want to throw plates on there, do squats or sit on
- 26:17the, the, the quad, you know, machine cuz.
- 26:20I'm in there, one of those back over there and do more without
- 26:24warming my glutes up. But it's funny now go warming
- 26:27your glutes up and go do heavy again.
- 26:29You're going to feel a lot. Stronger 100% and, and you're
- 26:33going to learn how to like tuck your hip.
- 26:35You know, that was what was huge to me in my movement and like
- 26:38freeing up my low back was like tucking the hips under and just
- 26:42like knowing when I need to stand like that.
- 26:44So like, almost like you're gripping the floor with your
- 26:46feet and it's articulating all the way through your, your whole
- 26:49yeah chain. You know, it was super helpful.
- 26:52And like that move in yoga, doing the bridge and which is
- 26:55basically hip thrust from your back, you know, was, was where I
- 26:59kind of found all that moment or that movement in space.
- 27:01Now I, I think probably the reason why it goes neglected for
- 27:05guys is because it's really hard, which is body weight.
- 27:08You know, it's like a lot of the stuff I'm doing for core now is
- 27:11going to be mostly like for hips, opening hips with just my
- 27:14legs because it's so hard to just hold your legs out anyway.
- 27:20But that's that's to say that like this movement is is super
- 27:23critical. I mean, I don't know about pain
- 27:25relief, but I know as as far as just like mobility within other
- 27:30movements, it's huge. It opens up so much other stuff.
- 27:33It's very cool. I.
- 27:34Mean it also. Not only is it training your
- 27:36cords, training with hamstrings attached to the loose, but it's
- 27:40training your lower back and your lower core, which a lot of
- 27:43guys are weak. To.
- 27:44Yeah, right. And then with the belt too, you
- 27:47lunges, ladder side lunge, front squats.
- 27:50I'd like I would take a front loaded squat over a barbell
- 27:53squat any day for someone has lower back problems, the
- 27:56elevated, you know, heels elevated so the belt wraps
- 28:00around the neck. You can put dumbbells, kettle
- 28:01bells on their own. I wouldn't put the plates on
- 28:04your squats, but people do it all the time and it's safe and
- 28:06effective. Your shoulders open and it puts
- 28:10the distributes more into the your core instead of your lower
- 28:13back. I love it.
- 28:16Yeah, 100% technology. You know, this shows about AI
- 28:21and how people are using AI and corner computing and robots in
- 28:24the future, the weird future we live in.
- 28:27You know, it seems like training and going to the gym, There's
- 28:30never going to be like a robot solution for that.
- 28:32But how are you incorporating some of these new tools, AI
- 28:35particularly into like developing products, selling
- 28:38products, like where does it come into play in your day?
- 28:40I. Mean I manage a lot of different
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- 29:48With my personal training, I, I train my clients on my own and
- 29:51I'll never stop doing that. Well, I do some some online
- 29:54stuff. I never wanted to spread myself
- 29:56thin online and do it for the money.
- 29:59Cuz I think humans need that one-on-one.
- 30:01Cuz when I train somebody, it's not just for the training, it's
- 30:05for mental and physical, right. I think it's humans right now.
- 30:09We're losing that touch. I don't think AI will ever
- 30:12replace personal training. I think some people like me more
- 30:14efficient though. Their AI trainer at home, they
- 30:16got this. You know, there's two people
- 30:18that love that shit. But the human touch for me is
- 30:21something that's always going to be a key element of our product
- 30:24development. Now, are my teams and I using it
- 30:29for marketing purposes? Yeah, I could making this more
- 30:32efficient. Certain angles in the marketing
- 30:35can we look up instead of having a research company look up
- 30:39different research evaluations for us.
- 30:41Yeah, it can do that. Like I just think we're using AI
- 30:45in smart ways to make some of the the key elements of us
- 30:49looking at products, looking at audience marketing,
- 30:54developmental naming, trademarks and helps to keep builds down
- 30:59with my attorneys because, you know, I have a really good IP
- 31:02firm that I always use and I always will.
- 31:05But I can do some of their work now before I bring a name to
- 31:08them, say, look, you don't, I don't need these hours put in.
- 31:11Well, I'm making sure we're getting efficient across the
- 31:14board, right? Well, yeah, it's going to be, I
- 31:17think it's huge. I don't get scared of replacing
- 31:20anything I'm doing because I'm going to use it for a lot of
- 31:23different areas and I'm going to make sure whoever I'm working
- 31:25with is using to make him. Yeah, this is actually a really
- 31:30interesting feature I haven't thought about because, you know,
- 31:35I think what you're talking about like the relationship
- 31:37between teacher and student, which is ultimately personal
- 31:41training or in a monastic sense, it might be like, you know, the
- 31:45the Abbot of the monastery. And if we're talking about like
- 31:50the Zen tradition, for example, you have what's called disciplic
- 31:53succession, which means that the teacher has to observe, you
- 31:58know, the the student to see how they're developing.
- 32:01I mean, Zen's notorious because they have these cool coons and
- 32:04puzzles. And so you you're, yeah, it's
- 32:07cool. And so like, that's a thing that
- 32:09like, you can't have an online course, you can't have the
- 32:12peloton of disciplic succession. There is something that you need
- 32:17for. You're going to miss our human
- 32:18element because when my client walks in and say he is having
- 32:22the most stressful day, right. Yeah.
- 32:27Oh, no, like there's a there's a way that you have to understand
- 32:30or like I understand where my guys are on a daily basis.
- 32:34I try people that are dual diagnosed, fresh out of
- 32:37recovery, high anxiety, high anxiety, like CEOs and the brain
- 32:43is not there. So for them to go jump on
- 32:46something that's AI and this guy's just like like I get, I'm
- 32:49not against any of that. What I'm saying they need that
- 32:52human element to like bring them like I can bring them down.
- 32:56I can get their mind in 15 minutes off of the out of their
- 33:00head and kind of calm them down and then get into some training
- 33:04like the way we do that with and it doesn't.
- 33:07I have different trips and trades for different
- 33:09personalities. That's the most important thing.
- 33:15This is interesting. This is interesting to hear.
- 33:17I want to change my battery out, but you know, because I'm really
- 33:22interested in like how we can utilize AI to, to hack our
- 33:26biology in certain aspects. So, you know, if you're a
- 33:30trainer, you could easily take someone's Apple Watch or their
- 33:34ring and you could know all of your clients, you know, heart
- 33:38rate variability, you could know they're, you know.
- 33:40Oh yeah, we work with a lot of my like I've had guys that are
- 33:44fresh out of heart attacks, you know, that have high, high blood
- 33:48pressure. You know, we utilize their,
- 33:52their their Apple Watches, the ring, all the, you know, so we
- 33:56don't go like for instance, one of our guys heart attacks on we
- 34:00had to keep his heart rate at a certain level.
- 34:03Yeah, and make sure we didn't put your work.
- 34:05And then I had to give him enough for rest.
- 34:07Yeah. But when it comes to something
- 34:09like that pinpointed, yes, it is, yeah.
- 34:13That that's great and there would be far more advances to
- 34:17that. But like if what is it like it a
- 34:20doctor bedside manner like that is a thing that like that's
- 34:26that's the human component that I don't think will ever be
- 34:28replaced. You can't put that in a robot,
- 34:30and maybe I'm totally wrong, you know, but.
- 34:34The thing is more accessible, like you're meant this more
- 34:38accessible like the appointments, like I see all
- 34:41that. But yes, it's that human like
- 34:44knowing you and you walk in like if you're having a shit day, how
- 34:47you're feeling, what just happened, what's going on right?
- 34:52I don't maybe they can mirror that and it maybe they will be
- 34:55able to mirror that. I don't know.
- 34:57Well, I think some people want that human touch because a lot
- 35:01of my people, I'm in Tech Central and Venice and Saint
- 35:03Martin, everybody just everything's totally.
- 35:08You know, there is there's a part of the AI story is the
- 35:11insecurity people have, especially right now where we're
- 35:14on the precipice of some kind of massive disruption in work.
- 35:18But the truth of the matter is, is there's no AI that's going to
- 35:21help you get that Bella booty off the ground.
- 35:23You're going to just. Have to do it.
- 35:24That's not going to happen. It that that being said like
- 35:29your your whole career sector is is safe, but is there anything
- 35:33about AI in particular that you find unsettling or scary?
- 35:39I don't look, man, I don't, I don't look at things as scary.
- 35:42I think we're evolving and life's always been evolving.
- 35:45I'm a 70s baby, right? So I've, I've got to see the
- 35:48Seventies, 80s and 90s, which are things probably I think
- 35:51we're the best generation because we've seen it.
- 35:53And then we get to see this whole next AI tech change.
- 35:58I can see maybe it is going to replace a lot of jobs.
- 36:04So me being more into mental and physical with my clients,
- 36:09because I, you see it here in LA with the writing imagery, with
- 36:13production, you see these big companies shutting down, these
- 36:17high end producers, riders that have written magic shows have no
- 36:21jobs. So they're going to have to,
- 36:25they're going to have to hustle and they will find jobs, they
- 36:28will find work, right? But I think the AI think for me,
- 36:32I don't think it scares me. What I do think it was is like
- 36:35your our brains are meant to use.
- 36:38So I think a portion, I think this is just my opinion.
- 36:43I think a portion of people are going to learn it and use it for
- 36:45what they needed for. I think a portion of people are
- 36:48going to overuse it and not do anything and let their brains
- 36:51just go shit, which will then create bad habits, right.
- 36:58Then I also look at the people that had those type of bad
- 37:02habits, physically, mentally, whatever.
- 37:04Then they can't find work because it has replaced part of
- 37:07the work. A lot of people don't have
- 37:09purpose. Yeah, but I see that with a lot
- 37:12of individuals anyway is if you don't, a lot of people like they
- 37:14think they have purpose, their work, their kids, but what's
- 37:19your purpose? And I see a lot of people have
- 37:21worked with one on ones. They're kind of lost, you know,
- 37:25aspect of AI couldn't enhance that with all individuals,
- 37:31individuals that are go getters going to use it for what they
- 37:35need it for, to help others, to help their business, to help get
- 37:39efficient. It's different.
- 37:41Do you understand? What I'm saying?
- 37:43Totally agree. Individuals.
- 37:44So I think it will kind of individual, but that means that
- 37:48individual has has to be smart. You know, Rome figure out what
- 37:53the next move is for what they want to do.
- 37:55It's going to be jobs now there's going to because there's
- 38:00going to be people that need work for the AI company like
- 38:03just don't just going to be duper like we don't changing.
- 38:07Yeah, totally. I totally agree.
- 38:09It may be right. That sounds a little crazy, but
- 38:12it's just watching people. It's like, for instance, when
- 38:15this came, like I run my whole business from, I think if I had
- 38:19my dog on my phone, all my apps, my marketing teams, everything,
- 38:22right? But I know how to put it down.
- 38:26I know like like we're in the mountains or we're in the water
- 38:30or I'm lifting or like I have that balance, right?
- 38:34Whereas what I've seen, and maybe correct me if I'm wrong,
- 38:40patience has been totally lost. Boredom is gone, kids.
- 38:46Kids especially and individuals like driving, you'll see people
- 38:51just like they don't have to pay, they're honking at people.
- 38:53They're they're wanting to just go, go, go because the news is
- 38:56in your hand. You can buy a product within 30
- 38:58seconds. You can do so if you got to wait
- 39:01in line at a gas station, they're laying on the horn and
- 39:04I'm like, what's wrong with you? Been waiting in line at a
- 39:08grocery store because Amazon can.
- 39:12You can see it like people. Patients are gone.
- 39:15Yeah, our our kids phones gives me like heart palpitations
- 39:21because it's like text and Snapchats like every seven all
- 39:25day long. Just alert alert alert alert
- 39:28alert. So the rains, it's made people
- 39:32hyper, hyper. What do you call?
- 39:36It vigilant. Vigilant hyper vigilance come
- 39:39up. I think that hyper where they're
- 39:41just more jumpy, like we're we're just talking about he's.
- 39:48In no, I think, I think you're right.
- 39:49There's in the Bumbo, there is all that stuff, you know?
- 39:53But that really like you got to, you got to, you got to get your
- 39:57balance, you got to find your balance. 100% All right, we're
- 39:59going to go to the Lightning round.
- 40:00Are you ready? Yeah.
- 40:03What's the your favorite part of the most challenging part of
- 40:06working with your wife? My favorite part is US being
- 40:11together, like we're getting to build stuff together, like we
- 40:15right. And then what's the what was the
- 40:17what's the other one? Challenging part?
- 40:20Challenging part. Well, dude, she's a completely
- 40:24opposite of me. So then, and I'm a sound like I
- 40:32can get intense because I manage the stuff and we're a startup.
- 40:35We're a scrappy startup. I didn't go get venture capital
- 40:38and ride dead. I don't like to owe.
- 40:40So it's like we very we we took very minimal and rolled our
- 40:45dollars and now we're at a that second phase level with a $3
- 40:50million market. We're going to make that jump to
- 40:52that 6 to 8. Cool.
- 40:54So see the intent tariffs came in.
- 40:57I've been doing this since I was 20.
- 41:00Bill companies shut them down, built them, tore them down.
- 41:03I've went through the ringers. I guess the challenging part is
- 41:08like just keeping the communication with our own
- 41:12because we work from home. We work, we walk to where our
- 41:16gym is right down. It just blocked our office.
- 41:19So it's like putting our phones down and and finding our time.
- 41:23And we've done a really good living because we can bite to
- 41:27the beach. We can go up to the mountains to
- 41:29two minutes because that's what we enjoy.
- 41:31And that's like you look at Beck fit our logos, mountain, our
- 41:36barbell in the ocean, and those are our breaks.
- 41:38Love it. Keeps us level headed cool.
- 41:42Let's say you sell Bella Booty for a billion dollars tomorrow.
- 41:45What's your next move? Keep developing, man.
- 41:49Keep developing new products. Anything on on your mind that
- 41:52you want to divulge? Any any or categories.
- 41:55Maybe we, you know, we're gonna we have some new innovative
- 41:59products coming up in Bella booty or gluten core and dye
- 42:02training. We have we have a couple brands
- 42:05that are in going to be in the neck pain area because a lot of
- 42:08people are just like, you know, the technic and we've come up
- 42:13with some innovative products. I'm using old, not old.
- 42:19How can I say this innovative product using old technology
- 42:23that's just going to crush. I think because it it's like the
- 42:27belt. You can take it anywhere, use it
- 42:28anywhere and it's it's really use your neck pain.
- 42:32And then for lower, like we have a, we have a couple products in
- 42:38the lower back pain product coming up the pipeline.
- 42:41So which is a much need. But with these with, with the
- 42:45recovery, it's funny because you'll see a lot of recovery
- 42:48products out there that they'll sell the product for the
- 42:51Band-Aid fix. But what we've done is if you
- 42:54look at Bella Booty, we started, I've had my team free education,
- 42:59education, education, education, education.
- 43:02That's all I care about builds back and what these the other
- 43:06brands that we're going to be coming up the pipeline.
- 43:08It's going to be tons of education how I don't want you
- 43:12using my product. The problem is you're human.
- 43:15You're going to use you're going to you're going to go back to
- 43:17bad habits, but we're going to give you nothing to hopefully a
- 43:21handful of people will use that education and they barely need
- 43:25to use the product anymore. That product is going to be
- 43:28there if you actually need it and that for back pain and lower
- 43:31back pain, our neck pain and lower man.
- 43:35So we have a tools and two new brands come up the pipeline and
- 43:38we're still a little bit ways out on that because we're hyper
- 43:41focused on scale and validity this next like year.
- 43:44But we're going to start articulating.
- 43:46We're already doing a lot of developmental work.
- 43:48Patents are getting approved. So it's just like for me, I'm
- 43:52not in a rush. There's nothing else out there
- 43:55like him. Cool.
- 43:58Thinking about our kids, they're going into college.
- 44:00If you were going into college right now with what you know
- 44:04now, what would you study? Oh, business and
- 44:09entrepreneurship. Yeah.
- 44:12Like literally business, entrepreneurship, finance.
- 44:15Yeah. Nice.
- 44:17Is there ACEO or another entrepreneur that inspires you
- 44:20or that you follow closely? There's yeah, Jason Boyce, I
- 44:31really like him from my Amazon team.
- 44:33Cool. And I see the teams that he's
- 44:36building like we've we've gone through a lot of different age.
- 44:39I'm just not like because we do a lot of in house stuff and it's
- 44:42a team that we've been working with for a long time.
- 44:44And the way he is with his team, strategically everything else, I
- 44:52think, yeah, that would be what we.
- 44:56Is there something that you wish you knew earlier?
- 45:01Oh yeah, the counterfeit issues not through the counterfeit knew
- 45:12earlier, right? Because for me, I'm more of like
- 45:17a visionary to write in my business, but I'm having to be
- 45:20the integrator for a while again.
- 45:22Like left the integrations now, but now I'm back in it because
- 45:25we're making team changes. So not just the visionary now.
- 45:28So it's like with the whole change of technology and
- 45:34literally Meta changes everyday, TikTok changes every week.
- 45:38What was working on TikTok doesn't work that week.
- 45:41Yeah. So when it goes back to business
- 45:44from the changes, that's a that is a tough one.
- 45:48You know, I don't know how you feel where to start to answer
- 45:51that one? Like here's what it is for me is
- 45:54like, I don't know it all when I walked in, when I start some I'd
- 45:58pretty much because I've been in the industry for years.
- 46:01So I have a little bit of, you know, self-confidence and stuff.
- 46:03But the more I pick a step back and the more I integrate with my
- 46:07teams and just miss it and shut up, right?
- 46:10I'm not a boss like my customer service team and they get a big
- 46:14boss. I'm like, I'm not your boss.
- 46:15I'm like, I work with you like I'm in the I wouldn't be here
- 46:18without you. So it's like literally learning
- 46:22more because it's changing everyday the how marketing is
- 46:26presented, each platform's different products.
- 46:31So just sitting back and watching and listening more.
- 46:34Yeah, that's interesting. Like, you know, I'm not your
- 46:38boss. You know, I, I actually struggle
- 46:40with that too, because it's like at the end of the day, it's
- 46:43like, well, we are going to go ahead and do what I want, but I,
- 46:46the, the hierarchy is uncomfortable.
- 46:49To be there to a certain level, like, right, Because you got to
- 46:54have that decision maker, right? Yeah.
- 46:57But decision maker, you're going to know if he's a complete like,
- 47:00like sociopath, or he's going to let his teams make his runs and
- 47:04make their fumbles and make their mistakes and be there for
- 47:07them and be in the weeds with them.
- 47:09And I'm one that's I'm always in the weeds with.
- 47:11I'm not above any of my team now comes back to decisions.
- 47:15I always get, dude, I have advisors and I get my team and
- 47:20then I sit on it for like they call me a journal because they I
- 47:23take too long right on certain things and I'm too loyal in
- 47:27certain areas, which has screwed me around a little bit.
- 47:29But I like to think things true before I make and I like to get
- 47:35everybody's feedback. And half the time it's not even
- 47:37my decision. It was theirs.
- 47:39Like, OK, let's run with it and let's see what happens.
- 47:42Yeah, you know a. 100% yeah. Yeah, it's, it's interesting.
- 47:47And you were talking about two, like, you know, toggling between
- 47:52visionary and integrator. You know, it can, are you able
- 47:56to do both at the same time or do you really kind of wear one
- 47:59hat at a time? You're like, OK.
- 48:00It's not like a crappy start up in our face where we're at
- 48:04because we're shifting from one team to a new team trying to get
- 48:07to a different level. Like my strengths is more of a
- 48:11visionaire. Yeah, but I've always had to be
- 48:14an integrator when time gets like tough, like, yeah, I mean,
- 48:18I don't want to overpay. Like we we have a couple
- 48:22different small investors on. We're about to go raise some
- 48:24more capital. So I said I want to make sure
- 48:26we're doing the right things. And when in those changes, I
- 48:29don't like to be the one finger pointing somebody like why
- 48:34didn't this work out? Well, I know why it didn't work.
- 48:37We were I was in the view. I'm on all these calls of you.
- 48:39I see what we're doing from our production to Amazon strategy to
- 48:43our color strategy and belts to our videos, everything like.
- 48:48So yeah, what I want to take a step back a little further as I
- 48:52build up the teams, new teams and new people.
- 48:55Yeah. But you know, you got to like,
- 48:58this is like we this our company.
- 49:00This is what I loved. It was so like, oh, I need to
- 49:04pick this. Yeah, I don't see me retiring
- 49:07from. It Yeah, I.
- 49:08Know people, I help people keep healthy habits and help them fix
- 49:13their brain and their body. That will never change.
- 49:16I'll do that until I'm dead. I love developing products and
- 49:19working with teens and seeking innovation.
- 49:21Grow, right. So it's like that will never
- 49:24change. Did I sell OPS brands or
- 49:27something? Yeah, would do that.
- 49:28But I mean, the end of the day, we're doing what we love to do.
- 49:31Yeah. You know, you, you talked about
- 49:33like some people feeling lost and feeling like they don't have
- 49:37meaning in their life. You know, it seems like very
- 49:40satisfying to be helping people in the way that you do you.
- 49:44Know, I mean it was a big part of my life from the past because
- 49:49I took a huge hit in 2000 and eight, 2009.
- 49:52I had a lot of love around me to rebuild myself from the insides
- 49:55and the outside and it took some time bro, and I want to give
- 49:59that back. I love giving it back to people.
- 50:01You told me a little bit about that story.
- 50:03I'm going to have to have you back so we can go through that
- 50:05one. That's that's that's its own
- 50:09conversation for sure. Amazing.
- 50:13OK. If you could live in any time
- 50:19period besides this one, when would it be?
- 50:27How do Lovely have been back in the 70s then I was at seven.
- 50:30I was born in 73. I don't remember happens.
- 50:33He's ready that that day of age just seemed like incredible.
- 50:37The Muse. Movies.
- 50:40Movie everything in the 70s, right before the 80s, didn't it?
- 50:45But yeah, go back in the 90s, nineties.
- 50:48It was fun. 90s were fun. Yeah, 90s.
- 50:52Were you had more? I think it's more personability
- 50:55with people. Yeah.
- 50:56I mean, like, you just had it. It was there.
- 50:58The music was like touching. Yeah.
- 51:01And not saying I'm a music freak.
- 51:03I live and I love all kinds from country.
- 51:07Me and my wife got a raise and then we we let it like we hit
- 51:10like every, every type of music. I I can feel it.
- 51:13I love it. Yeah, but it's about the 90s.
- 51:16Though yeah, 20s in the 70s, one of the totally.
- 51:26Fantastic. Let's see if I've got anything
- 51:28else. If you could.
- 51:29If you could put anything on a billboard, a quote, an image, an
- 51:33icon, anything. What would you put on a
- 51:35billboard? Wouldn't be my quote since that
- 51:50was confidence. That's a grand quote because
- 51:52that that's a big thing life server for anybody.
- 51:55Yeah. But Amar Fatih, what's that?
- 52:00It means that like you have to matter what in life, whatever
- 52:04thrive life throws, you can look it up.
- 52:06AM ARFATI amorpha TAMORI mean? Nice.
- 52:13And it means you have to make the best of any circumstance in
- 52:15life. Yeah.
- 52:17You know what I mean? Because it was a, it was a big
- 52:20sound of like when I went through a big change.
- 52:22And I just think if people looked at that, because you're
- 52:24going to have shit that happens. You can't change political
- 52:28stuff. You can't get here.
- 52:30You're going to take sides on everything.
- 52:31But at the end of the day, you got to worry about yourself and
- 52:34you got to the best with what you have that day, that day,
- 52:38because all you have is that day like you have today.
- 52:41And that is it. You're not guaranteed tomorrow.
- 52:44We're not guaranteed. Wake up.
- 52:46So it's like you can sit in your ship or you can, OK, this
- 52:50happened. Let's keep moving.
- 52:51Yeah. The it's Stoic, you know, and I
- 52:56had a great conversation yesterday with a a guy named
- 52:59Zach Holland. We talked a lot about Stoic
- 53:01philosophy, like the, the direct translation.
- 53:04It's saying here a more fatigue, the love of fate.
- 53:10No, I mean, I'm, I'm definitely I I read, I'm in Stoic.
- 53:14I read it every morning. Yeah.
- 53:16I love that philosophy. I think a lot of people need, I
- 53:19would because I look at any religion as a philosophy too.
- 53:22So I'm dabble around to different religions to find what
- 53:26I believe in. And Stoicism is huge for me,
- 53:29especially with daily life challenges.
- 53:32I've had to go through business, everything.
- 53:34It just keeps a really good filter for me when I have a
- 53:38daily reading in the mornings, When I get up in the mornings, I
- 53:40read it. The daily is drug and it's
- 53:42really cool because you can. It's not.
- 53:45You can manipulate it into anything in your life on that
- 53:48day, Yeah. Amazing Brett, this has been so
- 53:52much fun I really appreciate. It thank you.
- 53:55I appreciate you having me on. You.
- 53:57You betcha. Where can people connect with
- 53:58you online? Instagram Brett Beck fed Beck
- 54:04Fit LA on Instagram and then Bella Booty fitness Facebook
- 54:09Brett Beck. Tremendous.
- 54:11We'll we'll make sure that all the links are in the show notes.
- 54:14So people, definitely check this out and go get yourself a Bella
- 54:17booty. Yes, for sure.
- 54:19I appreciate you man. You bet.
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