Vince Gabriele

Before we opened our first location, I trained people in my mom’s basement, rented space in a local gym, trained athletes on 5 different local fields, and used various gyms in the local schools to get my business started.

After a year of this craziness we signed a lease for our first facility.

We built a gym that was completely different from our competition — no other facility was like ours and that’s what created our success. Together, Vanessa and I ran GFP and helped 1000s of people in our community change their lives, lose weight, and live a more active life.

I was just doing my thing as a gym owner trying to make a great life for my family. We reached 7 figures in revenue very quickly and I structured the business so that I was able to never miss a bedtime for any of my 3 kids. I started getting phone calls from other gym owners asking me how I was having so much success. So I started to help them grow their business and my gym became the blueprint for countless gym owners… with many of them respectfully copying everything I was doing.

A few months after this… my dad had a stroke — a really bad one — and I had to be out of my gym for over two months to be there for my mom and sisters.

My gym continued to grow and have success… even when I wasn’t there.

That was my sign that I needed to move into teaching gym owners how to have a successful business that not only makes money… but still grows while they’re not there.

In the waiting room of NYU-Langone hospital I wrote my first book about how to do it… 8 more have followed.

Today my days are filled with helping gym owners build a more successful business.