The Faction's Kick A@# Podcast

Helllooo! This is the first of new segment series we'll be doing with our man Andy McCloy of BCI. We're calling it 'What's Working?' It's all about what's working for Andy in his business right now...and Andy is a successful gym owner. Of course, the conversation encompasses a lot...but there are some gems in this one about how to make changes in your business and keep growing.

John "White Bread" O'Neil is a strength coach at Cressey Sports Performance in Massachusetts, as well as their internship director. During this episode he and Todd talk internships, coaching, why John is allergic to flavor and fun, and they play a solid game of would you rather. Check it.

During this episode, Todd chats with Sue Falsone about her upcoming book, Bridging the Gap--why she wrote it and some of the struggles of going through the writing process. They also, of course, play Would You Rather. Have yourself a listen.

Todd chats with Pat Davidson about training, and it gets wild. Pat goes big picture, little picture, and everything in between as he describes his training philosophy. They also get a good ol' game of would you rather in at the end.

Well hello there! Welcome back. During this episode, Todd chats with Dr. Justin Rabinowitz about business--specifically what the good doctor did with year end review questions for 2017 and how he involved his employee in the process of reviewing and looking forward to 2018. He asked some great questions based on information from his business mentor, Paul Gough. Here's a link to the podcast that Paul talks about those questions: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-physical-therapy-business-school-podcast/id1137950319?mt=2&i=1000380872265

Supriya Baily is Associate Professor at George Mason University where she teaches courses in international and comparative education, qualitative research methods and teacher education. She is also the Associate Director for the Center for International Education. She and Todd chat about education, environment learning, and how to make sure we are doing all that we can as coaches and educators to make sure that the people we influence are learning from us. Oh, they also played would you rather.

During this, the 18th episode of the good old Faction's Kick A@# Podcast, Todd chats with UK-based coach Adam Willis--co-founder of Lean Body Performance. They chat about online training, getting over things that are holding you back and play a wicked game of would you rather. That's right, would you rather is back! Enjoy!

During this episode, Todd chats with Finding Strength founder Zach Gallmann. They get into the finer points of struggling to get a project started and why that makes it meaningful...as well as managing relationships in your life and business. Zach's an alright guy. You'll like this one.

During this episode, Todd talks with Taylor Lewis of the Academy of Total Performance and the Cystic Fibrosis Fitness Institute. Taylor's a great coach and a super passionate guy and it really comes out in this podcast. You're gonna like this one!

Hellloooo!!! This episode is actually an audio recording of a Strength Faction QnA we did with licensed psychologist, Lisa Lewis. She gives the goods on helping us identify mental health issues in our clients and how to bridge the gap and talk about it. It's pretty rad...and definitely useful. Enjoy!

Ladies and gents, Doug Kechijian is an impressive human being. He's a former Air Force Parajumper, ivy league educated, doctor of physical therapy. That's code for he's a seriously rad guy. In this episode, he Todd chat about being able to think your way through the fitness industry and how stay reasonable in the current atmosphere of the extremes of absolutes. Essentially, how the hell do we think through this mess and do things to actually help our clients.

During this, the lucky 13th episode of the podcast, Todd chats with Matt Dolan--Strength Faction member and co-founder of Forged Strength in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Honestly, they talk about a lot of cool stuff. About how you need to acknowledge and come to terms with your dark side, having ridiculous conversations at the gym, and the strategy that Matt and his business partner used to keep business humming over the summer.

Chris and Jaclyn are rad people that own and operate a rad gym in Philadelphia. Todd chats with them about the start of their gym, managing being in business together while also being in a relationship together, the struggles of being a business owner and what that can do to your psyche, powerlifting, and then a quick game of would you rather? Enjoy, Faction Family!

This episode is the September CFSC + Strength Faction Round Table...but you probably guessed that from that title. Anyway, this time around it's just Kevin and Todd. This conversation went to a pretty cool place. The dudes talked about a few things--but mainly they went down a rabbit hole on figuring out how you know that you're headed in the right direction and you're doing what you should be doing. We think you're going to love this one.

It's the 10th podcast already! Holy damn! This one was a great conversation with Pete Dupuis. Pete and Todd chatted about content development, riding the business wave, and some of the stuff Pete has coming down the pipe. Enjoy, Faction Family!