Ever wondered how to turn adversity into opportunity? Meet Kenny Futrell, the enigmatic owner of Peak Performance Training, who picked up the pieces after a career at a bank ended abruptly and embarked on a journey to transform his life through fitness. We explore his inspiring transformation from a novice personal trainer to a successful owner of a gym, all from a leap of faith he took in 2020.
Kenny shares more than just his career transition. He invites us into his complex world, revealing childhood insecurities and family dynamics that have shaped him into the person he is today. His transition from online to in-person training, confronting and overcoming the accompanying hurdles, is truly motivating. Kenny's unique philosophy on fitness, which highlights high-intensity interval training, and his metamorphosis from a 130-pound high school student to a fitness guru, presents a unique narrative of perseverance and determination.
In this episode, we delve into Kenny's perception of success, how it shapes his self-image, and influences his health and fitness habits. We also explore the powerful role that art plays in his life, particularly through his collaboration with Jordan Lawson J-Law, a multidisciplinary artist. Kenny’s journey, filled with highs and lows, is a testament to his tenacity and passion. It serves as a beautiful reminder for anyone in pursuit of their dreams - the path may be tough, but the results are worth the struggle. Tune in as we navigate this riveting conversation with Kenny Futro.
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Ever wondered how to turn adversity into opportunity? Meet Kenny Futrell, the enigmatic owner of Peak Performance Training, who picked up the pieces after a career at a bank ended abruptly and embarked on a journey to transform his life through fitness. We explore his inspiring transformation from a novice personal trainer to a successful owner of a gym, all from a leap of faith he took in 2020.
Kenny shares more than just his career transition. He invites us into his complex world, revealing childhood insecurities and family dynamics that have shaped him into the person he is today. His transition from online to in-person training, confronting and overcoming the accompanying hurdles, is truly motivating. Kenny's unique philosophy on fitness, which highlights high-intensity interval training, and his metamorphosis from a 130-pound high school student to a fitness guru, presents a unique narrative of perseverance and determination.
In this episode, we delve into Kenny's perception of success, how it shapes his self-image, and influences his health and fitness habits. We also explore the powerful role that art plays in his life, particularly through his collaboration with Jordan Lawson J-Law, a multidisciplinary artist. Kenny’s journey, filled with highs and lows, is a testament to his tenacity and passion. It serves as a beautiful reminder for anyone in pursuit of their dreams - the path may be tough, but the results are worth the struggle. Tune in as we navigate this riveting conversation with Kenny Futro.
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Listen, man. It's been another lovely episode of the podcast, bob's podcast, and we back man with the muscles. You might have seen him at the beach. Eight packed out, so I'm going to go ahead. Ladies, this is for you, so I'm going to go ahead. Let this man introduce himself back. Go ahead, brother. Yeah, don't, don't hit me with the bullshit. You were just talking.
Speaker 3:Yes, kenny Futro, owner of Peak Performance Training, ok, in Baltimore, maryland, ok, we specialize in interval training. We do strength and strength and conditioning, oh yeah, To get you right, lose that body fat and get you the way you want to be.
Speaker 1:So listen y'all which I'm trying to do something about, Kenny real quick. I've been thinking for a while. Kenny was the first person to bring a videographer. Listen, Kenny, want to act like he ain't making money? Kenny got his own cameraman. He ain't give me no name, he just said, sup bro. I was like, oh you about your business. So, man, Kenny, how did all this happen, man?
Speaker 3:Man, it's been a long, long journey.
Speaker 1:OK.
Speaker 3:But um yeah, man, I got started. I want to say in March or April 2020, what are we in 2023?
Speaker 1:Hell yeah 2022.
Speaker 3:So last year I got started personal training, I started online coaching first and shout out to my first client, kayla hey everybody remember the first client. If you watching this, shout out to you but um, yeah, she was my first one. I was working for a bank at the time. Actually, I was working for M&T.
Speaker 1:Oh god, real Baltimore shit yeah OK.
Speaker 3:It got fired.
Speaker 1:So uh, kenny how'd you get fired, bro?
Speaker 3:Well, essentially, what they say was Allegedly no, I wasn't a good employee. Uh, I was. Because I wasn't a good employee, I was trying my best to keep up, but like I was doing things that I thought was right and they was completely wrong, oh, they was completely wrong. I was messing up people, loans and stuff.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's why they got you to fuck out of here. Yeah, it was Just to Kenny. You messed up my home loan with Kenny.
Speaker 3:No, not even it was worse it was business loans, so look.
Speaker 1:And you can say you had a background in the what the military right. Yeah, what were you doing in the military Cryptology. And you went to a bank.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna say they go together, they don't go together.
Speaker 3:OK.
Speaker 1:So when you got out the Navy, what was the goal? Like don't, I'm gonna do this now.
Speaker 3:So even before I got out, I was researching. Researching like I was like trying to figure out what I wanted to do next, because I was like, getting to the point the way, I was like, yeah, I ain't gonna, I ain't gonna stay in too much longer, but how?
Speaker 1:long did you do?
Speaker 3:I did four.
Speaker 1:Damn boy. You did your four. Got the fuck out of there Look, look, look.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna say I was just talking the other day, me and my stepmom, we were real close, so I was right there the other day and just saying how like it don't hit you really like when you in it.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:Like I'm like I was really like put my life on the line.
Speaker 1:Like people want to take me off the map.
Speaker 3:That's crazy for no reason, Like you don't even know me.
Speaker 1:You don't even want to get you the fuck up out of here.
Speaker 3:Right, and it's the same thing. It's like you know, once I started to think about it, I was like, yeah, no, that'll sit right with me, but you even want to join the military then, to be honest, college, oh college.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Did you even go to college?
Speaker 3:So I started oh fuck, look, look, look, I was going hard at Tulsa, right, okay?
Speaker 1:And then you was at the rec room losing your fucking mind.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, not even, not even I was like by that point I had got my party in out Like I did all my part in in the military.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you's after this, right yeah.
Speaker 3:And so like I'm the go to work, go to school type of guy. So work got in the way, to be honest, because, like ever since I got out, I was working jobs to where you had mandatory overtime, so like you come in eight o'clock, you might not get off till eight at night, and you know. So you did 12 hours, yeah, yes, but I'm like that ain't nothing, not like when I was younger. I'm thinking like that ain't nothing that I ain't used to in the military, but like in the civilian world. That hit different when you can go it hit different when you got that freedom.
Speaker 3:You ain't got to be stuck there and you're like I could be out with my friends right now, like I could be doing whatever. I could be doing the game right now, Like whatever. That changes everything, and that's a lesson I had to learn the whole way.
Speaker 1:So you dropped out of Towson right.
Speaker 3:So I didn't stop Towson until I started my business. So, like I was in all the way up until like, whatever was that spring semester 2022. And then I, the summer hit, and then I had started my business. By the summer, I had started training in person. So, I was like I'm gonna just take some time off until this get a little stable, cause I'm like I still need something.
Speaker 1:You still need your income right.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So I was like all right, you know, I'm gonna take some time off, I'm gonna keep putting out content grinding with the social media, Cause that's how I built basically 90% of my business.
Speaker 1:So you stopped, cause I'm gonna pull this up right now. I'm gonna pull this up right now what you got. What you got. Y'all gonna see Kenny's profile on this screen. Kenny, listen, kenny. Kenny, listen. You got ladies going crazy like this, cause you gonna see this goddamn photo. What?
Speaker 3:camera, what camera?
Speaker 1:Your camera right there, Kenny, Look, don't listen to this man. What made you want to start this fitness journey and not only just started for yourself, but you was like you know what? I want to make it a business. You know what?
Speaker 3:I think it was. I think you know I got to start from the beginning.
Speaker 1:We want to know.
Speaker 3:Kenny, go ahead, go ahead, start. So like I think it was like December of December of 2021. And I had just went through a breakup, I was like at this point I ain't got nothing to lose, like this job stresses me out.
Speaker 3:I'm like I'm going to just start posting like my content, because at that point I had made like significant progress already and so I was like you know what I'm going to do it. And so I posted that first one got like 10 likes maybe. Like I was like you know what, I'm going to stay consistent with it yeah. Cause I'm going to. I was like I'm working out regardless, like I'm also, you know recording anyway.
Speaker 3:I'm going to two shots here and there, put that out. And then, um, somebody had reached out to me, was like yo, I love your progress, can you write me a um, can you do me a um, a workout plan, or something like that? And I was like, yeah, you know what? All right, whatever, somebody else hit me up, Right, I'm like, all right, whatever, whatever I do it again, I was like that next person that hit me up All right, that's the last one I'm doing for you. After that, I'm charging. I'm charging Cause, like I'm like, if it's becoming this consistent, like you know, I gotta, you know, be able to, I gotta monetize it somehow.
Speaker 3:This might just be my thing and um, we're really. I think the biggest transition for me, though, was transitioning to training in person, cause, like I was getting clients and seeing them in person, and I was like I don't know if I could it's different in person. Yeah, I was like I don't know if I can help this person.
Speaker 1:You know, I never had a training to say that.
Speaker 3:And, honestly, every single one of my clients have seen results and.
Speaker 3:I'm like, okay, like once they started seeing results it kind of put a little bit more ease in my mind, cause like I was like all right, bet, like I found my lane, I know what I'm doing and you know, let's, let's try to run it up. So I think January one I put on my goal. I wrote my list of goals. I think I had went on a fast like from women uh, women, uh, video games, um, going out all that. I was like I'm going to stay home until I figure out how to get my own gym, and so I just locked in. I was on some wake up early and meditate. Yeah, you tried to christen to the full moon, kitty.
Speaker 3:No, no, I'm a I'm a meditate and pray type of guy. I'm a big, you know advocate of meditation, Right Cause, um, it really does set that tone for the day.
Speaker 3:And like, really like, once you get it, once you do it, once it's like you can kind of like go back to it anytime that you need it. So, um, put on my, put on my goal list, like I want to own a gym. So I started like listening to podcasts, podcasts, podcasts, and um, I was like, going through the process of looking for places, I wasn't finding nothing that I could really like but it's getting your own gym expensive.
Speaker 3:Depends on how you go about it. All right, tell people I bought it in a different way. I actually bought a gym, so my gym that I own now I bought.
Speaker 1:Hey, yeah, you know, you got your disability.
Speaker 3:A little bit.
Speaker 1:What percentage?
Speaker 3:they get you. It ain't that much. It ain't that much the anybody believe that disability is barely gas money 30 Gators, motherfucker, 15%.
Speaker 1:So when you was doing it right, Did anybody believe in this, Like when you, when you even telling people this is what you wanted to do.
Speaker 3:So Initially, yes, because I thought that in my mind I'm going through the process of it and like what it really boiled down to is like me just taking that initial jump and just saying you know what, what, if like you know you got to ask the question.
Speaker 1:You got to ask that question to yourself.
Speaker 3:Like what if? What if? All goes good Like because, everybody always has a negative, a negative, you know. Bias, that's just how we are, naturally. And when you ask that question, what if something good can happen that puts you down a whole, a whole different snowball of you? Know well what would happen, what would need to happen for this to be, you know, a home run.
Speaker 3:And then you start to like, go down, like okay, well, I need this, this and that. And then from there you build out what you really want and what you really need. And from there you got, you go to the negotiation table Like so, initially, when I was looking for, when I stumbled upon the idea of buying a gym, and came from Cody Sanchez, shout out Cody Cody.
Speaker 3:You going to see his name right there Cody Sanchez, cody Sanchez, she real big on buying small businesses, and so I never even thought about buying small businesses until I came across that.
Speaker 1:Wait a minute. I think I know where you going with this what's up, what's up.
Speaker 2:How are you going with?
Speaker 1:it. So you bought a small business and turned into a gym.
Speaker 3:No. So I bought a gym and just assume ownership of it, because what you'll see happen is like we got all these business, all these small businesses in America, and somebody got to take them over, or like they're going to close, and it's so much easier for a business to sell than to close doors altogether. So a lot of people don't think to go and buy a business, you know, because they always say you got to start, you can just buy one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they think it's always unattainable, oh it's going to cost so much money, but really, what it boils down to is you just know how to work the system. Because, like, I want to say like don't, don't quote me on this, but I want to say like 70% or 80% of businesses are sold through seller financing. Oh yeah, so what that is is basically the person that you're buying the business from. They basically sell you, they give you the business, but you just pay them back.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3:So that just offer that. That's a big chunk of money that you don't need to come to the table with so that's basically how I bought my business. So portion of seller financing and a portion of cash.
Speaker 1:So where did meeting this guy right here come into play?
Speaker 3:Oh man, this is my guy, this is my guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when did? Where did meet this man behind the camera come into play?
Speaker 3:We go back to what was it. What was it?
Speaker 1:This man sound you saying shit, damn brother.
Speaker 3:Middle school trials Okay. Middle school trials. Subbroke middle school trials.
Speaker 1:And did you reach out to him or he reached out to you?
Speaker 3:He asked me for a pencil and I said he had no. So the exact dialogue was hey man, you got a pencil. And I said it's the pencil. And come to what was it? Sixth grade? We had every class together, except for probably, like one, been best friends since.
Speaker 1:So, when you see, when he seen you doing this business and you wanted to really put your foot hole in the gym world, did you reach out to him or did he reach out to you like yo brother, let me help you.
Speaker 3:So we, I honestly, honestly, I feed off of him a lot.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:He's the superstar really.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's always behind the camera. He's the superstar.
Speaker 3:This man is. Can I give him a call? Yes, Art by J-Law. Which camera I'm at?
Speaker 1:Oh, I see.
Speaker 3:Art by J-Law. Art by J-Law.
Speaker 1:So wait, wait, wait, wait, he's an artist.
Speaker 3:He's a multi-disciplinary artist. My man got murals. He redid the past in Park basketball, oh shit. My man just finished up a mural at Mardong, oh shit. And he just did a mural at Henderson High School, oh shit. My man on a run. He on a tag through the city to make his city look good.
Speaker 1:Okay, and so y'all partnered up. So I want to know about Kenny, right, right, what was growing up for you like before you got to where you before peak what did I say Peak performance? Before you got there, what was growing up for you like oh, man, we dig a deep. Oh, come on now, come on now.
Speaker 3:We dig a deep. Let me sit up in my chair, yeah yeah, we want to know, Kenny. Oh man, I was to be honest. I was a shy kid.
Speaker 1:Oh God.
Speaker 3:I was.
Speaker 1:I was going to an extent, but Push the mic towards your face, kenny, yeah, yeah, yeah, y'all. There you go.
Speaker 3:I was, I was, I was. You know, I was going to an extent, but for the most part I was a shy kid. I was pretty insecure, oh God, and I would say it had to take up for my. I want to say it took up to like like 23.
Speaker 2:What made you what were you insecure about?
Speaker 3:I don't know. I would say like I don't know.
Speaker 1:You know what were you just?
Speaker 3:scared about. Really, when I dig deep and think about it, it was probably, I don't know, being that underdog, being like overlooked, or something like that.
Speaker 1:Why'd you feel overlooked? Kenny, we're going to get to know you on this God damn show. Okay, yeah, what do you mean? You felt overlooked?
Speaker 3:So I had a relationship Okay, and I felt like at the end my mindset switched to think well, if you think that you're going to find somebody better out there, then I'm going to have to just show you that you. How old were you when this happened? This was about 23.
Speaker 1:So now, kenny because you see people that try to get me you said you felt insecure as a child. What happened when you were a child that gave you this insecurity?
Speaker 3:Okay, so it switches a little bit. So all right so a child I would say. I felt like I was, I guess, that child that didn't get that full attention From his parents.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when you from mom and dad, stepdad, mom, how'd it go, so mom?
Speaker 3:mom and dad were together up until right after they had me, oh God. And then they remarried and my mother had remarried and got divorced and my father remarried and is still married and I have a brother and sister on my father's side. And then I had a sister. I have a sister on my mother's side but, she passed away. How about that? Yeah, in 2018.
Speaker 1:So when you said you felt overlooked, did you feel more overlooked. Who did you stay with? Who was your primary parent?
Speaker 3:My primary parent was my mom.
Speaker 1:So you're saying you felt overlooked by your mom?
Speaker 3:I would say a little bit, and then also by my dad a little bit too, because I felt like he did, like I felt at the time. I felt like he went out of his way to make it to like all of my brothers and sisters events and all of that, and he never really I wouldn't say he never made it to mine, but it was like very few would fall between, or at least that's how I felt at the time.
Speaker 3:Did you ever tell him? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's crazy because after that breakup it was like all coming to a head. I was like I think that girl I was dealing with had mentioned that I wasn't assertive enough, or something like that, and I felt like that had to stem from, like, me and my dad relationship or something. So I was like you know what, what better time to tell him than like now I'm going through all this?
Speaker 3:I need my dad really. How'd it go when you talked to him? It was really good. It was really good we had the time to like really sit down and really hash it all out, which, like our relationship would not be where it is now without it, and even like now, we're a little rocky, but like that's parents, yeah, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1:And what about your mom, me and my mom?
Speaker 3:You ever?
Speaker 1:had a conversation with your mom.
Speaker 3:No cause. No, because I feel like all that time I'll get back with my mom.
Speaker 1:When you say you get that time back, what do you?
Speaker 3:mean Because now I'm the only child on that side, so I see my mom more. We'll get that time back, but me and my dad, even now you still got to split the time between so many people in the household. This now is my dad, my stepmom, my brother, his girlfriend and their newborn baby, and we a big blended family.
Speaker 1:So, when you came from saying that you had these feelings towards your parents and everything like that, what did that lead you to? When you couldn't go home and you just didn't feel like your parents seeing you, what did you do To cope with it? To cope.
Speaker 3:I was just holding it in, really, you had anger issues.
Speaker 1:You guys were talking Kenny's about you. I don't think I have anger issues.
Speaker 3:I try to stay very even cute. I'm very good at this point in my life at managing how I react, because this is one thing I'm going to say, and I'm going to say this. I'm going to say this a key, this is a man's key, right here Self control. Just talk about it, self control. A man's power comes with self control because, like I mean like, say, for instance, like you know, I wanted to be out here in these streets and I could be doing whatever, but like then you got to think about, like, all the ramifications that come with that. That's a fact. You got to think about the consequences for your actions.
Speaker 3:Like, and even if it isn't like to you, somebody else can be affected by that. So you always got like keep that in mind so when is the last time you lost control?
Speaker 1:I don't know what he cameraman. I don't know what he thought this was I don't know what he thought we were going to talk about. Muscles, oh man, yeah, I mean. No, we want to know you. When is the last time you lost control? Run it to us, come on. This motherfucker has already had more gum in his mouth. I don't even know how that, how that even happened. He about to blow a bubble. What? The last time you lost control?
Speaker 3:I always have to say it was like ugh. It was around like the time that me and my ex broke up.
Speaker 1:Well, y'all, how long we all together.
Speaker 3:Uh, it was about like two years it was about two years how old were you? This was uh 27, 28.
Speaker 1:27, 28. Describe the time because a lot of women like to know. Like I said, women reach out to me about you.
Speaker 2:I don't know of any other women you dealt with, but they, they.
Speaker 1:there's a question that this one particular female actually was hey, ask him about the time he lost his control doing an argument and I was like who are you? She's like just please, just ask him. So I don't know who this woman is, but they want you to explain. When was that time you lost your temperature, temperature temperate during an argument?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was uh.
Speaker 1:What does that look like for you when you?
Speaker 3:lose it. Ugh, it's bad. Um, it's bad, okay, cause like it's proud, I don't know, I don't even know, cause I'm stronger now, so I don't, I don't even want to go there Like I don't even want to be different now. Yeah, I don't even want to think like, cause this, all this strength comes with a responsibility, like so. But um, yeah, um getting.
Speaker 1:This comes to these conversations.
Speaker 3:What was the question again?
Speaker 1:Man was the last time you lost control.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I blew up, um, I blew up. It was me and my ex.
Speaker 1:I blew up, and your yellow or your throw? What are you?
Speaker 3:Oh, uh, I'm a yellow.
Speaker 2:Oh God.
Speaker 3:I blew up with me and my ex when um, we were starting to get towards it and, um, I just felt like, I just felt like, at this point, like we had, we, we had gotten to an argument and we was going back and forth and I just felt like we had been like, I felt like we had been locked in so long and I felt like we were so connected that, like I felt like she should have or could have, like you know, gave a little bit.
Speaker 1:Do you give in your relationships? Yeah, do you feel that way, or do they feel that way?
Speaker 3:Oh God, this is a therapy session Before we get the peak, we got to know who you are. Oh man, oh man. What was that question again?
Speaker 1:Do you feel like you give, even when they tell you you're not?
Speaker 3:I feel like I feel like my last relationship has humbled me. Holy, holy, holy, holy. I felt like, coming out of my relationship before that, I was, um, felt like I was trying to like get that assertiveness that that person said I was lacking, and my father even gave me like some pointers, like a like I think I had we had gotten to an argument or something like that. We was on a family vacation, whatever. You know, my father, me and my father went to the store. He was like, hey, come with me real quick. We driving. I'm like what's up? He's like you think it should be a little bit more, you know, easy, like a little bit more kind. I was like what are you talking about? I am kind. He was like nah, bro.
Speaker 1:So, with you learning this about yourself, would you say that, with you being with your mom and feeling overlooked that that dominant factor, that assertiveness factor, wasn't in the house. So that's not what you picked up Now.
Speaker 3:I picked up a lot growing up, also because my mother was married to my sister's father. I learned a lot from that man. I learned a lot from that man. I probably wouldn't be an entrepreneur this day if it wasn't for him, because I think I didn't even have the idea of where the entrepreneur was coming from. Because me and my mother, growing up I grew up in a single parent household. I split time with my father on the weekends. We grew up off of basically off of Martin Luther King initially he was in the city center.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then we moved about when I was eight or nine to still close to Emerson, but off of a right by my own thing, so you were in city care. I ain't about to say y'all that.
Speaker 1:I ain't about to say y'all that you was in the city center.
Speaker 3:I was like I think she got married around the time I was 10 and then from there I was in the county but I traveled around Like I always my grandmother always lived in the city, so like I always would catch the bus in a train with my uncle and my grandmother and stuff like that. So I used to be around, but like I wasn't out here in the streets enough and like that. Do you feel like?
Speaker 1:from what me and you were talking about, it seems like you evolve yourself after every failed relationship. Yes, why is that? Because it seems like there's a common theme where, well, she left, so then I evolved to this. Then she left and I evolved to this. Then you were telling me, before the cameras rolled, that you were with your woman at the time Y'all on vacation. You seen your body and he was like I did not, do not like what I see. So when she left, you evolved again.
Speaker 3:So, honestly, we started this journey together and then, when we started going through terrible times and all that, the gym is what helped me get through it and even like we had been broken up, for it took me a while to get over this last one and like what was I about to say? The gym just like it was the one thing I could control and it was the one thing that made me feel better whenever I was feeling down.
Speaker 2:So like one thing.
Speaker 3:It sounds so crazy because I live with my dad in Bel Air, so I would drive from Bel Air all the way to my gym because the gym I train at is different from the gym that I work out at. Explain the difference One I own, the other one I don't.
Speaker 1:So you don't do all of it at your own gym? Oh, no, no, no, why not?
Speaker 3:It sounds bad because I just said this when we was out the other day, but the weight's not heavy enough. What?
Speaker 1:the fuck.
Speaker 3:Look, I'm trying to grow. Okay, look, we try to lift the weight.
Speaker 1:So you be benching, and so are you more like calisthenics. You like weight, I like weight.
Speaker 3:How much you bench. I just hit what 240 the other day.
Speaker 1:Maybe you can explain this from a fitness perspective. Every man's goal. I don't know why we all got together.
Speaker 2:If you can bench 250.
Speaker 1:as a man, it's 225.
Speaker 3:225.
Speaker 1:If you can do 225 roughly around high school or whatever you him, once you get to 250 it's like oh, you getting it like that.
Speaker 3:I couldn't hit 225 until I was a girl.
Speaker 1:I had 225, maybe three times. I was like 18.
Speaker 3:I was like yeah, I was in high school. I was the same height a buck 35. How tall are you? 6'1. He was a buck 35.
Speaker 1:When I get 205, I be like I don't do it. I was thin.
Speaker 3:Are you proud of yourself? Absolutely, because, honestly, what helped me was the military, because everything that I go into now, it just never gets that bad.
Speaker 1:When you see what that bad is. It's not that bad.
Speaker 3:Because I've had even in my gym. It's been a I'm not going to say turbulent, but it's been a vent full. I've had the gym since June 1. So it's been full. What two months I've had. Came up June 1 of what Of this year?
Speaker 1:Oh, whoa, so you are a new gym owner. Yes, fucking, yeah, okay. So what is peak performance to you? Somebody had to say, hey, I like your brand, but what is it If you had to sell your brand? What is peak performance?
Speaker 3:Peak performance is the perfect place if you're a hybrid athlete or you like to do hybrid style workouts Like CrossFit type. Deal, not CrossFit. We talking more along the lines of a way to cross train. Say, for instance, you trying to do something big, like I'm a marathon runner.
Speaker 1:I'm a big long distance runner, so this now makes sense why you were 130.
Speaker 3:You were running like 15 fucking miles, kenny, but I still do the same thing, weighing this.
Speaker 1:I've seen you when you were out running. Is it different running with this much mass? Absolutely it hurts.
Speaker 3:It hurts. But so I was just talking about this the other day, like people be like, oh, I could never run that type of mileage. Just saying the other, I'm like it's all mental, it's literally all mental Dumb side stitches fucking hurt, kenny.
Speaker 3:Look, I'm telling you, it's all mental, it's all mental. I get out there and so I even had to do like an experiment on myself. So I ran 10 miles. What, like two weeks ago, the beginning of the 10 miles, I want to say that first mile was horrible. Like I felt like my legs wasn't moving enough. I was like, well, all I got, like I had to just put the 10 miles out. I'm like, regardless, where I started is where I got to finish.
Speaker 3:I gotta come back, no matter how long it take me. I just got to keep moving. So by the time I got to like five or six, that's when my legs started to loosen up. They start to move more naturally by themselves, like, and then I just float it from there, like after that. If you look at my splits, they was all fast up because, like I'm loose now I'm good, but like you, just got to get through that first little bit and then, like you can't, just how about they start running 10 miles? You got to kill yourself.
Speaker 3:So, but you got to do it consistently. That's the key is consistency, because I get out there and I'll run three, five, and then I'll run a long one on Sunday, and then I'll do three, six, and then a long one on Sunday, and then I'll just keep up in that long one, like by like one mile. Next thing you know, you run the marathon.
Speaker 1:For you to have your gym right. I need you to speak on this. How many people can fit in your gym, like for a class? Do you only do classes, or was the gym you can just come to? No, I only do classes. Why did you?
Speaker 3:make it that way Because it's so much more efficient, because the thing that I was already thinking about when it came to owning a gym, this is what even got me to thinking that that's where I need to go next. Just scale like I can't like it's only so many people I can fit in in one session and still like pay attention to them. At the gym I was training at so clientele started to pick up. I was like it saw the reason point to me. I'm like eight more people. I'm gonna have to find someplace else to go.
Speaker 3:It's like a work, yeah, because, especially on like Saturdays at that gym, packed, packed. I'm talking like you sharing a, you over here using the dumbbells and then you gotta put them back so somebody else can sit there and use them. You know, use that spot like it was. It was getting to be too much and I just I just saw expansion for myself, like I saw something bigger. I always envision, I always have a bigger vision for where my life is going to go than where I currently am and I feel like that's never going to stop with me.
Speaker 1:What's your vision now then? Because you have the gym now. Now it's multiple. So now you said franchises.
Speaker 3:Yes, absolutely, absolutely. So now actually backtrack, in this immediate moment, I'm focused on building a brand, trying to really, really cater to my current client base.
Speaker 1:Mostly women or men, mostly women.
Speaker 3:Do you prefer that?
Speaker 1:though.
Speaker 3:It makes no, never mind the business.
Speaker 1:When you run a business. He said all dollars on heaven agenda.
Speaker 3:It makes no, never mind the me. Okay, I don't care.
Speaker 1:So what was to you one of your hardest clients? Because how does your, how does your schedule work? Do you do one on one? You more.
Speaker 3:You like to do the group settings more I would say, I had a client I ain't gonna say who it is, you know yourself. Yeah, yeah, but she would show up sometimes and then other time she wouldn't show up. And they pay for these classes. So they pay me per month.
Speaker 1:so that's the good thing is so she can miss and she's still straight yeah so that was the good thing about it.
Speaker 3:But at the same time, I could have been home, like you know, like I could have been doing whatever, like you know, and I ain't gonna say how, but like I had to cut off, you cut off. Well, she had some issues going on too, but like after that, I was like, yeah, no.
Speaker 1:But business wise, why would you cut her off if she was paying you? If she comes to no shows, business wise, you're there for the doll, even though you're providing a service. Why would you cut her off and cut off the line of your money?
Speaker 3:Because my sanity matters too. My sanity matters too, and that starts to mess with me. I'd be like it, just it. Just it's irritating. It's like you. It's just irritating when you're not used to like the rest of my client's cell wasn't doing that Right, because they were older like they were like around my age, like good jobs, you know, in their career is all that.
Speaker 3:That's the type of people I was used to working for. I took this younger person on try you know it's, you know thinking it's a dollar, and then I was like, yeah, I don't think, I don't think it's worth it, I don't think it's worth the hassle.
Speaker 1:So right now do you still work, or your gym is your everything, my gym is everything. So you making it like that, kenny, all right, kenny. You making it like that, kenny, you making it like that.
Speaker 3:I ain't about to say that. Shout out, pete performance training. See me down there. We need everybody to sign up. We got five days for five dollars.
Speaker 1:You said one crucial word in that. Yes, we?
Speaker 3:who the hell is we? So I have a team. It's not just me, okay, we got my role, dog Francesca.
Speaker 1:Francesca, you will see her picture right here.
Speaker 3:Hello friend, we got Allison.
Speaker 1:You want to see Allison picture right here.
Speaker 3:We got re.
Speaker 1:You know the deal.
Speaker 3:And we have Sam.
Speaker 1:Sam is a woman. Yes, kenny, can you ask yourself yeah, I say it Do you cater to men or women? You just told me that your team is consistent of strictly damn near women. Oh yeah, that's a. And your client base is mostly women. Yeah, kenny, you clientele is women. Finish your thing. What you mean, this is going to lead into this. What is appropriate, jim? Etiquette when you because we all don't like our women talking to personal trainers and you are him Look, you're him. How does how this going?
Speaker 3:Look, you follow a question you up. This is Michael. Yeah, it surely is. I am a professional. Okay, I don't, I don't, I have never here you go. Here come the last ever Never.
Speaker 1:Uh, huh Say it.
Speaker 3:Double dabble with a client.
Speaker 1:You have never fucked with a client.
Speaker 3:Ever, ever.
Speaker 1:Ever so when they wasn't a client anymore. No, ha ha Ha, you still ain't shit, kenny.
Speaker 3:Hold on, let me think, let me think that might be a no. That might be a no, but let me think. Let me think, kenny, you fucking your clients. I got right through them. Hold on, no, no, no, no, no, no. So you, you cut off all passes. Yeah, no, no. As soon as I make the decision to take you on as a client, I cancel you out as a romantic interest.
Speaker 1:So anybody ever try you. Oh yeah, what? Why you make that face that person? You just thought of that right there. What the fuck Are you crazy? How does passes normally work with your clients to you? Is it more in person, or is it more they send you a text message email.
Speaker 3:No, it'll be like a DM or something like that.
Speaker 1:You kept it all professional. Can you still do a classes with them, knowing this, now If they were in my class. Yeah, they shot, they shot and you know they're going to be in your next class or next couple, are you still?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, as long as I turn them down, as long as they know, I make sure they know, you got to make sure they, you got to set those boundaries.
Speaker 1:So I asked Jim etiquette, because now with women specifically, they're, they're, they're gym attire is different. Oh yeah, how do you feel about that? Because now it's high-waist and short? How do you feel? Do you have a dress code for your gym?
Speaker 3:Oh, from no, uh-uh, oh God. Well, I say no, can it what I say? No, I say no now, but when I think about it, yeah, we kind of do that. That's cool, like for my personal, like my gym that I own, yes, the gym I work out at they do their own thing. I go there specifically because I can take my shirt off, because I don't look. Look, it's not even like that.
Speaker 2:It's not even like that?
Speaker 3:It's not even like that.
Speaker 1:I, yeah, I want to make it make sense to the audience, Kenny.
Speaker 3:I'm so, so. So when I first started, right, I was working out in my, my garage like and I'm used to, you know rocking out my shirt off because I sweat, especially if I'm hot. You know my workouts be hard, my workouts don't be easy.
Speaker 3:Like they, you will sweat, and so I'm like I can't go to a gym where I got to like walk around in a drink shirt and then it's tight on me too, Because it's like, no, it ain't it doesn't work for me, so why not implement what you like at your own gym?
Speaker 3:Because I want. It's not, it's not all about me, no more, I have a responsibility. He talking business, yeah, he talking business. Look, I have a responsibility, it's not all about me, I, I. So when I said I was going to buy this business, I had a responsibility signing that paperwork to not only the sellers, not only my private lender, who I got the cash from to buy the business not only how much was the business? Altogether. We'll talk offline.
Speaker 1:Kenny making money, we talk all money, okay, continue.
Speaker 3:One thing I will say is it's less than a full size of Dan.
Speaker 1:What a 2023. You put the date on it. It's like that. All right, kenny, listen let me make sure this, kenny. Everybody got a gym, especially you. Where's your gym located? In Holland town in Holland town, everybody has a gym. What is separating you, though? Does anybody go to a gym? But what separates you and your new? So what separates you?
Speaker 3:So our gym focuses on a split between strength and strength and conditioning, and basically all it is is high intensity interval training and that shit is nice. That is how I got in the shape that I was in. It was a mix of lifting and high intensity interval training, cause you do a hit workout Like you burn so many calories, so many.
Speaker 1:My best shape I've ever been in. I used to look like Kenny Yo the best shape I ever been in. What was it you might remember back in like 2015? It was this guy forgot his name bald guy, light skin, cut up.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I forgot what it was called Fuck them Cause we got performance here, so we ain't giving no names. I tried it. I think it was like 60 days. I did it for like I just wanted to see. So I did it for 45 days straight diet. I was like God damn. So when I work out now and it's not the high intensity interval training I feel like one. I'm sore more and I don't get the effects quicker. But with the high interval training you're working out everything at such a high clip I was like I'm him.
Speaker 3:And so it's funny that you mentioned that because, like, up and till I was buying a gym, it was a big stretch where I was just lifting, I was trying bulk, so I'm lifting, we going heavy, like we eating, eating, eating. And then I did one of the high intensity classes at the gym. I was like God damn, that class with my ass. And then I get home and I'm looking in the mirror I'm like every muscle popping.
Speaker 2:Every muscle yeah.
Speaker 3:I was like I don't normally look like this at the regular workout. You know, just be the muscle group, whatever. But I was like, yeah, I'm like I might be on something with this.
Speaker 1:With you were saying about your family and your upbringing, everything like that. All your parents proud of you now?
Speaker 3:Yes, so about that. So I had a little issue. So when I first was thinking about it I had missing it to my mom and my dad. My mom sees big dreamer like go for your dreams. Life is short.
Speaker 1:You know, that's mom's.
Speaker 3:My dad A little bit more practical.
Speaker 1:He's a listen. Your mother was saying you need money, son.
Speaker 3:A little bit more practical and, thankfully, like I'm a mix of both of them. Okay, so I'm like I'm going to push, but I can't cancel out my father's fears. So that's honestly what pushed me to dive even more into like getting help with due diligence and all of that from organizations like Innovation Works. Shout out to Innovation Works. Shout out to Innovation Works. If this man don't be shit, he gonna fucking plug.
Speaker 1:Look, shout out to Innovation Works. So right now, right, it was a message that came. I think I named it was Kim and she was saying if you do have kids whenever that time comes and you know some kids be on a chunky side and stuff like that Now you might have seen Delight Howard work his son to the bone. I did. Do you agree with that?
Speaker 3:Oh, this is a hard one. This is a hard one, but I'm gonna say I'm gonna say yeah, say yeah, I'm gonna say yeah, why I'm gonna say yeah, but you gotta I think behind it, you gotta instill why we're working, Cause, like sometimes I look back and I'm like I'll be looking at myself and thinking about how I think now and thinking about, like how I'm able to push my body and I'm like, if I had the right influence, like I could have been in the pros, I could have been in the lead, like if I, like you know cause like this is my genetics, Like you know.
Speaker 1:I'm glad you said that A lot of this comes down to your physique. Sorry to say, it's your genetics. Look down your dad, look down your mom. Look at the men there, Not when they're old, look at when they were young. That is probably going to be your body type Now, my dad was my dad.
Speaker 3:Probably could have been built like me. He lifted more, but my dad was a hooper.
Speaker 1:So he was like yeah, but he was still must.
Speaker 3:Don't step on the coat or mouth.
Speaker 1:I still got it.
Speaker 3:Look, look, I be trying to tell people like. I be trying to tell people like, cause that's how he got real close as a recent like me and my dad would go hoop every Saturday and like, from there, like we just, you know, spend more time together Cause we didn't have that much time together growing up. So I honestly, really thoroughly appreciated when he started to invite me out to go hooping and then, honestly, like that, even fueled some of the fitness journey at one point in time. The first summer I went out there trash.
Speaker 1:Oh, I mean of course.
Speaker 3:Trash. I'm. I'm going out there shooting zero for seven, Like zero rebounds, five turnovers and a bruised ego. Okay.
Speaker 1:If.
Speaker 3:I was giving you that goddamn work. No, it was not even just him, but like me missing shots, like me missing assignments, cause we it was like a good group of people that were hoopers.
Speaker 1:Yeah Boy, you ain't need to be out there.
Speaker 3:It was. It wasn't hoopers. I mean again, you need to be out there. It was a mix. They from like. I would say there was a mix between like 30 to like my dad's oh that shot still clean?
Speaker 1:Who are you telling? Why ain't God run up and call? I shoot right here. It's switched.
Speaker 3:Look, we had a guy out there shoot like that and it's it was like every single time, every single time, and it's he's like the angle he had in that was back so far. It was man, you can do it.
Speaker 1:I don't think you want to make this shit Yo.
Speaker 3:the first time I seen it, I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1:Right now with everything going on. If you could go back and talk to the insecure kid with everything going on in his life, what would you say to him?
Speaker 3:Oh, this is going to be okay. It's going to be okay Cause, like I In, I think I dealt with one of the hardest days of my life already losing my sister.
Speaker 3:It was unexpected she passed away from suicide and even just this journey that I've been on recently, like now I'm learning things as I listen to podcasts and I read these books and I'm starting to feel, like I'm starting to see these connections between how I feel and the way that I am and how these other successful people have, you know, transitioning to their life and like even like I listen to this one podcast every Monday faithfully it's called how I Built this and sometimes, like there'll be everybody from like the Airbnb founders to like Tetris founder and big business.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it just really puts in the perspective like how long the journey really is to get to where you want to be.
Speaker 1:I think a lot of people have great ideas right, but it's the idea comes with work, yes, and you to understand that you might start this. It might take you like you could talk about the Oprahs, the Tetris, all of that. It might take you 15 years. Do you have what it takes to go 15 fucking years with a dream of yours? Most people don't got five months for you. What was the hardest thing? You had to give up to make this business happen.
Speaker 3:Oh, I would say I don't think I have anything. I don't think I gave up anything. I have everything to gain. I don't think I gave up anything.
Speaker 1:So you was all in it. You was like this is it, this is all I.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because the way I think about it is if this isn't going to work out for me, I'm just going to transition into something else, like there's something better out there for me, you know.
Speaker 1:Hold, hold, because we just talked about this. Are you saying that people should not, should have a plan B?
Speaker 3:No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that I'm going to go full force and I'm confident at whatever comes my way I'll be able to figure it out or find a person that can help me figure it out.
Speaker 1:You were talking about your sister and for the past couple of episodes it's been real mental health heavy. So what do you do to make sure your mental is right?
Speaker 3:Meditation is big for me. I get really anxious, exhaust, yeah, just in the day to day life and just like, even around, like I think I was talking to one of my friends the other day. I was like I was really nervous behind this gym. I was really nervous.
Speaker 1:But it's a good nervous. What was a bad nervous?
Speaker 3:It was, it was an uncertainty. It was just uncertainty, like you don't, you don't know the future, like. But I'm going forward With this knowledge that I have, that I think you know. Based on these facts, I think this would be a good business decision. But you just don't know how things are going to play out, and so sometimes that I kind of get in my head a little bit. But meditation definitely helps because it always starts for me in the morning, and so if I start my morning with a meditation, like, I can pretty much get be good, get the ball rolling, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Right now, this is your opportunity to pop your shit. Right now we're going to say in the Maryland area, do you have the top five gym?
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Talk to your shit, then why you feel that way? If you come to my gym where my camera at. You got camera right there, right in the middle. Talk to him One where we at my God Chas got him Chas, what camera you pose a little at there. You go Right here Zoom in on him. Chas, yeah, there you go, okay.
Speaker 3:That one, that one, yeah, okay, you will see a army, okay, a army of elite people who come there and they work. Okay, they work. They're all hardworking people, but one thing they do that I love and just invigorates me being in the presence of that. That's part of the reason why I love my gym so much and why I bought it is because the people that come there are like me. They work. Okay, I go and do some of the classes myself, because I don't do all of the classes, because, like I said we got the team.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm working next to 55 year old women. That's keeping up with me. That's what I like and that's why my gym is the best.
Speaker 1:So right now, with you having all these good things coming from a gym that you recently just bought, what is your ceiling? I don't have my ceiling.
Speaker 3:The only ceiling is the one that I put on myself and as long as I'm running that running thing, it just does something. It does something for your mental. I'm trying to tell you, when you start to push past points that people say are impossible, or think that are impossible, or even you might at one point thought was impossible, you thought like even for me it's a day to day thing. Sometimes I wake up and I'm like I ain't about to run. My legs were sore. So what was the?
Speaker 2:10 mile.
Speaker 3:That I did a couple days ago. I woke up that morning. I could barely walk oh yeah, that cardio do it.
Speaker 3:No, no, the morning that I ran, I could barely move my legs because I was so sore, what? And I hopped out there and I said you know what, I'll do it anyway. Yeah, because you know what it goes back to. And it's bad because it's all over TikTok and all that. Now that I see popping up David Goggins, do you know about him? You don't know me, son. Yo, yes, I'm sitting there laying in bed and this is what made me get up there and I was like thinking of myself, like who going to carry the boats.
Speaker 1:Who going to?
Speaker 3:carry the boats and so I was like I got carried the boats. So I got up and I went for that run and it was rough but by the time I got to like mile eight I treated it like it was a victory lap because I felt horrible at mile eight but I was like my legs loose enough and I'm so close to home we just going to keep it pushing. Okay, the boats.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the name of the show that mentality.
Speaker 3:You can apply it to anything. That's why fitness is so big for me, because it's like when you start to like hit those new points incrementally, it shows you that like do a little perseverance Every day. Every day ain't going to be pretty like every workout.
Speaker 1:You're ain't going to hit what you hit last time it ain't going to be your best workout every time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but as long as you persevere like it all pay off.
Speaker 1:So who taught you about social media? You were saying you just kept posting, but at a certain point you started to notice distraction.
Speaker 3:I don't know who initially put me on to it, but like I don't even think I'm trying to think of when I noticed it, because it was after the fact that I started posting that I really thought like, oh yeah, I'm about to dive deep in the social media, but I think it was. You know what it was. It was my first post that I posted and it got like over 10K views and I looked up how many people if I'm looking out there- 10K is 10K bro.
Speaker 3:How many people does 10K look like? And I saw I was like and I did that with no marketing budget, and so now that's where we going with peak performance, and that's part of the reason why that led it to be a good move for me is because that social media wasn't to where it should be in my standards. As far as like where the market is now. As far as like rails and Got to learn it, you know rails video content is being pushed so much. I was like I think I can use this and on top of the platform that I already built and on top of the network that I have, you know, I think I can build this.
Speaker 1:So do you feel successful? Damn shit, I thought I was leading into some shit.
Speaker 3:No, I do not. I feel successful when I allow myself to, but I don't think I will ever feel that I won't. I don't think I'll be ever comfortable. Okay, and because with success comes a level of comfort.
Speaker 1:So if you ask me so you don't feel successful. Let me ask in a different way are you successful?
Speaker 2:Hm.
Speaker 3:It depends on which lens you're looking through.
Speaker 1:I'm looking through yours.
Speaker 3:I will say, I'll say, yeah, I've achieved you know You're thinking about this. I mean, I've achieved a feat that I would think is admirable. I think that is a Curry's a level of success.
Speaker 1:So I'm gonna ask it again are you successful?
Speaker 3:Yes, I am successful, Do you?
Speaker 1:believe you're successful.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:You see how your answers change.
Speaker 3:But I don't even get into the mindset of thinking like that because I know I try to stay as humble as possible. I know coming in, even coming in with, because I inherited the staff that I had, except for the new trainer, my newest trainer, that I hired, rhee, and I hired a yoga instructor to do yoga on Tuesdays and Thursdays yeah, you ain't successful.
Speaker 1:What the fuck yoga instructor? I ain't never met a gym with a yoga instructor that said, shit, I'm just trying to make it Never in life. So got another question before we get out of here. Man, these are two parters. What do you eat?
Speaker 3:Oh, so I will say I eat healthy 75 to 80% of the time. What is healthy to you? So I'm pretty strict. Like I'll eat eggs, a mix of eggs and egg whites.
Speaker 1:Protein.
Speaker 3:Protein, turkey, bacon, cream of rice, a little bit of light brown sugar, a little peanut butter, add some taste to it. That'd be breakfast. Probably after breakfast I'll probably somewhere in between breakfast and lunch. I know we work out and then I'll have a protein shake with some creatine in there and then I'll have like a snack on top of that, so probably like a bagel, something like that. Lunch. I'll do like I normally meal prep, so like I'll have a something.
Speaker 1:No one thought you didn't. Yeah, no one here thought you didn't. But okay, I got you.
Speaker 3:So I do like I do, a lot of ground turkey and fish. I do like red meat occasionally just to switch it up, but for the most part I do a lot of ground turkey, a lot of fish, a lot of, a lot of caught and salmon. Really between both of those. You don't do a lot of carbs. I do, I do. If I do carbs it's like a quinoa something. We got a little bit more protein in it.
Speaker 1:We talking about fucking potatoes and shit but I'm red, look man.
Speaker 1:He said quinoa. What is bread? What is bread? Man, listen, before we get out of here, man, before I go to that second part of this question for a lady named Leslie, I am big on and making sure no one around me does not have a spotlight, right? Okay, so we're gonna start from two spots. My God, chaz man, he makes everything possible. Y'all, from every vision I have to all the conversations that might get heated. We like, bro, I can't do it. I know you can fucking do it. We have became a team and everything you see here is home fucking grown like peak performance. So, before we get to you, I don't let greatness sit beside me, and it's rare that I get to fuck about this chair, but I'm gonna need the guy behind this goddamn camera, you. I'm gonna need you to come, I'm gonna need you to come sit down and I'm gonna need you to tell people who you are. Come on, bro. Come on, bro. I'm gonna go and get off my chair, bro, come on bro, I ain't even gonna dress up.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna say, man, I'm off, yeah, I'm off work right now Come on man.
Speaker 2:What on my tour, bro? Nah, most of the doubt, he most of the doubt. I appreciate it, appreciate the shout out name Jordan Lawson J-Law. I'm a multi-disciplinary artist. I do murals, man content clothes. I just say I'm created, dope shit. That's really all I can really say. I like to affect the city, affect the world with my artwork. If people can get a reaction when they walk past my pieces, when they talk about my pieces, I've done my job, just impact the world with my artwork and things like that.
Speaker 2:So, like I said, this ain't about me today. Oh man, oh man. So you can find me on social media artbyjlaw underscore A-R-T-B-Y-J-L-A-W underscore. Got murals around the city of Baltimore, mondome and Mall, patterson Park, henderson Hopkins Elementary Middle School. Man, I'm just trying to affect the world, just trying to affect the world. I appreciate Kenny having me just always helping my guy out. Anything he needs is always trying to help. And man shout out to the podcast too, putting the spotlight on creating the moves and shakers in the city and the world, really. So I'm just glad to be here. This not even about me, man.
Speaker 3:It's not even about me, yeah, man.
Speaker 1:So listen, man. So this lady wanted to know, bro, and I told you shit, you got an all-female staff at all. They want to know and I was like shit, I'm gonna ask Kenny, what your abs look like right now. Right now, yeah, kenny, stand up. Show me your abs, kenny. Kenny, stand up. I'm fat, kenny, show your abs, kenny, stand up. Yeah, ladies, kenny, show your abs, Okay, okay, yeah, no, we got you right there. Show them that. There you go. God damn, kenny, listen, this is peak performance, man. This has been another lovely episode of the Vibes podcast, man, listen, kenny, tell these people where they can find you. Tell everybody where they can send their girls.
Speaker 3:Oh, we at West Wolf God damn, I wasn't expecting that one. We at West Wolf Kenny on IG. Peak performance, peak Baltimore on IG. Give me a follow, you know, come through. We got five days. Which one? We at this one. Okay, we got five days Unlimited membership, five dollars. All you gotta do is go to the website. First link right there as soon as you click on the website. So check us out. You'll get a great workout, I promise you. Please don't feel intimidated. We do have an army, but I tell them calm down.
Speaker 1:Listen, man, I wanna go in and give you your flowers. Man, I did my research on you. I went back all the way to your first video, and from the moment that you posted that first one to when you became what's your Instagram name?
Speaker 3:West Wolf Kenny.
Speaker 1:West Wolf Kenny. You have made strides from that first video to where I went down a rabbit hole, oh, man, and I would like to say to you, man, from coming from the background, you came from not being seen getting out the Navy, getting fired. You have created something that is very dope and I asked you this question specifically because you are. I needed you to know that you are a successful we're not even putting black on it you are a successful, fucking man.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and I think you need to really sit down whenever you do this, when you meditate and understand. You built something that was never here. This wasn't peak performance, wasn't a thing. You built an idea from your mind and built the army, and built the gym, and built the clientele, built the money and built the videographer, built the content. You did all of this and while still strengthening your relationship with your parents. That is something that should be admired. You are not done yet. You are going to take over the city. It could be blush.
Speaker 3:You should, I'm gonna die, man You're gonna take over the city.
Speaker 1:You're gonna do what you're supposed to, this man out here taking over on the wall. So who knows? But I would like to say you are one of the most spectacular guests, one of the most spectacular men I have ever interviewed. You Background was different. You didn't come from the streets and do everything that way. You did it a different way, and this show is about you can go different routes to still be successful.
Speaker 3:Absolutely, and I preach that all the time and I try to preach that to my brother because he's a young dad and he's still trying to figure out his way even though he's a young dad.
Speaker 3:I just try to always let him know, like, whatever you want to do, I'm going to support you and I'll be the same way with my kids. Just, whatever you do, you better do it to the best of your ability. If I can say, anything I did despite getting fired, because I worked at MIT before. I had two little stints at MIT.
Speaker 3:But all of my jobs I worked hard to the full capability, to the fullness of my capabilities, and whether I was good or bad, that has nothing to do with me. I'm trying my best. So I just say take whatever you do, try to work at it every day, get a little better, notice, learn from your mistakes so you ain't got to learn from them again, because they will pop up again if you don't learn from them and just try to make the best out of your life.
Speaker 1:And you have done that. Listen and shout out to my cousin to the right again, for being one of the best managers that I have seen in a very long time. You will see her on the next coming episode, man. Her story is dope as hell. So listen. This has been another lovely episode of Vy's Podcast, man. I appreciate both of you brothers for coming out.
Speaker 1:I ain't never sitting on my girls at your gym. We be sure to like and follow. I'm a professional, ok, yeah, yeah, yeah, ok. So this has been another lovely episode of Vy's Podcast. Man, check us out. We will be in Philly next month, anthony Hamilton. I'm just going to leave it there. I'm going to leave it there, y'all, I'm going to leave it there, so this is another episode of the Vy's Podcast, man, and thank you for listening and we out.
Speaker 1:Hey, before we get out, what you going to see right now, if you got this far, will be this man's workout. So stay tuned, check him out, get your body right, get your muscles right. I ain't going to say you're going to get his abs, you're going to get something. So tune in to the next episode, man. This has been another lovely episode of the Vy's Podcast. Ok, yeah sir.