E7 Business & Fitness: Vinnie Laspina
Feb 07, 2019•1 hr 46 min
Episode description
E7: business & fitness: Vinny Lespina
- Into: owner of The Fitness office
- Being a rockstar (0:01:02)
- Vinny studied music and entertainment business (0:01:28)
- Ed Cohen influenced him (0:01:46)
- Entering the music business (0:03:05)
- Working in Nashville but dreamed about NYC (0:03:56)
- People now a days lack of drive to get experience in whatever field (0:05:42)
- Read the fine print! (0:06:50)
- Life in a cubicle (0:08:54)
- Spotify direct threat to the music industry (0:11:10)
- Vinny moves to Pennsylvania and starts from the bottom (0:12:50)
- Searches for new opportunity with Kamionka entertainment (0:15:02)
- Vinny follows Kamionka Entertainment Van (0:17:16)
- Vinny meets Mr. Kamionka (0:18:31)
- Vinny stands out as the “In shape kid” (0:21:52)
- Vinny gets fired by Kamionka Entertainment (0:24:02)
- Moves on to work for bodybuilding.com warehouse and bartend in PA (0:25:15)
- Free supplements from bodubuilding.com warehouse (0:27:52)
- Vinny is introduced to proper nutrition, sleep, programing (0:34:25)
- Dating life and moving to NYC (0:36:00)
- Fist Personal Training job interview (year 2010) (0:37:50)
- Meets Nick Shawn-Renaissance Periodization (0:38:50)
- Vinny gets the job in NYC and gets an offer to get his old job back in PA (0:41:50)
- what it means to have your own business (0:49:00)
- John Legend meets Vinny (0:51:10)
- the fitness lightbulb turns on for Vinny (0:53:50)
- book: Outliers (0:55:20)
- Leaves job to open up his own business (0:56:50)
- First workout with Dennis (1:00:15)
- Yeufre has the same exact session Vinny had with Dennis (1:02:46)
- Vinny takes steps to open up his business (1:05:15)
- Exploring the gray areas, learn the rules, to open up your business (1:06:50)
- Biggest hurtles starting the business (01:09:30)
- How to stay on track, keeping the right mindset (1:13:20)
- 5 million law suit (1:16:50)
- DOB pay a visit (1:20:15)
- working for yourself is a different animal (1:26:00)
- Prioritize your problems like tabs opened on your computer, tackle them in order (1:27:30)
- Becoming a dad (1:30:40)
- Personal Development as a personal trainer (1:35:00)
- Business partner decided to breakout and how to work in a partnership (1:36:20)
- doing well enough to continue growing (1:38:36)
- first rogue purchase and mentality (1:40:40)
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