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Chris Parish

Co-Founder and CEO of Poney, a booking and payment platform for independent fitness coaches and instructors.

Jul 6, 2026

4:48
Yeah
4:48
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4:49
I started kinda thinking through this.
4:51
During COVID, uh, I ran a boot camp, a beach boot camp, 'cause we had nowhere to go, uh, and you couldn't even go to the gym, and I loved it.
4:59
I, I would put workouts together, and we'd get 10 to 15 guys come, and I, I wanted to keep it going, but it was so hard to just manage all these people via text, and, you know, there's other stuff in your life that makes you have to cancel or not go.
5:11
And then I started looking into venues where I could, you know, charge the money and then host it there, and it was, you know, even good friends, like we're busy, or we forget, or, you know, just chasing for the money all the time just makes it...
5:23
It was like, I'm not even gonna do this.

10 MINS LATER

14:56
And speaking of maybe locals or people that are already using it, can you give some examples of people both as coaches or clients that are using it right now?

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