West Hollywood

I'm like, okay, I'm putting on my makeup artist rules apply here, which is let the person talk what they want.

And it really did happen, like, during filming of the whatever seasons I worked on Vanderpump Rules, um, was when the Witches of WeHo broke up, disbanded, and I was doing two-

Uh-huh

... of the witches and they were not getting along.

Okay.

She's in WeHo a lot, but she's the-

Oh, yeah

... she is gonna be huge.

Right.

And that's I mean, I was I was living in a closet in West Hollywood before I booked a lot.

I

literally because you came from Canada to L.A.

So I was paying $700, I think, or maybe it was $300.

But it was somewhere $300, $700 range.

I was paying for this closet in West Hollywood.

Like a

Were you in L.A. or were you in Orange County? Yeah.

We were West Hollywood.

Okay.

So you were right in the thick of it.

He missed his mates, the team, the beer, the after practice, so he built it himself.

Training Mates started in Sydney, found its home in West Hollywood, and grew into a fitness franchise built on one simple formula – 49% fitness, 51% social.

Luke's gone on to become a celebrity trainer, appearing on Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian and training many other huge celebrity names, all while staying true to his community that started it all.

This is a conversation about mateship, fitness, and building a franchise around the thing money can't buy, belonging.

I used, I think I had about 50 grand or something in the bank.

I got borrowed script and saved from family members for a couple of extra thousand dollars.

And I got to the point where the first location was in West Hollywood.

Now, I still remember the numbers because it was around about 150 grand to fit it out.

Where does Mahoney operate?

West Hollywood and Beverly

Where does he live?

I don't know.

I just moved to LA.

I had, uh, reached out to a couple of my friends from my alma mater and moved to WeHo and started, just hit the ground running.

Mm.

Like, literally the second week I moved here, I'm working with...

and it wants children as offensive weapons not to not prioritize their training or prioritize the family or have really fantastic safe havens and enclaves where you can raise them outside of the storms of the world.

I actually think it's incredibly foolish for parents to try to raise their kids in these dangerous danger zones, but, you know, below sea level and, you know, in New Orleans, right by where the hurricanes land, you know, Tornado Alley in civil, culturally speaking in Tornado Alley in West Hollywood, you know, in in all these really tough places.

I think it's incredibly dangerous and people should get away to where they can nurture their children successfully and safely.

But that is a tactical retreat, not a permanent retreat.

So I'm like, is there a way to do it and just stay in the question? And while this was happening, and it's the only time it's ever happened in my life where I sort of came up with an area or a theme, but I didn't really have a story to go with it.

But it was around that time that I was in the Bodhi Tree bookstore in West Hollywood, no longer there, RIP, and wandering through and found a copy of this book called The Mothman Prophecies.

And I picked it up, and I read the back, and I said, this is my movie.

And I bought it.