329. How Chris Wilson Built One of Australia's Most Premium Personal Training Gyms

okay so when you said you had three jobs yeah i assume one of them was in fitness yeah yeah yeah so arriving

in australia um personal training.

I'd already done it in the UK.

So I was working at a place called Good Life Health Club.

That's well known in the UK.

A lot of wealthy people from that area of Chichester go to this private health club.

And yeah, it attracts a lot of football players.

I worked with Formula One drivers.

It was a cool place to to learn my craft.

And I think that was the start of really housing in on what I wanted to do.

And that's provide this like hospitality driven business.

So yeah, from there, then I worked around Brighton as well before coming out to Australia.

But I've got personal training experience in the UK, America, and now Australia.

Talk us through that.

You arrived in Perth, you had nothing, you had three jobs.

How did

you get

enough stability and enough experience in the area, enough

money to actually set up that first gym or studio? 100%.

So yeah, arriving in Perth with just $50, you have no choice.

You have to go out, find work, hustle, right? Yeah.

And those times, yeah, that stage, you know, 2012, people were using like Gumtree and these different platforms to try and pick up personal training work.

I didn't have a car for the first year either.

So I was close to a train line.

So my initial goal was, how can I pick up clients on this train line? So going from Fremantle down to Perth City, I was based in North Fremantle, which was kind of the middle of that train line.