We recently connected with Anthony Garcia and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Anthony thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to start by getting your thoughts on what you are seeing as some the biggest trends emerging in your industry
The biggest trend in my industry is that people are taking advantage of personal trainers. Our facility is based on showing the value of a personal trainer! We are not a big box gym so our trainers make 100% commission

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
We started as just a small nutrition company called Iron Gang Nutrition. After about three years we had succeeded well enough to opening up a gym. It didn’t come easy as there were plenty of struggles and two individuals that are no longer with our company that made those struggles just a little harder. Once we moved on we we decided to start hitting events all over the valley. we ended up going to an event called the ” Gym Crawl “. We started off with us just having a booth during this event at a gym called SELFMADE Training Facility. After meeting the owners and finding out what exactly they were about we fell in love with the concept.
During the Covid shut down SELFMADE Training Facility in Scottsdale Arizona never shut down due to the fact that it is a private training facility and not a membership based gym. My partner and I drove an hour and a half up there every day to train. Meeting the people and seeing the culture made it very easy to make the decision that this is the gym we wanted to invest in.
The conversations got more and more real until we decided to make the leap and here we are today the new owners of the Self Made Training Facility in Gilbert Arizona

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
We started the loan process back during Covid and once everything got shut down we had to wait until SBA opened their loan process back up. Once it started again in June 2021 my partner and I went full force and ended up working with a bank for about three months before we found out that the individual that took all of our information wasn’t supposed to be doing what he was doing and we had to start all over again. This wasn’t only a massive setback to us but he had a lot of our personal information as we were days away from our final approval.
We didn’t let this hold us back as we collect it all of our information and moved onto a different bank. The individual at this other place knew about what happened to us and expedited everything he could and did a good job getting us qualified in the fastest amount of time that he could.
Here we are today only months away from the final completion of our Self Made Training Facility in Gilbert Arizona

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
There is something to be said about the issues we’ve had to deal with in the last two years. One thing that we can say we had to learn would be patients. It’s not very easy to be patient when you have so much writing on one thing and you have to rely on other people to get the job done. Once you kind of master this you realize that none of it is in your control and you just have to hurry up and wait

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