When Bryce Henson, the mastermind propelling Fitbody Bootcamp's success, shares his personal evolution from fitness enthusiast to CEO, it's not just a story—it's a roadmap for transformation. As I, Ken Joslin, chat with Bryce, we uncover the parallels between our fitness journeys and leadership growth. Bryce's commitment to self-improvement and his rise to the top of a fitness empire is a testament to the symbiotic relationship between physical health and professional achievement. Together, we dissect how Fitbody Bootcamp's community-centric philosophy and cutting-edge workouts have not only shaped bodies but also lives, including my own triumph over weight loss.
Strap in for a ride through the trenches of entrepreneurship and the peaks of effective leadership in my latest heart-to-heart with Bryce. We lay bare the pivotal experiences that sculpted our business acumen, from the perils of hasty expansion to the art of nurturing a feedback-friendly culture. Learn how our willingness to embrace and learn from setbacks has solidified our foundations and enabled us to lead with clarity and purpose. Whether you're at the helm of a budding startup or guiding a seasoned team, this episode shines a spotlight on the strategies that can galvanize your group, bolster your leadership skills, and foster an environment where everyone is geared towards success.
If you enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media and tag Ken Joslin.
When Bryce Henson, the mastermind propelling Fitbody Bootcamp's success, shares his personal evolution from fitness enthusiast to CEO, it's not just a story—it's a roadmap for transformation. As I, Ken Joslin, chat with Bryce, we uncover the parallels between our fitness journeys and leadership growth. Bryce's commitment to self-improvement and his rise to the top of a fitness empire is a testament to the symbiotic relationship between physical health and professional achievement. Together, we dissect how Fitbody Bootcamp's community-centric philosophy and cutting-edge workouts have not only shaped bodies but also lives, including my own triumph over weight loss.
Strap in for a ride through the trenches of entrepreneurship and the peaks of effective leadership in my latest heart-to-heart with Bryce. We lay bare the pivotal experiences that sculpted our business acumen, from the perils of hasty expansion to the art of nurturing a feedback-friendly culture. Learn how our willingness to embrace and learn from setbacks has solidified our foundations and enabled us to lead with clarity and purpose. Whether you're at the helm of a budding startup or guiding a seasoned team, this episode shines a spotlight on the strategies that can galvanize your group, bolster your leadership skills, and foster an environment where everyone is geared towards success.
If you enjoyed this episode, please share it on social media and tag Ken Joslin.
Hey guys, welcome to another episode of as the leader grows. I am your host, ken Jocelyn, and I have got a super special treat for you guys today. I met this guy through one of my great friends, brian Covey those of you guys listening to the podcast you know he's one of my five guys on my text read every single day with guys like Gary Brecker, randy Garn, vic Keller and Brent Gove. Bryce Henson, who is the CEO of Fitbody Bootcamp I don't know if you're watching this on YouTube or if you're listening on the car. If you're watching on YouTube, boys got some guns over. He looks like he's been working out with Brian Covey. Bryce dude, thank you for joining us on as the leader grows.
Speaker 2:My man Ken, thanks so much for having me Very excited to be here today.
Speaker 1:I'm pumped, dude. We've been talking all fair about leadership yes, and leadership is for the past 25 years. I spent about half of that as a business owner and then the other half in full-time vocational ministry, and it's all been about leadership. And so talk to me real quick about what Fitbody Bootcamp is. I know Begros, but tell our audience a little bit about. I want to get to your journey of how you got to where you're at, but just talk about Fitbody Bootcamp and what you guys do yeah.
Speaker 2:So Fitbody Bootcamp. We're the fastest growing indoor fitness bootcamp franchise in the planet. We have nearly 300 locations throughout North America, about 90% of those are in the States, about 10% in Canada, and we specialize in high-intensity interval training. 30-minute sessions are secret sauce. So instead of hiring a one-on-one personal trainer, which can provide results, but if we can do that in a group setting for a fraction of the price, you build community, build relationships. We get twice the results. Twice the workout, in half the time is our adage, if you will. So that's a little bit about our fitness program at Fitbody.
Speaker 1:I love that. So you started out as a franchisee. I did so. Tell me, tell me what got you there. What was the backstory before you went to be a Fitbody Bootcamp franchisee?
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, we have a lot in common. So I know you spent a lot of time at Atlanta, georgia. My first 10 years were spent in Atlanta. Oh, there we go. Yeah, so Southern Roots, if you will, but unfortunately. But it was actually a blessing. It was a blessing disguised as a tragedy. My father was a drug addict, addicted to alcohol and gambling not the trifecta for good family upbringing. But when I was about 10 years old, my mom got us out of that by the grace of God, and we landed with my grandma in the state of Michigan. So that's where I spent the latter part of my trip, which is where I'm from.
Speaker 1:Really, I grew up in Detroit and I grew up in Pontiac.
Speaker 2:Oh, look at that, we just flipped. We just flipped Ken. So in any case, yeah, so I ended up going to Michigan State.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm a Michigan fan, but I won't hold that against you, not at all. But anyway, go ahead, little brother.
Speaker 2:I was going to say this past year, you guys got one of us. I can't don't have everything for you. Yes, we did, but moved out to LA when I was 21 years young and I was excited to be in California the blue, the blue size and the beaches all that LA has to offer. But, ken, I didn't have fitness in my life. I didn't have personal growth in my life. I didn't have the energy, enthusiasm enthusiasm I do now.
Speaker 2:And until 4.2, this situation happened. One of my best buddies from college moved out West and he was my first unofficial fitness mentor and he introduced me to lifting weights, to circuit training, clean nutrition but, most importantly, the coaching accountability. Over a period of two years, but hyper focused, over six months, I dropped 20 pounds of body fat, I put 20 pounds of lean muscle, but, way more important than that, it changed my life, ken. It gave me this outlook on, I guess, life, vibrancy, and I wanted to be a coach. I want to give this gift of fitness back that I was granted and this is about 2010 timeframe and I went through my own certified personal training experience and after I did we were talking about Baydress offline I updated my Facebook profile the certified personal trainer. I started receiving ads in this guy named Baydress Coolie and talking about a fitness franchise called Fit Body Bootcamp.
Speaker 2:And this is back in 2010, 11,. I was doing some research and, as we talked a little bit off the show, I ended up starting my first Fit Body franchise location back in 2012. And I'm going to give you the highlights. There's a lot of low lights and learning lessons along the way, but from the period of 2012 to 2018, scaled to five locations brought my family on board my mom, my wife, my sister and just had a lot of success and that was really my entrance into the fitness realm within Fit Body. And then, in later years, when our brand was really starting to grow and expand, baydress reached out to me one more owner presence in the brand and eventually made me the vice president, which ended up being the CEO role, and that's how I got in a position to oversee this international fitness franchise. Coming from the Midwest, you know humble roots, I used to run money before, I used to run a month and I was allergic to lifting weights, and now I'm the CEO of a fitness company. Go figure that.
Speaker 1:I love that. I don't know if you've seen this or not, but let me show you this real quick. This, my friend, is my before and after picture.
Speaker 2:I've said doing some research, bro, that's 85 pounds right there yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so the journey obviously you didn't have to lose 85 pounds, but the journey for me. I tell people now I get hangry if I don't get in the gym in the morning, like I. Literally, if I don't work out, I can have a Peloton. I've Orange Theory guy. I've done 545 classes. Yeah, 45 was huge over the past several years for me. Talk to me about the journey, Right? So I think that's the biggest thing, because I love what you said just a minute ago. There's a lot of highlights, but there's also a lot of little lights. Oh yeah, like you know people see where you're at now. Now you're the CEO of the fastest growing, you know indoor kind of boot camp style workout location. Walk me through some of those. You know you get your first franchise. You went from one location to five. Walk me through some of the struggles and some of the things that you learned in those beginning days, bryce.
Speaker 2:Well, Ken, why I love leadership. Number one I love people, I love building teams, I love creating vision. But, very candidly, I realized I had a leadership deficit. So when I got into the business, I was excited from a fitness perspective to, you know, help people with their fitness and fat loss and really help them from a mind, body and soul perspective, and that was my big focus and I could do that. I could run sessions, I can get people fit.
Speaker 2:But then, when I started, my business started to grow. I needed to bring on more coaches and more trainers and I realized, Ken, that they didn't have the same enthusiasm and vigor that I did. And really, when I unpeeled the onion, what I realized is I just had a lack of leadership. I wasn't good at, you know, identifying a mission, clarifying a vision. I wasn't getting good at feedback All the things that I needed to do in order to be a better leader. I wasn't. And I think that big aha was really the big aha I had that I love leadership even more than a love fitness, and that's really what continued me on that trajectory.
Speaker 1:I love that. John Maxwell says it's the law of the lid. We talked about a little bit of all fair in John's one of his the 21 laws of leadership. You know, as the leader grows, the organization goes, and which is why I call my podcast as a leader grows, because it really is about. You know, the bucks always stops here. What were some of the like what was a tough moment? You know, in the process of starting and going from one location to five location and five locations Like what was something that you dealt with? And I know the COVID deal had to be like, especially in California. It's not like it was in Birmingham and in Atlanta where they're like, hey, we're gonna work out. You just leave us alone and do what you wanna do.
Speaker 2:Kind of Alabama is open for business is what your governor used to spring over the air raids which I love her so much Unfortunately our California governor had a different tune.
Speaker 1:Well, unless he wanted to go to English laundry and have dinner when everybody else was shut down. You know he didn't have a problem doing that, did he?
Speaker 2:You know, and let I tell you, leadership, you gotta have moral authority. You talked about John Maxwell. That's certainly frustrating thing for sure?
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, talk to me about some things you learned. What are some mistakes you make? Is that? One of the things I share with people a lot is you can learn a lot from your own mistakes or you can learn from mine. Mine will just cost you less, like you don't have to pay the price I had to pay. People will say, ken, you're so wise. I'm like I don't know if it's because it's great hair that I've gotten my beard or it's because of all the mistakes I've made in 55. You know, I tell I literally I've made a lot of mistakes, but I've also got a lot of great friends and a lot of great mentors that have taught me a ton. But what are some of the lessons going from? You know being an entrepreneur doing Fitbody Bootcamp and going into five locations. What are some of maybe one or two lessons you learned throughout that process, bryce?
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I'd say number one slow is smooth and smooth is fast. I probably Ken, if I'm being very honest with you, my second location. I launched two prematurely. I didn't have all the systems, the infrastructure built to the level that I needed to make that second location really hands off. So I was able, with grit and determination and passion, I was able to make it work, but probably the first. You know, 12 to 24 months of my second location were probably a lot more challenging than they should have been If I would have built the proper team, had the proper infrastructure in place and really make sure all my systems and processes were super dialed in before opening that second, third and fourth. That was one oversight.
Speaker 2:The second and this sounds so trivial, but I really I understood the importance of creating a strong feedback culture and I'll never forget when I walked in my second location one time I had to have a change in manager and unfortunately my previous manager wasn't working out. So I come into the gym one day and this is very green in my entrepreneur leadership journey and I decided you know what, hey, I had to replace myself or the old manager. I'm gonna be the new manager here. I need a sales office. I'm actually gonna change the sales office from the equipment office because I like the offices in different order. So I did what I wanted to do as the CEO of the business.
Speaker 2:So I ended up changing the offices one from the office, one from the equipment room and on Monday morning I come in and my team and one coach specifically she's viscerally upset, thinking like what just happened? The rooms got shifted this, that and the other and I'm thinking myself, the ego kind of starts flaring. I'm thinking it's my business, my risk, I'm taking all the X, y and Z. The hairs in my neck go up and what I realized at the moment in time is, as a leader, yes, I still, I had the authority, I had the responsibility to make that decision.
Speaker 2:But having creating a strong feedback culture is important To be able to showcase the vision where we're going, be able to provide the space for your team to be able to provide feedback. And at the end of the day, as a leader, I still could have made that decision to move forward and change the offices, but if I would have been able to provide space to receive feedback in advance, the decision and the buy-in would have been that much better. So that's a very small little trivial learning lesson. The grand scheme of things, but I learned in that moment in time I need to be able to provide space and a strong feedback culture, and that's the only way that my business is gonna grow and I'm gonna grow as a leader.
Speaker 1:So talk to me about the conversation when you went. When you realized that, what did the conversation look like? When you went back to your team and said hey guys, I didn't handle this the way I should have, and that was it, and that was it.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I just had to own it. And I came back in there kind of like with my tail between the legs and my coach her name is Kelly and I said, hey, kelly, listen, first and foremost, I am so apologetic. I shouldn't have had that initial reaction from the conversation. In fact, your recommendation, it was good intention, right. As a leader, my job should have been able to clarify the vision, provide visibility of what we're doing and then listen to your feedback. I might have still made the same decision at the end of the day, but I should have been able to provide you that space and by taking ownership, by apologizing, it ultimately worked itself out.
Speaker 1:So that was the good reason, and I found a lot of the people in our team that they don't necessarily want us to agree or adapt what they say.
Speaker 1:They just want to be heard. They want to be heard, they just want to know man, this is my voice and this is my opinion matter. And if, as a leader, if you want to grow and scale your company, you've got to have people that you want to hear from, you've got to have people that you trust, that you don't and I've heard this, john said this a long time ago never delegate tasks, delegate authority. Like you want to give them authority, you want it to be their own, you want them to be owners and stakeholders in what you're doing in your business. Like that's what you want to happen. So you scale one to five, so you're at five, and then all of a sudden, the opportunity you're growing, you're learning as a leader, and then you get the call from Pedro to go hey, we'd love for you, cause obviously he recognized that you're crushing it. Yeah, very humbling Walk me through that process.
Speaker 2:So it's interesting, ken. I think this is so important to have vision, to have a strong vision, be rigid in the vision but be flexible in the details. And Jeff Bezos of Amazon said this a while back and I just believe. I buy in it so much because when I first started my entrepreneur journey within the Fitbody Bootcamp franchise, my vision was to have, you know, over 10 locations. Well, I was about five. I was about halfway through there.
Speaker 2:So when I get the call from Pedro so number one I was flattered. I was humbled, being very can and can. I was like me, wait, wait me. You know, I was doing my thing, I was building businesses, but at the end of the day, I was still, you know, very humbled the fact that I would get that call. But after I did and we had a good conversation, I took a step back and I realized, you know what this wasn't my initial thought. I thought I was going to be a franchise partner owning you know at least 10 locations by myself. But I can probably make a bigger impact. I can help more people, I can inspire more fitness and change more lives, which is our company mission, if I take a step back and actually link arms with Pedro at the franchise, or because then I can have a bigger impact and really scale the brand. So you know, very candidly, can?
Speaker 2:It took me about a month to fully wrap my head around the opportunity, but I came back to Pedro about a month later and said be man, I would love to do this, this is my vision, I want to impact a lot of lives, and ended up, you know, accepting the offer which then was the vice president role, and this is about a year and a half before COVID. I was fortunate to build a lot of infrastructure. One of the first things I did, I turned to Pedro and said hey, pedro, who better to coach our franchise partners to success than the most successful franchise partners? And that was the birth of our coaching and profitability team, which we ended up enrolling five or most successful franchise partners to be able to coach and mentor other franchise partners. And that's just been a huge, huge catalyst towards our growth and us being able to, you know, overcome, not only survive COVID, but actually thrive from it.
Speaker 1:I love that. What do you think? What do you think is the main reason that keeps most leaders away from making a decision like you've made? You were your own boss, you had your own business, and yet somebody comes and cast vision to you and you were like you said. It took me a month to realize the opportunity. What do you think keeps most people from stepping into opportunities like that and maybe still wanting to do their own thing? What was the thing you saw that you were like okay, I'm willing to give up this so I can do this. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think it's ego. I mean to answer that question, and that's just one, answering it specific to me, but also two seeing other leaders, seeing other business owners making decisions that sometimes aren't in their best interest and they let their ego get ahead of them. And for me, I was very proud and excited to be able to launch my own businesses and have full autonomy over those. And my vision was I was gonna be the stakeholder, I was gonna be the CEO and for me, having that autonomy was very, very important. And when the opportunity even though Vice President for International Fitness Company, that seems like a great opportunity, but it really. Also I realized that I'm not gonna have full autonomy control. So what's that gonna look like? How is that gonna be?
Speaker 2:And initially my ego was like, hey, I don't know if this is the right decision. But then I took a step back, a little piece of humble pie, realizing the mission over the man, realizing I could craft a way bigger opportunity. I could help way more amount of people. I can learn and grow as a leader. At that point in time I realized I really love leadership and it was a way bigger opportunity for me. So I decided within about 30 days I let the ego go, ken, and then I swiled my pride and realized you know what? This is gonna be a bigger opportunity for me, for my following, for my community and for my franchise partners and clients, and I'm so glad I did. And the rest, as they say, is history. I love it, dude.
Speaker 1:It's. You know they say that your ego is not your amiga, like it's not man, it will get in the way. And I was curious to see what your thoughts were there, because one of the things you said that kind of I kind of went oh was you talked about impact and influence. You said I realized I can do this on my own and I can have a great impact, but if I partnered with these guys and my, it, just it multiplies. You know, my impact becomes exponential.
Speaker 2:Yeah, think about you. You know I've been connecting and following you for quite some time here. It's the influence, the people that you work with, you know, the heavy hitters on your list, and at the end of the day, when you work and you surround yourself with really strong people, strong leaders, on a focused vision, you can do way more than just doing alone. And that was the conclusion I came to myself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that man. I absolutely love that. What are some of the? What would you say are some of the biggest things? So you went from, you know, trying to get in shape, getting fit, wanting to do it in gym, becoming a franchisee, which had to be a huge step for you. You know doing that. I mean, could you graduate from Michigan State? So I assume you're not that intelligent because you didn't go to Michigan. No, I'm just joking.
Speaker 2:Everybody was like I can't even answer that. Point words, man, Point words.
Speaker 1:I had to throw it out there really quick.
Speaker 1:So it's funny because I have a really good friend of mine who has a. She has a doctorate and from she has a doctorate from Michigan State and I was like I said so, a doctorate from Michigan State, that's about the equivalent of an associate's degree from Michigan, right? But anyway, ta-da for all of you guys have no idea, I'm a Michigan guy, he's a Michigan State guy. So anyway, but what are some of the things you would say? Becoming, you know, as a CEO and walking through this journey and just the growth and the development in yourself? What are some of the maybe, what are some of the key lessons you've learned since you've become now a CEO and you're over the entire brand?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Pressure's a privilege. At the end of the day, you're gonna be in the hot seat when you're the leader of the organization. We're the CEO of the organization. You know your butt's gonna be in the hot seat at times and you gotta be able to lead with conviction. First and foremost. The number two and you've referenced John Maxwell, I've seen you a couple times within the interview which is this you know, hats off. He's a legend in my eyes, you know, unbelievable. And what I realized is you gotta lead with moral authority. I never knew that word until listening to John, but it's really just walking your talk and what I realized to be the most effective CEO, the effective leader, I have to work on my character. First and foremost. I have to build the guy that other people admire and when I do that, that actually creates the most influence for me. So a very humbling moment of realization. But it's an inside job. It's an inside game personal growth, development and I think that's been a huge, huge takeaway for me on my journey to be a better leader.
Speaker 1:What are some of the things you do with your team to ensure that they're on that same pace of growth as well? What are some of the things you do to foster that, or some of the framework that you use inside your organization to help that happen?
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, first and foremost, like ongoing training, right, you know, being able to be able to provide, you know, list of education, podcast resources, events. Team trainings are absolutely incredible, Not only from a tactical perspective, but also from the relationship perspective, you know, to be able to build camaraderie and teamwork. We just, you know, had a fun Friday paintballing not this past Friday, the week before, just literally in the afternoon, just connecting. Did we do anything about KPIs and metrics? Absolutely not. But we bond as a team. We got stronger as a team, and so those are, you know, a couple of things that, from an organizational perspective, are mission critical to make sure that your team's bonded, they're together, they're aligned, you know, on the same mission.
Speaker 1:Huge. I had a mentor when I was a youth pastor and I had I grew one of the largest youth ministries in the country back in the late 90s, early 2000s. And what about mentors? I remember when she said it and I was like, come here. She said the group. She was talking about youth ministries. She had a youth ministry, over a thousand, about 1200 students in her youth ministry. It was huge and one of the largest, one of the two largest in the country. And I heard her say she goes, the group that plays together or stays together. And I was like, did she say praise together? I mean, we're talking about youth ministry. And she was like and some of you think I may have said pray together. Or she goes, no, no, no, no, no, no plays together.
Speaker 1:How much fun do you have? Do you incorporate fun into your culture? Are you laughing? Are you having a good? Because business is hard. Like leadership, development and growth isn't that easy. Like I walked into the gym this morning to do chest and trice and I'm like I tell myself when I'm in the car, look in my rear view mirror. And I'm like, dude, I'm going to kick your ass today. Like we're going to this gym and it's all I did. A 20 minute Peloton, got a sweat going and hit straight Like I want to go in and dominate. There's a little bit of a crushing and a tearing and I want to go in here. I'm going to crush this gym today, but the fun part of it is huge and it develops so much team unity and synergy when you do that. How long in your journey of a leader did it take you to realize like this is important?
Speaker 2:More longer than I probably would like to admit, being very honest with you, ken, kind of like longer. It took me probably solid 12 months in my first business before I fully understood the value of leadership. We all knew I've heard the buzzwords, I know leadership is important, but I was focused on fitness, I was focused on fat loss, I was focused on getting clients into shape. But then, ken, when I realized my business started to grow, I needed more team, I needed admin, I need coaches, and then I realized that leadership is always the problem and it's always the solution to the organization. And it's just this very humbling moment in time. So it probably all came hand in hand, but I'm a little bit slower study in the grand scheme of things. But once I realized that leadership, teamwork, building a strong organization, connecting with your team, playing with your team are so important in order to the whole alignment, things change for me.
Speaker 1:What would you say to some people out there who are in the process? They've got one location and they're looking to scale, they're looking to grow and they're just kind of out there trying to go. Where do I turn? Why is what you and leadership, me and self-development why is you mentioned podcasts and books earlier? Why are those things so important for the development of a leader?
Speaker 2:Number one, from a tactical perspective. They give you different ideas and different ways of thinking that maybe haven't been organic to you. So you're going to get more exposure, first and foremost, and then also two, number two you're going to be with other people that lift you up and that supports you. We all know and this is something that I hear you talk about all the time in your content can about community and how important community live events change lives. When you go, when you connect with other people, when you put in information that's going to be for you, then you start vibrating at a higher frequency. When you start vibrating high frequency, then you attract other people, or high vibrating that frequency, so it just consistency compounds. So I think it's just so important from a tactical perspective, information perspective, but also from a culture and community perspective, for you to be able to be tapping into other resources and from a growth.
Speaker 1:Who is as a CEO, who are some of the main people that you follow, that you grow from and glean from like a book or a podcast, or somebody that you love to go see speak, live live.
Speaker 2:Oh well, I mean, we've talked about him a few times now. John Maxwell for me is a legend, and some some of my franchise partners. When my coaches asked me like, hey, you know, I want to be a better leader, who would I look up to? And first is 21,. Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, leadership by John Maxwell, those two foundational you know, content is so important mindset I'm huge on mindset. I've been following Tim Grover for quite some time.
Speaker 2:He has a he was a stud dude with the book for let list. Just from a mindset perspective, I've just you know that that's been really, really beneficial towards my life. So those are. Those are a couple of good recommendations off the top. I love that.
Speaker 1:I love that dude, tell me what's next for you In your growth in Fitbody Bootcamp and as a CEO. Like what's on the horizon, what's the vision look like? What are you excited about in the future?
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, the last day it's interesting, it's been just this weird world we've been in the last few years. You know, obviously, with COVID was not kind. Our business especially, you know, states that we talked about but the last 18 months we've been an incredible tear. So our growth we've awarded, you know, nearly 60 franchise partners in 2023, which is a monster year for us. So really, just continue to build the infrastructure, continue to grow our fitness and fat loss program, continue to grow my leadership ability. As I mentioned before, leadership is always the problem and always the solution. I genuinely believe this.
Speaker 2:By connecting with guys like you, by, you know, digesting other, you know, a particular piece of the content, I get better and my following grows and the impact grows, and that's really what I'm after to talk about. Early impact is everything. And going back to the initial point, when you talked about what was the thing that you know made me make the change? Number one, I realized my ego is in the way. Okay, my ego is in the way. Number two, I went back to my roots, like what I really want to do on this plan. I'm supposed to impact other people in a very positive way, and I realized that I could impact more people on this particular trajectory, which will continue, Ken. So I guess that's that's my answer as we look into, you know, deeper into 2024.
Speaker 1:I love it. Dude, I'm going to be in the Atlanta this week. Man, you just need a book of flight. Come on, I got a ticket for you. Come hang out with me and the guys it's going to be the last.
Speaker 2:It's going to be an absolute blast. Dude man, I'll be with you in spirit, but I definitely take you up on 2025. Yeah, it's going to be amazing dude.
Speaker 1:Final thoughts for our viewers and our listeners today Bryce.
Speaker 2:I sign off my podcast in this way my friends, no one is coming to save you. You must save yourself in. The time is now, and that's my tagline, because you got to be listening to awesome guys like you. You got to be you know, tapping into different content that's going to inspire you, but there's also gets to a point where you can just go through an analysis by paralysis. Information alone is not going to be your saving grace. You need to take that information you to connect with other people. But you got to take action. And now's the time because we got one shot this life, we got one spur on the slope and we got to make it count. So that's my party message for a lot of dude I love you Got me fired up today, bro.
Speaker 1:I love Bryce. Where's the best way for people to connect with you?
Speaker 2:Well, my podcast is the fitness CEO podcast. It's a great platform. And then, on social media, the real Bryce Henson, not to be confused with the fake Bryce Henson.
Speaker 1:Fake Bryce Henson. Is there a fake Bryce?
Speaker 2:Henson, there's not.
Speaker 1:They're just not a real one out there, though. Is it Other than you, dude? Thank you so much for joining us today. It's been a great conversation, dude. I love your spirit man. You have such a you have such a calm and an authoritative spirit. It's just, it's.
Speaker 1:I can understand why people want to follow you, because you're just, it's calm, and you can tell that it's.
Speaker 1:It's it's vision led, and it's and it is, it's, it's. There's very little ego there, cause you, just you have a desire to have an impact and influence on people, and I think that's why, you know, we talked about, we talked about influence and those things earlier, and you talked about the vibration and the energy. It's like when Brian goes, brian Covey, who's one of my close friends, did you got to have Bryce on your show. You got to connect with this person. I'll say you got to connect with this person, and I automatically know that if I connect, or if I'm taking in and I am a connector and I'm putting this relationship and this relationship, or like Brian connected us, I already know, as soon as we get together, dude, there's going to be an instant connection. Heck yeah, because of the energy and the desire. Well, dude, thank you for joining us today, man, I'm looking forward to looking forward to building a relationship and watching you just continue to crush it, dude.
Speaker 2:Thank you, and for what it's worth, I mean. This has been an honor for me. I've been engaging with your content for quite some time, brian Amber. There's a lot of mutual friends that we have and just been seeing you from afar, learning from you. I have a lot of respect and I'm so excited for this particular show, but even more excited for this coming week, your big event out now.
Speaker 1:I appreciate it, dude.
Speaker 2:Good luck, sending you some love and good vibes, my friend.
Speaker 1:I appreciate it. Guys, thank you for joining us on this episode of as A Leader Goes and the real Bryce Henson. Not to be confused with fake Bryce Henson, guys, listen, follow him on Instagram. Ceo of Fitbody Bootcamp. Listen, if you've got questions about how to, my boy's got guns over here. If you've got questions on how to get in shape, or you want to be in a franchisee or you just want to grow as a leader, connect with my guy, the real Bryce Henson, on Instagram and learn from this dude. I'll see you next week on as A Leader Goes.