How Donnie Keller Is Transforming Kids’ Lives Through Fitness

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When I was in PE in 8th grade, we had to run under an eight-minute mile. Yeah. Oh, you didn't pass. Yeah. You got an F.

It was either pass or fail. That was it. PE's a joke now. You're helping children. Right.

Call Wilson's fit features.

“We helped over 60 kids and the goal was to be over 100 by then in this year.”

Why I called it Wilson's fit features. Probably two years ago, a client walked in. His name was Doug Wilson. He said something to me that stuck with me and still with me today. He's like, "I traded my health for wealth."

I worked every day so I can make money and look at me now. I'm 65 years old. I'm 350 pounds. I have this, this, this, this, and this wrong with me. Now I'm hiring a personal trainer and a nutrition guy to help me.

And that was me. About a year goes by. He's down 50 pounds. He's under 300, we're working out twice a week, we're golfing once a week. He dies in a sleep.

Oh my God, dude. What's up guys? Welcome back.

I have an amazing guest today.

A man here local in Southwest Florida is doing amazing things for kids through his gym. Getting them nutrition advice and training sessions donated by small to mid-sized businesses here locally in Southwest Florida. This man is doing amazing things.

“And that's why he's here today because of the amount of value he's given to the community.”

I have Donnie Keller with me, owner of Ionic CrossFit Box, here in Benita Springs. And dude, you just are doing so many amazing things for the youth. I mean, mental health is so important and I don't think people realize that fitness can bring such an amazing mental peace to you and a tranquility to you that you wouldn't even expect.

Man, without further ado, welcome to the show, buddy. Thanks for having me. I'm Jack, to have you here, man. Yeah, I'm excited. Yeah, dude.

So you're local here, right? And you grew up here. Walk me through your journey as you went to FGCU and now you're doing amazing things in the community, man. So fill in the blanks for us.

Started off, you know, born in Benita, my family owns farmer mics. So it's a local produce farmer. You're from Benita. You're from Benita. Yeah, they're all the same since my family's been here since the '60s.

The farm been needed and now there's one of four buyers. When I turned 18, they were like, hey, you can go work on the farm or you can go to college and pay for yourself. I said later. I'm not working on this thing.

No sir. I mean, I picked strawberries and stuff as a kid, but ran from it as soon as I could. Yeah.

But I knew I was always going to be an entrepreneur because I started a lawn mowing business

when I was a kid. Yeah. That's our rest. Yeah. Walk around, hand out flyers, started that way.

Fast forward, go to college, take exercise science, take marketing, new that one day, I wanted to own a gym. I didn't know how I was going to get there. I just knew that I wanted to do this because this is where my passion is and I'll eventually learn to make money doing it.

Sound CrossFit. You can train 50 people at once, everyone pays a cheaper amount than one.

One on one is like, call it 100 bucks an hour.

This is 200 bucks a month. Right. So a gym opened Ionic Fitness in Orion at CrossFit, in Benita, about three months later, I walked in and was like, hey, I'll coach for free if I can train here. I will at the time I wanted to go to CrossFit Games.

“I want to be a games athlete, not realizing how hard you have to train.”

It's a full-time sport. Oh, yeah. I have no desire to train that hard. No. Not even more anyway.

So, like, yeah, cool. Sorry to coach in the noon class. There was nobody in class. This is a very, very beginning stages of the gym. One of the late afternoon coaches didn't show up.

I was there. So I coached a class and then one of them showed up and I was like, hey, where's the song so? I don't want to give his name. And where's the song so?

I was like, I didn't show up. So I just started coaching class. Happened again like a week later and they're like, hey, man, you want to coach full-time. I'll do. Yes, I do.

Oh, yeah. Yes, I do. So I started coaching full-time.

“21 and one client said I trained out of my garage in St. Carlos Park that I rented for”

somebody, which is super illegal. You cannot run a business out of somebody else's house, especially without insurance. Yeah. Of course I didn't have insurance. They didn't have any.

Yeah. I just had equipment and you're making it happen, dude. Yeah. Everything starts on a garage. Yep.

Yeah. Man was on start on a garage. Apple. All those. No.

I'm not saying I'm anywhere near their size. But yeah. Yeah. Hey. There you go.

So I was there for from June to October and in October, one of the owners, there was three owners, came to me and was like, hey, do you want to be part owner? And without hesitation, I was like, yes, I don't know how much it is, I don't know how much you're making. I didn't even look at the numbers.

I was like, yes, I do. So I ended up dropping all money out of my Roth IRA, pulled it all out, eventually paid fees for it, and bought it.

I didn't have enough to pay for it, so I paid all my salary that I took for the first

year, went to paying off the guy. I've bartended at the pub in Mercado, I was there for five or six years, worked Friday Saturday Sunday, just to make money and eat and pay my bills, and then work at the gym Monday through Friday, and didn't take a paycheck, so I was paying off the other guy. So this is what I love about the story, right?

Like, in the listeners love this type of stuff, and I do too, because I think when you're building something, you have to do things that you don't want to do until you can do what you want to do full time, 100%. So many people are looking around and we're going, like, I want to do this, but I'm not going to go work another job at night, because then I'm going to be too tired, and I can't

do that. It's the wrong mindset, man.

“And I think that, you know, giving your family background, right?”

You look at, you know, former mics and everything that they built here since the 60s, it's like, you didn't want to be a part of it as you grew up, but like, bro, that type of work ethic, you know, that you, you can't overlook that, and I want to commend you for doing what you had to do at night, because that's probably an environment you didn't want to be in all the time.

Yeah, I think she did it bartend until two, which leaned until four, wow, go home. Let's just write a night, I have to coach at 9 a.m. Saturday morning. So you, what, three or four hours, maybe you have sleep, because you can't fall asleep right away. No.

Coach class, and then go back home, sleep the rest of the day, go back to the pub at 8 p.m. night, train, train, so you said, bartend until two a.m. clean until four, open up Sunday,

because you made no money Sunday mornings, because it was always dead, but because I got

Friday Saturday night shift, I had to work the, the, the shady shifts on Sunday. Yeah, of course. So I was like, cool, did it, did it for like five years eventually to I got to the point to where me and another, the, one of the business partners bought out another guy. So now we're a 50, 50, and then in 2018, I bought out the last guy.

And then as soon as I bought him out, and I had enough money to, because again, I didn't have all the money I needed to pay it. I gave him a big chunk of the money that I had, and then paid him monthly. So I didn't take a salary. So again, so I have from, we're talking 2014 to 2019, I didn't take a salary, because

all the money was going to pay off the other owners either the first one I bought or the second one or the third one I bought out. So you know how many people wouldn't have taken those deals, because they would have said, I need money up front. Yeah.

And I'll figure it out. And, but see, that's, that's a gift though, right? Yeah. That is the ultimate determination and discipline dude, because you can sit there and, and want everything in one hand.

But if you're not willing to sacrifice a little bit up front, like I did my show for free for, I don't know, how long it didn't start making money until 2024. Yeah. I mean, dude, and I started it in 2021, we are five years in and I was still in corporate America doing my corporate sales and, like, you know, in medical and everything like that.

And dude, I was miserable. You know, like, I loved corporate America because it gave me the ability to talk a different people and relate to so many different people and walks of life. So I owe everything to corporate America, but it got to a point where I was like, dude,

I cannot do this anymore.

And then I took a gamble. And every time I took a gamble, you go backwards, man, and, you know, I have three kids in a wife and at one point, at the end of 2024, my wife was looking at me and shows it. What are we doing? What are we doing?

And dude, I'm like, I'm going to figure it out. You got to pull an arrow back for you can shoot it. Yeah, exactly. And then so, you know, when you live in this, I don't want to say, I mean, you know, you got to have faith in what you're doing, and you got to understand that into your point

when you said, you didn't know how much it cost. You know, how much money they were making, it was just a yes for you. You didn't matter because you're going to do whatever you needed to do to make it. Yeah.

“You know, and I think that's what's, I think that's the important part of the story.”

So far. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. So, eventually paid off all the guys, uh, started making money in 2020, January of 2020.

We all know what happened. And then Marjo's wanted to act one, dude. So made it. So made money. Jenner, if every March, closed down March 16th, the day before, which is coming up.

Yeah. The day before St. Patrick's Day. And then didn't take another paycheck or a single year. So it's like, and now I don't have another job. Yeah.

I was like two steps forward, right? And then you're taking a large set back. Yeah. There's so many points in this story where most people would have said, I'm done. I quit.

And it's okay to think, like, hey, this probably isn't going to happen. And I should probably look elsewhere and do XYZ, but it's funny when those moments happen. It's almost instantaneously something else pops and you're like, hold on. I got this. I almost quit 17 times and that's probably an understatement in 2020.

And every time, started with my dad, the first conversation I have with him, um, he's like,

all right, I understand things are bad. He's like, you know, no matter what happens, at this point, you put your whole heart and soul on this. I know that you love this. This is what you want to do the rest of your life.

“Um, if I need to, we'll take loans, we'll do whatever you need to, but you can't quit”

today. You'll quit tomorrow. I like that. Okay, because that right there, like, it's, it was a godsend. Yeah.

It was a godsend. I want the audience to really pick up on this because, you know, and my lot has something to it's called, you know, the power of one more. Yeah. Just one more day.

One more day. One more day. Yeah, I'll quit tomorrow. Yeah. And then tomorrow comes.

You ain't quitting. Yeah. You know, and, and a lot of people, you know, puffed their chest upset.

I've never wanted to quit.

I've had faith in myself. Like, you're liar. And you ain't never built anything. I've never built anything of any significance because, like, dude, this show is thriving. And there's still days where I'm like, what am I doing sometimes?

You know, and I think that's natural to have those feelings in those moments of weaknesses. But what are you doing in those moments? Right? Think of how many kids would not be impacted if you did quit the next day. Yeah.

As for right now, we've already, uh, have already helped over 60 kids, um, we're fast-haring a little bit. Yeah. 60 kids and the goal is to be over 100 by the end of this year. That's amazing.

So for the audience, you know, he has a foundation to where you're helping children. Right. It's called Wilson's Fit features. Wilson's Fit features. You know, it's up to 16 or 17 years old.

Is that right? Yeah. 11 to 17. 11 to 17. And these kids are coming to you for what?

Tell the audience exactly what they're coming to you for, um, break that down. But also how it's funded by the community. Yeah. So let me start with how why I called it Wilson's Fit features. Because just because it matters, um, probably two years ago, a client walked in, 350 pounds.

Um, I remember we were talking and he like golf, I like golf, so we kind of hit it off. And then he went, um, he went down a rabbit hole of what he did for work. He was a public, he was the, the public defender of, um, Denver. Mm. And he said something to me that stuck with me and still with me today.

He's like, I traded my health for wealth. I worked every day so I can make money and look at me now. I'm 65 years old. I'm 350 pounds. I have this, this, this, this and this wrong with me.

Um, now I'm hiring a personal trainer and a nutrition guy to help me. Um, and that was me. Mm. So we golfed together. We hung out.

Um, his name was Doug Wilson. Um, about a year goes by. He's down 50 pounds. He's under 300, um, I have him tracking his food. I haven't getting on the embody every month, we're working out twice a week.

We're golfing once a week, um, he dies in a sleep. Uh, he was supposed to be there at 9 a.m. His wife calls me literally at 9 a.m. crying. She works out of the gym as well.

She's in our classes, though. Um, she called me crying. She said, hey, Doug passed last night. Oh, honestly. I do.

So I rushed over there, hung out with her for a while to the ambulance got there because

“I was there before the ambulance, um, and that's how to be.”

Yeah. So there's a couple of things that he's left with me, and that was the trading is health for wealth and, um, all these things, and he worked as a public defender because

When he died, him and his, uh, his wife Doyle, so she's the co-founder of the, um, foundation with me. Um, she was telling me she's like, hey, he has a few friends and colleagues out in Denver

“that wanted donate to a, um, nonprofit in area in his name, uh, do you know of any?”

And I was like, I don't know of any per se and the ones that I do know of take the admins take a $100,000 a year salary. Don't came here long. I know it's hard to run a business and I nonprofit is a business in a sense, right? So it's difficult.

I get that.

But I told her, I was like, I've always wanted to do something for the community that raised

me, but need to spring snaples, sterile, um, I grew up in these towns before 90% of people that are here. Yeah, I wasn't here. Yeah. Exactly.

Um, when the streets were real small, when the, there was cow fields everywhere. Yep. Um, I was like, I want to get back to the community that raised me and created who I am, who created dionic, um, so I've always wanted to do this. And the goal is to take as little admin expenses as we can.

And to this day, we, I built the website, so I had to pay for the domain name and I host a server to host it, um, and quick books, it's the only money that's gone towards admin. Everything else is gone towards the kids. Every penny has gone towards kids, memberships, so they can work out for free right now. It's at my gym, um, eventually the goal this year is to bring one down in Naples.

I've already talked to a gym in Naples that wants to do the program as well because they've seen it and they, like, dude, I want this, um, the goal was to grace enough money to, uh, fill the program at my gym and then go to Naples and then Estero for Myers, so on and so forth. Um, what I found was in 2020, uh, all I could hear about was schools were taking PE at a

class in the or PE out of schools or diminishing it, making it to where you didn't have to take it. There's no test in PE.

“I remember when I went, when I was in PE in, uh, eighth grade, you had to run under an eight”

minute mile. Yeah. You got enough. It was either pass or fail. That was it.

We had super laps. Okay. We had mile days. Yeah. Did you push up?

Push up. Sit up. Sit up. Yeah. The sitting reach.

Yeah. Now they don't have any of that. None. No. I don't go to school.

Very much anymore. No, they don't have it. But yeah. PE's a joke now. I read a stat deal.

They don't know if it's true, so you can fact check it or not. The average kid under 18 has his fatter than the average American pig. Oh my God. The fat. The average American pig is 20% body fat.

The ones that we slaughter and use for meat and whatever pork chops and whatnot. The average American kid under 18 is like 24% body fat. Hey, guys. We're going to take a quick break. And we're going to slide into our recovery segment, brought to you by Therobody.

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It is scary, but it's not so far in the future. Yeah, it's not cold. They're going to be running the world. I know. And it's not surprising though when you look at how our food, this is a tough one man, you

know because like you look at how people eat so much out of convenience and as a parent that is so hard because for instance, get done here, I'm going to get

“stuck for an hour in traffic to get back to the sterile, right?”

It's just the way it is, man, down Pine Ridge and non-75, I'm sorry. I have time for three or four phone calls. You know what I mean? They're even in a phone call. They're even in a phone call.

And so you look at that and it's like, well, do I stop at the store and get me and do all the things that I'm absolutely exhausted right now and I don't want to do.

And I think a lot of people here in America are so busy, they're ordering out of convenience.

The problem is we don't know what's in the food and the other problem is is everything that

we fill the cabinets with are in a box and we try very hard. I'll buy some little things for the kids and then the pantry, but most of it, like, you're hungry? Hey, there's protein yogurt, protein yogurt, there's watermelon, there's I love that. You know, there's those little fricking halos and then there's apples.

Yeah. You can eat that. Yeah. Please, that's human food. Man, but, but it's not surprising the statistic because of what we're feeding are

youth. I mean, we are filling them up with sugar, sugar, filling them up with fake food. I'm wondering why I kid most boys are being diagnosed with ADHDs because they start their morning with frosted flakes and skin milk or fair life milk that has a dextrose in it, which is a different sugar that isn't a sugar.

They're loaded with, you know, 30 grams of sugar before 8 a.m. and then it goes to them bring them inside, put them under these lights and then sit them out of table for 4 hours. But hey, sit still. Yeah. Who's like, what?

Yeah. How am I going to sit still? Yeah. What do you mean to sit still? Yeah.

What do you mean to sit still? Yeah. But run a mile and be fine. And so funny, because like every time, like in my, my little one, she's seven, I have a seven, nine and a twelfth. So my seven to nine are girls and my boys twelfth.

Every time my little one goes to the store with me, daddy can we get cereal? Nope. Good for me.

But dad, but, but just once, like, no, good for you, no, because like the bottom line is

if I give that to you first thing in the morning, why kids eat the same thing every morning? You know, it's, it's eggs, love it. And, you know, sometimes I'll give them like a half a bagel with some cream cheese just depends. Yeah.

But we, I do my best to give them a nutritious breakfast before they leave. And my son's starting to watch me and goes, hey, dad, can you cut up some steak in my eggs? Yeah.

“Well, I mean, like, do that's what I do every single morning, I have steak and eggs.”

Yeah. You know, protein shake at four, three in the morning, steak and eggs, right? And then another protein shake after my, you know, after my workout. And by time, you know, by time I hit noon, I'm usually like 130 to 140 grams of protein in.

Love it. You know, so all, I know I can plan to do it. I'm going to get to 200 easily. I'm 200 every day. Every single day.

Right. Yeah, like without fail, but that statistic is alarming and what it's causing is, like he said, the ADHD kids get depressed and what are they, what's the first thing they're going to freaking do? They're going to go to that damn phone or that iPad and numb out and get dopamine responses

from likes and how many repost they get and how many likes they get and they're sitting there like this all day with 40 grams of sugar and I'm, and then wondering why they're all jittery and like, I can't concentrate, we can't concentrate because you have so much sugar in your body and do it as hard because I understand the social media game. Yeah.

“Like I'm, I'm in it, like that's how I make my money, right?”

Well, the show is, but, you know, we get paid on content and things like that and you want your content to go to do well and to grow some legs and run a little bit. But I know what it does to me when something doesn't go off, right? Or I'm searching for man, like, why isn't this hitting like this is a good post? Yeah.

Think about what we'll see this. What 12 year olds doing, comparing themselves to somebody else because we have a horrible, horrible ideology on social media of what healthy really is or what the right way to be or how to make money, like in some of these kids don't have father figures, don't have parental guidance at all and they're letting the internet raise them.

Yeah. Yeah. It's very scary, dude. So, touch on something you were saying earlier about mental health and working out.

It's like, I've seen more, I've heard more conversations from parents about the kids doing better in school, their grades are getting better and they're more, they're so excited to wake up on Monday so Wednesdays because that's when we do the program right now because they know they get to come and go work out at Monday so Wednesdays with me and the other coaches.

Why do you think the grades are getting better? Confidence.

“They're becoming, I don't remember what it's like to be 11, I'm sure you don't either.”

But at 11, now that I'm watching them, they're clumsy, they're learning how to walk

and they've never done a lunge before, they don't know what a push-up is, barely.

But to see them go from knowing what a push-up is to doing one three weeks later because their kids are going to get strong super quick. Oh, yeah. Awesome. Wow, I can do this.

When you walk in my gym, it's 5,000 square feet, we have two floors upstairs downstairs. The ceilings are like 35, 40 feet in the air. So when 11-year-old walks in, they're like, "This is massive." Oh my god. So they're super quiet at first, every single one of them.

But man, to watch them go from quiet to, "Hey, man, we just give me a second. I got to explain this to the whole class." Because like Donnie, Donnie, donnie, did I tell you that?

You have to play a pitch in and, yes, it's amazing, dude.

Yeah, they just want to tell me things and I just love it. But when you have 16 kids in a class and you got to keep them all in track and keep moving. Sometimes it's just, you know, it's a little much.

“But, you know, I think working out, and it's so funny, so you say confidence, right?”

And this is something that that seaword is a fickle one, man, because, you know, people think confidence comes from what you tell yourself or gas yourself up as confidence comes from doing the hardship consistently. And one of the hardest things to do is be in really good shape. Another really, a harder thing to do is to be a parent and have a job and, you know,

a marriage and being really good shape. And when you can do that, especially for these young kids that have so much being thrown out, the amount of young age that we didn't have, we didn't have. We didn't. We do.

Yeah.

We don't know what it's like to grow up in this era, like I don't, I don't envy

my children at all. Yeah. Everything I'll say is the moment you start doing hard things every day, in the gym, it's all connected because the moment you want to take the easy road and not do your homework or not study for your test, you remember what Coach Donny said about these hard

movements and that life is not going to be easy. It's going to be freaking hard. But if you dive into it and you seek the hard thing, then you're going to be successful in so many different areas.

“So I think, in my opinion, when a child or an adult is working hard on themselves, whether”

it's spiritually, physically, emotionally, emotionally, all they love, to witness is such a massive component of that, because that is the ultimate act of discipline. Yeah. You can't speak it. And of self respect.

Yeah. And you can't fake it. Yeah. You can't. You can sit there and say, I'm eating right.

I'm not cheating, but your body's going to tell me what the blood works going to tell you different every day. Deca scan or anybody scan is going to tell you different body fats going to tell you different. Your doctor's going to tell you different.

Yeah. And I think fitness is a staple for it. It should be a staple for everybody. Yeah. And I love what you're doing with the kids because there's a lot of really good athletes in

the area that can't afford training or nutrition advice in the service that you're bringing them, helps them get better at their sport. But I can't, I don't want to underlook and undervalue that non-athlete that's coming into non-athlete. And I can imagine, do this coming in there, anxious, withdrawn, depressed, scared, slightly

overweight, or overweight, socially awkward, very little confidence. Quiet is can be, but watching them flourish, man, has been it's exacerbated my want to have kids. What did I do? I didn't want them three years ago.

I was like, no, I'm good. I don't need kids. I was like, you know, if I don't have them great, if I do whatever, but man, watching these kids go from day one to four weeks in to eight weeks in, you know, we're at almost a year and a half right now.

And some of the kids are still with us that started with us. One of them is a swimmer at Canterbury and Naples, and then she started track. She started volleyball. She didn't even want to swim, but her mom made her do something.

“So you have to choose A-Sport, she chose that.”

She went to her mom, as I hey, I'm going to try to track. Now she's, I think she was going to regionals for high jump. That's badass. She shows me her video. She comes in and she's like, look, look, look, look, look.

One dad, the other day, came in and was damn near and tears. This is a good story. Yeah, tell us this story here. So his daughter came in.

She was, you know, slightly overweight, never worked out, ever in a life, never played any

sports. Um, was getting picked on at school, didn't really, um, have very many friends from what I was told, um, confidence level super low. Started with us. She's been with us now probably five or six months.

Her grades were kind of lacking. He's like, he was like season B's, had to like struggle to get her to focus, to get a B. Um, she started with us. She met a couple of the older kids, um, they go to different schools, but the exchange numbers, like change, instead of grams and tiktoks and everything, also the exchange, um, so

became friends and then they would meet every Monday, Wednesday at 6 30 at Ion. I can then talk about whatever they would and, um, it helped her. He was, he was in tears. Tell me, he's like, this program has done more than just change her body.

It's changed her mentally, changed her physically. He's like, on Mondays and Wednesday, she wakes up excited because she gets to go to that Ion, I can go work out. Um, he's at her grades are A's and B's now. He's like a seed doesn't even come across, um, and then this is this about January to

now. So it's a new semester, I guess, um, for her and he's like, this is a best semester.

is crazy. She's excited.

“She wants the eat better because so we do a nutrition talk is about five minutes”

every day, um, I have a 30 different points, so it's every 30 classes.

They start to repeat, um, and it's basic stuff like what's protein, what's, uh, you know, we're striving for like the what we talked about last night is like we're striving for, uh, progress, not perfection. You don't want to eat to perfection because then eventually, like, if your friends are going out and they're having Chick-fil-A, have Chick-fil-A.

Yeah, you know, it's not the best choice, but don't limit yourself because then you're going to resent it and you're going to hate the process, um, but then, you know, the next day, make sure you eat all plants and animals. And we, you know, focus on if it has a, uh, table of contents on it, it's not human food. Um, if it grows, if it swims, if it flies, if it walks, it's human food.

You know, it's so funny to do because that's biblical. Yeah, literally, you know, Christ said, I'm putting the plants and the animals here for you to eat and if you, my, my buddy Matthew had and he, uh, he has an online coaching business and it exploded when he changed his handle to the God food guy. Mm-hmm. It's all he talks about is eating God food.

Yeah. That's, I mean, that's really it. Yeah. And when you look at that and look, and I look at every single time that I've done

really well in my fitness, I'm not eating a lot of the garbage garbage.

I'm only eating, you know, if it's, if it's carbs, it's fruit, you know, if it's protein, I eat a lot of fruit in the morning.

“Dude, I don't eat it towards the back half the day.”

Yeah. Um, but, you know, it's so funny because I really focus on, like, a modified carnivore diet, like, I'll have fruit in the morning sometimes a lot more based is what I call yes, yes, just based like, yeah, if it's meat, I'm eating it. Yeah, I don't need 200 grams of protein, I mean, you're not going to want to eat much else anyway.

No, you're not. I mean, that's the, that's the really thing. If you really think about it, right? I mean, I'll have my, you know, I'll have my intact grass fed protein because that's the way I can get two shakes a day.

And that's 120 grams of protein. I can get another 120 grams through meat beef and steak and chicken and fish. I'm a big chicken guy, man. I love it. I ate so much of it when I was like in college because we see that I'm with you.

I don't, I buy chicken, cook it.

But if you, if you open up my freezer, it's Vanasin.

It's, uh, bison, it's steaks, um, and fish. So good. Dude. But it's, it's super important, right? Like every time I've been on a roll, it's because I'm eating.

But it's grown here. You know, what's walking here or flying 80% of how you look is what you put in your mouth. It's not rocket science. It's not easy, though. Like, I mean, I'll give you that.

It's easy. Like you said, if you stop anywhere, where are you going to go, it's going to give you plants and animals only. That's not going to be $50 a meal. The dude, good luck.

You got to pay extra for real food. Mm-hmm. It's crazy. Isn't it crazy? It's mind blowing.

No other countries like that. Something, so I don't remember what I was listening to or what I heard. It's like, it went to, it went down the rabbit hole of, if you look at gazelles, all gazelles run the same speed because the slow ones die because they get eaten. So they all run about the same speed and they're all very fit or whatever a gazelle is.

All lions are very stealthy. The ones that aren't don't eat so they die out or they're strong so they can fight or whatever, right? But if you look at the human race, we have people that can run a mile with their guy ran it and what, 358, like, banished one month ago.

I don't know his name. Oh, really? Three minutes and 58 seconds. That's all it asks. There's another guy who did two miles in the same pace.

Now, I'm not saying everybody should be able to run F. I mean, that is a God, that is a gift for sure.

“But you should be able to run a full mile without stopping.”

Oh, 100%. I mean, you could see a man at 45 or so, that's 350 pounds. You can see a man at 45 that's 180 pounds for the same height. One's got 10% by the fat, one has 45% by the fat. You won't see that in any other species.

It's interesting, isn't it? Because of what we eat? Yeah. Lions eat meat. Uh, hippo's eat plants.

Did you not? Yeah. Is that how they're doing? No, I didn't know that. But it's different.

It's different. You know, I didn't like it. Yeah, you're right. But if you don't eat fruit loops, no, no, let me look at, you know, the gladiators. Yeah.

Look at the caveman. Yeah. Plant an animal. Plant an animal, dude. That's it.

You know, nuts. You know, but I mean, the majority of it is like this baseline theory of this is what we're going to eat. Because this is what we have. And what we have now is genetically engineered food.

We have all these different things that are just poisoning us and let's not mention. I mean, I mean, I'm going to mention it. But like cancer. Yeah. Well, it's based off sugar.

Guess what? Everything has dextrose, fructose, superlose. Well, the loses that aren't sugars, but are tree-like sugars in their body.

Really? It's sugar in the brain. Interesting. Yeah.

As I always say, I've been seeing it like there's a clip that keeps going around

Instagram right now. If I had cancer, what would I do? And he's a car for one. Yeah. He said the first thing I do is I'd starve myself of sugar.

Sugar. Because the cancer cell feeds off sugar. It doesn't have sugar. It can't grow. It can't grow.

I mean, I mean, it's interesting. It's interesting to me. Right? And I think there's also a lot of people that are super healthy that have taken care of themselves and still get that shitty diagnosis.

Yeah. And it's just the bad luck of the drama. Yeah. And I'm not saying that if you go carnivore, you're going to cancer. No.

“That's what I'm going to put a disclaimer.”

Yeah. I don't know. What do you think that you could just kick cancer just because you ate carnivore. That's not what I'm saying. But you can limit your ability because they say everybody has cancer or cells.

There's just a mutated cell in your body that feeds off sugar when it feeds off sugar long enough. It can turn cancerous.

And the scary dude can become what it is.

It's scary because there's times where I'll go on a sugar bench. I'm not going to lie. I still do it. Right. Ice cream brought all the time.

Oh, dude. I did the other night. This wife. I'm so mad at you for this. She's like, I want crispy cream donuts.

And I'm like, well, I'm not going to pay for delivery for three or six donuts. You can pay for $45 or six donuts. Yeah. Let's go in there. You know, well, we'll spoil the kids, you know, one morning with a treat or, you know,

after dinner, um, I think I had five donuts at night. Yeah. I mean, maybe six. I'm a glutton. So I'm a glutton.

I have one. And it's delicious. I'm going to go for that. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going.

And I'm not even hungry. So they're gone. Like, it's a mouth pludder. I'm eating this. This is so disgusting.

But like, literally, I woke up the next day and I was just so upset and you're probably with the thargic, oh, I'll do my body hurt tired and flamed everything. My workout sucked yesterday. It was just not the best workout, right?

“But, you know, I think it's important to talk about these things because a lot of people”

think that you can never touch these things again.

You can never, you know, I might not have another sweet for three months. I don't know. I mean, you know, it's not something that really controls my life anymore. But when I have it, it's nice. Oh, it.

I'm like an addict. Yeah. And then, students discuss, I got a bite, if I buy a screen and I bring a home, lately I've only been buying it out eating it and done. Yeah.

But I buy a pint only now because I used to buy the hack out. Yeah. Of course. That half gallon last me three days. Because I am just in the, I don't even use a bowl.

I'm just eating out of it. I mean, dude. So I'm human. Just like everybody else. Just like you are, I mean, like you get that dopamine response of that good sugar in your

mouth. Like, a little more fresh. Donuts, dude. It's like fresh hot doughnuts. Like, I'm just, I'm just destroying these sons of bitches.

Have you tried checks, I hadn't been here to, I've heard of it. Is that the one like run off the exit? Yes, right off the need of each road. It's at 041 and 41. It's called trackside doughnuts because it raced the dog track.

You used to be behind it. Mm. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Don't do it.

Don't do it. Don't do it. There's another one here. Airport doughnuts and Naples. Okay.

They brought him here. I grew up brought him to the studio one day and apparently it's tallow and it's healthier ingredients. But I had one and dude, I had the maple bacon.

“I was like, I eat, I just scarf it down there like, how was that?”

I'm like, it was really good. It's like, oh, it's a day old. I'm like, oh, whatever. I don't know. I don't want to eat.

It's not going to go bad. Yeah, it's not going to go bad. Yeah, it's not going to go bad. Yeah, it's not going to go bad. Yeah.

Yeah. But dude, I just think that, you know, back in the day, though, when I'd have something like that, you know, I would shame myself. And then the next meal would be off plan again, what I really learned in this journey is to if I have something like I did that night, you just have to hop back on the next

day. So we talked about last night with the kids. It's not over. Strive for progress, not perfection, because perfection is going to get you to that battle of.

Well, I did yesterday, so maybe I'll just start Monday or I'll get back into the gym Monday. I'll start eating again, healthy Monday. Well, it's Thursday. You have Friday Saturday Sunday.

Yeah, that's half a week. Yeah. You know what I mean? You're going to waste a whole week because yesterday you had donuts, like, oh, man, get back on today.

That's, let's make the change today. And you'd be surprised, like, and people would be so surprised that even on a night where you have six donuts, if you're moving your body five, six days a week, and the bulk of your diet comes from real food, you're not going to gain an ounce. No.

You're going to feel like shit the next day. Yeah. And you're going to sleep. You're going to be out to here. Dude, I was going to be heavy.

Well, I woke up in the middle of the night sweating. I was just full on drenched in my bed. I'm like, what the hell? I'm laughing with you because I've been in the same room. You can laugh at me all you want.

Man, I was just like, I had to get up in the middle of the night and go to the couch. Yeah. Because I was just... I was drenched bro. But like, you know, those moments, you just kind of got to look out and just kind of laugh,

like, hey, I'm not shooting for perfection. I'm still human. But I think too many kids and too many adults, just people in general, right now, think

And that causes a ton of issues, man.

“One day, I have helped with the kids as well, is sending an email to the parents, because”

now I have the parents on my app to where they can reserve the kids spot in the class. We started tracking their attendance and we started tracking their weights. Next week in the following week, we were going to test a bench rest and all these things. But so I have the parents emails now. So now I can send them emails and say, hey, today we talked about this.

You can expand on it. If you want with them, here's some things you could talk to them about. Or here's some things that you could do to help. Don't buy the zebracakes for them when they pass. Yeah, that's a good thing.

Get a thing of cuties. I mean, those are wonderful substitute, because sure, it's going to give you that. It's going to give the kids the sugar that they're looking for or want, and it's a God given plant. Yeah, it's a natural sugar.

Yeah, you're fine. Yeah. I don't want to make people that again, it's on a weight in our fat, because I don't think anybody ever. Ever.

This morning, I had an apple. I had a handful of raspberries, a handful of blueberries, two cuties of banana and a mango. That's probably your whole carbs for the whole day, though, right? Yeah, yeah.

For, yeah, I'll have a little rice in my second meal.

I create like a little lunch bowls I call them with Venison, ground beef, rice, green peas, red yellow, green pepper, garlic, shaved carrots. Oh, nice. Mix it all together, and it makes like seven meals. Oh, wow.

It's two pounds of beef, a couple of rice, whatever. So I get a little bit of rice there, too, but the rest of the day, like tonight, I'm having steak for dinner. Yes. I've steak, and that's it.

I don't have any carbs over there. No potatoes, no nothing. Because at the end of the day, you don't need any carbs anyway. Carbs are like your energy, right? So everything we is turned to glucose, everything, protein, carbs, fat, everything.

That's how your body uses.

“That's how we create ATP, which is our energy, all that stuff.”

If you're putting sugar, AKA carbs in your body, that's already going to be created into more sugar for it to be processed through the body, you're giving yourself a load of energy right before bed. So now why you're sleeping, your core is also going up. So now you're, if you wear a hoop or what's the ring that people wear, the or ring

that people wear, your sleep is now inside of an 88, it's going to be like a 78, which is still good. But it's because all the carbs you had right before bed, carbs are your energy source. You're going to use them throughout the day. That's why you'd all the fruit in the morning, and then a little bit of rice in my lunch

bowl that I eat at 11, and then for us today, it's all protein-only. So yeah, I love that approach because for me, I think everybody's body is different. Of course. You know, and I operate really well on a carnivore based diet. I have more energy.

I don't wake up in flames, I don't wake up in pain, but the moment I have an off-plan meal, right? 'Cause I'll still do it. Yeah. That's one of the chips, Chico wings last night.

I don't know if you know a Buffalo chip, so there's both the best Chico wings. Yeah, okay. But Chico wings are all of the land. Yeah, I had a club sandwich. I don't ever eat bread anymore, but the bread I had was sourdough, which is probably that

and rice, probably the two best chicken. Yeah. But I feel it, like I can feel my body really hot right now, and because it's sitting there saying, wait a second, what did you just do? Like, and I just feel it working over time.

To burn that off, or to kind of figure out what the hell's going on. But when you say you don't need carbs, there's a lot of people that say you don't, well, you definitely have to have carbs, especially if you're lifting, I don't know if I agree with them, dude.

“I think a little bit, you know, so you can, you know, see your muscles can be full and shut”

off some glycogen if you're in a build, but if you're trying to lose weight, you're trying to cut that and just be lean, spoil or you don't need them. You don't need a lot of them. You don't need a lot of them. You have fruit in the morning, dude, you're going to be just fine.

There's four essential proteins, meaning you'll die if you go long enough for that eating.

I forget I'm not going to try and name them. There's two essential fats. There's zero essential carbohydrates. There's three macros. Carbs fats in protein.

There's zero essential carbohydrates. Let's go the rest of your life without eating. There's some people that say you need 150 grams of carbohydrates just so your brain can function every day. So your brain is made up of cholesterol.

Okay. So when people when doctors tell you you have high cholesterol, what are they normally say it's from? Eating a lot of meat. Eating a lot of red meat.

Your brain is made up of cholesterol. Your mild and chief, which is around your spinal cord, your spinal cord, all of your synapses are all made up of cholesterol. Another thing, sunlight, they say sunlight is bad for you. There's only one vitamin, or vitamin your body can make.

You know what it is, right? Vitamin D. It's the only one. Obviously very important. It's the only one that your body makes.

You do it with cholesterol and sunlight. If you don't have those, you can't make it. So low vitamin D is probably either a lot of people are on statins because they're at 206,

and get you below it. Not most people don't know that the liver makes 70% of your cholesterol. So really they're currently lower than 30% that you're eating by this statin. So yes, it does help and in some people are a way above that because a bunch of fried food, a bunch of seed oils or whatever else.

But the statin game is what makes me nervous for adults because it's lowering your cholesterol. We're not outside in the sun because of skin cancer. So now we have low vitamin D, we have low cholesterol. Our brains are fogged because we're not taking enough salt, salt holds on to water, gets

it into your cells, keeps you hydrated. People think drinking a gallon of water is wonderful for you, but if you're peeing clear,

you're peeing out all your calcium, phosphorus, sodium, all that stuff, which is all essential

stuff that you need. I just think so many people are just listening to the wrong people that are given books

“that are like, hey, this is what you should do.”

I mean, look, I probably drink over a gallon of water a day, but I also have electrolytes mixed in there and a lot of coke zero. Yeah. I'm fucking good for you. I love Coke zero.

I'm on that game, man. Okay. I'm on the train. I used to be on energy drinks. Oh, me too.

I don't talk. Probably two years ago in July. I remember I went out to Washington and I was like, you know, this is going to be my last one. It wasn't.

I've had a couple of cents. But I used to drink one a day, I used to drink energy drink or energy drink and then a pre-workout before the workout. So both of those, I mean, they're both loaded with succulose and for nutrition, you're destroying your adrenal glands.

Like, oh, now I don't have really any of them. I don't have pre-workout ever. I don't even drink protein powder anymore. No, really. I don't drink any.

But yeah. I eat 200 grams of protein every day. Yeah, dude. So I've been 165, 170 pounds for the last eight to 10 years. I just competed at the World Championships for Olympic weightlifting.

That's badass. I got fifth. I got five.

One of my clients got first shot out to Marsella.

Congratulations, Marsella. That's all based off of spending time in the sun, working out on a regular basis. I don't work out every day.

“People are like, oh, you want to gym, you must work out every day.”

When I was broke and making no money to the gym, I went two years without working out. And I owned the gym. Wow. So I tell people all the times like, like, strive for progress, not perfection. Just show up today.

Yep. You don't have to do five days this week. If it's Wednesday, you don't have to wait till Monday to start. Go ahead and work out today. Hit another one on Friday.

At least you got two this week. It's better than zero. I mean, how many people in America can honestly say they work out consistently two days a week? Probably very little people do.

Yeah. I don't know the number. I would hate to see that. I don't want to know the number. Right.

But it's scary. But I mean, there's still weeks where like, you know, I'm in the gym pretty consistently. But if all I get three or four days in that week, I don't tame. I was a down week. But then I think like, wait a second, man.

Look, my down week should be zero. If I'm moving my body three to four days a week on an off week where I'm just buried in my business, and I can't really function. Yeah. Dude, this is the thing's happening.

Yeah, dude. And here's the other thing too. And then you go to listen to your body.

I, I, I've never done a D. load week.

Never. I know what it was. And I was starting to get really sick. I did get flu A, okay. But, but that was in, I don't know, like, into January.

But what I noticed is, like, I wasn't getting any stronger anymore. And like, my shoulders were trying to, I'm old now. I'm old. I'm old, right? Oh, no, but you could, you can still gain muscle and so get stronger even in their 80s.

Yeah. Trying to get my grandma dude. She's 83 years old. I don't, let me finish this thought down when we go back to that because I have ADHD and I'll forget.

I think I've already forgotten. But no. So I did a D. load week, right? I just took 60% of my normal weight, I just did 3 sets of 10. And it was the most boring week I've ever had in the gym like dude.

I feel like such a loser. I'm not doing any of these. Everyone's looking at me like, what am I doing with this? I'm 35 pounds. Why is it Sean like, you know, doing dumbbell bench with 45s today like what the fuck?

And I'm going to tell you though, last week is my first week back on like, no, no, no. The whole, the, the wonderful thing. I don't have any more joint pain. My shoulders don't hurt anymore. I'm getting stronger again.

“So I think it's important to sometimes take a step backwards, you know, just for progress.”

Not perfection. Yep. You know, what, where did you go when you said the, um, you can get, you can build muscle at 80. You know what, you know, drives me crazy.

It is when people say, well, you know, I'm 40 now. I can't build muscle or, you know, I'm at 40. I'm, I'm literally going to get so much hate for this and ladies, I'm sorry. But when they hit premenopause and they hit menopause, they're like, that's their, that's

Like, this is just the way my body is right now.

And what they have to understand is that they're, they're getting stuck in this ideology where they have to do all this cardio, I have to do all this cardio and that's not going to build them. That's not going to get them lean.

“And what women and older men needs to realize is you have to lift heavy shit.”

Yeah. To lift your bones, to joints. It's the fountain of youth bro. Yeah. You can still get strong.

You can look better when you're 50 than you did when you, when you were 25, 30. Yep. I mean, it's work. It's going to work. Like I do like you said, you got to do things hard, do I'm 47 people don't want

to do hard things? I'm 47. I look better than I do when I've 30. I'm in love that. And I'm just getting started.

I'm like a year in like I'm, I'm focused on this. I, I love going to the gym now because I know what it did for my mentality. I know what it did for my show and my business. So for me, like that is enough. The aesthetic thing.

Cool. Yeah. That's great.

But you know what else is really cool?

Because when you have kids and they're old enough and they see you go through a transformation, the amount of respect that they have for you is wild. It is the crazy shit ever. Like, there's times now if I decide the classmate we did burgers and I had a bun, but I had like a keto bun.

Yeah. It wasn't even like a full on like normal bun, but my kids go, you're having carbs. You're gonna have bread. Yeah, bread that. Yeah.

I love that man. But I mean, I love that. And I don't want them to have any programs thinking they can't eat that stuff. Of course, what I want them to understand is balance. But when your kids see you go through something and completely turn your life around, that

is the most empowering way to lead your family than anything. The kids that do best in my Wilson Sift Futures program, their parents work out that hour right after them. So the kids go from 330 to 430. Well, and the parents do 430 to 530 and then have another adult of 530 to 630.

And then have another Wilson 630 to 730. So you can do either 330 or you can do 630. That's badass. So either the parents work out right before them. And then they work out or they work out and then the parents work out and they hang out

in the lounge. And in the lounge, it's like, it's 5,000 square feet. It's not that big. You can see them. And then they're like, "Dad, I beat you.

I was counting your reps. I beat you today." And then they're like, "Dad. I beat you today." Yeah.

And it's even daughters to dads. It's not just boys to dads or to moms. We have both moms and dads that work out at the gym with their kids that do that are in the program as well. Which is another plus of having the program as I got a couple of parents to sign up

as well. Yeah. Like you're going to be here and mine as well. Just try a couple. And if you like it, great if not, they don't want to sign up.

Yeah. You do it too. Yeah. If you do it, you're going to have something to bond with with Jason or Ava or whoever maybe.

“It's like you have now a different bond with them that they'll never forget.”

They'll remember doing workouts with you for the rest of their lives. And those lessons are caught. Right. And, you know, there's a lot of things people talking about, how you truly lead your children.

You lead your children by doing and showing them the right ways. Not preaching it to them. Just like this is how I live my life. Yeah. And what's crazy to me is my middle child, you know, I have two daughters.

I have a seven and nine and a 12 year old son and my nine year old she does gymnastics. And I asked her one down, like, hey, what, um, what do you need to do to level up your class, like, oh, I got to do like a pull over on the bar and like, okay, like, what? How do you, how do you get better out that? Like, what did your teacher say?

So it's not sure. Let me ask. I'm like, okay. Cool. So she asks.

Right. And she goes, she told me to start doing push ups. I'm like. Get stronger. Right.

And last night, I'm sitting there and this has happened a couple different times. She'll come up to me. Go daddy, can you, can you, can you watch me do my push ups? And she'll, she's, she's, she's nine. She out and everything.

Yeah, of course. Go. Go. Like, she'll get on her knees, right, because she doesn't, she can't do the full form. Yeah.

She's nine to nine. Yeah. And then it's perfect. You know, I'll have her do sets of five. And I was like, hey, hold on.

And then she'll get back. I'm like, give another minute. Yeah. Talk to me. Like, just talk.

Yeah. And. But you set the example to where the kids are starting to find ways to get better when they're not in the environment. I can't wait for that.

Hey, it's the best. Yeah. It's the best. You got to get through the sleepless nights. Of course, there's a lot of things that they don't just wake up the nine-year-old

that wants to do push-ups. No, you can. I mean, you can. Yeah. You just got to get that off, you know?

You got to adopt. Yeah.

“Being a parent is one of the most rewarding, but stressful things that I think”

I've ever, ever had the pleasure of doing to be honest, because I'm always happening.

Yeah. There's, you know, I'm always happening. School, school, school, friends, drama, especially with girls, dude. Yeah. There's always something.

My seven-year-old comes up. Listen to this. I'm like, oh, boy.

Yeah. That's like I can't. But no, dude. I think when the children start to follow in footsteps and understand that, we do this because we get to.

I mean, do this because it's a privilege. Yeah. I think a lot of people, including myself and Doug Wilson, you know, back in the year

talking about him, I think that's such a powerful story because he traded his health

for as well. Yep. And it ended up long-term, you know, I mean, maybe that's the reason why he's the past, you know, and that, I started to see that myself that I was so focused on building the show I wasn't taking care of me, I was like, damn, I don't, I don't really want

to die on. You know, I want to be able to walk my daughters down the aisle. I really truly want to be functional until I'm 95, 100 years old. Yeah.

“And the only way to do that is to build your body.”

Got it. Got to have muscle. You have to lift things. You have to push your, uh, push what you can and cannot do. Yep.

I mean, a bench press or squatting or leg press, it doesn't matter what it is squatting. I mean, a muscle is a, like you said earlier, the organ of longevity, but if you want to live to be 100 or 95 and be able to do everything, you have to have muscle. Dude, it's like how, if I look back, right, and on the times where I was just primarily fat, you know, like, it's hard to function on the weekends.

It's hard to function when you're doing things with your kids. It's super tired all the time. Dude, you know, you know what's really hard is being a fucking farmer's mic and it's 100 degrees out in your big and strawberry is when you're fat. That's not fun.

That's not fun, dude.

But, you know, I never know what that feeling.

Yeah. It's crazy. But it's like, once you come out on the other side, you have some progress, right? All of a sudden, it's not so hot outside. You're not so tired.

You just need some water. You're not really hungry. You're just bored. You start to understand certain things that can trigger you, but also be like, okay, no, I can work through this mentally.

“And that's why I love what you're doing so much with these kids, man.”

I just, I know we're having an amazing conversation and the audience goes, man, they're talking about a lot of different things, but, you know, the main thing is the main thing, the education, you're providing these children, and also because of that, their parents are also working out and getting fit. They're doing things together when the ones that they wouldn't have had.

Yeah, yeah. What's the trade-off? Yeah. You're at home talking to your wife and your kids are on an iPad, walking around. Like, that's not good.

Yeah. So, we've talked about the program, we've talked about what it is, but, you know, walk the audience through how it's funded, because I think that's an important topic to cover because there's a lot of local businesses that do listen to the show, and of course, you know, the determined society would want information on how to potentially donate to the cause.

Because if we're going to donate to something, I want to know what's going somewhere. Yeah. And I want it to be towards progress and everything like that. So, how are the local businesses getting involved? Right now, so if you go to Wilson's FitFutures.org, I have information on there about how

to donate. There's a donate button. You can go donate monthly yearly one time, it doesn't matter. The 1200 bucks is one kid for an entire year. So awesome.

At the bottom of the page, you'll see a flowgrown, Nicoletta and company, be your gift, top hat

“roofing, there's probably 10 of them on there, and to get on the page, you have to donate”

at least 1200 bucks. That's one kid for an entire year. So cool. And at that, it's only 100 bucks a kid for per month, which the gym's not making a lot of money off that.

And again, the purpose of this is to teach the kids to work out, to get them moving, to

teach them nutrition, and then eventually the third step is I want to actually rent out

a kitchen and start teaching them how to cook. That's third step. But that's, again, there's, I need funding for these steps. But right now, so you go to the page, you can donate there. If you donate $1,200 or more, you'll get on the website, your logo on the website.

You'll get the letter that you can write up for your taxes. We are a IRS accredited 501c3 real deal, holy field, nothing fake about it. I love it. Like we talked about earlier, I've literally only taken money out of the account to build the website and to pay for quickbooks.

I do the bookkeeping. I build the website. I update the website on WordPress. I learn that in 2021. You're all sitting at home.

I was like, what am I going to do? I went to codeacademy.com and learned how to code. No, I'm no coder. I know. I'm no programmer.

By no means necessary. Now they make it basically, I mean, with wicks, you can go on and basically, it's just dragging. Yeah. If you can figure things out, you can figure it out.

But it works.

It's doing what it needs to.

I also run a golf tournament October. That's where I got most of the funding for last year, and that's pushing through this year. We had 72 people sign up and play. We had 18 different sponsors over local businesses.

And then at the end of the year, we did a end of year campaign. That's where we got a couple of different businesses to donate $1200, get their name up on the website. We posted on social media. I shared it with the gym account, my personal account, and the Wilson's account, just

to get more reach for them. If you're willing to help the kids, which I want to do most, I want to be able to give back to you as well. I want to get some benefit from it. It's crazy.

Look at all the different ways that these local businesses are choosing to spend their money. A lot of them donate to the little league field and get the sponsorship and it's on the jersey. That's cool.

But it's so important to put it towards something bigger.

“And I think you'd be surprised most companies when you say, OK, well, I'm going to”

share it on these different pages so you get more reach, but like, cool, but they're doing it. Because they're not at the heart. Not because it's the heart. They don't care about that.

I wouldn't care about that. I would want to know that there's a child or children getting the help that I didn't have when I was a kid. I created an email blast that I sent out to everybody who donated at the end of the year last year of our impact of what we did in their stories of that I gave you about the

girl earlier that didn't want to play sports, but swam because her mom made her do a sport. And now she's in three different sports. That's in there. The amount of money we raised.

How many kids are paid for this entire year? And then a goal and there is like what we want to do for next year.

I'll show anybody the quick books.

I'll show you every line item, every dollar that went everywhere. And then all the money that hasn't gone is still sitting in the bank account for the nonprofit that will go to paying for the kids' memberships for the remainder of the year. So bad. Because I didn't just take a lump sum and just like, hey, yeah, they're good for the

year. No, I want them because I also make it to where they have to come twice a week to get for the nonprofit to pay for them. It's only come once a week. So I have probably 10 kids that I can only come right now because it's only two days.

They can only come on Wednesdays. It can't do Mondays because of the sports or whatever else. The nonprofit doesn't pay for them. So that's accountability, right? Yeah.

Ramaders because I'm setting it up to not just be at my gym. I don't want it to be at my gym or I do, but I want to be at my gym. I want it to be in North Naples and want it to be in South Naples, a sterile for myers, South Ormires, North Ormires, Cape Coral, and I mean, it's guys that limit. No, absolutely.

The funding is there. I know it's super easy to find kids that will come twice a week at minimum if there's four days a week.

“Because eventually that's what the goal is to have four days a week at each gym.”

And if they come to least twice a week, the nonprofit will pay the gym for the kid. And to find parents that won't that want their kids to work out because even parents who don't work out realized the benefit of working out, especially if they bring their kids to work out. Yeah.

I mean, the sky's limited. If the funding is there, again, I don't want to take a $100,000 salary from the non-profit. I want that money to go to the kids. Yeah. I make my money through the gym.

I make my own money doing that. And that's not being held back because of the nonprofit. The nonprofit is what I said in the beginnings. I don't want to take money from the nonprofit for me to run it. Yeah.

I want the nonprofit to pay for kids to go. So impactful, dude. Like more kids, we can help the better is what is my intent. You know, and there's so many different life skills that you're teaching. You know, they're learning how to study better because they're focused, right?

They're eating better because they understand the macros. They are lifting, they're understanding movement and how it's medicine for their body. But now if you mix in cooking classes, yeah, you know, because some of these kids that you get, you know, maybe 16 years old, right? They're getting towards that, that out of less an age where they're going to call it.

Two years they're gone. Yeah. Like, do you know how to cook? Yeah. And do you know, right?

Yeah. I mean, like, I didn't, you know, I mean, we have the forming girl back then. I have 40 year olds that don't know how to cook. I mean, it's just crazy. Go to their house and their boxes everywhere because they order in every night for dinner.

They eat out at lunch because they are at work. Mm-hmm. Oh, my God. Amanda wonder why you're 40% body fat. It's hard, man.

Like, on days like this, where I have multiple shows, like, I'll just go to Naples brunch. Yeah. A lot of times, I have this like chicken platter, and I'll just see the chicken, you know what I mean? And then go about my day.

Yeah.

“You know, but like, if you're going to go to places, and I think this is important”

for the audience, because I don't want them to feel like you said, like, if the family's eating Chick-fil-A, you know, you can eat Chick-fil-A, too, you know, and sometimes I'll have what I want there. I'll have the chicken sandwich.

go get the salad with the grilled chicken on it, and remove things that I don't want

on there, and I'll get the fat-free honey mustard, and I'll get extra chicken, so I know at least I got to. So you guys are 40 years old. Thank you. And my 40 grams of protein right there, I eat a little bit of the roughage.

I'm not a big lettuce guy. But you know, if it's filler, I'll eat it, because I know it's very low calorie, and I'll be full, and I won't want to eat anything the rest of the night. You know, I just think that we have to understand that there are options everywhere you go, and you just have to be disciplined enough to execute them.

People tell me they don't have discipline. I'm like, well, do you show up to your kids baseball game every week or practice every? Like, yeah, of course, for my kids, I'm like, let's discipline. So you have it, you just have to direct it in a way that you want to direct it. You want your kids to go to baseball, or you're going to make sure that they're there

every day, or every two days, whatever the practices and games are. You don't miss those. That's discipline as well. Yeah. Showing up to the gym is discipline.

It's the same thing. You have it. It's funny because, like, I think a lot of parents, and then you're going to learn this,

“you will do whatever you need to do for your kids, but sometimes you fall by the wayside.”

You know, like, moms are notorious for this.

My wife is a godsend. Like, women sacrifice more of themselves to make sure that the family's okay. But when I look at this whole thing of, you know, like you're talking about redirecting the discipline, what if you tied it to your kids? Yeah.

You know, what if you looked at it as, I'm going to go work out because I want more energy from my children. I'm going to be a better father. I want to be a better mother. I want more peace in my life.

But I also want to live longer and be healthier longer so I can watch some fucking grow up. Grow up and then have kids and then be able to play with my grandkids. Yeah. Like, I want to be a grandparent, dude. Yeah.

Nothing scares me more. Because I look at, I'm 47. My youngest is is seven. I'm like, doing the math here. I'm like, uh, hey, I might look like a calf here.

I better, I better dial in, you know, and so for me, like my biggest fear is not me dying. My biggest fear is me not being here when my kids name you the most. Mm-hmm. And steep. And I think that if more parents looked at it like that, then there would be a lot more

healthy households. Mm-hmm. So just do it for your kids, man. Yeah.

I mean, what's more powerful than that?

“I think there's a quote that says, like, um, you'll do anything for your kids, but will”

you eat healthy and work out? Mm-hmm. I see, I do that. That's a trend going on on Instagram right now. And I say, that's right.

I see it like crazy. It's like, you said you'll do anything for your kids, but will you work out for him? Yeah. That's one hour. That's all it is.

I mean, dude, there's days like if it's an Ancillary Day and it's just a shoulder day for me. I mean, all that for 30 minutes. I'll get four shoulder exercises in. Three sets of 10, and then I'm in the sauna for 20, 30 minutes.

Mm-hmm. Like, I'm good. That's wonderful for you. That's awesome. That's awesome.

That's awesome. That's awesome. That's awesome. I'm so good, man. That's awesome.

That's awesome. That's a good thing. Yeah. I'm doing it the right way, but a lot of times they have to keep decreasing my dose. How's your blood?

Do you not clotting or anything? No. You get your blood checked out. Yeah. Yeah.

Like, I've got to do whatever they tell you to. Three, four months or whatever it is. Maybe five months now. I don't know. But yeah, my last levels came back out like over 1700.

Yeah. That's awesome. It's awesome. This is a problem. Yeah.

That's the problem. Yeah. That's the problem. Yeah. That's the problem.

You pull and I go 0.5. That's my prescription. So they knock me down to 0.45. No, 0.45. No, 0.45.

“But like, you know, here's the thing though, like, you know, of course my testosterone levels”

really high. I'm leaner. I'm absorbing it better. I'm not filling my body with shit 90 to 95% of the time I'm on one planet, but that 5 to 10% is way off.

Enjoy that. Enjoy that. Enjoy that 10%. I'm going hard. You have to enjoy that 10% it makes the other 90% worth it.

You know, it's funny because like, it used to be, if we had pizza, it would be like four or five pieces. You know, now me going off the rails is two pieces, and I'm just like I can't eat anymore. Yeah. I'm done.

I literally can't eat more than two. But, but, but I enjoy it, right? And I don't feel like shit later on that day. And I just, you know, I just think it's super important to, and we got off in the weeds about testosterone because we're talking about sonas.

But like, I do it. I'm doing everything right. You know, I look at you. Of course you are. I mean, everything is vain.

Yeah, they're getting crushed. They're getting there, right? I'm pushing life. But it's like at 1700. Dude, my doctor thought I was high.

I'm in the 700's. Oh, really. And my doctor was like, how old are you? And I told them, you know, I'm 38. No, what are you doing?

Do they get scared about that, man? Yeah. Because they know that I don't have to come back. Yeah. Yeah.

I go to waste the weld. I work done. Have it done online and go to Lab Corp. Yeah. Have them check in.

They send me the results. And there's 78 biomarkers and all of them are either optimal or barely sub-optimal.

“You know, the only thing that I'd check most is my PSA because it runs in my family.”

But I'm 0.2. Yeah. So it's super low.

My PSA lovers are always good.

My levels that have always been high. This is what this is what's wacky. And if there's a holistic doctor listening, please, please reach out. Um, my liver enzymes are way high all the time. And it started probably around 2015.

And doesn't matter if I'm overweight, doesn't matter if I'm lean. They're high. And I mean, to a point where I went through the whole thing, dude. I went through ultrasounds, cat scans. So you don't have a fatty liver, then, right?

Or do you? They said you want to college. That's the only thing that we can tell. Yeah. And so, like, I did it with contrast without contrast.

I did a trans drug or liver biopsy. Nothing. Like, nothing. Like, so when my blood work comes back, it's my liver enzymes are always way up here. But what I found out is, um, my biological father.

I don't really know him, but he's prediabetic. So I think that kind of runs in the family. So I'm on this mission to figure out how I decreased that, right? So I'll do the Himalayan liver care. I do all that stuff.

For some reason, just my liver is just always like, just, hey, no.

Or, I wish I could give you an answer. I wish somebody would. Yeah. I wish somebody would. I mean, there's got to be something there, right?

But that's the only method. Yeah.

“That's the only marker that comes back and we're like, what the hell?”

Yeah. Why is this like that? Especially when everything else is great. Yeah. We're optimal.

Yeah. I would ever love him in some quarters. Tests too high, but yeah. That's not fun. I don't, I don't, I don't find that a problem.

Yeah. You know, my wife, your wife does a fine. I always probably get off of me, dude. You're just like, you're not 18 anymore. I'm like, I feel like it.

Yeah. You have more than an 18 year old. Dude, seriously, man. You know, waking up in the morning and just like, hey, like, I'm here. You know, you know, like, when you, when you get older,

you know, everybody tells you, like, you know, you're not as viral. You're not as, you know, ready to go. And, you know, you start having issues with, you know, erectile dysfunction and everything like that. And that scares men.

Yeah. Yeah. I wanted to work. And I wanted to work well.

I wonder, I saw, I don't have never looked at the studies,

but I wonder if there's a direct correlation to body fat percent and erectile dysfunction. There, there has to be, right? So I mean, there has to be something. Yeah.

I've met, I have yet to meet. Now, you know, the men go around talking about it because we're men. And we don't talk about our feelings really ever. Yeah. I mean, that's a problem too.

I go to therapy. I'm going tonight. I go every two weeks. Dude, I think that's great. Yeah.

So shout out to men if you need therapy. Go do them. Talk to one of your boys too, man. Yeah, that's too. Yeah.

Have a couple beers and talk and hang out and hang out. And, you know, but then you're airing your dirty laundry to a man who could possibly use it against you later. That's why I go to therapy because I never see this guy outside of every two weeks when I see him. But I can talk about everything that's bothering me. He gives me things to think about.

He doesn't tell me how to think. He just asks questions, which makes me think about why I think about this way. That's good. Which is wonderful. It does.

And only your business and now running the nonprofit, the foundation of whatnot and I'm busy. No, yeah. I don't get time to think about me and what I'm doing. You know, I'm moving all the time. So to go spend this hour every two weeks with him is then wonderful.

And I've been doing this since 2020. It's smart dude. I mean, therapy is, I mean, you need that unbiased. Yeah. Someone you can talk to.

“But I do think though, you know, do you need to open up to each other more?”

Like if you had it really good for any of your struggling with something and ask you how you're doing. You're like, I'm good, man. Yeah. Like not. Yeah.

Like not. You have to tell me. I can tell you're struggling, man. Like what's going on? And you know, I recently had a conversation with a good buddy of mine that I met through the show.

Right. He was on a reality. He was going to be. Yeah. Exactly.

I'm already here. You're sitting here. He was like, what, what did you call it? Like, he was on a reality show. Really good looking dude. Division one athlete.

You know, want to go metal in the Pan Am Games. Go like I'm stud. And I remember calling him last year at one point. And the conversation was very short. It wasn't normal.

I'm like, hmm, what's up? And then I went on a little bit of a road trip. I went to Atlanta. And he was coincidentally also in Atlanta. And we were supposed to link up at one point, but I never heard from him.

And so I just kind of, I'm like, hmm, I wonder what's going on? I ended up talking to him last week. And he finally opened up. And said, hey, I was really struggling last year. And you know, I felt like I had lost everything.

And you know, it's a comic book.

You can always talk to me dude.

“Like you can all, you just know it's a safe space, man.”

Because, you know, a lot of times if we don't tell people what's going on, we leave their imagination around wild and make up stories. You know, and I thought, like, hey, maybe just maybe doesn't want to talk to me. Yeah. Maybe he's upset when they made it.

Maybe it's not as tight as I thought we were. Or, you know, like, hey, we were, we were tight for this period of time. And then, you know, he's decided not to, you know, be tightly in. And that's fine. But like we have to be able to talk more.

And I think it comes from confidence, you know, and doing the hard thing every day and having these conversations that you can completely open up and be okay. Yeah. Because I tell you, the pressures in this world to be a man is not easy.

To be a man, a husband, a father, an entrepreneur.

That's the hardest. It's actually in this world. Especially now in this world, man. And I think it's equally as hard, obviously, to be a woman. And to be a mom and to be a wife and how to worry about all these different things

to make the household run.

“And I think what's important is the two people on the house,”

they pull together and they pull the weight together. But, you know, if we're not talking about things that are bothering us, man, I just think that it's just, it's a recipe for disaster do. But through your work, you're giving these kids and these families the opportunity to grow strength and to have these conversations.

The other thing that I think is really interesting about what you do is, you know, when you look at the parent and child dynamic, you're talking about this bond that they build. But you're also helping them build this vacuum where they can be completely honest with each other.

Like, hey, I don't like when you're doing this or this doesn't feel good when you do this or I'm struggling with this. My friends are out drinking, what do I do? You have to have these moments as a parent when you're putting kids in the situation or they can be honest with you and you not judge them.

And there's no better avenue to do that. When you're sitting there watching your kids sweat, there are kids watching you sweat, it's do that's congruence to you. You know, and a lot of people listening may think this doesn't make sense. Just go try it.

Yeah. Because to me, it makes all the sense. Yeah, it makes complete sense. Yeah, man.

“I think what, kids watching, even if the kids are too young,”

so we have some kids that come to the gym with their parents every day at 430. They sit in the lounge, but they're there every day. They see their parents sweating every day. They see their mom and dad fall in love with each other every day working out together. They see them high five each other at the end of it.

They see that this is part of life. They're guarantee you they're going to grow up and work out the rest of the life. Yes, guarantee you guys it's not a punishment. They realize this is just a lifestyle. Yeah.

And I think a lot of people look at it as a chore. This is a blessing. You get to move your body. How many people out there can't move their bodies right now. They wish that it could.

Yeah. You think about that. Yeah, too. I did an event at the Red Sox Stadium last Saturday. We did a health and wellness event.

And I ran the workout. And when I was up on stage, because I coached the AKA talk them through it. Because I was up on stage with the mic. I said, when we're in one of our breaks, don't forget that your workout is not a punishment of what you ate last night or what you drank last night.

It's a celebration of what your body can do. I had three different people come on to me after it.

I was like, oh my God, I've never heard that.

I will never forget it. And every time that I eat bad on Friday night, I'll make sure that I still go to the gym on Saturday morning or whatever. And these are adults. And they're like, I've never heard that.

A celebration as opposed to a punishment. Dude, it took me so long. I was 46 to realize that. It's one of these guys was 50. Dude, those are the first time I ever heard it.

No shame in that. Yeah, so, but now he's got the rest of his life. Yeah, to realize that movement or exercise is a celebration of not a punishment. It's very good, man. Very good. Well, thanks for coming, dude.

They've been african all this time. This is almost even the fact that I was even thought or won brought up to you to be on this podcast. Then consider to be on the podcast and now sitting here is, I mean, all of it's a dream come true, man. I never thought. Thank you.

I appreciate that. But I mean, when I look at things, you know, sharing things with my audience, it has to be something that I feel is impactful. Something that is alignment with the brand, but also more important that I can give in an insurmountable amount of value to the listener, right?

Like, there's, I mean, dude, straight up, bro. I mean, I'm equally as grateful and excited that you are sitting here with me today because, you know, a lot of people, you know, walk through life in this world, and they only do things for personal gain. Your life would be so much easier.

You would have way more money if you were not doing this. But what I do more time. Yeah. But, you know, in more time, right, to do whatever to, you know, go through the half gallons of ice cream.

God gave me a calling, man. He did. And you can't, you can't disrespect it.

“And walk away from it because, like, that's why I wanted you on because of the fact that you're still choosing.”

It's a, it's a conscious decision every day to do this for the community. And when you talk about a calling for me, I looked at this whole thing as something I wanted to do until I realized this what he wanted me to do. And then there was no turning back. I heard a clip. And after that, well, role is CJ.

He's in Eric Thomas's camp. You know, he's a preacher.

Yeah, yeah, Eric Thomas is an amazing human being.

I love that guy. I love when I get to hang out with him. He's just, he is who he advertises. That's awesome. And same with everybody in his group, Jeremy Anderson, Brandon Burns, CJ Quinney,

Yankee Johnson. I mean, you want to talk about an amazing human being. Like, but, you know, what was I going with, oh, CJ? CJ, yeah. I saw a clip.

It was literally two days before I met him at an event of one of Eric's events. And he was talking about this virtual reality headset that he bought his kids. That's all they wanted was this, this VR set. So he buys it for him. A couple of weeks goes by.

He hasn't seen him playing with it. And he goes, hey, you guys still, you know, playing with the VR headset. What's going on? And they're like, oh, well, about that, you know, we lost it. Right.

It's a gift. As a parent, you want your child to use the gift that you gave them. And value it. And value it because you spent money on it. You spent thought.

“What about when God gives you a gift and you don't use it?”

Hmm. Like when he said that and I didn't even know this man at that time. Hmm. It hit me right in the chest. Hmm.

It's like, I can't piss this away. Because it was, this is a gift given to me from a higher power. And, and again, like, call it what you want. But this is what I'm really good at. It's because I was given this ability.

And now I've refined it. I've worked on it. And some days I'm better than others, right?

Because I'm, but I'm human, I'm not always going to operate it up.

100% capacity. Yeah. It's impossible. But to turn your back on your gift. I think it's the ultimate act of disrespect.

Hmm. And I think more people need to identify what their gifts are and find a way to use them for the good of other people. And then you will be blessed. Right.

You, it'll all come back to you. But I think the main part of that is not to worry about how. If you get stuck in the how you'll never move. Yeah. It just will never happen, man.

We used got a blindly go and figure it out. Keep rolling. He's like fall and fail. Be laughed at. Be scoffed at.

Like, dude. We've gone through some crap in this show, man. Like, big time. But. I think that you know.

It's a gift. And we're still moving. Right. We're not anywhere close to where I want to be. Until I make that impact on the larger level.

And I can see it every day. I'm not done. And that's the same path you're on with what you're doing. You know, it's like you're being very successful at how you're doing it now. But you have bigger goals.

But you're not focused on. You know. Down the road. Yeah. Focus on having 100 gems with the program.

You have to execute what you have now. Yeah. And then it grows.

And it's soon because here's what you're going to find, man.

So you're going to run into somebody. You can come into your gym. You're not going to know who your she is. But they're going to have a kid. Don't worry about.

We just heard about you. We're going to pay. But don't we just want them here. But what they're really doing is vetting you out because they have a ton of money.

“And that's how it's going to happen, bro.”

That's how it's going to happen. Someone's going to walk in there. And they're going to end up funding. Everything that you need. I hope, man.

Because the funding again, like I told you a hundred times. I want to be that dead or the money is not for me. The money's for the kids and their memberships. Yeah. So they'd never have to pay for a gym.

Or a trainer to teach him how to eat or to teach him how to work out. Ever.

Because now they have the baseline.

Yeah. They understand the habits.

“They understand what it's going to take.”

In any hope, it's just when. Yep. It'll happen.

The right person will walk in and you're going to be able to give to this community.

And I'll I just scale that you've wanted to man. So I hope and pray. It'll happen, man. I appreciate you, brother. Thank you so much for coming here. Yeah.

Yeah, did. It was a good day, man.

“For for the audience, go check out Donnie Keller on Instagram.”

All his links will be in the show notes.

If you're local, go check out the gym. If you're a local business and you are you have a budget to donate to non-profit. Check them out. Well, since fit future. 1200 bucks a year is going to pay for one kid throughout the whole year for the membership.

I can think of so many things that I blow 1200 dollars on that doesn't benefit the children of the community.

“But baseball back, those are like 500 bucks now.”

It's pretty insane, right? So check them out. If it's something that you are interested in and sponsoring, you can go to check it out and you know. Even if you want more information, just go to Wilson'sfitfutures.org.

Fill out the form. I'm going to be the one. I get the form directly sent to my phone. I'm going to be the one that's going to message you back. I'll call you.

I'll talk to you. I want this program to grow. Yeah. I need to meet the right people to help me get to that level. I love it.

I love it. Alright guys, share the show with someone you know love and trust. And until next time, stay determined.