Andy Anderson is an entrepreneur who started a gym franchise in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. We discussed fitness, business funding and expansion models, and how he was thrust into Covid partisanship when he started to call out lies and bad behaviour by politicians who were destroying his business.
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ANDY ANDERSON
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2:36 Methodologies of fitness
03:40 Andy’s journey of health and body image
04:37 The different body types
07:03 Andy’s fitness regime
08:39 Society is unhealthy
10:05 The danger of comparison
12:00 How Andy started his first gym
17:27 Covid-proofing gyms
18:30 Victoria’s lockdowns are incomparable to other states
22:21 Vaccine passports and gyms
24:45 F45 and their inspiring story
26:07 Business lessons learned through harsh experience
27:11 Starting a franchise
33:12 How to resist hyperpalatable foods
35:02 Andy’s biggest business wins
37:16 Differentiate your business!
38:12 Entrepreneurship is risky but addictive
40:48 What it takes to be a good entrepreneur
42:47 Are franchises worth purchasing?
44.12 Boutique gyms are taking over
45:50 The truth behind gym memberships
48:44 Mental resilience and gratitude
52:10 Why Andy started calling out Covid lies
57:11 The misleading data about Covid
58:46 The fallout for speaking out
01:00:26 Everyone has to take responsibility for their behaviour
01:02:20 The government’s social experiment of fear
01:06:55 Cultish behaviour in the ‘resistance’
01:09:15 Andy’s online ‘Global Freedom Rallies’
01:11:02 Looking deeper at political policies
01:14:35 Pauline Hanson isn’t fringe anymore
01:18:57 Future predictions
