Victor joins us to share his journey from farm life to the Marine Corps and entrepreneurship in the fitness industry. Victor shares his advice on how to develop resilience, survive depression, and become successful.
Highlights:
{03:00} Victor’s journey
{06:30} Entering the Fitness Industry
{21:00} Developing Resilience
{29:30} Surviving depression
{31:30} Biggest lesson learned.
{36:30} Best advice
Victor Straw bio:
Victor Straw is a fitness professional and business owner; Victor has spent 26 years in the health and fitness industry. He was raised on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. When he was 18, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
After spending numerous successful years working for a large fitness company, he decided to venture out independently to chase his dreams. Victor has owned three fitness businesses: a personal training studio, a large multifaceted fitness facility, and a boot camp group training business. Before COVID-19, he grew his boot camp business to nearly $30,000 monthly in revenues.
Victor applies training techniques and methods from the US Marine Corps. His passionate style, high-intensity workouts, coaching, and positive attitude offer extremely fast results in his training. Victor claims that this method works for one of the fittest fighting forces on the planet. Then why not train others? In the same way, he has a passion for serving others to experience greatness and build resilience to overcome obstacles and rise after setbacks.
Connect with Victor:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-straw-9924619
Website: https://www.victorstraw.com
