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TARTING A WITH A PRINCIPLE
ryan and Kristi made the decision to
leave behind the city he had grown up
in, the wonderful lifestyle they enjoyed,
a nice home and his parents living nearby, to move to Conroe, TX. As Bryan
recalls, “I remember the first day when
we left I thought, what in the world did
I just do? I took my son away from his
grandma to
“Moving back to our personpursue my
al principles, we realized that
dreams”.
franchisees are much more
capable to do what’s on our
It was a big
hearts ...”
leap of faith
for them, but on the 2nd day, he and
Kristi realized that this was something
they should have done a long time ago.
“Moving back to our personal principles, we realized that franchisees are
much more capable to do what’s on our
hearts, with the energy and enthusiasm
we have to get the community in shape”.
Once the first location was open, and
Gold’s Gym Conroe, TX
with Kristi expecting their 2nd child,
they moved to a 2 bedroom apartment
across from the Conroe gym, and began working on their Kingwood location. While the relationship with GGI
began to change, he was ultimately able
to open the 2nd location and then 2
years later, opened the Houston (Bear
Creek) club. In 2007, they began planning their 3rd location in the Woodlands location.
In 2008 Bryan was awarded the best
domestic franchisee, as well as the recipient of the first ever Bravo Award.
“It was following this honor that I began getting calls from other franchisees
asking for my help,” Bryan shared. “So I
began accepting opportunities to work
with other franchisees”.
Trouble was waiting for Bryan as he got
on the last flight to Houston from one
of his weekly consultation trips. “The
day before Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast in September, 2008, I hurried
home to tie down my trampoline and
board up my windows. The
Cat 5 hit the Texas coast
and devastated a widespread area. We shut down
all of our clubs for a week,
with a big direct mail campaign that did not go out in
our new location, it buried
our operation,” said Bryan.
“We did all that