Future of Fitness

Dontre possesses a unique set of experiences and talent in the fitness business. Over the past 15+ years, he has built, owned or managed his facilities and coached other gym owners from the ground up and has been assisting other companies to grow their base and create wealth. Through his company Fitness and Marketing, Dontre teaches the art of client attraction and persuasive sales techniques.

“I help coachable and teachable professionals create freedom through a profitable home business" If you would like to know more or check out my free training on building a successful home business and effective social media marketing strategies, feel free to check out my BLOG. I specialize in helping people advance their skills through coaching and personal development. I work with people who want more out of life and who are willing to change themselves and take personal responsibility for their own results. I offer proven training in team leadership, customer satisfaction, sales, recruiting, mindset, social media marketing, social media recruiting, lead generation, and personal development. Sought after for coaching and development to improve colleague effectiveness and skillsets to reach business objectives. Top recruiter in multiple sales organizations in the development of new sales teams. Looking forward to connecting with you! P.S. If you are struggling with building your business through social media and are looking for a more consistent way to build your business online feel free to check out this training - http://www.coachmikemacdonald.com/LeadTraining

Promoting a positive and pro-active perspective for personal growth and development… Integrating body, mind, soul… Michael Koth is a personal trainer, spiritual counselor, versed in clinical and depth psychology, who has been ministering to the needs of clients for over forty years. His focus is to help people to help themselves. Because of a tremendously varied background, Michael’s personal experience allows him to reach even the most unique person. Michael did his doctoral work at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Masters and Bachelors at Antioch University, Los Angeles. He began his education as an undergraduate at 40 years old because it took him that long to put the pieces of his childhood together and focus on an education. Drug addiction, alcoholism, sexual abuse, eating disorders, and domestic violence are some of the experiences that ultimately acted as the catalysts to find personal solutions. Leaving no stone unturned in seeking personal wellness became his inner mantra, and sharing the loving solutions, which ultimately became Physicology, is the way he can give back for all he has received. This treasure of personal experience as well as a background in health, wellness, and mindfulness, creates a perspective that can be tailored to assist others in achieving their goals. His methodology is behavioral based and focuses on working from the inside out. Everything matters, especially you. . .

Lindsey Rainwater is an experienced advisor and consultant to the fitness and wellness industry. She is a published author for Club Solutions Magazine, has been featured on multiple podcasts, books, and many talks at industry events, in 2017, IHRSA recognized her as a “Rising Star”. She is most known for her widely published original content, and consulting on business solutions to industry professionals. Lindsey is also the CEO founder of The Women in Fitness Association, an association focused on supporting the professional Women in the Fitness Industry.

When just beginning his career as a fitness trainer over fifteen years ago, Eric had the opportunity to develop fitness programs for teens on the autism spectrum and undergo high-level ABA training both clinically and academically. As he became increasingly dedicated to working with this unique population, Eric found a near-total lack of information concerning best practices and approaches when creating fitness programs for those with autism. Steadily, and over the course of a decade working with hundreds of athletes who had significant variance in their ability levels, he began to create the outline for Autism Fitness as a business and mission; providing not just fitness programs, but effective and reliable fitness programs for every individual with autism and related disabilities. Autism Fitness was to serve as a bridge between the professional fitness and autism communities (families, educators, and therapists). Today, with his athletes in the greater New York Area, the Autism Fitness Toolbox, and the Autism Fitness Certified Practitioner program, Eric continues to build a gateway towards a more optimal, independent future for the ASD community and future generations. When not working with his athletes he is either in the gym, playing outside with friends, or reading.

Avital has been helping hundreds of people around the world discover truth and happiness for over 13 years through yoga, healing, and dance. It is her wish to help others see the light of their soul and feel the love that already exists in this universe. That light and love can help us find inner freedom. After double majoring in Engineering and Dance at Washington University in St. Louis, she landed a job at Microsoft in 2001. Her whole life’s goal was to do well in school so she could get a great job. After reaching her life goal at 22, she had to figure out what she was living for after that. So she did what many other young seeking adults do, she hit the road to travel the world with a backpack. As she practiced yoga postures in the middle of hostels or jungles, or on the most beautiful beaches of the world, people often approached her to teach them. It was a great joy to share something she loves, and to help bring inner peace to many people. The travels shifted her paradigms about life toward, what she was soon to learn, were the philosophies of yoga. Dance seemed to sparkle its way into her travels as well, as she was often invited to train with professionals. In Mexico, after her first dance of salsa ever, a local professional salsa dancer invited her to train with him for a competition in a month, convinced they would win. Two weeks into her trip in India, she was performing Bollywood at a nationally televised Miss South India pageant.  In 2004, Avital became a certified Ananda Yoga® Instructor. She settled in Santa Barbara, California, and immediately founded an outdoor yoga business, managed yoga and fitness programs at the YMCA, and became a teacher trainer. she also had some fun teaching and performing Bollywood and Salsa. Longing to share the deeper aspects of yoga postures and the spiritual path, Avital moved to Ananda Village. There she has worked as an Ananda Yoga Teacher Trainer and the Sales and Marketing Director for Crystal Clarity Publishers, Ananda’s publishing company. she have been sharing yoga, healing, and spiritual dance at Ananda, around the world, and on the World Wide Web.  With a desire to work with people one-on-one, she has started offering Energy Healing and spiritual counseling through Tarot Readings. The energy healing draws from Ananda’s Level 2 Healing training, Pranic Healing, and her intuition. She might be one of the only Tarot Readers who combines universal ancient wisdom derived from the Bhagavad Gita with how to live fully today! Avital recently authored and published a book - "Healing Happens: Stories of Healing Against All Odds"

Josh Hillis is the Chief People Officer for One by One Nutrition, Author of Fat Loss Happens on Monday, and Nutrition Habits Coaching Expert for Strength Matters Magazine

Stuart is the CEO/Founder of WTF Gym Talk. He has worked with hundreds of micro gym owners starting, fixing or growing their business. Empowering them to forge their own path and achieve their business aspirations, because remember… passion isn't enough to run your business... there needs to be profit, too.

Khaled Elmasri, Founder, and CEO of Rise Elite and host of the RISE Fitness Business Conference.   He spent over 12 years in corporate America as a Fitness Manager, Regional Fitness Manager, running all aspects of a personal training dept. for companies such as 24 Hour Fitness, The Bay Club, Life Time Fitness and many others.   Khaled has advised, built many fitness training departments and lead hundreds of personal trainers that have generated millions of dollars in revenue over the past 12 years.

Pat Rigsby is a business coach who has built over twenty businesses in the fitness industry, with 6 becoming million dollar or multi-million dollar ventures. Two have been multiple time winners on the Entrepreneur Franchise 500 with another being a multiple time honoree on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing businesses in the U.S. Pat now coaches entrepreneurs who want to build their own Ideal Business. You can connect with him at www.PatRigsby.com.