Hey everyone! This is how you create authority with just your voice and presence! You sound like a leader when you speak with intention. People trust the communicator who sounds sure. Authority is clarity in motion. Hope this helps! 😉 Have a great day! Ivan

Can you guys confirm that I beat it? I dont know lol I have been up from 5 am and its midnight now

You might be stuck in the innovation trap like I was. As creators, we’re rewarded for making new things. So when progress slows, we assume the answer is a new model or a better idea. Usually, it’s not. Most people don’t fail because the model doesn’t work. They fail because they won’t commit to executing one. The moment I stopped trying to improve the model and started implementing a proven one, everything changed. The path already exists. Thousands of creators have walked it. You don’t need to invent anything. You need to choose a model — and run it consistently. Stop following everyone’s advice and trying to combine it together. It all may be good advice but you can’t do it all simultaneously. You can’t be Keto and Vegan at the same time. Execution beats innovation. Every time.

Back in 2017, I had zero experience owning a gym, zero ninja warrior background, and zero clue how to run a business like this. I was a regular guy who loved the idea of a ninja gym – the energy, the obstacles, the community vibe – but I had no roadmap, no investors, no fancy business plan just a supportive wife and a few friends. I could have waited for the “perfect” moment: perfect location, perfect equipment, perfect marketing plan, perfect everything. Instead I did the only thing that actually moves the needle: I just started. We signed the lease on a small warehouse space, bought used equipment off Facebook Marketplace, built obstacles and remolded for a few months. Lots of looooong days and nights! Ninja Hub opened on May 1, 2018 & the official grand opening took place on June 9, 2018, where American Ninja Warrior all-star Grant McCartney (The Island Ninja) and international musician Aaron Boyd put on a meaningful, heartfelt, and action-packed evening of FUN for the community. At the end of 2019, Ninja Hub expanded by adding on 2,000 square feet of obstacle-packed gym space, taking the total size of Ninja Hub from 5,400 to 7,400 square feet. The excitement of a new year with brand new structures & obstacles came to a screeching halt in March 2020, when the world stopped & Ninja Hub was forced to close for nearly 3 months. The future of Ninja Hub was unknown, as we didn’t know if it could survive the year with the lack of activity & support. Once the gym reopened, the rest of 2020 was depressingly slow, as so many people were still afraid to visit a gym. The decision was made on January 2, 2021, that if things didn’t pick up within the next 30 days, Ninja Hub would close forever. Apparently God had other plans because January 2021 ended up being one of Ninja Hub’s busiest months to date. There was no doubt that Ninja Hub had a purpose & would go on! There have been hills & valleys, challenges & struggles, but there’s no question that Ninja Hub has made its mark on the community.

I’ve been thinking about this heaps, and OOOOOOFFFFFFF! If I hadn’t called my community THE BACKROOM ← 🚪 I probably would’ve called it The Conversation Club This is literally where my brain went this morning while eating my breakfast burrito (but nope I am not changing it btw) One of those random thoughts that ain’t actually RANDOM at all. You know the ones. They’re usually onto something BIG! Well, I was thinking about intentions behind communities. Because we all have them, whether we’ve named them or not. Every space is leading somewhere. Even the “casual” ones. Stay with me. So The Backroom didn’t start fully formed. It evolved actually we used to be called the Unstoppables. But the newish name came basically from the FEEL of it, not some deep branding exercise I did. It’s called The Backroom because it’s the place you go to talk it out. Business stuff, yes. But also the WOOPS, the WOBBLES, the “I don’t know if this even makes sense but…” moments. It’s the space where confidence gets built quietly. Where you start to feel safe enough to actually be yourself around other humans. And honestly, that’s the bit that matters most to me BIG TIME… Because in there, you don’t have to worry that your post will be deleted. Or misunderstood. Or jumped on. Or turned into a pitch-fest. Or met with advice you didn’t ask for (HELLO, that one). It’s a space where we build the confidence muscle TOGETHER, not by being perfect, but by being real AF (aka humans being humans) And I know some people will read this and think, “huh, sounds a bit pointless.” But here’s the thing that keeps niggling at me… How many of you are sat in genuinely EPIC communities right now, amazing spaces, great people, loads of potential… like this space for example, and you’re still not posting? Not because you’ve got nout to say. But because of that tiny (or not so tiny) fear. Of judgement. Of saying the wrong thing. Of someone misunderstanding you. Of your brain going into overdrive before you’ve even typed the first sentence.