Workin' It Out with Todd Verdell Jr.

[00:00:00] After over 25 years of marriage, we've learned that successful couples have great friendships,

[00:00:09] put each other first, and focus on life just as much as love.

[00:00:13] We believe marriage should be fun and easy.

[00:00:16] Our goal is to share our journey with the hopes of helping others build strong, happy

[00:00:21] relationships.

[00:00:22] Join us as we continue to our relationship and how we maneuver. This year we want to focus on being the best individual so that you can be the best partner. And so when I reached out for guests, we were looking for people who could speak to us about

[00:01:44] enriching ourselves as individuals. bringing more people back to me and then that's how I just keep my business keep on going. Right and that's important too because of what you're doing. The more rapport you be, it's easier if my trainer, if there's that relationship there, I'm going to want to be involved more. So that's that's important. And so how long have you had your business? How long have you been?

[00:04:02] I am who I am today. At what point did you think you wanted to take those skills

[00:04:07] to work with others?

[00:04:09] I would imagine you started out the interest.

[00:04:11] You said you worked with the coach,

[00:04:13] and he was giving you tips.

[00:04:15] So at what point did you think, OK,

[00:04:17] I want to work with people?

[00:04:20] So basically, when I moved from Jacksonville,

[00:04:24] I think when I graduated high school in 2013, relationships while you were working there? Oh yeah, most definitely. Definitely your journey began as far as your business. Do you speak to people there? One person I will say who kind of jump started a little bit. He's like my best friend. We talk every day. It's a matter of fact, he's my brother, a matter of fact.

[00:05:40] He kind of jump started me

[00:05:42] into this entrepreneur space, honestly.

[00:05:45] If it wasn't for him, if I didn't meet him,

[00:05:47] I'll probably still be the same person coming. get a good degree. That's it, you know, that's your life, you know, that's basically, but you know, I try to, you know, I'm working towards to change that narrative for my kid's life as well. Just to kind of show them, if they don't want to do the whole business thing, that's fine, but I'm definitely going to teach them how to create more opportunities for their self

[00:07:00] and where they're thinking, you know,

[00:07:02] well, this person is doing better than me,

[00:07:04] how can I get there way faster than them? We're passing on generation away. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. So you mentioned your kids and making sure that they see this, even if that's not the path that they take. So is your wife involved with your business? Day by day, day by day, it's like a fight.

[00:08:21] It's like five rounds each and every single day.

[00:08:23] But in the beginning, she wasn't with it.

[00:08:27] I'm gonna believing in him. So basically, like I said, it's a fight, you know, for everybody out there. Trust me, it's going to be, you're going to have headaches, you're going to be upset,

[00:09:40] just, you know, hanging there.

[00:09:42] It's because, just because they're not believing it right now. like we already know that we get the house that's already set in stone. But I said, all right, let's try to find a way to make other income to get another LOC to have some type of sod hustle or business so we can really start bringing in more money. And then basically, so she's learning the in and out of being an entrepreneur here and there by me.

[00:11:01] But she's really showing me that she really wants to be with me on this long run. he purchased looked like something that was used to kidnap children and aid it. He's like, this is a good idea, baby, but that van is on the scary and awful. You rolling up asking people, can I change your oil? I don't know about that, but. It was like the old school conversion type van.

[00:12:21] Oh, okay, ah, yeah, yeah.

[00:12:23] I know you're talking about.

[00:12:25] But I knew to support him. The last thing you want to hear is, I don't want to hear all that. So being open to listen and have someone to break those things down to and talk about, okay, well, baby, you know, go out there tomorrow and fight the fight again or look at it this way. She's helped me a lot with looking at things from a different perspective because, you know,

[00:13:44] I can be hot headed a little bit.

[00:14:45] that type of, even though it may not be her area of expertise, but if you're stuck in something,

[00:14:46] sometimes her strengths help you move past those things.

[00:14:50] Sometimes, you know, sometimes we do talk about certain things.

[00:14:55] Doesn't matter what it is, we try to figure out a obstacle,

[00:15:00] the correct way to go about it.

[00:15:02] I know when I was working on a break,

[00:15:04] she was giving ideas, I was just like,

[00:15:06] no, it's not gonna work.

[00:15:07] I'm just in doing, that's what you're doing. And that gives you a lengthy relationship to hang on to. And after you've gone through all that, then you look up one day and be like, you know what, we hadn't even fallen in a while. You know, y'all have any problems? And you'd be like, no, not really.

[00:16:20] I mean, other than, you know,

[00:16:22] I leave the seat up when I walk out the door.

[00:17:21] Yeah, yeah. We're prepared.

[00:17:23] We've got our gear ready.

[00:17:24] I'm going to taste the kit and send it to you.

[00:17:26] Thank you.

[00:17:27] Thank you so much.

[00:17:28] We've got our fit gorilla gear.

[00:17:30] Like I said, we middle aged.

[00:17:33] We realized that what we did in our 20s and 30s has now worked against us.

[00:17:38] Y'all are from up north.

[00:17:41] We're from down south.

[00:17:42] I don't know if you're familiar with booty.

[00:17:44] Oh yeah. I know I'm gonna do this, but you got to keep on doing it though. That's what people misunderstand. It doesn't matter what age you are, you have a chair and you're going up and down. So basically that's sitting on the tricep area. You got jumping jacks, you got jumping rope,

[00:20:21] high knees, planks, that's all body weight though.

[00:20:25] And plus, and people don't though my dad pushed me through, um, pushed me through sports. So that's kind of like why I'm so into waste and working out and outside and rain and cold. So it was just basically me. It was, it was, I mean, with me, it was embedded, but for people who, who are not having enough time in the day, I'm trying to tell you right now, if you put

[00:21:43] in at least 30 minutes a day, yeah, every time you come home, if you get up, um,

[00:22:42] I did about 30 of them one day. That's good.

[00:22:43] All right, that's good.

[00:22:44] That's real good.

[00:22:44] That's real good.

[00:22:45] Hey, you go, Mr. Mackey.

[00:22:47] Of course, you know, and then, like,

[00:22:50] we had a very crazy week this week,

[00:22:54] because we had things down.

[00:22:55] So I was up and down a lot of stairs.

[00:22:57] So I was counting my steps.

[00:22:59] One day I did, like, 15,000 steps.

[00:23:02] That's good.

[00:23:03] Like, 9,000 steps.

[00:23:04] So I got a good workout in this week.

[00:23:06] So that's real good. and a bag of chips, but I gave you a plan. Why are you not following the plan? So basically, I do have somebody, he's my mentor, and also he's a professional trainer too. He's been doing it way longer than me. I basically, if I do have a client who does want to focus on their actual food plan, I'll send them over to him and he'll get them right.

[00:24:21] Okay, but I need a plan that allows me to eat

[00:24:24] three piece fried chicken.

[00:24:26] What we not, I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy. You know what? I'm happy. I'm happy. You know what? Moving off. I'm just glad, man. I'm just glad. You're good. You're good. So where is your business moving towards? What's your future goal in terms of your business?

[00:25:41] Future goals is definitely to take over North Carolina.

[00:25:44] That's the goal. But as of right now, I just tried to make it affordable for everybody. I just try to make it really real, real affordable for everybody right now. But the ultimate, ultimate goal is really to get my first location in North Carolina. Like get my actual first warehouse and you build it up and everything so I can have my first location.

[00:27:02] All right.

[00:27:03] That's fantastic.

[00:27:04] And the key to it is going to be the relationships you build. working with a trainer and I've worked with a trainer in the past and I just know that motivation and then when you start to see results that's what and that's why like he said you can increase the rates and and people are gonna pay because they're getting results and so you said you project, I think it's called. And so at the beginning of the year, instead of having a resolution, you pick one word to focus on throughout the year, right? My, the goal is limitless. I mean, it's limitless to what you can achieve. Is the relationships are gonna be the most important thing, maintaining those healthy relationships with people you know that have your best interest at heart.

[00:31:00] Right.

[00:31:01] Yeah.

[00:31:02] All right, so if people want to get in contact with you,

[00:31:06] how can they find you?

[00:32:05] I'm that guy, you know, I'm just looking for my first official client, you know

[00:32:11] Distressively me and also I can show them when I'm capable of to do and everything. All right

[00:32:18] I was about to ask you what's the most important thing we need to take away and I think you gave that to us

[00:32:21] we all right, so

[00:32:23] Todd Vernell jr Thank you's discuss it for this episode.

[00:33:41] We are going to talk about some of the social media versus reality things. and gurus. Me personally, I don't follow nobody on my business period who represents fitness. You know, I have a I have fitness, I have fitness followers who are working out, but I don't follow no and so much yours not nothing like that. So how you separate that is, it's hard, it's, it's, it's hard to do it because everybody said, Oh, whoa, if you do, if

[00:35:04] you do my 90, my 90 day really, you know, they don't care about you at all They just care about the money and then that's it. Yeah, it's there. It's there get rich It's easy for me to tell Cuz I'm like I kind of I've got to the point especially, you know on Instagram when I see people pop up, you know

[00:36:23] Hey, why aren't you?

[00:37:24] I think too, it helps that if we reach out to you on social media,

[00:37:28] we know you are a person that we're reaching out to. Yes. Yes. Um,

[00:37:32] some of those and, and they make it look so realistic. Like they're just our friend talking to us like we're talking now,

[00:37:36] but then if you reach out, you're going to get a customer service rep,

[00:37:40] or you're going to get some automated, um,

[00:37:43] mechanical feeling message. Maybe we can, maybe we can add a segment and follow our journey. Maybe we can. Definitely. Listen, let's do it. Listen, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's really do it. Like

[00:39:02] I said, you know, I tell people with 2024, you know, is you don't even go contact people until tomorrow. But I'm serious. Like I said, we can work something out and maybe we can chronicle that journey because that's something that both of us need. And maybe that's the motivation. Maybe that's the motivation.

[00:40:20] Let's go. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it.

[00:40:24] I don't mind. I don telling you. Oh, I hope. You know that joke ain't do better for me. I'm here to help you come see you. Take care of mama so you don't have to worry about your health and wellbeing. I know, right?

[00:41:43] And we'll be in touch. All right, see you guys.

[00:41:44] See you.

[00:41:45] See you next time.

[00:41:46] We will.

[00:41:47] Yes.

[00:41:48] Have a good one.

[00:41:48] Peace.