Car Thief Turned CEO - Bedros Keuilian Talks Starting at the Bottom | Mike Drop Clip #184

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Bedros Keuilian recounts his journey from involvement in carjacking and home burglary as a young adult to becoming a successful entrepreneur. He describes a pivotal moment when a robbery went wrong, leading to his father kicking him out, after which he worked multiple jobs including personal trainer, Disneyland busboy, and nightclub bouncer. Keuilian explains how a mentor he met as a personal training client taught him entrepreneurship, leading him to build and sell personal training studios and eventually create the Fit Body Boot Camp franchise concept.

Key takeaways

• Keuilian describes how a failed home invasion where an elderly woman was present became a turning point that led his father to kick him out and prompted him to change his life direction
• Keuilian recounts meeting mentor Jim Franco at LA Fitness, who taught him entrepreneurship in exchange for a free training session and later loaned him money to start his first personal training studio
• Keuilian explains he pivoted from one-on-one personal training studios to the group fitness boot camp model after the 2008 housing crash caused his consulting clients to drop off

Episode details: published April 21, 2024 · 2K views · 9:13 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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