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Tough times 2025: Life lessons
From getting sacked to risking it all, industry leaders share their learnings from tough times
Published in Health Club Management 2025 issue 12
Industry leaders share their learnings from tough times / FRAME / MORGAN WHITE
Dan Summerson
Dan Summerson, MD of Everlast Gyms, reflects on powerful learnings from the early days of TRIB3, the boutique gym business he co-founded with Kevin Yates.
Dan Summerson, MD of Everlast Gyms Everlast Gyms
It’s difficult to get to a good position without having made a few bad calls
Read the full article in the digital edition of HCM 1 2025 here
Pip Black
Pip Black and Joan Murphy co-founded group exercise concept, Frame, in 2008. Taking on investment, they expanded to eight London studios, then when the pandemic killed footfall they bought it back to save it. Here, Black talks about the heart-wrenching decisions needed to make their much- loved business sustainable again.
Pip Black, Co-founder, Frame FRAME
I’ve given my business everything, and it’s sucked half of my soul out of me, but I can’t imagine life without it
Read the full article in the digital edition of HCM 2 2025 here
Tony De Leede
Entrepreneur Tony De Leede launched a stamp trading business at the age of 12, opened a surfboard shop at 16 and ran a fashion business with his mum before moving into the fitness industry in 1982.
Tony De Leede, entrepreneur Tony De Leede
If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space
Read the full article in the digital edition of HCM 4 2025 here
Chuck Runyon
Chuck Runyon and Dave Mortensen took a risk buying out a partner in the early days of Anytime Fitness. Runyon talks about how that led to him and Mortensen creating the company culture that turbocharged expansion.
Chuck Runyon, Anytime Fitness Anytime Fitness
Our culture acts like gravity. It attracts good people and keeps them there
Read the full article in the digital edition of HCM 6 2025 here
Terrence the Teacher
Born in South Africa, Terrence started his career working for Reg Parks launching Gold’s Gym in South Africa. In 2014, he suffered two cardiac arrests, prompting him to study mindfulness and meditation.
Terrence the Teacher, wellbeing expert Terrence the Teacher
I’d lost my sincerity and my authenticity and forgotten to take care of myself
Read the full article in the digital edition of HCM 8 2025 here
Elaine Jobson
When Jetts CEO, Elaine Jobson, received a shock cancer diagnosis she looked for templates from other leaders about how to share the news with her team. Unable to find one, she created her own. She shares her story.
Elaine Jobson, CEO, Jetts Jetts
You have two lives. The second begins when you realise you only have one
Read the full article in the digital edition of HCM 9 2025 here
Marjolijn Meijer
The entrepreneur and co-founder of the Urban Gym Group on how personal loss inspired her to establish Renessence, one of Europe’s first wellbeing clubs
Marjolijn Meijer, Urban Gym Group Urban Gym Group
I’ve learned that sometimes life gets very dark, but that the sun always shines again
Read the full article in the digital edition of HCM 11 2025 here
From getting sacked to risking it all, industry leaders share their learnings from tough times
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