Nick Bastianelli is the co-founder of Rise Athletics, a CrossFit based training company with two locations in the Metro-Detroit area – one in Farmington Hills and another in Ferndale, Michigan.

When it comes to overcoming obstacles Nick has done this in a number of really big ways. I was inspired to reach out to him for this episode after witnessing his authenticity and fearlessness when it comes to giving people a completely unfiltered look into his story and how he got to
where he is today.

A lot of fitness trainers and entrepreneurs that you see online have a tendency to make themselves look like super humans who are constantly motivated and always on fire. They can be difficult to relate to because they never show the human side to their story. Nick, on the other hand, is a completely open book when it comes to his past struggles as well as the day-to-day challenges that he still faces now – all of which show up in our wide-ranging conversation where we discuss the challenges of his early youth, overcoming an addiction to drugs and alcohol, turning his dream of owning a gym into a reality, starting a family as an entrepreneur and everything in-between. For more information about Nick and Rise Athletics see the links below.

RELATED LINKS:

Nick on Instagram

Rise Athletics on Instagram

Rise Athletics Website

BOOKS RECOMMENDED IN THIS EPISODE:

Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink