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Podcast Episode 99: Building an Online Empire While You’re Running A Brick and Mortar Fitness Studio Isn’t Easy, but Michelle Laframboise is making it happen one Like at a time.

Crash & Learns are where I interview an entrepreneur about a time that they probably don’t want to talk about – a total business failure.

Michelle Laframboise, Founder of Buff Bold Beautiful, Founder of the Pilates Bar, and Co-Creator of Burn and Firm Pilates, and the woman who brought me into this crazy online world!

She speaks about how she started her business and now how she is balancing a brick and mortar and an online business.

Listen into Episode 099 and you’ll learn:

  • Learn how Michelle incorporates her athletic and nursing background into Pilates
  • How her biggest mistake actually led her to where she is today
  • Michelle was able to grow her business organically and recognized she needed to go online to monetize her business
  • The way to attract the right people and opportunities into your life
  • You have to take that blind step and open yourself up!
  • Why it is important to go at your own pace
  • You can fall on your face and get back (just know where to go from there)!

Join my Ready Aim Empire tribe to find incredible insights from other entrepreneurs and share your own takeaways!

With grit + gratitude,

Xo Lisé

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