Chalene Johnson Mindset Determines the Outcome
New York Times Best Selling Author of Push, Chalene Johnson is a lifestyle and business expert, motivational speaker, and podcast host. She and Bret, her husband of over twenty years, are the founders of the SmartLife movement. Today, with her husband, Chalene runs a fun loving, collaborative team focused on helping others live a healthier, more simplified life through their online academies, membership sites, and live, sold-out seminars.
Chalene, with the help of top dietitians, doctors, researchers and experts, she founded the 131 Method and new Book - a nutritional program that’s turning the diet industry upside down. She hosts two top ranked podcasts, “The Chalene Show” and “Build Your Tribe” with over 1 millions monthly downloads, Huffington Post recognized Chalene as one of the “Top 50 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch.”
Website – www.chalenejohnson.com
Twitter - @chalenejohnson
Instagram – chalenejohnson
SnapChat – chaleneofficial
Push Journals - www.smartlifepushjournal.com
131 Method - www.131method.com
Show Transcribed
Donnie Boivin: Alright guys, it’s gonna be another killer episode, i'm really looking forward - I know that a lot of you have been asking for me to get her on the podcast so I'm really excited To bring on Chalene Johnson to the show and let her tell us her story. I’m Donnie Boivin and this is Success Champions. Miss Chalene, welcome to the show my dear please tell us your story.
Chalene Johnson: Well thank you so much for having me. Where do I begin right?
Donnie Boivin: You know, you like long walks on the beach and…
(both laugh)
Chalene Johnson: Well I think probably much like you, most people know me from fitness. So I've had three number 1 fitness infomercials; the infomercial that’s on TV right now called PiYo. That’s the number 1 fitness infomercial, actually this week it was the number 1 infomercial over all categories.
Donnie Boivin: Oh wow, good for you.
Chalene Johnson: It was the number 1 infomercial in 2017...
Donnie Boivin: Is that the whole, “but wait there’s more” thing?
Chalene Johnson: Totally.
Donnie Boivin: Alright, cool.
Chalene Johnson: Yeah, i'm a student of those things. And I hosted it myself and filmed it myself on my iPhone.
Donnie Boivin: Right now that’s killer, well done!
Chalene Johnson: Yeah, thanks. Well the interesting story about it is, to kind of take listeners back for a little bit which is why I kind of said it’s odd to me that people know me from fitness... that’s just where i'm known, if you will but it’s not who I am. It's certainly not what I expected to have success. I've been a serial entrepreneur all my life.
My first business, I started doing at age 15 informally. Flipping cars like buying used cars and fixing them up and having them painted and then reselling them and making enough money to be able to pay my way through college.
While I was in college at Michigan State this turned out into a more legitimised business if you will and I rented a lot of land from the state of Michigan and I held these big; I guess you could call them almost fares where on a Saturday private owners would come in, they’d park their vehicles and they would be the sales person for their own vehicle and then private people who wanted to buy from a private individual would come to the lot as well and I used to take a cut on both ends and that was called the Michigan Auto Swap.
Donnie Boivin: Fantastic. I gotta ask, so you were flipping cars to get through college?
Chalene Johnson: Yes!
Donnie Boivin: That had to be a hell of a pick up line at a bar, right? Or at a party or anything… living on flipping cars
Chalene Johnson: Yeah, you know and we talked a little bit about my mindset before we started and that was my mindset was always like, “Ok, so this is the problem, I should solve this problem.“...
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