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Chapter 6 · Ali Do Is Win

Leaving Poliquin and Global Seminars

September 30, 2020

And then finally, I guess they got sick of me and they let me go. And that's after Zoe had quit both of her jobs and come over. So neither of us had a job. And I'm like, oh, shit, what are we going to do? We're running out of money. We don't have jobs. And so I announced that I was leaving Polycon Group. And I had hundreds of messages from people that were like, we want to do stuff with you, but we didn't want to do stuff with Polycon Group. Can you come to Kuwait and do a seminar? Yeah. Can you come to Dubai? Yeah. So we knocked out Dubai and Kuwait to try to get home because we had no money. We didn't know how we were going to get back to Australia or New Zealand. And that got us home. And then we had one in Nelson, New Zealand. We had one in Gold Coast. And then it just kind of took off from there. So it was two years of just being super reactive and not knowing what we were doing and just doing a seminar wherever somebody would want us to do it. So for the first two years, we just traveled nonstop because we couldn't live in the same country more than three months at a time. Oh, that's right. Legally. Yeah. Yeah, it was wild, man. It was fun, but it was wild. I loved it. Zoe hated it. She doesn't do well living out of a suitcase. So then we ended up moving to Australia. And they don't have Cinnamon Toast Crunch there, huh? They do, but it's $15 a box. God might as well get it from the US Yeah might as well start an import business Jesus So the thing that everything is so expensive It crazy Like when I see you post about stuff I like oh my God that's ridiculous. But the thing that I appreciate very much about you guys and the way you teach is that you can take very difficult concepts and simplify it in a way that is very applicable to what we do. So like, you know, in college I learned about some biochemistry and exercise science, but you don't learn how to apply it to the general population, which most coaches work with. So you guys are able to simplify those concepts, but also you're real, like being a no bullshit person who can kind of sift through a lot of the crap that's in the industry, especially in the modern area era is kind of unique in my sense. You know, like you don't find a lot of people who can keep it real and you curse, which I appreciate very much. You know, our audience appreciates that most of my clients, I think all my clients follow you. Like they love the way you speak and everything. So carrying that information to, you know, trainers like worldwide, I think it's pretty damn cool. And I want more people to understand exactly why you teach the way you do. And I think a lot of that, you know, as you gave your background is like, we, we would spend the money we made to go to seminars and to learn stuff. I don't think that happens so much anymore. I think a lot of people train people for like a year and then they're like, oh, I can do this better online. And they think that they can make a lot of money online. So how do you think the industry has changed as a whole since the early 2000s?