Moving to Australia and Founding Muscle Nerds

And then I met my wife, which is why I moved to Australia. And I left Poliquin Group, which is Charles's old company and had no job and started Muscle Nerds. And it was something I had on a back burner. So I was working on it just in case I wanted to leave or I got fired or whatever happened. And so I'd been kind of working on it, just getting stuff set up. with my wife and then yeah so I was kind of just thrown into it and we looked at each other and go okay well what are we gonna do we didn't have a dime like when I left that company she and I met in Australia and two and a half months later she quit both of her jobs sold her car and flew to America to be with me and yeah we had no money so we like what are we gonna do so I made an announcement online and i got inundated with hundreds of messages of people can you come to a seminar here we don want what you used to do we want new stuff uh can i train with you can we do this so i was like oh shit so it got really it got real real quick and uh we just kind of got thrown into basically building a company and didn't know what the hell we were doing and still kind of don't know what doing and it's been almost 10 years. I love that what a fantastic story um it's I'm exactly the same age as you um 46 as well I am a physiotherapist by background and what's really interesting is I trained in the late 90s and obviously physios we think we are well we're trained to think you know we're experts in musculoskeletal system but the extent of our exercise um experience and teachings at university is to do three sets of 10 of pretty much anything and that's it and then we're off into the world and all of a sudden then you you open up to people like poliquin and yourself and check and you're like oh my god i know nothing so it was super eye-opening for me it's